Can you expand on that a little, I have no knowledge of Maloney apart from what I saw in the first video posted on here. The chap being interviewed was certainly full of what seemed like credible information but as I said I don't know Maloney at all.
I'm extremely dubious that Brittan is being set up as a scapegoat. Most of the rumours I heard about him back in the '80s at the Express were fairly sordid, but as usual lacked credible witnesses (newspaper lawyers don't tend to see damaged victims as credible"), so the papers never published the stories (just as they didn't about the likes of Nutkins, Hall and Savile). What were the rumours about? Not unadjacent to "if it moves, fuck it".
If Brittan IS being set up as a sacrifice, then he's the perfect person to throw to the wolves if the rumours are in any way true, because the story will have legs long enough to keep the media occupied for quite a while, possibly while other stuff gets a deeper grave.
Can you expand on that a little, I have no knowledge of Maloney apart from what I saw in the first video posted on here. The chap being interviewed was certainly full of what seemed like credible information but as I said I don't know Maloney at all.
eta: I just listened to the second tape, it seems he might be a bit of a conspiraloon
I can understand people being unable to comprehend such things, I certainly had no idea and find it very shocking. If half of what he alleges is true it is a scandal and the perpetrators have been lording it over us far too long. I wonder about the new enquiry, who cares about the documents? what about the victims and the guilty?
I see David Mellor has come to the Home Office's defence
http://www.theguardian.com/commenti...office-cover-up-over-geoffrey-dickens-dossier
That's right David, child abuse, it's just 'social worker stuff'
It was very annoying listening to Cameron, Gideon and Clegg spoting their sanctimonious shite about what form an inquiry might take; they seem to be saying that no stone will be left unturned to uncover those who had been guilty of sexual abuse, and bring them to justice. Quite right too.
You know what, I think I disagree about that. I don't think their descriptions of the content are gratuitous and they do pause beforehand which gives some sort of a warning though it is not explicit. I think the video is useful in that is describes a specific video which was uncovered and investigated twice in foreign countries and the information was reported passed to the British authorities and not pursued. They claim the child who was so horrendously treated in the video was even identified by the british authorities and still not pursued.
I am less bothered by that. It worries me these enquiries seem more about the handling of files and apparent loss of some of them, than the actual content of the files themselves, namely the perpetrators!
Savile was a spectacularly twisted and evil thing who raped children in plain sight for decades. For what it's worth I'd like to have seen some justice - him, the perp, having his head bounced off a pavement till the end of recorded time. However he's a fixed point in his story, the valuable 'lessons to be learned' is that vulnerable kids were exploited with various institutions unwilling to do anything - most of all, not giving a shit. That's the same story here. There might be the odd doddery m'Lord rapist still around to arrest, I doubt anyone will do time to be honest, but again they are the fixed points. The real focus should be on why political parties let their members rape children.
