Recently the Information Commissioner decreed that there should be full document disclosure with regard to the Hillsborough disaster. The Government is challenging this decree as they wish to keep the documents secret.
There is an e-petition on the government web site to get MP's to debate the subject, it has 87,000 signatures and needs 100.000 to make the MPs have a debate.
If you want to sign the petition just google "government petition" and then search "Hillsborough Distaster" - I can't do linky thingies!
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Not true.
The government is NOT challenging the decree in order to keep the documents secret. They are challenging the decree to make it instantly available via the FOI. They have already agreed with the Hillsborough committee to release the documents to them and to the familes of the victims first. So that they get to hear the evidence and digest it before reading it in the newspaper. Llike the way most of them found out about the disaser in the first place - through the edia rather than through the normal official channels.
There IS an argument to say that the governement is time-wasting by getting into this argument but if the FOI had never been sent in then the documents would have been released already.
The problem with FOI is that it sets in place very rigid procedures which could have been avoided.
But forcing a debate through this petition you are helping to ensure that the documents remain undisclosed for longer.
The governement isn't always the bad guy.....
Just seems that there's a new one every day.
I'm going to start an e-petition against them.................
That's one of the most despicable things I have ever read on here, I am presuming you are not old enough to remember the full details of what took place that day.
You're either the worst WUM in history, or have the brains of a grape.
You're forgetting the most despicable of all lies that The Sun printed, the outrageous allegation that supporters on the pitch sexually assaulted unconscious and dying female fans.
I wished I was not an Atheist because then I might believe that Kelvin Mackenzie might burn in hell for what he wrote on that Monday.
I remember him being disgusted by the reported actions of the fans and, of course, the subsequent back tracking from the paper did not persuade him that the story was false.
I would love McKenzie to break down in his car in Liverpool one day, then we might see some real justice handed out.
Here's the link, the mention is in the first paragraph.
http://dontbuythesun.co.uk/site/289/an-excerpt-from-brian-reades-43-years-with-the-same-bird/
Simple. Every other paper was running the "what a tragedy" angle and Kelvin, who hated Scousers anyway for their supposed left-wing millitancy (this was not long after the Hatton era) decided to go for broke and take the completely opposite approach in the hope of creating a massive stir.
Sadly, as with the Belgrano story back in the Falklands War, he got the tone very badly wrong but once it had been published there was nothing he could do about it.
You've got to remember tabloid journalism is all about the "exclusive" and getting the story nobody else has, the Hillsborough story was brilliant for Mackenzie because he did not have to make accusations against individuals - which would have left him open for Libel proceedings - but instead made the claims against "some fans" which gave him an out.
I have not thrown a punch at anybody since about 1990 but would love to put one on him.
or if you can spare two minutes, read the opinion of Professor John Ashton Cumbria's public health director, who treated the injured on the day.
Signed.
Discussion/phone in about this on 5 Live this morning but caught only 15 minutes or so of it.
2 of the bereaved mothers both adamant that all the facts be made public knowledge but AFTER the families concerned have had access .
Others ringing in stated that only culpable people would not want the true facts to be published.
Signed.