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Joe Karam

Jun 5, ’09 1:43 PM

Joe Karam, instru­mental to David Bain’s not guilty ver­dict, after 13 years:

Karam [said] he joined the Bain case in 1996, when he “very naively believed all I would do was take my con­cerns to the author­it­ies who would take over from there. Unbe­liev­ably, they didn’t — they thought I was the enemy.”

“What I’ve really been driven by is an abso­lute cer­tainty that David Bain was rail­roaded — that he never got a fair go. That’s what’s kept me going really.”

He says he’s spent vir­tu­ally all his money on the case over the past 13 years.

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God these people are loathsome

Jun 3, ’09 1:12 PM

In a dev­ast­at­ing inter­view with George Mon­biot Hazel Blears pulls this lovely com­ment out of the bag, regard­ing the decision to invade Iraq:

Des­pite the fact that hun­dreds of thou­sands of people have died — and that is a tragedy — I still believe that it was the right thing to do.

If there was a hell Hazel Blears would surely burn in it.

The whole inter­view is worth watch­ing. She’s a good example of the kind of spine­less per­son who makes their way into the major polit­ical parties simply to be in power.

Her state­ment on Iraq reminds me of Madeleine Albright, who in 1996, then the U.S. Sec­ret­ary of State, was asked by Leslie Stahl on 60 Minutes what she felt about the fact that half a mil­lion Iraqi chil­dren had died as a res­ult of U.S.-led eco­nomic sanc­tions. Albright replied, “I think this is a very hard choice, but the price — we think the price is worth it.”

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