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Veritas: more than it seems?
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Wednesday, February 2nd, 2005 at
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There was a pronounced delay between Kilroy’s departure from the They Won’t Let Me Be Leader Party and the launch of his own party – which was even then rumoured to be called ‘veritas’… and this man thinks he knows why.
UPDATES:
Europhobia – Veritas to sue Veritas?
Guardian – Kilroy-Silk colleague linked to ex-National Front leader: Anthony Bennett, whose name appears in the Electoral Commission’s database as the official leader of Mr Kilroy-Silk’s party Veritas, was also fired from the UK Independence party last year after publishing a pamphlet describing the prophet Muhammad as a paedophile.
Telegraph – The Prophet Mohammed was a paedophile, says Kilroy-Silk aide
He’s in good company. That’s a favourite line of Jack Chick. Incidentally, you may be interested in the “powerful new gospel film” by Jack Chick. I found this clip to be particularly compelling.
What’s that I hear? Kilroy Veritas? (Cheers Chicken Yoghurt. Duly bombed.)
We pause now for a fundraising infomercial from Honourable Fiend…
Telegraph – Your view: Do you trust Veritas? (via this post at The UK Today). Some awfully fawning replies in there; one might wonder how many come directly from Veritan central.
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about 7 years ago
There’s a spoof site already – http://www.vanitasparty.com/
about 7 years ago
Kilroy Silk, Veritas and Symantec
Bloggerheads has an intriguing theory that Kilroy Silk’s new far right UK political party is funded by Veritas the software maker. Given that Veritas has now merged with Symantec, customers of either company may want to question whether they wish to
about 7 years ago
There’s a googlebomb running with “kilroy veritas” linking to http://www.vanitasparty.com/ – Nick Barlow kicked it off.
about 7 years ago
Done.:o)
about 7 years ago
I hate to be a grammar pedant, but the Veritas slogan “the straight talking party” really should be hyphenated: “the straight-talking party”.[twitches]
about 7 years ago
Shhh! Don’t *help* them!
about 7 years ago
That stopveritas bloke is a bit of a loon. Kilroy needs opposing, but comparing Vanitas (the software company’s) logo to the Nazi party’s ensignia is very, very misguided, and stupid.
about 7 years ago
Funny how some languages are more politically acceptable than others.Old Kilroy-Permatan wants a political party called ‘truth’ so he turns to Latin and comes up with ‘Veritas’. Of course, had he turned to Russian he;d have come up with ‘Pravda’ which is probably not the image he’s looking for.Did a UK trademark search on ‘Veritas’ the other day – all the software stuff cam up along with a recuitment company and a finacial services company.My favorite Veritas trademark, however, has to be one for ‘lubricating oil’ – seems rather appropriate if you ask me.