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Subject: [OM] Re: Hutton, was OT rant
From: "Gordon J. Ross" <gordross@xxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2004 23:27:36 -0700
Hi Chris:
Not to worry, most public protests lack focus. But this raises an issue, how
can you be sure that you have set the diopter right on the 3 and 4?

Gord

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chris Barker" <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, February 06, 2004 11:19 PM
Subject: [OM] Hutton, was OT rant


>
> You might like to pick up this week's Private Eye Roger.  It makes the
> preposterous accusation that the Hutton Report was a whitewash and that
> Hutton was too closely attached to the Government to give an impartial
> ruling, legal or not.  I don't know where they get such off-the-wall
> opinions from, but it is repeated many times. ;-)
>
> They also mention how Lord Birt managed to get his oar in to denigrate
> his successor in the Lords - talk about crowing!
>
> OM content: I used to work on the 3rd floor of MOD, opposite Downing
> Street, so I was disturbed every time there was a protest... and there
> was always at least one a week.  But the only time I got photos was for
> a State Opening of Parliament as the procession passed down Whitehall.
> That was when I discovered that I needed spectacles as all the shots
> were out of focus.
>
> Chris
>
> OM Content
> On 5 Feb 2004 , at 16:58, Roger Wesson wrote:
>
> >
> > Well, we in the UK can be very sure that our politicians are
> > unimpeachably honest - a lengthy inquiry by someone not at all
> > connected
> > with the 'establishment' has told us so, and forced the resignations of
> > the chairman and director-general of the BBC for having one of their
> > journalists dare to suggest otherwise!  It's certainly restored my
> > faith
> > in the system ;)
> >
> > OM content of a sort - street protests outside Downing Street are
> > rather
> > common these days I hear.  Once I have finished this damned PhD I'm
> > working on I'll get down there with my OM-1 and do some photography.
> > Protests, marches, riots etc are going to be a photographic target for
> > me this year.  I have a friend who's got great shots of various
> > protests
> > in London over the years.
> >
> > Roger
> >
> > Garry D. Lewis wrote:
> >
> >> What! The President lies? I'm shocked- shocked I tell you! }8^0.
> >>
> >> Yours "I knew that",
> >> Garry
> >
> >
> >
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> C M I Barker
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