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    On the other hand, throwing the small fry under the train might be a way to coerce the blackmailables in keeping the toe line "or else...":

    168 children rescued, 281 pimps arrested in mass sex-trafficking sting

    Published time: June 24, 2014 03:42
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    A week-long operation across the US against child sex trafficking has resulted in the rescue of almost 170 children and the arrest of 281 pimps, according to the FBI.

    The law enforcement operation represents the latest effort on behalf of the FBI’s Innocence Lost program, which since its 2003 creation has resulted in the recovery of some 3,600 children who faced sexual exploitation. In addition to arrests and child recoveries operations have resulted in 1,450 criminal convictions, 14 life in prison terms and the seizure of over $3.1 million.

    "These are not children living in some faraway place, far from everyday life,” FBI Director James Comey said in announcing the law enforcement sting, which is known as Operation Cross Country.

    "These are our children. On our streets. Our truck stops. Our motels. These are America’s children."

    The massive anti sex-trafficking push was executed via partnerships between the Bureau and other law enforcement, including local and state police. The FBI currently operates 70 Child Exploitation Task Forces throughout the country.


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    According to Comey, one of the most disturbing dimensions to child sex trafficking is the increasing prevalence of online prostitution. Moreover, many of the children who were rescued during the latest sting were never reported missing.

    The latest operation encompassed recovers and arrests in 106 cities, targeting casinos, truck stops, as well as websites advertising dating and escort services. Fifty-four FBI field divisions took part in the raids, along with the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, underscoring the resources necessitated in identifying at-risk minors and collecting necessary evidence to file charges and intervene.

    "Operation Cross Country reveals that children are being targeted and sold for sex in America every day," said John Ryan, president and CEO of the National Center.

    The largest number of recovered minors occurred in Denver. In one instance a 19-year-old man was arrested for physically abusing a 16-year-old runaway after she had failed to collect enough money from her “dates,” reports USA Today. The girl had been taken from one hotel to the next and told to perform sex acts, and was too afraid to escape.

    In Oregon, meanwhile, authorities recovered one child and identified 20 adult prostitutes, some who had been involved in sex trafficking since the age of 13 or 14, according to the FBI's Portland office.
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    Former Downing Street adviser charged over child abuse images



    Patrick Rock was involved in Government policy on internet porn filters


    Lizzie Dearden
    Saturday 28 June 2014

    A former Downing Street adviser has been charged with making and possessing indecent images of children.

    Patrick Rock, who was involved in Government policy on filtering online child abuse images, resigned shortly before his arrest in February.

    The 63-year-old has had a glittering career as a Conservative Party adviser spanning 30 years and in the 1970s was credited with coining the slogan “cows moo, dogs bark, Labour puts up taxes”.

    On Friday, he was charged with three offences of making indecent images of children and one offence of possession of 59 indecent images of children.

    The four charges cover alleged offences committed between 31 July and 31 August 2013.

    The pictures have been classed as level C by the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP), defined as “indecent images depicting erotic posing with no sexual activity".

    Mr Rock, a special adviser on policy, was arrested at his home in the early hours of 13 February and had resigned the day before.

    The matter did not come to light until almost a month later, when a national newspaper’s enquiries forced Downing Street to release a statement confirming the rumours.

    Asked about the charges at a press conference after an EU summit in Brussels on Friday, the Prime Minister said: "I won't be saying anything.

    “It would be purely a matter for the courts and it wouldn't be appropriate to comment."

    Mr Rock has been an influential figure behind the scenes in the Conservative Party for decades and unsuccessfully stood as an MP three times.

    He met David Cameron when they were fellow advisers to the then Home Secretary, Michael Howard, in the 1990s and the Prime Minister brought him into the Downing Street policy unit in 2011.

    Judith Reed, a senior lawyer with the Crown Prosecution Service's organised crime division, said: “We have determined that there is sufficient evidence for a realistic prospect of conviction and that a prosecution is in the public interest.”

    Mr Rock has been bailed to appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court on 3 July.

    Additional reporting by PA

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    Seems like some people are catching on what's actually going on:

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    It seems that, now, the damage control is getting frantic:


    Home Office under fire over 'lost' paedophile dossier

    2 July 2014 Last updated at 19:50 GMT


    Leon Brittan was home secretary between 1983 and 1985

    The Home Office is facing calls to explain why a 1980s dossier about alleged paedophiles at Westminster was "destroyed" by officials.

    The document was handed to then Home Secretary Leon Brittan by Tory MP Geoffrey Dickens.

    Lord Brittan passed concerns in it to the relevant authorities, but the file itself was not kept.

    Labour MP Simon Danczuk said it may contain evidence that would identify child sex abusers.

    The Home Office said a 2013 review found the "credible" elements of the dossier which had "realistic potential" for further investigation were sent to police and prosecutors while other elements were either not retained, or were destroyed.

    In an earlier version of this story, we reported that the Home Office had launched a trawl for the missing dossier, but this had in fact already been carried out - even though most people, including Lord Brittan himself, appear to have been unaware of it.

    Simon Danczuk had been pressing Lord Brittan to reveal what he knew about the dossier's contents - and for the Home Office to publish it in full - when officials released a statement saying they had already carried out a review that had found it had not been retained.

    'Little fanfare'
    A Home Office spokesman said Lord Brittan had not been contacted by the team who were conducting the review of old Home Office files, records and other papers to find out "what action was taken in respect of any material received".

    But the team had found a letter from Lord Brittan to the late Tory MP Geoffrey Dickens, dated March 1984, which said some of the concerns he had raised about alleged abuse had been passed to the director of public prosecutions, who had passed them on to the police to investigate.

    The review found that Lord Brittan had acted appropriately in dealing with allegations and it had "found no evidence of Mr Dickens expressing dissatisfaction about the action taken in respect of the information he had passed on".


    Simon Danczuk is calling for a public inquiry into the allegations

    Mr Danczuk told BBC News he also had been unaware of the review, a summary of which was published last year - but said it raised more questions than it answered.

    "They must have published the review with little fanfare and people will ask why that would be the case," he told BBC News.

    He called on the Home Office to reveal the outcome of any police investigations that may have resulted from the information in the dossier.

    'Last refuge'
    He added: "Why would you destroy such an important document? What action was taken? Were any prosecutions forthcoming? We need to know this. It's raising more questions than it answers."

    Downing Street rejected calls to publish the review in full. The prime minister's official spokesman said: "The executive summaries fully reflect the work that was done."

    On Tuesday, Mr Danczuk told the Commons Home Affairs Committee that politics was "the last refuge of child sex abuse deniers" and there was a view among many politicians that alleged offenders should not be named. He called on Lord Brittan to say what he knew about Mr Dickens' allegations.

    On Wednesday morning, Lord Brittan issued a statement in which he said he had received a "substantial bundle of papers" from Geoffrey Dickens and had asked officials to "report back to me" if "action needed to be taken". He said he "did not recall" being "contacted further about these matters".

    Shortly afterwards, the Home Office released a statement pointing to its 2013 report, which suggested Lord Brittan had, in fact, passed concerns raised by Mr Dickens to the relevant authorities.

    It said:
    Quote "In response to concerns raised in Parliament and the media relating to the handling by the department of historical allegations of abuse, the permanent secretary commissioned an independent review of all relevant papers received by the department between 1979 to 1999 to identify any information received and the outcome.

    "The review concluded the Home Office acted appropriately, referring information received during this period to the relevant authorities."
    'Simply disappeared'
    Lord Brittan then issued a further statement, saying:
    Quote "In the last hour I have been alerted to a Home Office independent review conducted last year into what information it received about organised child sex abuse between 1979 and 1999.

    "The review found information had been dealt with properly.

    "It also disclosed that material received from Mr Dickens in November 1983 and January 1984 had not been retained.

    "However, a letter was sent from myself to Mr Dickens on March 20, 1984, explaining what had been done in relation to the files.

    "The Home Office independent review is entirely consistent with the action I set out in my earlier statement. Whilst I could not recall what further action was taken 30 years ago, the information contained in this report shows that appropriate action and follow-up happened."
    Alison Millar, a lawyer representing alleged victims of abuse relating to the Westminster claims, condemned the failure to retain the dossier.

    She said:
    Quote "My clients are incredulous at how this dossier can have simply disappeared. It seems inconceivable that a document of such importance can have simply disappeared.

    "I would strongly support the calls for a widespread inquiry into historic sexual abuse so that my clients could have their many questions answered about who knew what, and that a very troubling veil is lifted from the corridors of power."


    What were the Dickens Dossiers?


    Conservative MP Geoffrey Dickens died in 1995

    Analysis by Matt Prodger, Home Affairs Correspondent

    Geoffrey Dickens was Conservative MP for Huddersfield West from 1979 until 1983; he was then elected for Littleborough and Saddleworth and held the seat until his death in 1995.

    According to press reports at the time, he handed two dossiers to the Home Office in 1983-84. One of them, he reportedly said, concerned a civil servant and another one related to an employee of Buckingham Palace. They also contained allegations concerning the Paedophile Information Exchange, a group that campaigned to make sex between adults and children legal.

    But in an interview with the Daily Express in August 1983 he also said he would expose eight prominent figures if the home secretary failed to act. He told the paper: "I've got eight names of big people, really important names, public figures. And I am going to expose them in Parliament."

    In response, Lord Brittan said in a statement that he had received a "substantial bundle of papers" from Mr Dickens, which he had asked Home Office officials to examine and "report back to me" if "action needed to be taken".

    A letter from Leon Brittan to Mr Dickens, dated March 1984, says: "In general terms, the view of the director of public prosecutions is that two of the letters you forwarded could form the basis for inquiries by the police and they are now being passed to the appropriate authorities."



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    About 40 politicians on UK pedophile ring: Report

    Sat Jul 5, 2014 12:33PM GMT

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    UK police have opened an investigation into claims of a Westminster pedophile ring, saying they have a list of about 40 alleged child abusers, including over 10 current and former British politicians.

    Whistleblower Peter McKelvie, whose claims prompted Operation Fernbridge, disclosed in his the latest report that up to 40 members of parliament and peers knew about or took part in the child abuse network.

    Operation Fernbridge is a Scotland Yard investigation into allegations of a pedophile network with links to Downing Street.

    Lawmakers - including former ministers and household names - from all three main political parties are included on the list.

    Some of the alleged child abusers remain active in the UK parliament, while several others, including Cyril Smith and Peter Morrison, have already died.
    Quote “I believe there are sufficient grounds to carry out a formal investigation into allegations of up to 20 MPs and Lords over the last three to four decades, some still alive and some dead. The list is there,” McKelvie said.
    At least one witness has told police that he was abused by a Tory MP when he was under 10 years old in the 1980s.

    Prime Minister David Cameron has ordered Mark Sedwill, the permanent secretary for the UK’s Home Office, to conduct an internal investigation into what happened to the dossier.

    Other cases of child sexual abuse have been reported in the country.

    Several high-profile figures have been arrested in connection with the multiple investigations into the abuse scandal surrounding Jimmy Savile, a disgraced former TV host with the state-funded British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). He died in 2011, but, following his death, hundreds of allegations of sex abuse and rape of minors became public.

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    See!?

    Stop looky here! Looky over there down under:

    Sexual abuse of children in state care ‘endemic’ in Victoria

    Leaked documents reveal 98 alleged rapes, 96 reports of indecent assault and 73 alleged incidents of exploitation over a year
    Michael Safi

    theguardian.com, Friday 4 July 2014 09.43 BST


    Nearly three-quarters of the reported incidents of sexual abuse took place in residential care homes. Photograph: Lukas Coch/AAP Image

    Sexual abuse in Victoria’s out-of-home care system has been described as “endemic” after leaked documents revealed hundreds of reports of alleged rape, indecent assault and exploitation of minors in the year to March.

    Internal documents reveal a total of 342 critical incidents of a sexual nature reported in the state’s child protection system, which houses children who are removed from their parents due to significant risk of harm.

    The total includes 98 alleged rapes, 96 reports of indecent sexual assault and 73 alleged incidents of sexual exploitation, where children are abused in exchange for cash or other gifts, the ABC reported.

    Nearly three-quarters of the reported incidents took place in residential care homes, where about 500 children are currently placed. The small units usually house about four children each, with staff rostered on eight-hour shifts, including just one overnight.

    Sandie de Wolf, the chief of children’s charity Berry Street, said the reports of abuse were an “indictment on the system”.

    “Children are not removed from their families unless there’s very significant harm, so physical, sexual or emotional abuse, or severe family violence. So they've already been harmed by the adults who should have protected them,” she said.

    She said the system was “under enormous pressure” from increasing numbers of children being removed from their parents, coupled with a “crisis” of decreasing numbers of foster carers. The result was children under 12 being placed in residential care against the Victorian government’s own guidelines.

    Funding for the department of human services was also capped, de Wolf said, so the system was having to cater for more children without a commensurate bump in resources.

    An auditor general’s report in March found the residential care system had been “operating over capacity since at least 2008”.

    “The residential care system is unable to respond to the level of demand and growing complexity of children’s needs,” the report found. “This puts at risk efforts to protect the child from harm, protect their rights and promote their development.”

    The leaked statistics follow earlier reports that organised gangs of men were preying on children in state care, highlighted by the case of 22-year-old Emran Dad, a Shepparton man who police alleged traded sex for cash and cigarettes with children as young as 13. He pled guilty in 2012 and was jailed for three years.

    The extent of abuse within the system was reflected in the case of two siblings, both aged under 10, who were placed in state care in 2011 after reports they were being physically abused in their home.

    The girl was sexually assaulted by two other children on numerous occasions, and has since tried to take her own life. Her brother was also alleged raped by an older boy.

    The Victorian community services minister, Mary Wooldridge, said that cases of abuse and neglect “are always distressing”, but said that for some children, “residential care is the best option”.

    “Children who come into the care of the state have experienced extreme trauma and often cannot be housed with extended family or foster families because of their complex and difficult behaviours,” she said.

    The opposition spokeswoman for children and community services, Jenny Mikakos, said the figures were “absolutely shocking”. “From what I'm hearing, sexual exploitation appears to have become endemic in about the last two years,” she said.

    Victoria’s children and young people commissioner, Bernie Geary, said he was aware of the statistics and was in the process of reviewing the issues and circumstances of sexual assault in residential care, with a report to parliament due in October.

    “When we’re in a situation where we want to take kids away from harm, we tend to go for shelter first,” Geary said. “But shelter is only one part of nurturing, so we need to ensure that a young person is both nurtured and sheltered, and I’m conducting my review with that in mind.”
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    114 files missing from 'Westminster pedophile ring' dossier, Home Office admits

    Published time: July 06, 2014 16:19
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    A general view shows the headquarters of Britain's Home Office in central London (Reuters/Alessia Pierdomenico)


    The UK Home Office has admitted that it can’t find 114 “potentially relevant files” relating to the pedophile scandal engulfing Westminster, in which there are allegations that senior political figures were involved in, or covered up, child sex abuse.

    The lost files were part of a dossier compiled in the 1980s by the now deceased Conservative MP Geoffrey Dickens and which was passed to the then-Home Secretary Leon Brittan, British media reports.

    Mr. Dickens, who died in 1995, told his family that he had details in the dossier that would “blow the lid off” the lives of powerful and famous child abusers.

    At least 40 UK politicians complicit in alleged Westminster 'pedophile ring' – report
    Lord Brittan has confirmed that he received a “substantial bundle of papers” from Dickens in 1983 when he was Home Secretary, and that he handed them all over to the relevant officials for further investigation.
    Quote Leon Brittan needs to stop messing about and tell us what he knows about paedo's in Westminster. Read my column http://t.co/3d94Q5MqfA
    — Carole Malone (@thecarolemalone) July 6, 2014
    A review by the Home Office found that information it received between 1979 and 1999 had been passed on to the relevant authorities. This fairly lengthy 20-year period would have included anything received from Lord Brittan in 1983.

    Home Office under fire over ‘lost’ dossier on Westminster pedophiles
    In a letter to Dickens at the time, Lord Brittan suggested his information would be passed to the police, but according to the Guardian Scotland Yard says it has no record of any investigation into the allegations.

    Mark Sedwill, the current permanent secretary to the Home Office, said that four new leads had been passed on to Scotland Yard and a spokesman for the Metropolitan Police said that “any relevant material that is submitted to us will be dealt with as appropriate.” The Met did not confirm if it had received any material, however.

    But Sedwill also admitted that the Home Office had lost, destroyed or simply “not found” 114 potentially relevant files, the Telegraph reports.



    Britain's Home Secretary Theresa May (Reuters/ndrew Winning)

    In a letter to Keith Vaz, the chairman of the UK parliament’s home affairs select committee, Sedwill outlined the details of 2013 Home Office review in which he mentioned the 114 missing files.

    Sedwill made it clear to Vaz that Dickens had submitted allegations of sexual offences over several years to a number of home secretaries, not just one dossier to Lord Brittan in 1983.

    Sedwill also wrote to Prime Minister David Cameron on Saturday to announce that there would be a new investigation to see if the results of last year’s review “remain sound.”

    According to Sedwill, a central Home Office database of 746,000 files stretching over the period 1979-99 had identified 527 files which could be relevant. From these, nine pieces of information about alleged child abuse were reported to the police and 114 files had gone missing or been destroyed.

    This revelation has led to an immediate suspicion that there has been an attempt at a cover-up from inside Whitehall. A senior Tory MP and former children’s minister, Tim Loughton, has already accused the Home Office of trying to hide the facts.
    Quote I don't think the @metpoliceuk should be investigating this. Government like 'multi agencies' maybe the public should demand their own
    — Sick Britain (@SickBritain1) July 6, 2014
    The current Home Secretary, Theresa May, is under pressure to become involved and is expected to face questions in the House of Commons on Monday to explain what has happened to the missing files.

    Vaz has also expressed deep concern about the sheer number of files that have gone missing.

    “It is a huge amount of files about a very sensitive issue. How do we know such a precise figure? Somebody must have known that these files existed. We know the Home Office loses passports and a couple of files here and there, but 114 is quite a lot of files to lose. I think we need to answer this,” he said.

    He also expressed frustration that May has not yet become involved in the affair.
    “I am a little concerned at the absence of the Home Secretary from most of these deliberations. This is the Home Office and she is the Home Secretary.”
    Quote Hacking celebs phones, 200 officers involved in inquiry. Westminster Paedo Ring Investigations, SEVEN officers investigating!
    — Liar MPs (@LiarMPs) July 5, 2014
    Loughton also said that to lose so many files “smacks of incompetence or, I fear, some degree of cover-up.”

    Speaking on the BBC’s Andrew Marr show on Sunday, Lord Tebbitt, a former Conservative cabinet minister under Margaret Thatcher, said he believed there has been a cover-up because at the time people instinctively tried to protect the “system.”

    “I think at the time most people would have thought that the establishment, the system, was to be protected, and if a few things had gone wrong here and there it was more important to protect the system than to delve too far into it. I think there may well have been [a cover-up]. But it was unconscious. It was the thing people did at that time,” Lord Tebbit said.

    Labour MPs Simon Danczuk and Tom Watson are calling for an overarching Hillsborough-style inquiry in the matter, the Observer reports.

    The Hillsborough disaster in the Hillsborough football stadium in Sheffield in 1989 resulted in the deaths of 96 people.It later emerged there had been a widespread cover-up by the police, who blamed it on drunken Liverpool football supporters. A government inquiry did not get to the bottom of what happened, but eventually under pressure from relatives and other campaigning groups, in 2012 a second, deeper inquiry found that the deaths were mainly due to police incompetence.

    “Only an overarching inquiry will get to the facts, everything else the government says or does on this is a diversion,” said Watson.

    While Danczuk pointed out that until the government is seen to be taking the issue seriously, the public will think they are trying to hide something.

    “The public will think these documents have gone missing because it helps protect the names of those identified in them. That is the conclusion that many will come to, and who can blame them,” he said.
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    The heat is on... will it last?


    UK MP calls for public inquiry into child sex abuse: 'If MPs are discovered to be pedophiles, damage to British democracy will be fatal


    Simon Danczuk
    Mail Online, Sat, 05 Jul 2014 18:24 CDT


    Labour MP Simon Danczuk exposed Cyril Smith as a paedophile

    MPs will pay a heavy price for harbouring paedophiles in their midst.

    As I was I was making my way from the House of Commons on Monday night after a late vote a Tory minister stepped out of the shadows to confront me. I'd never spoken to him before in my life but he blocked my way and ushered me to one side.

    He warned me to think very carefully about what I was going to say the next day before the Home Affairs Select Committee when I'd be answering questions on child abuse.

    'I hear you're about to challenge Lord Brittan about what he knew about child sex abuse,' he said. It wouldn't be a wise move, he advised me.

    'It was all put to bed a long time ago.'

    He warned me I could even be responsible for his death.

    We looked at each other in silence for a second. I knew straight away he wasn't telling me this out of concern for the man's welfare.

    There was no compassion in his voice.

    As politicians made their way out of Westminster, I had no doubt that other conversations like this were taking place.

    Indeed, this was confirmed when I spoke to other members of the Select Committee the next day.

    They'd been paid similar visits. Phone calls had been made. Members who'd previously indicated they would ask me who I thought knew about the VIP child abuse ring at the notorious Elm Guest House in southwest London were suddenly silent.

    During the committee hearing later that day, one MP asked if pressure had been put on me to keep quiet about suspected child abusers. I nodded. Yes, it had. The MP pursued it no further.

    The next day, several people said to me it was surprising no one on the committee had pursued this answer, demanding to know where the pressure was coming from.

    The answer is simple: it is because they all knew.

    After being neglected for far too long, child abuse is now reviled at all levels of society. It generates disgust and anger.

    I welcome the Home Office announcement yesterday that a senior lawyer is to investigate claims that a paedophile sex ring at Westminster has been covered up. But it is no substitute for the full scale public inquiry needed to establish the truth once and for all.

    Recent events have led me to the inescapable conclusion that in politics, particularly when the focus is on members of parliament guilty of abusing children, it frequently generates indifference. That's not to say all politicians have a blind spot where this terrible crime is concerned.


    MP Simon Danczuk was about to challenge Lord Brittan (centre) about what he knew about child sex abuse. Flanking Leon Brittan are Tory grandees Edward Heath and Willie Whitelaw

    There are some great campaigners across all parties working hard to protect children - as evidenced by the 130 MPs who have signed up to a call for a public inquiry into historic child abuse.

    But among the higher echelons of party politics, where the real power resides, my impression is that there is little appetite to confront the abusers in their midst. Quite the opposite. The mood is defensive, the approach is dominated by silence. 'Move along, nothing to see here,' or 'what's the point in raking all that up old boy?' is the attitude I have seen time after time.

    A few months ago police officers came to visit me to discuss an investigation into a current parliamentarian accused of horrific child abuse. I listened to some of the details of the alleged crimes and my stomach churned.

    Did I think it was likely that their inquiries would be met by political interference, the police asked?

    I looked at them in utter disbelief. How can the police put a Cabinet Minister behind bars for lying about speeding points but be worried they couldn't properly investigate someone for child abuse?

    The incident spoke volumes about the mindset that pervades politics. This kind of obstructive, 'Look the other way, sweep it under the carpet' thinking threatens to drag politics to new depths of public hate.


    Paedophiles: Sir Cyril Smith and Sir Jimmy Savile were both outed after their deaths


    I believe we're on the verge of a Savile-like scandal sweeping through Parliament. Yet, for most people at the top, this prospect is not even on their radar. They're completely impervious to it.

    If the political classes thought the expenses scandal was the worst nadir politics could experience in terms of public opprobrium they should think twice.

    Once the idea that paedophiles have been lawmakers gains wider traction and people start to think political parties have knowingly harboured paedophiles then our parliamentary democracy will suffer an enormous, near fatal blow, the likes of which it will take years to recover from.

    That 's why it's so important that political leaders quickly get on the front foot where this issue is concerned. Grasp the nettle, order a Hillsborough-style inquiry into historic abuse and confront the failings of the past.

    Let victims be finally heard. Nick Clegg has refused to investigate who knew about Sir Cyril Smith's appalling paedophilia in his party and it has cost the Lib Dems dear. But this problem is not exclusive to his party.

    The Tories have yet to properly face up to the abuse of Margaret Thatcher's aide Sir Peter Morrison, outed by fellow Tories such as Edwina Currie as a paedophile after he died.


    Police recently searched Greville Janner's office as part of an investigation into alleged child abuse committed by the Labour politician

    Equally, there are potentially problems on the horizon for Ed Miliband after police recently searched Greville Janner's office as part of an investigation into alleged child abuse committed by the Labour politician.

    David Cameron's former senior aide Patrick Rock is now facing trial over child abuse images and the former Liberal president Des Wilson has recently spoken about a Liberal MP who liked attractive boys and frequently had to be rescued from trouble after being picked up by the police.

    Against this unedifying backdrop, the spectre of former Home Secretary Leon Brittan's calamitous handling of a paedophile dossier given to him by his fellow MP, the late Geoffrey Dickens, looms large.

    This is arguably the most damaging incident yet, given that the dossier is said to have named Jimmy Savile, Cyril Smith and Establishment paedophiles and wasn't acted on.

    After previously denying all knowledge of the dossier, Brittan's muddled statements last week acknowledging he had indeed received a dossier and then confirming that it had disappeared will only make the public suspicious of another cover up to protect high society paedophiles.


    Patrrick Rock, David Cameron's former adviser, has been charged with possessing child pornography.


    Sir Peter Morrison, Mrs Thatcher's bibulous campaign manager at the time of the 1990 leadership contest, was outed posthumously as a paedophile by Edwina Currie

    'I know exactly what I am up against,' said Mr Dickens at the time, 'for I know that within the Establishment there are those who would not wish to see a change in the law.'

    Last week, Mr Dickens's granddaughter Louise told me her grandad had been betrayed by Lord Brittan, who was Mr Dickens's parliamentary colleague and someone he regarded as a friend.

    'My grandad was determined to do the right thing, he wanted to give abused children a voice and the Home Secretary dismissed his work,' she said.

    'He was years ahead of his time,' she says of Mr Dickens and I believe she's right.

    Only now is the full horror of what he warned of about to start sinking in. The NSPCC estimate that one in 20 children have been sexually abused. Thousands of children will never speak out against their abusers because they don't think anyone will believe them.

    And so they carry it with them for the rest of their lives. It doesn't have to be like this. We can do a lot better job of protecting children. But it won't happen without political leadership. And nothing will really change until Parliament faces up to the scandalous abuses of power within every party that have ruined lives.



    SOTT Comment: Unfortunately, British politicians are not the only members of this global elite paedophile ring. It is sickeningly widespread:

    The Pedophocracy
    Portugal in paedophile 'hell'
    Forget Savile, pedophiles are everywhere in the British entertainment industry
    Elite pedophile network: Moroccans to protest against royal pardon for Spanish child rapist
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    It's all "normal" folks! Why are you so p*ss*d off about it?

    Outrage as Australian judge says incest, pedophilia ‘may be accepted’ by society

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    An Australian judge has incurred the wrath of child protection and gay rights advocates after stating that incest and pedophilia may no longer be considered taboo – just as gay relationships are now more accepted than they were in the 1950s and 60s.

    District Court Judge Garry Neilson was recorded as saying that sexual contact between adults and children or siblings may no longer be regarded by society as “unnatural” or “taboo.”

    Just as same-sex relationships were once considered socially unacceptable, “a jury might find nothing untoward in the advance of a brother towards his sister once she had sexually matured, had sexual relationships with other men and was now ‘available,' not having [a] sexual partner,” he said, as quoted by Australia’s Fairfax Media.

    Neilson said that the primary reason for incest still being a crime is the high risk of genetic abnormalities in any children born as a result of the relationships.

    “But even that falls away to an extent [because] there is such ease of contraception and ready access to abortion,” he said.

    He made the comments in April, in the case of a 58-year-old man charged with repeatedly raping his younger sister in 1981 in west Sydney.

    The man pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting her when she was 10 or 11 years old in 1973 or 1974, but pleaded not guilty to the 1981 charges when she was 18 and he was 26.

    The judge was also found to have given a 55-year-old rapist a lighter sentence because he did not ejaculate inside his young niece or “treat her roughly.” She was 15 and 16 when she was raped in 2007 and 2008.

    “His Honor took a favorable view of the most serious offense, count five, because there had been no ejaculation,” Appeal Court Justices Lucy McCallum, Monika Schmidt, and Derek Price wrote in their appeal ruling in March 2013, Australia’s Daily Telegraph reported.

    Hetty Johnston – founder of Australian child sexual assault charity Braveheats – wrote to New South Wales Attorney-General Brad Hazzard, calling for Judge Neilson’s suspension.

    “It is just the most outrageous statement,” Johnston told the Telegraph. “What sort of decisions has he been making? I think the community deserves to be reassured that this is not a view that is shared among the judiciary.”

    Dr. Cathy Kezelman, president of Adults Surviving Child Abuse, told Fairfax Radio Network that Neilson's comments were archaic and “beyond belief.”

    She said that profound damage is inflicted upon children when family lines are crossed in incest cases.

    “It's finally been spoken about. But attitudes do need to shift. There are still a lot of myths, still a lot of entrenched, very damaging beliefs and that's why we need to speak out about it, attack those myths and educate people, so we're not hearing these outrageous statements,” she said, adding that the attorney-general needs to investigate the issue and that it is necessary to look at the “caliber and awareness” of judges.

    Jed Horne, the policy and project officer of the New South Wales Gay and Lesbian Rights Lobby, told Australia's Star Observer that “the comments attributed to the judge are completely unacceptable.”

    “Not only do they make a highly offensive comparison between being gay and sexual offences, but they are an affront to members of the community which have experienced sexual abuse in their lives,” he said.
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    Wow, how do these people even get into those positions?
    A judge who has no clue about the concept of consent?

    So on one hand they make laws that prohibit parents to use corporal punishment when their kids have been naughty,
    and yet allow them to abuse them sexually?

    I hope all Ozzies unite to remove that judge, and not only the gay and lesbian community.

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    About 1,400 Rotherham children 'sexually exploited over 16-year period'

    Report claims police and council agencies failed victims, some of whom were threatened with guns and gang-raped

    theguardian.com, Tuesday 26 August 2014 15.12 BST



    The report said around 1,400 child victims had been systematically failed by police and agencies in Rotherham. Photograph: Alfonso Cacciola/Getty Images

    About 1,400 children were sexually exploited in Rotherham over a 16-year period, according to a report that concluded "it is hard to describe the appalling nature of the abuse that child victims suffered".

    The report on events in the town in South Yorkshire, between 1997 and 2013, found that in more than a third of these cases the youngsters were already known to child protection agencies. It said there had been "blatant" collective failures by the council's leadership.

    Council leader Roger Stone said: "Having considered the report, I believe it is only right that I, as leader, take responsibility on behalf of the council for the historic failings that are described so clearly in the report and it is my intention to do so.

    "For this reason, I have today agreed with my Labour group colleagues that I will be stepping down as leader with immediate effect."

    Despite Stone's resignation, chief executive Martin Kimber said no council officers will face disciplinary action.

    Prof Alexis Jay, who wrote the report, said she found examples of "children who had been doused in petrol and threatened with being set alight, threatened with guns, made to witness violent rapes and threatened they would be next if they told anyone".

    Jay said: "They were raped by multiple perpetrators, trafficked to other towns and cities in the north of England, abducted, beaten and intimidated." She said she found girls as young as 11 had been raped by large numbers of men.

    The report said failures of the political and officer leadership of Rotherham council over the first 12 years she looked at were blatant, as the seriousness of the problem was underplayed by senior managers and was not seen as a priority by South Yorkshire police. Jay said police "regarded many child victims with contempt".

    These failures occured despite three reports between 2002 and 2006 "which could not have been clearer in the description of the situation in Rotherham".

    She said the first of these reports was "effectively suppressed" because senior officers did not believe the data. The other two were ignored, she added.

    The report said: "By far the majority of perpetrators were described as Asian by victims." But, she said, councillors seemed to think is was a one-off problem they hoped would go away and "several staff described their nervousness about identifying the ethnic origins of perpetrators for fear of being thought racist".

    She added: "Others remembered clear direction from their managers not to do so."

    The spotlight first fell on Rotherham in 2010 when five men, described by a judge as sexual predators, were given lengthy jail terms after they were found guilty of grooming teenage girls for sex. The prosecution was the first of a series of high-profile cases in the past four years that have revealed the exploitation of young girls in towns and cities including Rochdale, Derby and Oxford.

    Following the 2010 case, the Times claimed that details from 200 restricted-access documents showed how police and child protection agencies in the South Yorkshire town had extensive knowledge of these activities for a decade, yet a string of offences went unprosecuted.

    The allegations led to a range of official investigations, including one by the home affairs select committee.

    Last year, the South Yorkshire police and crime commissioner, Shaun Wright, said there had been "a failure of management" at South Yorkshire police as he responded to a report into the force on this issue by Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC).

    The report concluded: "No one knows the true scale of the child sexual exploitation (CSE) in Rotherham over the years. Our conservative estimate is that approximately 1,400 children were sexually exploited over the full inquiry period, from 1997 to 2013."

    In response, Rotherham council, which commissioned the report, said it accepted the findings, including the statement that failures "almost without exception" were attributed to senior managers in child protection services, elected councillors and senior police officers.

    It accepted that failures were not down to "frontline social or youth workers who are acknowledged in the report as repeatedly raising serious concerns about the nature and extent of this kind of child abuse".

    The council's chief executive, Kimber, said: "The report does not make comfortable reading in its account of the horrific experiences of some young people in the past and I would like to reiterate our sincere apology to those who were let down when they needed help."

    "The report confirms that our services have improved significantly over the last five years and are stronger today than ever before.

    "This is important because it allows me to reassure young people and families that, should anyone raise concerns, we will take them seriously and provide them with the support they need.

    "However, that must not overshadow – and certainly does not excuse – the finding that for a significant amount of time the council and its partners could and should have done more to protect young people from what must be one of the most horrific forms of abuse imaginable."

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    Stepping down is "Taking responsibility"... how about arrests?

    End result of the report: a bigger and lumpier carpet!
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    Britain's Elite Boarding Schools Are Facing an Explosion of Abuse Allegations

    By Louise Tickle / September 1, 2014 5:01 AM EDT


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    At lights out one Sunday evening within weeks of starting at his senior school, Joel Shaw was “stripped, sexually assaulted and publicly humiliated by my housemaster jeered on by loads of my peers”, he recalls bitterly. It resulted, he claims, in him being remorselessly taunted as being this master’s ‘Bum­Boy’, a nickname seared into his memory and one that dogged him throughout his school career.

    “I want an apology,” says Joel (not his real name). He has recently made a claim for damages against the boarding school where he was allegedly abused nearly 30 years ago at the age of 13. “I want an acknowledgement abuse happened and also recognition of how it affected me.”

    The taunting – publicly, vocally, and therefore known to other staff at the school – only reinforced his feelings of anger and shame at what he says was done to him. He remains conflicted about the close relationship he subsequently developed with the teacher, who, he says, took pains to nurture his enthusiasms and helped shape his deep appreciation of the arts. The confusion for a teenager was agonising, he says, and, as a man, the shame remains.

    Last year, to Shaw’s horror, his alleged abuser emailed him at his place of work, “asking whether I’d care to ‘indulge in some nostalgic reminiscences’”, he says.

    “I broke out into a cold sweat, given the abuse that he’d subjected me to as a new boarder. This is only conjecture, but I think he liked me, and wanted to revive good memories of times we spent in his living room when we put the school magazine together, drinking lager, listening to his amazing classical music collection,” says Shaw.

    Feeling shaken, furious and shocked by the approach “out of the blue, after so many years”, Shaw made a complaint to police. His old housemaster was questioned but there will be no criminal prosecution: he is the only complainant and under the legislation in force at the time, the type of abuse he was subjected to is not covered.

    Given his claim against the school, is money what he’s after?

    “Definitely not,” says Shaw. “But realistically, it might help to pay for the years of therapy I’ve had to do to get my head around the multiple betrayals.”

    Systems of abuse
    Shaw is one of many of children who now claim they were sexually, physically and emotionally abused when they were sent away to UK boarding schools and fee-paying day schools. After years of repressing his experience, he is now in contact with other ex ­boarders who, like him, express sadness and rage that the precious years in which a boy becomes a man were indelibly tainted by their experience of abuse. Trapped sometimes by denial, sometimes by disgust, and sometimes even by feelings of loyalty to their school, many are only now, in their 30s, 40s and 50s, finding themselves able to report perpetrators to police. Some wait until their parents are dead before making a complaint, not wishing to inflict pain, guilt and regret on mothers and fathers in their twilight years.

    Increasingly, however, ex ­pupils are bringing civil actions against their schools for failing to protect them from abuse. Their alma maters are having to face up to discomforting accusations from claimants that in many cases, teachers were suspected of indecently assaulting pupils, but were never reported to the authorities. Often, complainants say that these teachers were instead quietly dismissed, and then found jobs at other schools where they could have continued crimes against vulnerable children.

    Prosecutions for child abuse in Britain’s public schools are no longer uncommon – the last 10 years have seen a number of both current and former teachers convicted and jailed. And the past 12 months have seen an explosion of allegations that are rocking fee ­paying schools to their august foundations. Earlier this year, allegations from ex ­pupils of some of the country’s most gilded institutions were emblazoned in a series of front page articles in The Times.


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    The publicity clearly galvanised other alumni, who, taking courage from the bravery of their classmates, made their own reports of abuse to police. As a result, at the time of writing, more than 20 former and current staff members have found themselves under investigation at the prestigious St Paul’s School in west London and its feeder prep school Colet Court. Two teachers, who were in post when the allegations surfaced, have since resigned, one of whom has recently been charged. In another recent high profile case, 20 former pupils at Ashdown House prep school in Sussex – where London mayor Boris Johnson was a boarder – have recently come forward with complaints about extreme cruelty and sex offences committed on them as young boys. A number of teachers are being investigated.

    As more and more ex boarding school pupils come forward, it appears momentum is gathering, and the number of complainants could reach into the hundreds. The past 12 months have been a turning point; there had been scandals before, but it’s the concentration, number and coverage of allegations that have caught attention. At Slater and Gordon, child abuse solicitor Liz Dux says she has seen “a huge increase in claims against schools, the vast majority of which are independent”.

    If enough civil claims are brought, schools could suffer major financial losses, whether or not they are insured. Paying damages could cost others hundreds of thousands, without the true scale of the scandal ever being made public. So what impact are these allegations having on the reputations, finances and futures of the UK fee-paying schools? And how are they dealing with civil actions brought by their alumni who claim to have suffered adulthoods blighted by the psychological anguish that is the aftermath of abuse?

    Past offences
    Nine schools that have experienced either the conviction of former teachers for sex offences, or are currently embroiled in criminal investigations were contacted by Newsweek for comment. None of the proposed areas of questioning would have required detail about the ongoing criminal cases, yet all but one – St Benedict’s in Ealing – either refused to be interviewed or failed to respond despite repeated requests. They were Caldicott in Buckinghamshire; King’s, Rochester in Kent; Wellington College, Berkshire; Beeston Hall, Norfolk; St Paul’s and Colet Court, west London; Downside, Somerset; and Ashdown House, Sussex.

    Crisis management advice is generally to be open and honest in response to enquiries, so this refusal to engage may offer some insight into the mindset of schools grappling with the dilemma of how to deal with a rapidly escalating scandal. Schools’ reluctance to comment is all the more surprising because to date, it seems that parents have not been put off. At St Benedict’s, the roll has been on the up for the past eight years and, overall, there are about 1,700 more children boarding in the UK this year compared to last.

    “My view is that the various abuse convictions and scandals have done absolutely no harm to schools in terms of their waiting lists,” says Tom Buchanan, media consultant to a number of independent schools. “I can’t think of any school I’ve advised that has had a drop in numbers. This speaks to a generalised acceptance of there being a risk that goes with the territory. And of course parents always think it won’t happen to their child.”

    Solicitor Peter Garsden, senior partner at Abney Garsden who heads up the child abuse department says that while some reputational damage to a school is almost inevitable, particularly if a criminal case hits the headlines, “the further away in time [the abuse occurred], the more easy it is for them to distance themselves from it”.

    What if a contemporaneous abuse case was to be reported to police and the press got hold of it? That, says Garsden, is highly unlikely. “We haven’t got any modern day institutional abuse cases on our books. Experience shows that kids can’t deal with the abuse while it’s going on. They bury it till later.”

    However, even if police are unable to bring a criminal prosecution, schools are not off the hook. There are, Garsden observes, a number of reasons why it may be impossible for complainants to have their day in the high court, not least because the perpetrator may be dead. The complainant themselves may also be too fragile to cope with the stress of a trial. But that still leaves schools open to a civil claim, and if a number of former pupils allege abuse, the liabilities are potentially catastrophic.

    What are victims looking for when they bring a civil suit? “Justice,” says Garsden simply. “Money tends to mean nothing – [abuse survivors] often give it to their children because, as they see it, they’re being paid for underage sex.”

    Schools will normally be insured, but if the alleged abuse took place years ago, it may not be possible to identify the insurance company which provided the cover at the time. This means the school itself may have to foot the legal bill and stump up for damages if they lose. The total can easily run to hundreds of thousands of pounds. Clearly, the stakes are high, and mean that once a claim is made, a school has to perform a delicate balancing act, weighing the loss of reputation if a case is dragged through the courts against the cost of settling and paying damages quietly.

    If a school opts to settle, specialist child abuse solicitor Samantha Robson observes that it’s unlikely parents – either of pupils already attending the school or those considering it for their children – will ever know that there’s been an abuse case to answer, although settlements are made with no admission of wrongdoing to begin with. Gagging orders are a typical condition of a financial settlement, she notes, “because if you were searching on the internet for a school for your son or daughter and you see this coming up, then you’re going to think twice”.

    “Even with insurance, schools can have a massive excess, and this would be paid out on every subsequent claim, so that’s another reason for defending,” Robson explains. “But it may also be that insurers don’t want to have to meet lots of other expensive claims, and so insist on going to court rather than settling.”

    House of cards
    At the Boarding Schools’ Association (BSA) national director Hilary Moriarty says that her concern for the future of UK boarding schools lies not in the prospect of droves of British parents hauling their children out when an abuse story hits the news – she doesn’t see that happening – but with foreign parents getting cold feet.

    “If the accounts of abuse are sufficiently frightening, for a parent in Hong Kong or China, who wants excellent teaching in English and is choosing a school, well, they have a choice,” she says. “[They] could go to America, Canada, New Zealand or Australia, and those countries are being very much more welcoming to overseas students than ourselves. Put that in the balance with stories from big newspapers like The Times, and it’s casting a shadow from the past over today’s schools, which are different places.”


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    Moriarty is adamant – as is St Benedict’s – that the safeguarding of children at British public schools has been transformed in recent years. Moriarty points to the fact that boarding schools are subject to three-yearly inspections by the Independent Schools Inspectorate, in which children are asked directly about their experience of being educated in that setting. “One of the ways the world is different now is that we live in a climate where allegations are more likely to be made by a child, and properly received, and properly investigated,” she says. “No ­one can ever say that this is watertight, but we have robust systems. The security of schools now comes from the fact that you can’t be complacent. They are alert, and that very alertness is your defence.”

    Independent schools, Joel Shaw points out, are, in the end, businesses. The recent apology made at the BSA annual conference, he says, was at least in part about managing their brand reputation. Prospective parents may want a more cast iron guarantee than an apology and a promise to do better: Dux observes pointedly that nothing has changed in English and Welsh law to compel schools to react any differently to suspected or known abuse than they did in the past.

    “There have been cases even in the last four years where heads have had reports [of abuse] and have not actioned those reports and abuse has occurred subsequently,” she says. “That’s why there has to be mandatory reporting of abuse.” Without it, she does not believe children are safe.

    In the wake of the various abuse scandals that have erupted across the British fee­-paying – and also state­-funded – schools, there is now considerable momentum for “mandatory reporting” – a law requiring professionals who work with children who know or suspect child abuse to consult the local council’s child protection officer for independent advice on what action should be taken next, whether internal investigation or an immediate referral to police. Failure to report would be a criminal offence. Campaigners believe this legislation would introduce a stronger culture of abuse prevention as well as supporting and protecting mandated staff: Tom Perry, a Caldicott abusee who also campaigns for mandatory reporting in school settings says that “in the absence of law, staff who do report are, by default, whistleblowers with very little protection”.

    Increasing numbers of MPs are now backing the measure, though opposition from some surprising quarters remains. Children’s charity the NSPCC has only just reversed its position that failure to report even known abuse should be criminalised: it now says that the individuals heading up institutions that cover up abuse should be prosecuted, but does not support a law against failure to report reasonable grounds for suspecting that children are being groomed, indecently assaulted or even raped.

    This is not good enough, say campaigners, who emphasise that mandatory reporting is not intended to criminalise hordes of people – it is intended to prevent abusers from viewing school pupils as easy pickings. The MP Cheryl Gillan said in parliament that “given the flood of non-recent cases of child abuse in schools that we see reported every week in the media, we now know that discretionary reporting does not work . . . at the moment, the guidance is frequently ignored”.

    Perry explains why he believes children themselves cannot be relied on to report abuse as it’s happening.

    “The dynamics of abuse have not changed,” he says. “It may be deeply uncomfortable to acknowledge, but the child mistakenly believes themselves to be in a relationship with the abuser, and will therefore feel they are committing a betrayal by speaking out. You can be a child with a mobile phone and all the ‘awareness’ in the world, but you still have to speak. Child abuse is a unique crime because it is the only one in which often both the perpetrator and the victim are equally motivated, for different reasons, to keep it secret. If staff are then not required to report reasonable grounds for suspecting abuse, contemporaneous discovery is almost impossible.”

    The Department of Education is now reconsidering its opposition to mandatory reporting, after the then secretary of state for education Michael Gove made a surprise announcement in March that a compelling case for a new law had been made to him by an abuse survivor.

    It’s difficult to gauge public schools’ position on whether they consider it necessary to strengthen their safeguarding with criminal sanctions for failure to report, as those asked were not willing to be interviewed. But with two decades of experience representing victims of abuse, Peter Garsden says that without such a law, the system is always going to fail. “Human instinct will always be with selfish considerations,” he says. “For staff, that’s their jobs and their security of livelihood. Unless they’re brave, they’re not going to report it. They’d be bringing the whole pack of cards down.”
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    Dutch Royalty, Notables Accused of Child Killing

    September 10, 2014

    This is incredible. A woman claiming to be the wife of the Mafia leader in Holland has implicated Queen Beatrix and many Dutch notables, including Geert Wilders and possibly George Soros (not Dutch) in the satanic ritual abuse, rape and murder of children. Normally I would reject such outlandish claims. But given what we know of the Illuminati, anything is possible.

    Transcript of Anne Marie van Blijenburgh's testimony (above) about child murders in Belgium
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    My name is Anne Marie van Blijenburgh. I have been married for twenty four years to Kees van Korlaar. Together with his three brothers, Kees van Korlaar forms a criminal organization known as the Octopus Syndicate (ed. Note: This is a slang term in Holland for Ndrangheta, the modern Italian -based Mafia). They have worked from 1960 on to today. By order of Queen Beatrix they have organized the murder, torture, rape and killing of children in a public setting. They organized that through youth detention centers in the Netherlands.

    The youth detention centers were told by the criminals that they were asking the Dutch court for children who could work for the Dutch Queen for a certain period. The detention centers were very happy; they thought that Queen Beatrix was a very social person, and they gladly volunteered in giving files of certain children to the criminals. When they wanted to verify what the criminals told them, they were given a name and a phone number of a high ranking officer in the court of Queen Beatrix, and that high ranking officer would tell them that indeed the criminals were seeking children to work for a certain period at the Dutch court.

    After receiving files of approximately three children every time, the criminals selected a child that had no relative or family. They told the youth detention center that those are the ones we want; the youth detention center would give clothes to the child and put the child on the train to Zwolle.

    In Zwolle, the criminals fetched the child from the station and brought it to a building that was equipped like a hotel but was not working as a hotel, although there were people in the lobby as if the hotel was working. The child was put on a table and was given something to drink and with that drink the child was drugged. Beside that hotel was a building where the performance took place.

    In that building there were people were sitting down and at a certain moment the child was brought into that building by the criminals, was tortured, raped and brutally murdered in front of those people.

    The audience was around Prince Johann Friso, the second son of Queen Beatrix. I was told that Johann Friso was quite insane and had an unhealthy interest in young children and had a psychiatrist with him every day of his life. That psychiatrist's name was Guus Pareau Dumont. The criminals organized those killings in accordance with Queen Beatrix. She paid for the killings.

    And the criminals asked Johann Friso to bring his relatives and friends with him, so the whole building was filled with very important people from the Netherlands: ministers, high ranking officers and all kinds of people that the criminals could photograph so they could blackmail those people and get criminal advantages from that.

    Question: Could you name some of the people who were present?


    The people who I recognized there were Prince Johann Friso, his psychiatrist Guus Pareau Dumont; I recognized Johann's wife Mabel Wisse Smit; she was there with an old man, I think it was George Soros. I recognized a Herr Donner, a former minister of the law department, the viceroy of the Netherlands. I recognized Ernst Hirsch Ballin, a very important former Minister of Justice; I recognized a Mr. van den Emster, he was for years the head of all judges in the Netherlands; I recognized Dick Berlijn; he's a former head of the military department in the Netherlands. I recognized a very important journalist. I recognized Carla Eradus, the wife of Friso's psychiatrist Guus Pareau Dumont, Carla is the President of the Court in Amsterdam, a judge. I recognized Mark Rutte, he's at this moment the President of the Netherlands. I recognized Geert Wilders; he is at this moment the head of the political party PVV and head of the Dutch Parliament.

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    What's to doubt? Look at Jimmy Seville's photos chumming it up with Prince Phillip and Prince Charles. Another brief exposure was the Detroux Affair - the child trafficking/snuff ring implicated Prince Laurent, Prince Albert and other members of the Belgian aristocracy/nobility and the 'elite'

    Accusations of this most open secret activity of the Black Nobility runs back through the centuries.
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    Thank you, Amzer Zo, I so appreciate the fact that you bring this to the air. I think that the words - 'crumbling damage control' are fit, those things are going to come out to the surface more and more for public scrutiny, while our society is about to find out just how much those horrendus acts are prevelent in earth as well as by whom. From then on it got to go deeper as to WHY these acts are happening and taking place by such 'civil' looking people.. and then there will have to be a major healing involved or if this possibility is not there, evil must be dissolved. I cry for these beautiful children and pray for the serenity of their soul. Hopefully this gruesome 'food chain' of possesed and possessings will end.

    As human species we must adress our society's problems, look at it deep into the 'eyes',stand firm in our understanding of it and never allow.. We awe it to the many who have gone for the lack of our knowledge or care. Thank you for this thread and much love~
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    Evil must be dissolved.. thank you Limor. I just made an audio debrief of a group healing session that I will share later today… So awe inspiring. Just the LOOK OF CONSCIOUS AWARENESS is changing the field.

    Just made an audio of our Avalon Healers Session today.. It seems relevant.

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    I agree, Christine, when looked by conscious awarness the field is changing.
    Thank you very much for putting all these waves of information, feelings and energies outside in the air where they belong.. the controllers know the grid, know the energies and have a good perception of the formation of such reticulation, as previously they were constantly weaving their own. This is also a new era for them as their creations are now for the first time in millenniums being observed..

    A grid is also formed by each one (a group or an individual) being called to a shared or to an individual task of their own, these patches on earth form a blanket that can not be intercepted when the clearing and cleaning is taking place

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    Had no idea how much control is applied... to my Canadian friends:

    Writer Encounters Invisible Dictatorship

    October 3, 2014


    When Ann Diamond, tried to tell her story of being a child victim of brainwashing
    experiments, she discovered an invisible hand that controls political discourse and publishing in Canada. "Successful people" are collaborators with the Illuminati.

    Often they are mind controlled victims themselves. Art and entertainment are means of inducting society into this satanic cult which controls the world.
    Quote "It didn't occur to me that a series of grownup MK ULTRA children could have approached Canadian publishers over the years with similar stories of underground laboratories at universities and military bases, where children were kept in cages, raped, electroshocked, and worse."
    by Ann Diamond
    (henrymakow.com)

    In 2004, I wrote a memoir about my childhood growing up as part a secret mind control experiment, one of hundreds across North America that operated under the black umbrella of the MK ULTRA program between 1953 and 1964.

    As twin children of a Royal Canadian Air Force flight sergeant and his unwitting French-Canadian wife, my brother and I had been placed in a special program run out of McGill University`s Allan Memorial in downtown Montreal.

    Based on two years and thousands of pages of research and correspondence with other survivors, my 400-page book recounted the story of a typical Canadian family caught up in a classified program most Canadians have never heard of, even now.

    I thought I had solved a great mystery that had damaged my generation (Baby Boomers) and haunted me throughout my life. In Montreal it seemed everyone I spoke to knew someone, or had a family member who had been harmed by the same McGill doctors - psychiatrists and neurologists - I was investigating; including several heroes of the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame. I had only to mention the subject and stories poured out, which explained so much about our collective and personal experience, that I was naively convinced that some brave Canadian publisher would pick it up and market it to a wide audience.


    I was unprepared for what actually happened. Editors, agents and publishers I contacted not only rejected it flat out, but seemed to know all about the top secret program without reading past the blurb. Most declined or failed to respond to my emails and queries and, the few who did, said things which were downright weird, even slightly scary. "This book could never be published in Canada" - opined one Montreal editor, with astonishing self-assurance. How could she know that before she'd read it?

    An Ontario publisher expressed interest, then avoided getting back to me with a response. "They will swoop down and lock her up --" he told a mutual friend who asked him what he thought. It didn't occur to me, back then, that grownup MK ULTRA children could have approached Canadian publishers over the years with similar stories of underground laboratories at universities and military bases, where children were kept in cages, raped, electroshocked, and worse.


    Not taking no for an answer, I pitched my book to an agent who referred me to Anne Collins, editor/publisher at Harper Collins Canada, Governor-General winning author of In the Sleep Room, and the recognized "expert" on the infamous Allan Memorial Institute where Dr. Cameron [above], had carried on his CIA-funded experiments on adult mental patients. Reading her book, I began to suspect her of being an actual survivor of the program - she wrote with the claustrophobic air of having wandered the Allan's halls [Allan Memorial Institute] and knowing its secrets as only an inmate would. Given that she was my age, that would mean she was there as a child.

    I wrote her a long email, detailing my amazing discoveries: like that Dr. Cameron was really the fall guy for a program that had employed Nazi doctors and others who used children as human lab rats. That some of the "disposable" children who died were Quebec Duplessis orphans and aboriginal children stolen from reserves and sacrificed to boost the careers of military scientists, including pillars of Canadian science and medicine.

    I never heard back from Ms. Collins, but a few years later I attended a talk she gave to Creative Writing students at Concordia University. Oddly, that day a young man in the audience attempted to pitch a book to her - it was about a Montreal family which had been devastated by Dr. Cameron and sounded remarkably similar to my family story.

    Collins dismissed him in a sentence or two: "That book has already been written," she said, "by me. You should move on."

    She went on to defend McGill and Dr. Cameron. "He made his mea culpa," she says in a 2007 Scottish documentary called The Memory Thief, suggesting it's time to forgive and forget the man who reduced his patients to a vegetative state before sending them back to their families they often failed to recognize.


    THE ULTIMATE TABOO-TRUTH
    There is a list of taboo subjects that probably can get you locked up for mentioning them, One of them is that children were (and are still being) used in secret mind control research, funded by the Canadian, US and UK governments and their respective militaries, to benefit the war and aerospace industries.

    It has taken me all these years to realize how this amnesia thing works. In the first place, Canadian publishing, which survives on government funding, appears to be an extension of military intelligence. Many people who occupied key positions in Can Lit came from military intelligence backgrounds.


    (In the meantime, they must make do with "kulture")

    Should it shock anyone that Canada's literary world is controlled by intelligence operatives? Maybe not, given that south of the border, the CIA took over the world of publishing and media back in the 1950s. If you don`t believe that, watch the recent documentary on J.D. Salinger - who received mind control training at US overseas headquarters in Frankfurt, Germany, during and after the Second World War, and went on to appear on the cover of LIFE and TIME as the greatest writer of his generation on the basis of a single, first novel: Catcher in the Rye.

    Salinger, the military operative turned culture hero, became the model that every young writer from Sylvia Plath to Leonard Cohen tried to imitate.

    Can Lit's subjection to military projects is troubling, and not limited to a small gang in Toronto, although Ontario has always adored "British intelligence." The pattern shows up across the country, and the British-born son of an intelligence officer I met in Vancouver a few years ago confirmed that he had been trained and sent out as an agent, like his father before him, to monitor and report on Canadian culture. Both his marriages had been arranged by the military, with his wives acting as his handlers.

    What are the odds of this happen[ing] by chance rather than design? There has been an underlying plan all along to control what Canadians read and think, and it was concocted by military minds, not regular folks like you and me.

    Why would literature - which ought to be about awakening and reaching out -associate itself with the secrecy and suppression?

    TELLING MY STORY



    After the story of My Cold War childhood had been rejected a few times, I decided to publish it myself. This meant I was forced to promote it, which usually means getting readings around Montreal. I thought the best way to go about this was to contact my writers' association. I learned that my association had been taken over by a tiny clique of women who had come to Montreal mostly from New York a few years earlier. Its 600+ membership list was kept secret, and two administrators answered all emails and phone inquiries, running the association as a private business although they depended on government grants to fund their programs.

    Since the mid-90s, all readings were under the tight control of a woman who was good friends with the writers' association clique. In dealing with anyone from this group, I always hit the same wall. When I submitted my self-published book to their annual awards competition, I was told it was not eligible. When I questioned this, they told me an "ethics committee" was evaluating my book. I was not allowed to know who the members were.

    On the day they were to render their decision, things got a little surreal. A man in a hat was sent to follow and question me. He appeared to be some sort of police informer. In an odd twist he was obviously one of the kids from the secret program at McGill. He also happened to be someone I slightly knew.

    Clearly uncomfortable, he insisted on meeting me for coffee and made a clumsy attempt to interrogate me about my writing. I had the impression I had transgressed some CSIS protocol by writing about my childhood, and was now on some list. I also had the strong impression my writers' association had sent him.



    Later at one of the controlled cultural events that now make up the "scene" in Montreal, and where my book MY COLD WAR was to be one of several "door prizes", members of the same clique caused it to mysteriously disappear. Afterwards, the administrator of my writers' association literally followed me around the entire evening, interrupting any conversation I started up with other attendees, until I finally left.

    I learned the former Chairperson of my writers' association, was now Ombudsman for the McGill hospital that held my family's medical records dating back to the MK ULTRA program. After I spoke to her one day, she got on the phone and made sure I couldn't access them.

    Through a long circuitous process I learned how a city can be placed under invisible lockdown as essential stories affecting thousands can be suppressed, public records hidden or destroyed, and memories erased through a system of collusion by guilty parties and institutions. In the process I also found myself not just isolated but almost criminalized for asking to know the truth about crimes against children which Canada hides behind a curtain of "national security."

    This story may sound implausible and paranoid, but I suspect it will expand and deepen with the passing years, adding grist to conspiracy theories. It was shocking to see all this operating in my own backyard in the city of my birth, where I had lived for decades totally oblivious to the reality of my own past. Sometimes I had even worked for the same institutions who had funded and supported the secret program I had been part of as a child.

    If it all sounds bizarre and dubious, consider this interesting fact: many of the culture czars and czarinas dominating Canadian culture today are children from the medical families who once profited from the CIA's unspeakable programs, while in the 80s and 90s, military intelligence agents controlled the publishing scene and the grant money supporting it.

    Canada was created as a crown corporation for the enrichment of a small elite. Can Lit was invented and sold to us as a distraction. Our writers have been purposely kept back from representing the truth about this country, now well on the way to collapse - the most obvious signs being the attack on our environment, social programs, and once-vital cultural institutions including the CBC and NFB. When did you last read a Canadian book that dealt honestly with the realities we currently are facing, and do you think that is an accident?

    There should be a national outcry over stolen memories, but instead there's an eerie silence while the gap between the average Canadian and the official stars of publishing just keeps widening.

    --
    Also by Ann Diamond - Leonard Cohen- Product of Illuminati Mind Control?
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    Paedophile Ring Whistleblower Melanie Shaw Sentenced Without Evidence

    Hollywood Celebrity Samantha Morton To Meet Melanie


    By: Anna Bragga |@anna_bragga on 31st October 2014 @ 5.21pm



    © Melanie Shaw A jury delivered a shock guilty verdict on paedophile ring whistleblower, Melanie Shaw.

    A jury delivered a shock guilty verdict on paedophile ring whistleblower, Melanie Shaw, yesterday, accused of starting a shed fire and throwing paint on a neighbour’s home in Nottingham, England.

    Observers watched with incredulity as Judge Michael Pert QC announced the news, resulting in a conviction of arson - reckless as to whether life was endangered, on February 1, and damaging property on June 26. Sentencing will take place in six weeks following a psychiatric report.

    An absence of substantive evidence, coupled with irregularities in the conduct of the trial, has reinforced public opinion that Beechwood Children’s Home survivor, Melanie Shaw, is the victim of a carefully orchestrated establishment set-up intended to silence her and protect a high-ranking paedophile ring involved in crimes against children and child abuse - some of whom are said to have been murdered, committed suicide or disappeared without trace.

    An orchestrated set-up
    The prosecution argued that Melanie had set fire to a shed in revenge for a grudge against a neighbour who had alerted social services resulting in her child being taken away. But, strangely, no records were produced by the court to confirm there was any fire at the Sherwood address on February 1st.

    Nottingham Police initially maintained that the fire took place on April 4th, a date which subsequently showed no official records of a fire. The police allegation of Melanie’s involvement in an arson attack on this date was effectively used to imprison her for three months in HMP Peterborough, one of the most brutal prisons in the country, where she was maltreated to the degree that she could barely walk on leaving.

    The lay advocate and McKenzie Friend, acting on behalf of Melanie, told Neon nettle: “There’s been no evidence from the Fire Brigade about the fire. The evidence is just not there. There’s nothing that proves beyond reasonable doubt that it was Melanie who set that fire.”

    Convicted without evidence
    A handwriting expert was unable to confirm that that the graffiti on the side of the neighbour’s house was Melanie’s handwriting.

    A bag holding the tins of paint had ten fingerprints on it. One, without paint, was claimed to be Melanie’s, while the remainder in paint, have not been forensically examined, according to the lay advocate, who took notes throughout the three-day trial.

    Internet TV broadcaster and journalist at the UK Column, Brian Gerrish, who was present on the first day, also told Neon Nettle: “When the paint was thrown, the owner of the house told Melanie that he’d installed CCTV. Melanie said: ‘So since you told me, why would I then go and be recorded on CCTV throwing paint?’ But mysteriously, the day that the paint was thrown, the CCTV wasn’t working.”

    The lay advocate, who has been a regular visitor to the prison and spent 24 hours a day with Melanie over the fourteen day bail period, said: “The street that Melanie lives on had been blighted by crimes which were never investigated. I just think Melanie is being targeted to be kept captive, and by keeping her captive their main aim is to keep under wraps everything she knows.”

    “My feeling is that they will go to absolutely any cost to keep her quiet.”


    © WikiMedia Fellow Beechwood survivor, actress Samantha Morton.

    The Judge fell asleep several times during the proceedings, noted by observers as a sign that his mind had been made up from the start. Two jurors were seen asleep during yesterday’s hearing.

    The lay advocate added: “This case has been totally led, and the jury has been totally influenced by the judge. He’s directed them. He actually gave them a sheet of paper with directions on how they need to go forward. It’s all very odd.”

    “Operation Daybreak is a conspiracy theory” – Judge
    Several observers reported hearing the judge refer to the police investigation into Beechwood as a “conspiracy theory,” just before the jury was about to retire, despite at least ten individuals having been arrested and compensation awarded to a number of victims.

    Further questions around the Judge have come to the fore since it was discovered that he was involved in a controversial decision to overturn a conviction on an HIV positive predatory paedophile.

    Gerrish, who got to know Melanie before her arrest on July 10th, said: “As far as we are concerned, we think we’re very close to the total breakdown of law and order, because the police are obviously totally corrupt, but it extends to courts aswell.”
    “My opinion is that Melanie is a truthful witness and I’m absolutely going to stand by the position that this woman has been silenced for one reason – to cover up the widespread abuse of children in Nottingham.”

    A psychiatric report produced in the court said Melanie had been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. To the many supporters who have been writing to her in prison, this will be hard to swallow.

    “I think the prison is totally responsible for her current mental health,” added the lay advocate. “It’s been clear to me during the time I’ve been with her, that they’ve been gradually destabilising her. There’s been a massive impact with them messing about with her medication, not giving her full prescription medication as and when she’d ordinarily have it. That adds all sorts of consequences to a person’s functioning and mental health. I think that her treatment within that institution is totally responsible for her current state of mind. They’ve gradually broken her down. I think they’ve been part of a plan to do that.”

    Actress Samantha Morton to meet Melanie Shaw
    The vast swathe of public support rooting for Melanie Shaw’s release, now stronger than ever, has reached into the glittering circles of showbiz, and the orbit of fellow Beechwood survivor, actress Samantha Morton.

    Morton has already been in contact with Melanie, said the advocate, and asked to see her in prison. “I don’t know how they are going to meet, to be honest. I know that Samantha Morton is doing another film, and she said Nottinghamshire police have been giving her a horrific time. They’ve been interviewing her again. She said the way they treat you is quite horrific.”

    Another Beechwood survivor who stepped forward, the brother of one of Melanie’s friends, tried to commit suicide several times, because each time he went to the police and gave a statement they insisted he goes for a three-month psychiatric assessment. The psychiatric assessments took him to the brink of suicide each time.

    It’s happening to others, says the advocate, “each time anybody tries to come forward, and put in the public domain exactly what did happen to them as abused children, they are closed down. They didn’t have a voice when they were a child, and now as adults, they’re trying to raise awareness about it, and they are stopped.”
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    In Great Britain, Powerful Pedophiles are Seemingly Everywhere and Totally Above the Law

    Michael Krieger | Posted Monday Mar 9, 2015 at 3:06 pm

    A newspaper editor was handed startling evidence that Britain’s top law enforcement official knew there was a VIP pedophile network in Westminster, at the heart of the British government. What happened next in the summer of 1984 helps to explain how shocking allegations of rape and murder against some of the country’s most powerful men went unchecked for decades.

    Less than 24 hours after starting to inquire about the dossier presented to him by a senior Labour Party politician, the editor was confronted in his office by a furious member of parliament who threatened him and demanded the documents. “He was frothing at the mouth and really shouting and spitting in my face,” Don Hale told The Daily Beast. “He was straight at me like a raging lion; he was ready to knock me through the wall.”

    Despite the MP’s explosive intervention, Hale refused to hand over the papers which appeared to show that Leon Brittan, Margaret Thatcher’s Home Secretary, was fully aware of a pedophile network that included top politicians.

    The editor’s resistance was futile; the following morning, police officers from the counter-terror and intelligence unit known as Special Branch burst into the newspaper office, seized the material and threatened to have Hale arrested if he ever reported what had been found.
    – From the Daily Beast article: How Thatcher’s Government Covered Up a VIP Pedophile Ring

    Sexually molesting extremely small children is one of the most heinous acts a person can commit while existing as a human being on this planet. Since 99% of humanity agrees with this assessment, the incredibly small group of predators who get off on this sort of behavior understand they need to occupy the most elite levels of esteemed institutions in order to safely get away with their vile behavior. This is precisely why so many of the worst pedophiles tends to be very powerful businessmen, politicians and higher ups in organized religion.

    This is a topic I’ve explored previously. For example, in the post, In Great Britain, Protecting Pedophile Politicians is a Matter of “National Security”, I wrote:
    Those with the sickest minds, and who wish to act upon their destructive fantasies, understand that they can most easily get away with their deeds if they are protected by an aura of power and ostensible respectability. They believe that as a result of their status, no one would dare accuse them of horrific activities, and if it ever came to that, they could quash any investigation
    Of the developed nations, this sort of thing has essentially become institutionalized in Great Britain, with many of the most horrid pedophiles sporting a “Sir” in front of their names. Like oligarch theft and political corruption, the reason it appears to be such an epidemic over there is precisely because the powerful are coddled and protected.

    The Daily Beast just published an extraordinary article highlighting this issue. Here are some excerpts:
    LONDON — A newspaper editor was handed startling evidence that Britain’s top law enforcement official knew there was a VIP pedophile network in Westminster, at the heart of the British government. What happened next in the summer of 1984 helps to explain how shocking allegations of rape and murder against some of the country’s most powerful men went unchecked for decades.

    Less than 24 hours after starting to inquire about the dossier presented to him by a senior Labour Party politician, the editor was confronted in his office by a furious member of parliament who threatened him and demanded the documents. “He was frothing at the mouth and really shouting and spitting in my face,” Don Hale told The Daily Beast. “He was straight at me like a raging lion; he was ready to knock me through the wall.”

    Despite the MP’s explosive intervention, Hale refused to hand over the papers which appeared to show that Leon Brittan, Margaret Thatcher’s Home Secretary, was fully aware of a pedophile network that included top politicians.

    The editor’s resistance was futile; the following morning, police officers from the counter-terror and intelligence unit known as Special Branch burst into the newspaper office, seized the material and threatened to have Hale arrested if he ever reported what had been found.

    More than 30 years later, an inquiry into allegations of child sex abuse rings, murder, and cover-ups has been launched by the British government after Scotland Yard detectives said they believed statements by victims who claimed they were systematically abused as young boys at sex abuse parties attended by judges, politicians, intelligence officers, and staff at the royal palaces.

    Baroness Castle, then Barbara Castle, a Labour member of the European parliament, told Hale she did not trust Brittan to investigate the allegations thoroughly. “Barbara never said he was a pedophile, she was just very, very hostile about him. ‘He’s the last person you want this to go to,’ she said, which inferred that he was somehow involved,” Hale explained.

    Worried about the integrity of the Home Office investigation, Castle had tried to interest the major newspapers in the classified documents but she turned to Hale when they rejected her overtures. “She was saying, ‘I’ve been everywhere else, I’ve been to the nationals, nobody would touch it with a barge pole, but what do you think?’” Hale recalled. “As a journalist of course I was interested.”

    Great Britain’s notoriously tough libel laws insured that obviously he couldn’t repeat the allegations included in the Home Office papers that about 16 MPs and members of the House of Lords, and 30 high-profile figures from the Church of England, private schools, and big business, were members of, and advocates for, the Paedophile Information Exchange. The shadowy group, which operated partly in the open, campaigned for the age of consent to be abolished and incest to be legalized. It also allowed pedophiles to send each other secure mail and to meet in person.

    Three vehicles pulled up to the newspaper offices and about 15 men barged inside. Two pushed him up against a wall and brandished a search warrant and something they described as a “D-notice.” The D-notice system was established in 1912 and was supposed to be used on very rare occasions when national security could be threatened by a news story.
    Yep, as mentioned earlier, protecting powerful pedophiles really is considered a matter of national security in the UK.
    The rest of the men were searching for the files, which they described as stolen, confidential Home Office papers. “These bully boys come storming in, they said, ‘We’re not here to negotiate. Hand them over or we’ll arrest you now.’ I couldn’t argue, because as soon as you opened the files it had got ‘Not to be removed’, ‘Confidential’ and ‘For your eyes only’—all these sort of things on them. I wouldn’t have had a hope in hell legally. I would have ended up in prison and the story would have gone nowhere,” he said.

    Among the retired police officers Danczuk interviewed, one recalled the time Special Branch officers forbade them from asking a victim about Smith. Others remembered the day Smith was allowed to walk out of a police station without charge despite indecent images being found in his car after an unexplained telephone call from London.

    It wasn’t just Special Branch that seemed keen to keep MPs out of the clutches of the law. In a candid interview for the BBC in 1995, Tim Fortescue, a former Conservative Party chief whip, described the grubby calculations routinely applied within elite political circles:

    “Anyone with any sense who was in trouble would come to the whips and tell them the truth, and say now, ‘I’m in a jam, can you help?’ It might be debt, it might be a scandal involving small boys, or any kind of scandal which a member seemed likely to be mixed up in, they’d come and ask if we could help. And if we could, we did. We would do everything we can because we would store up brownie points. That sounds a pretty nasty reason but one of the reasons is, if we can get a chap out of trouble, he’ll do as we ask forever more.”


    There is growing evidence that MI5 and MI6, Britain’s security services, took a similar view. MI5 is alleged to have repeatedly blocked investigations into a sex abuse ring at the Kincora children’s home in Northern Ireland in order to protect its intelligence-gathering operation.

    The longtime deputy director of MI6, and former High Commissioner in Canada, Peter Hayman was himself allegedly a pedophile, and was ultimately named as such in parliament by Geoffrey Dickens. Hayman had been caught with explicit material in 1978 but no charge was brought. Secret files discovered at the National Archives this year revealed that the attorney general at the time believed it wasn’t in the public interest for Hayman to be prosecuted. Prime Minister Thatcher ordered his depravity to be concealed from the public.

    Carl was abused by a pedophile ring from the age of 7, and the emotional and physical torture went on for nine years. Some of his attackers, he says, were men with influence and authority. “The authority is not what stops people from speaking out, it’s the fear that is instilled by these people,” he said. “It appears the cover-ups did happen and it makes survivors very wary because you don’t know who you can have confidence in to report.”

    In 1990, she raised concerns at a local council meeting that a large number of boys in the area were showing signs of abuse. She claimed that Margaret Hodge, then leader of Islington council and later the Minister for Children under Tony Blair, ignored her warnings. It was 2014 before Hodge would apologize for her “shameful naivety” in failing to properly investigate the claims of abuse. She is now chair of the Public Accounts Committee, which is responsible for oversight of all government spending.


    If a society is incapable of protecting its weakest and most vulnerable members from sexual assault by powerful adults, it’s hard to call that society civilized. Just horrible.

    For related articles, see:
    In Great Britain, Protecting Pedophile Politicians is a Matter of “National Security”

    Oligarch Justice – Powerful Pedophiles Roam Free as Journalist Barrett Brown Returns to Jail

    Former BBC Host “Sir” Jimmy Savile Exposed as Major Player in Massive Pedophile Ring

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    Meanwhile, in Canada:

    John Seeley: Illuminati Pied Piper of Pedophilia


    June 27, 2015


    (John Seeley, 1913-2007, mentor to Illuminati leaders and their children)



    The world is run by the Sabbatean Jewish cult, the Illuminati, who are homosexual pedophiles.

    Their goal is to induct humanity into their cult to serve their god Lucifer. That's why they're normalizing homosexuality and pedophilia, (i.e. "sex ed.")

    Seeley boasted of being friends with Presidents and Prime Ministers - JFK, LBJ and Pierre Trudeau - who invited him to spend weekends at 24 Sussex Drive. All three leaders have been accused of pedophilia. Seeley mentored Justin Trudeau, the current Liberal leader, when he was a child.


    by Ann Diamond
    (henrymakow.com)

    In his book The Pedophocracy, Dave McGowan demonstrates how western society has fallen under the control of a cult of elite pedophiles. It's not just that the elite are inbred, uncontrollably corrupt and prone to perversions - pedophilia is also a well-established system of vetting, grooming and controlling the men in power.

    Organized child abuse is rife in Canada, and much credit is due to John Seeley.

    Nobody I know has ever heard of Seeley, but he's revered in academia. His name is all over the pages [of] the secret eugenics movement that has shaped Canadian society since the beginning of the Cold War.



    Seeley died in 2007 but his name has popped up lately in support of the Ontario Liberal regime's radical new sex ed curriculum. Seeley's real name was Friedeberg. He was a Sabbatean Jew as are many of his acolytes like Marxist Toronto journalist Rick Salutin, (above), who recently called his old mentor an important "educational philosopher" and "the smartest, kindest guy I ever knew".

    Clayton Ruby, Toronto's beloved civil liberties lawyer, also a Jew, dubbed Seeley "the wisest, kindest man he ever knew." Did you hear an echo just now? Is this the Toronto Boys' Choir?


    (Clay Ruby and convicted pedophile Levin.)


    When Clayton Ruby attended Forest Hill Academy, John Seeley tutored him in weekly private sessions from age ten. Nothing strange about that. Or the fact that Ruby's recently defended Benjamin Levin, Ontario's former deputy education minister, on child pornography and related charges. Levin is now serving a three-year sentence for pedophilia.

    If Dave McGowan's "pedophocracy" really does rule western societies, then it would extend to Canada, wouldn't it? It would explain why a dead 'sadist and pedophile' is being dragged from his grave by cheerleaders for expanded mental health and sex education programs in Ontario.

    "MENTAL HEALTH"
    For Seeley, "mental health" was obviously a way to get close to children. In the 1950s, he had himself analyzed by a sympathetic crony, Toronto psychiatrist Martin Fischer. Seeley shared his violent pedophile fantasies with Dr. Fischer, who never reported them to authorities. These confessions appear in an early version of Paul Bentley's PhD thesis on Seeley which he posted online on Scribd but has since revised, removing all references to pedophilia.

    A trove of information, it exposes these two influential frauds, both connected to British intelligence and elite Toronto. Martin Fischer had to Canada as a Jewish refugee from Nazi Germany. Known to practice psychoanalysis without a licence, he was accused of abusing students at two of his Art Therapy Institutes in the 1980s and 90s.

    When Paul Bentley interviewed Seeley in Los Angeles in the 1990s, he was shocked to find the great thinker living in a seedy neighbourhood of west L.A. posing as a 'child psychiatrist."

    Seeley was eager to talk about the "military agenda" that had recruited him for peacetime projects. Eugenicists planned to use 'mental hygiene' to completely 'reorganize Canada.'

    Who knew, back in the 1950s, Toronto's posh Forest Hills enclave (aka Crestwood Heights) would be the flagship community of a new National Health Project bringing together psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, educators, recreation specialists, sociologists to achieve "gratifying results."

    According to Seeley, "A small cell within the military elite" including himself and Brock Chisholm were "the masterminds behind the whole operation." Social control had a new disguise: "enlightened" therapy involving the entire population.

    Baby Boomers would grow up rejecting parental authority only to become pawns of mass media and the emerging drug culture.

    The only thing left was for the media to get involved. By the early 1950s, the National Film Board of Canada, transformed from wartime propaganda agency to become a tool for psychological war in peacetime, was promoting the new eugenics in a series of documentaries which trained Canadian parents to adopt the new, 'permissive' child-raising techniques popularized by Dr. Spock and American television programs like "I Love Lucy" and "Leave it to Beaver."

    By the late sixties, the "reorganized" Canada was exporting its new culture to the world. The award-winning, deeply depressing "Warrendale" documentary unveiled the first generation to be raised under Canada's new, secret eugenics program.

    Why isn't this history taught in schools? Because we're all products of it, and to question it would be like criticizing the very air we breathe.

    Thank "Toronto the Good," the CBC and NFB for being vectors of the new world order, and keeping this and the secret of John Seeley under wraps for decades.

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    Related-
    Lord Janner Raped & Tortured Kids in Houses of Parliament

    llluminati Pedophiles Run Great Britain

    Jimmy Saville Part of Satanic Cult (Daily Express)



    BIBLIOGRAPHY:
    https://www.scribd.com/doc/224709175...edophocracy-By
    Brian J. Low, The Hand that Rocked the Cradle: 
A Critical Analysis of Rockefeller Philanthropic Funding, 1920-1960

    http://library.queensu.ca/ojs/index....e/view/434/581
    Paul Roberts Bentley: Martyr for Mental Health: John R. Seeley and the Forest Hill Village Project, 1948 - 1956

    https://tspace.library.utoronto.ca/handle/1807/43489
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    Some readers might find this thread to be of some interest: Speaking of "Street Crimes," Riots, etc... and learn it takes only a couple of weeks of "psychiatric treatment" to turn someone into a mind controlled asset...
    In the thread mentioned above, one may learn about the "tricks" used by the CIA to "get their hands on the kids"...

    Orphanages, world wide are another... refugees (see Calais)... and in the US, Canada, Australia and Britain: CPS
    Canadian #Pizzagate? Almost 400 Children rescued from abuse and 348 adults charged with pedophilia-related crimes

    Daniella Silva NBC News Mon, 14 Nov 2013 17:24 UTC


    © Toronto Police via EPA

    Toronto Police Service Detective Constable Lisa Belanger (L) and Inspector Joanna Beaven-Desjardins of the Toronto Police Service Sex Crimes Unit (R) announce hundreds of arrests in a global child exploitation investigation Project Spade on Nov. 14. at a press conference at Toronto Police Headquarters.



    Nearly 400 children have been rescued and 348 adults arrested following an expansive and "extraordinary" international child pornography investigation, Canadian police announced Thursday.

    The three-year project, named Project Spade, began when undercover officers with the Toronto Police Service Child Exploitation service made contact with a Toronto man allegedly sharing "very graphic images" of child sexual abuse in Oct. 2010, Toronto Police Service Chief William Blair said at a press conference on Thursday.

    Police said their investigation revealed an entire child movie production and distribution company in Toronto operating via the web site azovfilms.com. The site was run by 42-year old Brian Way, according to police, and sold and distributed images of child exploitation to people across the world.

    Inspector Joanna Beaven-Desjardins, head of Toronto's Sex Crimes Unit, said they enlisted the help of the United States Postal Inspection Service since many of the videos were being exported to the U.S. and began a joint investigation. After a seven-month long investigation, officers executed search warrants across the city of Toronto including at the business, located in the city's West End. Investigators catalogued hundreds of thousands of images and videos of "horrific sexual acts against very young children, some of the worst they have ever viewed," Inspector Beaven-Desjardins said at the press conference.

    Police seized over 45 terabytes of data from the $4-million business that distributed to over 50 counties including Australia, Spain, Mexico, Sweden and Greece. As a result of the investigation thus far, 50 people were arrested in Ontario, 58 in the rest of Canada, 76 in the United States, and 164 internationally.

    What was most alarming, Inspector Beaven-Desjardins said, was that many of the arrests were of people who worked with or closely interacted with children. Among those arrested were 40 school teachers, nine doctors and nurses, six law enforcement personnel, nine pastors and priests and three foster parents, she said.

    Citing a particularly egregious example, she said police found over 350,000 images and over 9,000 videos of child sexual abuse in the home of a retired Canadian school teacher. Some of the images were of children known to the man and he was also charged with sexually abusing a child relative.

    The inspector said an indispensable aspect to the success of the operation and the rescue of 386 children from child exploitation was the expansive cooperation between Toronto police and organizations worldwide. "[This] confirms that when we work together regardless of the borders that divide us we can successfully take down those who not only prey on our most vulnerable but also profit from it," she said.

    Police said the children were "rescued from child exploitation" but did not give more details. Way was charged with 24 counts, including possession of, distribution of, and importing and exporting child pornography.

    The investigation is ongoing and more arrests could be made, police said.
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