Peter Morrison

Successful use of the tactic of threatening to sue seems to be an established fact of life for those who are wealthy and hold positions of power.  However, I am not convinced the mere threat of a legal action would be enough to silence a real journalist who had the basis of a big story.

It seems to me, it would be the the unspoken threat of something really nasty happening to an inquiring journalist or his family which would be the deciding factor in deciding to print a story or not.

Here is one such instance where the mere threat of legal action was enough to stop a story.

“Such was the hush-up that nobody could get hold of the log of the arrest,” said Connew. “When reporters doorstepped him, he said ‘print and I’ll sue you.'”

Although Morrison may have got away with his crimes, the problem is, everyone who was associated with him in political life is tarnished by his actions.  Quite a few of  his contemporaries have publicly admitted they knew about him BUT they did nothing about it!

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I wonder what Morrison would be saying if he were still alive?

John 8:44  Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.