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Not the Channel 5 News!
Ed here. Ben was invited to take part in this evening’s Channel 5 News. It was a last minute rush but do-able. The taxi turned up on time and Ben arrived at the station to buy a ticket but with not enough cash on him to do so. The guy in the ticket office refused to accept a card payment over the phone – First Great Western.
Not wanting to risk getting on without a valid ticket Ben had to go back home. Had the Cooperative Bank not turned down his application for a bank account for no reason, had he not been refused JSA, also for no reason, and had the guy in the train ticket office not been so unreasonable we would all be seeing him again to telly this evening!
Ben Gunn is \”one of Britain\’s best known
prisoners…he constantly questions authority and exposes the futility
of the system\” The Times. Pleading guilty to the murder of a friend when
he was 14 years old, Ben has since renounced violence and consistently
fought for the recognition of the inherent dignity of all human beings.
As a result of speaking truth to power, Ben has served far longer than
the recommended 10 years, leading Education Secretary Michael Gove to
argue that Ben \”has been punished excessively for a crime committed as a
child\”, and Lord Ramsbotham to state that \”It is expensive and
unnecessary to keep Ben Gunn in prison\”.
2012-10-24 20:20:31
Source: http://prisonerben.blogspot.com/2012/10/not-channel-5-news.html
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