I am the very model of the Paedo-finder General,I’m investigating celebrities, and I’m chastely puritanical,
I twat on Twitter and with privacy I’m economical;
I’ve learned to speak at conferences, colloquia and seminars
I’ve even sent impassioned pleas to European commissars
I never miss a tv slot because it’s free publicity
I cough, name names, tell tales and say it’s all for probity. [Chorus:] He is the very model of the Paedo-finder General, He coughs, names names, and says it’s all for probity. There is no universal proof, that celebrities lived a life of sleaze
Nor is there proof the world is fair, nor that they should do as I would please.
I know the Child Protection Law and what evidence is optional.
I’ll bolster your claims with fabrications risible
Of kiss and tell, and witnesses invisible.
Those claims are valid; the Misri-lit book’s revelation
Are all I need, and there’s no prevarication. [Chorus:] Those claims are valid; the Misri-lit book’s revelation Are all he needs, and there’s no prevarication. You’ll get nowt from Criminal Injuries Board if you can’t show your claim to it
But I’ll show you the way to get your hands on it.
We wrote the rules, that’s why they’re lax
E’en tho’ your claim’s devoid of facts, We”ll publicise it right to the max. In short, I’ve a smattering of elemental strategy, How to cash in on the lives of geriatric celebrity. [Chorus:] In short, He’s a smattering of elemental strategy, ‘How to ruin the the lives’ of geriatric celebrity. My financial pursuits have caused a few to call me cynical
I say I’m not – tho’ a tad hypocritical.
When wreathes are laid, I’ll cough and clear my phlegm
I’ll maintain it was sleaze that did for them.
I serve on committees, none of which do anything
I formulate agendas and debate them with the rest of them
But of current abuse – ’tis not my anthem. [Chorus:]
He formulates agendas and debates them with the rest of them
But of current abuse – ’tis not his anthem. I’ll guard my bank balance by self-interest most astute: My pursuit of celebrity has become resolute, On the thinest of facts ‘evidence’ I’ll impute. I’ll spin the tale with arguments convolute Until my lofty rhetoric and arguments meticulous Inspire shouts of laughter and the hearty cry, ‘Ridiculous!’ [Chorus:]
Until his lofty rhetoric and arguments meticulous
Inspire shouts of laughter and the hearty cry, ‘Ridiculous!’ I love to say at any chance that innocence is relative And urge you to believe the claimant’s cries plaintive -
About this act I haven’t even moments of remorsefulness
I have the utmost confidence in the law’s resourcefulness.
So though I have run quite amok, and you, the taxpayer, will have to pay, For the children now abused, I am not fussed - In short, you won’t see me for Monkey’s Dust. [Chorus:]He is the very model of the Paedo-finder General, He coughs, names names, and says it’s all for probity.
Ms Raccoon lives in the Monbazillac area of South West France, renowned for its fine wines and gourmet food, so she frequently finds better things to do than sit in front of a computer all morning. She is liable to take off traveling at a moment's notice. Consequently this blog only gets updated these days when it is raining - and it doesn't rain very often round here...
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Maybe you can get Mark Lawson to do you a literary review…… ;-D
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2013/jan/01/jimmy-savile-affair-media-celebrities
Hee hee. No H/T? If not, Brava!
Nope, original!
Marvellous stuff. I doubt the chaps from Rapblog do Gilbert & Sullivan but a clever tinker should set it to music! Cheers Anna.
Only January but that maybe post title of the year.
Absolutely marvelous! Happy New Year Anna and all other “Racoonites”
Indeed…an excellent parody!
Great post for the New Year, and best wishes to you for 2013
To continue the theme, even if possibly not quite in tune
,
Now we see the hordes busting to say
that they polished up the knobs of the big DJs
They polished up those knobs so carefullee….
That now they may be Queens of the Claim moneyee!
The worst thing about it all is that when most of this falls flat, as it almost certainly will as no sane jury, surely, is ever likely to be able to convict anyone given the likely defences that will be robustly delivered against whatever flimsy evidence can now be led, when the bubble finally does burst, the worm, that is public’s cynicism, will turn, and almost everyone who makes claims of abuse will be looked on askance, disregarded, and possible treated even worse, no matter how really legitimate and justified some of those claims will be.
*almost everyone who makes claims of abuse will be looked on askance, disregarded, and possible treated even worse, no matter how really legitimate and justified some of those claims will be.*
And that, Ho Hum, has always been my objection to this carry on…for my pains, I am regularly described as a ‘Paedo defender’ – far from it, I have always felt that this obsession with describing activities between star struck teenagers and ageing celebrities as paedophilia, actually enables the family members and ‘uncles’ to carry on the real abuse unhindered whilst everyone is looking the other way…
“I am regularly described as…”
By morons, perhaps. Not by anyone who knows what they’re talking about.
Do you think most of these accusations will make it to court?
I think if most of it does get thrown out because of lack of evidence or proven lies, the accusers and their supporters will just cover that up by accusing the authorities of a ‘cover up’ or ‘white wash’, so whatever the verdict the accused will lose and the accusers will win, whether their accusations have any truth to them or not…
Richard Littlejohn comes in for a lot of criticism too, but when he’s right, he’s very right:
“The heavy-handed nature of some of the arrests is also troubling. Why was it necessary to nick Davidson as he arrived at Heathrow Airport, as if he was some kind of international terrorism suspect?
What was the urgency? And if there is an overwhelming case against him, why has he been released without charge until March?
Police also raided one of Davidson’s homes in Hampshire and emerged carrying boxes of ‘evidence’. Were they seriously expecting to find evidence of a 25-year-old sexual assault tucked away in a sock drawer?
Stuart Hall, who is 82, was arrested at his Cheshire home in a full-scale dawn raid. What were they expecting him to do — leg it over the back wall or try to blast his way out with a sawn-off, screaming: ‘You’ll never take me alive, copper!’
Just before Christmas, Greater Manchester Police smashed down the front door of Fred Talbot, former weatherman on This Morning with Richard and Judy, in connection with an allegation which dates back to the early Seventies. Talbot was on holiday in the Caribbean. Given that the police wanted to question him over a complaint about something which is alleged to have taken place when he was working as a teacher 40-odd years ago, couldn’t they just have waited until he got back and invited him in for an interview?”
There’s an element of very unsavory theatre about a lot of this, isn’t there?
Someone put their finger on the issue on one of your older Blogs, and that was the issue that laws designed to facilitate protection for innocent children (legal standards concerning similar corroboration testimony) are being applied to testimonies from sometimes very adult grown-ups, some of whom may nowadays have also compared stories on social networking sites.
Some of the posts attached to this blog are achingly poor in literacy but all the more persuasive for that.
http://www.insidetime.org/articleview.asp?a=845
“As many high profile people, like football and showbiz types, seem able to prove that any allegations made against them are false, is down to the fact that they can afford to pay for a decent legal team. But those who rely on a state funded defence team are unable to do the same. This proves that there are two different levels of justice – one for the rich and another for the poor.”
But this lot are only after the rich ones. And no one is even remotely interested in the sleazy old tramp who groped me in The Odeon in Neasden in 1955, least of all The Police or me.
Ah, but Elena, you might get 5 minutes to make up your mind!
If you are lucky…
Not only do we have the Paedo-finder General at work but it appears that some people are trying to apply the Salem witch trials as well.
This whole circus has been blown up out of all proportions, so much so that it taking on the appearance of a coverup. Are they, in fact, trying to cover up the real pedophiles in the muslim community that are ganging up on under age white girls?
@ I see the lads got someone called Jim Davidson. @
“In October Davidson, who formerly hosted BBC shows Big Break and The Generation Game, publicly labelled the Savile investigation a ‘witch hunt’.”
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2256223/Jim-Davidson-pulls-Celebrity-Big-Brother-arrested-Jimmy-Savile-police.html#ixzz2GvfAh5Fa
He’s also a Tory, surprise surprise.
The politics of any of the accused are neither here nor there. The case of Goodie Davidson does at least appear to be a bit of a witch hunt. Its a whole different game when someone in their 30′s is carrying on with someone in their 20′s, as against say someone in their 60′s doing the same, or someone being under age. As yet I have not seen it reported that a complaint was made at the time of the allegations against Goodie Davidson.
Something needs to be looked at in respect of compensation claims practices here. I have no problem with proven transgressions being punished, but I really do begin to wonder if potential compensation rather than justice for victims is driving these allegations.
Compensation drives everything. If it was about justice, and justice alone, I know that the Duncroft crowd, at the very least, would never have come forward. They’re not interested in justice, only in money and 15 minutes of fame. Oh, and flogging a dodgy book or two.
I thought for a second there that you were going to say Flogging a Dead Horse.
Brilliant, Ms. Raccoon! I see the lads got someone called Jim Davidson. http://www.noise11.com/news/comedian-jim-davidson-arrested-in-jimmy-savile-sex-scandal-20130103
Lol, so funny…
Did you write that yourself?
Yep. Everything that appears as ‘by Anna Raccoon’ is written by me…
Obviously, a second Career looms for you. Well, someone is going to have to write a Musical about this Farce. Preferably in French. The French are so much better at this sort of thing. And if anyone gets shirty you can always claim Mistranslation.
I can see “Savile–the Musical” as a very successful production with a chorus of high-kicking approved school girls in gym slips and navy blue knickers performing classic songs like “Don’t Fence Me In”, “I Ain’t Misbehavin’ ” and “I Get A Kick Out Of You”. Savile will of course be the main character played by Tom “It’s Not Unusual” Jones, with Jonathan Pryce as the avenging detective Mark Williams-Thomas. Guest appearance by Cliff Richard singing “Bachelor Boy” and “The Young Ones”.
I’m waaaay ahead of you, Mason! I was talking about “Duncroft – The Musical” over a year ago! We didn’t wear gym slips, etc. Mostly our own clothes, unless we were polishing the corridors!
Absolutely got to have Gym Slips and Navy Blue Knickers. I insist. And The Police will need good old fashioned Truncheons, in their pockets, natch. No need to wave them about. Unless they are going to be set upon and sexually harassed by a load of screaming dolly birds. In which case, who knows what they might do with their Truncheons.
“Chains, my baby’s got me locked up in chains” – Carole King….I’ll guarantee you all the Duncroft girls know the words to that one, we were forever singing it – that and Nellie the elephant…
It should be in a comedy sketch, lol
No other way to play it. No one’s taking this seriously. Are they?
Chains was on the first Beatles album – yes, I remember it well! Let alone Nelly the Elephant!
I don’t know – this could actually work!
It’s “De Staalmeester,” a/k/a “Dutch Masters,” but I figured, why not show a picture of how the sort of Puritanical goo-goo’s who ran the show back in the 1650′s looked, so they can dress the part? I’ve got a buckle hat for sale, cheap, if Tom Watson or any other modern-day wannabe Lord Protectors really want to do it up right and look like Old Noll Cromwell:
http://farklar.net/GosterGe/sanat/sonaksamyemegi-rembrandt.jpg
Either that, or a burst of “Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!” as Tom Fatson bursts (well, wobbles) in, pushes Jim Davidson into a comfy chair and starts poking him with a cushion.
It’s either that or London members of the Police Federation march on singing ‘I’ve got a little list’ and then naming the present government on that list.
Followed by the mincing Brian Paddick with “A Policeman’s Slot Is Not A Happy One”.
SNORK!
Not naming names nor making any insinuations whatever, but:
Tom Watson must hate your little rhyme.
Tom Watson MP, of course (with all the usual disclaimers – including those above)
Scribe it on some rice paper and the podgy little shit will like it just fine!
Julia M
Harsh but fair !
The mention of Monkey Dust brought back fond memories of the old BBC3 series of that name – bizarre stuff, but brave. They had some wonderful paedophilia skits which outraged many of the MWT types. But I loved them best for Omar, Abdul and Shafiq, the incompetent terrorists, who couldn’t do jihad training on a Thursday because it was Turkey Drummer night.
Interesting comment from the Guardian article
”There is no sanction for failing to report abuse because as you are now aware there is no legal requirement to do so, and when abuse happens in institutional settings the interests of the child come a very distant second. Just think what might have happened if Savile’s alleged behaviour at Stoke Mandeville, LRI, or Duncroft had been reported contemporaneously because the staff had the support of law.”
Is that not a very good point? If allegations of sexual wrongdoing with children HAD to be reported and investigated, it would stop all of this sordid running to papers years later. It would mean that children would have more confidence to speak up and matters could be investigated while the trail was fresh, leading to more secure convictions.
I’m not sure what they’re getting at, though. First off, none of the complainants from Stoke or Broadmoor have said they complained at the time the alleged abuse occurred. Duncroft women claim they reported the abuse, but the staff denies it, and I know that, at the very least, there would have been a lot less of Savile and a lot more supervision if the complaints seemed legitimate to the staff and the headmistress. Instead, these complaining witnesses continued to go on jaunts up to London to see the abuser at the BBC, and also were in contact with him when they were on home leave as well. The first complaint from Duncroft was made in 2007, over thirty years after the ‘fact.’ It was investigated, it was found to be unsubstantiated, Savile himself was interviewed, and that was the official finding. Duncroft women then tried to twist the story by stating that the police had chosen not to pursue the report further because Savile was ‘old and infirm,’ and then a forged letter to that effect was produced to the Mail. The police came at this situation ass-backwards by not interviewing the remaining staff and the headmistress in 2007. Could have saved them a LOT of work, and the taxpayers a LOT of money.
I’ve not heard of any of the institutions Jimmy Savile is now accused of wrecking havoc in saying they have any record of complaints regarding sexual abuse from Jimmy Savile.
You’d have thought a man who had as many as ’450 victims’, perhaps even ‘thousands’, would have had at least one complaint made about him over all those years wouldn’t you?
If someone had groped me when I was on a trolley being wheeled out of theater after a serious operation, there is no way I wouldn’t be reporting that to the hospital.
With all those alleged victims over such a supposedly long period of time, you’d have thought at least once, someone, somewhere would have reported something, wouldn’t you…?
There’s a lot about this whole tale that just doesn’t seem to make sense…
In case this doesn’t appear in the right place, it’s a response to ‘I love the BBC January 3, 2013 at 19:28′
You really don’t want to know what goes on in some types of care establishment, where you have clients/patients who have physical desires common to us all but who do not have the mental capacity or capability to either comprehend what is appropriate behaviour or make any informed moral choice in that regard in the same way that most of us might
The day that the involved care professionals’ professional judgement, as to what is appropriate action in some of the circumstances that can occur, is superseded by their ‘having’ to report such behaviours to the police etc on any mandatory basis, we will have totally lost the plot. And anyone who pushes for that to happen either doesn’t have a clue as to the ramifications, or is so up their own posterior that they clearly don’t give an aerial act of copulation for the real interests of the individuals directly involved
“…where you have clients/patients who have physical desires common to us all but who do not have the mental capacity or capability to either comprehend what is appropriate behaviour or make any informed moral choice in that regard in the same way that most of us might”
But there’s no reason not to let them wander free to make others’ lives a misery, after all.
Ho Hum, no-one is suggesting that professionals should have to report the behaviour of patients towards each other. Handling the responses of mentally incapacitated persons to their own sexuality is really not what is at issue. It’s blatantly manipulative and oppressive behaviour of adults against children that is the question, and those adults are generally in a position of power and authority. If there is no statutory duty to report it (which is what the commentator is claiming – I don’t even know if this is factually correct) then I personally think that’s pretty scandalous.
Brilliant stuff Anna!
I think if I were some 60′s, 70′s or 80′s ‘star’ I would be quaking in my boots right now… and racking my brains to try and remember whether, by any remote chance I could be accused of what (in today’s society) would be judged to be ‘paedo’ type behaviour (perhaps kissing a few giggling teenage fans, after inviting the willing young people back to my dressing room or pinching the odd shrieking girl’s bottom as I passed by) and I would be definitely thinking which country I could emigrate to, which had no extradition treaty with the UK…
Like Jim Davidson, for example.
In October 2012, our Jim stated that within the near future, a “Savile number two” household name celeb will be unmasked as a predatory paedophile.
Writing on his personal blog, the comic said that the person – who he hasn’t named – is, “A bloke who’s a loner, dresses and acts like a nonce and thinks he is the most important person in the world.”
Who knew he was talking about himself?
Who will be next I wonder??
“A bloke who’s a loner, dresses and acts like a nonce and thinks he is the most important person in the world.”
Jonathan Ross or Russell Brand?
“I think if I were some 60′s, 70′s or 80′s ‘star’ I would be quaking in my boots right now”
Especially if I were in poor health and knew my name could be posthumously trashed without any possibility of answering back.
This Witch Hunt is now shaping up to be a glaringly obvious game of cat & mouse – with ‘revenge for speaking out’ thrown into the bargain.
Risible individuals nearly all, but whilst few will be feeling too sorry for Nick-Nick (fits the criteria of a modern ‘hate figure’ – Thatcherite right-wing womaniser) and even fewer for the hateful Waxy Maxy it seems to me that both arrests were made to punish them for speaking out against this trawl (Clifford being the most sinister as, areshole or not, he did have both the clout and skill to set the cat amongst the pigeons) – and, given TWT has been calling for his rugby-ball shaped head on Twatter, I suspect a certain magician isn’t too far down the list now.
Yeah, Paul Daniels won’t be too far down the line. I don’t know about Jim Davison, but Max Clifford seems a really odd arrest.
What’s this all about…?
@ What’s this all about…? @
Tory boys……..
“The team was set up following claims by Labour MP Tom Watson in the House Commons that the police should look afresh at claims of a “powerful paedophile network linked to Parliament and No 10”. Until today when the Metropolitan Police confirmed its existence, the inquiry, Operation Fairbank, had been operating in secret at the headquarters of the Child Abuse Investigation Team at Empress State Building in Earl’s Court, London.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/scotland-yard-investigating-allegations-senior-politicians-abused-children-in-the-1980s-and-used-connections-to-escape-justice-8411989.html
Officers with the team, part of the Specialist Crimes and Operations Directorate, have spoken regularly to Mr Watson.”
As I said earlier ‘they’ve got a little list’ and they are working through it. There does appear to be a lot of ‘get at the governing party’ involved in their ‘investigation’.
I am very suspicious about what they are finding in their searches of the homes of those they have arrested because it is extremely unlikely that there is any record available concerning anything that allegedly went on during the period in question.
This whole operation is looking much more like the police are trolling through what they can to help the labour party but then is that very surprising when you consider that Tony politicized the service.
One of the most curious socio-political things about the entire Savile farrago has been the way the traditionally censorious Right are the ones to be found pleading for a bit bit of corset-loosening from the newly intolerant and censorious Left.
to quote myself:
“The heady days of the conservative past were over and a new popular Puritanism was set to increase over the coming years. It was based on numbers. The number was 16.”
http://jimcannotfixthis.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/no-sex-please-were-british.html
Interestingly, there was a case a few years ago of a number of senior Portuguese politicians sent to jail for paedophile offences. Richard Webster claims it was a massive miscarriage of justice. For example, the alleged victims were allowed to change a number of important details of their evidence during the trial. I believe Webster was working on a book about the trial before he died. Read the article below. There is nothing new under the sun.
http://www.richardwebster.net/casa-pia-carlos-cruz-reporterX.html
Interesting to note that Jimmy’s schpiel to Maggie was not dissimilar in manicbullshit-style to his “suspicious” Duncroft guest-book entry…..
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/12/28/article-2253929-16A9D60E000005DC-395_634x890.jpg
One does wonder whether these events are being used for political mischief making. One of the principal parliamentary drivers is Tom Watson, a politician with a long track record of smearing, political ‘black ops’ and generally extreme partisanship. He went very quiet when it turned out that Lord McAlpine was completely uninvolved, having previously been very keen to dish the innuendo (including in the chamber) about ‘senior political figures of the Thatcher era’. There are some in the Labour ranks who seem to be desperate to get anything to stick to Thatcher. I think their hatred is clouding their judgement.
As Anna says above, none of this helps to prevent or expose whatever real sexual abuse of underage children might still be happening.
I cannot see the hand of politics at work here. Watson yes, I can see that he may well be politically motivated. But Jim Davidson is not a known leftie and neither are many of the other names who have been arrested, questioned, and/or charged.
Many of the political names being circulated on the internet are actually Labour in any case.
I agree that the trawl of people’s houses, computers etc is troubling. What the hell did they expect to find on the PC of someone like Davidson, who is accused of rape and sex assault 25 years ago? It looks more like nosiness and the prurience of the sort of person who complained about a naked man on the Fourth Plinth (note MWT’s ex colleagues declined to do anything about it, much to his annoyance).
Davidson’ alleged assault has been reported twice before and the police took no action as there was no evidence, it being 4 years after the event. The only reason I can think of why they are investigating for the third time is because another woman has come forward with a similar tale.
But overall the motivation seems to be that the police are sick of being told they are lenient on prominent people who take sexual liberties, either with adults or children, and so have Gone For It in an attempt to prove they are really the People’s Friend.
Time will tell. Nearly all of the names being bandied about by online paedofinders are Labour.
@I love the bbc
Surely the point here is that there is apparently a secret task force “investigating” claims of a paedophile ring linked to Downing Street in the Thatcher era. Operation Fairbank is said to be so secret that even most in the police didn’t know it existed.
Yet, this same secret police force “have spoken regularly to Mr Watson.”….. I wonder if they’ve had I’d lia natter with Norman Tebbit, who was actually around Downing Street at the time? Perhaps the first he will know of them is when they break his door down at 7am to arrest him for questioning, just in case the 81 year-old is as nimble as he was forty years ago and can still get on his bike like that other recently-resigned Tory, who is no longer a member of the government.
What do you make of it?
That is MOST improper!
*collapses giggling*
Minor quibble about syllable count, which means it doesn’t quite scan. Otherwise highly amusing and pithy. Well done.
This article will be a minor irritation to the Paedo-finder General: http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/nikki-mcwatters/predatory-teenage-girls_b_2287890.html
Raccoon is addictive. You have a great talent, Anna.
60s Duncroft was the Roedean of its day. The IQ level requirements were very demanding. Proof right here at the Arms!
Jim Davidson has been accused of sexual offences by two women who claim they happened about 25 years ago and who would both have been in their mid twenties at the time. Perhaps i’m over simplifying this, but i’d have thought if it had bothered these women that much at the time then they’d have reported it a lot nearer the time, and if it didn’t bother them at the time, why should something that happened 25 years ago and didn’t bother them then start bothering them now…? If it even happened at all.
Very suspicious…
Bravo Anna. I do hope a certain person’s ears are burning.
Having followed up a link provided by a previous poster to a blog in a ‘Prison Newspaper’, I am not surprised at these that these accusations are trickling in. This link gives an inside glimpse into the world of desperation visiting the allegedly falsely accused. These are mainly poor and not very literate persons. Punctuation is a no go area to some of them. This makes it more poignant to read that some are wrecked for life by allegedly false witness against them. The internet information available in these writings, indicates how lucrative it can be to make such an accusations, and how STICKY are allegations of sexual abuse. It follows a person for life. It is the devil’s instrument for revenge and hate on the part of step children, and jealous siblings, plus family rivalries. Well off old blokes are targeted for their bank balance. The poor for criminal compensation via the tax payer. I had a terrible row with a court usher friend about false witness in paedo cases many years ago. She later had to apologise for the nasty words shouted at me. Later most of the men were found to have been falsly accused and innocent, after a prisoner in Liverpool reported prison boastings about getting compensation on the backs of genuine cases. Closer investigations revealed huge holes in their stories, a la Duncroft, that no one bothered to check thoroughly. Anna Racoon knows and thanks be for that.
Often the urge to boast can be too much for some people.
Their seems to be a lot of books about abuse on shop shelves theses days too, a lot of them cclaiming to be autobiographies or true account’s
Would you be referring to Operation CARE by any chance? The football manager Dave Jones was a victim of false allegations in that police operation and was later acquitted of the sex charges against him. He gets some viscous abuse from rival fans because of it.
l want to put in a complaint about Debbie Harry sexually molesting me when she was touring in the 1970′s. Problem is, she didn’t … despite my best efforts … but there again, if she had, l certainly wouldn’t be putting in any complaints!
Lol, so your complaint is that she never molested you…?
That’s a shame, but i’m sure you weren’t the only one…
That’s it you see. All these poor benighted Pop Stars, and Television Personalities should be queuing up at their nearest Police Station to complain about S.E.X.U.A.L Harassment. It must have been mortal hard for them.
My old Granny said that no man turns down what is offered on a plate, although I have to say that I didn’t know what she was a talking of at the time, and still don’t, actually. Have I missed something?
Saw Blondie a few times and on one of those times my mate took his 15yr old kid brother who got her autograph at the end of the gig. He also got a kiss on the cheek which left a bright red lipstick imprint of Debbie’s lips … he didn’t wash his face for days l was told.
Another of my friends had, let us say, a romantic evening with a certain Mr Sinatra. She certainly doesn’t see herself as a victim nor would she complain it, although given her age at the time l believe she would be entitled to given the mindset in this current climate. There again, l think it would take a very brave or very stupid ‘witchfinder’ to go down such a path. Mr Sinatra may be deceased but he is far from being an easy target as are the current list of suspects.
Thanks for the heads-up about Dave Jones. I had never heard of the case. It’s a salutary lesson, more people should read and take heed as it’s very relevant to what is happening now. http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2000/dec/10/childrensservices.socialcare
How I wish Richard Webster were still alive. Hopefully there is work being done quietly behind the scenes by other journalists which will emerge in due course.
@ Mina Field – I came across this article only yesterday,
“Positive feedback occurs: the mere making of a claim becomes self-sustaining. It’s not long before it becomes difficult, professionally and politically, to raise legitimate doubts and questions about the reality and extent of the problem. Because the subject of moral panics are necessarily emotive, whether they involve the abuse of the vulnerable or questions of national security. Sceptics will be made to feel that they are complacent; that they don’t care about the victims; even that they themselves are part of the conspiracy or the cover-up. In our own age, for good reasons, nothing is more emotive than paedophilia.” http://www.newstatesman.com/nelson-jones/2012/11/tom-watson-danger-fuelling-new-paedophile-panic
so there are voices but they seem to be largely ignored, just like Ms.Raccoon is being ignored, because we also know they know about her……. she was asked for interviews at one stage…… but her information does not fit the story, and the story is the important thing.
^ Moor Larkin
Thanks for that link. Good article that I hadn’t seen. It describes the situation brilliantly, and yet there are so few comments concurring with it.
I remain optimistic though, that the tide will turn, as it invariably does, and that one day we will see headlines like, ‘How journalist made me tell lies about Savile’ and ‘Solicitor’s ADs proved irresistible.’
I like your website by the way.
@ Mina Field – Thank you. Without some of the factual corroboration to my own instincts that I have found in here, I don’t suppose I would ever have been self-assured enough to begin it.
And I, in turn, am grateful to all of you – without your constant support I would have felt very lonely in my stance on all this.
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