All The Right Noises

[poliphilo]

Cameron and May are making all the right noises, but the fear has to be that the official enquiries will function as damage limitation exercises (as they always have done in the past). That's why we need to acquaint ourselves with the allegations and keep banging on about them.

The North Wales homes are only a fragment of the whole picture. There's also Haut de la Garenne on Jersey, the Kincora Boys Home in Northern Ireland and many others. New cases are continually coming to light. Remember the Dunblane massacre? Thomas Hamilton, the shooter, was a paedophile with connections to the higher reaches of the Labour party in Scotland. That business is very murky indeed. 

Comments

[michaleen.livejournal.com]

Coming clean would be suicidal, though, so that's out.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

But not coming clean is also suicidal. Especially since the details are leaking out anyway.

I wish someone would use parliamentary privilege to name the fucker; then we could move on to the next stage.

[michaleen.livejournal.com]

But leaks are easier to smudge than confessions. The would-be parties of interest have faith that the system will continue to protect them, as indeed it is supposed to.

To my mind, and correct me if I'm wrong, this isn't so much about organized pedophilia as it is about the privilege of class. The question is whether the English class system is weak enough in these latter days to fail the ruling elite. After the conversion of Labour to neoliberalism, and with the restoration of the Tories, I honestly have my doubts.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

It's about organized paedophilia AND class.

But Class isn't simply about birthright, it's about one's place within the establishment. One of the guys who's being protected is a self-made man of Caribbean ancestry who also happens to be a powerful Tory insider.

[michaleen.livejournal.com]

But doesn't that make the class system just that much more resilient? I'm thinking of the States, where the English class system that we inherited quietly abides to this day. Class boundaries are traditionally a bit more permeable here, I think, but the advantage still goes to the upper class. Far too many Americans behave -- ie, vote -- as if they too will be rich, some day.

The fact that class mobility has been radically reduced in the US, just in my time, seems to have no effect.