John Chuckman
COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE IN THE INDEPENDENT
“Safety measures to protect mourners at funeral of novichok victim Dawn Sturgess”
Safety measures?
Protect mourners?
I'm sorry, but this poor woman died from using an unknown substance brought home as a gift by her mate.
There is nothing more to the story.
No enemies. No Russians. No proof of anything.
This just represents the continued government hyping of two unexplained events, the first of which was embroidered by totally unsubstantiated and unwarranted government claims and precipitous diplomatic action.
We must remember, this is the government of Theresa May at work, the same ineffectual PM whose cabinet is in open disarray, who has no idea what to do about Brexit, and who thought it fit to invite the world's most destructive leader for a state visit in the face of public opposition.
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Response, tongue-in-cheek, to another comment about the poor working of The Independent’s new comments system:
The comment system was reportedly designed by a nephew of Tony Blair's.
After all, The Independent does whatever it can for Tony.
One should hardly expect it to be accurate.
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Response to another comment, one mentioning Britain’s Porton Down facility, located close to these events, for studying chemical weapons and agents:
Porton Down indeed is not to be ruled out.
Readers may enjoy this on that possibility:
https://chuckmanwordsincomments.wordpress.com/2018/07/14/john-chuckman-comment-the-amebury-incident-in-britain-almost-more-bizarre-than-the-original-salisbury-novichok-incident/
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Response to another comment, one talking about Russia’s military intelligence organization, GRU:
I suspect the writer is a Theresa May supporter.
He sure takes the same approach to unknown facts and lack of evidence and making big uninformed accusations.
