International Law

Sad Canadian

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Canadians play hockey - a game which rewards guts.  

Canadians play the Grey Cup in November, in outdoor stadiums.  (I have sat through the Grey Cup in Edmonton - beer frozen in under 2 minute.)

Canadians send tough lads to Afghanistan in small jeeps.  

Canadians live and thrive in wilderness.

So how did we ever produce such a wimp like Lord Black?  Here is the cur whining for his freedom because he only stole $2 million..

"I write to you from a US federal prison. It is far from a country club or even a regimental health spa.

I work quite hard but fulfillingly, teaching English and the history of the United States to some of my co-residents. There is practically unlimited access to e-mails and the media and plenty of time for visitors.

Many of the other co-residents are quite interesting and affable, often in a Damon Runyon way, and the regime is not uncivilised.

In eight months here there has not been the slightest unpleasantness with anyone. It is a little like going back to boarding school, which I somewhat enjoyed nearly 50 years ago (before being expelled for insubordination) and is a sharp change of pace after 16 years as chairman of The Daily Telegraph.

I can report that a change is not always as good as a rest. However, apart from missing the constant companionship of my magnificent wife Barbara, who visits me once, twice or even three times each week and lives nearby in our Florida home with her splendid Hungarian dogs, I enjoy some aspects of my status as a victim of the American prosecutocracy.

My appeal continues. Given the putrefaction of the US justice system, it is an unsought but distinct honour to fight this out and already to have won 85% of the case and 99% of the financial case.

The initial allegation against me of a "$500m corporate kleptocracy" has shrunk to a false finding against me - that even some of the jurors have already fled from in post-trial comments - of the underdocumented receipt of $2.9m. There is no evidence to support this charge."

Putz.

Full post as published by Misleading Advertising Law on November 26, 2008 (boomark / email).