Andy Coulson's arrest - and Madeleine McCann

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Andy Coulson's arrest - and Madeleine McCann

Post  Tony Bennett on Fri Jul 08, 2011 8:58 pm

So, Andy Coulson, former Editor of the News of the World has been arrested. He may yet turn out to be a criminal.

Andy Coulson was our current Prime Minister's Director of Communications prior to and after the General Election.

In March 2010 he appointed Clarence Mitchell as his Deputy, to help win the Election. Cameron obvioulsy approved his choice. This man, Mitchell, was once described as 'lying with as many teeth as he has in his mouth', by the Head of the Portuguese Lawyers' Association, Carlos Anjos.

These are cunning people, no doubt covering up much evil. Max Clifford, a man to be reckoned with even if you don't like what he does, once said he made much more money keeping stories out of the press than putting them in the press. How exactly did he achieve that, I wonder?

Murdoch's papers have led the campaign to promote the hypothesis that Madeleine was abducted.

It may be wishful thinking to believe that the Murdoch Empire is not only crumbling, but collapsing.

But sometimes, evil institutions can collapse very suddenly, like a dam bursting.

The mighty Babylonian Empire, at its apparent zenith, collapsed in a single night. Whilst the great and the good of Babylon were engaged in an orgy of sex - and drinking out of silver and gold goblets stolen form Jerusalem - the Persians crept in along the dry river bed of the Euphrates and overran the city that very night. And that was the end of the mighty Babylonian Empire.

One day the McCann abduction theory may similarly collapse just like the proverbial house of cards.

And bring down a whole lot of others with them.

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Post  Gillyspot on Fri Jul 08, 2011 9:01 pm

We can only hope so Tony

I never realised when I started reading up about the Madeleine Mccann case that the Mccanns were so protected - although I did see Murdoch and Gordon Brown were. Still can't understand why though.

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Post  Cheshire Cat on Fri Jul 08, 2011 10:04 pm

So many articles to plough through but this is pretty essential reading I think:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/phone-hacking/8626421/Phone-hacking-David-Cameron-is-not-out-of-the-sewer-yet.html

But Coulson also performed one other function. He helped draw Cameron deep into the inner circle that surrounds Rupert Murdoch. In particular Cameron allowed himself to become a member of what is now known as the Chipping Norton set, a group of louche and affluent Londoners who centred around Rebekah Brooks’s Oxfordshire home, barely a mile from Cameron’s constituency residence.

Soon News International, through Coulson, had a key say in Conservative Party decision-making and even personnel appointments.

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Re: Andy Coulson's arrest - and Madeleine McCann

Post  Willo on Fri Jul 08, 2011 11:00 pm

This I think is the tip of an iceberg, there will be many heads to fall yet. Police, journalists, other publications and hopefully a few murderers. Stories of backhanders, under the table payments, corrupt police and government officials are now leaking out. News of the World might not be the only collapsing institution or the oldest

Mr Mitchell is seen scrambling over to the otherside of the hacking fence like the loyal trooper he is. If he knew he was hacked 3 years ago why did he not kick up a stink then? Another Mitchell smokescreen? I think he wasn't hacked but to be seen to be hacked now, courts more public sympathy for him and indeed the McCanns and also distances him from the offences. A man with his morals would have found it hard to resist being privvy to illicit information.

This investigation could be the lever that lifts the lid on a myriad of other crimes and hopefully finds out the depths the corrution has reach both in the Government and public sectors. There will be a lot of people wandering around with clenched buttocks.

I would hope the McCanns are finally found out when their protective shield is ripped away and they are left swinging in the breeze.

But then the record of proper internal investigations within Britain is not good.

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Re: Andy Coulson's arrest - and Madeleine McCann

Post  listener on Sat Jul 09, 2011 12:20 am

Willo wrote:

But then the record of proper internal investigations within Britain is not good.


Understatement of the year-decade-century!

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Re: Andy Coulson's arrest - and Madeleine McCann

Post  Angelique on Sat Jul 09, 2011 1:37 am

I too hope that this will bring down the Murdoch Empire but I think it is a vain hope. There are too many connections which will make sure any leads will result in dead ends. These people are protecting a money spinner - Madeleine - and likewise the McCanns will expect to be shielded from any investigation.

I think it's a bit like the Banks - too big to fall.

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Re: Andy Coulson's arrest - and Madeleine McCann

Post  Guest on Sat Jul 09, 2011 9:14 am

Willo wrote:
Mr Mitchell is seen scrambling over to the otherside of the hacking fence like the loyal trooper he is. If he knew he was hacked 3 years ago why did he not kick up a stink then? Another Mitchell smokescreen? I think he wasn't hacked but to be seen to be hacked now, courts more public sympathy for him and indeed the McCanns and also distances him from the offences. A man with his morals would have found it hard to resist being privvy to illicit information.


Well said Willo, my thoughts exactly.

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Post  puzzled on Sat Jul 09, 2011 11:02 am

Angelique wrote:I too hope that this will bring down the Murdoch Empire but I think it is a vain hope.



I think this is a fair point. His empire extends across the globe, and the News of the World is just one paper. In Australia, he virtually controls all the media. Of course, all his papers should be boycotted, but he makes most of his money from telecommunications anyway, so the only way to really hit him where it hurts - in the wallet - is to refuse to subscribe to any of his channels.

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Re: Andy Coulson's arrest - and Madeleine McCann

Post  PeterMac on Sat Jul 09, 2011 11:54 am

There was a Bond film written round his character. The media mogul who actually controlled and created the news rather than merely reporting it.
Bond, the true Brit, saw him off.

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Re: Andy Coulson's arrest - and Madeleine McCann

Post  Guest on Sat Jul 09, 2011 12:42 pm

PeterMac wrote:There was a Bond film written round his character. The media mogul who actually controlled and created the news rather than merely reporting it.
Bond, the true Brit, saw him off.

Tomorrow Never Dies and the infamous Elliott Carver.

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