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| The 21st Century Inquisition
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The 21st Century Inquisition
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Brian Rothery
When I began to publish this web site around 2002, I was hoping for signs that the emerging inquisition of the 21st century would abate. In my naivety I still had some faith in journalists and publishers and even believed that there were more than a few courageous politicians. In the seven years since, the situation has worsened considerably and both media individuals and politicians have, almost without exception, demonstrated that, not only do they not have the courage to resist what has been a sinister slide towards the police state, they are in fact part of the problem, helping to create that state.
In my role as editor of this site, I have been receiving appeals for assistance and advice from unfortunate individuals from all over the world, chiefly as could be expected because of language from the English–speaking countries, but also because those countries appear to be most affected by the worsening inquisition. I have heard not just from broken and abandoned and shunned men, but also from their wives, where they had the good fortune of having a loyal wife that stood by them and in quite a few cases from mothers who for some appear to be have been the only ones to support them. I have heard from men in America who have been displaced and made live on the streets because of the new draconian residency restrictions and from the parents of teenaged boys imprisoned and facing life on the sex offender register for natural exploratory activities with girls who were barely younger than they. I have heard from the parents of teenaged girls who have become criminals because they photographed themselves naked in front of a mirror and sent the images to their boyfriends.
In my experience as editor here, limited perhaps, it seems clear that the worst country, outside of a few totalitarian regimes, is America, followed by Great Britain, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and Ireland. I had hoped for more sanity from France, but colleagues there tell me that things are bad there also. America is out on its own for several reasons: the world’s largest prison population, police brutality, corruption in the judiciary and legal profession, the virtual non-existence of defence lawyers except in the show trials of celebrities, so that due process is generally absent. Indeed it came as a shock to discover that defence lawyers tended to work for judges and had more interest in fleecing their unfortunate clients than in obtaining justice for them.
The biggest project I have had the privilege of being involved in over recent years has been the Operation Ore group action, sometimes referred to as a ‘class action’, for which I have become co-ordinator. This, above all, has been an education as over and over I have heard accounts of the bullying and intimidation used by the police to obtain convictions and cautions and heard and seen how the media conspired with them for the sake of sensational stories. I have also listened to the same stories many times of useless defence solicitors and lawyers who conspired to coerce their clients into plea bargains of guilt under threat of imprisonment and ruin by the media. A bright spot here is the excellent solicitor and legal team in our group action. I can say little more about Operation Ore at this time as the action is moving towards the courts, but after that hopefully I can publish information about how the police tried to stop the action.
So was there anything positive in the past few years? In a bizarre way, yes, as one man’s meat is another’s poison. Five years ago, you could hardly raise the subject of human sexuality, and in particular the crimen exceptum of child sex abuse being used as a political device by the police and the state without being attacked or accused of being an ‘apologist for paedophilia’. In several interviews about our claims that innocent families had been destroyed by Operation Ore, interviewers asked me, “But what is your stand on actual child pornography?” My answer to this question had to be, “My interest is in innocent men falsely accused and in police corruption.” In many cases that was not the story the media wanted. In the five years since, the public perception has changed from the assumption that most of those prosecuted under Ore were guilty to one that most were innocent with many of them victims of credit card fraud and police invention. In addition, it is now more difficult for critics to claim that I and my action group colleagues are pedo apologists when Great Britain has expanded the child porn laws to cover ‘extreme adult pornography’ which could include play bondage and spanking, clearly demonstrating that child porn was also the platform from which to expand control and empower the police to carry out many more dawn raids. We could, should we chose to, say ‘Well we told you so’.
Another vitally important development is that, aided by the Internet, many of the highly intelligent individuals whose lives were almost destroyed by the moral inquisition have come together to fight back and expose the fascism of the police state for what it really is.
The following sub components of the 21st century inquisition are now examined:
The true believers
Social control
The crimen exceptum
The Malleus Maleficarum
Torture
Rhinackeros and Hippocriticus
The shunned and exiled
Read them in the drop down menus top left.
Created on 04/09/2009 08:42 AM by Editor
Updated on 05/26/2010 07:41 AM by Editor
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