On 5 Oct 2006 10:41:15 -0700, wrote:
No, Mein Herring, it means he has been bone smuggling, the sort of
thing our resident reverend rent boy engages in!
Take the bone out of your colon, Colon!
Heinrich wrote:
"Al Nakba" <
> schreef in bericht
news:1160057704.117751.261450@m7g2000cwm.googlegroups.com...
"Red Ken" though is an infamous rump wrangler..
does that mean he fancies wrangler jeans ?
Heinrich wrote:
A judge said it would be wrong to suggest London Mayor Ken Livingstone
was
"anti-Semitic" at the start of a hearing into whether Livingstone's Nazi
jibe to a Jewish journalist warranted a one-month suspension.
"I don't want anyone to suggest that Mr. Livingstone is anti-Semitic.
There
has never been any indication of that. That is absolutely clear," judge
Lawrence Collins told the High Court in London.
The court began hearing the mayor's appeal against a disciplinary
tribunal's
ruling in February that his remarks to a London Evening Standard
newspaper
reporter were "unnecessarily insensitive and offensive".
The suspension for breaching the code of conduct of the Greater London
Authority he leads has been frozen pending the appeal.
In February 2005, Livingstone compared journalist Oliver Finegold to a
Nazi
concentration camp guard. Finegold had approached Livingstone for a
comment
after a party marking the 20 years since former culture secretary Chris
Smith became Britain's first openly-gay member of parliament.
Livingstone claimed the comments were triggered by his dislike of
Associated
Newspapers, which owns the title, and its sister national paper, the
Daily
Mail.
He argued they referred to the Daily Mail's reputed support for fascism
and
opposition to Jewish refugees in the 1930s and to a leaving party thrown
for
an outgoing editor at which some guests were reportedly dressed as Nazis.
Livingstone - a former Evening Standard restaurant critic who has long
believed he has been the target of a hate campaign by his erstwhile
employers - has steadfastly refused to apologize since the row blew up.
Instead, he has insisted he was using his freedom of expression to state
his
long and honestly-held political view of Associated Newspapers and had
never
meant to offend the Jewish community or downplay the Holocaust.
"No-one can think he was making a remark like that because of
anti-Semitism," the judge said.
He said the remark was "clearly offensive and intended to be so" but that
did not make it a breach of the code of conduct. He said he could
understand
how the mayor might have overreacted to a newspaper that "troubled him in
the past".
He suggested that Livingstone had spoken his mind in forceful terms
"while
his brain was not fully engaged" - a comment that Livingstone's defense
team
questioned.
"I have total confidence in British justice," Livingstone said after
arriving for the hearing, which resumes Thursday
.