Re: : BBC 'Learning the Lessons of the Kelly Affair

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> in article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Paul
> Hammond at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 30/11/03 10:52 am:
>
> > This looks like another concession that there was NO scapegoating
> > or repudiating to me.
> >
> > "We can confirm that Dr David Kelly, whose death was confirmed by the
> >> police on Saturday afternoon was a registered Baha'i. He had become
> >> a Baha'i in New York in 1999 and had been a member of the Vale of
> >> White Horse community in Oxfordshire before the Local Assembly
> >> boundary changes left him as an isolated believer."
> >
> > Looks like "owning" to me.  Dr David Kelly WAS a Baha'i.  No
> > dis-owning going on here!
>
> You are ignoring the most important part of that letter. All baha'is
> (especially those 30 members who attended the talk in October 2002)
> were politely informed, they were forbidden to talk to the media. The
> AO did not want the public to find out the truth, that the NSA had
> invited  Dr kelly to a fireside to give a talk about the september
> dossier.which give the OK for the UK to go to war with Iraq. (quote
> inclosed again for perusal).
>

You seem to be suggesting that all of the non-Baha'is at the fireside in
October 2002 had become Baha'is by summer 2003, such that the NSA's request
to refer journalists to the NSA, would be complied with by _all_ who
attended the fireside.  Do you know for a fact that all who attended this
fireside became Baha'is in less than a year, OR, do you incessantly make up
new stories to try to cover tracks on previous stories?

Even so, the letter clearly _does_ claim that David Kelly was a Baha'i,
precisely what it would _not_ do if David Kelly were being repudiated by
the Baha'i Faith.

>>>> We can confirm that Dr David Kelly, whose death
>>>> was confirmed by the police on Saturday afternoon
>>>> was a registered Baha'i.
....
>>>> National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of the UK
>>>> Barney Leith, Secretary

>
> Errol
>
> "We are aware that quite a number of the friends have been approached
> by journalists about Dr Kelly. We would ask that any further
> approaches by the media should be referred to the National Secretary
> or to Carmel Momen, our Public Information Officer in the Office of
> Public Information on 020-7590 8785".
> >
> > Paul
> >

(snip)