On Tuesday, February 19, 2013 6:14:47 AM UTC-6, ViLco wrote:
> merryb wrote:
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> > LOL- I have that book also! One of the lines cracks me up- a well hung
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> > woodcock??
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> > I wonder if all of those birds are still around.
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> One is here in Italy and is a Public Prosecutor, Henry John Woodcock from
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> Somerset (UK). Unluckyly for him, he often worked on crimes committed by
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> politicians thus he found lots of obstacles on his way. In many occasions a
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> case he was working on has been moved to other public prosecutors to stop
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> his work, like the famous "VIP gate" case (regarding personalities from many
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> political parties, finance, press, bureocracy...) which got moved to Rome
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> where it got finally forgotten. Ops, pardon me, "archived". Rome's Courtroom
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> is also known as "the foggy bay" where trials against politicians get lost
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> forever, as in that case.
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> He's a good PP and a good person, we need more people like him.
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You certainly do. Italy is probably the most corrupt country in the
civilized world. Too many rich folks pay too much in bribes, and too
little in taxes.

--Bryan