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LETTER: No deference for the Hutton verdict
Independent, The (London), Feb 10, 2004 by S R Baugh
Sir: The one thing I find amazing about the Hutton report is the transparency in the way the judgment simply ignored evidence. Various people have written that the judgment was correct and proper because anything else would have undermined the social order and respect for government. Who do they think they are kidding? Do they think an official document can override the truth?
This is the 21st century, the age of the internet. The evidence to the Hutton inquiry was widely published and the general public has drawn its own conclusions, contrary to that of Lord Hutton. The establishment seems to be living in a bygone age when no one questioned the authority of doctors, lawyers and the clergy. But not today. Doctors' diagnoses are openly questioned, lawyers are regarded as cynical or incompetent and the preaching of the clergy is just a load of mumbo-jumbo. Witness the decline in church attendance. And so too the decline in turnout at elections.
Unfortunately for the establishment they didn't build the Ministry of Truth so the "proles" of 2004 have plenty of information to make their own judgements.
S R BAUGH
London SW15
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