So jurors are being flown back and forth to France to see a ten year old accident site, all sorts of rumour and innuendo are being presented at an official inquest and hundreds of journalists are doing nothing but publishing all this crap on a daily basis.
Am I the only one who thinks this is all an utter waste of time and money?
Diana, Dodi and Henri Paul died tragically in an horrific car accident that may or may not have involved another car. That's it, let them rest in peace. Why is all this nonsense being trampled out now? It's plainly absurd.
As for the greatest advocate of all things conspiratorial, Mohamed Fayed, let's see how his 'evidence', and I use the word in the loosest possible sense, stacks up:
Pregnancy
In 1997, Michael Cole, Fayed's official spokesman, wrote to the Daily Telegraph on his behalf complaining that the paper's coverage of the tragedy was "spoiled by references to pregnancy and cocaine, for which scurrilous allegations not a scrap of evidence has emerged". Cole also wrote to the Press Complaints Commission on Fayed's behalf stating "it was alleged the the princess was pregnant at the time of her death but no evidence has emerged to support these damaging allegations ... nasty rumours which have no factual basis".
Furthermore, Fayed himself asked, during an exclusive interview with the Sunday Mirror on 9 November 1997, "who gave French newspapers the false tip-off that Diana was six weeks pregnant?" And in February 1998 he told the Mirror "I doubt that Diana was pregnant, the only two people that can really tell us are the coroner over here and the hospital in France and neither of them have confirmed this information which makes me think it is not true."
Then, all of a sudden in 2003, he remembered that the Princess herself had actually told him personally that she was pregnant in a phone call on the night of her death. Yes, of course she did Mohamed, of course. It's totally plausible that you forgot this inconsequential fact for 6 years.
Engagement
Was the ring Dodi bought for Diana an engagement ring? Absolutely not according to Fayed in 1997. Cole held a press conference at Harrods in September that year where he told reporters "Mr Al Fayed has authorised me to give you a few details ... What that ring meant we shall probably never know and if the planet lasts for another thousand years, I am quite sure that people will continue to speculate about it's significance."
Once again, more than a year later, Fayed suddenly remembered that the couple had told him this was an engagement ring when they telephoned him to say they were getting married. Again, very believable that somebody would forget such a detail for over a year.
Long and short of it is that this inquest has been forced upon us based on utter fabrication and nonsense. It will be enormously expensive, traumatic for some and will accomplish absolutely nothing. Those mentalists that believe Prince Phillip shot the tyres out with a slingshot will continue to do so. Those people that think some stupid French bloke had drunk too much and lost control of the car he was driving through a tunnel at 100mph will also continue to do so.
What has happened to common sense? The public's lack of interest in this inquest can be judged by the number of people in the overflow marquee at the Royal Courts of Justice by the second day, which was just three. Compare that to the Hutton inquiry when the overflow capacity of 70 was fully utilised almost every single day. How can this process have come so far based upon Fayed's lies and inability to grasp reality?
Bastards ... slimy bastards all over the world!
Posts
