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Monday, January 27, 2014

Helping British Business Win the War for Peace and Freedom

From 2003 to 2009, during the most glorious phase of the recent Crusade against Terror, it appears that the faith-based community in Whitehall was helping to sell fake bomb detectors. A wealth creator named Gary Bolton paid the Government to use serving soldiers and the British embassy in Manila to promote the devices, without troubling to check such minor details as whether they worked or not. As it later turned out, the devices "are not effective … have either no working parts or no power source", and their dissemination "materially increased the risk of personal injury and death"; so it's easy enough to see why the faith-based community in Whitehall found them so attractive. The Reverend Blair's curia had in fact been warned about the scam as early as 2001, but chose to ignore the advice because it came from a mere scientist, rather than from a wealth creator or from George W Bush. Campaigners have called for the relevant officials to be held to account; but the devices have so far been involved only in some convictions of innocent people and a couple of deaths. We can hardly expect the present administration to take against a piece of machinery which gets results like those.

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