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TOPIC: Glitter Guilty !
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Re:Glitter Guilty ! 10 Years, 5 Months ago
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It's painfully ironic that, although we now live in a world in which it is recognised - and exploited commercially and culturally - that the internet encourages copycat tastes, opinions and behaviour like never before - the media, police and politicians suddenly forget all of that when contemplating how on earth multiple accusers could possibly have come up with similar stories unless they are actually telling the truth. The fact that I could easily trawl a few news reports, celebrity gossip sites, blogs and forums for an hour or two and cobble together a plausible enough account of, say, Cilla Black's rudeness to me (never met her, but there's an airline staff site that's packed with anecdotes), or Jeremy Thorpe's treatment of a male friend, or another of Savile's supposed exploits, ought to suggest to a reasonably sentient human being that it shouldn't be THAT surprising that lots of people come forward with similar claims and details. To cite that simple fact as proof of honesty and veracity is truly bizarre. Yet time and again, after exhaustive coverage of a court case, a police spokesperson will announce breathlessly that many more accusers are responding to the case with their 'own' sad stories. What an appalling failure of nerve shown by journalists who fail to question this absurd faux naivete.
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Yet another for the deniers to deny ! 10 Years, 5 Months ago
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Re:Yet another for the deniers to deny ! 10 Years, 5 Months ago
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In The Know wrote:
robbiex wrote:
Glitter has been so vilified in the media over the past 17 years or so that he was never going to get a fair trial.
... and rightly so !
He has been convicted of a STRING of offences.
In Vietnam he could have faced the death penalty !!!
Get your head out of the sand !!!!!
you are a dill aren't you some times?
He couldn't have faced the death penalty because he did something quite normal in that country : paid compensation to his accusers which reduced the charges.
He was not accused of a crime that carried the death penalty.
Of course the case was not about compensation or money, they never are.
And as reported by eagle -eyed Hedda, JK's Karma seems to be a slow but sure burner with the tragic News of the World hack Andrew Drummond instrumental in the Glitter Vietnam charges by seeking out Glitter first in Cambodia and hounding him of the country to Vietnam where Drummond (who admits entering both countries on false visas & chortled about the dim immigration officials- since removed form his blog but captured for eternity by hedda).
Glitter was not accused by anyone going to police first- Drummond sought out a woman who had lived with Glitter as his girlfriend (with her 2 daughters) - said woman said she still loved Glitter but somewhere in Drummond's meeting with her (money of course would never have been discussed !  )....the accusations emerged. Encouraged by Drummond she went to the police and the rest is history.
Now Drummond has 2 arrest warrants out for him in Thailand..they will mount..when he fled 2 weeks ago after claiming his family had been threatened with death.
And I believe him but not by, as Drummond who spent the last few years weirdly obsessed by some small time crooks in Pattaya and tried to imply by them, but by some pretty heavy officials who were sick to death of Drummond's endless accusations of Thai corruption.
He was warned by a fellow hack whom I know that his time was up.
Now resident back in Scotland on the dole, sadly for him his 2 Scottish foes intend to pursue him through the Scottish courts. They can afford it, he cannot.
The Curse of Glitter has struck a man who often scoffed at the Thai belief- KARMA !!! 
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