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Rotherham; Why Now?
Sobering reading. Something surely has to be done, wouldn't you say ?
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You could try to google, Rotherham: Why Now. The Spectator, Australia.
It's an excellent article & maybe worth the struggle, sorry.
I'll try to cut & paste the start, then continue if you wish
Years ago, I was privileged to sit on a panel with Samantha Smith as one of Mark Steyn’s ‘angels’ (a homage to Charlie’s Angels).
Samantha was the youngest of our commentary group and exceptionally accomplished. Her story about grooming gangs was taboo and Mark Steyn ran the risk of being cancelled each time he broached the topic of Pakistani-Muslim grooming gangs with her. He did it anyway.
These are the grooming gangs which were shamefully protected from both the law and public scrutiny over fears that bringing child rapists to justice might ‘start a race riot’.
Samantha Smith is a survivor and was five years old when the abuse began. Frustrated with the police response to complaints, she commented that the legal system ‘criminalised the victims, rather than going after the perpetrators’.
‘The focus of reports … should be on victims and survivors and how to prevent more children from falling prey to Pakistani grooming gangs. I think this: the Chelsea report is really a testament to the bravery of those survivors that put their heads above the parapet despite decades of denial, victim blaming, and ignorance from those in positions of power … in Telford, social services, councils, police officers, they found it far easier to blame the little girls that had been brutally raped, abused, and exploited than to actually prosecute those responsible. It is far easier to say that the child was asking for it – the flowery dress or children’s pyjamas that they were wearing – were too provocative. That they were child prostitutes or white slags. Or that they had a relationship with a Pakistani man that was entirely consensual despite the fact they were 12 years old. It is far easier to do that than address the core of the problem which is that those in positions of power were too politically correct. They were too scared of being branded racist.’
She said this two years ago.
‘The culture of silence and ignorance and incompetence has pervaded all corridors of power for decades.’
To this Mark Steyn replied: ‘For some reason the media and the broad culture in this country seems to have decided that girls like Samantha are not worthy of being accorded victim status.’
Many of the girls got criminal records alongside or instead of their rapists. They carry these to this day and have to deal with the impact of these on their adult lives.
Some have children by their rapists and have been forced, by family courts, to allow parental contact with them.
This scandal will echo through the years and something needs to be done now without equivocation.
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That is not so different to how the general public is being treated today, where those who complain about the criminal class murdering children or spreading terror find themselves locked up on account of a few angry tweets.
In one of her many interviews, Samantha explained that police asked if she consented to the sexual acts these men inflicted upon her. She was a child. This idea that children might have consented to the abuse is one of the horrifying common threads emerging under the spotlight of international scrutiny.
It is incomprehensible that this could have happened to thousands of little girls while Western feminists shouted ‘Me Too!’ from the headlines of every mainstream publication. The governments fretted over gender quotas to make their Cabinets ‘look diverse’ while children were being raped by Pakistani men operating under the immunity of social justice.
Two years ago, Mark Steyn said this on GB News:
‘You might have got the impression that the rape of children year in, year out, in Telford, as in Hull, as in Oldham, as in Rotherham, as in your town here doesn’t matter a jot or tittle to our elected representatives. Were those nine persons at least honest about who’s doing the gang raping? Did they utter the word Pakistani?’
Tweeting on January 3, Mark Steyn added: ‘Rape is not about sex. Rape is about power.’
In the case of these rape gangs, the terror they inflict upon British girls is an act of cultural dominance over the nation as a whole. It creates enclaves of abuse and sections of the country where it is simply not safe for citizens to raise their children.
Grooming & rape gangs have been operating freely nationwide for far too long, and the fact that they're not investigating this with the urgency it deserves is an outrage. Systemic failures, outright denial, and blatant cover-ups meant (& mean) these gangs continuing their abuse without fear of reprisal. The time for action is long overdue & the truth must not be denied any longer. To ignore the decades of pain & misery the countless victims have suffered is unconscionable & they deserve justice, delivered as harshly & swiftly as possible.
With no apology for reusing it, the Prime Minister is “[...] a most notable coward, an infinite and endless liar, an hourly promise breaker, the owner of no one good quality [...]”.
*Grooming & rape gangs have been operating freely nationwide for far too long, and the fact that they're not investigating this with the urgency it deserves is an outrage.*
Anyone working in the public sector over the past 50+ years will tell you that if a situation existed that might upset 'the community' then it was brushed inder the carpet, maintaining 'good race relations' was paramount. These gangs have been known about for years and years, I did my teaching practice in Bradford in the late 60s and it happened there, along with domestic abuse within families but anyone flagging this up was called 'racist' and that closed down all discussion.
We're reaping what was sown then.
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How’s this article aging…?
While it is true that Tommy Robinson is a difficult figure with a complex past, standing up to the grooming gang victims is not one of his mistakes. Sometimes polite society needs someone like Tommy Robinson to say the things people are too afraid to whisper. He dented the gates. Poked holes in the paranoid state. He forced the hostile press to print his name and his claims.
Some politicians and media figures went so far in their desperation to distance themselves from Tommy Robinson and the ‘far-right’ that they often excused, side-lined, or denied the savagery of the rape gangs. They forgot all about the real victims and instead saw themselves as the victims. These individuals have become so committed to the narrative that they are still on X, writing these gangs off as fabricated racism.
Tommy Robinson’s unconventional journalism brought the grooming gangs to public awareness, but was not sufficient to break the fear politicians, editors, and ordinary citizens had about naming and shaming.
That changed at the end of last week when arguably the world’s most influential political commentator and owner of the largest free speech social media platform decided to crucify the UK government.
Elon Musk tweets a lot, so it is hard to tell exactly when his campaign started, but somewhere around January 1, Musk retweeted Ian Miles Cheong who had posted a video about British police ‘turning a blind eye to grooming gangs’. He said: ‘…’ That received 16 million impressions. Musk followed this with a post about Europe ‘tolerating grooming gangs for the economic benefits’ and then, in rapid succession, another tweet about the UK grooming gang trial transcripts in which the original poster asked why these reports had not triggered civil unrest.
For the next few days, Elon Musk amplified various news items related to grooming gangs. The story was deepening quickly to levels of depravity that even legacy media organisations could no longer ignore.
Musk wrote: ‘So many people at all levels of power in the UK need to go to prison for this.’ That particular comment was in relation to claims that parents were arrested when they tried to rescue their children. That received 44 million impressions.
Former British Prime Minister Liz Truss wrote, ‘These appalling rape gang cases of girls as young as 11 shame our country. Not only do the perpetrators need to be punished. So do the authorities who turned a blind eye in the name of not inflaming racial tensions.’ To which Elon Musk replied, ‘Absolutely.’ Another 41 million impressions.
Shortly after, he began musing about Tommy Robinson’s current solitary confinement and suggesting those involved in the cover up should switch places with him. Around the same time, Elon Musk proposed voting Reform as the way to save Britain. By January 2, Elon Musk had reposted Tommy Robinson’s documentary, adding another 73 million views.
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On January 2, Musk suggested that a new election should be called in Britain. His closest shot across the bow came in a video interview.
‘How can this be real? They are releasing convicted pedophiles from prison in order to put people in prison for Facebook posts. There were migrant rape gangs in England that would run around and prey on young girls, gang rape them, and some people found that objectionable. They were upset about that and they complained about it online and were sent to prison. That sounds crazy.’
He went after legacy media too, accusing them of being ‘beneath contempt’ and complicit in hiding the scandal. By the time January 3 rolled around, he was affirming calls for the King to dissolve Parliament and order a general election.
What Elon Musk has is a $44 billion megaphone and he has used it to shout in the ear of Westminster with such force that the windows have shattered and the global independent media, who answer to no one except their readership, have been allowed to flock in through the windows to *** all over Starmer and his government of painfully Woke politicians.
It is a win-win situation for Musk, but there are those asking if he should have the power to interfere with international political affairs. Perhaps the question we should be asking is why did it take someone as powerful as Elon Musk to pressure the government into caring? His power comes from their failure.
In the meantime, Reform’s Richard Tice said, ‘The Home Office must commit to a full inquiry into the grooming gang scandals. Anything else is a massive cover up of the Establishment’s failings. Such an inquiry must be rapid and transparent, not long, costly, and turgid.’
Reform has since been inundated with calls from the victims of the rape gang scandal, with Rupert Lowe vowing to hold an inquiry themselves if the government refuses.
We shall give Robert Jenrick, the Member of Parliament for Newark, the final word. He wrote on X:
‘To sustain order in multicultural Britain, the state considered it necessary to apply the law selectively.
‘For decades, the most appalling crimes from predominantly British-Pakistani men were legalised and actively covered up to prevent disorder.
‘The rule of law was abandoned to sustain the myth that diversity is our strength, destroying the lives of thousands of vulnerable white working class girls in the process.
‘This appalling affair is the final nail in the coffin for liberals who still cling to the argument that Britain is an integration success story........
