I’ve been relatively silent during the whole Max Mosley saga, mainly because it is slightly depraved to think about what the freak enjoys. But then, I read the July 27 edition of the News of the World and was shocked, appalled, and disgusted by what I read.
War Hero Jamie Cooper, the youngest soldier wounded in Iraq, received just £57,000 compensation for horrific, crippling injuries suffered fighting for his country.
Formula One supremo Max Mosley received £3,000 MORE for a “breach of privacy”. You call that justice? I certainly don’t.
Jamie Cooper received just £57,000 after being crippled for life, and Mosley got more for a vile, sadistic sex orgy with five hookers. Someone, anyone, please try and seriously tell me that this should be the case.
A fortnight after turning 18, Jamie was hit by two rocket-propelled grenades. The blast cost him the use of his left leg, wrecked his right hand and caused horrendous internal damage.
Mr. Cooper’s father, Phil, spoke of his anger at this sickening piece of gross injustice. He said:
“My son was proud to serve his country and loved the Army life. He was a good soldier and had the brightest career ahead of him.
He was just 18 and doing his duty when shrapnel from the RPG explosions almost tore out his stomach and did terrible damage to his insides.
In the face of these horrible injuries, he has shown such courage and determination to lead a normal life it makes me incredibly proud of him.
The past 18 months have not been easy. Jamie contracted deadly MRSA twice AND C-Diff in hospital, and we had to help nurse him through them. At one point, we had to change his colostomy bag because the nurses were too busy.
It was a dreadful time. The doctors considered amputating Jamie's left leg as it was in such a state.
But it would have been right at the hip making it difficult for him to walk with a prosthetic limb. They decided to leave it in place but he still has no use of it.
His right hand was completely shredded in the explosions. With a lot of healing and care, he now has minimal use of it. He can hold a Coke can, but there's no way he'll ever be able to crush it like any normal person can.
We've watched him fight for his recovery at the Headley Court military rehabilitation centre in Surrey. The staff are brilliant, but they can only do so much. Jamie will need care and help for the rest of his life.
He received no payment at all for the hospital infections he fought off.
How is £57,000 a fitting award for those injuries if £60,000 is a fair sum for hurt feelings from a breach of privacy? It's a disgrace. The world has turned upside down.
There are many differences between my son and Max Mosley. The most obvious is that Mr Mosley is rich enough to afford a bloody good lawyer—and an afternoon of carrying on with five women.
My son NEEDS money to help get the care he MUST have to build a life. I understand Mr Mosley plans to donate his £60,000 payout to charity work on road safety and the environment. But what else would he spend it on? More girls?
Defence Secretary Des Browne announced recently that compensation payments to wounded troops would be raised by between 10 and 100 per cent. But I'm still beyond anger about this.
I view the people who put this value on my son's terrible injuries with contempt. But I can't seem to get anything done about it.”
I personally have never been so sickened to open a Sunday newspaper as I was today, so I contacted the News of the World and asked if I could kindly use this story to make a point, and a big thanks to them for saying yes.
The News of the World published the following in their comment today.
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“On the front page of the first issue of the News of the World in 1843, we proudly declared: 'Our motto is truth. Our practice is the fearless advocacy of truth.'"
Last week, in the High Court, Max Mosley, the elected President of the FIA, the world-wide body that runs Formula One, was awarded £60,000 in damages after we published a story in March revealing he paid five hookers to take part in a brutal five-hour orgy in a flat in Chelsea.
The Judge, Mr Justice Eady, ruled that we invaded Mr Mosley's privacy by exposing his double-life of S&M sex parties, one which he had kept secret from his wife and family for 45 years.
The judge also disagreed with our claim that Mosley engaged in Nazi role-play, although he acknowledged that we had an honest belief that he had.
So Mosley, the 68-year-old multi-millionaire son of the former wartime fascist leader, Sir Oswald Mosley, walked out of court with more money than Corporal Jamie Cooper who came back from the battle grounds of Iraq with horrendous injuries and was awarded only £57,000 compensation for sacrificing his life.
And it took him and his family 18 months to get it.
Doesn't seem fair, does it?
So let us look at the case. Mosley claims he is not a public figure and maintains that his private life—and in particular his sexual preferences—has no bearing on whether he is fit to carry out his professional duties.
We disagree.
The FIA has a global membership of almost 125 million. It encompasses all creeds, religions, and cultures, and the members have a right to expect their elected leader and most senior representatives to maintain standards in both his professional and private life so as to maintain the dignity and respect for his office and the organisation, the richest sport in the world.
He has a duty not to betray the trust they have placed in him and not to compromise his position and the organisation.
His activities were not 'Carry On' style hanky-spanky parties, as his legal team argued.
They were brutal, repulsive, and depraved, as the evidence in the case revealed.
The beatings were violent and blood was drawn after Mosley was relentlessly whipped with a birch. Prostitutes were subjected to simulated rape.
He beat girls' bare bottoms with a leather strap and barked 'I zink zey need more of ze punishment.' He counted out the blows and then a prostitute performed a sex act on him. He also had full sex with one of the women.
Before that, he played out a bizarre scene where he had his genitals inspected and measured, his bottom shaved and had his hair searched for lice.
At the end, he paid each of the five girls £500 for their services.
Mosley made great play that he was warned to be careful about his private life, first in January by his Formula One colleague, Bernie Ecclestone, and again, on Feb. 26, by Lord John Stevens, the former Metropolitan Police Commissioner.
So concerned was he that he organised two orgies within weeks, only streets away from his home.
Given his enormous influence over the global riches of Formula One, did Mosley not expose himself to the potential of blackmail with his reckless behaviour?
We say he did.
And so did the Judge.
In his judgement, Mr Justice Eady said: 'Many would think that if a prominent man puts himself, year after year, into the hands (literally and metaphorically) of prostitutes ...he is gambling in placing so much trust in them.'
'There is a risk of exposure or blackmail inherent in such a course of conduct. To a casual observer...it might seem that the claimant's behaviour was reckless and almost self-destructive.'
He added: 'It could be thought unreasonable to absolve him of all responsibility for placing himself and his family in the predicament in which they now find themselves.
It is part and parcel of human dignity that one must take at least some responsibility for one's own actions.'
We believe that the most serious underlying issue of this case is the threat of a creeping back-door privacy law.
Our press is less free today after this judgement. It is another judgement based on privacy laws emanating from Europe.
Laws that have NEVER been debated in OUR parliament or by readers like YOU.
So English judges are left to apply those laws to cases here, using guidance from judges in Strasbourg, who are unfriendly to freedom of expression.
As a result, as we said on the steps of the High Court on Thursday, our media are being strangled by stealth.
It is not for the rich and famous, the powerful or the influential, to dictate what YOU should read or KNOW about. It is not for the powerful and the influential to run to the courts to gag newspapers from publishing stories that are TRUE.
This is all about the public's RIGHT to know, what you are entitled to read, and who decides what you are NOT allowed to know.
What, for instance, would your response be if your child's teacher enjoyed inflicting pain on others and took part in S&M orgies with prostitutes?
Wouldn't you want to know?
Don't you have a RIGHT to know?
Or the Cabinet Minister and the Archbishop caught indulging in their dark, secret sexual fantasies?
Don't you have a RIGHT to know?
At present that most precious of basic freedoms will continue to be decided by a judge and the courts.
Not by a legal statute of Parliament. Or YOU.
But, just as we declared our intention in 1843 to be a fearless advocate of the truth, the News of the World is determined to fight for the right to publish what it believes to be legitimate and lawful and in YOUR public interest to KNOW.
The News of the World is proud of its tradition for investigative and campaigning journalism.
Our investigations editor Mazher Mahmood and his team have been successful in securing 232 criminal convictions in the past 18 years.
Our Sarah's Law campaign has pioneered 14 new pieces of legislation to give the public more protection and information of convicted pedophiles in the community.
The News of the World will not be gagged by the rich and the powerful.
Or judges.
Or the courts.
Or politicians.
Our pledge is to fight for YOU and your RIGHT to know."
They are totally right. How can someone of his power play a game so dangerously, when he was previously warned about his private life? It is disgusting to think that someone of his wealth and stature can receive this kind of payment, when a soldier who was prepared to die for his country receives less money, money that he has to rebuild his life on.
Very rarely do you find me getting so riled up about something, but this is going too far.
I want to know what you think about this situation. Do you think that Mosley deserved any money at all? How disgusted are you by today’s revelation?
If there is any justice in the world, Mosley will step down as Chairman of the FIA. I’ll tell you now, there isn’t any justice, none at all.
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3 months ago
That is my 50th F1 article. I wish it could have been a better topic to write about though, this should never have occured.
from 3 months ago
Hey mike ,
I know i was having a laugh on the article Sheiban wrote ,
But this is horrendous , Max mosely doesnt deserve a penny compared to this lad , there are times to laugh and times to be serious and this is where we turn round and say , this countries justice system is an absolute disgrace , it stinks .
I have a friend who got £ 350,000 for getting his hand trapped in a circular saw at work , the emergency stop button was broke and he lost a big chunk of his hand , but his injuries were no whwere near as bad as Jamie Coopers . he deserves at least 1 million , and even then it wouldnt replace what he had .
Really good article , hard hitting stuff , 5 stars and its gotta be POTD mate .
from 3 months ago
Bnag on! that is what I wanted, someone to say exactly what you said in that comment. cheers mate for the POTD.
No money can get his life back, but it can go towards prolonging through the health care he will need for the rest of his life.
I saw a soldier sleeping in the doorway of my local debenhams yesterday. sad country eh?
from 3 months ago
Some guy who lives in my apartment block used to be in the army , when he left , he was sleeping in a tent on a field because the army dont do anything for ex soldiers , its sad ,
my uncle was one of the Bravo Two Zero soldiers in Iraq ( dinger ) and after he got freed he didnt even get a medal , yet Andy " the kissand tell " Mcnab got one .
My uncle didnt even get compensation for his nightmare , thats how bad this country is .
£57,000 is taking the P**s , this kid risked life and got seriously hurt , never to return to his old self and he gets a measly 57 grand , that wont even pay for the family heartache let alone what he will need to be looked after .
I think the government should be run by public members , i know for a fact id do a better job than the dimwit silver spooners that are in power now , they have no sense of responsibility . grrrrrrr im furious now ha ha .
3 months ago
good article Mike!
from 3 months ago
Thanks Sara, and cheers for the POTD too.
3 months ago
Nice!
from 3 months ago
Cheers.
3 months ago
My pleasure, you wrote the piece, nice sentiments, good thoughts.
3 months ago
Mosley himself said that he wasn't a public figure?
That's just wrong.
from 3 months ago
Thanks for the POTD mate. That really shocked me when he said that, it would be like Hitler saying "Well come on, I hardly started the war did I?"
3 months ago
Just how do you or the News of screw ups compare the Mosley case and the abysmal way this service man was treated?
Max was in the Parachute Regiment so why would he not be capable of understanding this guys suffering.
These two issues have no link whatsoever and the NoW is using these people for the sympathy vote.
It is a useless rag of a news paper with the lowest form of journalist that exist.
If the News of Screw ups feels so much about it, WHY don't they pay to sort out this soldiers problems.
At least Max is setting up a fund for those without wealth to fight the news rags.
Before you praise this sick publication, ask them what they are doing for the plight of our service people.
The witch hunt continues, be careful for it may not be long before Max reaches you.
from 3 months ago
You fail to miss the point here. I am clearly making a point about the inustice that occurs every single day. Some tit like Mosley egts this payout for "breach of privacy" and has the audacity to say he is not a public figure. Free speech is gone completely after this.
If you had a single shred of knowledge, you would know that the NOTW is part of the "Help The Heroes" campaign, and has bveen a major force in raising millions for the troops.
Mx is setting up a fund for people to fight the papers, so what? Who cares, no-one. In actual fact, that money is going to a road safety charity, which already recieves money from the FIA. Get your facts straight.
Max reaches me? As if I care at all! He can't say that I accused him of being a NAZI obsessed person can he? No.
3 months ago
I agree with you when you say Jamie should have been given more money but isnt compensation granted by the M.O.D? whereas Max Mosley's was in a court case?
Soldiers are under valued, and while what Max Mosley got up to doesnt appeal to me he has the right to practice what he wants, we have no right to judge him upon that. He should be given compensated.
Everyone knows there is a problem with giving compensation to soldiers but this is an entirely seperate debate to the Max Mosley one, the two cases can not be compared as one is dealt with by the M.O.D and the other a court of law.
from 3 months ago
no the point here is the disgraceful treatment that one person can recieve compared to another. I know the backgrounds are entirely different, but come on, why does he need to be given 60k?
3 months ago
No wonder this country is going down hill with people like you brown nosing rubbish like the NoW.
All they are doing is franticaly running round in circles dragging up anything to stave off the huge hit they are going to get for libel.
The 'Help the Heros Campaign' is simply used by the News of Screws as a promotion to sell papers.
They get huge tax savings from it.
By all means slag off New Labor and others in positions of power responsible to our services but DONT libel Max Mosley for something that is NOTHING to do with him.
There are plenty of ex service people who can see strait through this fabricated NoW 'Mr Clean News rag' campaign. It is a pathetic attempt to get them off the hook.
Bring it on!!!
from 3 months ago
hmm, I studied slander, and you have just comitted a slander offence against the NOTW. they do NOT get huge tax savings from the help the heroes campaign.
to suggest such a thing is insulting to the troops who are fighting for the conutry.
You sir are scum. I refuse to respond to any more of your disgusting comments.
from 3 months ago
I don't know if the NoTW gets 'huge tax savings' from any campaign they run, but I will agree that anything they run is for the purpose of selling papers, that's their business. What's your problem with them? Sure it's a scandal sheet, but there must me be a market for their product.
The original story about Max Mosley was worthwhile, in my view, because stuffed shirts should have their feet of clay exposed. This country does not have a privacy law, but the judgement in favour of Mosley has effectively given us one, entirely based on the opinion of one judge sitting without a jury. No surprises, the establishment looks after its own. Freedom of speech takes another blow, and many other figures in public life will feel relieved that their perversions cannot be exposed.
I just want to remind you that sometimes the victor in a libel action can suffer a reversal of fortune. Think of Jeffery Archer, sent down for perjury.
3 months ago
great article, michael
from 3 months ago
Cheers mate.
3 months ago
I respect the mans right to privacy.
Unless your like me and do not care what people think of my abberant behavior, privacy should be guarded because most people don't use compassion reason or logic and there fore they're likely to judge and impose unfairly.
If indeed their we're compasion logic and reason being used Jamie Cooper would never have been in harms way.
Mr. Mosely may be a perv,but that doesn't change the fact the war and its use as a screen to develop population control technology and shift the balance of power to the super minority should be the focus of the press.
I personally do not care what or whom Mr. Mosely or anyone else has sex with.
I'd like to see corrupt business men exposed for their avarice and destruction of freedoms.
By the way, when did China stop torturing people and why are we setting up shop over there?
from 3 months ago
yeah how come the tv coverage of China's abuse of them stopped? weird. the whole reason why I ain't off to Beijing.
Thanks for your comment
3 months ago
Oh, Mosley, what a jokester...
from 3 months ago
indeed he is, a numpty is what someone described him as too. priceless.
3 months ago
Load of nonsense. The day the Murdoch corporation has the unfettered right to poke into the lives of private individuals. Let's face it, they were not doing this for "Truth" (how naieve of you). They were doing it to titillate the perversions of its "readers" in mock outrage. NOTW is nothing more than Sunday soft porn masquerading as a newspaper, happy to use the injuries of a soldier to somehow (bizarrely) further its anti-Europe agenda.
3 months ago
Lord moralizing Carey, ex Arch nerd of Canterbury, is jumping in to gain media coverage, his opinion is all but irrelevant now, as is the opinion of the rest of the church. If they cannot deal with the threat from a firmly established medieval religion intent on taking over Britain's religious base, then where is his moral foundation?
Max is going to take the legal potential of his recent victory just as far as he can, he has nothing to lose and plenty of money to do it with.
The issue is far more than just privacy/public interest issue.
The NoW printed an article based on the stereotype Nazi image, without even finding out what was said in German
This was a direct result of the continual Zionist brainwashing that the Western public has been subjected to since the second world war. Every week there has been coverage of the Holocaust and the terrible way the Jews were treated by the Nazi's.
Of course this must never be forgotten or repeated but this has NOT been the reason for its almost continual coverage in the Zionist media. You only have to see what the present situation in the middle east is to work out the real reason.
I most certainly will not use this forum to promote the Nazi cause, as there are some fundamental parts of the doctrine that I totally disagree with.
I will however suggest that it is time for the Zionists to find a new 'scape goat' to promote their ideology, the one used by the News of the Screw ups is now firmly relegated to history.
3 months ago
Fantastic article... it's great to hear you voice your opinion and I could not agree more with what you said. Sheer injustice.
from 3 months ago
Cheers mate, thanks a lot for the POTD. I had to voice my opinion, especially after seeing a soldier who returned three weeks ago sleeping rough. disgusting.
3 months ago
I hate the world in which we live, seriously. Did you also hear about the woman/man who got £250,000 for 'hurt feelings' while people who have their legs blown off get a fraction of that.
from 3 months ago
I know, it is a disgrace. This world is awful with things like this. My mum was repeatedly harassed for money by a well-known comapny when she had no account with the said company. this went on for six months and will eventually lead to her early death. naturallly we demanded compo for the trauma she went through, we got £100!
pityful really.
Thanks for the comment and POTD,
3 months ago
I am just hoping that the case Max is bringing in France against the News of the Screw ups results in prison sentences.
Now that would be a result.
3 months ago
While the story of the soldier from Iraq is very heartbreaking, troubling and indicative of the problems that the British government is facing with regards to its injured veterans, it's just not related to Mosley's plight.
Max Mosley had his privacy infringed upon when the NotW decided that it would be a good idea to get something juicy out of him. He sued for privacy infringement and won. If NotW kept their noses out of one's private life, which had absolutely no impact whatsoever on the public other than for entertainment, then this thing would have been a non-issue.
OTOH, the British soldier was interviewed with the knowledge that he would be published.
Anyhow, great article Michael! I give you five stars on a gallant effort to bring your viewpoint across, but it's one that I must respectfully disagree with.
from 3 months ago
NOw you see, there is a difference here. You have respectfully disagreed with me, and that is fine, you have done it with dignity.
Thanks for the comment mate.
3 months ago
dude i totally agree with you, that is complete bs
from 3 months ago
indeed it is, cheers for the comment,,
3 months ago
There is nothing fair in life, it is only afterwards that the deserving will be rewarded. What a tragedy. Best wishes to the unfortunate young man and may God bless him and his family for their courage too.
from 3 months ago
My sentiments exactly. Thanks for the comment.
3 months ago
I do see your arguement mate but you can not combine the two arguments, a better case to compare it to, maybe, would be the paul mcartney divorce, how can heather get so much money? that is an injustice. At the end of the day Mosley's privacy was invaded, fact, and should be compensated. The treatment of soldiers is a seperate issue and should remain seperate.
from 3 months ago
you raise a good point there, although i could writer forever about the money grabber haha!
Like you said, you see my argument and I'm sticking to it, but thanks for your opinion mate, much appreciated.
3 months ago
Michael,
Really gripping article and a bold point put up in front of the public. My POTD has already gone to you. While going through others' comments I felt I should say something on this.
1. Although I fully agree that when you are the president of FIA, you should act as a president and not like a pervert bloke. Similarly it is also true that if media starts trespassing the limits of privacy as they want then we will have more scandals than our societies can handle.
2. About the judgment, I feel the same way that a rich man like Max doesn't need more money!! Now even if Max is given a damage amount, the amount for REALLY damaged people, like the young soldier should be at least 10 times. Privacy protection is necessary but in doing so let us not forget the duties towards persons who lay down their lives for their country.
Great Article mate.... keep it up.
from 3 months ago
great comment mate, world class there. thanks for the POTD mate, much appreciated.
3 months ago
Hey matey ... Sorry for delay ... Had a Bleacher free day yesterday, had a bit of a soiree at my place ... I have given you 5 stars but it wont let me POTD you because you already got the POTD of the day, so sorry about that ... It would have had my pick of the day !
Great article !
from 3 months ago
oooh a soiree huh? lol, sounds so posh, oddly.
Thanks mate, POTD mate, bloody brilliant. my third but oddly the first that has registered. I suppose the fact that it was my 50th F1 article brought it some luck eh?
from 3 months ago
Maybe it did yeah, ha ha
3 months ago
Its a very nice article.... Excelent work friend......
from 3 months ago
thanks there mate, 3 times over haha! B/R does that sometimes.
3 months ago
Its a very nice article.... Excellent work friend......
3 months ago
This article is such crap. I'm delighted the NotW got a spanking. They should keep their cameras out of people's bedrooms.
And the suggestion that Parliament has not sanctioned the development of a privacy law is total balls. The Human Rights Act 1998 is a law passed by Parliament. It says this: "Everyone has the right to respect for his private and family life, his home and his correspondence" (Article 8). British judged don't have a choice - they are obliged (by the law, as enacted by Parliament) to give effect to this, which is what Eady did.
There was no public interest in spying on Mosley. They invaded his privacy in the worst possible way, and splashed with an allegation (that it was Nazi role play) which was bollocks. If you really think this is responsible journalism, heaven help us.
from 3 months ago
Yep sure mate.
3 months ago
Sorry, but there's absolutely no connection between these two cases. If you want to make a point about the lack of funds given to war heroes when they are injured then fine, but making the comparison between that and a civil case is ludicrous.
I'm also put off by huge chunks quoted from other sources. It makes the whole article read like a justification for the News of the World interfering in peoples lives.
from 3 months ago
and how is the NOTW justified? that was their statement, simple as. I did not say that I fully support their claims, such as the Nazi side, just that I agree that they have the right to publish an article if they believe it to be true. free speech will dissolve after this.
I can't see why he should get money from the NOTW. They were told by one of the prozzies that it would have nazi connatations, they went with it and this was the backlash. they acknowledge that it was false, but that they were misled.
as for the soldier, total injustice how someone who had his "privacy" invavded can get more than a soldier who lost his career, and limbs. ridiculous. that was the point, not to say that mosley recieved an unfair aount, but to point out the injustice that occurs today.
3 months ago
The Mosley case proves one thing, that the NofW has some pretty useless journalists.
My old school magazine had a better grasp of facts.
3 months ago
I understand your point Michel. But still those 2 cases are 2 different scenarios.
In Mosleys case was about civil case and payment from media not from goverment. And that is nothing to do with soldier.
That soldier went to war and his injures should be paid by goverment.
2 difefrent cases, 2 different court and 2 different payment and 2 different payers as well.
Fair? Not really but that is fault of your laws not fault of Mosley. If you have law what says that in civil cases people can have more money than in war cases then that is laws what all courts has to follow.
3 months ago
I wouldn't disagree that the two cases as some have said are totally different cases but you are right: what you are measuring is the great gap in the sacrifices made by the two men. Mosely gets a bit embarassed with people seeing his arse slapped and this lad, barely even a man, loses his life. Injustice indeed, never mind about comparing the two stories and trying to make them the same, they aren't. Even so, Mosely is a rich man and didnt lose his job, even if he did, HE'S A RICH OLD MAN, he'd live. This lad won't ever have that comfort ever in his life.
I'm no lover of the tabloids, and yeah all those charity schemes ran by NOTW are probably helping to boost sales. Why the hell not? It's a capitalist system and counting the cost and the profit is item no.1 on the agenda of any company. BUT behind the corporation, running it, are people you know? I dont think the intention to do good and help these troops should be marred by the fact that it raised sales 3 or 4%.
And I have always thought this, despite my hatred of tabloid press. People have nothing to lose if they have nothing to hide. We need to have papers and people uncovering this sort of thing wherever it is found because people with money and power think they can do whatever they want. Something or someone needs to tell them they can't, they're people like the rest of us.
Michael this is a great article. It's a rant but it's correct to be so and has some solid facts and points to back it up. It has stirred the emotions, like a good article should.
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