The Acanchi Effect 207


The financial position of ailing marketing firm Acanchi underwent a startling transformation in 2012 just as they started work on creating the fake grassroots movement “Vote No Borders”.

In 2011 Acanchi’s auditors noted “The Company made a loss in the current year of £197,003, and at the balance sheet date its liabilities exceeded its assets by £385,162”. The company had a turnover of £25,631 against cost of sales of £21,283 and “admin expenses” of £201,125.

In 2012 Acanchi started work in Cambridge and London on developing the “VNB” PR campaign against Scottish Independence, which is surprising given that BBC propaganda portrayed VNB as a spontaneous movement of local Scots. We know they started in 2012 because one of Acanchi’s staff, Jessica Quiney, posted it on her CV on Linked-in. The CV page was deleted yesterday but not before Wings Over Scotland grabbed a screenshot.

This work for the No campaign coincided with an amazing turnaround in Acanchi’s financial fortunes. In 2011 they made a loss of £197,003. In 2012 they made a profit of £103,292. The income from sales went from £25,631 in 2011 to £348,835 in 2012.

There is a very interesting explanation given in the Directors’ report to the Acanchi annual accounts for 2012. It is signed by Gary Waple, the man who registered the “Vote No Borders” domain and who now works for the Regulatory Commission of the Bank of England. Mr Waple states in the 2012 Acanchi Directors’ report:

The nature of Acanchi’s business is that the award of government contracts is subject to external delays beyond the Company’s control. As stated in last year’s financial statement, the Directors’ forecast that there would be a significant improvement in these financial statements. This was achieved as the result of the company being awarded contracts in the current period which had been the subject of long on-going discussions in the past.”

So what was young Jessica Quiney doing at Acanchi at this period? Well, in 2012 she:

“collated and formatted material promoting the pro-Union arguments in opposition to the SNP’s call for Scottish independence including development of narratives, a positioning strategy and a programme of micro-initiatives for this project.”

In 2013 Jessica was:

“Involved in the development and implementation of a proposal and subsequent micro-initiatives for a campaign supporting the No vote in the Scottish Independence Referendum in 2014”.

Vote No Borders had nine adverts in one single edition of the Daily Record newspaper in Scotland this week, each giving the story of a single “grassroots” Scots punter and why they are against independence. These “narratives” were developed by Jessica Quiney, a Cambridge classics student, born in England and educated at Northampton High School. I can see no evidence she has ever been to Scotland. Interestingly the photographer, Claire Borley, who took all the photos of “typical Scots” for the No Borders campaign which are appearing in the newspapers, is also Cambridge based.

Claire Borley’s cv gives a stunning glimpse into just how real and gritty this “Scottish grassroots campaign” is:

Born and raised in Cambridge, my professional life has always been about communication.

After gaining an English degree and jumping in at the deep-end in Bermuda as a PA with limited shorthand but fast typing, I worked in television production in London. Here I built up a wide variety of skills working for the Walt Disney Company, Buena Vista International, Buena Vista Productions, Roger Bolton Productions, Wall to Wall TV and Windfall Films.

After spending a number of years on the production side of a visual industry I felt it was time to develop my own creative abilities. With this in mind I returned to Cambridge and continued to work successfully as a freelance photographer for advertising, editorial and corporate clients as well as private clients, musicians and performers.

My aim is always to capture the personality and essence of the individual moment and make each project unique for the client. This leads to much of my work being used for PR, marketing and multi-media broadcast. I enjoy working below the line (direct mail, flyers etc), above the line (mass media advertising) or through the line (bit of both).

Young Jessica Quiney has done nothing wrong. Despite the fact that Fiona Gilmore, 100% owner of Acanchi, was now by 2012 raking in 100 grand a year in profit, poor Jessica was not even being properly paid – she was an intern, an example of the appalling exploitation of our young generation and the total lack of respect in modern society for the value of labour against capital.

But what cannot be forgiven is the BBC’s extraordinary promotion of VNB as a genuine grassroots organization – in total just under 150 minutes were devoted to showing Gavin Esler’s puff piece on the BBC News Channel, not to mention at least 20 minutes on other BBC news programmes.

It has recently come to light that the UK government has been rocked by private polling costing £56,000 of taxpayers’ money, which shows a major fall in “No” support. It is incredible that the government even thinks it is legitimate to pay with taxes for private polling to be made available to only one side in the referendum campaign. It does make you wonder, what else do they think it is OK to pay for? My strong expectation is that the poll of which news has been leaked is only the latest in a series; polling statistics are the basis of PR strategies such as the one Acanchi has been developing for the No campaign.

I cannot leave the subject of Acanchi without referring to this report that:

According to the Israeli daily Haaretz, in October 2008, it was the turn of British firm Acanchi, hired by the foreign minister “to craft the new image” (“Foreign Ministry, PR firm rebrand Israel as land of achievements,” 6 October 2008). The firm’s founder toured Israel as part of the mission “to create a brand disconnected from the Arab-Israeli conflict that focuses instead on Israel’s scientific and cultural achievements.”

I have deep contempt for Fiona Gilmore. To try to create a “brand image” for Israel that leaves out the Palestinians, is the moral equivalent of creating a “brand image” for the Nazis that leaves out the concentration camps. Anyone who can tour Israel as the guest of the Israeli foreign office to that end, is not somebody I would wish to associate with. She is however the ideal partner for Malcolm Offord, the Vote No Borders financier – and major contributor to the Tory Party and to Michael Gove personally – who argues that Britain needs much more drastic cuts to welfare benefits. There must be something about food banks that gladdens the Tory heart. The prospect of not having any in Scotland evidently terrifies them.


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  • Habbabkuk (La vita è bella) !

    Mary

    I was asking for a link to the video running at the 9/11 museum, Mary, and not the link to the BBC radio programme.

    Can you supply, please (or get your son Doug)to do it)?

    Thanks again.

  • Habbabkuk (La vita è bella) !

    Mr Scorgie

    “Last month a huge event organised in Glasgow saw Yes campaigners forced to scour the city for participants willing to argue in favour of a No vote …

    __________________

    Do you think that intimidation might be playing a rôle here, Doug?

  • Habbabkuk (La vita è bella) !

    DoNNyDarKo

    “Habba: You get double time on a Sunday don’t you ?”
    __________________

    No, Donny, that’s Saturday.

    Enjoy the Sachhertorte and coffee now, and have a great day.

    ***************

    La vita è bellissima, life is great!

  • amanfromMars

    But you surely you all already know that everything political is made up on a daily sub-prime ministerial basis for presidential type briefings and pimped and pumped by compromised media to create a buzz and seeds to feed what is hoped to be thought up for tomorrow. And it is why there is such conflict and chaos on such a stage and in platforms which be so fully entertaining of the intellectually challenged and perversely corrupt, because what is presented is so pathetically poor and not good and great.

    The bigger question is what are going to do about it with Command and Control of IT and the money system and CyberSpace?

    Or have you planned and be you quite content to leave it all and IT to others who know how to handle such things virtually remotely and relatively anonymously?

    Methinks that be a really smart move and most wise in these strange new days with magic zerodays to exploit and expand upon.

  • DoNNyDarKo

    Res Diss : There are debates going on all through Scotland in pubs, in homes and the workplace.As I pointed out to an Englishman who seemed to think that the Scots were blindly heading toward independence with no thought to the consequences, was all wrong.Never before have the Scots and other residents been so interested in a vote as it offers real change and an alternative to a corrupt and archaic system devoid of democracy.It shows a healthy interest in the future from the people taking part.The politicians , NO campaign , or anti independence campaign avoid debate, or when they are in debate they ask the moderators for help to avoid answering simple questions.They have an unhealthy interest in keeping a status quo which offers no future,just more of the same.
    Cameron who said he would offer more power to the Scottish people couldn’t give a hint or an example of what he meant.
    Strangely enough I have heard that the Govt has secreted away the last poll.
    Why would they do that Res Diss ?? Any idea’s ?? Have you any examples where the No campaign have been in debate with the Yes campaign?

  • Mary

    Back to topic

    Scotland on Sunday front page today –

    Scottish independence: Yes vote at 8-month low
    SUPPORT for independence has fallen dramatically over the past four weeks, according to an exclusive poll that puts backing for Yes at its lowest level since September last year.
    http://www.scotsman.com/news/politics/top-stories/scottish-independence-yes-vote-at-8-month-low-1-3414582

    Who owns the paper?
    > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotland_on_Sunday

    > Johnston Publishing Ltd

    > The three directors

    Ashley Highfield
    http://companycheck.co.uk/director/916440044
    Ashley Highfield holds 82 appointments at 82 active companies, has resigned from 0 companies and held 0 appointments at 0 dissolved companies. Ashley began his first appointment at the age of 43 and his longest current appointment spans 5 years and 6 months at WILLIAM HILL PLC.
    The combined cash at bank value for all businesses where Ashley holds a current appointment equals £213,977,000, with a combined assets value of £1,905,934,100 and liabilities of £2,262,716,000.

    David King
    http://companycheck.co.uk/director/917902043
    David King holds 48 appointments at 48 active companies, has resigned from 29 companies and held 2 appointments at 2 dissolved companies. David began their first appointment at the age of 39 and their longest current appointment spans 4 years and 7 months at REACH TO TEACH.
    The combined cash at bank value for all businesses where David holds a current appointment equals £39,731,188, with a combined assets value of £1,712,705,836 and liabilities of £2,019,146,570.

    An interesting list of historic directorships there too, some with BBC names, eg BBC Com, BBC Worldwide, BBC Earth Productions etc

    Neil Jones
    http://companycheck.co.uk/director/910565974
    Neil Jones holds 2 appointments at 2 active companies, has resigned from 5 companies and held 0 appointments at 0 dissolved companies. Neil began their first appointment at the age of 28 and their longest current appointment spans 2 years and 2 months at NEIL JONES MEDIA CONSULTING LTD.
    The combined cash at bank value for all businesses where Neil holds a current appointment equals £7,315,928, with a combined assets value of £1,412,976,528 and liabilities of £1,772,588,977.

  • doug scorgie

    O/T

    Kelly ben Maimon
    15 May, 2014 – 11:16 am

    “To go in to school, as a school governor, I needed to be a political appointee, as I didn’t have children. This meant that I had to join the Lib Dems.”

    That is not true is it Kelly?

    “You don’t need to have children or be a parent of a child at the school to become a school governor.”

    http://www.sgoss.org.uk/volunteers/volunteer-role.html

    If you are still reading this blog please explain.

  • Habbabkuk (La vita è bella) !

    Doug Scorgie

    While you’re waiting for Kelly, let me try and help you.

    “That is not true is it Kelly?

    “You don’t need to have children or be a parent of a child at the school to become a school governor.”

    http://www.sgoss.org.uk/volunteers/volunteer-role.html
    ______________________

    If you read her comment carefully, Doug, you’ll see that Kelly’s not claiming you need to have children at the school in order to become a governor there. What she is saying is that if you don’t have children at that school, you can still become a governor there but that you need to be well on with a local politician.

    Hope that helps, Doug.

    ****************

    I’ve noticed that you usually wait for a couple of days before “commenting” on someone else’s comment. Is this because you’re hoping that everyone will have forgotten what was in the original comment, thus enabling you to get away with selective quoting? That would be rather dishonest of you, wouldn’t it, Doug.

  • Resident Dissident

    “I’ve noticed that you usually wait for a couple of days before “commenting” on someone else’s comment. Is this because you’re hoping that everyone will have forgotten what was in the original comment, thus enabling you to get away with selective quoting? That would be rather dishonest of you, wouldn’t it, Doug.”

    Yes I’ve noticed this technique not a few times in the past – and it is often accompanied by a request/command for a response.

  • Resident Dissident

    @DD
    “Res Diss : There are debates going on all through Scotland in pubs, in homes and the workplace.”

    strangely enough I always thought that it took at least two sides to have a debate!

  • Jemand

    Has anyone come up with a new design for the Union Jack sans Scottish white cross? I’d like to be the first to throw my preferred design into the ring.

    Remembering that a flag should be an official emblem that describes a nation in terms of its land, its people, its history and its hopes, this is what I’d like to see for the UK.

    An elegantly designed Union Jack based on a chocolate brown, not blue, background with nothing in the foreground. Brown symbolises the richness of its soil, the colour of its people, the substance of its national discourse and a clear vision of its future.

    If you like my design, please vote it #1 at http://www.flagsinternational.com/brown-flag.html

    Thanks

  • DoNNyDarKo

    Glad you have always thought ResDiss,
    Debate can also mean discussion. There are many people in favour of Independence for different reasons. The fact that there have been so many lies thrown in from the NO side ,means that potential yes voters worried about their pensions are suddenly cast into the not sure WTF to do category.It takes more than one person to have a debate, but there doesn’T necessarily have to be two sides.

  • Mary

    I see we are still linked on ‘Islam – Scraping off the Whitewash’ and not ‘Why won’t God help Amputees’ or similar.

    I heard Stourton’s Sunday programme as I said earlier. The second item following the one about the Pope’s visit to Jordan, Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories was about asylum seekers, their voyages and the treatment of the survivors once arrived in Australia.

    5mins 30secs in http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b043wk06

  • Resident Dissident

    DD

    You are just insulting the intelligence of the majority of the Scottish people – who are quite capable of making their own arguments against independence – this rhetoric that all those thinking of voting no are somehow being duped is quite frankly bullshit, and is the same rhetoric we have always received from those peddling ideas which are just plain unpopular.

    There are plenty of public meetings going on in Scotland where both sides are putting their case – and even Nicola Sturgeon had sufficient sense to accept that this was happening.

  • Tony M

    Don’t forget Resident Dissident’s view on the Odessa Trade Union building murders, was only regret that more weren’t killed and weren’t killed sooner. How he or any of his tag-team associates have the cheek to return here and resume their sanctimonious postings, bowing and scraping before and on behalf of power and privilege, beggars belief.

  • doug scorgie

    Habbabkuk (La vita è bella) !
    18 May, 2014 – 1:36 pm

    “If you read her comment carefully, Doug, you’ll see that Kelly’s not claiming you need to have children at the school in order to become a governor there. What she is saying is that if you don’t have children at that school, you can still become a governor there but that you need to be well on with a local politician.”

    That is a complete lie Habbabkuk and you know it.

    You don’t have to be a parent in ANY school to be a school governor.

    “…but that you need to be well on with a local politician.”

    Not true Habbabkuk, complete tosh.

    Perhaps you know Kelly personally. If so ask her to reply to my query, if not give her the chance to respond on her own.

  • Mary

    In the light of the ‘total war’ promised ref Nigeria, Kenya, Mali, Somalia, Chad etc etc. this fits.

    ‘Washington spends £200m creating intelligence hub in Britain

    RAF Croughton, near Milton Keynes, is to have 1,250 staff and will cover US operations in Africa

    Cahal Milmo
    Sunday 18 May 2014

    Washington is to spend almost £200m to turn one of its British military bases – already implicated in mass surveillance and drone strikes – into one of its largest intelligence hubs outside the mainland United States.

    RAF Croughton, a US Air Force (USAF) base near Milton Keynes, which has a direct cable link to Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) at Cheltenham, is to be the site for an ultra-secure intelligence centre staffed by up to 1,250 personnel and covering operations in Africa, a current focus for US counterterrorism activities.

    The $317m (£189m) project, which includes an installation for the Defense Intelligence Agency, the Pentagon’s main military espionage service, underlines RAF Croughton’s position as a centre for clandestine and classified US communications in Britain.

    Once complete in 2017, the facility will be comparable in number of personnel and operational importance to RAF Menwith Hill, the National Security Agency (NSA) listening station in North Yorkshire. Like Menwith Hill, it is likely to be co-staffed with representatives of British intelligence, including GCHQ.

    The Independent, the sister title of The Independent on Sunday, revealed last year that RAF Croughton was used to funnel back to Washington data from a global network of spy bases inside US embassies, including the secret Berlin facility alleged to have been used by the NSA to listen in on the mobile phone of the German Chancellor, Angela Merkel.

    The British base, which currently serves as a relay station for CIA agent communications, is also at the centre of claims that it is used as a support site for US drone strikes operated from Camp Lemonnier in Djibouti against al-Qa’ida targets inside Yemen.

    Campaigners and senior politicians yesterday said the massive investment in RAF Croughton raised fresh questions about the oversight of US bases in Britain, which are governed by a 1950s agreement with Washington drawn up in a different age of surveillance technologies.

    Labour MP Tom Watson, a former defence minister, said: “The new spend of $317m on facilities at RAF Croughton is a shocking revelation. There can be no doubt now that communications activities there must be thoroughly reviewed, and arrangements governing use of the base updated.”

    Details of the RAF Croughton project obtained by this newspaper show that the upgrade will involve the “consolidation” of six existing US intelligence groups, currently based at RAF Molesworth in Cambridgeshire, into a single facility at RAF Croughton.

    The Pentagon said the project was required to move intelligence staff out of outmoded and unsuitable accommodation at Molesworth, saving at least $75m a year. The move will lead to “divestiture”, or closure, of the Cambridgeshire base and its neighbour RAF Alconbury, which are estimated to contribute £40m a year to the local economy.

    The result will be a substantial further concentration of US intelligence firepower at RAF Croughton, whose stated purpose is to provide “world-class combat support” for activities including “global strike operations” and has recently had its security arrangements tightened.

    A USAF briefing document makes it clear that the facility at RAF Croughton will be at the front line of intelligence activities and will include personnel from unnamed British agencies. The facility will be the principle intelligence centre for the USafricom – or Africa command.

    It emerged last year that British Telecom provided a high-speed fibre-optic line between RAF Croughton and Camp Lemonnier, the counterterrorism operations base used for drone strikes in Yemen and the Horn of Africa.

    The existence of the communications link has caused concern that RAF Croughton is used to relay command and control data from drone operators, possibly based in the US, to Djibouti. The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has stated that US personnel at the base “neither fly nor control any manned or remotely piloted aircraft anywhere in the world”.

    Lindis Percy, co-ordinator of the Campaign for the Accountability of American Airbases, said: “This massive new development at Croughton is clearly of great importance to the American military and government, but what say has the British Parliament or the Ministry of Defence had? It is high time that the issue of what goes on on US bases is debated in Parliament so there is a meaningful and credible debate and oversight on behalf of the British people.”

    The MoD yesterday insisted that all activities on US bases were subject to British approval. A spokesman said: “There are no circumstances under which UK military assets, including those bases made available to the US, could be used operationally by the US without the agreement of Her Majesty’s Government.” ‘

    http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/washington-spends-200m-creating-intelligence-hub-in-britain-9391406.html

  • Resident Dissident

    “Don’t forget Resident Dissident’s view on the Odessa Trade Union building murders, was only regret that more weren’t killed and weren’t killed sooner.”

    Don’t forget TonyM is a lying c*** prepared to twist and distort fro his master.

  • mark golding

    Mary
    18 May, 2014 – 5:20 pm

    ‘RAF’ Croughton is developing in alignment with Camp Lemonnier, Djibouti, America’s largest military base in Eastern Africa. The site serves as a hub for drone strikes in Yemen etc and is a suspected CIA secret (black) prison where intelligence agents intimidate ‘targets’ such as Mahdi Hashi, a Somalia-born US citizen, to become a British/American intelligence informants and ultimately patsies when ‘entanglement’ is complete.

    Croughton routes drone command and control information to UK and other personnel embedded at Camp Lemonnier.

    Reprieve’s legal director Kat Craig said: “This is yet more evidence that the UK is deeply involved in the shady abuses of the ‘war on terror.’

    The stationing of UK personnel at a base which has been identified as playing a key part in the secretive, unaccountable and illegal campaign of drone strikes in Yemen raises serious questions, as does the Yemeni president’s statement that Britain is involved in targeting the strikes.

    The government must no longer dodge questions over its role in the secret drone war – it is high time it came clean with the British public.”

    http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/may/12/uk-troops-us-base-djibouti-drones-yemen-mod-reveals

  • Habbabkuk (La vita è bella) !

    Mr Scorgie

    ““…but that you need to be well on with a local politician.”

    Not true Habbabkuk, complete tosh.”
    __________________

    You should argue that one out with Kelly, Doug.

    But I think you’d probably agree that it never hurts to be well in with a local councillor or two, or, conversely, it is not always wise to have made an enemy out of a councillor or two (as you may yourself have found out…..)

  • Jemand

    I see someone is still obsessively posting links on Israel, Jews or similar – and making nonsensically truncated observations of what my tag links to. :/

    I also see that today she has dropped the ironic badge of “Truth and Justice” – no doubt on the good advice of someone who can see the immodesty of such bombast. A person so wilfully ignorant of the concept of “Truth”, whatever that might one day be, and conveniently in no position to oversee the difficult job of “Justice”, has no right to smugly proclaim special knowledge or appreciation of those words.

    “Truth AND Justice”

    They look so good together – unspoken – don’t they?

    You would think that devoting oneself to just one or the other would be sufficiently noble a cause. But no. The two, together, is even better.

    Comfortably juxtaposed beside one another, Truth AND Justice have, like eponymously tattooed fists (the left being a squeeze-in), a power that requires no further contemplation and which will tolerate no further enquiry. All you are required to do is to stand in awe of their combined majesty.

    But don’t say them out loud. Because if you do, they will sound hollow, wistful and treacherous – like a haunting echo of a once great speech that never delivers on its promises but leaves desperate people in cynical disappointment for the rest of their lives.

    Truth And Justice … Bullshit And Vengeance

    Sounds the same, to me.

  • doug scorgie

    Resident Dissident
    18 May, 2014 – 3:20 pm

    Quoting Habbabkuk:

    “I’ve noticed that you usually wait for a couple of days before “commenting” on someone else’s comment. Is this because you’re hoping that everyone will have forgotten what was in the original comment, thus enabling you to get away with selective quoting? That would be rather dishonest of you, wouldn’t it, Doug.”

    ResDis:
    “Yes I’ve noticed this technique not a few times in the past – and it is often accompanied by a request/command for a response.”

    Not true ResDis, as you know, I always provide a link for other posters to refer to something your associate Habbabkuk doesn’t do.

  • Sofia Kibo Noh

    Jemand. 4 05pm

    Poor Jemand. 4 05pm

    Forever troubled by nightmare fantasies of a horrific rising tide of sinister brown untermenschen swamping the racial purity of the old country.

    Too bad the inverse actually happened to the Australians. A living nightmare for sure!

    The British
    by Benjamin Zephaniah
    Take some Picts, Celts and Silures
    And let them settle,
    Then overrun them with Roman conquerors.

    Remove the Romans after approximately 400 years
    Add lots of Norman French to some
    Angles, Saxons, Jutes and Vikings, then stir vigorously.

    Mix some hot Chileans, cool Jamaicans, Dominicans,
    Trinidadians and Bajans with some Ethiopians, Chinese,
    Vietnamese and Sudanese.

    Then take a blend of Somalians, Sri Lankans, Nigerians
    And Pakistanis,
    Combine with some Guyanese
    And turn up the heat.

    Sprinkle some fresh Indians, Malaysians, Bosnians,
    Iraqis and Bangladeshis together with some
    Afghans, Spanish, Turkish, Kurdish, Japanese
    And Palestinians
    Then add to the melting pot.

    Leave the ingredients to simmer.

  • Tony M

    Nice text Sofia, not a significant omission too but further variety is that the occupying Roman Legions, who would certainly have left their mark on the local populations over the course of the hundred of years of Southern Britain’s occupation, would in the majority have come from other Empire conquered outposts and lands, so there’s a huge additional admixture there, research amongst British Isles Roman occupation artefacts suggest substantive numbers from places as far afield as The Ukraine, as it then might have been and the middle-east.

  • Jemand

    “Jemand. 4 05pm

    Poor Jemand. 4 05pm

    Forever troubled by nightmare fantasies of a horrific rising tide of sinister brown untermenschen swamping the racial purity of the old country.

    Too bad the inverse actually happened to the Australians. A living nightmare for sure!”

    — – — – — – — –

    Sofia, you can only live in hope that, someday, you will get an education and see things for what they really are and not what you imagine them to be. And perhaps become the better person you also imagine yourself to be without the snooty sense of superiority (it gets stale after a while).

    And when reading my comments, it helps to have a sense of humour. They’re free you know, you can download one off of the internet. Make sure you download the 64 bit version, it’s more sophisticated.

    And regarding racial purity, i’ll leave it to those racialists to worry about, including you, who actually believe in the idea of “race” let alone an ‘innocent’ vs ‘guilty’ race.

    PS – My mother’s house was burgled by one of your favoured brown children not long ago. She was still in the house at the time of the burglary. We know it was one of your innocents (note sarcasm) because he thoughtfully left a handprint which was soon matched by police to his criminal record and a stolen car in which some of my mother’s personal effects were found. I shouldn’t expect you to care about the outcome – as lucky as she was to have not disturbed the intruder given that we have many cases of fatal bashings, rapes and murders by burglars in my part of the world. Nor should I expect you to understand the relevance of this short tale because, as you are either a self-hating white person, or white-hating brown person, you choose not to see that people are the same – good and bad shades in every colour of the rainbow. I have many more stories about innocent people doing bad things. It’s just too bad that the innocents get gaoled and not the guilty like my white mother. The shame I feel.. *sob*

    PPS – I heard that moral consciences are on sale for a short time. Better hurry, Sofia, and get one while they last.

  • Mary

    The Truth and Justice handle is a relic of the time when I was being hounded here by trolls. It is in a list of names which appeared in a box when I had to re-enter my name and e-mail address recently and I must have clicked on it by mistake. I only spotted it yesterday and corrected it. Also there is April Showers, Flaming June and La Vita non e Bella and some others which some here might remember from that horrible time. I don’t know how to clear them. Any suggestions?

    Hope that explanation satisfies our Australian racist friend who submitted the suggestion for a brown flag earlier today.

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