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Topic History of: A Travisty of Justice
Max. showing the last 5 posts - (Last post first)
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hedda |
you are spot on JK.
I reflect back to my yoof before the wars which was spent almost every night in a pub and thence onto a nightclub. Groping and touching were the order of the today..not me of course as I am, amazingly, quite prudish but sexualised groping was accepted as the normal rite of picking up for the night.
Often it failed and many times was successful for people..I of course preferred brilliant chatting up and scintillating wit, hence spent most nights returning home alone to watch the black and white telly..or listen to the wireless.
Now society may have decided that the 50s/60s/70s/80s sort of behaviour is not acceptable today but to now punish people for acting out the social mores of the day is vicious and bizarre and it is media drive.
yet there are limits to who is punished : until 2003 as pointed out so many times The Sun (proprietor : R.Murdoch) urged a generation of young men and their fathers to ogle the breast of young ladies and often, under aged girls.
Today it is considered child pornography yet the producers and publishers and profiteers of that porn escape justice, nay they are Justice as they urge on the WitCh Hunt.
I do not know the solution but more victims will be claimed. |
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Pru |
All beautifully said, JK. Wither the likes of the Guardian, driven on by the brave Rusbridger, brandishing his simple sword of truth at all of this madness? I guess if it was happening in America, the Guardian would be campaigning against it non-stop. All strangely quiet and craven closer to home. So much for our liberal journalists. |
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JK2006 |
Further questions; we are constantly told that most sex abuse takes place in the family but have such abuse revelations soared since Savile? Seems not. Why not? Can it really only be provoking memories from victims of elderly minor celebrities?
Or, if there HAS been a huge increase in ordinary people being accused, why are we not seeing hundreds of arrests and prosecutions?
Second question - why only similar type celebs? No politicians accused? No rock stars - past or present? No judges or editors? Did we dream about "groupies"? Did they never actually exist?
The big question must be - does publicity only provoke real memories or adapted or invented ones too? |
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Jim |
For what it's worth, I find your top post in this thread very hard to disagree with. It is measured and prudent and says nothing remotely controversial that I can see. You should be on Newsnight, except of course witch-hunts don't do debates about witch-hunts. |
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JK2006 |
Fair enough Tony but no, no, no; I strongly believe in everyone having their own morality (whether or not it chimes with mine or even, in some cases, the law). Mine is right for me but not for anyone else (example; drugs were not for me but were for almost all my University and music friends when I was a teenager). But my point is; morality was different then; what is now often illegal was not even, in many eyes, immoral then. |
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