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I don’t know. Seven year olds were off limits even back in the 60s. At least in the US.

And what is a CBE? I’ve heard of OBEs because of this older, obese English lady on PBS “beg-a-thons” always talks about hers. Creep of the British Empire?

Anyway, I like the part about civil awards to the victims. Seems fair, even if late in coming.

So weird seeing these people I grew up watching on TV all being sent down. Stuart Hall, Jimmy Savile and now Rolf Harris. Who’s next? I reckon it will either be Chorlton from Chorlton and the Wheelies or Roland Rat.

Jimmy Savile was doing it with corpses and stealing their glass eyes to make jewelry. And he told people freely at the time. That kind of thing was always frowned upon. But somehow, I guess people didn’t rat out celebrities, no matter what…?

“In many cases, the things they did were common knowledge at the time, but attitudes were different then. Or, at any rate, there was a whole lot of that kind of thing going on.”

I believe many people thought that putting a child through a public trial would be as bad as the original abuse. Families were just expected to keep an eye on their “funny uncles” and warn parents to keep their kids away from them, once they figured out what was going on. Celebrities were a whole ‘nother kettle of fish – they had lawyers who would sue for libel, and children often would either deny the abuse, or later recant, so the whole thing seemed hopeless.

Well, I’m an Earl and an O.B.E. and that makes me an Earlobe…

Or so said the crank caller to Prince Charles, before giving a shout-out to Howard Stern.

Jimmy Savile was quite the creepiest creep. Eyeball rings!!!!

The stuff with Savile is so outlandish I think in an odd way it insulated him. Liked groping young BBC production assistants in the sexually permissive 70’s? Believable. Raped mental patients, had sex with corpses and made rings out of their glass eyes? Yeah, right. I can’t even bear to read the stories in detail, they’re so vile. At this point if they find a cellar full of dead bodies a la Fred and Rosemary West I wouldn’t be surprised.

The cure for aggressive gulls is a tennis racquet and a good back-hand.

Wait…so garbage isn’t rubbish if it’s considered useful?

Pedophiles should be physically branded and their tombstones declare their crimes for all to see. Cripes that Jimmy Savile was creepy looking.

The thing that gets me is that in many of these cases, not only were the sexual assaults known, they were covered up by the BBC [functionally, a branch of the British government]. There seems to have been a sort of Droit du seigneur for BBC celebrities giving them the right to sexually abuse children, especially sick and hospitalized children. What penalty do those who protected the abusers face? None, after all, they are bureaucrats and immune from consequences.

I’m not saying that it is purely a British thing. Even with the press and law enforcement deliberately looking the other way; of late we seem to have an elected official get caught with child porn or charged with sexual assault on a child every couple of weeks. It is a matter of power over the peasantry. At least in this country, it is not only theoretically possible, but it has happened, where the family has made the abuser pay.

Subotai Bahadur

Subotai Bahadur, you make an excellent point! Remember the screams about the priests and that the Catholic church did nothing? Seems an awfully ironic situation, when ever day there some upstanding fellow being brought up on charges. Politics and entertainment are hiding more pedo’s than the church ever did.

It’s nesting season for the gulls. They get very protective.

I think Harris should’ve got the chair for that song.

Don’t let “The Ecology of Fear” give ya a big head, Stoaty:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/06/140630-fishers-weasel-family-urban-animals-science/

Please, please, PLEASE don’t let me be reincarnated as a porcupine in a fisher-burb.

Just 4 bins? Check out minutes 5 to 8 (NSFW):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rExEVZlQia4

Or sit back and watch the whole thing and enjoy!

Boids? A friend had this on their Mac back in 1993, I think.
http://www.red3d.com/cwr/boids/

OHHHHHH! I just remembered!

While most of the clergy I interacted with as a youth were great people who had killed lots of Nazis and communists, there was one Marist priest who “loved the little children” a little too much.

They sent him to the Belgian Congo, just in time for the Simba Revolt. He was sodomised to death and eaten.

None of us kids were at all suprised.

As an update to my post on the 1st. Apparently, if the DAILY MAIL is to be believed [I know, I know] in the 1980’s there was a pedophile ring in the heart of the Brit government. A report was made, naming names, and it was “lost”. Kind of like our IRS emails. Now here there are rumors about Harry Reid, but no “rings” are alleged.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2678578/Mystery-missing-dossier-VIP-child-abusers-Tory-peer-Leon-Brittan-faces-questions-1980s-files-Westminster-paedophile-ring.html

Tumbrels, we need more tumbrels.

Subotai Bahadur

“Jimmy Savile was doing it with corpses and stealing their glass eyes to make jewelry. “

Best not to assume that everything the tabloids print is gospel:

http://annaraccoon.com/2014/06/26/eyeball-eyewash-the-yewtree-allegations/

So much of it really is ‘sound and fury, signifying nothing’…