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Hillsborough - the most important story this year 12 Years, 7 Months ago
It illustrates that the system has been broken for years; OK, now it's been acknowledged that police lied, the legal system accepted the lies - can we please now look at other gross miscarriages of justice?
As I tried to tell Leveson; the relationship between police, media and the judicial system is poisonous and corrupt. It has only one morality; is it a good story?
Re:Hillsborough - the most important story this year 12 Years, 7 Months ago
JF96 wrote: The saddest thing about this is that most of it was known for 23 years and just IGNORED or denied. Shameful.
Nothing too surprising in that.
Bloody Sunday was the same.
So too was all the abuse in Iraq, and Afghanistan ... and the complicity in rendition and torture - all denied.
Birmingham Six / Guildford Four / McGuire family ... the list is endless.
Governments hate to admit the truth (esp when they have been denying it for years)
Re:Hillsborough - the most important story this year 12 Years, 7 Months ago
Adding to the list:
Battle of the bean field
Ian tomlinson
With regards to Northern Ireland we enter a whole new dimension. Just start with The Stalker Affair and see where it gets you. It's written by a once chief police officer, now erm.. retired.
Re:Hillsborough - the most important story this year 12 Years, 7 Months ago
Yes, but I also mean the press, the broader media, etc etc. It was widely known but instead of acknowledging it and pursuing the truth they allowed the lies to be repeated time and again.