10-30-2012, 11:24 AM
(10-30-2012, 08:42 AM)billy Wrote: i think these people should get the death sentence. it really sickens me. i hate seeing it, hate knowing it happens/happened. but i'm being blinkered. this shit needs to be brought out into the open. bigger sentences need to be given out. paul gad should have been castrated at birth.
But Billy, it would have done no good with Saville. He was never charged, let alone convicted of anything.
Perhaps because it's my nature to play Devil's Advocate, let me say that I think the BBC, the Media in general, the Government and Opposition, are suffering from an acute case of hysteria. Subject to what may come out, it seems quite a reasonable decision to pull the 'Newsnight' programme. It is well known for its good journalism. Good journalism requires that stories be made to stand up. That involves finding more than one independent source for each allegation.I think that may have been lacking, and that the editor may have reflected, that he certainly could not have made the allegations a couple of months previously, while Saville was still alive. Surrey police and the CPS had reached the same conclusion -- that there was insufficient evidence to prove beyond reasonable doubt, that he had committed these crimes.
An enormous number of people have now come forward. I heard someone, a lawyer in fact, suggest that he should have been prosecuted, even knowing that there was insufficient evidence, '' because that often encourages others to come forward''. Think. How would he have liked that? A worthless prosecution, but one which encourages some gold-digger or enemy to come forward and perjure themselves, with not a scrap of forensic evidence? It is crazy talk, and it would be nice to think that someone is having a look at that man's certificate to practice. I don't want him representing me.
Things must quieten down. There must be thorough independent investigations, and the police must keep chasing anyone where the trail leads. It must not turn into a repeat of the Hillsborough Independent Panel--- which was chaired by the Bishop of Liverpool, and packed with Liverpudlians, one of whom had already written a book which indicted the police. As a result, the findings are tainted. There is every chance that among the hundreds of people now crying 'Abuse!' , some will be phoney, whether for attention, or money. How many?
Facts must be established in a calm fashion. The BBC must make some quick interim decisions about beefing up Child Protection, as must many institutions. And they must get on with their job.
We can hope that at the end of all this, something will have been learnt which will reduce the danger to children in future. My view.