Dear All
The Scottish National Party makes a big
deal that Sean Connery supports Scottish independence.
So where is Sean?
He lives in the Bahamas.
In his early life, he played James Bond 007
who as we know was shaken not stirred where action and Martini’s were
concerned.
In the continuing saga that is the trial of
Nationalist MSP Bill Walker, we have an ‘action hero’ who could rival 007.
Bill Walker is a double 00.
Instead of shooting bad guys, Bill Walker
is supposed to be a dab hand at shooting pigeons.
At his trial, the jury was treated to the
knowledge that the Nationalist MSP leapt into another of his former wife’s home
brandishing an air gun.
Unfortunately he had to climb over a fence
and didn’t land by parachute, in the old days; he probably couldn’t find an
aircraft for an insertion.
Bill Walker’s second wife, Anne Gruber,
said she got “the fright of her life” when he turned up uninvited with the
weapon.
An air rifle, surely a silenced Ruger .22
would have been better, obviously Bill has to be ruled out of any future post
as Scotland’s defence minister.
I bet he hasn’t even looked at the
Norwegian Navy website either; Angus Robertson has, apparently it is supposed
to be pretty good.
On the day that Bill Walker dropped into
her home, she said she had been out for a birthday meal with another man that
day.
Mrs. Gruber enthralled told the court by
describing how she moved with her children to an address in Liberton,
Edinburgh, in 1978 after the couple separated.
In true Hollywood style, she said she was
sitting in the living room chatting to her friend when her dog began behaving
strangely at the window.
Mrs. Gruber said:
“I opened the French window.”
Well you just would, wouldn’t you!
She added:
“Mr Walker jumped in with an airgun, which
I recognised as a gun he used to use for shooting the pigeons. I got the fright
of my life.”
I wonder if he bent his knees and rolled as
he hit the deck in true paratrooper style or just rolled over the fence like
something out a slapstick movie!
After seeing the air rifle, Mrs. Gruber
said:
“I just ran to the phone and phoned the
police and he disappeared and so did my friend. He must have climbed over the
fence to actually get to where he was.”
Presumably the front door is still the best
designated entrance even with the air rifle carrying public.
Mrs. Gruber’s highlight however, in my
opinion, was when she told the court that Walker threw an empty wine bottle at
her on one occasion at the address.
She added:
“He has a very quick temper and some minor
thing would trigger off great anger and violence.”
Well when you shoot pigeons the battle
fatigue must have been enormous, I wonder if he will lodge a defence of Post
Traumatic Pigeon Disorder?
He will have to give up using an air rifle
for the pigeon shooting if found not guilty.
Bill Walker denies all charges against him,
all 24 charges.
So far no sign of Scotland’s unpopular
Deputy First Minister Nicola Sturgeon to support Bill Walker at his trial, she
is too busy fighting for Scotland no doubt, and after that elusive women’s vote.
How about she organises women’s self
defence classes, lesson one, how to dodge an empty wine bottle, could be the
‘big idea’ for her ‘big chance’.
And then there are the merchandising options,
T shirts, polo shirts, pens, balloons, £330 Gold cufflinks and then the prize
draw!
If there is anything positive to come out
of this sorry episode, it is, that this trial although inconvenient for Bill
Walker is giving some pigeons another day of life!
Yours sincerely
George Laird
The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow
University
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