He spoke up first and foremost, and said that he was made to hack into phones.

He, with the eventual help of Hugh Grant, brought attention to a scandal that was blowing up.

People were not only suffering from tragedies — the July 7th London bombing to name but one — but they were getting their phones hacked afterward.

Slowly, as things were revealed about the case, the newspaper executives started exiting, even after they had been promised protection by none other than Rupert Murdoch

She is also the only high profile person not to have lost her job over the phone hackings, which have resulted in multiple arrests and resignations in the last few years.

Then police officer after police officer tendered their resignation in wake of the scandal.

The parade of casualties from the scandal continued to lengthen one day after the head of Scotland Yard resigned, when one of his deputies, John Yates, also stepped down.

Tragedy struck when he was found dead — was it a coincidence?

He started out with the greatest intention — he was going to expose criminal activity at multiple levels and in the end found a tragic end.

We must reflect sadly on the life he led and take an example from him — not allow corruption to go on in our midst without standing up for what is right.

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  1. David Boles – New York City – David Boles was born in Nebraska and holds an MFA from the Oscar Hammerstein II Center for Theatre Studies at Columbia University in the City of New York. He is an author, dramatist, editor, publisher, and teacher who writes across the live stage, print, radio, television, film, and the web. With more than 50 books in print, David continues to write 2MM words a year and has authored over 25K articles. He is a member of the Dramatists Guild, the Authors Guild, and PEN America, and founded The United Stage advocacy platform on the principle that playwrights have a duty to direct their own work. Read the Prairie Voice Archive at Boles.com | Buy his books at David Boles Books Writing & Publishing at BolesBooks.com | Study with Script Professor at ScriptProfessor.com | Touch American Sign Language mastery at Hardcore ASL at HardcoreASL.com | Explore the Human Meme podcast at HumanMeme.com | Train with Boles Bells at BolesBells.com.
    David W. Boles says:

    Yikes! Scary stuff Gordon, since there is no such thing as a coincidence…

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