Witchfinder General 21st Century. The online poll to identify worthy successors to Matthew Hopkins for contributing to the great witch hunt of the 21st Century has produced a winner.
The winner, with almost 20% of votes cast, was the market-led UK 'charity' the NSPCC.
Our discerning readers chose, as second at 13%, Cork University for its production of the Copine Scale.
3rd: was Charles Oxley at over 12%
4th: Geoffrey Dickens MP at just under 12%.
5th: Andrea Dworkin closely behind Dickens.
6th: Michael Bourke at under 11%.
7th & 8th: neck and neck at over 10%, US Judge Means and Dr Ray Blanchard.
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Not A Proper Charity: The NSPCC/National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (est. 1884) is a US-influenced UK "children's charity" that since the late-1960s has promoted false information on child abuse to extract huge donations from a trusting public.
The NSPCC's recent commercial successes particularly since it's acquisition of the valuable BBC 'brand' "Childline" has been a series of adverts largely on television that falsly portray a demonic and oversexed image of adult males preying on children. In the 1980s 'Stranger Danger' was falsely portayed as an ever present threat, though 90% of child sex abuse was well known to be committed by those whom children know well. Also well known was that serious child abuse was and is 90% non-sexual abuse. Thus UK children were/are irrational scared/abused where 90% least at risk, and left unaware/abused where 90% most at risk.
The devious NSPCC has become so successful that it is effectively an arm of the UK state, with funding to carry out training programmes and other activities while using its 'sentimental' charity status and donations to ease the massive tax burden in 'child-protection' obsessed modern Britain. Under the 1989 Childrens' Act, the NSPCC became the only UK charity granted statutory powers, allowing it to apply for care and supervision orders for supposed "children at risk". It is also the only charity with the statutory power to undertake child abuse investigations and can be called upon by the police and local authorities to assist them. State-employed carers and web-administrators frequently refer to or encourage the use of the NSPCC as a contact point.
Philip Jenkins' 'Intimate Enemies' (1992, Aldine de Gruyter, New York)
Describes the creation of a journalistically induced panic in Great Britain during the the 1980s - a decade of intense concern about a closely related set of perceived problems: sexual abuse of children, child pornography, satanic rituals, and serial murder. It was widely alleged that such practices became more common during the decade, and the notoriety attracted major attention from the mass media, as well as from agencies in law enforcement, social welfare, and mental health. pp 104-113 explains how this close relationship was vital to the commercial success of the charity and its ideas: “The NSPCC acted as the conduit by which American perceptions of a problem (and soon a crisis) were introduced to Britain. NSPCC director Arthur Morton first visited the United States in 1964 and spent time with Dr C Henry Kempe, who would long be a major influence on British child protection policy.... Researchers and other officials began making frequent visits to the United States to study changing perceptions of child abuse. The various researchers published extensively on the topic, and there was interchange of ideas and personnel between the NSPCC and the child welfare section of the DHSS/Department of Health and Social Security...Joan Court of the NSPCC Research Unit actually moved to head the relevant section of the DHSS. From 1970, DHSS circulars began to adopt NSPCC ideas...[The NSPCC] was vital to the establishment of new ideas about sexual abuse... Alan Gilmour had become director in 1979 in the middle of a crisis: “Its Inspectors...were diminishing in number and in some areas losing credibility because they were too few and too scattered to provide a coherent service; and this service was too vaguely defined” (Gilmour 1988:133-134). Gilmour's directorship produced a near revolution, focused especially on the society's centenary in 1984. This offered abundant opportunities for fund-raising and publicity... Gilmour launched an aggressive and more proactive effort at 'child protection', in intimate alliance with public agencies...By 1989, the society was drawing about 11 percent of its £36 million ($45 million) budget from central and local government, the balance being raised from endless fund-raising and investments. The society's budget had increased over the decade by 1,000%.”
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Many examples of the NSPCC's dishonesty and disregard for children include the contrivance of fake social networking profiles of supposedly abused children, use of an unwilling child actor in its sensationalist TV adverts, faking of abuse stories in mass mailings and advising children that all sex under the age of 16 is wrong and should be reported. The implications of which are now well known and part of an all consuming US-UK childsex mass panic.
NSPCC campaigns have also been criticised as ineffectual by serious academia. A report by New Philanthropy Capital (NPC) suggests that NSPCC campaigns to change public attitudes and keep abuse on the radar, has produced zero evidence that this leads to less abuse overall. The logic behind the NSPCC campaign 'Full Stop', it argues, is flawed and naive.
The profiteering NSPCC has also faced criticism for its alleged increasing obsession with publicity and advertising. For fearmongering, fabricating or exaggerating facts and figures in its research. Frank Furedi, Professor of sociolgy at the University of Kent, branded it a "lobby group devoted to publicising its peculiar brand of anti-parent propaganda and promoting itself."
NSPCC wages are certainly attractive and excessive for a charity - matching those of civil servants in most cases. E.G. an NSPCC, 'Campaigns Development Adviser' can expect up to £40k pa (Guardian, 2008) and graduates enter at £16-18k pa (Hobsons, 2008) - pay like that is very likely to attract careerists not crusaders.
During the 1980s and 1990s, a moral panic was fuelled over alleged Satanic ritual abuse, and predictably the NSPCC provided a pamphlet known as 'Satanic Indicators' to social services around the country that has been blamed for some social workers panicking and making false accusations. The most prominent of these cases was in Rochdale in 1990 when up to 20 children were taken from their parents after social services believed them to be involved in satanic or occult ritual abuse, the allegations were later found to be false. A BBC documentary which featured recordings of interviews made by NSPCC social workers, revealed that flawed techniques and leading questions were used to gain evidence of abuse from the children, in fact seriously abused BY the investigation! The documentary claimed that social services were wrongly convinced by organisations such as the NSPCC, that abuse was occurring and so rife that they made allegations before any evidence was considered.
Recent assimilation into UK law of NSPCC initiatives on Child Sex abuse images lead to an expansion of the current Orwellian 'thought crime' agenda. NSPCC Policy Advisor, Zoe Hilton supports the closure of role-play websites in which adults can act out adult-child sex fantasies without involving actual minors: "It is not OK to fantasise about this stuff. These kind of interactions need to be shut down."
The NSPCC's also runs helplines that may offer some support to abused children, but any positives are hard to verify and would most likely occur anyway in the charity's absence. And there is little evidence of what happens to children once they have been taken into suppose 'protective custody' after contacting the NSPCC.
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