Mark was wrong - Carol Thatcher

[emad]

BBC
Sir Mark Thatcher's sister, Carol, has said she wished he had not become involved in an alleged attempted coup in Equatorial Guinea.
Asked if Baroness Thatcher had paid her son's fine, she said only their mother had been "pretty fantastic".

But she added it would have been "slightly better if the brother hadn't got involved in said shenanigans".

Sir Mark received a four-year suspended jail term and £265,000 fine in South Africa after a plea bargain deal.

The sentence and fine were imposed by Cape Town High Court for supplying a helicopter used by the plotters.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4179173.stm

[burythehatchet]

1. is this not funny as hell

"yes officer, his daddy will have a very firm talk with Mark this evening."

"Mark, you go sit in the car and we shall discuss this later"

[donsu]

2. "shenanigans"? a coup d'etat is shenanigans?

mother as enabler

[leesa]

3. My first thought too. What human garbage these people are!

Well, I guess he should have the keys to the limo taken away for a week. Bad boy.

[emad]

6. Riggs Bank was in the coup plot loop, and Uncle Jonathan

Bush is CEO of major Riggs subsidiary.....so a little shenanigans in Equatorial Guinea is a piffling biz compared to the official coup in Iraq............

[nickine9]

4. i heard that he is returning to the USA...

to be with his wife and kids. presumably as a convicted and self-confessed terrorist you will not let him into your country. one thing though if you do refuse him entry PLEASE dont him send him back to the UK, i hear you have lots of other places where terrorists can be sent to contemplate the error of their ways.

[leesa]

7. BushCo criminals not only are allowed in, he will be given an extremely

generous bonus for his efforts and a prized seat on the Carlisle BOD.

[Vitruvius]

9. And I bet Bu$hCo/CIA gave the money to Momma Thatcher to pay

Mark's fine. Momma Thatcher is -- by all reports -- a world-class skinflint -- no 'way would she pay Mark's fine out of her own pocket...

[0007]

5. ROTFFLMAO! OMG this is rich

Carol Thatcher was asked on BBC One's Breakfast with Frost programme if she was relieved the matter was now over.

'Pleased for mother'

"I have given up thinking or feeling on newspaper scandals involving members of my family, " she said.

"It's a policy that's done me very well decade in, decade out.

"But I am relieved for Lady T that there's an end game."

[AP]

8. Interesting spin. This is a story about imperialism and crime, really.

But it's being spun as a black-sheep of the family kind of thing.

It seems so much less nefarious when the frame is "mom always said, don't play ball in the house."

I understand that Carol refuses to where her glasses and was riding her bike inot the garage and ran into a present the other Thatcher kids were hiding there for their mom. So they're all going to form a band and release a single. They'll be on Top of the Pops next week. With the money they make from the single, they'll not only replace the gift, but Mark will pay mom back for the criminal fine.