12-03-2013, 06:44 PM
Malcolm Pryce Wrote:Yes, and note too the sleight of hand in spinning it as his celebrity status that protected him, rather than people in positions of power. It's more comforting to know it was something as benign and amorphous as celebrity status; and you can't put 'celebrity status' on trial. It's like the WMD debacle where mistakes were made, but no one made them.
Indeed.
Savile procured for those more powerful than him.
And his "celebrity halo" was added protection for those powerful ones.
"It means this War was never political at all, the politics was all theatre, all just to keep the people distracted...."
"Proverbs for Paranoids 4: You hide, They seek."
"They are in Love. Fuck the War."
Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
"Ccollanan Pachacamac ricuy auccacunac yahuarniy hichascancuta."
The last words of the last Inka, Tupac Amaru, led to the gallows by men of god & dogs of war
"Proverbs for Paranoids 4: You hide, They seek."
"They are in Love. Fuck the War."
Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
"Ccollanan Pachacamac ricuy auccacunac yahuarniy hichascancuta."
The last words of the last Inka, Tupac Amaru, led to the gallows by men of god & dogs of war