Let's think about this - say you fancied engineering a moral panic because you felt that people born before 1988 didn't give 'The State' (politicians, news outlets, various authorities) enough respect and you wanted a Police State with a climate of confused distrust and fear, what would you do.

Well, the canvas isn't entirely blank - you have a disgraced Glam Rocker trying to keep his head down, so there's a start. Who can you link him to though?
Let's start with a recently deceased eccentric who nobody really 'got' and was loved and loathed in equal measure. He looked odd, and he died a crotchety old man with yellowing teeth. Let's go with that.
How will we keep people from arguing though - I know, start a faux police investigation and give it a name - who shall we nick though?
We need someone who worked with the dead man. Let's go for the risible dinosaur who took himself far too seriously but told everybody he was 'bonkers'.
A couple of washed-up comedians will do too, go for a couple who were known for womanising and who people think are a bit right-wing. Yeah.
How's about a real twist - let's get someone every hates. Step forward Waxie Maxie
The public need teaching a lesson though, a lesson they won't forget. Who shall we go for? Let's find a really beloved entertainer who's appeal spanned at least 4 generations, from the Watch WIth Mother era through to Glastonbury and Have I Got News For You. Make it someone who also has genuine artistic credibility.
Throw in a couple of poofs too - show the public it's men we're after regardless of orientation. Make one a bit-part politician to placate the mob, and make the other a left-leaning educated "BBC Man".

That will teach the Baby Boomers and their culturally aware cynical offspring who thought politics was irrelevant in the liberated 'information age'.

Who's Next?

I have always wondered who the puppet-masters were behind this. They are taking a hands-off approach, letting the likes of MWT and Jones the producer do their dirty work, I suppose in case it all blows up. I still don't have a clear idea of who, the Tavistock feminists come to mind, but the why is the real question. I suppose we can all look forward to some really nasty legislation "to make sure it never happens again".

The case against Savile was a trial run, after all, being dead it could never be tested in court. Once public opinion had been shaped, then prosecution of the still-living was commenced, easy now that the defence is so constrained by the law (esp. the 2003 act). This has been a long time in the planning, just waiting for the right spark - a couple of spurious accusations against a dead DJ and the necessary foot soldiers to start the hunt. This is all self-sustaining, there's a strong feedback loop built in. next it will be the vicars, doctors, teachers and politicians, anyone who has money and access to "children". I put "children" in quotes, because we are already seeing articles defining the fans of pop stars as "vunerable" and relationships should be treated in the same way as those between teachers and students, and "children" being defined as people under 25 by the psychologists.

A lot of rumours Hughie Green will be next

I don't go along with your conspiracy theory Chris; I blame incompetence every time; lazy or greedy cops going for career boosting convictions who love high profile cases and don't work out the eventual consequences. Ditto CPS, Lawyers, Judges, Media... all jump on the bandwagons for their own small reasons. I don't think any of it was planned (though the co-incidence of my arrest just TWO DAYS before Europe's forced equalisation of the UK ages of consent and the surprise OBE for Spong, the Guildford/Surrey CPS person have struck me as strange).

I think there is only a 'conspiracy' in that at certain times in history like-minded forces rise to the surface and a type of movement coalesces- in this case a definite witch-hunt against a certain class of aging entertainer.

A host of opportunistic parties then leap on board either for financial interest (MWT- what else can he do in?) a veritable host of powerful "victim advocates" and "charities, cowered politicians and the media which smells an endless supply of "good stories".

and voila- it's out of the starting blocks and away and who know's what damage will be done.

And the internet ?..Lord help us as the endless Ickeites are set loose like the hounds of hell.

Of course anything can be slipped in in this climate and it's in the nature of politicians to take advantage of the times.

Every legal person I've spoken to is appalled at the current witch-hunt. I expect a dribble of protest from some soon and more and more speaking up as time goes on. But not while it's a hot as hell as it is at present.

andrew wrote:
A lot of rumours Hughie Green will be next

Hasn't he already been 'done,' so to speak? And having been regarded as a pretty nasty piece of work even during his lifetime, I can't see that he will serve much of a purpose in this wretched little farce.

Chris Retro wrote:
Who can you link him to though?

No one - if there evidence is not there !

MWT- what else can he do in?

Cleanse the streets of London of Chewing Gum - they are a disgrace and he has 76 years experience of Chewing Gum removal doesn't he? (also available for hire as an after dinner chewing gum speaker, videos on chewing gum removal available, and on-line at www.chewinggumremoval.com........)

andrew wrote:
A lot of rumours Hughie Green will be next

I think the next one without a doubt- after death- is a dance compere with a much younger wife..

and yet another barney today -this time with a feminazi - who wrote a ludicrous column on a major website about how she met Rolf when she was 8 and thought him 'creepy'- which was followed by 100s of comments claiming "yes yes we all thought him creepy"

I rang her tonight- "rubbish, you made that up, you never found him creepy nor did your deluded readers, every (phoney feminist) one of them who parroted you. The truth is you and they thought Rolf corny, hackneyed, silly, a hopelessly bad artist with silly act and an all round embarrassing 'celebrity' but "creepy"?..the word never left you lips before today."

she hung up on me. sensible girl

In 2014, Hughie Green is worth less column inches than Leonard Rossiter

I don't think we should really speculate about who's next - something I've been uneasy with since a friend of mine privately suggested Rolf Harris purely on a 'worst case scenario' back in October 2012.