Clive Goodman and Milton Weir - what do they have in common?

How about we call them fall guys? Fall guys are never as they first seem, or as they're sold or ostracised. The former editor of News of the World Clive Goodman went to prison for an 'isolated' episode of phone hacking. Now letters emerge that he was negotiating his position with his employers through out that time and was paid out some nzd 470,000, copped a few months in prison but never got kept the job he naively thought he would return to once released. He was stitched up and a whole range of people had a stake in that, and that the public would naively believe that a employee goes rogue to benefit himself and not the company.

Did you believe it? That he was employing illegally gained copy for his own benefit and not the company's, well apparently the British Prime Minister did, good judgement PM - bet you never got any advantage out of it. So where does Milton Weir fit in? He was a go-to man in the Dunedin Police, no nonsense and dangerous if reports are to believed. Someone who saw the city as a type of fiefdom where a tough cop needed to keep things in check. A good old boy for the establishment up against a bit of bother when solving a case. But if he was that, did he do that for himself, for some particular personal gain or for the Police?

Goodman and Weir have something in common, being ostracised by their employers for something they are alleged to have done to benefit those former employers. There is nothing as far as I know, that says they benefited personally for what rules or law they might have broken, but someone did. In Goodman's case the News of the World and the Murdochs, you bet until now. In Milton Weir's case, the Police of his era. So that is one thing in common and the foremost other is that they got cast out, stepped on, avoided, left to sing for their own supper while those they helped put the boot in. That's why I hope Goodman, and Weir as well - front up and tell it like it was, recognise that people understand the way in which organisations protect themselves, casting out where necessary the tainted fruit, and that most people think that sucks. Stand up for the little guys Clive and Milton because the big folk sure dicked you. Tell the truth and be free.