Guido Escapes Burning At Stake (revised)
David T adds: Ha! That’s the last time I believe anything I read on the so-called Ministry of “Truth” blog!
Well, that’s a slight exaggeration. Paul Staines - the Tory blogger who runs Guido Fawkes - has just been sentenced to three months in prison curfew, for drink driving.
I like Paul. He wrote a lovely pamphlet for the Libertarian Alliance, back in 1991, about acid house and drug taking - “Acid House Parties Against The Lifestyle Police and Safety Nazis - that ended with the following sentiment:
“[U]ptight Conservatives are probably the people who would benefit most from taking drugs, particularly Thatcherites, with their machine-like obsession with efficiency and abstract attachment to the freedom to make money. I’m as much of a believer in Capitalism as the most earnest of Young Conservatives, but couldn’t we put acid in the punch at the YC ball and then really have a party?”
Paul’s piece was the first time I’d come across the phenomenon of Tory economic liberals, who were also social liberals.
Still, the law is the law. Drink driving can kill. Imprisonment is sometimes an appropriate punishment for creating a risk of significant harm to others. I imagine that Paul will be delighted to have escaped a doubt whether Paul will be surprised at his spell in chokey: his barrister will have told him to bring a toothbrush.
There are many bloggers in prison all over the world, who are being punished merely for speaking their minds. My sympathy is primarily with them. Still, as anybody who has visited a prison, or been imprisoned themselves, gaol is an awful place to be. It is particularly difficult for an imprisoned person’s family, and Paul has two young children. So I wish him well during his spell “inside” am delighted that Paul managed to pull the wool over the eyes of the dozy beak.
Comments
| 15 May 2008, 2:46 pm |
Wrong. He got three months curfew. Check your sources next time, eh?
| 15 May 2008, 2:55 pm |
Uptight Conservatives are probably the people who would benefit most from taking drugs, particularly Thatcherites, with their machine-like obsession with efficiency and abstract attachment to the freedom to make money.
That appears to make sense except for one thing; most 80s conservatives WERE corrosive 60s alumni who took a great deal of acid.
For a really authoritative opinion on acid’s ‘benefits’ you should refer yourself to Grace Slick, former lead singer of Jefferson Airplane.
Or Patricia Krenwinkle, one of the Manson muderers.
They’ll both give ya the straight dope on the entire decade, in fact.
| 15 May 2008, 2:56 pm |
I think the source changed it’s story after our hero went to press
however
He admitted driving while under the influence and without insurance after being stopped by the Plod in the small hours of 17 April…
…Sentencing is on 15 May. It is his fourth alcohol-related offence and second drink-driving reprimand – he was banned for 12 months in 2002 – requiring the judge to consider a jail sentence.
can’t say I’m familiar with the blog… but he sounds like a total dickhead.
| 15 May 2008, 2:58 pm |
I’m sure “order order” would have been perfectly sufficient as a headline, DavidT.
Venichka (economic semi-liberal: social conservative)
| 15 May 2008, 3:04 pm |
I’m just astounded to find Mr David T writing “sous rature.”
| 15 May 2008, 3:15 pm |
Venichka (economic semi-liberal: social conservative)
You are my polar opposite, y’know.
And you probably like the imposter “non-Castle” Taytos as well
| 15 May 2008, 3:26 pm |
Seeking professional help, Paul? And Albert Hoffman withdrew from the world of acid heads.
| 15 May 2008, 3:27 pm |
You say sixteen-ninety, I say nineteen-sixteen, let’s call the whole thing off
| 15 May 2008, 3:30 pm |
Surely avec rature makes sense?
| 15 May 2008, 3:33 pm |
No, Silvio Berlusconi wrote avec rature here: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/1956412/Silvio-Berlusconi-sends-flirty-note-to-new-MPs.html
David T was definitely sous
| 15 May 2008, 4:33 pm |
You say sixteen-ninety, I say nineteen-sixteen, let’s call the whole thing off
That would be an ecumenical matter.
| 15 May 2008, 6:34 pm |
I suspect David is sleep deprived.
Make some allowances.
| 31 May 2008, 4:17 pm |
YOU HAVE GOT SOME KIND OF CLASS IN THIS SITE. Good to see you up and around!
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