Congratulation England you have succeeded in becoming a nation dominated by the act of recording your’s and other peoples actions for the soul purpose of making money. I’m not talking about the government cameras watching what we do, here I am referring to the certain actions of Adam Blake and Hayley Byford which can be seen in the newspapers and around the Internet in various mediums. This pair of self serving “adults” claim to have caught popular BBC show Top Gear presenter Jeremy Clarkson driving while using his mobile phone, they even have a photograph captured on a mobile phone to back up their claim oh the irony, or lack there-of. Now I wouldn’t be so aggravated by the situation if they had initially gone to the police with the evidence, not that I believe they should have taken the photo in the first place but if they wish to play policemen and prosecutor then who am I to deny them their little power trip. However this pair didn’t do that, had they done so then this wouldn’t have been a case for criticism as I would see them as doing what they think best but, and this is a very big sticking point; they did not go to the police first, in fact this pair didn’t even think to pass it along to the police their first port of call was the mass media. More specifically the Daily Mirror was their medium of choice and it was the newspaper that eventually passed the”evidence” along to the police once they had published the story of course.
The issue I have here is not that the pair took a photo of Clarkson apparently in breach of the law, it is that their first port of call was the media rather than the authorities which leads me to think that they only took the photo for the monetary gain they could get out of it by selling it to the media. We must then conclude that at no point did the pair believe what he had done should be prosecuted as if that had been their first thought the media would have found out from the authorities not the other way around! Under the current circumstances these events should remove any authenticity that the photo originally held and the case should not be brought against Clarkson.
Greed was declared a sin all those millennia ago for a reason and yet every day I see people falling into that trap, it’s a shame a great, great shame that this is what we as a civilization have come to.
