butchersapron
Bring back hanging
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How much evidence is there of long term high level UK paedophile ring?
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elbows
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Found a bit about its formation:
elbows
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Exaro have recently run several stories that have not been promising regarding the Elm Guest House / Fernbridge stuff.
eg: http://www.exaronews.com/articles/5154/operation-fernbridge-releases-elm-co-manager-without-charge
Harry Kasir not facing any charges presently, and some of the charges against Stingemore and McSweeney.
But I note that a tweet holds the promise of something more positive later tonight:
eg: http://www.exaronews.com/articles/5154/operation-fernbridge-releases-elm-co-manager-without-charge
Harry Kasir not facing any charges presently, and some of the charges against Stingemore and McSweeney.
But I note that a tweet holds the promise of something more positive later tonight:
elbows
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Here we are:
http://www.exaronews.com/articles/5...unit-seizes-video-of-ex-minister-at-sex-party
The police have video of a former tory minister at a sex party. A party where a victim the police are in contact with was present. Other parties where there is also photo evidence of the same victim being present were possibly organised by Sidney Cooke. The ex-minister confirmed he was at the one party for which there is video evidence and 'knew of' the victim but denied any sexual abuse claims.
The video etc evidence was obtained as part of Operation Fairbank but Exaro sources think this strand will spin off into its own enquiry in the new year.
http://www.exaronews.com/articles/5...unit-seizes-video-of-ex-minister-at-sex-party
The police have video of a former tory minister at a sex party. A party where a victim the police are in contact with was present. Other parties where there is also photo evidence of the same victim being present were possibly organised by Sidney Cooke. The ex-minister confirmed he was at the one party for which there is video evidence and 'knew of' the victim but denied any sexual abuse claims.
The video etc evidence was obtained as part of Operation Fairbank but Exaro sources think this strand will spin off into its own enquiry in the new year.
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elbows
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The Mirror version of the story:
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/ex-tory-cabinet-minister-caught-2903907
Details and careful wording pretty much identical to the Exaro piece. They just dwell on the Cooke connection a little more near the end:
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/ex-tory-cabinet-minister-caught-2903907
Details and careful wording pretty much identical to the Exaro piece. They just dwell on the Cooke connection a little more near the end:
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
Mail confirms it was the VSU - investigation started apparently.
Brainaddict
slight system overdrive
Anyone seen this and have views on it? http://www.scriptonitedaily.com/201...nised-paedophile-network-leads-back-to-no-10/
Names a fair few names though I don't know if any of them are new. I have only been following this stuff out the corner of my eye so interested in what people think of the article.
Names a fair few names though I don't know if any of them are new. I have only been following this stuff out the corner of my eye so interested in what people think of the article.
the sources seem to be this white supremacist blog and this conspiracy theorist
taffboy gwyrdd
Embrace the confusion!
I've seen that kind of thing thrown around at the likes of Needle and Exaro for some time, no need to bring white supremacists into it really, though they love to hijack the issue generally.
elbows
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The article doesn't say much that hasn't been said in this thread over the year+, with the main difference that we don't name names or get too carried away with the dot joining.
Personally I reserve judgement until we see whether anything ends up going through the justice system. Attitudes at the time, how long ago it was, the nature of some of the evidence and the potential range of activities at the guest-house that did not involve underage victims are all complicating factors. Methods and motives of intelligence services doesn't help, especially in some specific instances, and further reduces the chance of getting to the whole story.
In my book nothing has come out which really justifies the over-simplistic narratives that have so easily been spun and repeated in so many places on the internet. Very much including by those who have agendas which favour sweeping generalisations targeting a specific group, which depending on the site in question has at times included gays, jews, politicians etc.
Even if every case people have speculated about on the internet somehow gets proven and dealt with, which is very unlikely to happen, the sheer scale of offending and number of famous or powerful people implicated is not enough for me to justify the sloppiest narratives that get bandied around. Real victims have been failed in so many ways, things have been brushed under the carpet, etc. But I don't see anything that can't be explained by attitudes at the time combined with the usual human factors along the lines of networking, institutions and their weaknesses, and power in its broadest sense. i.e. the sort of power that even 'normal' people can find they have over other specific people in a particular circumstance. Obviously the potential for abuse and subsequent coverup is worse when institutions are involved, such is the nature of institutions, especially before decades of scandals made people aware of the shortcomings of such things and attempts (sometimes feeble, sometimes not) to get to the bottom of things/remove institutional blindspots.
Personally I reserve judgement until we see whether anything ends up going through the justice system. Attitudes at the time, how long ago it was, the nature of some of the evidence and the potential range of activities at the guest-house that did not involve underage victims are all complicating factors. Methods and motives of intelligence services doesn't help, especially in some specific instances, and further reduces the chance of getting to the whole story.
In my book nothing has come out which really justifies the over-simplistic narratives that have so easily been spun and repeated in so many places on the internet. Very much including by those who have agendas which favour sweeping generalisations targeting a specific group, which depending on the site in question has at times included gays, jews, politicians etc.
Even if every case people have speculated about on the internet somehow gets proven and dealt with, which is very unlikely to happen, the sheer scale of offending and number of famous or powerful people implicated is not enough for me to justify the sloppiest narratives that get bandied around. Real victims have been failed in so many ways, things have been brushed under the carpet, etc. But I don't see anything that can't be explained by attitudes at the time combined with the usual human factors along the lines of networking, institutions and their weaknesses, and power in its broadest sense. i.e. the sort of power that even 'normal' people can find they have over other specific people in a particular circumstance. Obviously the potential for abuse and subsequent coverup is worse when institutions are involved, such is the nature of institutions, especially before decades of scandals made people aware of the shortcomings of such things and attempts (sometimes feeble, sometimes not) to get to the bottom of things/remove institutional blindspots.
Brainaddict
slight system overdrive
Thanks - sounds a reasonable viewpoint. I didn't think Kerry-anne Mendoza (author of that blog) would have gone into full on conspiraloon mode (she has built a decent following among people who want openly leftist journalism and she wouldn't want to blow that I think) but at the same time I could see some logical leaps were being made.
elbows
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Well one of the problems is that the 'evidence' that ended up on the internet in this case is really just a worthy starting point for fresh investigation. For example I'm pretty sure even Chris Faye from NAYPIC would caution strongly against using a certain list of names to draw conclusions instead of as a starting point.
Another problem which easily leads to certain blogs etc being labelled as conspiracy theorists in their approach to this subject, is the history of writings and conspiracy theories around this subject. There was an existing template for sloppy writing & conclusion drawing about this kind of abuse involving politicians, with varying degrees of actual fact involved. Some of them were based on clear cases of abuse & coverup, but others were mostly sponsored by a desire to lump all the powerful offenders together in some other way (party affiliation, sexual orientation, whether they were jewish or a member of the new world order or whatever).
Certainly back in the day on this thread and other related ones, those of us who were interested enough to attempt some of our own basic internet research had rather mixed results. There were signs of some people getting away with bad shit. Of ranks closing, of intimidation, and of networks of abuse only being partially dealt with. And I don't think there was anything wrong with tentatively joining some dots, but in pencil not permanent marker.
But the problems were numerous. Psychologically damaged victims sometimes struggling with the quality of their own evidence. Attitudes and laws regarding homosexuality in the past. A historical tory gay closet that has been described (I forget by whom) as having been the largest in Europe some decades ago. And not just the potential of the security services to cover-up or otherwise make use of abuse committed by persons of interest, but also to create smear stories, sometimes carried in the fringe press but sometimes countered by them, suggesting specific rumours of the day were really unfair smears done for other political reasons.
And there is certainly an appetite to find some powerful guilty people. I don't know if any of the inquiries about abuse at various institutions will manage this, partly because its really unclear how many 'noteworthy' perpetrators were involved, as opposed to those who were in more local positions of power. And the couple of dead MPs implicated isn't enough. At least one really high-profile case involving a politician needs to be brought through the justice system with an outcome that will get the press to dwell on it and tell more of the story about the case in question. Thats a bare minimum really to even begin to satisfy all of the people who have been let down in the past and are very cynical about the prospects of anything being different this time.
In terms of what the various inquiries (as opposed to police investigations) may achieve, I suppose it may be the politicians and the police who get forced into greater reform of the way they handle this stuff as a result of inquiry recommendations. Because a lot of the stuff about other institutions failings that we would normally expect such inquiry reports to dwell on in tedious detail, have already been done or are obsolete. We've already had decades of awareness that large institutions were a bad place to put vulnerable people including the young, which actually got acted on in part because it coincided with changed government economic agendas that favoured or demanded the gutting of many public institutions.
Another problem which easily leads to certain blogs etc being labelled as conspiracy theorists in their approach to this subject, is the history of writings and conspiracy theories around this subject. There was an existing template for sloppy writing & conclusion drawing about this kind of abuse involving politicians, with varying degrees of actual fact involved. Some of them were based on clear cases of abuse & coverup, but others were mostly sponsored by a desire to lump all the powerful offenders together in some other way (party affiliation, sexual orientation, whether they were jewish or a member of the new world order or whatever).
Certainly back in the day on this thread and other related ones, those of us who were interested enough to attempt some of our own basic internet research had rather mixed results. There were signs of some people getting away with bad shit. Of ranks closing, of intimidation, and of networks of abuse only being partially dealt with. And I don't think there was anything wrong with tentatively joining some dots, but in pencil not permanent marker.
But the problems were numerous. Psychologically damaged victims sometimes struggling with the quality of their own evidence. Attitudes and laws regarding homosexuality in the past. A historical tory gay closet that has been described (I forget by whom) as having been the largest in Europe some decades ago. And not just the potential of the security services to cover-up or otherwise make use of abuse committed by persons of interest, but also to create smear stories, sometimes carried in the fringe press but sometimes countered by them, suggesting specific rumours of the day were really unfair smears done for other political reasons.
And there is certainly an appetite to find some powerful guilty people. I don't know if any of the inquiries about abuse at various institutions will manage this, partly because its really unclear how many 'noteworthy' perpetrators were involved, as opposed to those who were in more local positions of power. And the couple of dead MPs implicated isn't enough. At least one really high-profile case involving a politician needs to be brought through the justice system with an outcome that will get the press to dwell on it and tell more of the story about the case in question. Thats a bare minimum really to even begin to satisfy all of the people who have been let down in the past and are very cynical about the prospects of anything being different this time.
In terms of what the various inquiries (as opposed to police investigations) may achieve, I suppose it may be the politicians and the police who get forced into greater reform of the way they handle this stuff as a result of inquiry recommendations. Because a lot of the stuff about other institutions failings that we would normally expect such inquiry reports to dwell on in tedious detail, have already been done or are obsolete. We've already had decades of awareness that large institutions were a bad place to put vulnerable people including the young, which actually got acted on in part because it coincided with changed government economic agendas that favoured or demanded the gutting of many public institutions.
How do the blogs that name living names get away with it? At least one name on that recently posted link has - i am sure - access to very expensive lawyers (not saying it for obvious reasons)
I don't want to say I enjoy this thread as that is the wrong word but I appreciate the persistence of elbows and others
I don't want to say I enjoy this thread as that is the wrong word but I appreciate the persistence of elbows and others
elbows
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I expect obscurity is one of their main shields against legal action. People either don't know about them, don't want to draw attention to them by going after them, or don't want them to start going on about how the legal action is an attempt at intimidation and burying the truth. And since much of the info is repeated on so many of these obscure blogs, and some of them are probably overseas, it would be hard to put the genie back in the bottle anyway.
Twitter storms are a fine example of some of the above. We can have bizarre periods where lots of people are talking about a story, the detail of which the uk press will not run with at that moment in time. Sometimes the gap is closed when the buzz about the story reaches critical mass, or some legal milestone happen to be passed, but other times nothing happens, and the gap between what is acknowledged on parts of the net and that in the mainstream press remains wide and somewhat ludicrous.
Anyway the internet certainly exposes the gap between what people say casually and how things are 'allowed to be said' in the eyes of the law etc. It gets a bit messy sometimes, including when we are talking about blog-posts that we probably wouldn't repeat ourselves in writing.
Thanks for the kind words about my posts. Not very much new thats really worth all these words of mine has happened fro some time, but I tend to stick with a subject for the long-haul so I won't leave this one alone for a few more years yet.
jakethesnake
In bed for Britain
Came across this and thought of this thread... http://www.scriptonitedaily.com/201...nised-paedophile-network-leads-back-to-no-10/
1%er
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I haven't seen a link to these documents on this thread (I may well have missed it)
Mary Moss papers
Mary Moss was the development officer for London "national association for young people in care", these documents appear to have been posted shortly after her house was raided, "after she refused to cooperate with police".
Mary Moss papers
Mary Moss was the development officer for London "national association for young people in care", these documents appear to have been posted shortly after her house was raided, "after she refused to cooperate with police".
Puddy_Tat
naturally fluffy
Without wishing to comment in a way that repeats anything potentially libellous, then can i just say fucking hell.
Written like a true apologist. You have to being paid well to spout this.
I like how institutions are to be blamed for the systematic abuse of children over decades, this will not wash.
Do you think the Lord that was arrested today is just being smeared and is innocent? The MSM won't report the story, Google is restricting searches.
elbows
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Institutions are to be blamed for failing in their duty of care, caring more about their own reputation than victims, etc. Obviously the abusers themselves are guilty of the actual abuse.
Nobody is paying me anything to speak my brains you deluded little shit. Take your twisted and paranoid worldview and stick it. Meanwhile I shall be here to cheer when (or if) people are brought to justice.
Nobody is paying me anything to speak my brains you deluded little shit. Take your twisted and paranoid worldview and stick it. Meanwhile I shall be here to cheer when (or if) people are brought to justice.
elbows
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As for the rumour about the arrested lord, I will wait till it can be substantiated. If true, and if it leads to prosecution, then its a welcome development that will tidy up one instance of a well-placed individual getting away with it. But as of this moment we are a long way away from being able to say that.
Written like a True Believer with no interest in how the world works. David Icke forums are over there ==>. Bye!
unrepentant85
Dílis d'ar nOidreacht
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
Interesting.
Anything to substantiate any of your claims, or are people supposed to take it on trust?
Just breaking in the MSN
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukn...t-of-child-sex-investigations-say-police.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukn...t-of-child-sex-investigations-say-police.html
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
Which is going to lead us straight to Franck Beck and the Leicestershire Care Homes abuse scandal.
she's a conspiraloon, was bigging up the zeitgeist stuff recently as well
Corax
Luke 5:16
The alleged Elm House guest list linked to earlier. One of those names is independently credible from my PoV. A girlfriend I was with about 10 years ago had a deep dislike for one of those people, and when I asked why I was told it was because he was a "perve", having groped her at the age of 14 at a tennis event.
Brainaddict
slight system overdrive
You're right, I hadn't noticed those zeitgeist links before.
Nope, I don't frequent the Icke forums at all. Good to see that anyone arguing against the narrative that is being spouted here is immediately Icke'd, strange that.
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