Thursday, February 15, 2007
Why Tony Blair should be arrested
There are a number of good reasons why Tony B. Liar should be arrested. I have mentioned some of them earlier in this blog. In this entry I will concentrate on one reason only.
According to "Private Eye" issue 1178 headed "Cameron Drugs Latest", page 5, 3rd entry there is revealed the interesting fact that anyone who has been ever been arrested in the UK, however briefly, cannot enter the USA under the Visa Waiver program. I am certainly not an expert on visa law but I do understand from what PE says and from what I hear elsewhere, that such arrest can therefore possibly make subsequent US entry very difficult and quite likely downright impossible. Furthermore it seems to me that in the circumstances where some celebrity is thus turned down, we could reasonably ask why such permission is later given.
In other words this could put paid to jaunts by at least some of those characters like John ("Two Jags") Prescott, John ("I only screwed a nigger servant not Edwina") Major and other such notorious types regarded by some people as undesirable characters. On the other hand it seems to me that Tony B. Liar appears to have been regarded by some people in the USA as a man of unimpeachable integrity and great charm. If so, why couldn't he make US entry easier for decent people who may have not have had his chances. I used to know the late Paul Erdos slightly, for example and guys like him deserve a fairer go. In fact, as things stand, all people in the UK who are not very clearly criminals should easily get in to the USA if they want.
If B. Liar were placed in the same position as the rest of us, once he has been arrested he would know what a nightmare it can all be. And anyway, seems to me he probably should be put in the nick. Plenty of reasons have been given earlier. Apart from that, for example many people are very unhappy about his presumed corrupt or bad arrangements with foreigners like Americans and Saudis.
According to "Private Eye" issue 1178 headed "Cameron Drugs Latest", page 5, 3rd entry there is revealed the interesting fact that anyone who has been ever been arrested in the UK, however briefly, cannot enter the USA under the Visa Waiver program. I am certainly not an expert on visa law but I do understand from what PE says and from what I hear elsewhere, that such arrest can therefore possibly make subsequent US entry very difficult and quite likely downright impossible. Furthermore it seems to me that in the circumstances where some celebrity is thus turned down, we could reasonably ask why such permission is later given.
In other words this could put paid to jaunts by at least some of those characters like John ("Two Jags") Prescott, John ("I only screwed a nigger servant not Edwina") Major and other such notorious types regarded by some people as undesirable characters. On the other hand it seems to me that Tony B. Liar appears to have been regarded by some people in the USA as a man of unimpeachable integrity and great charm. If so, why couldn't he make US entry easier for decent people who may have not have had his chances. I used to know the late Paul Erdos slightly, for example and guys like him deserve a fairer go. In fact, as things stand, all people in the UK who are not very clearly criminals should easily get in to the USA if they want.
If B. Liar were placed in the same position as the rest of us, once he has been arrested he would know what a nightmare it can all be. And anyway, seems to me he probably should be put in the nick. Plenty of reasons have been given earlier. Apart from that, for example many people are very unhappy about his presumed corrupt or bad arrangements with foreigners like Americans and Saudis.
# posted by uv : 8:27 AM
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