veritas wrote:
for ages I've been rabbiting on about how politicians have been too gutless to stand up to one media mogul and it's finally happened..something I really didn't think would happen in this way.
And all because of the tragic murder of a little girl.
Everyone who has devoured all the details of these awful murders and demands more and more really is to blame (me too)..the awful Bulger case and so on.
The great public's voracious appetite for sensation of every kind that has to be fed like an addiction has seen (presumably well meaning on the whole) child advocate groups- Sarah's Law and so on- join forces with a vast criminal enterprise that really doesn't give a fig about children. They're to blame as well.
Murdoch, Brooks etc..they'll never get near a British politician again.
from roosters to feather dusters in a week ! 
Very well said Veritas, and I'm sure you won't be accused of cognitive distortions.
One thing I do dispute - the supposedly well meaning nature of these child advocacy groups. Some may be, and some individuals within these organisations may be well-meaning, but it might interest you to take a look at the following links regarding the biggest of them - the NSPCC :
theantifeminist.com/the-nspcc-as-an-evil-feminist-organization/
angryharry.com/es-Curse-of-the-NSPCC.htm?AHMain
Five of their seven senior research staff are hardcore feminists whose main interests lie in domestic violence against women and/or trafficking
According to the NSPCC's own research, by far and away the biggest problem blighting British teenagers lives is bullying (from their peers). Yet none of the senior researchers for the NSPCC even list bullying as a research interest, yet nearly all list domestic violence (i.e. domestic violence against women) and trafficking.
The NSPCC has as much of a selfish interest in provoking paedohysteria as does the media - to raise money for themselves, and to introduce legislation which further deters men from pursuing younger female rivals (and I'm talking primarily here girls and women in their late teens and early twenties - if the hysteria is strong enough, and the punishments draconian enough, fewer and fewer men will even risk ending up on the sex offenders register and chatting up that '19 year old' at the bar - just as heavier punishments against offlicences that sell alcohol to children will lead to them being reluctant even to serve young looking 25 year olds).
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