Comments on: Burying the Truth

By: field

field — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 11:41:55 +0000

…to continue and yet the BBC now find the McCanns’ PR interview with Espresso (wherein they admit despite all their previous bluster that they are NOT going to sue Amaral, the Portugese police chief) incredibly newsworthy.

So dogs finding cadaver scent: not newsworthy.

McCann PR exercise: newsworthy.

By: Nearly Oxfordian

Nearly Oxfordian — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 07:51:34 +0000

Why? Because the BBC is a section of the Ministry of Truth. It’s been many decades since it’s had any concept of reporting the news rather than manipulating it.

By: field

field — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 23:56:11 +0000

Talking of wills being disregarded, let’s not forget the outrageous decision to set aside Princess Diana’s instructions that her god children should receive (relatively modest) gifts. Absolutely outrageous.

By: field

field — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 23:51:49 +0000

Talking of burying the truth. Why will the BBC News make no mention of the release of the police video showing the blood and cadaver dogs reacting in the McCanns’ apartment and around the McCanns’ hire car?

It was on the front page of the Sun. It’s been covered by Portugese papers, by Sky News and ITN and newspapers around Europe. But – apparently – the BBC thinks it’s not newsworthy.

By: Monty

Monty — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 20:26:48 +0000

It is hardly decent to contravene the express wishes of a dead man, concerning the disposal of his remains. So the behaviour of the vatican is not decent, in this regard.

But the men in frocks and red bonnets may have a legal advantage.

At the time when Newman was ordained, he may well have signed all of his rights over to the church. In those days, ordination was a complete break with all the trappings of normal life. It wasn’t just about celibacy. So the vatican may hold a document granting them full rights of control over his remains.

By: Graham

Graham — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 18:35:46 +0000

And if you want to get “a head” have a look here:

http://chrispriestley.blogspot.com/2008/04/heads.html

By: Graham

Graham — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 18:30:56 +0000

It probably stank for a while (Especially because the most likely cause of Cromwell’s death was septicaemia following a urinary infection although the body had been embalmed and wrapped in cloth after the post – mortem.) But even before they dug old Ollie up they had buggered about with his last wishes (as they are about to do with Newman) Cromwell was depicted as a King (a title he always refused) in his funeral effigy. (As soon as you snuff it some joker starts taking the piss if you ask me.) As for the head, it hang for well over 20 years and then it was supposedly blown off in a gale and hidden by a sentry. In the late 1770s Samuel Russell the actor tried to sell what was said to be the head to Cromwell’s old college: Sidney Sussex. In the 1930s a couple of scientists examined the head and apparently agreed it was Cromwell. Thirty years later the powers the be at Sidney Sussex finally accepted the head and it was buried in the grounds of the college on the 25th March 1960.

By: David Lindsay

David Lindsay — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 17:50:21 +0000

What a shame that anyone feels that this is necessary, and therefore gives such a coup to the likes of Tatchell.

By: John P.

John P. — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 17:24:37 +0000

So Graham, they exhibited Cromwell’s head for some 25 years?

Good lord it must’ve stunk!

By: John P.

John P. — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 17:10:07 +0000

What you see as a modern formulation (or “sexualisation”) is merely down to the fact that it is only in the last decade or two that gay people have been allowed to express themselves in an open and honest way.

No, gayness has been sexualised since the 60s. they have been gays all thought history of course, but “GAY” as we understand it nowadays is a very recent phenomenon.

And let’s face it, the Catholic Church has been one of the principle agents “dividing people into categories on the basis of who they are sexually (or emotionally) attracted to”, hasn’t it?

Ya just knew the Catholic bashing was comming!

Human beings themselves are the ones who divide people into straight/gay catagories

And let’s face it, gays, and in particular gay men, are perhaps the biggest and most enthusastic adepts of that ‘tendancy’.