At 13:07:36 on Wed, 26 Aug 2009, David Kilpatrick 
 wrote in 
:

>Wait until next week. I was at Holyrood yesterday. They had an 
>emergency meeting of the parliament the day before, but decided against 
>taking any votes. Our daughter line-manages the reporting teams, and 
>says that next week when the parliament is back from recess there is 
>every possibility of a censure motion against, or a vote of no 
>confidence in, MacAskill. Will be overtime for the parliamentary report 
>team getting every last word correct.
>
>Stable door/horse etc but this issue is about to divide the Scottish 
>Parliment like nothing before.

Maybe so - but the song is not about that, in any way at all.  It is a 
nasty little revenge fantasy, presumably written out of outrage that 
compassion should be ever shown, and with a knee-jerk, unquestioning 
assumption that somebody convicted of a crime must necessarily be guilty 
of that crime.

I can't help wondering whether there will be companion songs written 
about the Birmingham Six, the Guildford Four and the Maguire Seven.
-- 
Molly Mockford
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety
deserve neither liberty nor safety - Benjamin Franklin
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