Top Acquittal
September 7, 2007 by VM
Dear Diary,
Thank goodness darling Jem has been acquitted. Just because you are loaned a car, for free, does not mean that you were the person driving it at 80 mph in an area with a 50 mph limit. It could have been anyone else. Just because Jem appears in a Television programme in which cars are driven fast does not mean that he does not drive in accordance with the speed limit himself. As for comments Jem may have made: well, which one of us has not said something when we meant entirely the opposite at one time or another?
The suggestion that Jem should have sneaked on the person who was driving the car is equally preposterous. Why should he name a criminal? Obviously it is not a question of the right to silence because Jem was not guilty. It is a question of the public-school code.
Jem is a diamond: one of the iconclasts of our age. He tells it like it is. There should be special rules for people like him. I am sure that people like the government and the LSC feel that justice has been done.
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