Hi,
There's an old joke that, behind bars, everyone is innocent. It means that everyone you meet inside says, sincerely, "I didn' do it." Lord Black of Crossharbour - Conrad Black to you - has been so blatant with his lying hat the prosecutor asking the judge to sentence him to extra prison time for his “stunning lack of remorse”. Blackie, as he might be known among his mates doing porridge, declared that he had done “absolutely nothing” wrong and claimed that he was the victim of persecution.
“If I appeared and sounded humble, I would be described as a broken, disgraced man who is admitting he's a criminal. Well, the fact is I am innocent,” he said. “When you are innocent and when you are wrongly accused, how do you conduct yourself? Do you roll over and say, 'Well, I'm innocent, but since I've been found guilty, I'm going to be humble and full of remorse?' I would have thought not.”
John Laws and Allan Jones made the same pronouncement. Conrad as caught on his own security camera destroying records while the two radio oracles denied the undeniable as recorded from their broadcasts.
Could it be the Howard Punters' Attention Span Theory: the average Joe and Joette don't listen to the ABC and don't follow politics or business news or anything much really, except sports and celebrity gossip. SO you can do and say anything you like. It's as though you don't exist or you're invisible. Just make noises about 'them' and say you're innocent.
Try it.
MK
PS. (The British grocery milk fraud and the Black episode let John Howard off the hook.)
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