The "Landslide" site was said to have links to "thousands" of other child-porn websites. But it was only post-9/11 that Avalanche began to live up to its name and rake in "identities" in ever more massive quantities. Avalanche is an operation that (along with their own brainchild, Candyman) Ashcroft and his crew have seized on for their own purposes of (they hope) destroying all opposition to the US cabal's projected world totalitarian empire.

14 January 2003

Another "anti-paedophile" operation comparable in scope to Operation Avalanche is being prepared in America. (TV news)

The conveyor belt of the Stalin-style purge is well-and-truly rolling — though as yet in low gear. A credible front must first be firmly established by ensuring that most of the accused are genuine child-porn offenders. Only then can the American imperial cabal's true programme begin to be implemented: the destruction of all opposition, actual and potential, to their prospective world totalitarian empire.

The purging of the white, Anglo-Saxon core of the empire is more important than the targeting of Islamic peoples as "al-Qaeda terrorists" in the Middle-Eastern oil province.

15 January 03

Among the targets of the US cabal-inspired Operation Ore, are said to be two former Labour government ministers. No names have been given (which spreads the tar of suspicion wide). The matter is "so sensitive" that Special Branch, not the ordinary police, are investigating.

Now we're beginning to get to the meat of the US fascist regime's campaign: the destruction of political leaders who might provide a focus of opposition to its design for a world totalitarian empire.

17 January 03

'110 HELD IN PORN CRACKDOWN [in Sussex, Britain, in four weeks]

'A police force says it has arrested more than 110 people suspected of downloading child pornography from the internet in just four weeks.

'Sussex police have made 110 arrests as part of Operation Ore, the national crackdown on child abuse on the net.

'Officers have seized more than 1,000 computers from addresses across both the east and west of the county.'

(ITV Teletext, p.308)

Early February 2003

"Anti-War Protesters are Pedophiles" : the Real Message of Scott Ritter

This January Scott Ritter faced raked-up old charges (from 2001) of courting an under-age girl in a chatroom. Ritter suggested this was done to undermine his "Iraqi peace efforts". But, critically, HE REFUSED TO DENY THE CHARGES (in a Channel 4 News interview), on the pretext that the law suit was dismissed and "under wraps". This left viewers with the impression that he really did have something to hide in the pedophile department.

Scott Ritter, the right-wing head of the Iraqi weapons inspectors, who in August 1998 called for bombing Saddam Hussein into the ground, then suddenly "became born again" and said "It's all a mistake, give Saddam a chance". And last year in Baghdad, he beseeched the Iraqis to let the inspectors back in "to show they have nothing to hide" -- a tactic which has proved in reality a stepping-stone on the path to war.

[See:-

Ritter sex accusations on BBC news]

Is Scott Ritter a stooge of the American hard right? One who acted not only as a Trojan horse in Iraq, but also seeks to convey the public message that those who oppose Middle-East conquest are "pedophiles"? (This may seem very "self-sacrificing", but such political tricks have been done before.) Or is he just an innocent target?

Either way we see the real purpose emerging of the gigantic worldwide "anti-pedophile" campaign originating from John Ashcroft's "Justice Department". To submerge opposition to the New Order under the tar of the most heinous of accusations -- sexual child abuse (which child pornography-downloading has become synonymous with).

And with 250,000 "suspects" worldwide from Operation Avalanche alone, and rumors of further operations on a similar scale, they will need to open barbed-wire concentration camps to imprison the targets.

The targets themselves, originally necessarily real child-porn viewers (to establish credibility for the campaign), will increasingly include stitched-up political oppositionists to the US cabal's aimed-for world terror-state.

(copy of a Usenet posting I made in early Feb. 03)

27 February 2003

'[British] STAR QUIZZED OVER CHILD PORN

'A Bristol-based member of dance [music] group Massive Attack has been questioned over alleged internet child porn offences.

'Robert Del Naja, known as 3D and aged in his 30s, was bailed by police working on Operation Ore — a national crackdown on child porn.

'Detectives seized computer equipment and a quantity of suspected Class A drugs during a raid.'

(ITV Teletext West, 27 Feb. 03, p.333)

Del Naja 'said: "I have never looked at child pornography in my life.

'"I am fully co-operating with the police and I would ask everyone not to judge me prematurely. I have total faith in the justice system. [This boy's a fool!]

(BBC Ceefax West, p.162)

See BBC News online

Del Naja was a "prominent figure" on the recent anti-war demonstrations. (TV news; my emphasis)

Further evidence that Attorney-General Ashcroft and his British Operation-Ore puppets are turning the deadly paedophile weapon against its real intended targets — those who oppose the US cabal's aspirations to totalitarian world empire.

11 March 2003

ITALY[:] Police have launched a huge raid on a suspected child pornography internet ring, placing 399 people in 53 towns under investigation.' (ITV Teletext, 11 March 03, p.318)

Added to the fatal smear of child-porn, the shock-tactic of the mass-arrest. Berlusconi doesn't just follow Mussolini; he's learning from Stalin too.

12 March 2003

'43 MORE ARRESTS IN CHILD PORN INQUIRY [in London]

'A further 43 men have been arrested in connection with a long-running inquiry into child pornography on the internet.

'Scotland Yard said around 350 officers swooped on suspects across Greater London as part of Operation Ore.

'The men are suspected of downloading or distributing image of children.

'The operation is investigating a list provided by the FBI in the US, of more than 7,000 men suspected of using credit cards to access child porn sites.'

(BBC Ceefax, 12 March 03, p.123)

(Reported by Daily Mirror.)

22 March 03

A child-porn probe into Robert Del Naja, 36 — "3D", frontman of dance-music group Massive Attack — has been dropped.

'Avon and Somerset [west of England] Police said there was "insufficient evidence" to charge the performer.

'The star ... has insisted the allegations were baseless.'

(Ibid, p.118)

Ashcroft's followers can't — yet — convict with fraudulent "evidence".

It will be sufficient, for the time being, for them to tar the reputations of their targets with unsubstantiated, then withdrawn, accusations of this most appalling of crimes.

A smear campaign is a large part, perhaps necessarily the main part, of the operation — so far.

28 March 2003

'SOHAM POLICEMAN JAILED FOR CHILD PORN [in Britain]

'An ex-policeman who worked on the Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman murder probe has been jailed for six months after admitting child pornography charges.

'Anthony Goodridge, 34, of Ely, Camb[ridgeshire], was jailed at Ipswich Crown Court after admitting possessing more than 300 indecent images of young girls.

'Goodridge worked as an exhibit officer during the Soham murder investigation.

'He was dismissed by Cambridgeshire Police this month.'

(BBC Ceefax, 28 March 03, p.119)

18 April 2003

'MAYOR RESIGNS AMID CHILD PORN INQUIRY [in Britain]

'A directly elected mayor has resigned from his post a day after he was arrested and bailed on suspicion of possessing indecent images of children.

'Chris Morgan, North Tyneside Council's Tory mayor, was arrested as he answered bail on an unrelated assault allegation.

'The 33-year-old, of Whitley Bay, was the region's first elected mayor.

'Mr Morgan's solicitor said leaks about the inquiries before any decision on charges had made his position untenable.'

(BBC Ceefax, 18 April 03, p.122)

Another case of death by suspicion. On a political target.

8 May 2003

'QUEEN'S AUSTRALIAN ENVOY DENIES RAPE

'The Queen's envoy to Australia has denied raping a woman when he was a clergyman in the 1960s.

'Governor-General Peter Hollingworth said a woman seeking financial payment had made these claims in a case now before a Victorian state court.

'He is facing mounting calls to resign for mishandling child sex abuse complaints in the church in the 1990s [when he was Archbishop of Brisbane].

'"I did not know this woman. I did not rape her," Mr Hollingworth said.'

(BBC Ceefax, 8 May 03, p.142)

Hollingworth's is the only significant case I know of ("mishandling of") child-sex-abuse in the Anglican church — to which has now been added a rape allegation.

30 May 03

The spokesman of the opposition Socialist Party in Portugal was arrested (last week?) in connection with the children's-homes child sex-abuse scandal (which surfaced there last year).

(BBC World service news at 1am)

Further evidence that paedophile accusations have become a weapon of the (hard) right against its political opponents?

3 June 2003

'SUSPECTED PAEDOPHILES ARRESTED IN SWOOP [in Britain]

'Detectives have arrested 30 suspected internet paedophiles in a series of raids on their homes.

'Some 200 officers from Scotland Yard and a team from the NSPCC raided 35 addresses around London.

'The suspects were taken to police stations for questioning about pictures of children being abused.

'Some, but not all, of them were suspects in the huge, ongoing crackdown on paedophiles codenamed Operation Ore.'

(BBC Ceefax, 3 June 03, p.109)

The first case of "paedophile mass arrests" I've heard of for two months (12 March 2003 was the last — see above). But it shows the beast is still lying in wait for new prey ... And indeed, under the care of its keeper Ashcroft, it has an open-ended supply.

20 August 2003

'[Soham] DETECTIVE CLEARED OF CHILD PORN CHARGES

'The detective who helped the family of Soham murder victim Jessica Chapman has been cleared of possessing child porn.

'Detective Constable Brian Stevens was also cleared of charges of indecent assault on the direction of a judge at Snaresbrook Crown Court, London.

'The prosecution offered no evidence on three counts of assault, three of distributing indecent photos of a child and five of possessing indecent photos.

'Cambridgeshire Police says he remains suspended until "matters are resolved".'

(BBC Ceefax, 20 Aug. 03, p.111)

The prosecution said that telephone records "which would have helped convict Stevens" were no longer available. Stevens said that many people could have had access to his laptop computer (and thus be responsible for the downloaded child porn).

Did they consider the other possibility — that anyone could have uploaded them to his laptop?

21 August 2003

The Daily Mail details the stories of the two girls who claimed [DC Brian Stevens] indecently assaulted them — charges also dropped.

"Mr Stevens' "future remains uncertain" subject to an internal police inquiry, the Daily Telegraph [says].

(BBC Ceefax, p.148, reviews of British papers)

Stevens says there should be an inquiry into the whole case.

11 September 2003

Brian Stevens, the British Soham case detective who was cleared of child-porn charges, has been re-arrested on a charge of "perverting the course of justice". It is claimed that Louise Austin, "his former lover", provided him with a false alibi for a time when, according to a previous charge, he downloaded child-porn onto a laptop computer.

The Soham Experimenters are not going to let a victim go once they have him in their jaws.

23 September 2003

One of the US junta's main business fellow-travellers, Microsoft, is promoting the censorship of free discussion, using paedophilia (Attorney-General Ashcroft's favourite tool) as the pretext ...

'MICROSOFT CLOSES CHATROOMS

'Computer giant Microsoft has announced plans to close most of its internet chatrooms around the world [in October] to protect children from potential harm.

'The move follows a string of cases where paedophiles have used chatrooms to "groom" youngsters for sexual abuse.

'Microsoft believes the only way to tackle the problem is to close almost [why almost?] all the chatrooms it operates through its MSN web sites in 34 countries.'

(ITV Teletext)

The Microsoft business owes much to the conservative-Republican regime in respect to termination of anti-trust lawsuits and the like. It in turn is helping the junta to pave the way for post-democratic censorship. It is using Attorney-General Ashcroft's favourite tool, the ("anti") paedophile weapon — a cynical exploitation of a genuine evil — for ulterior purposes. (See "Ashcroft's Paedophile Terror".)

How will closing almost all of its chatrooms (including public ones, presumably) help combat "grooming"? Is this not the start of a general attack on web discussion sites, using the same pretext?

26 September 03

'POLICE PROBE UK LINK TO CHILD PORN RING

'Seven people have been arrested in the UK following a German police operation to smash an internet child porn ring thought to involve up to 26,000 people. [My emphasis.]

'Police in Germany say they have broken up the ring after issuing 500 warrants there as part of Operation Marcy.

'Those held included a man in Bavaria who had 26,000 indecent pictures. [Is someone getting their statistics confused?]

'The UK's National Crime Squad said it had been tipped off about British links in December [2002] and 22 suspects had been identified, with seven arrests to date.'

(BBC Ceefax)

Modest figures by the standards of Operations Candyman and Avalanche (and their offspring Ore), but it once again illustrates the marvellous potential of such methods for raking the masses in — whatever ulterior purpose this might be used for.

8 November 2003

'COUNCILLOR WANTED OVER DOWNLOADING PORN

'A [Liberal-Democrat] councillor from Bristol [England] arrested on suspicion of alleged electoral fraud is now wanted for questioning about downloading internet pornography.

'John Astley, 38, fled to Amsterdam after his arrest over two weeks ago.

'The police have revealed that during their investigation into the electoral fraud they seized a computer and disks.

'Mr Astley is fighting an extradition order and has resigned from the Lib Dem group [on the city council]. Talks continue between the UK and Holland to secure his return.'

(BBC Ceefax West, 8 Nov. 03, p.164)

Admittedly flight and resignation do not sound like the actions of an innocent man. But the Liberal Democrats? The only visible opposition, God help us, to the upcoming Labour-Tory one-party police state? And the Lib Dem who is accused of electoral fraud also happens to have porn (child-porn, what else?) on his computer??

This is just a confirmation that the potential agenda of tarring political oppositionists with child-porn is being put into effect. The West police running the local subsection of Operation Ore — itself a subsection of Candyman/Avalanche — have already tried applied the technique to Bristol pop musician Robert Del Naja, who was involved in (organizing?) anti-Iraq-war protests. (See above, under 27 Feb, 22 March, 2003.)

Councillor on porn and drug charges", BBC News online, 15 Nov. 2003

8 December 2003

'UK'S CHILD PORN RECORD UNDER FIRE

'UK authorities failed to take full advantage of a list they were given by the FBI of child porn site subscribers, the Lib Dems have said.

'[Liberal Democrat] [h]ome affairs spokesman Mark Oaten said a lack of convictions and prison sentences suggested the intelligence was not being properly exploited [!].

'A [Government] Home Office spokesman said resources were being made available, but how they were spent was down to the police.

'Mr Oaten said the Ore list ["Ore" is the British "sub-franchise" of US Operations Candyman and Avalanche] was "an absolute gift [!!!] to the police.'

(BBC Ceefax, p.124)

Mr Oaten wholly underestimates the "gift value" of the paedophile campaign, which empowers the whole imperial police-state lobby with a weapon of the first water for smashing those who oppose them. Qualitatively and quantitatively paralleling the tools of a Stalinist witch-hunt.

Oaten is at best a fool ...

17 December 2003

Ian Huntley has been convicted of the murders of Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman, the 10-year-old Soham children whose bodies were found badly decomposed in a ditch last year. He was sentenced to life. His partner, Maxine Carr, was sentenced to three-and-a-half years for obstructing justice.

'FAILINGS IN POLICE SYSTEM [in UK, re. Huntley Soham case]

'The chief constable whose force investigated allegations of rape and under-age sex against Ian Huntley has admitted there were "system failings".

'David Westwood expressed "deep sorrow" at the Soham murders but said nothing on Humberside Police's computer had pointed to Huntley's murky past.

'He said the Data Protection Act meant vital information [!] was not available when vetting checks were carried out. [Huntley has been convicted of the murder of two girls at whose school he was caretaker.]'

(ITV Teletext, 17 Dec. 03, p.306)

These were allegations from a number of different people about Huntley. This makes malicious allegations seem less likely. ...

Now, is this one prize to be won from the Soham case? Conviction of selected targets by serial allegations which could in future be suitably orchestrated? Preferably of child-molestation, a charge so heinous that it tends to replace rational analysis? I have suggested that Soham may have been used as an experiment in public-manipulation by those who seek to have the most effective methods at their disposal for the running of a police state and the suppression of opposition.)

Cf. "How Huntley slipped through the net", BBC News online, 17 Dec. 03, and "Police chief scraps BBC interview", BBC News online, 18 Dec. 03.

23 December 2003

The Huntley case (see previous entries) is proving useful for who wish to promote an all-seeing state eye at the expense of individual privacy ...

'[UK] GOVERNMENT "CONSIDERS ACTION ON DATA [PROTECTION] ACT"

'The Government is to consider issuing new guidelines over the Data Protection Act after claims people have died because information was not shared. ['... Home Secretary David Blunkett has set up a review of specific aspects of the act, said ex-minister George Howarth. ...']

'The charity Age Concern has called for a review after an elderly couple died weeks after having their gas cut off without social services being told.

'Concern was also raised when it emerged the Act had promoted police to delete files on Soham murderer Ian Huntley.

'Health Secretary Dr John Reid said the workings of the Act would be examined.'

(BBC Ceefax, p.105; insert from ITV Teletext, p.303))

12 January 2004

'FEARS OVER RISE IN CHILD PORN

'Child pornography crimes have rocketed 1,500% [in the UK] since 1988 [from 35 people charged or cautioned in 1988 to 549 in 2001, according to Home Office statistics] — and an avalanche [now there's a pithy word!] of more porn could be unleashed by new internet mobile phones, a report warns.

'The massive rise is mainly due to the increase in use of the internet, the study by children's charity NCH showed.

'Child welfare professionals are worried new phones will be used by paedophiles to access child sex sites, take pictures and trade in vile images.'

(ITV Teletext, 12 Jan. 04, p.304)

And does this reveal one of the ulterior — police-state — motives that may be behind this concern? ...

'SAFETY CALL OVER CHILD INTERNET PORN

'Child protection experts are calling on the computer industry to install better safety devices to help stop children becoming victims of abuse.

'The NCH said in a report that the internet had driven a 1,500% rise in child pornography since 1988.

'Experts believe the availability of images of children could be encouraging people to commit actual abuse.

'There are also fears new mobiles that can film, display and send video could generate a further danger to children.'

(BBC Ceefax, 12 Jan. 04, p.108)

Arresting abuse online
The Guardian, comment, 12 Jan. 04

'John Carr's report for the charity NCH Action for Children today, on the rapid rise of child abuse activities on the internet, provides a comprehensive historical overview of these offences and our efforts to tackle them in the UK.

'While the report focuses on pay-per-view child pornography websites and online newsgroups (public discussion forums), the activities of internet paedophiles have recently changed significantly. ...'

"John Carr" (biographic note), Internet Watch Foundation

'John Carr is the Internet Consultant for NCH Action For Children. Founded in 1869, NCH is today one of the UK's largest children's welfare organizations ...

'John Carr has been a member of the IWF Boards since its foundation in 1996.'

The IWF has officials drawn from the internet industry, the police and the government, and watches in for child- and other illegal pornography, and other illicit activities.

16 January 2004

Police win paedophile internet ban
BBC News online, 16 Jan. 04

'A Welsh police force has won what is thought to be a ground-breaking ruling which bans a paedophile from using the internet and mobile phones.

'Gary Geoffrey Thomas, 37, lured a 14-year-old mid Wales girl into having sex with him after grooming her via an internet chatroom.

'He was sentenced to 18 months in jail after the jury at Mold Crown Court heard how he had sex with the youngster, one of 15 underage girls he had met in internet chatrooms.

'Detectives asked the court for the order after they [said] Thomas — described as "predatory" — had made more than 1,000 calls on his mobile phone to schoolgirls. ...

''... Judge Huw Daniel ... banned Thomas ... from subscribing or using the internet or mobile phones of any description for the next five years.

'The order has been welcomed by Dyfed-Powys Police Detective Sergeant Diane Davies, who asked for the ruling. ...

'However, John Carr, an internet consultant for the children's charity NCH, said he understood what the police were trying to do but doubted they would be able to police the order.

'He told BBC Radio Wales: "The simple truth is there are thousands of internet cafes on the high streets and back streets [!] of every urban area in Britain.

'You can walk into one of them, give someone a quid [£1] in cash and set yourself up an internet account in less than three seconds. [Just slightly exaggerated claims. ...]

'"It requires absolutely no proof of you[r] name, address, telephone number or anything, and the same applies with mobile phones — you just pay cash in a shop and walk out with one." [Brother, you're big!] ...'

Reminds you of those Soviet unpatriots who listened to all that Western bourgeois filth on their trannies. No wonder the Great Leaders banned private photocopiers, in a bid to stop samizdat propagation of this corruption.

I know little about Carr, or what his degree of sincerity might be; but he is playing hell-for-leather into the hands of >the Ashcroft-led anti-crusade which, under the cynical pretext of child protection, aspires to set the scene for the suppression of all opposition to the US cabal's world-imperial projects.

The establishment of an all-seeing state eye, followed by strangulation of independent media and, ultimately, the wholesale stitching-up of oppositionists as pedophiles (and other discrediting labels). Stalin had his "counter-revolutionaries", Hitler his "Judeo-Bolshevists" ... We shouldn't doubt that the Third Form of totalitarianism will be every bit as enterprising.

17 January 2004

US slated on child porn
David Williamson, The Western Mail, icWales.co.uk

'Following the jailing of railway guard Gary Geoffrey Thomas on Thursday [15 Jan. 04] for unlawful sex with an underage girl and an unprecedented ruling that he must not use a mobile phone or the internet for the next five years, David Williamson reports how the leading children's charity NCH [is anyone capable of saying National Child Helpline in full?] is blaming the United States for the spread of paedophile material around the world. ...

'Legal hair-splitting has prevented the US law-enforcement agencies from being able to act against the vast majority of suspects. Meanwhile, the United States continues to be the world's number-one source of paedophile websites. [Unsurprising, since it is the no. 1 host of the internet.]

John Carr [it's that man again!] is the author of NCH's recent report which argues that exposure to child abuse images fuels the sexual fantasias of paedophiles.

'He is exasperated by the American response to a growing criminal market. [Now this is a gob-smacking critique of the land of origin of Ashcroft's great anti-paedophile campaign ...]

'In 2002, even though the United States only accounted for less than 30% of global internet users, 52% of the child abuse images found in Britain were created there. {Whatever these statistics are supposed to mean or tell us.] ...

'US investigators handed in a list of 6,500 names to their British counterparts after [considerably after, I think] shutting down a child pornography "gateway" ["Landslide"] in 1999. Being suddenly presented with so great a number of suspects to investigate has [... stalled the system? No ...] led to more than 2,300 arrests.

Meanwhile, US officials have an equivalent list of 35,000 names but have arrested only around 200 people.

'Mr Carr explained that one of the chief reasons for the US failure in prosecuting those who had been downloading the images.

'He said, "In order to get a warrant you have to present evidence that is recent. In some states recent is interpreted as meaning the last 30 days."

'Instead of using the giant [yep, it's giant, but perhaps a minnow compared to the total scale of "investigations"] list of names for prosecutions, in most cases police have to target specific individuals in sting operations which are time-consuming and expensive.

'What is of great concern to Mr Carr and his colleagues is the American failure to shut off internet newsgroups [my emphasis] used by child pornography enthusiasts, again on legal grounds. [Now we're getting to some of it ...]

'In 2002 more than 1.2 million child abuse images were moved across the internet using such newsgroups.

'Britain's Internet Watch Foundation, which is made up of members of the internet industry, the police and the Government, concluded that the easy availability of the pornography through the newsgroups was fuelling demand.

'When the newsgroups were then dropped by British internet service providers [my emphasis; what newsgroups are we specifically talking about?it became vastly more difficult for anyone in the UK to access images of child abuse and helped disrupt paedophile networks.

'The proportion of reported child porn images which are believed to have originated in the United States has now fallen [in the UK] from 18% to 2%. [Sounds effective. What other categories of newsgroup will it be used against next??]

'Mr Carr said, "We asked the American industry, "Why don't you do something similar?' They said they are powerless because of their anti-trust laws." ...

[ All-in-all, we have one nice example here of Britain beginning to be used as a test-bed for the projected American police state.] ...

'Concerned Women for America, one of the nation's largest conservative women's groups, is outraged that attempts to make it easier to prosecute child pornography producers have been frustrated by lawsuits brought by respected free-speech groups. [Yes, please note the "respected". They can see the way the wind's blowing; and those genuinely concerned with child-pornography and pedophilia are being just as cynically exploited.] ...'

30 January 2004

BRITISH POLICE INSPECTOR CLEARED OF CHILD PORN CHARGES

'A police inspector has been cleared of downloading images of child pornography on his computer.

'Inspector Mark Winter, 39, who lives in Alcester, Warks, but works for Gloucester Police, had been due to stand trial later this year.

'At an earlier hearing Mr Winter had pleaded not guilty. Prosecutors told the judge that no evidence would be offered in the case.

'They said that no images had been found on the computer.'

(BBC Ceefax West, 30 Jan. 04, p.164)

16 February 2004

'A date has been set for the start of an inquiry into how Soham killer Ian Huntley got a school job despite being the subject of sex-related allegations.

'The Bichard Inquiry has announced that it will begin the hearings on 26 February. ...'

(BBC Ceefax, p.113)

17 February 2004

The Home Office in Britain has issued a new set of guidelines to police on the Data Protection Act, in the wake of the Huntley Soham murder case (cf. yesterday).

Which is doubtless a guidepost on the way to (effective) conviction by suspicion ...

'[British] POLICE CALL FOR ID CARDS

'The introduction of ID cards could have stopped Ian Huntley getting a job as a school caretaker, the inquiry into the Soham murder has heard.

'The Police Federation, representing rank-and-file officers, told the Bichard Inquiry ID cards [can't they say "identity cards" anymore?] could have stopped Huntley using a dual identity.

'A spokesman said: "Verification of an individual's identity will continue to be problematic without ID cards".'

(ITV Teletext, 17 Feb. 04, p.307)

The Soham case was an opportunity (such as from-time-to-time arise) for an experiment in police-state methods, and also a lever (one of various) for erecting an actual police state. The plan is now unfolding.

[UK] Judge arrested over child porn
BBC News online, 23 April 04

'A senior Crown Court judge has been arrested over child pornography allegations.

'David Selwood was arrested on Wednesday [21 April 04] as part of a national paedophile investigation [Operation Ore, offspring of Candyman/Avalanche], the Department of constitutional Affairs said.

'He was interviewed by detectives over allegations of possessing indecent images of children and released on police bail pending further inquiries. [And who needs a conviction? Mud sticks.]

'Judge Selwood is the resident judge at Portsmouth Crown Court.

'Judge Selwood, of Winchester, Hants, became a circuit judge in 1992 after a successful army career. [Selwood was apparently a major-general in the army and a judge in military courts.] ...'

Selwood is, I think, the biggest UK establishment target yet in The Great Paedophile Campaign. But it would still be gauche, at this stage in the game, to "discover" child-porn on Lord Chief Justice Woolf's hard drive, for example. Maybe in a couple of years ...

3 June 2004

'100 HELD IN SCOTLAND PORN RAIDS

'More than 100 people are being questioned after a series of raids across Scotland as part of an operation against child pornography.

'Officers from all eight Scottish police forces took part in the searches as part of Operation Falcon [such a noble name!], along with the Scottish Drug Enforcement Agency.

'The raids came after information was sent to UK forces from intelligence and police sources in the United States. [New, or still spilling out of Operations Candyman/Avalanche?]

'Police may seize computer equipment before any charges are made.'

(BBC Ceefax, 3 June 04, p.113)

This follows yesterday's arrest of an electoral candidate of the Liberal-Democrat Party (the nearest thing in Britain to an opposition party) on allegations of electoral irregularities (see June 2004 diary, under 2 June). While evidence is limited that the paedophile weapon is being engaged against opposition to the two-in-one party imperial puppet state, yet it is now concurring with explicit (albeit yet limited) actions in this direction.

9 June 2004

POLICE TO MONITOR CHATROOMS

'Police around the world [the Anglo-Saxon world anyway] are planning to monitor conversations on internet chat rooms so they can stop paedophiles from grooming their victims over the web.

'The idea emerged at a summit in London of the Virtual Global Task Force, set up six months ago to make the internet safer for young people.

'Police in the UK, US and Australia will make use of different time zones to monitor the web 24 hours a day.

'If a dialogue is potentially dangerous, officers may warn both parties.'

(BBC Ceefax, 9 June 04, p.111)

11 June 2004

'AUSTRALIA[:] Ian George, the Anglican archbishop of Adelaide, has resigned over a child sex abuse scandal involving members of his church.'

(ITV Teletext, 11 June 04, p.318)

22 June 2004

The Bichard inquiry into the Huntley/Soham affair in Britain has concluded. It seems confirmed that the affair will be used as a lever to promote "safety" at the expense of confidentiality, and to centralize police intelligence. Indeed, Home Secretary Blunkett has said it must mark a "watershed".

Amongst other things, Bichard has proposed a "passport" for those working with children and vulnerable adults.

UK Home Secretary David Blunkett has ordered the suspension of the Humberside chief constable (under "new" powers of 2002) over the Huntley/Soham. But Chief constable David Westward has said he will carry on in his job until his police authority says otherwise.

23 June 2004

From our worthy London Times, a glimmering of understanding of the direction, if not the uses, of the Great Paedophile Campaign ...

Spirit of Salem is haunting Soham
Ross Clark, The Times, 23 June 04

'The authorities in Salem, Massachusetts did not have a computer database of suspected offences back in 1692, but we can imagine how useful they would have found one. It would not just have been 20 citizens executed for witchcraft; it would have been half the town.

'Replace "witch" with "sex offender" and 17th-century Salem has more than a little in common with 21st-century Britain. The murder of Soham schoolgirls Jessica Chapman and Holly Wells was a despicable crime, for which former caretaker Ian Huntley has properly been jailed for life. But the fallout from the Bichard report into the Soham case threatens our liberty by putting us at the mercy of rumour and false allegation.

'The nub of the report is this: Huntley would have been prevented from taking up his job as a caretaker at Soham and, therefore, from murdering Jessica and Holly, if the Humberside Police had only bothered to keep proper records and share them with potential employers. For his failure to do this, David Westwood, the Chief Constable of Humberside, has been suspended by the Home Secretary and vilified by the public.

'Yet there was a good reason why Mr Westwood and his staff did not go about telling all and sundry that Huntley was a vicious sex offender. Until the conclusion of the Soham trial, Huntley had never been convicted of any sex offence. He had been acccused of having sex with four under-age girls, of raping four women and indecently assaulting an 11-year-old girl. But in a free society, the weight of allegations does not equal guilt.

'If Huntley was guilty of these earlier offences, some of which he appeared in court over, the failure lies with the Crown Prosecution Service for failing to construct a convincing case against him. Possibly Humberside Police, too, failed in their investigations into the earlier offences. But to suggest that the force should disseminate damning information [sic] merely on the basis of unproven allegations is tantamount to calling for a police state. [My emphasis.]

'Yet this is exactly what the Bichard report does. It demands the setting-up of a national police intelligence system to allow forces to share information on alleged criminals. It also demands that the social services establish a database of those suspected of child abuse and suggests that, the Government, too, creates a register bringing together all known information — substantiated or not — on those who work with children. [My emphasis.]

'It is hard to see how these measures would have prevented Huntley from offending. But even if they did it would be at the terrible cost of ruining the reputations of those wrongly smeared. [A previous case is referred to, that of Dawn Reed and Christopher Lillie.]

'As a result of the Bichard report, more innocent citizens will be caught up in the maelstrom of rumour and innuendo which blighted the lives of Ms Reed and Mr Lillie. If you want to ruin somebody, just start muttering about his or her inappropriate contact with children. An Englishman used to be innocent until proven guilty. From now on, he is innocent only until someone has a grudge against him. [My emphasis.]'

What Ross Clark doesn't note is that Soham was part of a campaign that has been orchestrated from the start from US Attorney-General Ashcroft's Injustice Department and the recently-purged FBI. See "Ashcroft's Paedophile Terror".

24 June 2004

UK CATHOLIC PRIEST ON CHILD PORN CHARGES

'A Somerset Catholic priest has appeared at Frome Magistrates' Court accused of making indecent pictures of children.

'Desmond O'Keefe, 39, of Downside Abbey, Stratton-on-the-Fosse, Radstock, is charged with 18 counts of making indecent pictures of children.

'He was bailed unconditionally until a plea and directions hearing at Bristol Crown court on August 6.'

(ITV Teletext West, 24 June 04, p.332)

25 June 2004

The Humberside Police Authority haven't carried out Home Secretary Blunkett's request/order to suspend Chief Constable David Westwood (over the Soham affair). Instead they voted 12-5 to ask Blunkett to reconsider his request/order.

But Blunkett has reiterated his position, and threatened legal action against the Humberside Authority.

(See "Legal threat to Soham row police", BBC News online, 25 June 2004.)

7 July 2004

The fruits of the Great Paedophile Campaign continue to ripen ...

'CLAIMS "BANKRUPT US ARCHDIOCESE"

'A Roman Catholic archdiocese in the US is to declare bankruptcy because it cannot meet the cost of claims by people allegedly [my emphasis] abused by its priests.

'The Archdiocese of Portland, Oregon, will be the first in the US to do so.

'The action will suspend the start of a civil trial of a priest accused of molesting more than 50 boys.

'Other US Roman Catholic dioceses are also facing bankruptcy, or have had to sell property, to meet the cost of abuse claims brought against priests.'

(BBC Ceefax, 7 July 04, p.123)

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