Back when this paedophilia furor was simply a twinkle in the demented brains of Meirion Jones, Mark Williams-Thomas and those they exploited, I was engaged in on-line discussion with the Duncroft 'victims.'
I was inadvertently in the loop - they didn't have my email info, I was spared the intrusion, but a friend wasn't. She sent me an email, attaching a communication from Friends Reunited. The game was on. This sounded like a classic shake-down to me.
So, for two years, I've been involved in this stew. From my initial reaction - that this was complete b.s., being cooked up by a group of opportunists - to granting the 'victims' the benefit of the doubt, which was completely shattered by the lies of Bebe Roberts, who sold her story to the Daily Mail, with the support of the Duncroft70s group - to thereafter having to deal with attack upon attack by these 'victims,' who saw their grab at the brass ring slipping from their grasp, while the money is going to Mark WT and his associates.
And now, thank you ladies, and the attendant pitchforkers, an innocent man has been brutally murdered.
Bijan Ibrahimi Burned To Death After False Accusations of Pedophilia
I am so very sorry this happened, Bijan. But hopefully your death can light a fire in England that will never be put out.
What was even more shocking Sally was the way the British media seemed to suppress the news that this had ever happened. As you know I have been following the post-Savile "paedo-fever" in the UK very closely and there seems no way I would have missed such a terrible event if it had been widely reported in July when it happened. The first I knew of it was the reports of the murderers being found guilty in October.
Throughout the summer the news media here have been feasting on alleged "celebrity-paedophilia" stories. The media clearly didn't want to queer their pitch with such a salutary story of where this sort of media madness leads, out on the street.
The 1930's case of the Alabama Scottsboro Boys has been remembered over here recently. It was memorialised in terms of the lessons learned about racial equality. What was not so well memorialised was that that terrible case all began because of allegations of sexual assault. It can only be prayed that some good can also arise in the end from the dreadful state of public affairs and the British judiciary over here just now that has led to the obscene slaughter of a man being set on fire in a modern British housing development. Mary Poppins it aint.
Posted by: Moor Larkin | 11/07/2013 at 01:22 AM