Friday, January 20, 2012 -

    Revenge Of The Daily Mail

    Maybe They'll Offer Me A Column?

    Heads Up!

    Looks like the Mail on Sunday are about to do a hatchet job on me. I just had a reporter, David Rose, on the phone asking me all sorts of questions about my past, about the articles I have written and the controversy surrounding my leadership of CLEAR.  Surprise , surprise he also wanted to know why I have made so many PCC complaints against his newspaper!

    He wanted to know details of my criminal convictions and my three months on remand in Brixton on a false assault charge.  He poured scorn on my claims (which are entirely true) to have worked for Saatchi & Saatchi, the MOD and to have written a regular column in The Independent.

    David Rose, The MOS Journalist Who Wants To Write About Me But Doesn't Want To Mention Cannabis

    He quizzed me on articles I have written some years ago about the police, about Israel and about Pakistan.  “Do you really mean that?”, in mock horror was his angle.  I said I wanted to talk about the cannabis issue.   He said he wasn’t interested in that.  He even said he’s spoken to Peter Hitchens about me.

    The clear intention is to paint me as not fit to be the leader of a political party – which immediately gives great credence to our cause!

    So I expect it to be uncomfortable for a while but any publicity is good publicity and this will massively raise our profile.  I believe this will backfire dramatically on those who have worked to discredit me.  I am who I am.  Peter Reynolds, leader of CLEAR, determined to end the prohibition of cannabis!

    N.B. Some interesting information on “David Rose” here.  However I believe that “my” David Rose is the real thing!

    Revenge Of The Daily Mail Part Two is here.

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    • John

      I knew this would happen. I think you’re about to weather a shit storm of epic proportions. I just hope you come out the other side smelling of roses but given the amount of bitter sods you’ve managed to rile and the some of the less PC things you’ve said in the past this doesn’t look good from my perspective. Sensible people know that cannabis is the issue here but the country is not full of sensible people.

    • John

      Even so. Keep your head, refute anything they don’t have evidence for and keep on the subject of cannabis and you might be OK.

    • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=659717857 Julian Pursell

      “Keep all your receipts and deny everything.”

    • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=734180257 Michael J Morton

      Or maybe the clear party do their own work. Simply show what false statements they make. Match them up against true fact and not just about weed either, all sorts. Most regular people know what sort of paper it is nowadays anyway. They think because they have a coat of arms in the middle of their title instead of a red background they are somehow better or more entitled. But they are just as bad as the sun or the star. Their website front page now resembles the cover of heat magazine. 

    • Anonymous

      In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. – George Orwell

    • Kyle Mulholland

      The Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday are two different newspapers. I hate to have to point this out but it is sloppy to believe that they are the same when they have entirely different writing and editing staffs. 

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Pierre-Emply/100003368861552 Pierre Emply

      Well if your good enough to get the Mail to try and discredit you, then you have my support even more Peter, I have to say having read all the diatribe my opinion about you has done a complete U-Turn.  We may disagree on many other issues but on this single issue I am even now more convinced you are the right man for the job.

      Keep up the good work, all the team are doing, it is obvious to anyone with half a brain you are making waves in all the right places.  

      The people at uk420 seem to have done you a favour peter, would love to see the look on there faces when it all backfires.

      postal order will be in the post tomorrow.. I simply make it out to “clear” yes?

    • http://www.peter-reynolds.co.uk Peter Reynolds

      That is utter nonsense Kyle.  They share the same website and believe me, there have been a number of occasions with PCC complaints when they haven’t been sure which newspaper it was published in!

      To quote them:

      Published by Associated Newspapers Ltd
      Part of the Daily Mail, The Mail on Sunday & Metro Media Group

    • http://www.peter-reynolds.co.uk Peter Reynolds

      Yes please Pierre – and thank pou!

    • Kyle Mulholland

      Utter nonsense? They share a web-site but are not the same newspaper. That is a fact rather than nonsense. The Mail on Sunday as you ought to know Peter having worked in journalism is not a ‘Sunday edition’ but a different paper entirely. It is owned by the same company, Associated Newspapers, but is not the same paper. Much in the same way, the Guardian and Observer are not the same, and those at the former are relentlessly lobbying for the latter to be replaced by a ‘Sunday Guardian’. 

    • http://www.peter-reynolds.co.uk Peter Reynolds

      And your point is?

      Actually according to David Rose I’ve never worked in journalism so perhaps that explains why I’ve got it so terribly wrong Kyle and I bow to your evidently greater knowledge, understanding and omniscient wisdom.

    • Anonymous

      Whats with all the hate and abuse on your facebook page Peter? Not like you to allow such comments. Sort it out.

    • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=654913133 Steam Punx Motorcycles

      Reynolds … your such a tool, your tactics are cringeworthy and pathetic, by checking out your presumed ficticious background i can draw no other conclusion that you are a fake, & a homophobic, racist nugget & a lying big Oaf of a bully to boot. As in this instance with regards this article, your unashamed CLEAR attempt as always is to attack as your main line of defence, getting in their quick to ‘diffuse’ any type of awkward questions that YOU KNOW would arise from the CLEAR membership that have no idea of what is transpiring behind the scenes … ‘ LOOK LOOK, I TOLD YOU THEY WOULD DO/SAY THIS !! … if it wasn’t so sad, i would say its pathetic. I, like others whom have tried to ask you questions on both here and the F.B page have been systematically deleted and barred from asking further questions, after which your inflated EGO in retort just cant help itself but to reply ‘unoficially’ with little pathetic vindictive snarly quips … really befitting a ‘leader’ of a Political Party of any description, why dont you grow up you childish PRat. As a paying member of CLEAR may i thank you personally for calling me a ‘Puppet and a Muppet’ and that i should dissapear into obscurity from whence i came … YOUR WORDS.   I asked you a question some time ago and will ask it again:-  “Peter, what does it feel like to be exposed as the fake you truly are and thrown out of your Ivory Tower..?”  -  Steam Punx Motorcycles.

    • http://www.peter-reynolds.co.uk Peter Reynolds

      You’re quite right and they have been sorted out

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Nik-Morris/585159342 Nik Morris

      Peter “Censorship” Reynolds.  If the blokes done any background checks and talked to anyone who’s been bullied and threatened buy you then he’s going to have a story.   It’s not going to show you in a good light.  Oh!  Just to add, I’m not a horrible bloke when it comes to people…but…writers are fair game.  You’re bloody terrible.  London Games indeed.

    • Christopher

      You have to laugh at the irony of the Daily Mail getting its knickers in a twist because the leader of a pro-cannabis party is a bit right wing.

      They should take a look on their own doorstep at some of the hate filled nonsense written by their own journalists such as Peter Hitchens and Melanie Phillips. 

      http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2011/01/25/melanie-phillips-defends-gay-brainwashing-daily-mail-article/

    • Blues Man

      so the war on drugs is heating up in the uk on one side a few people learning to use face book with a bit of truth on their side on the  other side the government the prohibition loving press and secret agents who watch too many James Bond movies and all the dirty tricks and smear tactics that were learned in N,Ireland over the years getting dusted off to use again . this was always going to happen its the fight back by pro hos so what side will people fall on?
      Peter keep up the great work and expect those with other interests to keep fighting you and trying to distract you. they might not like you, they might not like me ,in fact they might hate all cannabis supporters so what? Battle has commenced and you are the most dangerous of the supporters of cannabis so they got you in their sights you are the bulls eye but we are all the target

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bertie-Griffin/100001688199728 Bertie Griffin

      YOU REAP WHAT YOU SOW…..Such is the path of deceit….

    • http://www.peter-reynolds.co.uk Peter Reynolds

      But according to you I’m a lefty!

    • Anonymous

      I do hope they have a comments section on the article….

      I belive we must be getting somewhere – a year ago they wouldn’t have even bothered with clear or any of its members.

    • http://twitter.com/OnPhysics Jonathan

      Peter, what’s the update on those “bumper stickers” that you needed for funding to print and smear everywhere? I think those could hope the cause, just wondering where abouts in the pipeline they are.

    • http://www.peter-reynolds.co.uk Peter Reynolds

      We need about £500 to print a decent quantity

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Derek-Williams/1072934911 Derek Williams

      I’m sure the Mail (Sunday or Daily) are well aware of the publicity they would give to CLEAR if they do run this story, and the more dirt they sling at Peter the better in some ways because being attacked by the Daily Mail is just what we need to be honest.

      This could raise our profile greatly; the old saying is really very true, there is no such thing as bad publicity if you can take the heat in the kitchen to mix metaphores.

      But unless they find the bone of the babies Peter’s been eating I suspect they won’t run it, but we’ll see.

      And for heavens sake Peter, don’t tell them about the kittens…

    • http://www.peter-reynolds.co.uk Peter Reynolds

      Well you’ve let the cat out of the bag now haven’t you?

    • http://www.facebook.com/people/Carl-Cooper/1208684176 Carl Cooper

      Green is my leaning with my views not just the anti prohibition side and we are all human  beings but if we are to get more candidates into power we all need to be aware politically if we do manage to win a by election so we can field more people so some less palatable private views are best kept just that private and not on social media hope you can understand what i am saying have just medicated so probaly rambling a bit;)

    • Anonymous

      Dude, when your opponent owns and controls the communications channels we’re forced to work through, always remember that for any legalization activist, any press is good press as long as they spell marijuana right.