This is how and why...
Jun. 9th, 2020 09:31 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
johnny9fingers...Gatekeepers are useful to have in place:
www.theguardian.com/society/2020/jun/09/nhs-blood-unit-systematically-racist-internal-report-finds
The Colindale NHS Blood Unit certainly seems to have a few "True Believers" doing the hiring and firing. The BBC and the Emergency Services might also prove to be interesting ground for the statisticians.
In the end we will work it out. Numbers don't lie, so the only thing you can hope to do is hide them; and that is no longer possible with things like employment. And lots of us can do the statistical analysis if we push ourselves so to do. Maybe it's still possible to funnel your money through whatever is the new equivalent of one of Mossack Fonseca's schemes, but you can't disguise your payroll to the Inland Revenue or your corporate insurers or a bunch of other folk. And one thing we know about information is that it is like water in this respect; given a chance or change in pressure it will find a place to leak.
This will be Ninefingers' first law of information; based on a short story by Ambrose Bierce, obvs. The subordinate clauses in the first chapter...
1. Information will come out unless contained in stasis, and even then... it is unpredictable. Be assured your sins will find you out. You might be dead by then (see Saville et al) but your statues will be torn down, your descendants will change their names, and your memory will be reviled.
1.1 When a leak is sprung, you can freeze it and wait for it to thaw at a later date. But it will thaw. And then your statues will be torn down, your relatives will change their names, etc & etc.
1.11 If you do not freeze the leak, assess the potential damage; if it won't put you in prison for a long time, 'fess up with proper contrition, and explanations and excuses. If, however, you're for the chair, I suppose you must do as you must. But you'll get the chair anyway. Plea-bargain. It helps if you're white, obvs.
1.12 You can unfreeze the leak before pressure is brought to bear and you are named in parliament despite super-injunctions or ministerial denials. But sometimes friendly interviews to put across your position just don't turn out the way you thought they would. Only give interviews if you have been thoroughly prepped and lawyered. Remember what they tell you to say and stick to the script. They are cleverer than you are, whatever grandiose opinion you have of yourself. If you can point to, let's say, schoolchildren in the playground being unpleasant to you because you were a minority, or gay, or transgender, rather than the outright psychopath you were and are, it will make you appear slightly more sympathetic to the public/voters/legal authorities/parliamentary ombudspersons.
1.2 When damaging information does come out, distract by flooding all available information space with other, less important but more attractive information. (It helps if the distraction has large breasts, a big penis, or both.)
1.21 Do not release more damaging information just to cover up less damaging information. (Just because people are stupid.)
1.3 Accept that unless you are very, very lucky, you are fucked. Really fucked. Even if you're a prince of the realm, or, ten years hence, an ex PM called to account for his actions.
2. If you avoid prison spend the rest of your life doing good works and atoning for your mistakes. (qv John Profumo.)
www.theguardian.com/society/2020/jun/09/nhs-blood-unit-systematically-racist-internal-report-finds
The Colindale NHS Blood Unit certainly seems to have a few "True Believers" doing the hiring and firing. The BBC and the Emergency Services might also prove to be interesting ground for the statisticians.
In the end we will work it out. Numbers don't lie, so the only thing you can hope to do is hide them; and that is no longer possible with things like employment. And lots of us can do the statistical analysis if we push ourselves so to do. Maybe it's still possible to funnel your money through whatever is the new equivalent of one of Mossack Fonseca's schemes, but you can't disguise your payroll to the Inland Revenue or your corporate insurers or a bunch of other folk. And one thing we know about information is that it is like water in this respect; given a chance or change in pressure it will find a place to leak.
This will be Ninefingers' first law of information; based on a short story by Ambrose Bierce, obvs. The subordinate clauses in the first chapter...
1. Information will come out unless contained in stasis, and even then... it is unpredictable. Be assured your sins will find you out. You might be dead by then (see Saville et al) but your statues will be torn down, your descendants will change their names, and your memory will be reviled.
1.1 When a leak is sprung, you can freeze it and wait for it to thaw at a later date. But it will thaw. And then your statues will be torn down, your relatives will change their names, etc & etc.
1.11 If you do not freeze the leak, assess the potential damage; if it won't put you in prison for a long time, 'fess up with proper contrition, and explanations and excuses. If, however, you're for the chair, I suppose you must do as you must. But you'll get the chair anyway. Plea-bargain. It helps if you're white, obvs.
1.12 You can unfreeze the leak before pressure is brought to bear and you are named in parliament despite super-injunctions or ministerial denials. But sometimes friendly interviews to put across your position just don't turn out the way you thought they would. Only give interviews if you have been thoroughly prepped and lawyered. Remember what they tell you to say and stick to the script. They are cleverer than you are, whatever grandiose opinion you have of yourself. If you can point to, let's say, schoolchildren in the playground being unpleasant to you because you were a minority, or gay, or transgender, rather than the outright psychopath you were and are, it will make you appear slightly more sympathetic to the public/voters/legal authorities/parliamentary ombudspersons.
1.2 When damaging information does come out, distract by flooding all available information space with other, less important but more attractive information. (It helps if the distraction has large breasts, a big penis, or both.)
1.21 Do not release more damaging information just to cover up less damaging information. (Just because people are stupid.)
1.3 Accept that unless you are very, very lucky, you are fucked. Really fucked. Even if you're a prince of the realm, or, ten years hence, an ex PM called to account for his actions.
2. If you avoid prison spend the rest of your life doing good works and atoning for your mistakes. (qv John Profumo.)
