The news brief came through the radio on a charity shop yesterday morning:
“Rebekah Brooks as been charged with subverting the course of justice in the phone hacking scandal”…
“Rebekah Brooks as been charged with subverting the course of justice in the phone hacking scandal”…
A man got closer to the radio and cheered the news while saying to us (the shopkeeper and I): “She’s been charged, well done!” I said, also enthusiastically: “Yes, justice was served!” The man: “Which is not usual!” I: “Yes, but this is one of those cases when it should really work and it did!... And I know the importance of this being as I am facing issues of press intrusion, hacking, defamation, etc., without any hope that justice will ever be done in my case, because it comes from a country where there are no effective laws and when there are, no one bothers about their implementation, especially in this sort of cases…”.
The man: “where are you from”? I: “Angola.” The man: “Oh!... Is the press there foreign-owned”?
I: “Yes, most of the new private press, but since independence all the existing press was state-owned until recently”. We talked a little bit more and then I said: “I really respect your country for showing us all that somewhere in the world justice does exist and can be put to work effectively”! The man: “It’s not my country, but I agree with you, at least as far as this case is concerned”. I asked: “Where are you from?” The man: “New Zealand.” He talked a bit about the press in his country and then we said goodbye with him wishing me: “good luck with your case!”
Of course I said "thank you"! And how I wish that would really happen in my case!...
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I: “Yes, most of the new private press, but since independence all the existing press was state-owned until recently”. We talked a little bit more and then I said: “I really respect your country for showing us all that somewhere in the world justice does exist and can be put to work effectively”! The man: “It’s not my country, but I agree with you, at least as far as this case is concerned”. I asked: “Where are you from?” The man: “New Zealand.” He talked a bit about the press in his country and then we said goodbye with him wishing me: “good luck with your case!”
Of course I said "thank you"! And how I wish that would really happen in my case!...
[More details here]
Related Posts:
News of The (end of the) World
(contra) Argumentando no Vazio
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