From The Daily Express:


Paedophile MPs are mocking British law

AS a supporter of anti-child abuse initiatives, including calling for a full investigation into institutional paedophilia over the past four decades, I have been particularly interested in the events of the past week.


By: Sonia Poulton
Published: Sun, March 2, 2014


INSIDIOUS Parliament is encircled by paedophile rings influencing our society INSIDIOUS: Parliament is encircled by paedophile rings' influencing our society [PA]


To recap: *Labour Party members Harriet Harman, her husband Jack Dromey and their colleague Patricia Hewitt have been at the centre of a media frenzy for their alleged links to the Paedophile Information Exchange, which campaigned to legalise sex with children in the Seventies.

Naturally, I found their reported connections to PIE disturbing when I first happened upon this information, which is why I wrote about it in the Sunday Express last May.

The reason I did, and why I will now return to the subject, is simple.

In October 2012, MP Tom Watson stood up in the Commons and addressed the Prime Minister. He told David Cameron that he had become aware of rumours of paedophile rings which "encircled parliament" and had done so for decades and he then asked for this to be investigated.

The Prime Minister agreed and Operation Fairbank (later evolving into Operation Fernbridge) was duly launched.

Since Mr Watson's pronouncement, we have witnessed the arrest of a Catholic priest, two unnamed workers associated with a children's care home and a sorry display of Seventies light entertainers and present-day soap stars who have been *paraded before the public and the courts to answer varying charges of abuse from paedophilia to groping.

Most of the charges have been dismissed due to lack of evidence that comes when reporting historic abuse. There have been scant convictions save for the former TV presenter Stuart Hall.

However what we have failed to see, and they have been glaring by omission, are any arrests pertaining to parliamentary paedophiles.

For this reason I have been perturbed by the recent focus on Ms Harman et al by the media, including the BBC, which continues to insist that this issue is about one newpaper's battle with the Labour Party.

It was no more acceptable to support "paedophile rights" in the Seventies than it is now, even though apologists keep *suggesting it was part of the "liberated landscape".

The truth is, there is a bigger issue within the Establishment. Over the past 17 months I have interviewed many survivors of child abuse.


I have heard stories of satanic ritual abuse, a significant factor in many paedophile rings, at the hands of household-name parliamentarians past and present


I have recorded *testimonies from a number of adults who have implicated former MPs, from all parties, as their abusers.

I have heard stories of satanic ritual abuse, a significant factor in many paedophile rings, at the hands of household-name parliamentarians past and present.

I have listened to claims of acts so obscene, so grotesque, borne out by the physical as well as mental scars many of these survivors carry, that to hear them relay their experience has left an indelible image in my mind and no attempt to erase the details has been successful.

One problem of a Parliament dogged with paedophiles and their sympathisers is that those MPs my interviewees have named are attempting to foist their warped ideology on our society.

In their roles as representatives of our nation, they continue to align themselves with focus groups and *individuals who want to significantly lower the age of sex*ual consent, just as Ms Harman apparently did decades ago with the National Council of Civil Liberties and PIE.

I know about these supporters because I have publicly taken to task a number of them over the past year or so in print and on TV and radio.

They include academics and lawyers and they have forcefully joined the call to legalise child sex.

Far from "protecting children who wish to explore", as these apologists claim, it would make youngsters more vulnerable to the advances of predatory paedophiles who wish to satiate their desires while *escaping scot-free because if it is legal to have sex with a child, then there will be no abuse case to answer to, will there?

The truth is, paedophilia is not a political issue but a moral one. It has no affiliations based on gender, background, cultural inheritance, wealth and religious or political persuasions.

It permeates every area of our society and not just the preserve of stereotypical dirty old men in raincoats.

Consequently, it is one thing to highlight MPs who have apparently previously backed dubious "anti-childhood" campaigns but it is far from an even spread of the true reality.

We now know that MI5 *actively covered up MP Cyril Smith's abuse of children and it appears far from an isolated case.

I recently interviewed Andrea Davison, a former intelligence officer now on the run in South America following her whistleblowing on the arms-to-Iraq scandal of Tony Blair's Cabinet.

Ms Davison was adamant that paedophiles are a staple of parliamentary life and have been for some decades. She claimed that MPs have been filmed abusing children and this footage is used to blackmail *parliamentarians into acquiescing on *issues of global importance.

If this is true, we must ask just how *ingrained in political life is a paedophile agenda?

Despite reporting to the relevant child abuse investigations all the MPs who have been named to me, I've heard nothing more and neither have there been any arrests.

While I appreciate that it would be equally wrong to name names without the due process of the law, I believe we must show a willingness to tackle this most *heinous of subjects, and a decent starting point would be for those accused to be questioned.

For now, abuse survivors are left asking why we are concentrating on the mis*demeanours of Harman, Dromey and Hewitt without properly tackling those in the corridors of power who have been *implicated in the abuse of children.

For those who support the rights of *children, this appears to be nothing more than a smokescreen to protect the guilty.

The question is: who is protecting our children?

Thanks. An excellent article from the Daily Express that gets right to the nub of the matter.

Focusing on one political party or another, or blame-storming old, retired celebs of the Beeb is not the issue.

Colin Wallace revealed what it was really about in Paul Foot's 1989 book Who Framed Colin Wallace when he discussed the Kincora Boys Home paedophile scandal and the role in that played by MI5.

Politicians are blackmailed and then allowed to do their thing so long as they do as they're told...

David Guyatt Wrote:Thanks. An excellent article from the Daily Express that gets right to the nub of the matter.

Focusing on one political party or another, or blame-storming old, retired celebs of the Beeb is not the issue.

Colin Wallace revealed what it was really about in Paul Foot's 1989 book Who Framed Colin Wallace when he discussed the Kincora Boys Home paedophile scandal and the role in that played by MI5.

Politicians are blackmailed and then allowed to do their thing so long as they do as they're told...

How paedophiles infiltrated the left and hijacked the fight for civil rights

A 1970s campaign to lower the age of consent has returned to haunt Harriet Harman, Patricia Hewitt and Jack Dromey. But in such a liberal climate, it wasn't hard for a small, determined group to exploit a commitment to free speech

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014...cia-hewitt

Quote:Oxley was shocked to discover that one of PIE's key members, Steven Smith, worked for the Home Office in its security and maintenance staff. Smith, it transpired, used his work phone to organise PIE events and Home Office notepaper for the organisation's correspondence.

Inspector Gadget is implying that the Harman, Hewitt and Dromey PIE connection was leaked to the DM to distract from the Patrick Rock raid on No 10

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Cameron aide Patrick Rock arrested over allegations relating to child porn

Advisor to No 10 helped to draw up government policy on online pornography filters

Patrick Rock Photo: Steve Back










By James Kirkup, Political Editor

12:41AM GMT 04 Mar 2014



One of David Cameron's closest aides has been arrested on suspicion of offences relating to child pornography.

Patrick Rock, who was one of the government's advisors on policy for online pornography filters, was arrested last month after police examined computers in No 10 Downing Street.

Mr Rock resigned as a policy advisor to the Prime Minister soon afterwards.

No 10 said he was arrested last month "a few hours" after Downing Street contacted police.

The former deputy head of the No 10 Policy Unit has been close to Mr Cameron for two decades. The two men worked for Michael Howard when he was Home Secretary in the 1990s.



In Downing Street, he had the title of deputy director of policy and worked across a wide range of topics, including the government's policy on child pornography. His seniority was demonstrated by the fact that he was one of only three advisers given his own private office in No 10.
A spokesman for Mr Cameron said that the prime minister had been kept informed of the action against Mr Rock, 62.
The spokesman said: "This is an ongoing investigation so it would not be appropriate to comment further, but the Prime Minister believes that child abuse imagery is abhorrent and that anyone involved with it should be properly dealt with under the law."
In a statement, Downing Street confirmed the events that led to the arrest.
He said: "On the evening of February 12th Downing Street was first made aware of a potential offence relating to child abuse imagery. It was immediately referred to the National Crime Agency (CEOP). The Prime Minister was immediately informed and kept updated throughout.
"Patrick Rock was arrested at his home in the early hours of February 13th, a few hours after Downing Street had reported the matter.
"Subsequently, we arranged for officers to come into Number 10 have access to all IT systems and offices they considered relevant."
Downing Street confirmed Rock was one of the advisers involved in the Government's policy on internet filters to protect against child abuse images online.
Google and Microsoft agreed in November to introduce changes that will prevent such images from being listed in results for more than 100,000 searches.
A Downing Street spokeswoman said: "Patrick Rock was one of a number of advisers and officials involved in dealing with this issue but the work was led by somebody else, and decisions were taken by ministers."
An NCA spokeswoman declined to comment, stating it did not name suspects on arrest.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics...-porn.html

Can you imagine, child porn on the computers at 10 Downing Street, thanks to Cameron's closest political advisor?

How long has Cameron actually known?

This has an uncanny likeness to MP Tom Watson's statement made in Parliament in October 2012 that a senior aide to a former Prime Minister had links to a man who imported child pornography into Britain from abroad. But that was, apparently, another Prime Minister and another aide.

This latest news proves Watson's remark of "clear links of a powerful paedophile network linked to parliament and No10", continues to this day...

Where does Cameron get his advisor from? This Rock guy and Coulsen both rank and putrid.

Was Patrick Rock tipped off about arrest for child abuse images?

Labour accuse No 10 of lack of transparency as David Cameron comes under pressure to explain timings of allegations

• Rowena Mason, political correspondent
  
  
• The Guardian, Wednesday 5 March 2014
  

Patrick Rock had earlier been accused of inappropriate behaviour by a colleague. Photograph: Steve Back/Rex Features

David Cameron is under pressure to explain whether his senior aide Patrick Rock was tipped off by Downing Street that he was accused of an offence related to child abuse images hours before his arrest by police.
Labour accused Number 10 late Tuesday of a "lack of transparency" about the senior adviser's resignation and subsequent arrest, which took place nearly three weeks ago but only became public after a leak to a newspaper.
It also emerged that the aide was previously accused of "inappropriate behaviour" by a colleague and this incident was investigated by his line manager, Ed Llewellyn, Cameron's chief of staff, who is also an old friend of Rock's.
The prime minister on Tuesday said he was "profoundly shocked" by allegations against Rock, who had worked on government policy about placing filters on internet pornography to protect children.
He insisted Downing Street has given "very full and straightforward answers" about the matter once a newspaper found out about the arrest.
However, the government has refused to give any exact timings around their discovery of the allegations, including when the police were alerted, when Rock was informed, when he resigned, and when Cameron found out.
Downing Street would only say that the police were alerted "immediately" when the matter arose on 12 February and Rock resigned the same day. He was arrested in his west London home in the early hours of 13 February a "few hours" after Downing Street reported it to police. The responses suggest Rock knew he was accused of a serious potential offence the day before he was arrested.
Cameron's official spokesman also declined to disclose the level of vetting given to Rock, 62, whether the alleged offence took place in Downing Street, and how the resignation came about.
Officers from the National Crime Agency subsequently examined computers and offices used in Downing Street by Rock, who was the deputy director of No 10's policy unit.
Tom Watson, a senior Labour MP who is calling for a public inquiry into the abuse allegations, told the Guardian: "There is a duty of care to Mr Rock, who has not been charged with anything as of today, yet I do think it is not unreasonable for Downing Street to explain why he resigned hours before the police appear to have acted."
Another Labour MP, John Mann, criticised the secrecy about details of the arrest and questioned the decision of Number 10 to keep silent for three weeks. "Yet again we are seeing a lack of transparency from No 10. It is highly inappropriate that a major figure could cease to be responsible for these policy areas without MPs and the public being made aware. We need to be sure there are no policy implications," he told the Evening Standard."
However, Cameron insisted it would not have been appropriate to "pre-emptively" brief the story before Downing Street was asked questions about it.
The prime minister's official spokesman said the complaint of "alleged inappropriate behaviour" during Rock's employment at No 10 was not linked to his arrest. He said this was "resolved" with the agreement of the complainant and Cameron was "aware" of such internal staffing matters.
This "inappropriate behaviour" complaint was investigated by a senior civil servant and Llewellyn, Cameron's chief of staff and an old Etonian, who worked alongside Rock with Lord Patten during the peer's time as a European commissioner in Brussels. Cameron and Rock also worked together as special advisers to Michael Howard in his time as home secretary in the mid 1990s.
The arrest of Rock who had been tipped for a Tory peerage, will have come as a severe shock to the prime minister and the Tory establishment.
Rock was never a member of Cameron's innermost circle, whose members are closer to the prime minister's age. But he was a respected and trusted figure who shared Cameron's sense of humour. He is credited with coining the phrase: "Cows moo, dogs bark, Labour put up taxes."

For years Tony Blair was the teflon prime minister --- nothing stuck to him. He went on and on and then got nailed by Brown and stepped down. Now he is almost universally detested - except by those who employ him and owe him a living for the work he has done them in the past.

For me, Cameron is displaying the same teflon qualities. Perhaps, he too, will suffer the slings and arrows of his past in the future?

Quote:Was Patrick Rock tipped off about arrest for child abuse images?

Labour accuse No 10 of lack of transparency as David Cameron comes under pressure to explain timings of allegations

• Rowena Mason, political correspondent
  
• The Guardian, Wednesday 5 March 2014
  

Patrick Rock had earlier been accused of inappropriate behaviour by a colleague. Photograph: Steve Back/Rex Features

David Cameron is under pressure to explain whether his senior aide Patrick Rock was tipped off by Downing Street that he was accused of an offence related to child abuse images hours before his arrest by police.
Labour accused Number 10 late Tuesday of a "lack of transparency" about the senior adviser's resignation and subsequent arrest, which took place nearly three weeks ago but only became public after a leak to a newspaper.
It also emerged that the aide was previously accused of "inappropriate behaviour" by a colleague and this incident was investigated by his line manager, Ed Llewellyn, Cameron's chief of staff, who is also an old friend of Rock's.
The prime minister on Tuesday said he was "profoundly shocked" by allegations against Rock, who had worked on government policy about placing filters on internet pornography to protect children.
He insisted Downing Street has given "very full and straightforward answers" about the matter once a newspaper found out about the arrest.
However, the government has refused to give any exact timings around their discovery of the allegations, including when the police were alerted, when Rock was informed, when he resigned, and when Cameron found out.
Downing Street would only say that the police were alerted "immediately" when the matter arose on 12 February and Rock resigned the same day. He was arrested in his west London home in the early hours of 13 February a "few hours" after Downing Street reported it to police. The responses suggest Rock knew he was accused of a serious potential offence the day before he was arrested.
Cameron's official spokesman also declined to disclose the level of vetting given to Rock, 62, whether the alleged offence took place in Downing Street, and how the resignation came about.
Officers from the National Crime Agency subsequently examined computers and offices used in Downing Street by Rock, who was the deputy director of No 10's policy unit.
Tom Watson, a senior Labour MP who is calling for a public inquiry into the abuse allegations, told the Guardian: "There is a duty of care to Mr Rock, who has not been charged with anything as of today, yet I do think it is not unreasonable for Downing Street to explain why he resigned hours before the police appear to have acted."
Another Labour MP, John Mann, criticised the secrecy about details of the arrest and questioned the decision of Number 10 to keep silent for three weeks. "Yet again we are seeing a lack of transparency from No 10. It is highly inappropriate that a major figure could cease to be responsible for these policy areas without MPs and the public being made aware. We need to be sure there are no policy implications," he told the Evening Standard."
However, Cameron insisted it would not have been appropriate to "pre-emptively" brief the story before Downing Street was asked questions about it.
The prime minister's official spokesman said the complaint of "alleged inappropriate behaviour" during Rock's employment at No 10 was not linked to his arrest. He said this was "resolved" with the agreement of the complainant and Cameron was "aware" of such internal staffing matters.
This "inappropriate behaviour" complaint was investigated by a senior civil servant and Llewellyn, Cameron's chief of staff and an old Etonian, who worked alongside Rock with Lord Patten during the peer's time as a European commissioner in Brussels. Cameron and Rock also worked together as special advisers to Michael Howard in his time as home secretary in the mid 1990s.
The arrest of Rock who had been tipped for a Tory peerage, will have come as a severe shock to the prime minister and the Tory establishment.
Rock was never a member of Cameron's innermost circle, whose members are closer to the prime minister's age. But he was a respected and trusted figure who shared Cameron's sense of humour. He is credited with coining the phrase: "Cows moo, dogs bark, Labour put up taxes."

From The Slog:

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ED MILIBAND, WESTMINSTER, & THE PAEDOPHILE ISSUE: A SUCCINCT VERDICT.

BY JOHN WARD MARCH 5, 2014 MILIBAND SCORES MINUS 56 AT PMQS THERE IS NO OPPOSITION IN BRITAIN - WE BADLY NEED ONE
The time has come at last for even the more smug and sleepy among us to get real. This is the situation we have:
1. A gentleman with a posh name, a senior and shady role on Tory affairs (and no doubt the wearer of nice shoes) is in charge of seeking out naughty paedos and has now been accused of being one of their number.
2. The Prime Minister and his staff covered up the issue until caught out.
3. The Prime Minister's Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt is bankrolled by a John Lewis who was at a key time Chairman of the Groucho Club. At that time, it was hosting a PIE-style website and taking illegal pictures of its clients snorting coke.
4. Alistair McAlpine successfully sued the backside off various people for being wrongly outed as a paedophile, but kept secret his certain knowledge about Jimmie McAlpine, his cousin, who was a supplier to government in the 1960s and an outrageous buggery merchant of young care home boys in Wrexham and Chester at that time. Ali McAlpine was a senior Tory fundraiser and close confidante of Margaret Thatcher.
5. Another close confidante of Margaret Thatcher was Leon Brittan, a man thought by many to be the senior Cabinet member questionsed by police over the Elm House affair. On the public record is the seizure of a tape called LB' by police who stopped a convicted paedophile. The LB tape "showed a senior Tory Cabinet member abusing a 12 year-old boy" says a Customs & Excise officer from that period.
6. When unable to find a trade minister in 2010, newly elected PM David Cameron chose to give a freelance trade position to Leon Brittan…on the advice of the Deputy PM Nick Clegg, who is a personal friend of Leon Brittan.
7. Exaro today has established from sources that senior Whitehallian the late Clive Hindley blocked and ignored all concerns about PIE…and had an obsessive interest in sex between men and boys.
At PMQs today, Ed Miliband could've painted this lurid picture in a manner that would give hope to those fed up of the real paedophile mainstream being buried under ludicrous cop fitups of sad old celeb gropers. He could've pointed all this out, and left nobody in any doubt that there is a massive coverup of perverted and dangerous sex right at the heart of government.
He did nothing.
Instead being the Establishment lackey he is Mr Miliband offered the chancers of Washington, Downing Street and Brussels his unqualified support…..and total condemnation of Vladimir Putin.
Miliband must go. The Establishment must go. The corrupt political duopoly must go. This is a seminal moment for the British people: do you GAF about the vulnerable in our society, because clearly over 95% of the rubber-spined minnows at Wesminster don't?
If you don't, well then….welcome to the dictatorship of evil commerce and amoral privilege. You have only yourselves to blame for entering the Kingdom of Secretive Mammon. To be blunt, some of us are getting tired of the armchair army the perpetual moaners who keep on whining, "But what can we dooooo?"
Send a message. Send lots of messages. Boycott stuff. Get together and have ideas. Sod Eastenders and Simon Cowell. Get off your f**king fat arses and do something.

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High Court judge and the child sex ring: Adviser to Queen was founder of paedophile support group to keep offenders out of jail

• Lord Justice Fulford was named last year as an adviser to the Queen
  
• He was a key backer of the notorious Paedophile Information Exchange
  
• Police suspect the group of abusing children on an 'industrial scale'
  
• He is revealed as a founder member of campaign to defend PIE
  
  
• At the time it was calling for the age of consent to be lowered to just four
  

By MARTIN BECKFORD
PUBLISHED: 22:02, 8 March 2014 | UPDATED: 22:02, 8 March 2014

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One of Britain's most senior judges actively campaigned to support a vile paedophile group that tried to legalise sex with children, The Mail on Sunday can reveal.

Lord Justice Fulford, named last year as an adviser to the Queen, was a key backer of the notorious Paedophile Information Exchange (PIE) which police suspect of abusing children on an industrial scale'.

An investigation by the Mail on Sunday has discovered that Fulford was a founder member of a campaign to defend PIE while it was openly calling for the age of consent to be lowered to just four.

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Implicated: Lord Justice Fulford, pictured in his full legal regalia, was named last year as an adviser to the Queen

It can also be revealed that the Appeal Court judge and Privy Counsellor:

• Planned demonstrations outside courts where defendants described by prosecutors as sick' and a force for evil' were on trial.
  
  
• Wrote an article claiming PIE, now under investigation in the wake of the Jimmy Savile scandal, was merely a way for paedophiles to make friends and offer each other mutual support'.
  
  
• Sought help with the campaign from future Labour Minister Patricia Hewitt, then in charge of a controversial civil rights group.
  
  
• Attended meetings to discuss tactics with PIE chairman Tom O'Carroll, who has since been jailed for possessing thousands of pictures of naked children.
  
  
• Was praised by the paedophile group for coming to its defence.
  
  

Fulford was a founder member of an organisation called Conspiracy Against Public Morals set up to defend PIE leaders facing criminal charges.

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It later published a sickening pamphlet claiming that children would be freed from the oppression of the state and their parents if they were allowed to have sex with adults.

The 60-page document, unearthed by The Mail on Sunday, is adorned with disturbing child-like pictures and sexual cartoons.

At the time the organisation went under a slightly different name but had the same postal address as Fulford's group had.

When asked last night about his involvement in the group, Fulford said: I have no memory of having been involved with its foundation or the detail of the work of this campaign.'




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He added that any contribution he made would have been in general terms against a law banning conspiracy to corrupt public morals' which he believed could be used against a wide variety of people in potentially inappropriate ways'.

I have always been deeply opposed to paedophilia and I never supported the views of the PIE,' he added.

Fulford is the most senior public figure to be implicated in the work of PIE.

Today's revelations follow controversy over the roles of Labour grandees Patricia Hewitt, Harriet Harman and her husband Jack Dromey, who were all involved in the National Council for Civil Liberties (NCCL) when it counted paedophile activists among its members.

Last night Fulford said: On reflection the NCCL gay rights committee should never have allowed members of PIE to attend any of its meetings.

'I am very sorry for what happened. I have never espoused or in any way supported the objectives of PIE the abuse of children which I consider wholly wrong'.



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Nonetheless, the revelations are likely to raise questions about what vetting he underwent during his career.

However Fulford insisted There was nothing to report to the Lord Chancellor's department... at the time of my various appointments.'
The revelations also prompted fresh calls for a full investigation of the links between the Establishment and paedophile groups, following long-running allegations of cover-ups.

Scotland Yard is already looking into PIE as part of Operation Fernbridge, its probe into allegations of a child sex ring involving senior politicians at a south London guest house.

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As The Mail on Sunday revealed last year, the Home Office is also carrying out urgent checks into a whistle-blower's claims that taxpayers' money was handed to PIE.
Labour MP Tom Watson said: Today's revelations reinforce the argument that there should be a full investigation into the role of PIE.

'It's incredible that someone of such distinguished legal authority could misunderstand the need to protect children.'

Tory MP Sir Paul Beresford added: I find it staggering. It wasn't a clever or appropriate campaign. They were a paedophile group and at the end of the chain were little children'.'

Peter Saunders of the National Association for People Abused in Childhood, said it was more than alarming' that anyone in the judiciary could be linked to PIE.

Fulford, now 61, is the most senior public figure to be exposed as an apologist for paedophiles among Left-wing political groups of the 1970s and 1980s.

He has enjoyed a stellar rise through the legal profession, becoming a QC in 1994 and a part-time judge the following year.

In 2002 he became the first openly gay High Court judge, being nominated for a knighthood by Tony Blair, and in 2003 took up a prestigious role at the International Criminal Court in The Hague.

Last year he was nominated as an Appeal Court judge by David Cameron and appointed to the Privy Council, the elite group of senior politicians, judges and clergy who advise the Queen on constitutional matters.

Back in the late 1970s he was a newly qualified Left-wing barrister when he joined the NCCL, now known as Liberty, which had links to known paedophile groups and attempted to lower the age of consent to 14 and water down child pornography laws

Fulford's involvement with the radical movement to legalise child sex goes even further than that of the Labour Ministers, documents uncovered by The Mail on Sunday show.

He personally set up a group to support the executive committee' of PIE in the summer of 1979, after they had their homes raided by police.

Images of child abuse and group literature were seized and five leaders, including chairman O'Carroll, were charged with the rare offence of conspiracy to corrupt public morals'.

Fulford and his colleagues called the organisation the Conspiracy Against Public Morals (CAPM), and it went on to distribute leaflets calling for the PIE show trial' to be dropped, and held protests outside courtrooms.

In October 1979 Fulford wrote a full-page article in gay rights magazine Broadsheet, in which he was described as the founder' of the PIE support group.

He claimed that classified adverts placed by PIE members, which led to the trial, were simply to enable paedophiles to make friends and offer each other mutual support' rather than to contact children or exchange banned images.

A leaflet distributed by CAPM and available through PIE's mailing list went further, claiming: This is a trumped-up charge designed to silence a group merely because it is unpopular with the guardians of public morality.'

And the prosecution was condemned as an attack on PIE's right to freedom of speech and freedom of association'.

A longer briefing note put together by the CAPM called the paedophiles a minority group ripe for bashing' because they were open about their aims.

In 1980, a Marxist collective used the almost identical name, Campaign Against Public Morals, and the same Central London PO Box address as Fulford's group to publish a 60-page diatribe that called for the age of consent to be scrapped for the liberation of children'.



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The revelations follow controversy over the roles of Labour grandees Patricia Hewitt, left, and Harriet Harman, who were all involved in the National Council for Civil Liberties when it counted paedophile activists among its members

Fulford successfully proposed a motion at the August 1979 conference of an established gay rights group, the Campaign for Homosexual Equality, that it should affiliate itself to his new group and also call for the PIE leaders to be cleared.

His actions were praised in the paedophiles' in-house journal, Magpie, which declared: No longer alone new group to support PIE' and said they owed much to a speech by barrister Adrian Fulford, which Gay News declared to be the best made at the conference.'

The following month the CAPM held its third meeting at which Fulford and O'Carroll himself were present, as well as several members of the NCCL gay rights committee.

Minutes of the gathering show that they discussed picketing the magistrates court where the PIE defendants appeared and state Adrian' would ask Patricia Hewitt about the possibilities of using NCCL's number to take messages'.

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Probe: Labour MP Tom Watson said there should be a full investigation into the role of PIE

Records show PIE leader O'Carroll who was jailed for two years in 1981 was a member of the gay rights committee at the same time as Fulford.

The paedophile group was often discussed at the gay rights committee's meetings, and O'Carroll was given its support as he came under increasing public pressure.

Last night, Fulford admitted he attended meetings of the NCCL gay rights committee when O'Carroll was there, but added that his presence left me feeling extremely uncomfortable'.

He added: In the main, I provided some legal advice in the context of general civil liberties objections to the wide-ranging charge of conspiracy to corrupt public morals.' And he stated that he has never wanted the age of consent to be lower than it is now.

PIE folded in 1984 after the arrest of several more leading figures, including one Steven Adrian Smith who had worked at the Home Office.

Miss Hewitt, Miss Harman and Mr Dromey have now expressed regret for the paedophile activists involvement with the NCCL, while insisting they never condoned child sex and that PIE did not influence their policies.

However archive material shows the NCCL's Nettie Pollard actually invited PIE to become an affiliate group in 1975, offering them the chance to propose motions and take votes at its conferences.

Last night, Fulford said: On reflection, the NCCL gay rights committee should never have allowed members of PIE to attend any of its meetings and a clear separation should have been created with the two organisations.'

• Additional reporting: Stephen Johns, Paul Cahalan and Peter Henn
  

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