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gusmac wrote: Is this it? DAILY MAIL COMMENT: The Tories hang the police and Press out to dry while letting the real crooks - their banker chums - off scot free...
By Daily Mail Comment
PUBLISHED: 23:34, 8 February 2013 | UPDATED: 23:34, 8 February 2013
Today, we report on the plight of Detective Chief Inspector April Casburn, who was last week sentenced for telephoning a red-top newspaper because she was angry at the way terrorism officers' time was being wasted on the hacking of celebrities' phones.
She received no money. Nothing was ever published.
But she received a sentence of 15 months which the judge said would have been three years if she were not adopting a child.
In a week in which it emerged not a single person has been held accountable for the 'criminal' treatment of patients at Stafford Hospital, the Mail believes its fair-minded readers, having read of Mrs Casburn's treatment, will think her punishment is utterly disproportionate.
They may also suspect, correctly we believe, that this is yet another example of a dictatorial State crushing any individual who dares reveal wrongdoing.
Compare Mrs Casburn's incarceration to the leniency with which the Tories' friends in the banks have been treated.
This week, it was the turn of the Royal Bank of Scotland - which has cost the taxpayer so many billions of pounds - to have its money-grubbing dishonesty exposed.
As RBS was fined £390 million for its part in the Libor rate-rigging scandal, its traders' emails were released.
Dishonest: Royal Bank of Scotland - which has cost the taxpayer so many billions of pounds
Dishonest: Royal Bank of Scotland - which has cost the taxpayer so many billions of pounds
One joked about how he manipulated the rates up and down, and wrote the obscene message: 'I'm like a Lady of the Night drawers'. Another boasted: 'its amazing how much Libor fixing can make you that much money'.
Let's not mince words. Apart from being deeply shocking, such behaviour is unequivocally criminal.
So the Mail has a question to ask: why hasn't there been a single prosecution of any member of a banking community that has wreaked such damage on Britain? Their blatant criminality couldn't be clearer.
Standard Chartered was ordered to pay more than $300 million to settle charges it violated US sanctions on Iran, Burma, Libya and Sudan.
Prosecutors said that - by hiding 60,000 transactions with Iran worth $250 billion over nearly a decade - it had been aiding terrorists, drug runners and arms dealers.
HSBC was forced to pay a record £1.2 billion settlement for 'turning a blind eye' to large-scale money laundering by drug cartels, terrorists and rogue regimes.
For its part, Barclays, which had been colluding with other banks across the globe, was fined £290 million for trying to manipulate Libor.
But while the institutions have been fined, with the taxpayer often picking up the bill, not a single banker has faced trial.
And what of the recession the banks caused? Again, the staggering truth is not a single banker has been investigated for the criminal greed, hubris and misjudgement that plunged Britain into years of austerity.
Not a single banker has been jailed for their disgraceful tactic of tricking their customers into buying billions of pounds of payment protection insurance (PPI) they didn't need.
Not a single banker has been brought to book for mercilessly ripping-off tens of thousands of small businesses with a complex insurance policy designed to protect them if interest rates increased, but which, perversely, forced them to pay more when rates fell. This drove many to bankruptcy when the recession hit.
Has a single Tory minister expressed outrage at this failure of justice? Has the PM ordered a Leveson-style inquiry into the banks?
Now compare the way the Tories have turned a blind eye to the crimes of the bankers with the savage treatment meted out to Britain's struggling Press.
All newspapers - even the majority who were not involved in hacking - have been subject to a full judicial inquiry which, surprise, surprise, exonerated the politicians for their sycophancy to Rupert Murdoch, while recommending statutory regulation of a Press which had been free for 400 years.
Meanwhile, the police have dedicated 185 officers to investigating complaints - mostly by celebrities - that their voice mail was listened to.
So far 50 journalists (and nine police) have been arrested - often in dawn raids on their homes, while their families slept - and the News of the World has been shut down.
The Mail unequivocally condemns the conduct of News International.
But these sins are mild compared with rigging interest rates, selling bogus insurance and laundering terrorist money, which could have contributed to the murders of undercover anti-drug agents.
The bankers destroyed lives, bankrupted businesses and caused a recession which threatens our children's futures.
Meanwhile, as the police, Serious Fraud Office and Crown Prosecution Service sit on their hands, public outrage against the banks grows - flushing the financial system with the poison of mistrust.
If the banks' good name is ever to be restored, the justice being wreaked so savagely on the likes of Mrs Casburn must be applied to those in the financial community who have engaged in such devastating criminality.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/artic ... z2Khh6aM4cThanks for that GUS and Captain...... I think whats important here is the obvious division emerging not only between the tory's and the Lib dems but within the tory party their starting to shred each other theres deep lying resentment coming to the surface and i suspect we will be hearing more on this now  Interestingly i frequently read the daily **** its always helpfull to know what the enemy are thinking and that rag is very close to the grey suits who actually control the VERMIN Naturally I leave Daily Scum with its page 3 to the likes of wannabrain and bloodknock rambo jimbo and skippy!!! _________________ All posts by this contributor are made in a strictly personal capacity I AM PROUD TO BE A CITIZEN NOBODY'S SUBJECT http://www.republic.org.uF88K EM ALL WHAT GOES AROUND COMES AROUND BOOZE BOOZE BOOZE
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