In the war on soldiers, Lawyer Loathsome isn't the real enemy.
Feb 9, 2017 05:20:18 #
In the war on soldiers, Lawyer Loathsome isn't the real enemy.
This week I think we should ponder hard on the vicious right-wing tabloid hounding of a clearly noble and decent campaigner.
A lawyer who, according to The Law Society Gazette, was the target of "manufactured vilification" and "malign hysteria" by the media.
Who The Guardian and The Independent lauded for his work and even employed to write brave and fearless columns,
attacking the UK government and who the Law Society named solicitor of the year in 2007, commending his "tenacious and courageous commitment".
All in the face of contumely from the rest of the press. Yes, how vile we are.
You may have guessed that I'm talking about Phil Shiner, once of Public Interest Lawyers, who was responsible for bringing hundreds of cases of torture
or maltreatment against British soldiers who had served in Iraq. Shiner has at last been struck off for, among other things, dishonesty and malpractice. Or, according to an investigation into his behaviour, having been guilty of "deliberate lies, reckless speculation and ingrained hostility [towards the UK]".
This ambulance chaser's shtick was to persuade terrorists to make stuff up about nasty British soldiers had been,
and to prosecute these cases using taxpayers' money, wrecking the lives of many British servicemen.
That's the guy the Law Society and its gazette idolised and The Guardian and Independent too.
But then, it is enough in the eyes of those two publications simply to possess a pungent loathing of the
UK and to undermine it at every opportunity - regardless of motives or morals.
Hence, I suppose, The Guardian's love affair with Julian Assange, Edward Snowden and Chelsea Manning.
If someone h**es the West and especially the UK and the US, all other faults can be forgiven.
We f*****t media scumbags were dead right about the loathsome Shiner, who did not even turn up to his disbarment,
were - let's be clear - very wrong, for what must have been politically motive reasons.
Of course, Shiner's fall from grace doesn't imply that all lawyers are bad - indeed, "at least 17 of them and perhaps more"
are "reasonably decent human beings", according to a report by an independent think tank I set up last year, call the Jack Cade Foundation.
Lawyers are in t***h no better or worse than the rest of us - they do wh**ever they can get away with and the real scandal of Phil Shiner
is that he was facilitated to get away with an awful lot by our politicians and civil service - especially those in the Ministry of Defence.
There is something truly repulsive in a government that sends poorly paid young men to fight in fatuous and ultimately catastrophic wars
and then encourages the prosecution of those servicemen in order to s***e its own addled conscience.
The Blair government, ever a friend of the lawyers, did that. So too did David Cameron.
In both cases it was a grubby betrayal of people who had tried to do the bidding of their i***tic leaders, with their own lives imperilled.
We are not supposed to attack the legal profession, the lawyers and the judges.
It brings howls of outrage - these days from the lefties, although once upon a time from conservatives (the establishment has changed its allegiance).
Yet its sheer fecundity needs to be attacked, because it pervades every aspect of our lives and as we saw with the Supreme Court decision on Brexit,
makes no apology for ignoring the wishes of the people.
We now have one of the highest numbers of lawyers per head of population in the world and they multiply each year like those organisms
that replicate by splitting in two and then in two again. For some, especially the liberals, this is a good thing.
But that is only the case if you cleave to the palpable delusion that the judiciary is pristine and free from political bias - (much as the BBC, hilariously, claims to be).
That the law is objective, scientific and above the fray. Oh, fur shur.
Phil Shiner is a professor at Middlesex University, presumably teaching the young 'uns how to lie.
The Law Society Gazette wrote: "We need more lawyers like Shiner." Don't worry, you'll get them.
Rod Liddle.
The Times Newspaper.
5th February 2017.
This week I think we should ponder hard on the vicious right-wing tabloid hounding of a clearly noble and decent campaigner.
A lawyer who, according to The Law Society Gazette, was the target of "manufactured vilification" and "malign hysteria" by the media.
Who The Guardian and The Independent lauded for his work and even employed to write brave and fearless columns,
attacking the UK government and who the Law Society named solicitor of the year in 2007, commending his "tenacious and courageous commitment".
All in the face of contumely from the rest of the press. Yes, how vile we are.
You may have guessed that I'm talking about Phil Shiner, once of Public Interest Lawyers, who was responsible for bringing hundreds of cases of torture
or maltreatment against British soldiers who had served in Iraq. Shiner has at last been struck off for, among other things, dishonesty and malpractice. Or, according to an investigation into his behaviour, having been guilty of "deliberate lies, reckless speculation and ingrained hostility [towards the UK]".
This ambulance chaser's shtick was to persuade terrorists to make stuff up about nasty British soldiers had been,
and to prosecute these cases using taxpayers' money, wrecking the lives of many British servicemen.
That's the guy the Law Society and its gazette idolised and The Guardian and Independent too.
But then, it is enough in the eyes of those two publications simply to possess a pungent loathing of the
UK and to undermine it at every opportunity - regardless of motives or morals.
Hence, I suppose, The Guardian's love affair with Julian Assange, Edward Snowden and Chelsea Manning.
If someone h**es the West and especially the UK and the US, all other faults can be forgiven.
We f*****t media scumbags were dead right about the loathsome Shiner, who did not even turn up to his disbarment,
were - let's be clear - very wrong, for what must have been politically motive reasons.
Of course, Shiner's fall from grace doesn't imply that all lawyers are bad - indeed, "at least 17 of them and perhaps more"
are "reasonably decent human beings", according to a report by an independent think tank I set up last year, call the Jack Cade Foundation.
Lawyers are in t***h no better or worse than the rest of us - they do wh**ever they can get away with and the real scandal of Phil Shiner
is that he was facilitated to get away with an awful lot by our politicians and civil service - especially those in the Ministry of Defence.
There is something truly repulsive in a government that sends poorly paid young men to fight in fatuous and ultimately catastrophic wars
and then encourages the prosecution of those servicemen in order to s***e its own addled conscience.
The Blair government, ever a friend of the lawyers, did that. So too did David Cameron.
In both cases it was a grubby betrayal of people who had tried to do the bidding of their i***tic leaders, with their own lives imperilled.
We are not supposed to attack the legal profession, the lawyers and the judges.
It brings howls of outrage - these days from the lefties, although once upon a time from conservatives (the establishment has changed its allegiance).
Yet its sheer fecundity needs to be attacked, because it pervades every aspect of our lives and as we saw with the Supreme Court decision on Brexit,
makes no apology for ignoring the wishes of the people.
We now have one of the highest numbers of lawyers per head of population in the world and they multiply each year like those organisms
that replicate by splitting in two and then in two again. For some, especially the liberals, this is a good thing.
But that is only the case if you cleave to the palpable delusion that the judiciary is pristine and free from political bias - (much as the BBC, hilariously, claims to be).
That the law is objective, scientific and above the fray. Oh, fur shur.
Phil Shiner is a professor at Middlesex University, presumably teaching the young 'uns how to lie.
The Law Society Gazette wrote: "We need more lawyers like Shiner." Don't worry, you'll get them.
Rod Liddle.
The Times Newspaper.
5th February 2017.
Feb 9, 2017 05:33:39 #
Feb 9, 2017 05:34:24 #
Feb 9, 2017 05:49:20 #
I'm not always a fan of Liddle but he is spot on in this case.
I read one piece where the repulsive Shiner was referred to as "a tank chaser"
Feb 9, 2017 06:52:52 #
Interesting perspective, especially for us in the US, where Der Fuhrer is reviling the Media as having a hidden agenda in posting "f**e news", motivated by, "you know what I mean..."
Thank you.
Thank you.
Feb 10, 2017 11:00:50 #
Leicaflex wrote:
In the war on soldiers, Lawyer Loathsome isn't the... (show quote)
What a dirt bag lawyer.
Good article.
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