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. 

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[michaleen.livejournal.com]

Actually, I have full faith and confidence in our system and the results of last night suggest that faith is well placed. I live in rural Virginia, surrounded by proudly Republican and openly racist fuck-wits, yet our commonwealth -- God preserve it -- nonetheless sided with the angels, yesterday, helping return Obama to the Oval Office and put Kaine in the Senate.

I honestly don't think that our political system is to blame. Our problem is not really that the Republican party has gone raving mad, though obviously it has. The problem is that our failed media experiment pretends that it hasn't, claiming "both sides do it" and bemoaning the lack of civility and cooperation in Congress.