Re: Michael Howard |
Tuesday, 11 November 2003 | |
"Michael Howard is the man responsible for my being in prison. He was the
Home Secretary who brought in the law that no proof, evidence or corroboration should be needed to convict people charged with sex offences. I'm sure his intentions were honourable. A five year old abused in a care home thirty years ago should be entitled to justice and proof is unlikely to exist. But the climate following corrupt police officers to raise conviction rates by "assisting" statements and lying "victims" to get compensation by inventing ancient abuse has exploded, provoking such exaggerations as the ones which saw me wrongly convicted for crimes that never took place. Indeed, Howard could now be accused by a man or woman in their fifties of rape or underage sex from forty years ago and find himself convicted by one person's anonymous word which, in turn, would earn them hundreds of thousands of pounds if they contacted Max Clifford and sold their story to the tabloids. If it wasn't for the fact that I wouldn't wish such a thing on my worst enemy, I'd almost enjoy such irony. Every week men like Headmaster Alastair Wilbee commit suicide rather than face the shame of being accused of sex offences. And Howard is, of course, Jewish. Seventy years ago, the Jews in Nazi Germany suffered a similar treatment to sex offenders today. They were demonised. Whether or not someone IS a paedophile, or whether they have actually done anything, they are vilified by the media. And yesterday's persecuted minority always seems to be today's most righteously indignant. Rebekah Wade started her NAME AND SHAME campaign at the News of the World, just like the Nazi papers howled for readers to inform on a suspected Jew. How long before concentration camps? Death chambers? Killers are never described as "Jewish" or "black" these days, but constantly called "paedophile". The most virilant antigay Anglicans are those black Africans who suffered apartheid until recently. Is there anything intelligent observers can do to stop this ? I fear not. It seems humanity requires a section of the community to hate, no matter how illogical or unfair the targeted minority might be. I've never had the slightest in children sexually. They are as nonsexual to me as geriatrics or animals. Yet I'm locked up for crimes I didn't commit which are wrongly considered by the uneducated masses as paedophilia. Wouldn't it be ironic if I had to share a cell with Michael Howard, convicted of crimes he never committed thanks to his blinkered law changes?" JONATHAN KING November 2003. |