Schadenfreude, baby.
“[Shameless asshat] Conrad Black stepped up his campaign to regain Canadian citizenship yesterday with a speech in Toronto laden with praise for the country he was forced to renounce when he joined the British House of Lords.
“In his most significant public appearance since being charged in the United States last December with racketeering, tax evasion and fraud, the 62-year-old former newspaper magnate told business leaders that Canada is poised to play a larger role in the world.
“He followed those comments with support for Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper.”
Canadian citizenship must be preferable to an American jail, I suppose. “racketeering, tax evasion and fraud”. Yeah. We really want him back.
I’m not certain how regaining his citizenship could protect him from the US charges. As far as I’m concerned Lord Pretty-Please-Take-Me-Back should twist in the wind for a while. A long, long while. I’d like to see him beg on his knees for a while, and then suck up publicly to Jean Chretien. That would be so much fun. But his sucking up is reserved for Big Steve now and I fear Steve will fall for it, though Lord Snob is so unpopular here that if Steve thinks supporting Snob could cost him a few votes, he won’t touch him with a 10 metre poll.
And poor Lordy Lord had to sell his Rolls this week, too. Life is tough. You know, I like the British and mean them no harm, but really, they’ve got him and they should have to keep him and his curly House of Lords wig, too.
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