Wednesday 16 November 2016

3,000 Dead And Alive Persons Accused Of Historical Sexual Offences

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3940190/Why-21-strong-police-team-investigating-Heath-11-years-died-DAMIAN-THOMPSON-says-probe-surreal-waste-time.html

Why IS a 21-strong police team investigating Ted Heath 11 years after he died? DAMIAN THOMPSON says probe is a surreal waste of time

By DAMIAN THOMPSON FOR THE DAILY MAIL

PUBLISHED: 00:40, 16 November 2016 | UPDATED: 01:49, 16 November 2016


How many ‘prominent people’ do you think are being investigated by British police over allegations of historical sex abuse? A couple of dozen? As many as 50?

That would seem unlikely — but who knows, given the feverish speculation surrounding recent claims that ageing television personalities and deceased politicians were secret child molesters?

Actually, we do know. The number of politicians, celebrities and other dignitaries — dead and alive — accused of historical sex offences now stands at 3,000. In the past six months alone, the total has risen by 700.

Those figures are incredible. But another astonishing number has also emerged – that no fewer than 21 officers and staff are working on an investigation into historical sexual allegations made against former prime minister Sir Edward Heath. It’s hard to think of a more surreal waste of police time.

Conveniently for the police, Sir Edward died in 2005. He is not around to answer their more fatuous questions.

For example, they want to know why a protester at a European summit in Brussels threw printer ink over him, calling him a ‘homosexual’. The protest had nothing to do with sexual abuse. It happened in 1972.

But that hasn’t stopped the police throwing resources at investigating shaky allegations about a man who is long dead.

In recent times, the Heath investigation has been overshadowed by other allegations – for example, completely unproven claims against Sir Cliff Richard, who is now suing the BBC for its gloating live coverage of a police raid on his home.

Arguably, however, the police reaction to allegations about Heath tells us more about the corruption of its procedures than anything about the former prime minister.

In the first place, it does not just expose the credulousness of the Metropolitan Police when allegations are made against public figures. Sir Edward had retired to Salisbury, so Wiltshire Police got in on the act, too.

They set up their own investigation into him, Operation Conifer. (Attention-hungry police can’t do anything these days without calling it ‘Operation’ this or that. You’d think they were planning D-Day.)

Operation Conifer is still going on, and still soaking up public money — £674,472. The result thus far is that on Tuesday night the police announced they had arrested then bailed two men in relation to Operation Conifer, while a spokesman said the force was investigating a number of separate allegations made by alleged victims.

Was it purely coincidence that the announcement of the arrests came just hours after a former MP and Sir Edward’s godson had launched separate, scathing public attacks on Operation Conifer, whose conduct has indeed been bizarre.

Edward Heath’s godson, Lincoln Seligman, described the investigation into the former PM as ‘vindictive’ and said that the officers who visited him had only a hazy idea of the background to the case.

But note one detail. Wiltshire Police began their investigation with a televised appeal to ‘survivors’ outside Sir Edward’s former house — which just happens to be situated in the most picturesque cathedral close in England.

This speaks volumes. Salisbury Cathedral provides a fabulous backdrop worthy of Morse or Midsomer Murders. You can imagine senior officers wondering who would play them in the true-crime thriller based on their exploits.

It has been obvious for years that the policemen preening themselves at Press conferences watch far too much television. What they should be doing is developing a keener sense of where their resources can best be deployed.

Now some of those targeted for investigation by the police — either the Wiltshire force or the Met — in recent times are hitting back.

The former Tory MP Harvey Proctor is alleged to have been involved in a murderous paedophile ring with Sir Edward Heath.

Indeed, one ‘victim’ claimed that Mr Proctor had to be stopped from violently assaulting him by the physical intervention of the portly Sir Edward during a sex party.

You may not be surprised to learn that the ‘victim’ was the man now infamously known as ‘Nick’, whose macabre fantasies persuaded the Metropolitan Police to set up Operation Midland to investigate historical sex allegations made against several public figures.

On Sunday, Mr Proctor called for an end to ‘this anarchical, fanciful and hysterical period in British policing’, which ‘demeans the British criminal justice system’. And he did something that, a few years ago, he could never have imagined himself doing. He stuck up for Sir Edward Heath — who, when Mr Proctor was a Right-wing Tory MP, was one of his political enemies.

‘Heath despised me and disliked my views. He would never speak to me in the House of Commons but would snort at me as he passed me in the corridor. The feeling was entirely mutual,’ he said.

‘Little did I think that 44 years later I would be defending the same Edward Heath from absurd charges of historical child sexual abuse.’

In a report today, the Mail reveals how Mr Proctor is suing the Met and could be awarded up to £1 million.

As part of Operation Midland, detectives raided the home of the late Leon Brittan, a former home secretary, and Field Marshal Lord Bramall, 92, former head of the British Army.

No charges were brought — for the good reason that they were completely innocent. Claims that they were involved in an establishment paedophile ring were fantasies invented by ‘Nick’.

Astonishingly, during his time overseeing Operation Midland, Detective Superintendent Kenny McDonald said publicly that officers who had spoken to ‘Nick’ thought his account was ‘credible and true’.

Indeed, no charges were brought against anyone — and last week the mistakes of Operation Midland were mercilessly exposed in a report by Sir Richard Henriques, a retired judge.

The report, which identified 43 separate blunders in the inquiry, said it was time for police to stop automatically believing the accounts of alleged victims. It also revealed that the vast majority of the 400 complaints to an overarching Scotland Yard inquiry into historical sex abuse were ‘without merit’.

In a damning disclosure, it was found that one prison inmate made allegations against 40 people, including celebrities, and all were false.

Yet just days after that report was published we now learn a team of officers are still working on allegations against Edward Heath.

None of this is to say that our police forces should not be chasing current child abusers.

But the more resources, time and money are poured into pursuing historical sex abuse allegations, the less likely it must be that today’s paedophiles will be brought to justice.

Thursday 10 November 2016

'Genderasaurus Rex' ~ Insulting To 'Dinosaurs' And 'Paedophiles'

http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/730924/Nicola-Sturgeon-SNP-government-funds-sex-education-for-two-year-olds

Exclusive: Nicola Sturgeon's SNP government funds sex education for two-year-olds


NICOLA Sturgeon's government and the EU is paying for children age two and up to be given lessons on sexuality and whether they want to identify as being boys, girls or gender neutral.


By SIOBHAN MCFADYEN
PUBLISHED: 14:33, Thu, Nov 10, 2016 | UPDATED: 15:33, Thu, Nov 10, 2016


And they are paying for the roll out of a programme which allows a 'research artist' who works with children from two up up as well as policy makers to encourage infants to talk about sex.

The shocking project, funded by the Scottish Government and the EU, throws the spotlight on the SNP's questionable education record after they were heavily criticised for attainment in schools.

Horrifyingly the ‘Genderasaurus Rex’ concept - which is promoted and paid for by the taxpayer through the Imaginate Creative Project - asks: "How do we talk about queerness outside of sexuality?

"How do we talk about sexuality and children in the same breath without being accused of summoning the spectre of paedophilia?"

Targeted towards young children the bizarre concept has angered parents who believe their sons and daughters should not be subjected to such complex subject matter.

The Imaginate website states: "Our Creative Learning Programme works in partnership with schools, local authorities and Education Scotland to support pupils, teachers and other educators’ creative development."

The Genderasaurus Rex promotional material states: "It’s about making work that can speak directly to the gender-variant child, the queer child, the homosexual child, the cis-gendered child who might feel constrained by the expectations inherent in being a girl or a boy.

"It’s about using the power of art as a place to question, subvert, hide from, muddy, invert and take refuge from the oppression of every day life.

"We can have a conversation with a three-year-old about that without getting bogged down in the details unless that’s appropriate."

The concept created by Eilidh MacAskill and funded by part of a £2m government funded initiative also admits to being inappropriate however it still received cash.

It clearly states it looks at the "cis-gendered child" who are children who identify as being the sex they were born as but who might be feeling "oppressed."

The artists states: "I know that this is rocky ground and I have sensed unease at even the idea of sexuality and children being looked at in the same breath.

"But there is more to people than who they like to have sex with and we know that any silencing and taboo around children and their bodies always leads to trouble, so let’s talk about it."

On the Genderasaurus Rex website the artist, who writes that she works with children between the ages of two and five, also talks about rape and violence.

She even makes reference to the singer David Bowie making unsubstantiated allegations about how he was involved in "underage sex" on the site which is targeted towards children and their parents.

She writes: "Since Bowie’s death I’ve become aware of his sexual experiences with underage groupies in the 1970s music scene in LA…

"While I still feel it’s important to praise his music and the impact he had on many peoples’ lives, I obviously do not condone these acts, which are exploitative even with consent, no matter who perpetrates them.

"In terms of this Gendersaurus project, this situation opens up discussions of how we respond differently to inappropriate behaviour towards children and young people depending on who the perpetrator is."

It is not known how much money Glasgow based MacAskill has been paid for the project however she makes it clear she's been given funding to work with "policy makers."

A parent said: "The very idea that someone can access my child to put these ideas into their heads is frankly horrifying.

"I absolutely object to this and the fact that the public is funding it is sickening."

The Scottish Government and Imaginate has been approached for comment as has Ms MacAskill neither body has has responded and neither has the artist.

Last year Nicola Sturgeon called a "major summit" of education leaders after she was slammed for the sorry state of education in schools.