I had a nice positive E-Mail from a supporter but one of the lines said "Other than the obvious, do you have any regrets JK?".
Apart from rather wondering about "other than the obvious" which might imply I'm guilty of crimes that never took place, I thought this season would be a good time to express a regret.
It's about repercussions.
Often you do something without thinking of the possible consequences.
The man who started all this is clearly mentally unwell, suffering from years of substance abuse. I'd never met him but, after he "confronted" me - courtesy of The Sun and Rebekah Brooks, he kept going online in the Guardian Comment Forum condemning me and howling with hatred and, in February 2007, he published a long piece saying "how could I say I'd never met him - we had dinner many times".
I pointed out that, in his original police statement which I had and still have, he claimed only to have met me the once "and I never want to meet him again".
A fairly natural and understandable way of proving him a liar. But I didn't think of the reaction it must have provoked in him.
Mad people can almost never see they are mad. There are explanations for everything. But this was so definitive it must have had a devastating effect. And since I regard madness as an illness, not an evil, I fear it will have sent him over the line. He must have realised he had made the entire thing up (I think he'd persuaded himself it was true).
The consequences must have been dreadful.
In hindsight, I wish I hadn't done it.
A few seconds of satisfaction proving to the few Guardian readers that he was lying might have destroyed his life.
Repercussions. Think twice, as Celine once sang.
Happy Christmas.

JK2006 wrote:
I had a nice positive E-Mail from a supporter but one of the lines said "Other than the obvious, do you have any regrets JK?".
Apart from rather wondering about "other than the obvious" which might imply I'm guilty of crimes that never took place, I thought this season would be a good time to express a regret.
It's about repercussions.
Often you do something without thinking of the possible consequences.
The man who started all this is clearly mentally unwell, suffering from years of substance abuse. I'd never met him but, after he "confronted" me - courtesy of The Sun and Rebekah Brooks, he kept going online in the Guardian Comment Forum condemning me and howling with hatred and, in February 2007, he published a long piece saying "how could I say I'd never met him - we had dinner many times".
I pointed out that, in his original police statement which I had and still have, he claimed only to have met me the once "and I never want to meet him again".
A fairly natural and understandable way of proving him a liar. But I didn't think of the reaction it must have provoked in him.
Mad people can almost never see they are mad. There are explanations for everything. But this was so definitive it must have had a devastating effect. And since I regard madness as an illness, not an evil, I fear it will have sent him over the line. He must have realised he had made the entire thing up (I think he'd persuaded himself it was true).
The consequences must have been dreadful.
In hindsight, I wish I hadn't done it.
A few seconds of satisfaction proving to the few Guardian readers that he was lying might have destroyed his life.
Repercussions. Think twice, as Celine once sang.
Happy Christmas.

Mr King, You are a thoroughly nice man but please slap yourself.
You don't have to sacrifice your reputation to protect anybody else and to ignore lies when it can be proven would only encourage him.

It is frighteningly easy to make things worse for people with a mental illness but we must accept that we cannot be responsible for their feelings, as long as we approach them with kindness and truth.

If YOU don't defend yourself it will impact on those who are unable to defend themselves.
Your correction may have helped countless people.

Kirk (I prefer cuRt) is clearly a dodgy character - now trying to distance himself from Max Clifford (he only went to this key PR guy who gets millions from papers in kiss'n'tell because "he lived in the area" - oh yeah?) but I found this interesting - he admits he didn't initially mention JK. Why not? Only one reason I reckon.

google-law.blogspot.com/2013/08/the-walt...-clifford-chris.html

A lot of people in that area remember Kirk very well - mainly because, as a very young boy, he scammed money from many of them by saying his mother was dying of cancer. The poor woman had to phone them saying it was a lie and he was a fantasist! Several offered to come to court to say this but the police were never going to let him appear in the witness box in mine or any other case.

what a horrible hateful website Toby and that dreadful fraudster dame who was busted for forging passports, credit cards etc is on there.
She has successfully convinced the revolting Icke/Spivey crowd that she is an ex-MI5 agent who was punished for tyrying to expose the pedo crowd etc ect blah blah.

I love these people who claim they once spoke or wrote to someone like Tony Blair and this proves their case.

In publicity I had an old trick (still used) but I only did it for clients or products I thought genuine....I sent a sample to Princess Diana at Ken palace and always got back a form reply..thus we could truthfully say we are in communication with Diana etc.

Once I did it for a great friend- a woman who wrote meditations fro children and we duly sent her book off to Diana..but lo and behold she got an a letter actually written by Diana thanking her and saying she had read them to the children.

I have another pal who sends his (hideous) paintings to the White House, the Pope, Buck House etc etc.

they never send these gifts back ( postage !!) and now he says his paintings hang in the White House, Vatican and so on (there somewhere in a leaking basement)

For sure some celebs may have taken advantage of younger people (the celebs themselves were just a tad older) and visa versa...youngsters with raging hormones took sexual advantage of celebs...but many now claiming 'assault' are far nastier , vicious, soul destroying creeps than most song merchants could ever hope to be.

this is not "justice"..this is revenge.

Why do we need to apologise for the 60's and 70's? Times were different. It was quite normal to pick up guys for sex - and most guys were 'up for it' although they were straight. You could go anywhere - whether it be the Walton Hop or any disco, bar, toilet, park.
Nowadays, everyone is worried about being labelled gay just because they wank off another guy. I assume that is why all these people come out of the woodwork to make claims of sexual abuse dating back years - at the time they were happy to engage in consensually mutual sex, but now they think they were abused.
Luckily I am not a celebrity, so none of the 'straight guys' I had sex with can gain anything from exposing me.

Ah but are you a Gnomosexual?

Interesting to see the anti-semitic jibe raise its head in that blog (in a subtle way). All these fractured trolls/conspiracy theorists tend to band together.

Gnomo wrote:
Why do we need to apologise for the 60's and 70's? Times were different. It was quite normal to pick up guys for sex - and most guys were 'up for it' although they were straight. You could go anywhere - whether it be the Walton Hop or any disco, bar, toilet, park.


Agree to a point,but as another thread of JK's states it was also normal to persecute gays...and worse!

Gnomo wrote:
Why do we need to apologise for the 60's and 70's? Times were different. It was quite normal to pick up guys for sex - and most guys were 'up for it' although they were straight. You could go anywhere - whether it be the Walton Hop or any disco, bar, toilet, park.
Nowadays, everyone is worried about being labelled gay just because they wank off another guy. I assume that is why all these people come out of the woodwork to make claims of sexual abuse dating back years - at the time they were happy to engage in consensually mutual sex, but now they think they were abused.
Luckily I am not a celebrity, so none of the 'straight guys' I had sex with can gain anything from exposing me.

Speak for yourself. I'm completely gay friendly but nor I or anyone I know would have the desire to pick-up guys for sex. Why would you, if there were women available. Also most of the accusations on operation yew tree were regarding straight sex.