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Originally posted by Wisbech Eagle
I did read that but haven't yet studied the report in any detail. I agree though that at first sight it doesn't look good. Like all things we can always be wise after the event. We live in different times now, with different standards and expectations. That's not an excuse. Just a statement of reality. The important thing is to keep on learning and reacting. As you suggest. You cannot have it both ways. Society has progressed and become more inclusive and we have had to adapt to the consequences. Yet some resist that. I think though there is a big danger in trying to judge yesterday's events by today's standards. In everything. What we need to do is use yesterday's mistakes to be better tomorrow. We are talking a timescale of roughly ten years since the first conviction of these gangs you are talking like it was century ago. I can't express the disgust I feel regarding the cover up of these crimes and the disgust I feel for the people who covered it up. We are talking about a police cover up here.
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Originally posted by Teddy Eagle
OK, it may have been a coincidence that so many grooming gangs have been arrested and convicted since public awareness was raised. Do we know whether the Police have ever decided not to publicise the existence of a serial killer? If they think they feed on the oxygen of publicity they might well do so. We don't know. Only those in operational charge of any investigation knows what the thinking behind every decision was. Second guessing these might make good headlines in the Mail but doesn't actually tell us very much.
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Originally posted by Wisbech Eagle
Do we know whether the Police have ever decided not to publicise the existence of a serial killer? If they think they feed on the oxygen of publicity they might well do so. We don't know. Only those in operational charge of any investigation knows what the thinking behind every decision was. Second guessing these might make good headlines in the Mail but doesn't actually tell us very much.
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Originally posted by cryrst
"Robinson" attacks Muslims per se. Which I suggested was not appropriate. I also suggested that you need to be factual. He isn't.
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Originally posted by Wisbech Eagle
It's a reasonable opinion which isn't in anyway in conflict with anything I have suggested. But this is the former head of the CPS claiming investigations were held off through the fear of accusations of racism not for any operational reasons. If that’s what you suggested than apologies; I missed it.
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Originally posted by Wisbech Eagle
Of course it never has been acceptable to "fiddle with kids". However it is undeniable that when I was a kid myself no-one even really knew it was going on. It just wasn't talked about. Looking back now there was a dodgy scoutmaster who would certainly have attracted some attention today. There was though a funny guy in the local park who made advances to local boys who was arrested by the Police. It was a different culture though. Those in the Churches, and in places of authority like Parliament, felt such things were best handled "in house" and the media back then was much more deferential to them. That things have changed for the better is obvious but that doesn't mean we ought to condemn everyone who lived back then. They didn't know what we know. No one is denying the world was different in 1955 but these are things which are still happening.
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Originally posted by Wisbech Eagle
SS has quite regularly misrepresented my views on the grooming gang scandal and he is at it again. I won't dignify it, or"bore" anyone, by repeating everything once again. Those who want to believe him will, whatever I say to the contrary. I will just say it's a deliberately twisted presentation of my desire not to tarnish every Muslim with the sins of some who are criminals alongside my wish to try to support the Police in their efforts to deal with these problems, knowing they are unresourced and under heavy criticism. That doesn't mean that if mistakes have been made they ought to be covered up. I just don't think that "Police bashing" helps anyone and the kind of activity that "Robinson" indulges in is distinctly negative in impact. This quote demonstrates where we differ:- "The reactions of the police in ensuring no publicity not only compounded the situation and allowed it to carry on for years". No-one knows if that is true. No-one knows whether things would have been better if there had been heavy publicity earlier. It's an assumption. It might have caused the criminals communities to close even tighter around them and have hampered the Police's ability to investigate. It might have caused a severe breakdown in trust between local communities. I don't know, but what I am quite sure about is that who-ever took the decision did so with the best of intentions. They thought it was the best way forward and whilst time may have shown that to be wrong, in some people's opinion,they ought not be castigated. They need to be supported. Has anyone on here has tarnished 'every' muslim.
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Originally posted by Wisbech Eagle
I won't dignify it, or"bore" anyone, by repeating everything once again. Why are you changing the habits of a lifetime as you've bored everyone stupid with your constant repetition for years and have single handedly ruined this forum as a discussion centre for most people
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Originally posted by Badger11
''Another comment from the Secretary of the Child Abuse Inquiry in case people think the elite blocking or not acting on investigations was in the past''. Edited by Badger11 (26 Feb 2020 8.10am) You'll never convince him. Never in a million years.
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Originally posted by cryrst
Has anyone on here has tarnished 'every' muslim. When grooming gangs are described as "muslim" then every other Muslim is tarnished by association. The IRA weren't described as "Roman Catholic" terrorists. "Robinson" does use "Muslim", although I don't actually see much distinction between using that and "Islam". As an example:-
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Originally posted by Midlands Eagle
Why are you changing the habits of a lifetime as you've bored everyone stupid with your constant repetition for years and have single handedly ruined this forum as a discussion centre for most people I see you aren't changing your habits either. I freely admit I have habits, or as I prefer to describe them, standards. I prefer truth to lies and if I see lies then I will call them out. If that happens frequently then that's only because the lies tend to be repeated. I also know that many would like this place to be a cosy right wing echo chamber where everyone can live in a bubble of confirmation bias. There are plenty of closed entry forums where people like me get excluded. If that's what people want then I suggest they join them and then they won't be "bored" by me. This, so far as I know, is a football supporters forum, which has a News?Politics sub section open to ALL supporters, whatever their views might be and however they might wish to express them. Whether such a section is wise is a matter for the site owners, but whilst it does as a supporter I will use it.
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Originally posted by Midlands Eagle
Why are you changing the habits of a lifetime as you've bored everyone stupid with your constant repetition for years and have single handedly ruined this forum as a discussion centre for most people There are far more many guilty parties than WE on this and you know it.
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Originally posted by .TUX.
You'll never convince him. Never in a million years.
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