20 March (Part 2) - Should I be offended?
You’ve probably
seen this image before. It’s the one Google presented to me when
someone searched for the phrase shown and Google led them to Bonkers - 21 times!
It’s not exactly the internet crime of the century;
in fact I don’t think it is a crime at all. To my mind it ranks alongside Olly putting up an anonymous picture of a
run-of-the-mill sort of house and asking the
rhetorical question, “what sort of c*** lives in a house like this?”. The
language isn't going to hurt anyone especially as unlike my own critic, Olly
didn’t provide a name. It’s definitely not in any way comparable to
what one of Will Tuckley’s friends or their mates did
to me and Elywn Bryant, something that the police eventually accepted was a homophobic hate crime.
So why bring it all up again now?
Because I now know who did it, that is why. That’s not know as in ‘I’ve a
pretty good idea’, it’s know as in ‘I’m absolutely certain’. Who? Who? I hear
you ask. Not sure I am ready to say yet or even at all, but I wouldn’t be bothered mentioning
it if it was someone you’d never heard of would I? That would be pointless mischief
making, this is closer to mischief making with a point!
Yes
I know it effectively blackens all our councillor’s names, but I’m not sure I really care any more.
Did they care when Olly’s wife was deprived of her business computers, phones and camera for
several months, for something for which the prosecution could find no evidence? Do you think
councillor Philip Read (Conservative, Northumberland Heath) cared when he signed the statement
that put Olly in a cell for 24 hours for reasons the District Judge said was so much
bull excrement? No. So why should I care about them? Well; perhaps I’m not totally without compassion;
I’ll say this. It wasn’t councillor Steven Hall (†) and it wasn’t councillor
Peter Catterall (†) despite
his familiarity with the T word.
And you may reasonably guess that it wasn’t a member of the Labour party either.
Philip Read is a Director of International Travel Resources Ltd, New
York Hotel Bookings, Las Vegas Hotel Bookings and Travel Trade Solutions and owns the
relevant web domains. I spell that out in the hope that Google will bring some of his
potential customers here and that they will have an opportunity to see what sort of
malicious and disreputable character they would be dealing with.
† Singled out because at some time in the past year or two they have treated the Bonkers
team in a reasonable fashion. I hope that doesn’t get them into trouble with the remaining
50. If it does, maybe they should choose their friends more carefully.