The Little Guy

Some days I actually like reading the newspaper, today is one of them. When the little guy gets to win over the big guy, or at least give the big guy a bloody nose, it always puts a smile on my face. Today the European Court of Human Rights ruled that Helen Steel and Dave Morris were denied their rights when they were denied legal aid after being sued by McDonald's in the "McLibel" case. You can read that story here and you can view original trial details here.

Ultimately Steel and Morris lost the trail but won the battle as McLibel is viewed as one of the biggest public relations disasters in history.

At the same time the Iraq election results are being portrayed as a mess here in the US, only a week after the "triumph of democracy" was being trumpeted from every front page. Allawi's puppet government only managed third place and the candidates put forward by Ayatollah Ali Sistani took first place. This is not the result Bush had in mind as it is likely to produce a government which has close ties to Iran not the US. Oh dear George! Looks like this shit wasn't really thought through very well, maybe we should just abandon this whole "Democracy" idea like we have in the USA! You give people a vote, they might vote against ya! Who wooda thunk it!

Long Live The Little Guy