[lbo-talk] Gorgeous George Galloway and "saddamist money"

[Carl Remick]

>From: Daniel Davies <d_squared_2002 at yahoo.co.uk>
>
>Just trying to set out, AFAICT and in as neutral a way as possible, the
>accusations against GG and their current status. ...
>
>This last one is a bit of a last-ditch hope; it is certainly annoying that 
>key
>documents have "gone missing" and it is certainly bloody bad form for 
>Galloway
>to have been managing a charity for which the accounts can't be produced.  
>But
>to be honest, pinning one's hopes on "lost documents which would tell all 
>if
>only they weren't lost" is more of a hallmark of the conspiracy-theory
>community than any sensible politics and if this is the best that the 
>anti-GG
>posse can raise, then they're in a hopeless situation.

Here in the US, land of miracles, missing documents have a tendency to turn 
up in wondrous ways  almost like a fairy tale.  E.g., take the notorious 
Alger Hiss case, where key documents needed to nail Hiss were found in a 
hollowed-out pumpkin on Whittaker Chambers' Maryland farm, hence have since 
been know as the Pumpkin Papers: 
<http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/hiss/pumpkinp.html>

Here's a nice photo of forever-creepy Richard Nixon inspecting the documents 
with a magnifying glass: <http://www.nixonfoundation.org/archives2.shtml>

Carl