News Happening In The Uk

[Meadowsweet]

Over the past few years in the UK, a deeply ingrained system of sexual abuse during the 60's/70's and 80's amongst public figures has emerged. I was abused during this time (not by a celebrity or public figure) but watching so many of the people that I grew up with on children's/family TV revealed as having been engaging in sexual abuse of children during that period has been surreal for me. It's like my sexual abuse was not only in my home, but was engrained within an entire nation, along with the idea that if we hide it away, ignore it and never speak of it - everything will be fine.

But I wanted to share this article for the rest of the world, as it gives figures that show the horrific extent to which child abuse was allowed in our country. Link Removed

 

[Friday]

The article didn't mention the sexual abuse of boys in Public School, which has been shown to have been institutional in the 1800s to at least the early-mid 1900s (data up until WWII / there was a bit of a paradigm shift when so many were killed & key people were replaced... But pretty much everyone doubts that happened everywhere, and it really was institutional for at least 100 years). Which is odd that they left that out, as that's where one would suspect the majority of politicians and public figures were abused.

ETA... My misread. Apparently 1400 schools are in the investigation.

 

[Purplemunchkin]

I have noticed that the attitude of a fair number (not all, but a definite majority) of older people tends to be scarily dismissive with comments like 'well that's how it was in those days'.

And there is a lot of victim blaming where the abuser is/was famous.

 

[Anarchy]

Thanks @Meadowsweet (fantastic name, I love that plant!)

Unfortunately I am very cynical about this. I strongly suspect that it will be used as a witch hunt, in which people who have upset establishment figures are subjected to show trials to give the impression of action being taken,

while the well connected stay un touched until long after their deaths, as Cyril Smith and Saville did, and as the recently deceased Leon Britten (law and order minister in charge of the cops and prisons, under Thatcher then an EU commissioner) about whom there are very serious allegations, still appears to be.

There are others, still alive about whom there are very serious allegations, but about whom the media is absolutely silent.

I may be wrong. The general election is over, there is an oportunity to clean house, and goodness only knows what else besides widespread child rape has been swept under the establishment's carpet, and needs the light of day shining on it?

Child sex abuse appears to be present and covered up in any and all coercively hierarchical institutions (the main British political parties, Sinn Fein / IRA, the institutional churches, Boarding Schools, and on a micro scale - families with coercive individuals in them).

People like Bill Maloney and Chris Fay have been extremely brave in going public with names and allegations about people in what I would describe as "the inner state"

What we hear about though, are the police raiding the houses of the likes of Cliff Richard (who it is alleged did visit "Elm House Guest house", but Chris Fay, says that he has zero evidence that the singer abused children while there), but never the houses of the senior establishment figure whom Fay, names.

Again, in Maloney's investigation of massive abuse at a child prison (Medomsley heroes), the former prison officers who went to prison, and who both died shortly after their release, were taking children to be abused by others. There is no evidence of serious efforts ever being made to identify those others.

The accounts given by former inmates at Medomsley, say that they were told that if they ever tried to report what had happened to them, they would be found to have "self harmed".

Is that what happened to the two small fish who actually went to prison?

I've lived and worked all over Britain and Ireland, so I have been in places when events like this have been widely talked about (eg I was in Kilkenny when an Irish government collapsed due to a child abuse cover-up scandal centred on Kilkenny).

In the case of Medomsley, there were local junior staff who tried to report the abuse, and were told that if they valued their jobs (both had young families to support and mortgages) they'd better keep their mouths shut, the people who they'd tried to report it to, were complicit in allowing the abuse to continue. I'm not seeing any effort to investigate or question those senior staff.

In terms of boarding schools, I spent 7 years in one (I'm only just processing some of that stuff more than 30 years later). fortunately I don't have any memories of sexual abuse. plenty of physical (including hard kicks to the genitals) and mental bullying... also a hand full of same sex and opposite sex relationships with my contemporaries, and I wasn't exactly an angel when it came to violently acting out...

There were believable allegations of sex abuse perpetrated by some of my contemporaries (and investigated and dismissed by the narcissist dept head - now deceased), and what i suspect was a teacher sleeping with pupils, though I was not a witness to any acts, and take the position that it is up to those guys to go forward if they consider it to have been abuse.

Boarding schools certainly come under the sociological category of "total institutions", and going to one did me no good. I got the impression that a lot of kids were there because their parents wanted rid of them.

The potted life story of John Bowlby, originator of "Attachment Theory", gives a very good indication of just how cold an up bringing many in the top circles of the British establishment received https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bowlby

Is it any wonder that those who aren't out and out psychopaths, are so disturbed?