£50,000 Well Spent?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/frankie-boyle-donates-50000-to-help-guantanamo-inmate-sue-m16-8418117.html

/// Aamer was arrested in Afghanistan in late 2001 and is the only British resident left in Guantanamo, a US detention centre in Cuba. He has been cleared for release by the US authorities but has yet to be freed as the Americans have insisted on returning him to Saudi Arabia. Although he holds Saudi nationality with his British residency, Aamer’s wife and four children – one of whom he has never met – live in London. The British government are supportive of him returning to the UK but the Americans have so far refused to hand him over. ///

[emmie]

his money, he can do with it what he wants.

[Gromit]

I am sure the Daily Mirror, if they did not have to shell out all that money for telling lies, would have been fighting for this British subject illegally held all these years by the yanks. Even more surprised the Daily Mail has not got behind the case like they did with Gary McKinnon.

He has been held for 11 years without trial and without a conviction against him. They want to deposit him in a country thousands of miles from were his family are. He wants yo sue his interrogators for spreading lies. If they did not spread lies then they have nothing to fear. If they did, then yet more taxpayers money will have been squandered by the security services.

Meanwhile Frankie Boyle, a man sympathetic to his cause gets an unexpected windfall of £50,000 and decides he will help the other fellow.

Sounds like a win-win situation all round.

[Baldric]

As far as I know Frankie Boyle can spend his money any way he pleases,

[anotheoldgit]

/// Sounds like a win-win situation all round. ///

Except for your own Government and in turn the British taxpayer's money.

We have offered to take him in, and most likely continue to care for him and his family, if the US is prepared to release him.

If anyone deserves to be sued they should be looking further a field instead of always milking the easy touch British.

[Gromit]

The British Government will only have to pay him if it is proven they have done wrong.

You do believe in punishing wrongdoers don't you?

[Duncer]

Frankie Boyle more likely headline grabbing as he could have given this to countless charities at home but, as already stated, he can do what he wants with his own money.

My first question would be "Does he actually know this person?"

[China Doll]

He'd be criticised whatever he did. He could have given it to a children's charity and people would have said it was just because he wanted to look good or something.

It's his money so it's for him to judge if it's well spent.

[tonyav]

Ah well 50 grand down the drain from a washed up has been.