They probably did have an understanding with those police who were also paedos...
The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.
As the title makes abundantly clear this article is not about Satanist Ritual Abuse. How could it be since Jean La Fontaine has published a report, The Extent and Nature of Organised and Ritual Abuse, commissioned by Virginia Bottomley, the then Health Secretary, back in 1994 making it crystal clear that there is no such thing as Satanist Ritual Abuse?
Professionals in child protection might come across the abuse of minors which might indicate something very much like Satanist Ritual Abuse but they dare not speak publicly about it because it just can't exist since Jean La Fontaine, an anthropologist, has declared it so, and if they did so they'd be stigmatised as Christian fundamentalists or conspiracy theorists.
Hard headed journalists might come across a story which looks remarkably like Satanist Ritual Abuse but they will not dare call it that because there is no such thing and if they tried their editor would only point out that Jean La Fontaine might accuse them of sensationalising the story "Satanism sells newspapers." she has said and no respectable editor wants to be accused of sensationalism.
So, I just want to be clear that this article is not in anyway connected to Satanist Ritual Abuse.
Colin Batley
No, this article is about Colin Batley, who was convicted and sentenced to 22 years imprisonment for various sexual offences in 2011 including raping an 11 year old girl and a group of four women, which in no way resemble a coven, who faced trial with him. His wife, Elaine Batley, was convicted of five sex-related offences and sentenced to 8 years imprisonment. Jacqueline Marling was found guilty on five charges and sentenced to 12 years, and Shelley Millar was sentenced to 5 years. Only Sandra Iveson was cleared of the one charge she faced of indecency with a child.
The first to move from East London to Clos yr Onnen, which translates as Ash Tree Close was Sandra Iveson in 1995. The following year, Colin and Elaine Batley moved in and two years after that Jacqueline Marling became the Batley's next-door neighbour. Finally, Shelley Millar moved in. Now, I know there is a great deal of stuff and nonsense written regarding the importance of symbolism to Satanists if they exist, which of course they do not, so do not attach any possible meaning to Ash Trees and any alleged significance that you may have heard that they have.
Some have cruelly suggested that this group formed, part or the whole, of a Satanic cult just because the group followed the teachings of Aleister Crowley. Just because each Sunday Colin Batley held meetings, where he would preach from Crowley's Book of Law, dress in hooded robes, chant before an altar and then orchestrate or participate in group sex and just because Batley "took cruel delight in initiating children into sex " as Judge Paul Thomas QC said in summing up before sentencing.
The judge was very careful in his summing up not to describe this small group as Satanist or the initiations' that he referred to as ritual. How could he, as we all know that would be impossible, there is no such thing. Instead he chose to refer to them as "a community within a community involving child abuse rape and prostitution." as that is possible.
That this "community within a community" literally lived within a stones throw from a retired police commissioner and a former bishop should not raise an eyebrow in the slightest.
Some have unfairly pointed the finger at Carmarthenshire Social Services for their failure to take action back in 2002 when they were warned of Colin Batley's child abuse but took no action. OK, this oversight led to this "community" abusing children for another 8 years but really, I ask you, how could Carmarthenshire Social Services take action against something Jean La Fontaine has stated categorically does not exist ?
If Satanist Ritual Abuse does not exist then why bother taking any allegation seriously?
Now, I think I might know what you're thinking. I think you're asking yourself, "What if Jean La Fontaine is wrong ? Wouldn't discounting any possibility of Satanist Ritual Abuse lead to these kind of oversights meaning that many children are not protected ?"
Valerie Sinason, consultant psychotherapist at the Tavistock Institute, has asked the very same question, she is quoted as saying "I find it disturbing that one anthropologist's readings of transcripts are being listened to more seriously than 40 senior health service clinicians".
At first glance this appears to be an extremely compelling point that Valerie Sinason is making. "40 senior health service clinicians", professionals in the relevant field of expertise against one anthropologist, all be it one who had been previously commissioned by Virginia Bottomley to write a report on the issue ?
But Jean La Fontaine has an answer to that, "I don't like to be arrogant", she said " but there was only one Galileo who first said that the earth was moving around the sun. Numbers of believers don't count. Data and logic do".
So, there you go. Who could possibly argue with the self proclaimed Galileo of Anthropology ?
The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.
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Six MPs in Amsterdam' fingers The Monday Club
The Exaro investigative site this morning quotes sources inside the Met's Fernbridge paedophile operation as saying they're following "news line of enquiry" involving six former Conservative Ministers who frequented Amsterdam's paedophile brothels during their time in office. One of these is a former Minister who has been under suspicion for some time…and probably also the protection of one or two embarrassed spooks and Sir Humphreys who were, no doubt, blackmailing him about it at the time. A senior detective is quoted as saying this time there will be no cover-up, so he may well have booked himself a slot in the upside-down-in-ditch position. We shall see: but the really interesting thing here is that the mention of recreational trips to Amsterdam can only mean one Tory ginger group: the infamous but now defunct Right Wing Monday Club. Last March, The Slog posted a lengthy piece pointing the finger at seven former members, some of whom were also implicated in Monday Club circulars talking of trips to Amsterdam. One former Clubber was the quiet former Tory Wet Peter Bottomley, whose politics are light years away from the Club, and yet bizarrely he was a member….his own Wikipedia entry indeed confirms this: He was for some years a member of the Conservative Monday Club despite disagreeing with their policies on immigration, race relations, Rhodesia and South Africa.' So one is left wondering what he had in common with them. Or not, as the case may be. His wife is of course Baroness Nettlehead Fruntbotham, currently the spokesman for profiteering sawbones private health concerns in the House of Lords. Despite constant denials by both parties, she and Jeremy Hunt are related. In an interesting move, Hunt's Wikipedia entry has been amended to say they are "related by marriage", but it's not by his as Mrs Hunt is Chinese. So it must be by hers to….Peter Bottomley. As far as the family tree attests, they seem to share an uncle somewhere up the line. Anyway, endlessly denied but now admitted. You read it here first. Those who imagine, by the way, that it's just a few pols who don't want all this diahorrea leaking from the cess tank are being extremely naive: a great deal of the control exercised by the security services and Whitehall over Westminster is base on detailed knowledge of corpse burial locations, and skeletons behind firmly closed cupboard doors. There are many reasons for one to not just suppose this but know it to be absolutely true. One such is being told about it after a few glasses of peppery Côte D'Or reds by folks as disparate as retiring Ministers, COI officials, and spooks themselves. Others include the seeming immunity of the MoD or FCO from attacks of any nature, another is the illegal pensions all the top Sir Humphreys awarded themselves after 2005. The simple fact is that MPs screw up and around. There is no escaping the little Black Book. This might also explain a well-hidden statistic just released by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) about cuts in the Civil Service. In the year to 31 March 2013 Civil Service employment decreased by around 3 per cent. Just under 449,000 people worked in the Civil Service in March 2013.The decrease in Civil Service Employment consisted mainly of full-time staff', says the overview. Excellent: 100,000 less of the buggers than there were two years ago, and they were all fulltime, not 2 day a week tea ladies. Progress at last. Um, except for this little gem concerning the seven grades of nincompoop there are in Whitehall. The Top Wallies at Grades 6 and 7, in terms of pay and pension liability, account for just short of £3 in 5. And guess what? Since March 2012 headcount at Grades 6 and 7 increased by 4 per cent. Employee numbers at all other responsibility levels showed a decrease. The largest decrease was at the Administrative responsibility level (Administrative Officers and Assistants) with a fall of 6 per cent. Fewer chaps down below? Excellent! All the more for us here on the Bridge. Now then, iceberg? What iceberg?
The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.
What other doors might it open though - not including the 8 officers who used to visit Savile's flat every Friday morning for chats and coffee? Etc?
Quote:Police watchdog to investigate claims officer 'acted on behalf' of Jimmy SavileWest Yorkshire inspector is said to have contacted Surrey police before they interviewed presenter over alleged sex crimes Sandra Laville The Guardian, Wednesday 16 October 2013 21.17 BST
The police watchdog is mounting an investigation into allegations an inspector intervened on behalf of Jimmy Savile during an inquiry into allegations he had sexually abused young girls. The West Yorkshire officer, who has now retired, is accused of inappropriately contacting Surrey detectives before they interviewed Savile in 2009 in connection with the allegations. The announcement came after a transcript of the interview was published by Surrey revealing how Savile bragged that he had "a collection" of police contacts in Leeds. The celebrity told officers that he had been targeted with false claims by blackmailers, and said: "I have up in Yorkshire, where I live in Leeds, a collection of senior police persons who come to see me socially, but I give them all my weirdo letters." The disgraced broadcaster was quizzed by officers for almost an hour over accusations that he forced one girl to touch his groin until he was "aroused", made another perform oral sex and stuck his tongue down a young girl's throat. The former star remained defiant during the interview which took place at Stoke Mandeville hospital on 1 October 2009 boasting he had to fight off girls "like midges". The Independent Police Complaints Commission saidon Wednesday it is to carry out an independent inquiry into the inspector, known as Inspector 5, and allegations that he "acted on behalf of Savile" because of his relationship with the celebrity. The IPCC is also assessing the actions of nine police forces in their dealings with the BBC entertainer, who is believed to have sexually abused hundreds of victims during his career. The watchdog said: "We have been assessing information to determine whether there are any matters requiring IPCC investigation, supplied by the following forces: West Yorkshire, Metropolitan Police Service, Surrey, Sussex, GMP, Lancashire, Thames Valley, North Yorkshire and Cheshire." During the Surrey police interview, Savile dismissed allegations that he had sexually abused girls and talked of how he was the victim of women assaulting him. "What you don't do is assault women, they assault you that's for sure," Savile said. Before the interview Inspector 5 allegedly contacted Surrey police in an attempt to speak on behalf of Savile. Victims' groups have responded angrily to the details revealed in the full transcript of the interview the last chance to bring Savile to justice while he was alive. Pete Saunders of the National Association for People Abused in Childhood said the language used by Savile indicated his hatred of young women. "The transcript confirms the nature of the man," he said. "If you look between the lines you can see he hates women, and young women in particular." West Yorkshire police's dealings with the celebrity were examined in an internal investigation, Operation Newgreen, conducted by the force. But last week it emerged that a senior officer Nick Gargan, chief constable of Avon and Somerset had raised serious questions about the impartiality of that investigation. Gargan said in a letter that the West Yorkshire inquiry "does not have the look and feel of an independent report." Operation Newgreen was published in May, he said, failed to give "independent assurance" and may have made the force appear defensive. Gargan was asked to investigate whether West Yorkshire's assistant chief constable Ingrid Lee, who commissioned and oversaw the report, failed to declare her business relationship with serving and ex- colleagues. The Newgreen report highlighted an "over-reliance on personal friendships" between Savile and some officers but concluded there was "no evidence" he was protected from arrest or prosecution. Gargan wrote of Newgreen: "It seems clear to me that Operation Newgreen does not have the look and feel of an independent report. As I turned from one page to the next, I saw example after example of the author putting the case for WYP.The letter emerged after Jeremy Hunt announced that more hospitals may be investigated as part of inquiries into abuse by Savile on NHS premises. New information has come to light relating to investigations across 13 institutions as well as "reference to other hospitals". He has asked police to review all of the evidence before relevant information is passed on to investigators "as quickly as possible".
The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.
'Police gunman told me to ignore paedophiles', says ex-child protection officer
A FORMER child protection officer claimed last night a Special Branch detective held a gun to his head to stop him investigating a VIP paedophile ring.
Chris Fay accused the Metropolitan Police of acting like "gangsters" [GETTY]
Chris Fay said he was pinned to a wall and throttled before being given a chilling warning to "back away" from allegations surrounding the notorious Elm Guest House in Barnes, south-west London.
Young boys in care were allegedly taken there in the Eighties to be abused by high-profile MPs and other powerful establishment figures.
Mr Fay, who worked for the now-defunct National Association of Young People In Care, accused the Metropolitan Police of acting like "gangsters" when news of the scandal broke in 1990. He revealed how some Special Branch members routinely threatened him and his colleagues and even victims over a three-month period of intimidation.
His shocking claims come as West Yorkshire Police faces accusations that the force protected paedophile Jimmy Savile. Former child protection officer Chris Fay [MARK KEHOE]
Mr Fay, 67, of south London, said: "It became very dangerous. People seem to forget that Special Branch could do what they liked, they were a law unto themselves.People seem to forget that Special Branch could do what they liked, they were a law unto themselves
Chris Fay
"At one point they had me up against a wall by my throat with a gun at my head telling me in no uncertain terms that I was to back away if I knew what was good for me.
"A colleague of mine had the same treatment, as did a number of the volunteers. Victims who were actually abused at Elm House were also physically stopped from coming to speak to us at the NAYPIC office in north London.
"I witnessed Special Branch officers manhandling them and turning them away with a warning to keep their mouths shut. It was blatant, it was open, they were acting like gangsters. In 1982 Elm Guest House was raided by the vice squad [MARK KEHOE]
"In the end we had to meet victims at a local community centre without the knowledge of the police to hear what they had to say." NAYPIC was given the identities of senior politicians who formed part of an alleged paedophile ring at the heart of government.
However, Mr Fay said: "I was told by the police implicitly, We do not want you to come to us with big names'."
In a sinister twist, he said his kitchen window was shot at, leaving three bullet holes in the glass, although he never found out who was responsible.
In 1982 Elm Guest House was raided by the vice squad but allegations of child abuse were never followed up.
Operation Fernbridge is now investigating the claims and two men have been charged with sexual offences.
Police confirmed that Liberal Democrat MP Sir Cyril Smith, who died three years ago, visited the premises.
Last night campaigner Bill Maloney, of Pie & Mash Films, who has helped raise awareness of abuse survivors and corruption, said: "These police cover-ups to protect the wealthy and the powerful need to stop now.
Rather cowardly of the Sun to imply that the big name politician was the deceased Cyril Smith, when any with any knowledge knows it was a senior cabinet minister of the time -- hence the scare tactics by Special Branch. We must also not forget those two pages of hand written names of serving police officers alleged to have been visitors to Elm House too, not to mention senior functionaries at Buckingham Palace, MI5, MI6, Ulster "players" during the "troubles" etc. The list goes on and on. It don't expect the full depth of this scandal to ever see the light of day, as it will completely unzip the them and us attitude that actually underlies the quaint myth of democracy.
The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.
Paul Gambaccini, Jimmy Savile, Newscorp, Jeremy Hunt, the Met Police, Alistair McAlpine & Grant Shapps: how one BBC mistake allowed the Establishment to evade guilt
Now that the openly gay Paul Gambaccini has been arrested and questioned relating to charges of "past sexual offences" I think it's time to nail some colours to the mast on this one. I have felt for nearly a year now that whatever one might feel about the BBC one way or the other the attack on its alleged sexual depravity is nothing less than dirty Establishment tricks. The last time I spoke to a valued source about this was over six months ago, but the remark made at the time turns out to have been hugely prescient: Gambaccini was one of the names mentioned as being "outspoken in private" about what was really going on. (As it happens, Jeremy Paxman was another: but he's probably far too erudite for the Met to dare having a go at.) Gambaccini's big mistake was to join in a Radio Five broadcast on November 12th 2012, just as the news was breaking. He made two crucial points which have since been totally ignored by the MSM….but were (it is alleged) immediately spotted by those keen to destroy the BBC. The points made by the DJ were: 1. None of the alleged offences now being use to slur the BBC took place on BBC premises, so it is difficult to see what the BBC has to apologise about. 2. Savile's particular predilection was for mentally sub-normal minors. This is so far out of the mainstream of paedophilia as to be almost homeoaepathic in its incidence. If you read the data (which pols and hacks never do) you will see that over 80% of all recorded cases take place entirely within private families. Surely there is more of a case for damning the mental care sector rather than the BBC in the Savile case…and a strong case for the cops to follow up domestic incidence rather than just looking away. There's a relevant reason for the last observation: Savile I am now convinced was abused by his father as a minor. Join up the dots. Paul Gambiccini has been fitted up here, and there's a reasonable chance that, at long last, some of the less rabidly Conservative-supporting press might actually get off the celebrity phone line and look into it. Rather than mumbling complete denials and then walking off, Paul has already had this to say: "On Monday night, 28 October, I attended an excellent production of the Kander and Ebb musical, the Scottsboro Boys, at the Young Vic theatre. It concerned a group of black men in Alabama in the 1930s who were falsely accused of sexual offences. Within hours, I was arrested by Operation Yewtree. Nothing had changed, except this time there was no music." Perhaps Plod has chosen a bridge too far this time. The Gay Community, for example, will be all over this incident like a rash. But what we have to do here is look at a straightforward sequence of events going back to the accusations made against Lord McAlpine, then at what happened immediately before that….and since. Case histories tend to be long and bitter, but public memories are short and sweet. Somebody somewhere high up in the Met Police and the Conservative Party is gambling on that always being the case. On 2nd November 2012, McAlpine was mistakenly implicated in the North Wales child abuse scandal, after the BBC Newsnight TV programme accused an unnamed "senior Conservative" of abuse. McAlpine was widely rumoured on Twitter and other social media to be the person in question. The damage was caused in part by the publication on Twitter of material which linked him to the unidentified individual mentioned in the broadcast. Lord McAlpine was entitled to have his reputation restored. But he chose to sue the BBC, not Twitter…even though he then made great play of successfully suing prominent Labour supporter and Speaker's wife Sally Bercow about her actions on Twitter. McAlpine duly got a grovelling apology from the BBC on 10 November 2012. In addition, he was entitled to substantial damages to compensate him for the damage to his reputation, his distress at the accusation and to provide him with "vindication". The BBC agreed to pay him £185,000 a sum which a legal/media specialist website at the time described as "well in excess of the going rate' that would be awarded by a court". But this wasn't enough for Chemical Ali: he pursued ITV "for £500,000″, and claimed he would bring claims against "10,000 Twitter users". Looking at the ITV/Twitter and of this: 1. His claim that viewers could see his name on the list handed to David Cameron by Philip Schofield on an ITV Breakfast programme was nothing short of risible, and legal opinion I consulted at the time told me, "It is ridiculous to suggest that any viewer beyond Superman could see Alistair's name on the list….there really is no case to answer here". This was from my own in-house freebie legal advisor; he has never been wrong in three years of working with him. 2. McAlpine's claim for damages against half a million Twitter users was silly and impractical, and in the end came to naught…but not before some mugs had coughed up money to McAlpine's solicitor Reid, whose threats quite clearly defied every rule given by the Law Society in such cases. His Lordship did, however, win against Bercow, a result another legal contact (a judge, as it happens) called "a potion of ineptitude and incompetence accompanied by a strong odour of interference". Almost the entire population of left-wing tweeters nevertheless headed for the hills, leaving a trail of erasure behind them. My opinion and that's all it is would be that this was a turning point for members of the Conservative Party's Sh*t wing. At was a moment when they finally became convinced they could get away with anything. For example, given an open opportunity to confess to how the BBC's mistake had occurred, Lord McAlpine answered on Radio 4, "I've really no idea…well, I have some idea, but I don't want to go into that". It's not hard to see why Alistair didn't want to, one could suggest: the gentleman to your left there is McAlpine's distant cousin Jimmy, a man whose infamy when it comes to child sodomy was and is well known in both Wrexham and Chester. At the time, I rang the Beeb twice begging them not to run with the Newsnight piece, because the mistake was obvious to anyone closely acquainted with the case. But that's the dark side of the BBC, I'm afraid: once the liberal morons get the scent in the nostrils, there's no dissuading them.
Let's stay with the timeline. In September and October 2012, almost a year after his death, claims were widely publicised that Jimmy Savile had committed sexual abuse, his alleged victims ranging from prepubescent girls and boys to adults. By 11 October 2012 allegations had been made to 13 British police forces, and this led to the setting-up of inquiries into practices at the BBC and within the National Health Service. (You will note that nowt, zilch and diddly-squat has emerged from the NHS enquiries'. But then, the NHS isn't an allegedly hostile broadcaster, merely a victim). Unlike Gambaccini, Savile's mistake was to be dead. His other problem, I feel on balance, was that he was almost certainly guilty of at least some of the things of which he was accused.The point is, he was a large and famous target. As for the wide publication' of claims against him, an ITV documentary, Exposure: The Other Side of Jimmy Savile, researched and presented by Mark Williams Thomas, a police investigator on the 2001 Jonathan King child-sex prosecution, was broadcast on 3 October 2012. ITV is, of course, a competitor of the BBC. But anyway, following the broadcast of the ITV documentary, the real rush began, as hundreds of self-assigned victims' came forward to make allegations. Many bloggers (most notably Anna Raccoon) have since used extremely well-researched posts to prove beyond much doubt that a huge proportion of these latter claimants were what the cops are wont to call bounty hunters'. But curiously enough, this wasn't the way the UK press pack played it. Equally odd is that they didn't at first want to know about it. Miles Goslett was the first journalist to air allegations of child abuse involving Savile in a piece for The Oldie magazine in February 2012. All seven Fleet Street majors rebuffed his story. But back then, the landscape wasn't what it had become by October of that year. Barely a month after the Goslett piece, Rebekah Brooks was arrested on charges of conspiracy to pervert Justice. Then during April, James Murdoch gave some damning testimony about Jeremy Hunt, QC Peter Jay at one point asserting, ""It's pretty clear you were receiving information on the lines the UK government on the whole would be supportive of News Corp." Murdoch Jr then admitted Hunt had told him he "personally had no issues" with the bid, an entirely improper thing for a Minister of the Crown to admit to a senior executive involved in a takeover under his personal review. In May, I reported how Plod was now going into overdrive on Hackgate. Murdoch was clearly feeling cornered, and shareholders in the US were beginning to question whether Big M's family were the fit and proper sort. Finally, on 31st May Andy Coulson was arrested, and the link between Newscorp and the Prime Minister was thus made even more obvious. Rupert Murdoch had already lost the News of the World and the BSkyB bid. Now he saw his political influence close to the point of extinction. Things were looking very dark indeed for two organisations that had been (and still were) corruptly involved with one another: Newscorp and the Conservative Party. By 12th June, Cameron had to defend Hunt against widespread MP outcry on the BSkyB issue, with their Coalition LibDem allies withdrawing their support from the Culture Secretary. Cameron himself was branded a liar for persistently evading questions about his Boxing Day lunch the previous year with senior Newscorp executives. But in many ways, things were looking even worse for the senior bods in the Metropolitan Police. By mid 2012, so many Met Officers had obvious links to Newscorp, it was blatantly clear that at the very least there was a conflict of interest involved. Andy Hayman A former Chief Constable of Norfolk Constabulary and Assistant Commissioner for Specialist Operations at London's Metropolitan Police, resigned in December 2007 following allegations about expense claims and alleged improper conduct with a female member of the Independent Police Complaints Commission. During Operation Caryatid, the investigation into the interception of phone messages at Clarence House by journalists from the News of the World, the officer in charge of the investigation reported to Andy Hayman. Hayman told the Home Affairs Select Committee in July 2011 that he had met with News International executives during the investigation, something he considered as not unusual as it would have been odd if he had cancelled the dinner. Andy Hayman went on to work for News International as a columnist for The Times. John Yates - A former Assistant Commissioner in the London Metropolitan Police Service, resigned in July 2011 over criticism of a July 2009 review of Operation Caryatid, in which he decided in one 8 hour sessions that there was no fresh material that could lead to convictions. Yates received further criticism when it was revealed that he, Sir Ian Blair, Andy Hayman, and Paul Stephenson had attended a number of meals with representative from various News International newspaper titles around the time of the review.
Then, in May 2012 a report into phone hacking by the House of Commons select committee found that John Yates and Keri Starmer were culpable for failing to properly investigate evidence of phone hacking when it was first brought to their attention during the Operation Caryatid investigation.
Paul Stephenson The former Metropolitan Police Commissioner, resigned after questions were asked about his relationship with former News International journalist Neil Wallis, who was arrested in July 2011 as part of Operation Weeting. It was revealed that Paul Stephenson had met or dined with Neil Wallis on eight separate occasions between 2006 and 2010, more than any senior executive or journalist on any other newspapers, and that he had accepted £12,000-worth of hospitality at a health spa. Stephenson later resigned.
On 28th September 2012, the Guardian trailed the ITV documentary about Savile of which I made mention earlier. On 9th October 2012, the Telegraph ran a piece saying Police are investigating claims that Jimmy Savile abused young women on a national scale over a 50 year period'. By the end of the sordid revelations, the police were claiming that Savile had groomed a nation'….and Newscorp took that opportunity to run the line word for word on both its Sun and Times front pages the next day….the only time this has ever happened.
A rash of Tory MPs immediately started asking aggressive questions to both a delighted Prime Minister and reporters elsewhere. By 23rd October, Daily Telegraph columnist Cristina Odone couldn't resist triumphalism as she wrote The Beeb gloated over Hackgate. It's trembling now' as the headline to her piece, which continued, its DG, George Entwistle, is being grilled by the Culture and Media Commons Select Committee, about the corporation's handling of the Jimmy Savile scandal. The last time the Committee was under the spotlight was during Hackgate, when Rupert Murdoch and his son came under fire for the telephone hacking and bribery carried out by their NewsCorp employees…'
Interesting connection made: job done. Odone concluded, Only if the Corporation truly cleans out its filthy stables will we, the public, forgive it.' So then, not exactly sitting on the fence as she noted how the stable door was closed, but inside she was sure it was filthy. Columnists of the Right like Odone hate the BBC: those trying to distract attention from the Newscorp-Tory-Bent copper axis were thus pushing at an open door. Probably to the stables.
Here we have three major institutional players, all in deep poo. And bubbling under the Newscorp sleaze was a recurring story alleging a penchant for paedophilia in the Conservative Party. Prominent among these were accusations against two former Cabinet Minister associates of Margaret Thatcher. The Met, Newscorp and the Tory seniors had both a proven means and obvious motive to shift attention away from them and towards the BBC.
One or two of the more street-wise BBC management I suspect saw this for what it was….and very probably the Newsnight fiasco was at least in part their attempt to fight back. But the BBC team made a fatal mistake in misidentifying the accused. Speaking on the phone from my home in Devon at the time to a former Sunday newspaper editor close to the saga, I was not surprised to hear him remark, "The bloody Beeb have f**ked it up for the rest of us". As indeed they had.
It was time for the student of Machiavelli and master tactician Alistair McAlpine to make the most of the opportunity thrown unexpectedly at his feet. I have written elsewhere (and never received so much as a warning, let alone a writ) about the truly remarkable way in which Alistair McAlpine, in the weeks that followed, played the public and the press with a skill few have ever matched….in precisely the manner her had written about in an earlier book. But be the time my piece (and others of a similar nature) had run, it was as a whisper in the face of a hurricane. The game was over: the BBC had lost, and the guilty had won.
The ridiculous charade of then arresting sad old gits like Stuart Hall, Freddie Starr et al has retained a spotlight firmly on the BBC even though Starr only rarely worked for the Corporation. Hall strenuously denied the one charge against him of molesting a nine year-old girl, but eventually caved in…after which every single report used a Stepford-wife consistency of words, "some of whom were as young as nine". Stuart Hall did not molest that girl: he cut a deal, because he had no choice.
But Paul Gambaccini is made of sterner stuff. And we have yet to get at the truth about the Max Clifford arrest, which the publicist pointedly shrugs of the charges to this day by observing "Obviously I am totally innocent of these charges, from seven anonymous ladies."
This could yet explode like a bomb in an Islamist's contorted face. I sincerely hope so. Meanwhile, compare and contrast progress on this Operation (Yewtree) with that being overseen by London Mayor and Murdoch ally Boris Johnson on the goings on at Elm House (Fernbridge).
Thus far, we have established that Cyril Smith attended this paedophile brothel, but then he fits the usual id perfectly as being a LibDem and dead. A couple of minor players who ran the place have been arrested. A list exists alleging that former Cabinet Ministers, Royal Equerries and other notables were regulars. The abuse which quite obviously took place there involved not only MPs, but also the overtly corrupt Tory Richmond Council, who supplied the traumatised flesh for the delectation of the sexually psychotic.
It is clearly a massive and toxic scandal, because the most widely accused player leads directly back to the Tory Party in general, and the Camerlot Cabinet in particular. Well, Mayor Johnson has, after almost a year of investigations, fresh leads, imminent arrests, and spin, declared himself "very satisfied" with progress on the case. Which from his perspective makes entire sense, as there hasn't been any.
Meanwhile the latest Top Tory to pile into the BBC is…..Grant Shapps. Stay tuned for more on this tow-rag later.
The entire saga looks and feels manipulated to me. Time for some journalists to start earning their money for a change. Time for Tom Watson to start marshalling his forces.
The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.
When the world is crawling with badhats, the main difficulty involved in writing about them is maintaining a focus. A continuing one for me since the arrest of Stuart Hall has been the mass distraction involved in Plod arresting the famous of yesteryear in a blaze of publicity sufficient to make the Met look like addictive pyromaniacs. Spookily, the accused all have the letters BBC' tattooed onto their cvs. Well almost all of them: the Met arrested Max Clifford in order get at his files….but not necessarily for the reasons you might imagine. A clearer shot of what's really going on here is gradually developing or at least, it is for me. Until a week ago, my view was merely that the Met has been supplying Newscorp with an endless supply of mud with which to splatter those it has plucked from the BBC ranks as examples of the broadcaster's appalling depravity. Now I'm less sure that it's quite that simple. I am picking up evidence that this is a two-way traffic flow. You may think the only commonality here is the BBC, but there is another: with the exception of Max Clifford, all the defendants have at one time or another been threatened with career-ending revelations by Newscorp titles - primarily The unlamented News of the World, but also The Sun. In almost all the cases, as far as I can tell, the victims rebuffed the tabloid involved. When people don't want to play Murdoch's game, they go fairly swiftly onto the naughty step….and are entered into the vindictive Digger's little black book. Some of the allegations I've been listening to of late suggest that the correlation between that LBB and the BBC arrests is beyond coincidental. Many of you will remember that Elton John played things very cleverly when The Sun's lowlife went after him with a story about rent boy orgies'. He sort of said fine, OK, print it. Then he sued the backside off them and won. "Hahaha, only kidding Elt," headlined the Tabloid Tiger following the trial, "We love you really". Hmm. Allegedly, Rebekah Brooks or (and) her acolytes tried the same threats of revelation when some MPs were getting close to NotW criminality some years ago. And I know for a fact that on at least two occasions, legislators who rebuffed the tabloidistas received an unwelcome visit from Plod. Don't forget that during this period, the Met and Newscorp were dining regularly and cooperating' with each other to mutual advantage…including the alleged whitewash by Andy Coulson over the wrongly-shot "terrorist suspect". (In throwing his hacks' sources to the wolves in blue clothing now, Rupert Murdoch is simply continuing the back-scratch routine). Recently I've had confirmation by a second source of an allegation I first heard about in February 2013: that one very high-profile convicted celebrity had seen a list casually pinned to a board while undergoing a police interview. Most of the names on it have since been arrested under the aegis of Operation Yewtree. The celebrity involved was Jonathan King. He was freed in 2005 for good behaviour having been found guilty of under age homosexual intercourse: but digging up the history of King's case raises some disturbing points in the context of contemporary witch-hunting: * King was imprisoned on the basis of witness evidence produced at just one of his three scheduled trials. At the other two, he was acquitted at the second, and then the CPS dropped the third. * Jonathan King has consistently said that he isn't and never has been a paedophile. He has described the idea of legalising such sex in these terms: "To legitimise intimacy with a five-year-old would be insane". * After his release on parole, King installed 24/7 CCTV pc-controlled cameras in his flat. Asked why, he says he wants guaranteed evidence about who has or hasn't been in his flat. * Unlike hard-core paedophiles whose line is always "they love it really you know" in relation to sex with pre-pubescent kids, King offers an entirely different defence: he's sure he did have sex with under-ageteenagers whose age he simply didn't check. However, to quote his response in a 2012 Independent interview, "I am innocent of the convictions against me. They only referred to five people. I never had sex with any of those five. I never even met one of them." That assertion exactly reflects the feedback I have had either directly or indirectly in relation to most of the BBC accused. * Very significantly, in the case of King's convictions for those five alleged rapes, the former pop-promoter was arrested in 2000 after a man approached the publicist Max Clifford, then contacted the police. The police tipped off the red-tops. Immediately, twenty-seven other "victims" came forward. These are the folks I have referred to in the past as the bounty hunters. They also feature regularly in Anna Raccoon's devastatingly forensic blogging about the appalling victimisation of Jimmy Savile's family. There is very likely another reason why the Met wanted Clifford's files: not just to use what's in there to leak stuff to Newscorp first (that's bad enough) but also for their own use in continuing (a) to interrogate suspects and face them with "evidence" from the Max files; and (b) to blacken the reputation of those they have accused. Whipping up the public via the media into a hate-fest is, after all, standard Plod/Politico practice these days ask Lord McIavelli of Venice: he'd be happy to tell you about it. Or ask Andrew Mitchell of Plebgate infamy. Having invented both a crowd at the gates and some obscenities in Mitchell's mouth, Plod made the usual phone-call…..to The Sun. Just fancy that. Jonathan King, given the chance to try and nail Newscorp for his convictions, says he doesn't think they fingered him: he says that Clifford told the cops and the cops told the tabloids. But that was 2001. Things are different today. Very different.
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None of the above represents binding evidence one could produce in a Court of Law. But it does add weight to the , dual argument that runs through The Slog's dedicated page, The Paedofile: 1. The public is muddled on the difference between under-age teenage sex and paedophilia. The police and the media (especially in the BBC cases) have deliberately exploited this confusion, and probably made it worse in so doing. 2. The existence of real hard-core paedophilia and child trafficking in parts of the UK's Care Home system continue to be covered up. This too suffers from opportunistic bounty hunting, but it exists nevertheless. The BBC Trials are a convenient distraction away from political guilt, and have also been incredibly useful to Rupert Murdoch in his unceasing efforts to replace the BBC and continue corrupting those in charge of policing, the law and legislation in Britain. What we do have here, however, is a building case of collusion between media, police, and government. We have first Boris Johnson leading the charge as London Mayor to rescue Newscorp from investigation and now Grant Shapps firing volleys from Downing Street to blacken the BBC. We have six "suspects", none of whose psychographic profiles fit in any shape or form with that of the predatory, convinced paedophile. Both the above senior politicians seem to be immune from prosecution….along with Rupert Murdoch and his friends in the senior ranks of the Metropolitan Police. And while Yewtree sexes-up the case against the BBC accused, Operation Fernbridge continues to go nowhere on the subject of the politically accused. This case is moving from circumstantially coincidental evidence to being one substantial enough to warrant serious investigation. But the police won't do that. The intelligence services have no interest in it…and anyway, they've just been volunteered by Cameron to sniff out online pervs. The Labour Party isn't going to be our Friend in Tough Times about this, because at local level they collude with everyone from cops to cab drivers. I doubt very much if Channels 4, 5 and ITV1 will feel obliged to help a competitor. The Murdoch and Barclay titles will keep piling on the agony. Even the right wing of the blogosphere loathes the BBC's "communism" to such an extent, they will stay out of the fight. And most of those left on the side of the Angels have been scared off by the premeditated tactics of McScalpine. I've said this endlessly before, but it bears repeating: the Left is unwilling to form some kind of united Front, busy as it is sending fraternal greetings to oppressed Lesbian cross-dressers in Uganda. The blogosphereists with foresight and decency are the only Resistance left, apart from isolated groups like Exaro. Either we find a way to starve the Beast and soon or the gargoyle dragon will burn all of us to a crisp.
The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.
The Power of the Paedos - another high profile case hits the 'never happened' wall?
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