I am talking of reality! But if my son was guilty of any crime, regardless of the trappings of the court or law, I would instruct him to plead guilty, and take his punishment. By the way Lord McAlpine is a poor example, as far too much time has gone by (which he has benefited from), and far too much corruption of evidence by the police, to do with all this child abuse in north wales, just because no case has been brought against him, doesn't mean he's innocent. This can of worms will roll on for years, and the Savile scandal shows how much was covered up over the decades, the police authority are acting too little too late, and are full of corruption at the top............... Regarding McAlpine I'm not convinced he's innocent, as the Scallywag magazine printed an article at the time of these allegations started surfacing, accusing him, and he never refuted their published accusations, but maybe because it was that they had sworn statements from the victims, regarding McAalpine, that had him not to sue, but of course the police authority raided the offices of scallywag back in 2002 if my memory serves me correctly, and removed all the sworn statements implicating McAlpine, and though many calls to have the evidence return, have fallen on deaf years. There is still a very great deal of evidence implicating the Tory party still to surface, but whether it will remains to be seen, I'll not hold my breath though. By the way I'm not saying McAlpine is guilty, but it's sure strange why he didn't sue when the evidence was available, but does so now when it's all dead and buried!...
You're entitled to your opinion even if it's based on tittle-tattle. Fact is that people are mistakenly identified every day in the courts and that's what happened to McAlpine. So much so that the 'victim' offered an unreserved apology. Not everyone is guilty who gets accused of something and people should calm down.
Yes that one victim did provide an unreserved apology, but that was just one victim, what about those victims that committed suicide, what about the sworn statements from various victims, that were removed from the Scallywag offices, what of the unexplained deaths? Are you aware of the sheer scale of child sexual abuse in Britain? just because evidence has been conveniently lost or buried, doesn't make the smoke tittle-tattle, there is still an awful lot yet to come out, Savile was cunning enough to cover his tracks to the grave, he had help all over the place at the top, including the police authority, time hopefully will provide the answers......... Link:http://theneedleblog.wordpress.com/...ike=1&_wpnonce=33627bc83a&wpl_rand=68d61e1ced
Phil - you have your views and that's fine but where is the evidence? If you believe in conspiracy theories that's fine too but short of murdering victims they are still able to come forward. Where are they all? If they gave 'sworn statements' then why aren't they now asking about what happened to them? Btw many people people give sworn statements that contain not one jot of truth. Suspicions about misbehaviour is one thing but saying publicly that a person is guilty of *****philia when there's actually no evidence for it is a dangerous path. Just my opinion.
Check the thread - got a bit sidetracked that's all. But for me the principle is the same. You can't go about saying people have done something when they remain unconvicted.
