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Farce After Farce
You'll likely already know that the three men charged with spying over the Stormontgate affair were released today. I'm sure you'll be unsurprised to hear that I treat Sinn Fein's "evidence of political policing" claims with a degree of scepticism, much like the accused men's conspiracy theories about the arrests being designed to 'Save Dave'.
Would anyone really be surprised if this, like the 'On-The-Runs' legislation making its way through Westminster, was just another sop to Sinn Fein given as part of some side deal in return for them playing along with the rest of the country?
Follow up:
Nobody knows why the Public Prosecution Service is dropping the charges, and its likely that nobody ever will. Just like nobody knows why Sean Kelly was arrested and then released again with absolutely no explanation. My own theory is that they're not pressing charges because the suspicion was that they were gathering intelligence for the IRA and, like with the Sean Kelly case, they've decided that following IRA decomissioning, there's no threat; or we don't want to annoy them just in case.
As if all that wasn't bad enough - if anyone caught the draw for the World Cup you'll know that there was more than one ballsup today. What a farce that was! Even the BBC commentator (Alan Green?) had no idea what was going on. Who can blame him? Basically FIFA said "Well this team should be in England's group, but they're from Africa so they're going in a different group and we'll come back to England. Oh and Serbia aren't allowed to go in a group if the first time in that group is from Europe, so they're having a special pot all of their own.