Hacking inquiry - Prosecutions
Discussion
2 go in..So, am I the only one wo thinks this is a huge waste of court time and money?
This case is fundamentally about people listening to voicemails in order to glean information to print stories.
Compared to, say, MPs expenses fraud and some aspects of the causes of the financial crisis beginning in 2007/9, this really is small beer.
Still, it distracts the public from the mayhem happening with the economy, government waste, excessive taxes etc.
This case is fundamentally about people listening to voicemails in order to glean information to print stories.
Compared to, say, MPs expenses fraud and some aspects of the causes of the financial crisis beginning in 2007/9, this really is small beer.
Still, it distracts the public from the mayhem happening with the economy, government waste, excessive taxes etc.
johnfm said:
So, am I the only one wo thinks this is a huge waste of court time and money?
This case is fundamentally about people listening to voicemails in order to glean information to print stories.
Compared to, say, MPs expenses fraud and some aspects of the causes of the financial crisis beginning in 2007/9, this really is small beer.
Still, it distracts the public from the mayhem happening with the economy, government waste, excessive taxes etc.
Any other offences you think should not be investigated?This case is fundamentally about people listening to voicemails in order to glean information to print stories.
Compared to, say, MPs expenses fraud and some aspects of the causes of the financial crisis beginning in 2007/9, this really is small beer.
Still, it distracts the public from the mayhem happening with the economy, government waste, excessive taxes etc.
The police have already, for their own reasons, followed you line of thought and ignored the corruption implicit in the offences.
Derek Smith said:
johnfm said:
So, am I the only one wo thinks this is a huge waste of court time and money?
This case is fundamentally about people listening to voicemails in order to glean information to print stories.
Compared to, say, MPs expenses fraud and some aspects of the causes of the financial crisis beginning in 2007/9, this really is small beer.
Still, it distracts the public from the mayhem happening with the economy, government waste, excessive taxes etc.
Any other offences you think should not be investigated?This case is fundamentally about people listening to voicemails in order to glean information to print stories.
Compared to, say, MPs expenses fraud and some aspects of the causes of the financial crisis beginning in 2007/9, this really is small beer.
Still, it distracts the public from the mayhem happening with the economy, government waste, excessive taxes etc.
The police have already, for their own reasons, followed you line of thought and ignored the corruption implicit in the offences.
HUNDREDS of MPs actions claiming expenses for things that were not wholly, exclusively and necessarily performing their duties as an MP met the tests for offences against the fraud act - yet just a handful of prosecutions.
johnfm said:
... yet just a handful of prosecutions.
I'm starting to see it the other way around now.I think 'people' (and the savvy bits of the media are with the curve on this) are pissed off with a lot that is and has been going on. I'd say the zeitgeist is for ensuring positions of power - public or privte - are not abused.
rohrl said:
Justayellowbadge said:
Dear Santa.
Piers Morgan.
Thanks,
JAYB
Let's not get ahead of ourselves. Murdoch's lot first then we can move on to Morgan and Dacre.Piers Morgan.
Thanks,
JAYB
We still have Trinity, Associated, Guardian & Northern & Shell to get through.
Think they have started on Dirty Des the other day.
I don't get the public outpourings of grief for people you've never met, all those Find Maddy posters annoy me. But every time I see that interview with Milly Dowlers mum and dad where they describe how they checked her answerphone messages and assumed because one or more had been deleted, that she must have deleted them and therefore be alive, I think that the people that did that are scraping the bottom of humanity.
johnfm said:
So, am I the only one wo thinks this is a huge waste of court time and money?
This case is fundamentally about people listening to voicemails in order to glean information to print stories.
Compared to, say, MPs expenses fraud and some aspects of the causes of the financial crisis beginning in 2007/9, this really is small beer.
Still, it distracts the public from the mayhem happening with the economy, government waste, excessive taxes etc.
You've been banging this drum since all this came about, do you have a vested interest? Are you a PI? A journalist? You seem to be protesting about it a little too much to be a bystander. Just curious.This case is fundamentally about people listening to voicemails in order to glean information to print stories.
Compared to, say, MPs expenses fraud and some aspects of the causes of the financial crisis beginning in 2007/9, this really is small beer.
Still, it distracts the public from the mayhem happening with the economy, government waste, excessive taxes etc.
Murph7355 said:
I would be surprised, pleasantly so, if any of these people do time.
I think you will be surprised. Criminal judges in conspiracy cases are razor sharp in preventing obfuscation and the " It was not me Guv" approach. I think everyone who was directly involved in this utterly disgusting abuse of privacy and justice who is charged, will serve time. Particularly the Editors authorising the payments, hacking and disgraceful actions of the field workers who did the actual hacking.Modern computer systems make covering up very difficult. Wiped discs can be recreated and frequently are in such trials. Look at the latest city insider trading trial. It was the computer records that did for them. Despite wiping. That is where Rebecca Wade and Co will go down. Good.
Murdoch and his son were much further away from the sharp end and I would be much less certain of any action there. It is not a coincidence that Mr Murdoch has suddenly resigned from the board and his son left a while ago. I do think they may escape any proceedings. We may have to be content with that.
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