Just one post before Wednesday.
I like to get American news from the Brits and vice-versa because the perspective is often a little different. As for the Di Inquest. Bloomsberg states:
The inquest into the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, won't be heard by a jury drawn from members of Britain's royal household, after a coroner today declined to invoke historic rules. The inquiry, which is standard in the U.K. for unnatural deaths, will publicly scrutinize how the princess and her boyfriend Dodi Fayed died, in a final bid to quell the conspiracy theories and speculation that has swirled since the 1997 car crash in Paris that claimed both of their lives.
Elizabeth Butler-Sloss, the retired judge who is presiding over the inquest, agreed with lawyers representing both Queen Elizabeth II and Fayed's father, Mohammed Al-Fayed, that a royal jury would have created the perception of a biased review. ``Justice must not only be done, but must be seen to be done,'' John Nutting QC, representing Queen Elizabeth, told the High Court in London.
Oh really? And how does Elizabeth Butler-Sloss constitute unbiased? Have you read up on her? Now to the words ‘in a final bid to quell’. Not ‘in a final bid to get at the truth and not sweep anything under the carpet’. No sir. This inquest will do nothing because it is biased in its head, in its aim and has absolutely no intention of asking the key questions which just will not go away.
I’m at one with the bloggers who cry: ‘Just let the lady rest in peace.’ There’s nothing anyone would like more. Unfortunately, when it is, as Bloomsberg called it, a case of ‘unnatural deaths’, then there IS no peace on either side of the River Styx until the truth finally comes out. This is why Hamlet’s father returned and this is why inquiry after inquiry will go on and on because the truth is just not being told e.g. the goings on in the room at the hospital where she was eventually taken.
I like to get American news from the Brits and vice-versa because the perspective is often a little different. As for the Di Inquest. Bloomsberg states:
The inquest into the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, won't be heard by a jury drawn from members of Britain's royal household, after a coroner today declined to invoke historic rules. The inquiry, which is standard in the U.K. for unnatural deaths, will publicly scrutinize how the princess and her boyfriend Dodi Fayed died, in a final bid to quell the conspiracy theories and speculation that has swirled since the 1997 car crash in Paris that claimed both of their lives.
Elizabeth Butler-Sloss, the retired judge who is presiding over the inquest, agreed with lawyers representing both Queen Elizabeth II and Fayed's father, Mohammed Al-Fayed, that a royal jury would have created the perception of a biased review. ``Justice must not only be done, but must be seen to be done,'' John Nutting QC, representing Queen Elizabeth, told the High Court in London.
Oh really? And how does Elizabeth Butler-Sloss constitute unbiased? Have you read up on her? Now to the words ‘in a final bid to quell’. Not ‘in a final bid to get at the truth and not sweep anything under the carpet’. No sir. This inquest will do nothing because it is biased in its head, in its aim and has absolutely no intention of asking the key questions which just will not go away.
I’m at one with the bloggers who cry: ‘Just let the lady rest in peace.’ There’s nothing anyone would like more. Unfortunately, when it is, as Bloomsberg called it, a case of ‘unnatural deaths’, then there IS no peace on either side of the River Styx until the truth finally comes out. This is why Hamlet’s father returned and this is why inquiry after inquiry will go on and on because the truth is just not being told e.g. the goings on in the room at the hospital where she was eventually taken.
Ok, I'll comment, then. I think most people are bored to tears with it and with certain newspapers going on about it. "Diana, Still Dead" as Private Eye sums it up in their spoofs. I agree that the inquiry won't get anywhere. It will take a couple of generations for that and by then, who will care and will there still be a monarchy anyway? For the sake of the Lady's sons, even Al Fayed should "let go" now.
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