tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8212152.post-44147403877621947172007-07-22T23:21:00.000+01:002007-07-22T23:21:00.000+01:002007-07-22T23:21:00.000+01:00<I>According the The Times, the 'independent' QC brought in to quash, sorry, decide this investigation has ruled that there must be 'unambiguous' evidence.</I><BR/><BR/>The law is like politics: 99% of them give the decent ones a bad name.<BR/><BR/><I>Helm, a journalist and author, writes in today's Observer: 'I know one shouldn't make these comparisons, but I was writing about Nazi Germany right then and I couldn't help think: Gestapo tactics! Pick on the vulnerable, preferably a single woman, living alone. No matter that you may have nothing on her that will ultimately stand up in court - give her a scare.'</I><BR/><BR/>http://observer.guardian.co.uk/politics/story/0,,2132043,00.html<BR/><BR/>Disgraceful! No single woman living alone should ever be raided by the police for <I>anything</I> unless they've already got cast-iron proof of all her wrongdoing. In which case, they won't need to raid her.<BR/><BR/><I>These remarks echoed a series of angry private comments yesterday from Blair's closest political allies. One, accusing the police of heavy-handed tactics and damaging media leaks, described Yates as 'a shit'.<BR/><BR/>'Everyone who has been at all affected by this investigation will have thought long and hard about what to do now - and be very tempted to take the argument to Yates,' he said. 'But no matter how much anger there is, there is also a desire to put the entire terrible episode behind us.'</I><BR/><BR/>I bet a few military families wish they could say the same of their traumas. These people really do believe they're above the law and that rules are for the rest of us.levymetalplundernoreply@blogger.com