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clipped from www.stuff.co.nz Charles' principal private secretary Michael Peat issued a detailed rebuttal of accusations made in a Channel 4 Dispatches documentary titled Charles: The Meddling Prince, highlighting how sensitive the king-in-waiting is to charges of meddling. "The investigation has been carefully researched over a period of six months. All the claims made in the film will be substantiated and we will fairly reflect the response of (Prince Charles' office at) Clarence House," a spokeswoman said.

Notareargunner adds: The denial of opinion and free speech is endemic. So what if Charlie bombards the mandarins of Westminster with 'food for thought'? As Rogue Gunner is trying to do, those who have knowledge of certain matters and have grave concerns for certain detail have no access to those who control matters. Letters to MP's are universally ignored. I even had an MP tell me he knows all about terrorism because he was within 200 yards of a London bomb. "Try running across roof-tops armed only with a stick of wood to apprehend gunmen firing down on soldiers in the street." That was in part of my country, the terrorist were British and British soldiers were defending other Britons. Or being out on a freezingly cold, wet autumnal night, bombs and bullets all around you and you have to huddle in soaked crevices because the powers that be will not give you the order to take out the gunmen...your friend and Commanding Officer lying a few feet from you with shrapnel in his brain, for him to survive as a vegetable while the pompous politicians had beer and sandwiches with the gunmen. This year they will call me a veteran for that and give me a Veterans Badge...I DON'T THINK SO! They can stick it with the Borneo and Aden ones.