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Re:Latest Savile revelations... 11 Years ago
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Yet not one single "victim", teacher, parent, nurse, doctor, BBC employee, hospital porter, or anyone from the many charities JS was involved with made a report at the time. Colour me sceptical. This was the age of the Mary Whitehouse and the News of the World, scandal was their business. The journalists must have been fast asleep (or more likely, drunk) to miss such a scoop.
The sinister side of this, is that if a man such as Sir Jim can be painted as a predatory sex offender, then all men are regarded as a danger, especially to children - no matter how virtuous they are. The "victims must be believed" mantra has now been firmly implanted in the nation's consciousness. I don't know how this is going to be undone.
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Re:Latest Savile revelations... 11 Years ago
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It seems to me that this moral panic, if that's what it is, and it certainly seems disproportionate, is based upon a concern to regulate male sexual desire in an age when feminism has come to the fore and the traditional institution of marriage has declined, creating a kind of sexual free for all. Traditional conceptions of female sexual purity and male sexual agency have been coupled with the feminist desire to empower women and with religious notions of sex as sin reappearing in secular guise, to produce a total demonisation of male sexual desire, shifting the blame for sex, always a dark force, from women's bodies unto men's minds.
Homosexuality was once the bete noir that paedophilia, or ephebophilia, has now become.
I have no doubt the media desires a good story, but there are many good stories, and it remains to be discovered why they choose the ones they do.
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Re:Latest Savile revelations... 11 Years ago
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a pal just had a twitter battle with Jim Gamble.
this ghastly ex-cop claimed the 'Savile cover-up' could happen again. when asked for proof he got very stroppy and blocked.
That sort of sums it up. The parties involved with vested financial interests are driving this and there are heaps of them. Just as Gamble must desperately promote this Savile insanity to keep himself in paid work as a "child protection expert" the media is loving it.
I'll tell you how to protect kids : "don't talk to fucking strangers and don't leave the fucking front garden you brats"!!!
Gamble claims Savile was an "opportunity abuser" which explains why he "abused" 2 year olds, 5 year olds, teens, boys , girls, the insane, old pensioners pissing in their hospital beds and possibly Margaret Thacher for all we know (maybe Denis too  ) etc etc
sheer utter madness.
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Re:Latest Savile revelations... 11 Years ago
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Re:Latest Savile revelations... 11 Years ago
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Gnomo wrote:
Eager to please it's readership, the Daly Mail has already published photos of them. However, the ring in question used an glass eye from a friend of his, and for all we know, or will ever know, he may have had permission to take it after he died.
This fact does not make it any less 'creepy' but is an example of how the media are distorting anything to do with JS, happy in the knowledge they risk no legal action from his Family
It is easy to imagine how someone might joke about prising a glass eye from a corpse.
Many many years ago  I somehow persuaded a friend that I had acquired Mick Jagger's foreskin after his "recent circumcision".
She wore it round her neck for ages. It was actually a bit of dried chicken skin.
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