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Wow, this is some next-level bullshit: <<The Matrix-Churchill trial collapsed when former minister Alan Clark admitted he had been "economical with the actuali

• pjc50 2y ago
  It's difficult to imagine the era when lying to the public and misleading Parliament were considered serious matters. But yes, Clark was next-level BS in all matters. Wikipedia: When Clark was Minister for Trade, responsible for overseeing arms sales to foreign governments, he was interviewed by journalist John Pilger who asked him:[31] JP "Did it bother you personally that this British equipment was causing such mayhem and human suffering (by supplying arms for Indonesia's war in East Timor)?" AC "No, not in the slightest, it never entered my head. You tell me that this was happening, I didn't hear about it or know about it." JP "Well, even if I hadn't told you it was happening, the fact that we supply highly effective equipment to a regime like that is not a consideration, as far as you're concerned. It's not a personal consideration. I ask the question because I read you are a vegetarian and you are quite seriously concerned about the way animals are killed." AC "Yeah." JP "Doesn't that concern extend to the way humans, albeit foreigners, are killed?" AC "Curiously not. No." Also Wikipedia: While involved in the Matrix Churchill trial he was cited in a divorce case in South Africa, in which it was revealed he had had affairs with Valerie Harkess, the wife of a South African barrister, and her daughters, Josephine and Alison.