STEPHEN Green’s efforts in the Administrative Court this week to bring a private prosecution for the common-law offence of blasphemous libel against Jerry Springer: the Opera, prompted one blogger to do a little digging into Green’s egregious little outfit, Christian Voice.
And his investigation seems to confirm something we had always suspected: CV is a one-man ego-trip.
The Cynical Rationalist notes:
Registered companies, and registered charities are, above all else accountable. That means that certain bits of information are available to the public for perusal; like, for example, income statements, accounts, and details of the directors who run them. Nothing of this is available for Christan Voice in the public domain. Anybody of sound mind should find this at least ‘eyebrow raising’ and even downright suspicious.
And he asks:
So what exactly is Christian Voice? How many people does it really represent? Is Stephen Green hiding behind a non-existent entity?
Christian Voice’s published address is a PO box, not a real address, and although it looks as though Stephen Green’s home address is on the site, we have (as yet) been unable to check this out for certain. It would be interesting to find out where the mail sent to the PO box ends up…So it’s possible that : 1 Christian Voice is NOT a charity; and 2, it isn’t even a company …
The Cynical Rationalist adds:
We will investigate what is going on behind the scenes at CV, what type of organisation it really is, and see if we can find any members of staff or management apart from the PR noisy Stephen Green.
UPDATE: (Nov 22) The court reserved judgement yesterday, giving no indication of when it would rule. You can read the latests reports of the hearing here and here.
The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of 
November 22nd, 2007 at 11:11 am
More bits and pieces will be added to the blog over the next few days, once electoral roll searches have been conducted, and generally some more digging around has been done.
Thanks for the link..
November 22nd, 2007 at 5:09 pm
Cynical Rational, great job you’re doing. I’ll be looking with interest at your site. It would be interesting to know if you’re ensuring, somehow, that our Mr Green gets to know about this exposé in the blogosphere. It would be a shame if he were denied the right to share in our schadenfreude.