From Norman Scarth, one of the ‘Disappeared’, 1^st March 2004, whereabouts uncertain.

1. Working night & day already fighting back against those ruthless, merciless & lawless gangsters in wigs & robes, I have been forced to use time I can ill afford, & burn MORE midnight oil writing these 4,256 words to rebut wicked lies written about me by those who claim to be fellow victims.  I hope that some of the words will be published as my ‘Right to Reply’, particularly the 1,400 in paras. 15-30, rebutting the slur that I have never helped anyone, & the 520 words in paras. 37-43.
2. It is particular torment when the words may never be printed anyway.  For the Prison Service to provide a laptop computer for the ‘equality of arms’ to which LIP prisoners are entitled by law might appear to be a good thing, but it is in fact one of the diabolical ways they frustrate that entitlement.  Working day & night typing documents, as now, they find every fiendish excuse to prevent me printing them – which is like giving a starving man a tin of food – but no tin opener!
3. Most of we victims of corruption are grateful that James Todd publishes VOMIT - & so we should be.  Occasionally there are [mostly minor] errors in his facts – it would be surprising if there were not.  Most of us are damaged mentally [to a minor or major extent] by the trauma inflicted on us – it would be surprising [again] if we were not.
4. James tends to attack those he purports to be helping, if they respectfully submit corrections.  I have suffered for daring to do so.  Regretfully, I am bound to say that the ‘Right to Reply’, which he purports to offer, is nothing of the kind.  He will use HIS words to publish the ‘reply’, sometimes compounding the error!  Rather hurt by this, I tend to excuse it as the result of the suffering inflicted on him over a long period of years.  Speaking to him on the telephone some years ago I said in jest, “Both of us have reached the age when our brains are puddled.”  His reaction was to say seriously that it was true in his case.
5. He has a special dislike for those who fail to declare as he does; that Freemasonry is responsible for ALL the ills in the world, from chilblains to starvation in Africa.  I certainly do not challenge that, but he will use any stick to beat those who do not constantly repeat his dogma.  In my case he condemns me because I quote the wonderful words of great people from the past, those who put things so much better than I can.  Must we forget the wisdom of such people?
6. Earlier this year a supporter sent me copies of Vomit that I had not seen before, from around the time of my ‘trial’.  I only had time to read quickly through half, before being separated from them by the skulduggery of transferring me to Armley Gaol.  Having suffered great trauma since then, I do not remember the detail, but do not recall being upset by any of it.  I did make a brief note of Vomit 18/1 in which James accuses me of ‘being stupid at my trial’.  He & me both!  On first learning of the corruption in the courts, the sensible thing to have done would have been to cut my losses & run!  My ‘stupidity’ is a legacy from my time as a destroyer man in WW2.  The tradition when taking on a more powerful enemy is to go in at close range at full speed, all guns blazing – which is what I do now.  Stupid?  Yes, I plead guilty.
7. However, the same supporter has now sent me recent Vomits.  Though I excuse earlier attacks from James on the grounds as above, his treacherous, monstrous & poisonous lies are beyond all excuse.  For anyone to attack a captured, caged, defenceless, starved, tormented & tortured living creature, animal or human, is surely the depths of depravity.  For a fellow victim to do so exceeds that from the bewigged psychopaths, & the sadistic despots [big & little] who run our prisons.  Nothing could be more calculated to cause a person to take his/her own life.
8. In vomit UK 08/04 he says that I do not suspect Freemasonry [certainly I do, see above], going on to say, “Norman is angry because he did not win the court action when he sued for £200.  How typically Scarth.”  James got this wrong because the Daily Mail got it wrong – I did not LOSE the Claim for £200, but WON it!  A minor error, of no significance.  It was marvellous that the Daily Mail published John Stratford’s letter at all, the last sentence of which said, “All this going on not in Saddam Hussein’s Iraq, but Tony Blair’s supposedly democratic Britain.”  Marvellous that John was able to get the letter published.  I wrote to him thanking him from the bottom of my heart for doing so.  So much for the ‘falling out’ between John & I.
9. However, James Todd had to use his imagination to add, “Norman is angry…”  [Why should I be angry, when I won?] & “How typically Scarth” [a nasty sneer against a fellow victim, but again, not of vital importance.]  Much worse was to follow.  Todd says, “One can never be sure of [Norman’s] facts.”  How dare he, when his own are so often wrong!  Every word I write is backed up by cast iron proof in court documents!  Apart from which, my very presence here is surely proof that my every word is true!  Were I spouting nonsense they would not have sentenced me to be tortured & to die in prison.  They haven’t done it to James Todd.
10. He goes on to say, “If you want to help Norman, tell him to stop antagonising his jailers.  Usually, even in Armley prison, there is one decent prison officer or doctor.  They can’t help Norman if he abuses everyone with whom he comes in contact.  We know of not one case where Norman has tried to help others.”  Every word is poison, but the last sentence is pure cyanide.
11. Dovegate prison was asked by the Appeal Court to provide Reports on me.  Lesley Shackleton, Curriculum Manager of the Prison College wrote a glowing Report, the last sentence of which said, “Norman works quietly, & is always respectful to staff & prisoners alike.”  Education staff were marvellous to me.  Can’t remember all their names, but when I was suddenly moved, Margaret, Yvonne & Dee made a special visit to bring me a ‘going away present’.
12. Dr. Barrington-Barber [the ONLY decent doctor I have met in any prison] had borrowed my book ‘Cause for Concern’, & in his Report wrote, “He is a frail likeable man.  I urge you to read his book, & attached documents, which make fascinating reading”  [horrific would have been a better word].  Dr. Barber told me he was trying to have me moved to a more humane establishment, & was shocked at the obstruction he was meeting!  [He still has my book, which I do not mind, as long as someone is reading it!]
13. James suggests there may be one decent prison officer in Armley.  Yes, there are two or three who are not psychopaths, but they admit they only work there to pay the mortgage, & are fearful of repercussions if they dare to ‘blow the whistle’ on their colleagues who commit serious crime against prisoners – me in particular.  I suspect it is worse [in that respect] than during his time in Armley.  Drug courier Sandra Gregory spent four years in prison in Thailand, & four years in Britain.  Now at Oxford University, in her book ‘Forget You Have a Daughter’ she says that prisons in Britain are worse psychologically than in Bangkok.  [See Euripides!]
14. Arriving at Wolds Prison in April 2003 I was in trepidation at what staff would be like.  Within half an hour I said, “Compared to other prisons, this place is Heaven & you are Angels.”  During the next ten days I repeated it to all staff with whom I came in contact, & even put it in writing to Director Dave McDonnell, receiving a thank you letter in return [I was later to find that not ALL staff at Wolds are ‘Angels’.]  Yes, I do follow the destroyer tradition where appropriate – SOMEBODY has to – but I treat with respect anyone who treats me with respect.  When serious crime is committed against me [or others, see below] I protest.  When they drive a skewer in my brain, I scream with pain – so they do it again!
15. Now to that most wicked lie, that I have never helped anyone.  Certainly until the age of 70 I was as selfish as the next man, but it was then my eyes were opened.  Part Two of my book ‘C for C’ [of which Todd had a copy in 1997] was titled ‘Perjury by People with Perjury’.  It tells the story of a small businesswoman in Bingley Magistrates’ Court in 1994, charged [for the most ulterior motives] with ten criminal offences.  Called only as an ‘expert witness’ I was able to prove that there had been conspiracy to commit perjury by three powerful prosecution witnesses, & the victim of the perjury was rightly acquitted.    
16. James, you & Andrew Yiannides are not the best of friends, but if you doubt the story above contact him.  He will tell you of the Daily Mirror journalist who also gave evidence at that trial, & told Andrew of her admiration for me.  I am not proud of everything in my life, but I am proud that I was able to save Margaret Harvey from a great injustice.
17. With no personal axe to grind, I was aghast that I appeared to be alone in my concern at having witnessed most serious perjury.  Pushing various authorities to take action, I was given the run-around & nothing was done.  Without doubt, that was the time I earned the first black mark against my name.
18. Learning more of corruption in the courts, I made it my mission in life to try to rescue the fair lady Justice, raped daily by those in wigs & robes.  It would hardly do me much good, at my time of life, but I felt that God, or Fate or whoever, had chosen me to fight on behalf of those unable to do so.
19. By that time I had learned that anyone who had anything – a house, a home, a husband, a wife, a family, a job, a business, or a career was likely to lose the lot if they dared to challenge those who abuse their power.  Robbed by crooked judges, I had none of those things.  Paradoxically, it made me more powerful, my ‘decks were cleared for action’.  They could take nothing from me but my liberty or my life.  They have taken the former, & are close to taking the latter.  I give both gladly, in what IS a worthy cause.
20. Having made it my mission in life to expose the corruption, I travelled to courts all over England, supporting other victims, without payment [some would pay my coach fare].  Courts I visited, some several times, were Barrow-in-Furness [Wendy Armistead]: Lancaster [Mrs ?]: Warrington, Manchester & Stockport [Geoffrey Scriven, Eva & Gerry Adshead]; Durham [Maurice Kellet]: Scarborough: York: Otley: Keighley [John ?]; Bingley [Margaret Harvey, see above]: Leeds [Lee Foley; John Lee; Also Simon Stewart, a young man who used to work for me, facing a charge of death by dangerous driving, when it was the bad design of the coupling of his articulated vehicle that was at fault.  I did a lot of travelling for his defence team gathering technical information.  He was acquitted]: Bradford, Batley, Chesterfield [Gerry & Eva]: Ilkeston [Brian Robertson]: Nottingham [John Kenneth Brown]: Leicester [Paul Talbot-Jenkins, see later]: Birmingham [Marisa Sarda]; Bristol [Robert Ashman.  The only LIP there, I spent a week, costing me £300, & gave him valuable information].  Also, the Royal Courts of Justice many times [G Scriven; Gerry & Eva; Patrick Cullinane; Marisa; Felicia?; Gedel? Ebert; J .K.Brown; the Keighley man John?, a great fighter against Barclays Bank, name on the tip of my tongue, since died.]
21. Court staff will react with horror if you try to take a tape recorder into court, telling you it is ‘contempt’.  I had discovered the Practice Direction which says that litigants [& even members of the public] CAN use a tape recorder, if one asks the judge for permission.   I did so many times, sometimes in my own cases, sometimes when acting as McKenzie Friend.  Sometimes permission was refused, sometimes granted.  It was granted when I was acting as McKenzie for J.K.Brown & Marisa Sarda, in each case spending many hours at home transcribing the tapes. 
22. Notably, in the Civil Appeal Court I was seeking Judicial Review of criminal misconduct by Leeds Courthouse staff [see ½ page spread in the Yorkshire Evening Post 25/6/99 & The Times Law Report 8/7/99].  Lord Woolf MR [playing Mr. Nice Guy] not only granted permission, but had my second recorder on the bench in front of him – HE pressing the buttons!  I set another precedent then, by transcribing the tape in the official format, & sending a copy to Lord Woolf.  He signed it as an official court record!  Andrew Yiannides has a copy.  My presence - & my name – were being noted.
23. Now Lord Chief Justice, Woolf has the reputation of being a humane judge.  The Sunday Times, 15/6/03, quoted him as saying “Killers should not serve life.”  I have killed nobody, attacked nobody, but Lord Woolf & his underlings are determined I will never get out alive.
24. Sept 1998 I became a geriatric law student at the University of Leeds under Professor Clive Walker, ‘Human Rights Specialist’.  17 members of the European Commission on Human Rights had just declared unanimously that I was a victim of a violation of Article 6.  This made me the star student.  The case was still to go to before the Court for rubber-stamping, & Professor Walker offered to come to Strasbourg with me as my ‘lay’ adviser.  At the time he thought it was some technical legal point, but cooled off quickly when he realised it was part of my mission to expose corrupt judges.  Other staff members had suggested I give a lecture to students, but they too quickly cooled off.
25. I also became honorary Secretary of the Litigants In Person Society, spending many unpaid hours doing research for them, & giving advice on the telephone.
26. I published much on the Internet in support of Albert Dryden & seem to recall [I may be wrong] that it was me who drew him to your attention, photocopying many pages of his handwritten story to send to you.  I made three round trips of 200 miles each to visit him in prison.
27. Professor Walker was one of those who received a desperate call for help from me after the attack of 8^th August 1999.  He ran away as fast as he could then [& has ignored letters from me & others since].  That was when my last illusion was shattered.  Having learned that all litigation lawyers were corrupt, I still had the foolish notion that academic lawyers would retain their integrity.  Silly me.  All their funding comes from big business.  The professor’s interest in ‘Human Rights’ is very much academic – rather than practical!  In fact, having completed my first year of study, my mission was well known, & I was no longer the star student.  Walker & others had been trying to ease me out of the university.
28. Since my incarceration, all but three of those for whom I travelled so far & did so much have deserted me – some have even stabbed me in the back!
29. See other documents for my manifesto when I stood for Parliament in 1997, putting down my last £500 as deposit, knowing I would lose it.  How many others would do as much?
30. A letter to Jacqui Lait MP dated 1/9/98 from Geoffrey Hoon MP, then Lord chancellor Irvine’s spokesman in The Commons said, “My Dept. is considering these rules [that hearings ‘In Chambers’ are held in secret] in the light of a recent decision in the ECHR in the case of Scarth v United Kingdom & in preparation for the implementation of the Human Rights Bill.”  It WAS incorporated into the 1998 Human Rights Act.  Thanks to me, hearings ‘In Chambers’ are now open to the public, of great advantage to EVERY victim of our corrupt courts – though of little value to me!  It must be unique for a little old man who left school at 13, a small farmer all my life [apart from wartime service in the RN] to bring such a vital change in British Law – single handed!  They are determined I will never bring another!
31. One thing bewilders me:  I was delighted to receive a copy of www.petitiononline.com/nscarth/petition & the flattering comments on it.  Paul Talbert-Jenkins had added his name.  Yet with the recent Vomit sent to me the same man competes with James Todd to disparage me with sneers & lies.  At a meeting in Leeds [with an opposing solicitor I think], I had acted as McKenzie for him, & travelled 120 miles to do so again at a court hearing in Leicester.  I do not recall ever seeing anything from him supporting me, & have certainly not received a word from him since my incarceration.  He says now, “Norman does rise to the occasion & try to be a martyr.”  Quoting will upset James, but Sir Thomas Moore did say, “One should not choose to be a martyr, but martyrdom has been thrust about me.”  The same for me.  Until the age of 70 I was blissfully enjoying a happy semi-retirement, living only for horses & farming.  You can be sure that those who turn the word ‘martyr’ into a sneer would never become one.
32. PT-J goes on to say, “We [notice the ‘WE!!] had him in Stocken Prison for a while just down the road a couple of miles from us.  It is one of the best prisons in the country & run by the Home Office, but he didn’t want the help & sympathy that was offered to him by the prison warders & prison visitors.”  Funny, I didn’t notice the ‘help & sympathy’ – but I did notice the vicious crime committed against me!  PT-J admitted that his wife works in the prison!!!  What people will do for money!!!  Why doesn’t she blow the whistle on the serious crime against prisoners – apart from that against me?  My brother & friends being so far away, PT-J being so near, why didn’t he visit, to give me a little hope?
33. Upset at leaving Dovegate [Cat B] where I was getting on so well, I was told that Stocken, being Category C, would be much better.  In fact, staff were INFINITELY worse, monsters almost as bad as those at Armley!  I have given detail elsewhere, so won’t now.  PT-J goes on to say, “He was transferred back to Leeds to Newton Lodge Hospital in Nov. 2002 as an OAP to be near his brother.”  He seems to know a lot.  The REAL reason why I was transferred to Newton Lodge was because doctors there had been given the nod to destroy my brain with drugs – even before they had ‘assessed’ me – just as in Stalinist Russia – even though psychiatrist Dr. Patrick Quinn admitted in writing that they could be fatal.  I was saved from that fate because good nurses refused to be party to it, & an American psychiatrist stated he was willing to travel at his own expense to challenge.  They actually wanted to start forcible treatment before he arrived!
34. PT-J again, “If he had behaved himself his sentence would have been spent & he would be out of prison in April this year.”  Behaved myself?  For 78 years I have done so.  He is of course quite right on one point.  Had I ‘behaved myself’ [by his standards], & they had succeeded in pumping me full of drugs, I would have been out of prison, either in a box or as a befuddled zombie!  Sentence spent?  Where did he get this information?  My sentence does not end until 2011 when I will be 85 – if I should live so long under treatment DESIGNED to drive me to insanity &/or take my own life.  PT-J continues, “If he continues to buck the system in prison he only is the author of his own misfortunes.”  ‘The system’?  Better a bad system run by good people, than a good system run by bad people.  We have a bad system run by very bad people!
35. One example of how much he knows: in his penultimate sentence he says, “Armley is a privately run prison…”.  It is NOT privately run, but a State Prison, the same as Stocken.  He implies that State prisons [his wife on the payroll of the Devil’s Disciples who run them!] are better than private ones – when the reverse is the truth [see my remarks about Wolds, para 14].  Were my own shipmates who died fighting Hitler, those in Belsen, Auschwitz, the Soviet Gulags, or slaughtered by Pol Pot “Authors of their own misfortunes” by ‘bucking the system’?
36. I could crawl on my knees for a thousand miles to please the monsters who run this ‘system’ – it would not do me the slightest bit of good – protected as the monsters are by sycophants & traitors such as PT-J.  In his last sentence he says, “I have every sympathy for him…”.  If this is an example of his ‘sympathy’, God help me if he were malicious!  Let those who want to sweet talk & suck up to the psychopaths & sadists do so, but don’t expect me to.  Better to live & die with honour, rather than as a grovelling, snivelling coward.    
37. Back to James Todd:  I shake my head in disbelief at your words.  12/2/2004 you say to Sharon, “…. we know [Armley] is a Hell Hole, but you are not helping Norman by publishing how badly he is being treated.”  Politicians & the news media are constantly telling the brainwashed public that prisons are ‘Holiday Camps’.  Why are you – of all people – so desperate to hide the truth?  In a 1933 Concordat, The Pope agreed not to complain about Hitler’s treatments of the Jews, & Hitler promised to go easy on Catholics.  Who is your Concordat with James?
38. You go on to say, “He engages in confrontation at all times & the screws react accordingly.”  See the words of Lesley Shackleton, Dr Barrington-Barber, & my written praise of staff at Wolds [check with Director Dave McDonnell if you wish].  Puzzling that Education staff at Dovegate were marvellous, warders ‘variable’:  At Wolds most of the warders are human [‘Angels’ as I wrote!], as are the librarians.
39. Other Education staff gloried in committing serious crime against me.  As a special treat for my 78^th birthday they had me dragged brutally to the Punishment Block [only three screws this time, not six as at Dovegate].  Whatever the excuse, there was no excuse for such treatment.  It was actually because I dared to complain about the serious crime.
40. The next sentence from you James makes me wonder if you are schizophrenic.  “This is not to say that Norman’s treatment has not been outrageously inhuman & that he should not have been convicted.”  So why do you attack me, rather than the ‘outrageously inhuman’ ones?  You say, “If he had concentrated … it takes two hands to operate a chain saw …”
41. Colin Peters tried to say exactly that, but Judge Bentley would not allow anything that was in my favour!  Nor would the Appeal court [though it quashed the savage sentence completely in November 2002], nor would Sheffield Crown Court when it unlawfully re-imposed the sentence in April 2003!  Anyway, whatever I did or did not do on 20^th July 2000, it was NOT a crime in British law [see my document ‘Infear’]. Even if it had been a crime, my ‘trial’ was a million times worse!
42. “Norman likes the heady opium publicity… [&] How did he arrive at the figure of £1,000,000…?” you sneer.  What would you suggest - £2.50?  It is impossible to comment on your words of 17^th Feb. 2004, they are totally devoid of sense.  At the very end you say, “All email in my inbox referring to Norman Scarth will be deleted unread.”
43. From 8^th August 1999, the British State, Government, Parliament, Establishment, News Media, ‘Watchdogs’ [?] et al decided that I should become one of the ‘disappeared’, an ‘un-person’, as in Orwell’s ‘1984’, Argentina under The Generals & Pinochet’s Chile, that I should cease to exist - except to be destroyed.  So, I have now been ‘disappeared’ by Vomit.  I rather feel that being ‘deleted unread’ will not prevent James Todd from using his vivid imagination to write about me.

PS:  I have already been ‘disappeared’ by John O [O’Sullivan I think] who publishes the news letter ‘Miscarriages of Justice UK [MOJUK, Tel: 0121 554 6947].  Could it be a condition of the £300,000 Lottery Grant he got for supporting Asylum Seekers?

END NOTES

1.      Working night & day on laptop producing legal documents – but not allowed to print at Armley – great joy when given half hour notice of move back to Wolds.  The laptop came with me from Wolds, & by ALL the Rules & Laws SHOULD have come back with me.  On the point of leaving Armley Dispatch, the laptop [which HAD been in a sealed bag] was brought to me by Senior Officer Winklebotham [the name given to me by other officers], who told me that he had orders to confiscate it.

Hoping to print at Wolds I was reeling with shock, & told him it was serious crime, ‘OBSTURCTING the COURSE of JUSTICE’ & ‘MENTAL TORTURE’, both subject to life imprisonment.

IF taken from a prisoner for ANY reason, he should be allowed to remove all confidential legal documents from the hard drive, & store them on floppy disc, to be retained by the prisoner.  To refuse to allow me to do so was in gross violation of the House of Lords ruling in the Brady case [circa 2001].  Fortunately, I DID have some documents on floppy, including this ‘First Draft’, otherwise I would have been in complete despair.

Yesterday evening I was able to go to the library at Wolds – but [would you believe it!] the desk top computer there was not working, so I was unable to revise!  However, I was able to print the document to which these are End Notes, & send it un-revised.  Apologies for any errors

2.      Re-united with the early Vomits [see para. 6], I have been up most of the night reading them, & find there are 50 or more references to me ALL favourable, apart from a couple of mild criticisms.  In www.vomit.cc/fortysix he says of me, “A man among pygmies.”

3.      Supportive of me while free, now when I am defenceless James Todd attacks me, contradicting his own earlier words to do so!  He blames Freemasonry for everything.  Is this an example? 

Library computer now working.  Continuation:  Thursday 4^th March 2004

4.      [See para. 10 & 15].  “We know of not one case where Norman has tried to help others.”  In www.vomit.cc/81999 James Todd says, “He has travelled thousands of miles to expose the corruption in UK law & has supported many other victims.”  WHY does he say otherwise now?

5.      [Para. 11].  50 years separated Dee Sharp & myself, but I fell in love with her when she said of me, “He is the nicest man I have ever known.”  Perhaps I was dreaming?  You could ring those named at Dovegate & check.

6.       [Para. 22].  The first edition headline to the YEP story said, “NORMAN OUSTS’ [meant routs] TOP JUDGE.”  It was altered in later editions [‘D’ Notice Committee?]  Just 6 weeks later came the first crude assassination attempt by Gestapo police.

7.      [Para. 15].  ‘Perjury by People with Perjury’ SHOULD be ‘Perjury by People with Power’.

8.      [Para. 33].  Though false, it was surely an offence under the DATA PROTECTION ACT for PT-J’s wife to give him that information?  Equally surely, she will be marked for promotion for doing so?

[Para. 41].  The sentence [10 years, not six], for a first ‘offence’, was 100 times worse than the ‘trial’.

Having now been able to read more of Vomit, from 262001 up to date, I see many more supportive references to me [it would be pedantic to correct the minor errors].  WHY oh WHY has he changed sides?

9.      [Para. 42].  “Norman likes the heady opium of publicity” says James [hardly; I am not even aware of it, kept almost incommunicado, as I am].  Yet in Vomit of 17 Feb. 2004 he says “Publicity is the only weapon we have.”  Response [if any], to publicity is the ONLY thing that will save my life.  Why is he determined to deny it to me?

10.  John O’s Newsletter is about victims of injustice in prisons.  While free, I actively supported many of his calls for help, writing to Prison Governors etc.  He put out an email message about the Mark Barnsley Supporters Club, who had marched into the CPS offices in Sheffield with banners & leaflets etc., in working hours, all staff present.  Sixteen were charged with ‘burglary with intent’ – of all things!  The first hearing was in Hull Magistrates Court.

I felt these were people with courage, who deserved support.  Not learning of it till the evening before, I could not find out the time of the hearing, so was up at 5 am. In Bradford, & caught 3 coaches to Hull.  Apart from the 16, I was the only one there.  Four of them thanked me for attending.  A date was set, but I think the charges were dropped later.  Mark Barnsley is now free, but my letters to him & his supporters have been ignored.  John O knows all about me, but publishes not a word, not even to include my name on the long list of ‘hostages’ in his newsletters.  All I DID get from him was an insulting letter accusing me of sending him ‘shit’, & the same when I telephoned him.

What now Mr. Todd?  Having pointed out as respectfully as I can the errors & contradictions in your reports & comments, will there be a degree of contrition from you, or more insults?

I hope Mr. Billy Burns will be able to see this.  Again I am forced to stop, hoping to catch the post.