A tiny details within the News of the World debacle is how journos nicked by the Old Bill are treated.
If you or I were to be busted for illegally accessing phones and medical records, along with corrupting the police, we could expect a van-load of helmeted goons charging through our door at dawn.
For News International staff though, this indignity is replaced by the far less inconvenient arrangement of being invited along to a police station to be arrested.
How civilised for them.
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You're not bloody joking, in 1999 I got done for hacking (nothing destructive or otherwise evil, the old school intellectual exercise type of hacking) and got a raid at 6am with two vanloads of coppers and a dog!
ReplyDeleteWhy on earth they'd invite someone to come in hence giving them the chance to destroy evidence is beyond me, heh.
Does seem to be a bit of a double standard, you have to wonder how harshly these coppers who were found to be complicit are treated...
'Crooked coppers asking crooked MPs to investigate crooked journalists'
ReplyDeleteAgreed Ben, it's despicable that there is one rule for the rich and influential and one for the rest.
ReplyDeleteCorruption among the powerful is rife, and yet almost all society's ills are blamed on people who are pretty much powerless in comparison. Such injustice.
Hideki said 'Why on earth they'd invite someone to come in hence giving them the chance to destroy evidence is beyond me, heh.'
ReplyDeleteSo they have time destroy any evidence that implicates the government?