I guess money is an afrodisiac. Lots of rich folk are f%^&king around, and
instead of being embarrassed in the media, they take out an injunction to stop the story being published.
A super-injunction means that you can't even talk about the injunction.
I guess the courts are making a penny on this stuff.
The rich can use the courts to squelch journalism, and to sue people.
They have all the money in the world, and the power that it buys.
All they have to do is to behave reasonably.
If they don’t, they’re public figures and must pay the price.
So, they shouldn't diddle their sister-in-law, and try to hide it. Ryan Giggs did his s-i-l, and then he took out a super -injunction.
The old boss of RBS screwed one of his underlings and then took out a super-injunction. But we still found out. His bad banking also screwed the rest of the country.
Parliament revealed Giggs name, knowing that no parliamentarian would be charged for breaking this law.
BUTT, this is also a Twitter revolution. Salacious tweets are flittering about, all day, every day. Rich fornicators can't hide anymore.
Maybe they'll give up their cash and go live on an island.
screw 'em if they can't take a joke.
checkitout:
1 Daily Mail
We will not be gagged, M'lud: As Ryan Giggs is named in Parliament as cheating star after weeks of legal farce, MPs launch a defiant message
By Steve Doughty
Last updated at 1:06 PM on 24th May 2011
Ryan Giggs paid the price of his secrecy battle yesterday as Parliament launched a dramatic fightback against the judiciary.
Days ago, judges had suggested MPs could lose their centuries-old right to speak freely at Westminster.
But yesterday – hours after a court insisted his name must be kept secret – Giggs was identified in the House by a campaigning Liberal Democrat backbencher.
John Hemming’s intervention, applauded by fellow MPs, signalled a looming constitutional crisis and the end of the Manchester United star’s fight to maintain his reputation as a faithful husband – despite an alleged affair with model Imogen Thomas.
Less than 24 hours earlier, 37-year-old Giggs had presented his wife Stacey and two young children to a 76,000-strong crowd at Old Trafford and a global television audience.
Today PR guru Max Clifford suggested that Giggs may have kept his relationship with Miss Thomas private if he had not taken out an injunction to protect his privacy.
Mr Clifford, who is Miss Thomas's publicist said she had never intended to sell her story.
He told ITV1's Daybreak programme: 'I will see what she wants to do but, because of the previous conversations, I know that she never had any intention of selling her story.
'She came to me because she wanted to make sure the story didn't come out, and I told her 'Phone Ryan Giggs and warn him that The Sun are looking into this, and knocking on your door, because if you don't talk, and Ryan Giggs doesn't talk, no-one will know'.
Stacey Cooke appeared at Old Trafford with the couple's two children as the club celebrated winning the Premier League
Stacey Cooke appeared at Old Trafford with the couple's two children as the club celebrated winning the Premier League
'And that's the irony of it - if Ryan Giggs hadn't taken out a super-injunction, probably we wouldn't know what had been going on. It's only because of that, and of course the fact that, in that super-injunction that he got to protect his privacy and that of his family, he named Imogen, that the whole thing started down that trail that led to it coming out in Parliament yesterday.
'If he hadn't taken out a super-injunction, no-one would probably have known about this relationship.'
Mr Clifford said it was 'easy' for him to phone a lawyer to take out injunctions to stop newspaper stories coming out about his clients.
'It doesn't make it right, though, because it's only for rich people.'
Asked if the other 80 people with injunctions should be worried, he said: 'I think all the ones I'm aware of - and that's probably most of them - are worried, because people around them know, so with what's going on, there's a chance that it will come out.
'But hopefully the days of the super-injunction are numbered, because it's only a law that protects the rich.'
Giggs has spent at least £150,000 on lawyers to keep the affair secret – even though tens of thousands of computer users have posted his name on Twitter and other internet sites.
Yesterday morning David Cameron admitted he knew who the mystery footballer was after Giggs’s name had been published in newspapers around the world, including in Scotland.
The secrecy battle over the footballer’s alleged affair is growing into a full-scale clash between Parliament and the courts.....
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1389841/Ryan-Giggs-named-Parliament-cheating-super-injunction-star.html#ixzz1PgKnPWdM
2 Telegraph
Sir Fred Goodwin, former RBS chief, obtains super-injunction
Sir Fred Goodwin, the former chief executive of the Royal Bank of Scotland, has obtained a super-injunction banning the publication of information about him, it has been disclosed on the floor of the House of Commons.
By Steven Swinford
2:13PM GMT 10 Mar 2011
The existence of the draconian injunction - so strict it prevents Sir Fred being identified as a banker - was disclosed by John Hemming, a back-bench Liberal Democrat MP, in a question during a business debate at the House on Thursday morning. His comments are protected by parliamentary privilege.
He said: "In a secret hearing Fred Goodwin has obtained a super-injunction preventing him being identified as a banker.
"Will the government have a debate or a statement on freedom of speech and whether there's one rule for the rich like Fred Goodwin and one rule for the poor?"
Leader of the House Sir George Young said a forthcoming Westminster Hall debate would explore freedom of speech, adding: "I will raise with the appropriate minister the issue he has just raised."
The terms of the injunction are so strict that the Daily Telegraph cannot reveal the nature of the information that Sir Fred Goodwin is attempting to protect.
