It's hard to believe that it's been nine years since the great Kirsty MacColl was killed by a speedboat in Mexico. This week, with the case still unresolved to her family's satisfaction, her mother Jean MacColl has abandoned her "Justice for Kirsty" campaign. "[I]t felt dishonest to go on, to keep asking for money, when we don't feel we've got a chance," she said."
Friday, December 11, 2009
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I admire her for so many things, only one of which is dying for her son.
Attempting to bring any sort of Mexican businessman-oligarch to justice for an incident like this was, is, and always will be a futility. Their laws and institutions revolve around protecting the higher classes- because people like Mr. Gonzalez-Nova have bought and paid for them in kind. The bigger the Patron, the more insulation from legal trouble they can expect to receive. The only way someone like Gonzalez-Nova gets in trouble in Mexico is if he pisses off someone higher than himself on the food-chain, or runs afoul of one of the many Narco Kingpins, who settle issues with assassinations and wholesale murder! Who wants to do a shot of Cazadores with me?
Bless her. Her version of this has always been my favorite Kirsty MacColl song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWjldQrC2YI
Plenty to choose from, though, for such a sadly short career.
She gave really good cover! A New England would probably be my favourite.
In these shoes? I don't think so.
Still, a sad and tragic story.