From: bern.boergeenreclame@planet.nl   
      
   "banana"  schreef in bericht   
   news:OAxb4KAz2bbEFwCV@borve.demon.co.uk...   
   > In article <446d6e00$0$2027$ba620dc5@text.nova.planet.nl>, B. B.   
   >  writes   
   >>Let's get on topic! A quote from the letter below:   
   >>   
   >>[quote]   
   >>   
   >>In 1997 when you first came to power, it was on the back of the   
   >>electorate's   
   >>disillusionment with a Tory government riddled with sleaze. It was my   
   >>fearlessness and determination which exposed it and bought it to the   
   >>forefront of public attention. You have never acknowledged the part that I   
   >>played in bringing you to office.   
   >>   
   >>[unquote]   
   >>   
   >>Fayed forgets to tell the Prime Minister that his "fearlessness and   
   >>determination" had to do with bribing Members of Parliament by a man who   
   >>calls himself "al"Fayed. He "bought" Neil Hamilton and others and he   
   >>demands   
   >>credits for it! Doesn't he understand that his actions were, to put it   
   >>mildly, despicable? Doesn't he understand that his actions left him with   
   >>zero credibility? Why should one trust a man who bribes other people?   
   >   
   > He isn't saying 'trust me'.   
      
   He is saying "trust the evidence I provide". Since he was/is the only source   
   for the a) pregnancy story, b) Diana's last words story, c) marriage story,   
   his credibility is very much an issue. "Banana" claims he is very good at   
   deconstructing propaganda, but when it comes to Fayed's propaganda, he fails   
   completely. (See below.)   
      
   >He's saying 'I want a proper inquiry'.   
      
   He got a proper investigation in France. At first Fayed stated that he   
   trusted it, but when the results, that he couldn't manipulate, turned out to   
   be not as he wanted them to be, he started sulking. At this moment he is   
   getting a proper inquiry in the UK. It looks like the British inquiry will   
   come up with the same results as the French investigation. Fayed and his   
   mouthpiece the "Daily Express" (or "Daily Diana" as it is commonly known)   
   try to confuse matters with the usual stuff. Fayed tries to influence the   
   gullible. His last line of defence will be, as one can deduct from his   
   latest outbursts, that the secret services (all of them, world wide) prevent   
   Lord Stevens from getting the correct information. "Banana" and other   
   gullible people believe Fayed, which means that his PR works for a certain   
   group of people.   
      
   >As for the idea that it was murder, he's right to say that most people in   
   > the UK agree with him.   
      
   The "Daily Diana" once conducted what it called a "poll". People were asked   
   the question "do you think it was murder?" They could phone in. Most of the   
   readers who bothered, agreed with Fayed. This is Fayed's "evidence" that   
   most people in the UK agree with him. Not a proper poll, but Fayed   
   propaganda. It is a pity that a self-certified propaganda deconstructor like   
   "Banana" swallows Fayed's propaganda line. hook and sinker.   
      
   I'll let "Banana" in on a secret: most people in the UK don't care. Diana   
   died more than eight years ago, live has moved on.   
      
   Even if most people in the UK would agree with Fayed and "Banana", this   
   would mean little. Facts are important, not opinions. If one uses "Banana's"   
   methodology, one can reach some interesting results. "Banana" dislikes TV   
   and football. Most people in the UK like TV and football. Will "Banana"   
   change his mind?   
      
   B.B.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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