Internment Acquisitions?

For some reason I have an undefinable reservation about expressing delight at the imprisonment of these four. Perhaps I'm just wary of becoming a hang 'em and flog 'em type. Nonetheless, as someone whose family has been a target of these self-righteous pricks, I am extremely pleased. My stepfather used to run a company that worked with HLS, and found that the cost of doing legitimate business with a leading pharmceutical research institution whose work has doubtless saved, eased and prolonged hundreds of thousands of lives was to have his credit cards cloned and unwanted goods and services ordered and paid for on it, as well as to have his phone number published in Tweaky Self-Importance Monthly so that "campaigners" could phone us up and harass us whenever they were having trouble maintaining erections. None of this, of course, comes even close to the kind of distress foisted upon the family of Gladys Hammond, so I can only assume that those people are even more pleased about this sentence than I am. Long may they remain there.

The BBC, of course, has managed to report this news without actually reporting it, if you see what I mean. Rather than report that extremist terrorists with no respect for common decency and no concept of human compassion have been put away for many years, they report that the case "didn't help animal rights". In the words of Leo McGarry, I would think! (It's all in the delivery though.) Note how they manage to squeeze the "campaigners'" message into the third paragraph, yet it's not until the fourth that it's even mentioned that they pleaded guilty. Plus ça change....