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Who is really running the show?

Kincora - FRU - Blair, Robertson, Operation ORE and the Dunblane Mass murderer

"The allegations come from a former housemaster who says pupils were regularly preyed on by a vice-ring of toffs. The pervs - some of them major establishment names and close pals with Hamilton - allegedly picked up their victims in flash limos and dropped them off the next day, obviously distressed."

Freemasons: The silent destroyers. The Knights Templar reincarnated?

The Kincora Boys scandal
Do the Minstry of defence hide 'experiments' with occult psyops...?
or have they, like the CIA & the FBI in the Boystown scandal [see Bush family secrets]
used Child abuse to bribe and implicate

The 3 directors of Kincora boys foster home engaged in pedophile activities with the boys. The book traces the authors investigation as he learns that the RUC & Secret Service [MI-5] used the directors association with extreme Unionists / Loyalists with similiar tastes to get inside information on paramilitary activities. The major scandal was never fully unearthed in the British House of Parliament. Some of the political heavy weights had enough influence to crush the investigation. The files are sealed even to the RUC police force to this day. Perceptions

"Who Framed Colin Wallace" by Paul Foot is an account of the activities, trials and tribulations of a former Ministry of Defence (MoD) Information officer. Wallace's involvement in a 'dirty tricks' campaign in Northern Ireland in the 1970s has been confirmed as recently as 30th January this year by the Minister for the Armed Forces, Archie Hamilton MP, in a written Parliamentary answer to Michael Marshall the MP for Arundel.
A section of the book deals with distasteful activities which took place at Kincora Boys Hostel, Belfast, allegedly with the knowledge/connivance and involvement of various figures within the Ulster establishment as well as the civil and military intelligence communities. In 1981 the head of the hostel and two staff members were tried and convicted on 28 charges. More contentious is the apparently well supported allegation that the authorities allowed the situation at Kincora to continue for at least six years after it had been brought to their attention, because of the blackmail and other dirty tricks opportunities it provided the intelligence services.
One aspect of the broader Kincora saga which has received scant attention is the existence of an occult dimension to the business. This is alluded to in a memo apparently written by Colin Wallace in November l974, which is reproduced in Foot's book, relating specifically to ritual overtones in the murder of a 10 year old boy Brian McDermott. It seems that Wallace had some motivation to play down the occult aspects of that affair at the time, because one of the more successful disinformation tactics of the MoD "Information Policy" dirty tricks unit was the manufacture of spurious Black Magic and Witchcraft scenarios.
Detailed accounts are given in Foot's book of intelligence officers buying bundles of black candles and acquiring chicken's blood and feathers to plant in Republican areas. The purpose being to use these as evidence to assist in defamation exercises being mounted against prominent personalities to scandalise their church besotted supporters. The last thing Wallace and his cronies in the intelligence community wanted was a real child-sex and ritual murder scandal attaching to the people on the other side of the sectarian divide who were caught up in the Kincora business.
Black magic and dirty tricks
One of the most interesting parts of the Colin Wallace affair is the light he throws on the so-called Kincora scandal. Kincora was a boys' home in East Belfast which was run by three pederastic homosexuals - Joseph Mains, Raymond Semple and William McGrath. McGrath was also the leader of Tara, an extremist Protestant paramilitary organization and a leading light in a private Orange Lodge, LOL 1303. Foot alleges that Wallace tried to alert the authorities regarding what was going on at Kincora years before it finally came to light. He alleges that McGrath was working for MI5 and that the Security Service ignored the plight of the boys at Kincora to protect their investment.This reviewer was a member of LOL 1303 and actually knew William McGrath from 1975 up to the time of his arrest and conviction. He was always boasting of how much he knew about the activities of the IRA and the Eire army. Foot's information in the chapter on Kincora is impeccable as far as it goes.
According to Foot, Wallace was quite happy to confuse and discredit the IRA and loyalist paramilitary groups. He claims that things changed in 1973 when MI6 was replaced by MI5 in Lisburn. A top secret propaganda campaign was launched under the name of Clockwork Orange. Originally the project was to expose the personal inadequacies of top IRA and UVF members, but it soon spread to cover top political figures in Ulster and Great Britain.
Revue of Foots book by John Fleming

Who framed Colin Wallace
Mr Wallace, who admits he was part of a dirty tricks war that was waged in Northern Ireland, alleges he was sacked from the army for threatening to expose the Kincora scandal which was subsequently revealed.
He was convicted of the manslaugter of his best friend in 1981 and sentenced to 10 years imprisonment. He has always protested his innocence over the charge.
After serving six years in jail he was released on parole and had the manslaughter conviction quashed by the Court of Appeal in 1996.
No bombers, gunmen in Sunday photos
Wallace was ordered by his superiors to investigate the Kincora Boys Home in east Belfast and the behaviour of William McGrath and the other staff members. The abusers were described in Chris Moore's and Paul Foot's books as homosexuals but there are others who would prefer to use the words "child abuse" when it comes to describing the activities of those involved in the Kincora Case. The names McGrath , Semple and Mains are widely known but it has become obvious that there are other names of powerful and well-known people who have connections with the Kincora saga and whose identities the so-called authorities have tried to keep secret since the scandal broke . One such person who has been reported to have visited Kincora is Ted Heath , the former Conservative MP and British PM. - The Kincora boys scandal

Dunblane secret documents contain letters by Tory and Labour ministers
Investigation: By Neil Mackay, Home Affairs Editor - Sunday Herald
LETTERS between Labour and Tory ministers and correspondence relating to Thomas Hamilton's alleged involvement with Freemasonry are part of a batch of more than 100 documents about the Dunblane mass murder which have been sealed from public sight for 100 years.
The documents include a letter connected to Hamilton, which was sent by George Robertson, currently head of Nato, to Michael Forsyth, who was then Secretary of State for Scotland.
Until now it was thought that a 100-year public secrecy order had only been placed on one police report into Hamilton which allegedly named high-profile politicians and legal figures. However, a Sunday Herald investigation has uncovered that 106 documents, which were submitted to the Dunblane inquiry in 1996, were also placed under the 100-year rule.
The Scottish Executive has claimed the 100-year secrecy order was placed on the Central Police report, which was drafted in 1991 five years before the murders, to protect the identities of children named in the report. Hamilton had allegedly abused a number of children prior to his 1996 gun attack on Dunblane primary school in which 16 primary one children and a teacher died before Hamilton turned his gun on himself.
However, only a handful of the documents, which the Sunday Herald has discovered to be also subject to the 100-year rule, relate to children or name alleged abuse victims.
The most intriguing document is listed as: 'Copy of letter from Thomas Hamilton to Dunblane parents regarding boys' club, and flyer advertising Dunblane Boys' Sports Club. Both sent to Rt Hon Michael Forsyth, MP, Secretary of State for Scotland, by George Robertson MP.' Also closed under the 100-year rule is a 'submission to Lord James Douglas Hamilton, MP, Minister of State at the Scottish Office, concerning government evidence to the Inquiry'.
Another document relates to correspondence between the clerk of the Dunblane inquiry, which was presided over by Lord Cullen, and a member of the public regarding 'possible affiliations of Thomas Hamilton with Freemasonry ... and copy letters from Thomas Hamilton'.
SNP deputy justice minister, Michael Matheson, said: 'The explanation to date about the 100 -year rule was that it was put in place to protect the interests of children named in the Central Police report. How can that explanation stand when children aren't named? The 100-year rule needs to be re-examined with respect to all documents.'
Matheson has written to the Lord Advocate, Colin Boyd, asking why the 100-year rule applies and how it can be revoked. He has so far had no response. He also asked First Minister Jack McConnell to explain the reasons for the 100-year order but received 'no substantial answer'. Matheson is to write to Colin Boyd a second time, in the light of the discovery that more than 100 other documents are also sealed, asking him to account for the decision.
A spokeswoman for the Crown Office said: 'In consultation with the Crown Office and the Scottish Office, Lord Cullen agreed that in line with the age of some of the individuals involved and named in the inquiry, the closure period would be 100 years. The Lord Advocate is considering issuing a redacted copy of the productions, which would blank out identifying details of children and their families. A decision on this has yet to be made.'

Other sealed key reports on Dunblane include:
A 'comparative analysis of Thomas Hamilton' by Central Scotland Police
Information about Hamilton's 'use and possession of firearms'
Pathology reports, Hamilton's autopsy report, and analysis by Glasgow University's forensic science lab on blood, urine and liver samples from Hamilton's body
Details on firearms licensing policies
A review by Alfred Vannet, regional procurator fiscal of Grampian, Highland and Islands, of 'reports and information in respect of Thomas Hamilton submitted to the procurator fiscals of Dumbarton and Stirling by Strathclyde Police and Central Police'
A psychological report on Hamilton
Guidance from the British Medical Association on granting firearms licences
'Transcript of and correspondence relating to answering-machine tape which accidentally recorded conversation between police officers at the scene of the Dunblane incident'
Correspondence and witness statements 'relating to allegations of sexual abuse made against Hamilton'

Dunblane inquiry documents released
Documents relating to the Dunblane massacre nearly ten years ago are being released to the public for the first time. Sixteen children and a teacher at the town's primary school were killed when gunman Thomas Hamilton walked into the gymhall and opened fire on them. Later that same year Lord Cullen held an inquiry into the atrocity.
Files from that show that police failed to link three reported incidents involving Hamilton and children prior to the shooting in March 1996.
Dr Mick North, whose daughter Sophie was among the victims, is reported to have said that on two occasions between 1988 and 1992 Hamilton was the subject of reports to the procurator fiscal for his behaviour at children's camps. He was reported a third time for photographing young boys in ill-fitting swimming trunks.
But after viewing the files, Dr North said that they had convinced him there was no cover-up, although they suggested that police had failed to take proper action.
Documents from the Cullen inquiry were originally placed under a 100-year closure order, meaning that the public were not allowed to access them. But Lord Advocate Colin Boyd reviewed that decision and lifted the order. People will now be able to read papers from the hearing at the National Archives of Scotland in Edinburgh.
However, some details which would identify individuals have been removed to protect their families. And more sensitive information, including personal profiles, medical reports and port mortem reports, is not being made available. - scotsman.com

Documents from the police investigation into the shooting were submitted to Lord Cullen's inquiry into the massacre in 1996 but they were placed under a 100- year-rule to keep them secret. Two years ago, the lord advocate of Scotland, Colin Boyd QC, decided to review material placed under the order and as a result members of the public will be able to view a number of the files at the National Archives of Scotland from today.
The papers are thought to include letters raising the theory that prominent figures connected with Hamilton were freemasons. Further documents include a statement from a firearms expert saying that, on March 7 1996, Hamilton asked for instruction in close-range instinctive shooting and testimony that, for two years prior to the massacre, Hamilton had questioned boys about the layout of the gym at Dunblane primary. - Guardian

Nothing to hide in Dunblane report, so why the secrecy?
DR MICK NORTH
THE decision to prevent public access for 100 years to documents from the Inquiry into the Shootings at Dunblane Primary School in March 1996 was a huge mistake, and so I welcome the Lord Advocate's move to lift the Closure Order and release the majority of them.
The decision to impose the order was taken in 1997. No public announcement was made, nor were those of us directly affected by the shootings informed of the decision or told that, as interested parties, we would still be able to have access to the documents. It is hardly surprising that once the existence of the order leaked out, suspicions arose that the documents contained secret information not revealed at the Inquiry.
As the father of one of the Dunblane victims, I belatedly took the opportunity over the summer to read all of the documents. In my view there are no hidden secrets, and I believe that had a more open attitude been taken to public access, much of the inaccurate speculation about them could have been avoided.

That said, they do contain sensitive material, and further anguish could be caused to the families if some of the personal information were released into the public domain, so I agree with the decision that some of the documents should remain covered by the closure order.
Earlier this year I applied to read them under Freedom of Information law but, as I now know, the documents could have been viewed by the families during the inquiry and at any time since then. Although I need not have waited so long my delay was necessary because, despite my having written a book about the Dunblane shootings, there were some areas that were too raw for me to investigate. Revisiting the details of the events at Dunblane Primary School, or some of the minutiae of Thomas Hamilton's life, was too much for me until recently.
What I discovered was that, in general, I was aware of most of the material contained within the documents, although not with the detail. At the time of the inquiry the families had been supplied with summaries of both witness statements and other material used in evidence.
Reading these in 1996 had presented a daunting task for those of us who had recently suffered the death or injury of our loved ones.
The documents consist of more than 30 lever-arch files containing evidence collected by the police during their inquiries.
Just a mere glance highlights the nonsensical nature of the decision to confine all of them for 100 years: why would, for example, the Central Regional Council's guidelines on the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974, Guidelines for Janitors and Cleaners be so sensitive?
The witness statements do contain far more information than I had seen in the summaries we were sent in 1996. Many of the gaps and discrepancies that had previously raised concerns and aroused my suspicions have now been resolved.
I recognise that a public inquiry cannot be entirely open ended and that there will be a limit to the number of witnesses who can be called and whose evidence can be examined and cross-examined at the inquiry itself.
Yet some key witnesses ought to have been called.. The decision, for example, to allow Detective Chief Superintendent John Ogg to give evidence on behalf of a number of the key witnesses to the events during and shortly after the shooting was inappropriate.
What a public inquiry needed to hear was the evidence of those who witnessed what had happened and not a summary from a senior police officer who had his own or his force's agenda. Ogg's evidence had raised suspicions at the time of the inquiry.
Despite this, there is little doubt that the overall story as presented by Ogg and written up by Lord Cullen was close to the truth.
What I did appreciate from reading the documents was the extent of Hamilton's history with the authorities. But I saw no evidence that anyone was offering him special treatment. There is a huge amount of correspondence between Central Scotland Police and Thomas Hamilton
. Hamilton's correspondence veered from obsequious praise to strident criticism but there was no hint that special favours over gun licensing were being sought or given. This, of course, does not excuse the inability of the police to think through the implications of allowing Hamilton to continue to keep his guns when they had evidence, for example, of his inappropriate behaviour at his boys' camps. However, it certainly does not constitute evidence of a conspiracy.
Since the shootings many in the gun lobby have claimed that local gun club members had warned that Hamilton was not an appropriate person to own guns. But the vast majority of shooters interviewed by the police did not criticise Hamilton's shooting, indeed many were complimentary about his attitude towards gun safety. He may have seemed strange to some but there is no evidence that gun club members were anything other than accepting of him.
It was the police who knew more about him and should have made the links. The decision to put the documents away for 100 years was made because of the need to protect the names and details of the children who were linked to Hamilton either through his boys clubs or through the shootings themselves. But it was taken in a lazy way that has had far-reaching implications.
It was always likely that the decision to hide away any set of documents for as long as 100 years would be seen to be contentious. It was not in the public interest and certainly not in a spirit of openness to have done so without any explanation. There are lessons to be learned here. I have previously criticised the public inquiry procedure for being too remote from the needs of those directly affected. Too often the inquiry appeared as a process run by the establishment for the benefit of the establishment in an attempt to minimise damage. Yet the arrogant decision to hide these documents away has left a festering sore which has never healed.
None of this reassures me about some aspects of the inquiry: that it was appropriate, for example, for it to have been conducted by the local police force whose connections with Thomas Hamilton were being scrutinised, nor that those inquiries were being overseen by the local procurator fiscal's office where police attempts to bring charges against Hamilton had on more than one occasion been rejected. These aspects are not addressed by the documents. But at least we now know that the inquiries that were conducted were thorough.
It is essential that public inquiries are conducted in a way that allows as much openness as possible. The Lord Advocate's decision has helped in part to restore that openness.
* Dr Mick North is the father of one of the victims of Dunblane - scotland on sunday
Dunblane: files show police flaws

Police, killer in child sex ring
EDINBURGH: Police were involved in a paedophile ring that covered up abuse allegations against the man responsible for the infamous Dunblane school massacre.
The astonishing claim was made by former paramedic Sandra Uttley, who is going to the European Court of Human Rights to demand a new inquiry into the tragedy.
The 45-year-old, who dealt with the aftermath of the killings in her job as a paramedic, said: "There are glaring anomalies in the inquiry, inconsistencies in witness testimony, incorrect information given on oath and the absence of vital witnesses.
"It is also blatantly obvious that Central Scotland Police, who were chosen to investigate the background to the murders, should never have been involved in a so-called independent inquiry. They were implicated in the events under scrutiny and continually provided Hamilton with renewals of his gun licence despite long-term and repeated warnings that this should not happen. It was known that Hamilton had friends in the police force, including one highly placed officer.
"I believe that Hamilton was a major provider of pornographic photographs and videos to a ring of men prominent in Central Scotland, including police officers who protected him from numerous allegations of physical abuse at boys' camps and clubs he ran. They protected themselves after the massacre which conveniently ended in his suicide."
Last year Ms Uttley's former partner, Mick North, whose five-year-old daughter Sophie was killed, said he was "convinced" of a cover-up.
Lord Cullen, who led the inquiry and imposed the 100-year ban, was asked to recuse himself if he was a Freemason. (Hamilton, reportedly, was himself a lodge member.) Cullen denied that he held membership. Cullen was then asked "to instruct every witness to the Inquiry to declare if they were Masons." Cullen declined. Since the inquiry, Cullen has been found to be "Number 1702 on the membership list of the ‘Speculative Society of Edinburgh', which is an exclusive off-shoot of Freemasonry. In fact, Masons from Lodge Canongate Kilwinning No 2, founded the 'Speculative Society' in Edinburgh in 1764." - daily telegraph via Rigorous intuition

Stanley B. Stillingfleet said... Hi,
Seems to me what is becoming apparent day by day is that paedophilia and sexual predation which is so rife in the political world is an extraordinarily useful tool for blackmail and sexpionage in general. Let's face it, by now it must be obvious that most politicians are there in pursuit of power and kudos rather than any altruistic reasons. They are perfect saps for intelligence agencies to drill the holes and fit the strings, as it were.
One only has to look at the rise in the multi-billion dollar industry of human trafficking which is fast reaching the same profit margins as arms and narcotics (being inextricably linked to both) to see that things seem to reaching a fever pitch of consumption in more ways than one. We live in a dark interrelated and interconnected world after all.
What is all the more disturbing is that we are seeing a parallel rise in the most abhorrent discoveries in society at large including systematic paedophilia within neighbourhoods i.e. children in a family passed around to others like candy and even the most bizarre cases of law which includes, for example, Swedish legislation brought into effect that prohibits sex with dogs, which came from statistical evidence that vets were encountering internal damage of the kind that could only be inflicted from this type of activity. What on earth have we come to when laws need to be enacted for such things?
The Franklin Cover up with John DeCamp for example, is really just a glimpse of a long-term malaise that's been around for quite sometime and is now being stepped up to alarming degrees due to, in part, information technology, the end of the cold war and the consequent vacuum filled by a host of Mafia groupings as well as boarder controls being relaxed in Europe. Ahh, the freedoms of globalisation....
Societies and governments alike seem to be mirroring what might be called an entropic dynamic as opposed to a creative one with increasing frequency. And it is this sexual distortion and deformation I think, which holds the key to so much control. Sex, in all its forms, is largely an addiction which has always been a powerful weapon against true freedom.
Thomas Hamilton, Marc Dutroux and others all represent nodal points and sub-divisions in a largely self-organizing network that seems to "alight" at cetain points on the grid but is most certainly always there. All we catch sight of are the fall-guys, time and time again.
Who needs a conspiracy when it is a natural dynamic of the lowest possible expression of a predator's world? All deeply disturbing.

Flashback: Operation Ore findings squashed by Blair government
"On January 28, 2003, amid the furor of the impending war with Iraq the British press briefly reported on Operation Ore, the most thorough and comprehensive police investigation of crimes against children before being squashed by the Blair government. Besides implicating Rock guitarist Peter Townsend of the Who, the report claimed that senior members of Tony Blair's government were being investigated for pedophilia and the "enjoyment" of child-sex pornography. With the investigation reaching to senior members of his Government, Blair declared a news blackout on the story.

Moreover, the British report was not the first such case reported. In fact, it followed on the heels of a report from Portugal. On November 27, 2002, the press reported a scandal of pedophile ring run from a state orphanage. The Guardian reported that the scandal threatened to engulf diplomats, media personalities and senior politicians. Photographs of senior government officials with young boys from Lisbon's Casa Pia orphanage were among the evidence. More shocking however, were the revelations that systematic sexual abuse of children at the home had allegedly been going on for more than 20 years and had been known to police and other authorities for most of that time. "
George Bush, The CIA, Mind Control & Child Abuse
"There seem to be some retractions due while a number of unanswered questions remain regarding an article recently posted (anonymously) on Melbourne Indymedia entitled "Blair Involved in Pedophile Ring blackmailed to support Iraq Attack." It now seems probable that some of the allegations made in the article may stem from a smear campaign orchestrated by British secret services."
follow up Why the British MP Paedophile Story was Hidden

Buried by a pile of porn
Jan 16th 2003 - From The Economist print edition
The hunt for consumers of child pornography is overwhelming police
"THIS group is for people who love kids. You can post any type of messages you like or any type of pics and vids you like too." The thousands of men who responded to this invitation to join Candyman, a Yahoo membership site, are now the subjects of the largest-ever worldwide criminal investigation into paedophilia.
The fall-out from the FBI investigation of Candyman and a Texas-based subscription website called Landslide has overwhelmed Britain's police. More than a year ago, the Americans provided them with credit-card details of the 7,272 Britons who paid a $29.95 monthly subscription to join Landslide, which provided an entry point to child porn websites all over the world. But though 1,300 search warrants have been issued and 1,200 arrests made, only a handful of cases have so far been brought. Police forces are reluctant to disclose how many they have charged: Thames Valley police say that doing so could jeopardise future inquiries. But the real reason why police are not giving out a number is the embarrassing likelihood that most of those on the list will be let off with a caution.
Operation Ore, as the British effort is known, has been dogged by a lack of resources. Though the law makes possession of child pornography, including computer images, subject to a maximum sentence of five years, proving the offence is difficult. To do a full forensic examination of a computer takes up to three months. Companies specialising in the work say that, at the present rate, it would take from five to ten years to process all the suspect computers.
When the inquiry began, the police divided the suspects into three groups. The highest priority for investigation was given to anyone with access to children, with a previous conviction or who was on the sex offender register. The second category was those in a position of authority, while the lowest priority was given to the largest group—those not regarded as posing a particular risk to children.
Those now being pulled in come from categories one and two. They include judges, teachers, barristers, solicitors, university lecturers, hospital consultants, a deputy prison governor, 50 policemen (including two involved in the investigation into the murders of two girls in Soham last year) and, it is said, two senior Labour MPs. Fewer than 5% were previously known to the police. The lives of any who are named as suspects, whether they are innocent or guilty, will be ruined. Already, there have been two suicides. Each day more names are dribbling out, sometimes even before a search warrant has been issued or an arrest made. And the police have not yet started on category three.
Some of the leaks are part of a long and dishonourable tradition of a few crooked policemen selling information to tabloid papers. But others are the result of frustration with the slow pace of the investigation. Harry Fletcher, assistant general secretary of the National Association of Probation Officers, said that the leaks were disgraceful whatever the motive. "It hampers individuals' ability to get a fair trial."
The government last month announced an extra £500,000 ($800,000) to fund the inquiry. That won't go far. The former head of the Metropolitan Police's Obscene Publications Branch, Michael Hames, says that millions more would be needed to make a difference. According to John Carr, an adviser to a children's charity, NCH, and a member of the government's internet task force on child protection, such is the backlog of work that there is often a six-month delay in examining suspect computers.
And there's a lot more to come. Interpol has recently been told that another large American inquiry will shortly become public. It will provide police with details of thousands of British subscribers to a website containing images of children as young as four. Carole Howlett, deputy assistant commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, has admitted that there is a danger of the problem escalating out of control. Child protection, she says, has to be a higher priority for the government.
The difficulties facing the police in bringing prosecutions are leading some of those concerned with child protection to advocate a lower threshold for conviction. Debra Shipley, Labour MP for Stourbridge, who has been pressing the government for more resources, says the law should be changed to make it an offence to use a credit card to buy child pornography: the police could then prosecute on the basis of credit-card details, and would not have to examine suspects' computers.
A less contentious approach is to concentrate on the distributors of child pornography. Credit-card companies are meeting with law enforcement officials in Washington this week to discuss ways of putting the child porn sites out of business. Visa says it is already scanning thousands of sites every day. Given determined action by the card companies and internet service providers, child porn sites should find it difficult to operate openly. The 1,335-year sentence handed out to Thomas Reedy, who set up the Texas site where this operation started, is also a useful warning that the risks of this particular trade may outweigh its rewards. - economist.com

Fascists look after their own:
Police officer: "Boss...we've uncovered a Pedophile ring which includes judges, teachers, barristers, solicitors, university lecturers, hospital consultants, a deputy prison governor, 50 policemen & two senior Labour MPs. There are literally THOUSANDS of names"
Commander: "er...Thousands?... oh really? er, who gave you those?
Police officer: "The FBI"
Commander: "...how interesting, can I phone a friend?"

Under The Commander [Mason] the Police investigation take on a 'witchunt' nature, Media connections engage in salitious tabloidism, a glorifying approach to the reporting becomes apparent.
The FBI [masonic] have supplied THOUSANDS of names but the real 'ring' is only really a few hundred strong, and now buried in the tons of costly paperwork
The masonic Commander in charge knows that he must finger an innocent man - if any of the others are to be put in doubt - it's part of the way the masons play this every time - and The FBI have thought of that, too, helpfully flagging a few hundred totally innocent people who have spoken out against the state - are on the list - and so it is arranged - and the 'witch-hunt' continues and further bungles are engineered...for instance - It is revealed that officers involved are Christians, Presbytarians...this adds to the confusion.
finally it all gets forgotton about; and everyones happy...
except of course for the Kids who have to endure this nightmare, that is...

UPDATE: Paedophile ex-cop gets three life sentences
Friday, 31st March 2006, 11:27 - LIFE STYLE EXTRA (UK) - A paedophile ex-cop was branded a potential child killer as he was given three life sentences for tying up and sexually abusing young boys.
Gary Mizen, 47, fled to Britain while on bail in Australia for similar offences when he lured a 12-year-old and 13-year-old to his houseboat and plied them with alcohol and trussed them up 'like a turkey' before raping them. Mizen was described in court as a "predatory paedophile" who would groom the youngsters, play sex games with them and gag them to drown out their mufflesd protests. His actions showed "a high degree of sophistication" but only came to light more than a decade later.
In a shocking report presented to Southwark Crown Court a psychiatrist branded Mizen "sadistic". The report said of Mizen: "He has already prgressed to sadistic and controlling behaviour of young males. If there is further progression of deviant and perverse sexual fantasies it might end in a sexual homicide."
Mizen was sentenced to three life terms for raping boys and three years concurrent for indecent assault but will be eligible for parole in just six years. Sentencing him Judge Nicholas Loraine-Smith said: "When presented with an opportunity you groomed these two very young men. Then you indecently assaulted and buggered them. The impact statements make for very sad reading. the only good news is that you pleas of guilty have given the victims a feeling they can start their lives again." He added: "Even though these offences were carried otu a long time ago the effect is so overwhleming that vthe victims cannot bring themselves to talk about it to anyone. There are grounds for believing you pse a serious danger to immature young men for a period that can't be reliably estimated."
The impact of the sex assaults was so great that one of the victims has become heavily dependant on cannabis to try and block out the memories. Mizen was impassive as sentence was passed, but his two victims, now in their early 20s, hugged each other. One of the victims described how he was invited to Mizen's canal boat to help sand and paint it, "a bit like an out-of-school project". The youngster was plied with alcohol during a strip card game and felt so drunk "the room was spinning".
Prosecutor Mark Fenhalls said: "Mizen said 'Do you know what will make you feel better? - a nice fuck will make you feel better'. The child said no but Mizen replied 'Yes, a nice fuck will make you feel better' in an aggressive, really scary way.
"Mizen grabbed his wrists, pinned them back, but the child struggled a bit and was afraid.
"Mizen said 'The more you struggle the more it will fucking hurt'.
"He tied him up using something long, like a dressing gown belt and tied his left wrist to his left ankle, leaving him trussed up like a turkey."
The first victim was groomed with cigarettes and alcohol and encouraged to play strip truth or dare.
The court heard Mizen offered to fix his bike as he cycled along the River Lee, east London, but started tying up the 12-year-old and gagging him with a pair of socks when he complained. The youngster said he was tied up at least three or four times for periods of up to 30 minutes and penetrated eight times.
Mr Fenhalls added: "The child said 'I would be undressed, led into the bedroom, never dragged, but ending up being tied up. "'I never wanted to be tied up and I would be saying I don't want to do nothing sexual. I just wanted to come down to the marina and have a drink and do things that kids do.'"
Mizen's fixation with younger boys stretched back a quarter of a century to 1981 when he was just 22. Mizen, a Briton, resigned from the Western Australian Police Force after being arrested and subsequently serving three years for kidnapping a nine-year-old boy and indecently assaulting him. In March 1990, as a 31-year-old, he gave a 14-year-old alcohol and amyl nitrate before abusing him.
He admitted supplying the youngster with alcohol and drugs but fled back to his native UK to escape the charges. A warrant remains outstanding and the Australian authorities will review whether to extradite him or not. Mizen, of the Far Canal, Springfield Marina, Coppermill Lane, Hackney, admitted two counts of buggery and one count of indecent assault against one child and one charge of buggery against another. The charges relate to incidents betweem April 30 1995 and April 25 1998.
Mr Fenhalls added: "The first attack in 1981 might be described as relatively crude in the sense that he simply abducted a child from the street. "The later offences show a higher degree of sophistication involving significant periods of grooming and corruption and the administration of alcohol and drugs. "The offences and the antecedents demonstrate that the defendant is a predatory paedophile who has been a continuing danger to young boys for a period of many years. "The brutal effect of this behaviour can be seen in the devastating consequences that both young men describe that this defendant's actions have had on their lives."

New Labour, Margaret Hodge and the Islington Child abuse scandal
Ms Hodge was leader of Islington council from 1982 for a decade - a period in which children in the borough's care homes were molested, raped and driven into prostitution.
"The prime minister, Tony Blair, today sprang to the defence of his embattled children's minister after she was forced to make a humiliating public apology for labelling a former child abuse victim "extremely disturbed".
Blair defends beleaguered Hodge

Timeline: Margaret Hodge row
Tash Shifrin outlines key dates in the row over how the children's minister dealt with reports of child abuse at a London council that surfaced when she was the council's leader
Wednesday November 19, 2003
1982 Margaret Hodge became Labour leader of Islington council.
1985 Demetrious Panton complained to senior figures at Islington council about being abused while in the council's care in the 1970s and early 1980s. He received no official reply until 1989, when the deputy social services director, Anthony Cousins, wrote to say the council regretted what had happened but did not believe it was at fault.
April 1990 Senior social worker Liz Davies and her manager, David Cofie, raised concerns about sexual abuse to one of Islington's neighbourhood forums. They asked for extra staff to help investigate but were turned down. Ms Hodge wrote a memo to the director of social services saying the budget would not allow extra staff. Ms Davies and Mr Cofie continued to raise concerns, sending "about 15 reports to senior managers and the area child protection committee". The committee decided there was no cause for concern.
February 1992 Liz Davies resigned from her job after being ordered to place a seven-year-old boy in a care home run by someone she had raised concerns about. She took her information to Scotland Yard.
1992 Mr Panton raised his case again with Stephen Twigg, then an Islington councillor, and now minister for schools and a colleague of Ms Hodge at the Department for Education and Skills. In 1996 Mr Twigg, who has also worked as Ms Hodge's parliamentary assistant, told the press he wished he had "taken it up in a more active way at the time" and admitted his failure to raise the case with Ms Hodge "may be a criticism of me".
October 6 1992 The Evening Standard began a series of reports alleging that dozens of children at two Islington council homes were abused. Ms Hodge accuses the Standard of "gutter journalism" and rejected its dossier on paedophile activity in the homes.
October 23 1992 Margaret Hodge stepped down as council leader to take a post with consultants PriceWaterhouse.
May 23 1995 An independent inquiry led by the director of Oxford social services, Ian White, found that the council failed to properly investigate the sexual abuse allegations. The inquiry report said it was possible many of the allegations were true and that abusers "are still working in the field elsewhere". Of 32 named staff alleged to be involved in abuse, only four were disciplined. Two remained in post, including one working in childcare. The White report described the way the council was run at the time of the allegations as "disastrous".
June 13 2003 Ms Hodge was appointed children's minister. Her appointment sparked a renewed campaign against her by the Standard, which had been vindicated in its 1992 reports by the 1995 White inquiry. Liz Davies, previously an unnamed whistleblower, went public in her anger at the appointment.
June 30 2003 Ms Hodge rejected calls for her resignation as children's minister. She acknowledged making one "terrible error of judgement" in 1992. But she added: "I think in the context of those times, people will understand why I made that [error of] judgement. I hope they understand that I've learned the lessons from that."
November 11 2003 Ms Hodge tried to block a BBR Radio Four Today programme investigation into the abuse in Islington children's homes. She wrote to the BBC chairman, Gavin Davies, to condemn the programme, accusing it of "deplorable sensationalism" and called Mr Panton, who spoke to the BBC, an "extremely disturbed person". Mr Panton, now a government consultant, said Islington council had repeatedly ignored claims that he had been abused as a child by Bernie Bain, who was head of the children's home where he lived, in 1978. Bain, described by police as a "brutal sexual abuser", has since committed suicide.
November 15 2003 Mr Panton rejected the minister's written apology for her remarks and said they were not genuine. He demanded a public apology, a donation to a children's charity of his choice and payment of his legal costs.
November 19 2003 Margaret Hodge issued a public apology to Mr Panton, read in the high court. Her statement said she was genuinely sorry for labelling him disturbed and accepted the allegation "ought never to have been written".
timeline of the scandal
more info on child services [Guardian]

Question: What happens to talented writers & comedians
who appear in biting satire lampooning
the New Labour style of perception management?

Child Porn fit-up?
Chris Langham, the award-winning comic actor, has been arrested as part of an investigation into internet child pornography. The 56-year-old, was questioned by Kent Police early December at Tonbridge police station and released on bail.
In a statement issued through his lawyer, Mr Langham, from Cranbrook, Kent, said: "I was arrested by police as a result of an inquiry into offences relating to computer use. I was interviewed and bailed to return to the police station on a date in February. "I have not been charged with any offence and have made no admissions to any criminal acts. I ask that during the course of this investigation you respect the privacy of my family for whom this event has been extremely traumatic " "I am advised that I can make no further comment on this investigation at this stage and will not be doing so."
Chris Langham is a comedy legend - and was named Best Television Comedy Actor at the British Comedy Awards, for his portrayal of minister Hugh Abbot in The Thick Of It, screening on BBC4...
Observe how the BBC do a smear job - [looks like an obituary to me]

reminder Opus dei - Ruth Kelly links

UK: Abortion shaping up as election issue:
Opus Dei Catholic sect confirms Kelly is a member
BBC The Dei today

The new education secretary, Ruth Kelly, yesterday admitted that she received "spiritual support" from the controversial Roman Catholic Opus Dei movement, while insisting that her faith would not stand in the way of her taking up further government jobs.
There had been speculation that the newest member of the cabinet had ruled out a move to the departments of health or international development because of her opposition to abortion and contraception. - Guardian
The term ``Fascist'' has created some confusion. The ideology of Opus Dei has all the features commonly found in the abstract political category of ``fascism'' even though it is a very special form of this ideology, since it is mixed with elements of the Christian religion. Reading Escriva's book ``The Way'' with the above definition of fascism in mind, it is evident that he is the perfect Fascist. The Unofficial Opus Dei FAQ
Group Watch: Opus Dei/Work of God
There are no vows in Opus Dei: Members make their commitments within Opus Dei simply on their honor as Christians. They commit themselves to seek holiness and to help others do the same according to the spirit of Opus Dei, which is primarily in and through their everyday work and in fulfilling their ordinary Christian duties. - Opus Dei
hmmm i wonder if she's pro-choice? - The Anti-Abortion/Neo-Nazi Connection
or supports equal rights for other sexualities? Supreme Homophobia - Human Rights issues in Chile
US - Keyes' gay daughter suddenly on her own
UK Equality Bill excludes gay rights

Question: what happens to a Physical education teacher
who is found to be on the [operation ore] sex offenders list?

Timeline: Sex offenders row

The Department for Education is considering more changes to teacher recruitment in England and Wales after revelations that sex offenders were approved to teach.
Here is a summary of the events surrounding the revelations.
1980
Teacher William Gibson is convicted of indecently assaulting a 15-year-old girl.
1996
After compiling albums of explicit images of boys, science teacher Keith Stuart Hudson is convicted for importing indecent and obscene publications.
2001
Education Secretary Estelle Morris places Mr Hudson on List 99 - the list of people banned from working with children - with the condition that he can teach only in all-girl schools.
The Care Standards Tribunal backs Ms Morris's decision after hearing medical evidence that while Mr Hudson's feelings towards young boys are "homosexual, paedophilic and inappropriate", he has "no interest in girls".
2003
Mr Gibson works as a maths teacher at St Joseph's RC Comprehensive School in Hebburn, South Tyneside, but is dismissed after the school discovers his convictions.

Teacher Paul Reeve is arrested by Norfolk Police and receives a police caution for accessing banned images of children on the internet.
OCTOBER 2004
Mr Gibson finds work through a supply agency at Hebburn Comprehensive, but is dismissed after one day's teaching.
31 JANUARY 2005
A letter from the Department for Education and Skills (DfES) tells Mr Gibson that Education Secretary Ruth Kelly has cleared him to teach despite his conviction.

MARCH 2005
Mr Gibson finds temporary work at a school in County Durham, but is again asked to leave after a day.
MAY 2005
Higher education minister Kim Howells gives approval for Mr Reeve to work in schools.
SEPTEMBER 2006
Mr Gibson starts teaching at Portchester School in Bournemouth.
DECEMBER 2005
Mr Reeve is given a job as a PE teacher at the Hewett high school in Norwich, but police protest and, after teaching for five days, he is suspended and then resigns.
8 JANUARY 2006
Hewett School head teacher Tom Samain, and governors' chairman Marion Wright voice concern in a joint statement.

The DfES says it cannot comment on individual cases, but will review Mr Reeve's case to see whether it raises any policy issues.
9 JANUARY 2006
Making her first public comments on the matter in a statement, Ms Kelly says a new vetting and barring scheme, which would provide better protection for children and vulnerable adults, is already being developed with the Home Office and police.
Officials will review the details of Mr Reeve's case and "further improvements" will be made if necessary, she adds.

11 JANUARY 2006
Ms Kelly admits other registered sex offenders are not on List 99, and announces an urgent review of the systems by which people are allowed to work with children.

Parents' groups demand an apology, while a spokesman for Tony Blair says the prime minister has full confidence in Ms Kelly.
12 JANUARY 2006
Ms Kelly tells the Commons new laws on tighter checks for those working with children, proposed after the Soham murders, will now be debated by MPs next month.
The government will confirm the precise number - and whereabouts - of offenders working in schools and investigate "whether their behaviour has been of concern to the authorities", she adds.

First Minister Jack McConnell says he intends to tighten the laws governing those allowed to work with children in Scotland.

13 JANUARY 2006
Jack Straw, who is now Mr Howell's boss at the foreign office, says Mr Howells had "acted properly". Downing Street says Mr Howells will keep his job.

14 JANUARY 2006
The Department of Education in Northern Ireland begins urgently reviewing its guidance on who can work in schools.

The former Chief Inspector of Schools, Chris Woodhead, says Ms Kelly should resign.

Bournemouth Borough Council chiefs say Mr Gibson has been taken out of Portchester School "indefinitely".

15 JANUARY 2006
Ms Kelly promises an immediate review of all the cases since the sex offenders' register was set up.
She says she is looking to take steps to make sure all sex offenders are barred for life from working with children.
Conservative leader David Cameron calls for an independent person to be appointed to investigate how sex offenders were able to get employment in schools.
Ex-Tory leader Michael Howard, who introduced the sex offenders' register while he was home secretary, calls for Ms Kelly to quit, but Mr Blair's spokesman says she will remain in her post.

Welsh Education Minister Jane Davidson says checks are being made to ensure no sex offenders are working in schools in Wales.

Q&A: Ruth Kelly and the sex offender row
Tony Halpin, Education Editor of The Times, says Ruth Kelly must explain her decision to let a man who is on the Sex Offenders' Register work in schools
Has Ruth Kelly given her reasons for the decision? How can it be defended?
No, Ms Kelly has remained silent on the controversy, but is said to believe that she took the right decision. The Department for Education and Skills is insisting that it does not discuss individual cases. But the Education Secretary finds herself mired in a controversy that has led politicians and child protection organisations to cast serious doubt on her judgment. It is inconceivable that she can ride out this storm without being forced to justify her decision and explain her reasoning.
Did she do anything wrong under the rules?
The Secretary of State has responsibility for deciding whether teachers and others in schools should be placed on List 99, the DfES's blacklist of people who are barred from working with children. In that sense, she did nothing wrong in exercising her judgment.

But it is her judgment in permitting someone placed on the Sex Offender Register to continue working as a PE teacher that is now in question as a result of the evidence that has emerged about this case. The letter from the DfES' Safeguarding Children Unit telling Norfolk County Council that Paul Reeve could continue to teach made clear that Ms Kelly had "considered all aspects of the case, including sex offender registration".
Is she alone in deciding this person was fit to work in a school?
The school and county council said that they were guided by the Secretary of State's decision in reaching their conclusions about Mr Reeve's eligibility and suitability for employment. Norfolk Police, however, quickly made clear their concerns, which have been echoed by teachers' unions and children's organisations since news of the controversy emerged.
It now rests with Ms Kelly to explain her decision, particularly as Jacqui Smith, her junior as School Standards Minister, told BBC Radio today that the DfES would "review this case to see whether it raises any policy issues". If the Education Secretary believes she made the right decision, why does her department believe it must review it?
Wasn't all this supposed to have been tightened up since Soham?
Yes. The Government is in the process of creating a new vetting scheme that aims to address inconsistencies in different reporting systems, such as List 99 and the Sex Offenders Register. However, this is not due to come into force until 2007. In any case, Mr Reeve declared that he was on the Sex Offenders Register and there is no suggestion that Ms Kelly lacked information about his case. So the issue is not about systems of reporting, but Ms Kelly's decision-making. Why did she decide that there was no necessity to place Mr Reeve on List 99?
Will the rules or policy now be rewritten or could this happen again?
Ms Smith has said the DfES is reviewing the case "to see whether it raises any policy issues". But it is really for Ms Kelly to justify her action and restore confidence in the system of protecting children in schools. Even the best designed system is only as good as the people making decisions within it. Both parents and child protection professionals want to know in what circumstances someone can be placed on the Sex Offenders Register and still be considered suitable for teaching children? - timesonline

Mr Reeve is not innocent -
Mr Reeve declared that he was on the
Sex Offenders register for downloading images of child abuse
so this is not a case of drunkenly pissing in public,
[which if arrested of - can result in being put on the list under acts of public exposure]
or another type of sexual offence, this is child related

The Headmaster explains more than he reckons
The headmaster of the school at the centre of the affair has been explaining how he came to employ Paul Reeve, the PE teacher cautioned by police for downloading child pornography from the internet - and how he came to suspend him.
Tom Samain, head at the Hewett School, Norwich, said he personally interviewed Mr Reeve for a fixed, two-term PE teaching job at his school. He decided to employ him even though he knew Mr Reeve was on the sex offenders register because he thought the recommendation from the DfES - signed on Ms Kelly's behalf by the then higher education minister, Kim Howells - was backed by police and other agencies.
The letter said Mr Reeve was a trustworthy person who would be "a loss to the teaching profession". Mr Samain today revealed that police had contacted human resources at Norfolk county council on the evening of December 15, saying they had discovered Mr Reeve was employed at the school and that they had concerns. The next day Mr Samain suspended Mr Reeve.
Mr Reeve was arrested as part of Operation Ore in April 2003 while working as head of PE at King Edward VII school in Kings Lynn, Norfolk. His name is said to have appeared in connection with details of more than 7,000 British credit cards passed to the police by the FBI, who had been investigating a Texas-based pornography website called Landslide.
He agreed to be cautioned for gaining access to banned images of children on the internet. [eh? he was only cautioned? isn't it a crime then? or is he a MASON?]
Asked why he had employed a man he knew was on the sex offenders register, Mr Samain said: "It didn't appear to have any risk at the time because we were led to believe that all the agencies involved in child protection - police, social services and health services - had looked exhaustively at this and had come to the conclusion, unanimously, without a dissenting voice, that this man was safe to be employed in any school in the country."
Mr Samain added: "He was the only realistic candidate for the job, which was a fixed two-term post. He is an advance-skills teacher, which is the highest level of competence a teacher can get. I led the interview with a panel of senior staff at the school.
"Everything that he told us about himself matched the reference that we received from the DfES and everything that he said was confirmed in those materials. We couldn't find anything in his reference that gave us cause for concern. He came across as a very professional and competent teacher, and that is what I am looking for in an interview situation." Guardian

How did he get to work with children? Ministers APPROVED him
Has he received any treatment for his problem?
Texas-based pornography website called Landslide. Links to Bush Family?

Now; observe a minister Kim Howells who steps forward - holds his hands up -
in a 'bait & switch' tactic -
and cover Ruth Kellys [spanked with a spiked plank] fundamentalist NAZI Opus Dei ass
& gets to keep his job in the foreign office in the deal as well
His boss - one Jack Straw, leaps in on the defense too...
hmm - is he approving rendition cases & torture -

read: The memo

Rendition: the cover-up
Martin Bright - - New Statesman Monday 23rd January 2006
Exclusive: A secret memo reveals the truth: the government knows rendition is illegal but it has no idea what it has been letting the CIA get away with on our soil.
At Foreign Office Questions recently the minister responsible for Middle East affairs snapped. MPs from all sides were pressing for answers about "extraordinary rendition" and were unsatisfied with the stock reply from Kim Howells: "We have no knowledge of this and we have received no requests from the Bush government."
Challenged for the umpteenth time, Howells let his righteous indignation show. "The government are opposed to torture," he said. "They do not torture anyone, nor would we ever, ever put up with any other administration torturing individuals."
This blustering response was entirely disingenuous, the New Statesman can now demonstrate. It does not begin to describe the reality, which is set out in a secret, high- level memo - obtained by this magazine - that passed from the Foreign Office to Downing Street last month. For the truth is that the government is involved in a cover-up, not so much of what it knows about this shady business, but what it doesn't know. The one thing it is pretty sure about, however, is that if it has happened, and if Britain had a role, then the government has broken the law.

also notice the BBC's complicit damage limitation reporting
The approval of a cautioned - self acknowledged downloader
of chld pornography for a teaching job by the highest levels of office in the UK government
Well - it is just a 'sex case' now...it all gets forgotton about; and everyones happy...

Sex case minister will keep job
A minister who allowed a registered sex offender to work as a PE teacher will keep his job, Downing Street has said. Kim Howells, who has since moved from education department to the Foreign Office, admitted making the decision to clear Paul Reeve to work in schools. Mr Howells said he had been told Mr Reeve "did not represent an ongoing threat to children". Downing Street said the minister had followed correct procedures and would not be sacked.
Advice
He was also backed by Foreign Secretary Jack Straw, who said he thought Mr Howells had "acted properly".
Education Secretary Ruth Kelly had been under pressure to name the minister who made the decision after she admitted a "small number" of sex offenders had been cleared to work in English schools.
SEX CRIMES
Police caution: Given to people admitting minor offences - placed on sex offenders' register but not automatically barred from schools Conviction: Defendant sentenced in court - goes on sex offenders' register and put automatically on education blacklist, List 99
On Thursday, Ms Kelly announced she would be rushing through new laws to tighten up restrictions on sex offenders. She said she would make a statement to MPs on the number of offenders working in schools "as soon as possible".
In his statement, Mr Howells said: "As duty minister for the Department for Education and Skills in the first days of May 2005, it was my job to reach a decision on any cases put to me under long-standing arrangements followed by government ministers of both parties. "I read Mr Paul Reeve's file very carefully and sought advice about the facts contained in the file. "They argued that this person did not represent an ongoing threat to children but that he should be given a grave warning. "I took that advice in good faith and acted accordingly."
'Every confidence'
He added it was then up to any would-be employer to decide, "with all of the facts in front of them".
This letter - which said Mr Reeve was trustworthy and would be a "loss to the teaching profession" - enabled Mr Reeve to get a job at a Norwich school, despite the school's knowledge that he was on the sex-offenders register and had accepted a caution for accessing child porn. But Mr Reeve quit his post after just eight days when the police voiced concerns. He would automatically have been banned from teaching if he had been convicted of a sex offence.
But because he had accepted a caution he was not placed on List 99, the teaching blacklist, and he successfully convinced the education department and the school he was not a risk to children. On Thursday, Ms Kelly told MPs she wanted to close this loophole by ensuring cautions and convictions were "treated identically", with the "closest possible alignment" between the sex offenders register and List 99.
'Knee-jerk'
Shadow education secretary David Willetts said: "I think it's good that Kim Howells has come clean like this and to be honest I think it's a refreshing contrast with the approach we have had from his boss, Ruth Kelly."
Liberal Democrat president Simon Hughes also said more needed to be known about the case and the ministers involved. "I don't think automatically either should resign. I don't take that knee-jerk view," he said. He said if Mr Howells had carried out all the procedures under the present law and process and taken advice and given that information to the employer "and they were aware of all the facts - then he behaved properly".
'Daily Mail test'
A former Labour education minister told BBC Radio 4's The World at One that ministers regularly had to decide on other similar cases. The ex-minister, who did not want to be named, said the department would be given a full briefing on the teacher concerned, often including psychiatric and police reports. Ministers often applied the "Daily Mail" test - how would this case look if it were splashed over the front of the newspapers, the ex-minister added. The former minister could not recall ever approving a teacher returning to school in such circumstances. - bbc.co.uk

er well, not quite...

Senior policeman rejects Kelly's claims
CHRIS FISHER, EDP POLITICAL EDITOR, RICHARD BALLS - 13 January 2006 08:25
A senior Norfolk police officer last night rejected claims by Education Secretary Ruth Kelly that the teacher at the centre of the row over sex offenders in schools accessed child pornography websites unintentionally. Paul Reeve started a job as a PE teacher at the Hewett School in Norwich last month after receiving a letter from the Department for Education and Skills that acknowledged he denied "intentionally accessing child pornography".
It stated that Ms Kelly had concluded Mr Reeve "was not unsuitable for working with children" and that - on the advice of her senior medical officer - he did not present a risk to children in his care.
According to Channel 4 News last night, Ms Kelly's letter went on to say she had "taken into particular account" supportive testimonials submitted on Mr Reeve's behalf that his teaching abilities "were considered to be of a high standard" and that he was deemed to be a "trustworthy person". This letter enabled Mr Reeve to get a job at the Hewett, despite the school's knowledge that he was on the sex-offender register and had received a caution for accessing child porn.
But Det Insp Paul Cunningham, of Norfolk police, yesterday dismissed the possibility that Mr Reeve might have committed the offence unintentionally. While stressing that he could not comment on the individual case, he said every name provided to the force as a result of Operation Ore - including Mr Reeve - had been taken from a database held by the US authorities.
All had accessed photographs of children being abused and not adult pornographic websites, he said, and all of them had used their credit cards to subscribe to child pornography and not adult sex sites.
Det Insp Cunningham, who led the Norfolk child porn investigation, codenamed Operation Atlas, spoke out as Ms Kelly continued to fight for her political life.
The beleaguered Education Secretary yesterday told the Commons that she would introduce legislation next month to ensure that people on the sex-offender register following a caution, as well as those with a conviction, wouldbe automatically barred from working in schools.
She would secure "the closest possible alignment" between her department's List 99 - which stops anyone on it working in schools - the sex-offender register and other data sources, she said. But Ms Kelly confirmed that "a small number" of registered sex-offenders were employed in schools because they were not on List 99 - then further aggravated her critics by again refusing to specify how many.
She was attacked by Tory and Liberal Democrat spokesmen over the gap in the child-protection system that has been exposed, but did not come under pressure from the Labour benches in the Commons. Her future remains in the balance, however. There is strong resistance on the Labour benches to the school reforms that the Prime Minister is determined, and Mr Kelly may be sacrificed in the underlying political battle.
Mr Reeve was arrested in April 2003 as part of the Operation Ore inquiries into child pornography, and his name was one of 7000 given to the police in the country after US authorities broke into and destroyed a Texas-based website. No images were actually found on computers used by him and he was eventually given a police caution.
Det Insp Cunningham added that in order for anyone to receive a police caution that person had to accept he was guilty of the offence in question. If a caution was not accepted, the police then had to decide whether to prosecute or take no further action.
"Initially, there were adult sites, but we were always in a position to prove that the sites they had access to were child abuse sites," he said. "In lots of the cases we dealt with, the defendants employed their own hi-tech experts, but on each and every occasion we were able to disprove that. We have not had one not guilty plea in Norfolk."
Almost 50 people in Norfolk were convicted in relation to child pornography as part of Operation Ore, one of the highest rates in the country. Police confirmed last month that they had obtained 48 convictions and 18 cautions as a result of arrests made across the county in 2003. They seized 129 computers, 43 laptops, 55 hard drives, 3017 CD roms, 718 floppy disks and 4253 videos and DVDs. For eight months they made raids every week targeting first the 20 men known to have had direct working connections with children, including teachers.
Another Norfolk teacher convicted of child porn related offences was Andrew Blundell, although he was arrested as a result of a tip-off by the FBI and not as part of the Operation Ore inquiry. Blundell, a father-of-three and then aged 43, was a pupil manager assistant at the Blyth Jex School when police raided his home at Spixworth and seized computer equipment. They found 16 images which he had transferred to floppy disk described by a judge as "repulsive". He was jailed for six months and placed on the sex-offender register for five years.
Three years ago, Norfolk had the highest number of registered sex-offenders per head of population of any county in the region. The number of convicted offenders rose to 416 in March 2003 from 306 the previous year - the equivalent of 52 per 100,000 people.
There were also 269 violent and other sex offenders who were considered a danger to the community down from 308 in 2001/02. These figures did not include offenders placed on the register after March 31, 2003, or those who may have moved out of the county or who had been taken off the register. - new.edp24.co.uk

isolated incident?

The case of Mr Gibson

Convicted sex offender worked in several UK schools
13/01/2006 - A convicted sex offender was allowed to work as a teacher in several schools in England, it emerged today.
William Gibson, 59, was jailed for two-and-a-half years in 2000 for fraud, forgery and theft and was released from prison in 2002.And in 1980 he was convicted for indecent assault on a child and has since worked at two schools in South Tyneside and one in neighbouring Co Durham. The case of Gibson emerged as Britian's Education Secretary Ruth Kelly faced mounting criticism after her department allowed teacher Paul Reeve, who has a caution for downloading child pornography, to work in the classroom.
Like Reeve, it is understood that Gibson was not on the Education Department's own List 99, which contains the names of those banned for life from working in schools.
South Tyneside Council confirmed Gibson was employed as a maths teacher at St Joseph's RC Comprehensive School in Hebburn for three months in 2003 until his past was uncovered. However, despite being uncovered as a convicted sex offender he was allowed in October 2004 to teach maths at another school in the borough, Hebburn Comprehensive. However, when his past was uncovered after a day's teaching, Gibson - who was supplied by an agency - was asked to leave. Less than sixth months later the former financial adviser found temporary work at a school in Co Durham. But after a day in the classroom his past conviction came to light and again he was told not to return.
Now, the boss of a top teacher supply agency, which refused to give Gibson work, has called for tighter controls over the placement of teachers. Susan Moore, managing director of Newcastle-based STC Consortium interviewed Gibson, who admitted he had been jailed for fraud. But his conviction for indecent assault came to light when her agency carried out a check with the Criminal Records Bureau, she said. However, she said she was amazed to discover he had later found work at the schools in Co Durham and South Tyneside. She has now called for supply agencies to be licensed and every agency having to meet Quality Mark standard, which includes being audited.
Mrs Moore told the Press Association: "This is not just about this one person but what, to me, are definite loopholes in the law. "What frustrates us is that agencies do not have to be licensed and anyone can set up a supply agency. "Schools trust agencies to provide them with safe and qualified teachers and the Quality Mark rewards agencies that do it right. "This man came in 2002 and I refused to register him. My immediate thought was absolutely not. "Anyone who had sight of his Criminal Records Bureau file should have made the same decision I did as even without the indecent assault the other offences would have been enough. "He is, unfortunately just the tip of the iceberg and this has opened up a can of worms. "We are talking about children here who are at the mercy of unscrupulous people and these children need to be protected."
In a statement South Tyneside Council admitted that he was employed before full checks into his past had been completed.
"William Gibson was employed as a supply teacher at St Joseph's RC Comprehensive School from January to April 30, 2003, after initial checks had been carried out," a spokeswoman said. "When the findings of enhanced checks came through, he was deemed unsuitable to work with children and his employment came to an end. "He also taught mathematics at Hebburn Comprehensive School for one day in October 2004 on an agency supply basis but when his past became known to the school, he was immediately asked to leave."
A spokesman for Durham County Council said a William Gibson had been refused employment as a supply teacher in 2002 when police checks uncovered his background. However, in March 2005, the council discovered that the previous months Gibson had worked for a day in a school in the county.
The spokesman added: "Education authority officials discovered that Mr Gibson had been employed directly by a County Durham secondary school - not through an agency or through the education authority - to provide a single day's temporary teaching cover the previous month. "The school was advised not to re-employ him." - IOL

"He is, unfortunately just the tip of the iceberg and this has opened up a can of worms"
the above story quotes Susan Moore, managing director of Newcastle-based STC Consortium
My fear is that certain agencies are bein allowed to deliberately place children at risk to further
a new labour agenda of fear based politics to get a Database state which targets
political dissidents, when it should be concerned with
protecting children & the vulnerable from this predatory mentality

Kelly promises improved child protection laws
Thu Jan 12, 2006 LONDON (Reuters) - Education Secretary Ruth Kelly said on Thursday she would tighten child protection laws after revealing she did not know how many registered sex offenders were working in schools.
Kelly and her department have been heavily criticised by parents' groups and opposition politicians after a registered sex offender was given a job as a physical education teacher. Kelly's department had ruled he did not pose a risk.
"We have some of the toughest sex offender laws in Europe," she told the House of Commons. "(But) I fully understand the concern that this has caused, and I'm determined to do something about it," she added. "I have therefore commissioned as a matter of urgency an exhaustive review of all such cases since the introduction of the Sex Offenders Register in 1997 in order to confirm the precise number of these individuals." She said the review would also establish "their whereabouts and whether their behaviour has been of concern to the authorities."
In her statement to the House, Kelly said the so-called List 99, of the names of those barred from ever working in schools, had been significantly tightened in recent years. However some people on the registered sex offender list -- such as those who were only cautioned by police rather than prosecuted -- were not automatically put on List 99 and in such cases a minister has to decide whether the person is a risk or not.
"I will ... also review urgently the decision making process surrounding such cases ... (and) whether ministers can be removed," she said.
A spokesman for Prime Minister Tony Blair said Kelly had Downing Street's full support. "It is better to deal with the policy issue rather than turn it into some kind of blame game," he said.
The subject of child protection laws is an emotive one following the murders in 2002 of two 10-year-old girls, Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman, by Ian Huntley, who worked at their school despite being a suspected sex offender.
Police checks had failed to reveal his background.
Sir Michael Bichard, who investigated how Huntley had become a school caretaker on the same grounds as the girls' primary school at Soham in Cambridgeshire, criticised how offenders were recorded on different lists. Bichard told the BBC on Thursday there were dangers in the current system. His inquiry in 2004 had called for a single list. "There's a list for the Protection of Children's act; there's a List 99; there's a list for the protection of vulnerable adults and the inquiry said there were real dangers here because those various lists had different decision making processes," Bichard said.
The opposition Conservative party said Kelly should resign and demanded to know how many sex offenders were working in schools. "As every day passes, parents' confidence in Ruth Kelly's ability to maintain the integrity of the staff working in schools is ebbing away," education spokesman David Willetts told BBC radio. "These were very sensitive decisions that were taken."They were taken at a ministerial level and they (the ministers) were consciously deciding that someone who is on the register of sex offenders should nevertheless be permitted to work in schools". - reuters

Kelly pushes for sex-offender database overhaul
"The existence of so many independent data sources and lists is not satisfactory"
By Dan Ilett Published: Friday 13 January 2006
Education Secretary Ruth Kelly is set to push for new legislation that would align a number of databases so as to prevent sex offenders working with children. Kelly, who is reacting to pressure from MPs for allowing a teacher listed on the Sex Offender's Register to work in a school, said she wanted to urgently review how the education department aligns its database (known as List 99) of people banned from working in schools with other resources.
In a statement to parliament today, Kelly said: "I will review urgently the decision-making process surrounding such cases and the policy implications. In particular, how the closest possible alignment can be secured between List 99; the Sex Offenders Register and other data sources; [and] the role of ministers in the decision-making process."
List 99 is a database of people barred for life from working in schools. If a teacher is found guilty of committing certain crimes, they are automatically entered on the list. Kelly said the majority of sex offenders were therefore automatically barred from working in schools.
But a number of sex offenders have slipped through the net. Kelly has admitted that some have been left out of List 99 - even though they are on the Home Office's Sex Offender's Register - and have been allowed to work in schools.
Kelly was unable to answer a question from conservative shadow education secretary, David Willetts, on how many sex offenders were working in schools. She said: "I agree that the existence of so many independent data sources and lists is not satisfactory." Kelly added the review of legislation surrounding the databases would "take place with the greatest possible speed". - silicon.com

and another convicted child abuser is found working with children

Sex offender teachers row grows
Ms Kelly has been criticised for clearing teachers to work The Tories have stepped up pressure on the government as new revelations about registered sex offenders being allowed to work in schools emerged.
Keith Stuart Hudson was on a teaching blacklist but cleared to work in girls' schools despite being convicted of importing indecent images of boys.
The Tories say parents are losing confidence in the system following a series of similar revelations. The Department for Education has launched an urgent review. The former Chief Inspector of Schools, Chris Woodhead, told BBC News 24 that Education Secretary Ruth Kelly should resign over the revelations.
SEX CRIMES
"I mean a Secretary of State used to take responsibility, they didn't only talk about taking responsibility, they actually did, they went, they voted with their feet. They said no, the buck stops with me, I'm going to go. So she should."
Chancellor Gordon Brown told Sky News parents were "rightly concerned", adding that it was "pretty clear we need to legislate changes and that is what we plan to do."
Those convicted of offences against children are placed on List 99 - a blacklist of those who are barred for life from working in schools.
Obscene publications
But the Times reported that Keith Stuart Hudson was cleared to work as a teacher despite being on List 99 following a conviction for importing indecent and obscene publications after compiling albums of explicit images of boys. Former Education Secretary Estelle Morris placed him on List 99 in 2001 with the condition that he could teach only in all-girl schools. Mr Hudson, a science teacher who qualified in 1973, unsuccessfully attempted to challenge that restriction in a hearing before the Care Standards Tribunal.
The tribunal, set up in 1999 to look at cases involving work with children, also deals with appeals against the decisions of the Education Secretary. In proceedings summarised on the internet, the tribunal heard medical evidence that the science teacher's interest in young boys was "homosexual, paedophilic and inappropriate", but that Ms Morris's decision was justified because he had "no interest in girls". The Times claimed that after the tribunal upheld the decision Mr Hudson set himself up as a private tutor, giving him potential access to boys.
'Rules tightened'
In response the Department for Education said: "In 2000 we introduced new regulations to make sure that barring somebody convicted of sexual offences against a child was absolute. "Clearly there is a difference between decisions made by the department and those made by an independent appeals tribunal but we recognise we need to strengthen the decision making process still further and that is what we will do."
The latest case follows revelations about two other teachers, one with a conviction for a child sex offence and another with a caution. William Gibson, 59, was allowed to work as a teacher at schools in South Tyneside and Co Durham from 2003 to 2005 despite being convicted for an indecent assault on a child in 1980. Two of those schools dismissed him when they found out about his conviction.
On Sunday it emerged that a sex offender had been working at a Bournemouth school and the BBC understands that that person was William Gibson. Bournemouth Borough Council issued a statement confirming that an individual working at a local school has been named in the media. It said the teacher, who an employment agency said was cleared to work after undergoing security checks, would be barred from the school indefinitely, with immediate effect, while the full facts of the situation were ascertained.
'Worrying'
Tory education spokesman David Willetts told BBC Radio Four's Today programme it was particularly worrying that this case occurred after the release of the Bichard Report into how Soham murderer Ian Huntley was able to work in schools. "You know, local authorities will not allow someone to start work as a taxi driver until they check them out with the Criminal Records Bureau, so how on earth could someone get to work for three months as a supply teacher," he said.
Mr Gibson's case emerged as Education Secretary Ruth Kelly was already facing criticism after her department allowed Paul Reeve to work as a PE teacher in Norfolk. He was arrested in 2003 by Norfolk Police and received a police caution for accessing banned images of children on the internet.
Minister Kim Howells, who now works in the Foreign Office, admitted making the decision to clear him to teach, but said he had been told Mr Reeve "did not represent an ongoing threat to children".
Loophole
The teacher would automatically have been banned from teaching if he had been convicted of a sex offence. But because Mr Reeve had accepted a caution he was not placed on List 99 and was only stopped from working at the school when police alerted the school's headteacher. On Thursday, Ms Kelly told MPs she wanted to close this loophole by ensuring cautions and convictions were "treated identically", with the "closest possible alignment" between the sex offenders register and List 99. - BBC

Not so 'cut & dried'
William Gibson reacts - In 1980 he was a teacher in a Sunderland school and she was a pupil there, although he did not teach her. He was fined £60 in 1980 for the indecency offence on the 15-year-old girl.
- "I am not a paedophile. I am not a risk to children. I want people to know that. I know what I did was wrong back in 1980 and I regret my actions but it's not as black and white as everyone thinks. I hope people will come to the conclusion that I have never abused anyone."
Over the 2 weeks it took to see this scandal grow, Mr Gibson has become the most prominant name mentioned - is this because he was guilty of having an 'inappropriate relationship' - while the other, more recent offenders were actually found to be involved in organised abuse of much younger children?

Heads kept in dark over blacklisted supply teachers
By Dominic Kennedy and Philip Webster
HUNDREDS of blacklisted teachers, including paedophiles, are being allowed into schools so long as they avoid certain types of pupils, The Times has learnt. Headteachers are having to accept supply staff into classrooms without knowing if they are on the blacklist or have criminal records.
As a picture emerges of a child protection system in chaos, the Government is preparing to strip ministers of their power to let sex offenders work with children. Police will receive a new advisory role.
The practice of giving convicted paedophiles permission to work in schools with pupils of a different age or sex from those they desire was disclosed by The Times this weekend.
Yesterday a former teaching agency official who had access to List 99 confirmed that this procedure was widely known among companies providing supply teachers. Yet it appears to have come as a surprise to teachers' leaders and parents.
There are about 15,000 on the blacklist compiled at the Department for Education and Skills (DfES). Gerard Connolly, who held the names of all problem teachers on a computer in his office from 1996 to 2004, said that many had "caveats".
Most forbade teachers from working with one gender of pupil, or children above or below a particular age. Some had geographical restrictions placed upon them. A few were banned from individual schools.
"You used to see them every other page or so with a restriction on," Dr Connolly said. He estimated that between 700 and 1,000 names on the blacklist had permission to teach particular categories of pupil. "I have no way of knowing how many were working in schools but they were certainly free to do so," he said.
Last night an Education Department spokesman said: "The list is held by the department and the criminal records bureau. We certainly don't recognise that figure."
Dr Connolly was puzzled by the Government's delay in telling the public about the number of sex offenders who are entitled to work in classrooms. "It surprised me, people coming on television saying they don't know," he said. "All they have to do is count them."
The unexpected scale of the problem added to the woes of the DfES, which has struggled to keep up with the pace of disclosures about paedophile teachers. Ruth Kelly told the Commons last Thursday: "List 99 covers those barred for life from working in schools."
On Friday her officials were still claiming that List 99 was an "absolute bar" on teaching. Then The Times reported that in 2001 Estelle Morris had allowed Keith Hudson - who was placed on the sex offenders register after compiling scrapbooks containing pictures of boys masturbating - to work in girls' schools. A convicted molester who was fixated on boys in white underpants has permission to work with children aged 14 and over. Both are on List 99.
Officials changed their story. A spokesman said: "In 2000 we introduced regulations to make sure that barring someone convicted of sexual offences against a child was absolute."
But that explanation imploded yesterday when it emerged that in January 2005 Ms Kelly allowed William Gibson to work in schools. He had a conviction for indecently assaulting a 15-year-old female pupil. Mr Gibson's case highlights that teacher-supply agencies are a weak link in child protection. After being removed from three schools in the North East he found a position teaching mathematics in Bournemouth.
The job came via Step Teachers, an agency aware of his conviction in 1980 for indecent assault and his imprisonment in 2000 for deception, forgery and theft. Mr Gibson has been suspended. James Newman, the agency's director, said: "Step Teachers undertakes not to discriminate against an application on the basis of a conviction or other information. It is unfortunate that the teacher is still very much in shock over the circumstances and the way he is being treated."
The agency had provided Mr Gibson without alerting the head that he was a convicted child molester. Agencies bear responsibility for checks of criminal records and List 99 entries. Step Teachers claimed it was forbidden from telling schools about convictions. "Under the terms of the agreement with the Criminal Records Bureau, we would not be able to tell the school," Mr Newman said. "We would have to destroy all that documentation because of data protection laws." - The Times

Sex offender deputy head revealed
Donald MacLeod and agencies - Wednesday January 18, 2006
Another sex offender working in schools has been revealed as Ruth Kelly, the education secretary, prepares for her make-or-break Commons statement on the issue tomorrow. The impression of confusion and duplication in the monitoring of education staff was heightened when it emerged that several local education authorities kept their own lists of people unsuitable to work in schools as a back-up to List 99, compiled by the Department for Education and Skills.
Essex county council said that in the 15 years from 1992 only 54 of the 110 cases referred to the department were put on List 99. Since the 1970s the authority has kept its own "List 98" to keep tabs on teachers it regards as a risk in the classroom. The list is for the use of schools in Essex although it does not have legal force, as List 99 does. A spokesman said today the council would continue to keep its own list unless there was a wholesale change to the system. The council has been informed by the DfES that it will not be told if names put forward for List 99 are included or not "for data protection reasons".
The row that threatens to engulf Ms Kelly started when it became known that her approval to teach had been given to Paul Reeve, a Norwich teacher cautioned by police for internet porn offences.
Yesterday it was reported that Nigel Jackson, a former deputy head teacher who was convicted this week at Londonderry crown court of indecent assault on a 14-year old girl and grooming her on the internet, had been put forward for List 99 by East Sussex education authority but not included by the department. Jackson was investigated by police and child protection agencies, who decided there was not sufficient evidence for a criminal prosecution. He resigned from his post as deputy head at Seaford Head community college after the allegations, in January 2004, and a month later East Sussex county council reported the case to the DfES.
But ITV news said Jackson was able to find a teaching job in neighbouring West Sussex and his employment was only ended when officials learned of another investigation, this time by officers in Northern Ireland. He pleaded guilty and awaits sentence.
Inconsistencies between lists - such as the sex offenders' register and List 99, which covers teachers - were highlighted 18 months ago by Sir Michael Bichard's inquiry into the Soham murders of two schoolgirls by a school caretaker, Ian Huntley. A briefing circulated before Christmas and published this week by the Guardian pointed to a continued muddle over vetting and banning lists.
Yesterday the prime minister's official spokesman denied that dealing with the furore had distracted the education secretary from proposed sweeping education reforms or that they had been delayed. The government is still insisting the education bill will be published in February.
The spokesman said: "Part of the education secretary's job is to deal with matters like this and to reassure the public that the government is taking all the action it can to reassure the public and to make sure ... this issue is dealt with. "It's not a distraction, it's part of the job. The white paper is also an important part of the job, and she will get on with that as well."
Ms Kelly faces a Commons battle tomorrow to save her job, when she will reveal the number of convicted paedophiles she has cleared to work in schools. She will also set out a list of changes she plans to the vetting system.- guardian

PM questions reveal the cross party cover up
& the big brother solution already proposed to 'solve the problem'

Acting Lib Dem leader Sir Menzies Campbell asked whether, following the Soham murders, Sir Michael Bichard's report made 31 recommendations and asked how many had been implemented. Mr Blair said he did not have a precise figure but he was "impressed" by the work done.
Sir Menzies said a police computer system was three years behind schedule. Mr Blair said that since 1997 there had been a "tightening, not a loosening, of the system. - BBC

Ruth Kelly makes recommendations to the House:
all those convicted or cautioned for sex offenses
would be barred from working with children
wasn't this happening before then? er...

Sex scandal to interrupt teacher selection process in Britain
15:45 2006 - Britain's education secretary announced an overhaul of the teacher selection system Thursday following a national scandal that erupted after newspaper reports revealed sex offenders were working in schools. Ruth Kelly told Britain's Parliament that all those convicted or cautioned for sex offenses would be barred from working with children. She promised "a new better system as quickly as possible."
"Nothing matters to parents more than the safety of their children, so I deeply regret the worry and concern that has been caused to parents over the last few days," Kelly said.
The issue of sex offenders in schools has dominated front pages since a newspaper reported earlier this month that the education department had cleared a man to work as a physical education teacher at a school in the eastern English city of Norwich even though he was on a list of offenders compiled by authorities. Kelly said the overhaul would make child protection the top priority of the teacher selection system while also preventing witch hunts, reports the AP. N.U. - news from russia
Sex offenders barred from teaching
There have been 10 cases since 1997 of sex offenders being allowed by ministers to work with children, Education Secretary Ruth Kelly said. But she told MPs that all had been visited by police, none currently worked in schools, and none were judged to pose a "current risk". She revealed the numbers as she promised to "overhaul" the complex rules banning those deemed to be a danger to children from teaching and working with youngsters.
In her Commons statement Ms Kelly apologised to parents for the worry and concern caused over recent days by the controversy. Ms Kelly told MPs that all those convicted of, or cautioned for a sex offence, would now be automatically barred from working with children.
She said: "I deeply regret the worry and concern that has been caused to parents over the last few days. "I'm determined to do all I can to ease their concerns. It's time to overhaul the system. "We need a system where child protection comes first, above all other considerations." She said there should be "absolute clarity" in a "rigorous" system, which was still fair to individuals and protected teachers against false or malicious accusations. - scotsman

Education Secretary Ruth Kelly said:
"Child protection has been a top priority of successive Governments, and over the years procedures have been strengthened. It is time however to strengthen them further.
"We need a system where child protection comes first - above all other considerations. It must be a rigorous system drawing on the best expert advice. There must be absolute clarity about who does what. The system must command public confidence and it must be accountable.
"In advance of legislating to remove Ministers from the process entirely, I will establish a panel of independent experts, chaired by Sir Roger Singleton [Chief Executive, Barnardo's] to oversee the whole List 99 process. His role will be to ensure the quality of the process and advise me on any further List 99 cases that need to be decided. The panel will draw on expertise from the police and child protection specialists.
"These reforms will make the current List 99 system work better immediately. But the whole Government is determined to replace List 99 entirely with a new, better system as quickly as possible. Good progress is already being made in implementing the recommendations of the Bichard enquiry, and the necessary legislation which was promised in the Queen's speech, will be brought forward in February. In particular this legislation will bring together List 99 and the Protection of Children Act List into a single register of those barred from working with children." - dfes.gov.uk

There is a Knighthood for Roger Singleton, lately Chief Executive of Barnardo's. He steered the institution through a period of unprecedented growth and led it to become one of the UK's leading charities. - number10.gov.uk

Sir Roger Singleton CBE is Chief Executive of Barnardo's since 1984 - prior to that, he held the post of Deputy Director. He is an accredited Mediator. Appointments in care and education of deprived and delinquent young people, 1961-71; professional adviser to Children's Regional Planning Committee, 1971-74; Treasurer for the National Council of Voluntary Child Care Organisations 1996- and the Chairman from 1990-92; Member: Central Council for Education and Training in Social Work, 1984-86; Council, National Children's Bureau, 1982-84; Council, National Youth Bureau, 1986-91; Children's Services Strategy Group, 1996-
- theworkcontinues.org.
[2004 figures] Charity - Barnardos
Chief executive - Roger Singleton
Latest salary in £s (plus benefits but excluding pensions) - £105,027
Charity's Income - £m 157
Amount in £s spent on chief exec's pay for every £1,000 of income - 0.67

flashback: Barnardo's ad provokes storm of protest
Charities and public complain over picture in child campaign
John Carvel, social affairs editor - Thursday November 13, 2003
The children's charity Barnardo's ran into a storm of public protest yesterday when it launched a £1m advertising campaign showing a new-born baby with a cockroach crawling out of its mouth.
The provocative campaign was designed to overcome indifference about the continuing impact of poverty on children's lives. But the choice of such a powerful image provoked a hostile reaction from the public and other charities.
After the first ads appeared in morning newspapers, the Advertising Standards Authority received 92 written complaints through its website and ordered an urgent investigation.
Another charity, The Child Poverty Action Group, said it was uneasy about the use of extreme images from which many families in poverty were likely to recoil. And NCH, another leading children's charity, said the ads were "demeaning and insulting to the very people they purport to help".
Barnardo's stuck to its guns last night and vowed to continue with its plans for a four-week campaign. The next ads are due to run in the press at the weekend.
The first ad that ran in the Guardian and other papers yesterday showed a full-page image of a newborn baby with a hospital tag around its wrist and a large cockroach crawling out of its mouth. The slogan was: "There are no silver spoons for children born into poverty." The ad continued: "Baby Greg is one minute old. He should have a bright future. Poverty has other plans. Poverty is waiting to rob Greg of hope and spirit and is likely to lead him to a future of squalor ..." Other ads in the campaign prepared by the advertising agency BBH feature a baby with a syringe, and one with a bottle of methylated spirits poking out of its mouth.
The images were based on research showing babies born into poverty were more likely to grow up to be addicted to alcohol and drugs, become victims and perpetrators of crime and to be homeless.
Diana Green, Barnardo's director of communications, said the charity was planning to spend almost £1m on the series. It has been running hard-hitting pre-Christmas campaigns for the last four years and last year won an advertising effectiveness award for pictures of children with aging faces, warning how prostitution can steal childhood.
Ms Green said the charity cleared the ads in advance with the committee on advertising practice, an industry body that advises the ASA. "We did as much as we could to establish they would not contra vene any codes of practice. We are still confident in the campaign."
Andrew Nebel, director of marketing and communications, said: "Barnardo's work involves dealing with shocking issues. This latest campaign in particular deals with child poverty, which the public is almost in denial about. We needed to overcome public apathy about poverty in Britain.
"We don't have much money to spend, so we are looking for high levels of awareness from a relatively small campaign."
Martin Barnes, director of the Child Poverty Action Group, said the the charity was right to raise awareness of child poverty. "There is a place for shock tactics ... but we are concerned and uneasy about the way in which the complex issue of child poverty is linked specifically to drug abuse and alcoholism."
Simon Burne, NCH's director of marketing, said "Shocking adverts like these mislead the public about what it means to be poor."
The NSPCC declined to comment on another charity's ads, but defended its own use of shock tactics. "Our advert that depicted a cartoon character being beaten by its parent raised public awareness _ Calls to our national child protection hotline doubled to more than 500 a day during that period," a spokesman said.
The row came as the Charities Aid Foundation was preparing a warning that giving to charity has fallen by 25% as a percentage of GDP over the last decade.
Stephen Ainger, the foundation's chief executive, will tell its annual conference today that giving declined in the 1990s and only started to recover in 2000 with the growth of more professional fundraising and introduction of tax incentives. - guardian

How long is this all taking?
too long...while children STILL remain vulnerable
to a system run on a Private Public partnership
IE run on a shoestring & for a profit

Anna Victoria-Climbie was killed despite regular contact with four local authorities, two police child protection teams, two hospitals and social workers. Flashback: Barnado's charity calls for new child protection agency
Barnardo's chief executive Roger Singleton is seeking to establish a new, child protection agency consisting of professional experts drawn from legal, health and social services. He also advocates that the government should create the post of Children's Commissioner, in the same way that the Welsh assembly has already done.
Such a post would bring numerous benefits as Mr Singleton points out, 'Having a children's commissioner would mean an extra layer of accountability for children's agencies, and would put someone into the system who had the capacity to look at things objectively and to inform future policy constructively.'

He also went on to point out, 'Many of the issues to do with children and families today can't be put right within our normal four or five year cycle of parliament. One of the things a children's commissioner could do, would be to take a longer and non-party perspective'.
These concerns and recommendations are raised in the wake of the death of eight-year-old Anna Climbie, murdered in London by her great aunt and her boyfriend, notwithstanding monitoring and involvement on the part of three local authorities, the police and two hospitals.
While child protection legislation has been tightened up considerably over the past twenty five years or so - specifically since the death of Maria Colwell, aged seven, in 1973 - they are now about to be reviewed again. To this end, Health Secretary Alan Milburn has launched an inquiry chaired by Lord Laming with a mandate to investigate the catalogue of failings by police, health and social services that ultimately led to Anna Climbie's death.
The enquiry will recommend what action should be taken to improve the protection of vulnerable children. It will be mandatory for all parties involved to cooperate and the report will made publicly available.
Barnardo's has been in operation since 1870. It no longer runs the orphanages for which it used to be so renowned, concentrating on 'working to give disadvantaged children the help they need to build a better future'. This translates into currently co-ordinating almost 300 projects nationwide, geared towards helping children, young people and their families to overcome disadvantages and difficulties such as abuse, homelessness, poverty and disability. - childalert.co.uk . - Anna Climbie - The death of a child, and society's inability to see evil

are any lessons being learned?

Flashback February, 2001 - Wonderland Club

Paedophiles jailed for porn ring
February, 2001 - Club members 'paid' an entry fee of 10,000 images
Seven British men who peddled child pornography on the internet have been jailed for between 12 and 30 months each. The paedophile ring - called The Wonderland Club - was smashed by Operation Cathedral, the largest international operation to be co-ordinated by the National Crime Squad in London.
Raids were staged around the world on 2 September 1998, leading to a total of 107 arrests being made across the UK, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Norway, Portugal, Sweden and the United States.
But child rights groups in the UK described the sentences as a "joke" that suggested the crimes were not being taken seriously. Under laws applying at the time the men were charged, they could only have faced a maximum of three years in jail.

Passing sentence at Kingston Crown Court, Judge Kenneth Macrae told the seven men: "You directly or indirectly exploited the most vulnerable in our society. Children represent the future. They should be cared for and protected." He said that despite "pandering to the basest interests of man" they had to be given credit for pleading guilty to conspiracy to distribute indecent images of children.
Police say the jail terms were a victory, adding that a Bill had now been passed in Parliament increasing the maximum sentence to 10 years for such offences.
Sentences condemned
But the director of child protection charity Kidscape, Dr Michelle Elliott, said: "You would get a longer sentence for accumulating masses of parking tickets or for burglary. I am absolutely stupefied by this leniency. It sends a clear message that these crimes are not being taken seriously."
Detective Chief Inspector Alex Wood said the sentences were as police expected as the judge was working under constraints where he had to give credit for guilty pleas. But he said their ground-breaking investigation had brought forward changes in policing of paedophiles and legislation around the world including the UK's tougher stance.
"Paedophiles appearing in court today will receive much more severe sentences because of this legislation," he said.
Convictions
Ian Baldock, 31, from St Leonards, East Sussex was jailed for two-and-a-half years. Antoni Skinner, 36, from Cheltenham, Gloucestershire was jailed for 18 months. Gavin Seagers, 29, a Sea Cadets youth leader, from Dartford, Kent was jailed for two years. Ahmet Ali, 30, from Tulse Hill, south London, was jailed for two years. Frederick Stephens, 46, from Hayes, west London, was jailed for a year. Andrew Barlow, 25, from Bletchley, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, was jailed for two years. David Hines, 30, of Bognor Regis, West Sussex was jailed for two-and-a-half years.
Baldock and Hines were placed on the sex offenders register for life because of their greater role in the gang's crimes. The others were ordered to be kept on the register for seven years.
International operation
The operation resulted in a total of 107 arrests in the UK, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Norway, Portugal, Sweden and the United States. The defendants' homes were raided on 2 September 1998 and an enormous amount of pictures were uncovered as well as computerised videos depicting children suffering degrading sexual abuse.
All of the children involved were under the age of 16 and in one case the child was only three months. More than 1,263 children were featured in the pictures - but only 17 had been identified - six in the UK, seven in the United States, one in Portugal, one in Chile, and one in Argentina. An album of the children involved has been created and posted on Interpol's website to help police forces from around the world trace the victims of abuse. - BBC

System 'failed' a child at risk
March, 2001 - Two-year-old Chelsea suffered terrible injuries
The death of Chelsea Brown has again called into question the intervention of social services in cases where children are known to be at risk.
'Evil' father Robert Brown was given a life sentence on Tuesday for what police have described as one of the "worst cases of child abuse they have ever seen".
The two-year-old had been tortured and shaken to death by a father who had a history of violence towards children. The tragic fate of Chelsea has echoes of eight-year-old Anna Climbie, from Tottenham, north London, who suffered horrific abuse at the hands of her great aunt and her partner. When the pair were both received life sentences in January, there were calls for an urgent review of the social service system to ensure it could never happen again.

Tragically, for Chelsea, it did.
Derbyshire's director of social services, Bruce Buckley, acknowledged that his staff made errors in the case. "The workers were concerned and that is why they were visiting regularly but clearly on this occasion we did not make the right decisions," he said.
Warnings
Chelsea was considered at risk from her father as soon as she was born, and was immediately put on the child protection register.
But despite visiting the family at least 27 times in just over three months, the authorities decided it was safe to leave her with her father and mother Maria Brown, of Kirk Hallam, Derbyshire. Neighbours said they warned social services that Chelsea was at risk after hearing Brown's outbursts of temper and the child's crying.
Stephen Baker told the BBC: "The only retort we got was 'if you hear anything again give us another ring' and that was as far as it went."
Another neighbour Bob Kemp said: "Someone should have picked up on it, end of story. To me it was totally preventable."
History of violence
Even after a doctor suspected abuse when she noted bruises on Chelsea, the child was still not removed from her parents' care, Nottingham Crown Court heard. Just over three weeks later Chelsea was dead after she was violently shaken by her father. Brown had a string of convictions, including actual bodily harm for slapping his 16-month-old nephew and another when he dragged him through the street. In February 1998 he was placed on probation for threatening to kill his own mother and a social worker. Despite his violent background, Derbyshire social services decided to allow Chelsea to return to her parents after her paternal grandmother said she could no longer care for the girl.
"At the time Chelsea went back no-one could have predicted the outcome based on Mr Brown's previous behaviour," said Mr Buckley.
The couple by then had another daughter, 17-month-old Courtney, who Brown tried to blame for causing some of the injuries to Chelsea.
Hilary Owen, the author of an independent report into the case, told a press conference on Tuesday that Brown had been able to mislead professional about the cause of many of Chelsea's injuries. She added: "The death of any child is always a cause for great sadness and the circumstances surrounding Chelsea's death are particularly tragic. "There was increased concern about Chelsea in the time she was living with her parents and removal was an active consideration in the last few weeks of her life."
Mr Buckley refused to discuss whether the principal social worker in the case, Norma McDevitt, would be disciplined. Authorities are agreed that the many lessons learnt from the loss of Chelsea Brown and Anna Climbie should this time guarantee that no child dies in such tragic and violent circumstances again. - bbc

Friday, 13 October, 2000, - Councils failing 'abused children'
- Thousands of children are at risk of being abused because of a failure by councils to assess their cases, a government report shows. Figures published by the Department of Health reveal that just one in five councils in England managed to review the cases of all children on their "at risk" register.
This means that one in six children were not checked to see if their health, safety or development is being risked by living with their families. In some areas, four out of five children are not being assessed regularly.
Government guidelines suggest that children who are placed on the Child Protection Register should be assessed every six months. Just 28 of the 150 councils in England met that target last year. In Liverpool, just one in five children were properly assessed.
Annie Shepperd, an executive director at Liverpool Council who is in charge of social services, told BBC News Online that improvements had been made in recent months.
"Those figures represent the fact that the previous management did not consider reviewing children on the Children at Risk Register as a priority. "As soon as I arrived, I alerted the Department of Health and our own elected members that this was totally unsatisfactory. "I immediately put in place measures to remedy this and today we have a 100% record on reviewing those on the register."
She said 185 children had been taken off the register in recent months. She predicted that the council would be one of the top performers in this area when figures are published next year.
'Significant worry'
Health Minister John Hutton described the overall findings as unacceptable.
"This is a significant worry. Whatever the explanation, it is not acceptable. "These children are extremely vulnerable and if their situation is not assessed, they could be placed at risk. "Decisions about these children are being allowed to drift, and that is dangerous."
Neil Hunt, director of child protection services at the NSPCC, said he was concerned about the findings. "Each and every child placed on the child protection register is there because there are real fears about his or her safety. "To fail to review even one child is a clear failure of child protection services. "It must be a matter of major concern - for government as well as local authorities - if any one of these vulnerable children fails to receive the help they deserve."
The report into social services also reveals that many children who have been taken off the Child Protection Register are put back on. Councils were this is most prevalent are the Isles of Scilly, Sandwell, Cumbria and Portsmouth.
The report suggests that re-registration of children means that social services staff are failing in their duties.
It states: "Re-registration may suggest that the professionals responsible for the child's welfare are not intervening effectively either to bring about the required changes in the child's family situation or to make alternative plans for the child's long term care." - BBC

Update 2006: another critic of Blair, bites the dust in a 'sex scandal'
but this activity with another consenting adult
is his own business & his own sexuality...
as Murdochs Sky News and its News of the World print equivalent
go for the 'sexual deviant angle'

Mark Oaten resigns over rent boy claims
(Filed: 21/01/2006) Mark Oaten has resigned as the Liberal Democrat home affairs spokesman amid scandal over an alleged affair with a rent boy. In a statement, the 41-year-old father of two apologised for the "embarrassment" he had caused to his family and party. News of the World managing editor Stuart Kuttner said that Mr Oaten's announcement came after he was confronted with details of an alleged affair with a 23-year-old rent boy by the paper's reporters.
In a statement tonight, Mr Oaten said: "I have stood down as home affairs spokesman for the party. I would like to apologise for errors of judgement in personal behaviour and for the embarrassment caused, firstly to my family but also to my friends, my constituents and my party."
Mr Oaten's announcement is another massive blow for the party already reeling after Charles Kennedy was forced to quit just two weeks ago after admitting he had a drink problem. Mr Oaten, who is MP for Winchester, last week pulled out of the race to succeed Mr Kennedy admitting that he lacked sufficient support among MPs to mount a credible leadership bid. - telegraph.co.uk

Fascists look after their own - join these dots

Thatcher
&
Pinochet!

Thatcher stands by Pinochet
What the Pinochet affair shows about Britain

Thatcher
& Reagan

Thatcher, Reagan Wanted in
Genocide Court in Cambodia

January 20 1981: Reagan takes office, winning the November election in part due to Carter's inability to bring the hostages home. Iran releases the hostages the same day Reagan takes office, giving credence to the belief that Republicans secretly negotiated with the Khomeini regime to keep the hostages until after the US elections. These allegations are evidenced during the Iran-contra hearings later in the decade. Shortly after the inauguration, arms shipments to Iran resume from the US and Israel; Nicaraguan harbors are later mined as part of the effort to support the contras. (Bushwatch, Decades History Timeline)

Because of Vice President George Bush's CIA experience and because of the influence of chief of staff James Baker, President Reagan will issue National Security Directive 3, naming Bush to head a Special Situation Group mandated to identify new security threats to the nation and planning ways to counter them. Historian Kevin Phillips writes, "A new era of clandestine arms sales, massive armaments buildups, secret diplomacy, and covert actions, perhaps as much Bush's doings as Reagan's, was about to unfold in the Middle East generally and in Iran, Iraq, and Afghanistan specifically. With it, the seeds of two Persian Gulf wars and hundreds of terrorist strikes would be fertilized and watered." (Kevin Phillips)
One of Reagan's first acts as president is to lift US sanctions against the regime of Augusto Pinochet of Chile. The Carter administration had imposed sanctions in 1979 in retaliation for Pinochet's refusal to cooperate with American prosecutors of a lethal terrorist bombing in Washington, DC, in 1976 that resulted in the deaths of Chilean diplomat Orlando Letelier and his American associate Ronni Karpen Moffitt. Three Chilean officials are known to have helped plan and carry out the attack; Pinochet has steadfastly refused to extradite them to US soil. The State Department found that the Pinochet regime had "in effect condoned an act of international terrorism" in the streets of the US capital. By lifting the sanctions, Reagan joins in condoning terrorist acts. (Joe Conason) iraqtimeline.com
Toni Solo
Bush - The fellowship or the ring?

Mass grave found in Chile enclave
A Chilean judge is investigating the discovery of an unmarked grave in a German enclave in the south of Chile. Rights groups say the colony's leaders helped with the repression of left-wing activists during military rule. It is thought dozens of bodies were buried at the enclave formerly known as Colonia Dignidad, but later moved. Last year, the state took control of the enclave. Its former head, Paul Schaefer, is in jail charged with child abuse and human rights violations.
'Bodies exhumed'
Judge Jorge Zepeda is expected to inspect the unmarked grave on Tuesday. Experts working at the site say that while they have not found any human remains, they are certain that bodies were buried there and later exhumed, Chilean media reports.
It is believed that in 1978 the bodies were exhumed, cremated and the remains thrown into a river. Investigators have said there could be more unmarked graves in the enclave, where it is believed about 100 left-wing activists were killed.
Paul Schaefer, a former Nazi and Baptist preacher, established the 13,000-hectare (32,000-acre) colony in southern Chile in 1961, after fleeing Germany to escape child abuse charges. Most of the commune's residents are believed to have been held there against their will.
A Chilean congressional report has said that Colonia Dignidad operated as a "state within a state" during General Augusto Pinochet's regime, thanks to Mr Schaefer's close ties to the country's ruling elite. - bbc.co.uk

1973 - September 11 30 years since the US-backed coup in Chile
September 11 marked the 30th anniversary of the bloody US-backed coup that brought to power the fascist-military dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet.

Pinochet & Allende
The struggle in Chile that culminated in bitter defeat three decades ago constituted one of the most important strategic experiences of the international working class. The coup itself was an event that played no small role in shaping the world as it exists today.
WSWS
CIA Acknowledges Ties to Pinochets Repression - National security archive
and...Lord Hutton served Blair a whitewash

Recall that Hutton was one of five law lords who accused their colleague Lord Hoffmann of acting as a judge in his own cause by failing to declare his links with Amnesty International when deciding whether the Chilean dictator, Augusto Pinochet, was immune from arrest and extradition in 1999. The Guardian reported:
"Lord Hutton said public confidence in the integrity of the administration of justice would be shaken if Lord Hoffmann's deciding vote that General Pinochet could be prosecuted was allowed to stand." ('Law lords condemn Hoffmann', Clare Dyer, The Guardian, January 16, 1999)
Pinochet was released and, on arriving in Chile, rose miraculously from his wheelchair to embrace well-wishers."
W.Bowles

In an astonishing admission after the disclosure of the cover-up in yesterday's Independent, Tony Blair's official spokesman said MI6 decided not to tell the Hutton inquiry - set up to investigate the death of the government scientist David Kelly - that crucial intelligence on Saddam's chemical and biological weapons was unsound.
The security services, he said, felt it was "too sensitive'' to be made public. The head of MI6, Sir Richard Dearlove, also decided not to tell Mr Blair. The Prime Minister's spokesman said Mr Blair only became aware of the withdrawal of the intelligence as a result of the inquiry by Lord Butler of Brockwell, which was delivered three days ago. -
Independant UK - see Britains Masonic child abuse cult

Tony Blair to be knighted by the Queen
London | December 20, 2005 1:08:48 PM IST
Queen Elizabeth II will award one of Britain's highest honour to Tony Blair after he quits as Prime Minister.
Blair will get a Garter Knighthood from the Queen, who has already privately decided to appoint him to the exclusive circle.
"It is one of the highest honours the queen can bestow. The idea has already been discussed and the view is that it should happen. The only question is when and not if," a source was quoted by Femalefirst, as saying.
Although previous Labour Prime Ministers James Callaghan, Harold Wilson and Clement Attlee accepted peerages in the House of Lords, but Blair has made it clear that he would not accept a peerage.
The PM will join other former Prime Ministers, Lady Thatcher and John Major, and the Duke of Westminster as a Knight Companion of the Most Noble Order of the Garter.
He will become Sir Anthony Blair and his wife will take the title Lady Cherie Blair.
The Order of the Garter is the most senior and oldest British Order of Chivalry, founded by Edward III in 1348. The honour recognises people who have made "significant" contributions to British life. They attend an annual ceremony, but they have no official duties such as advising the queen. (ANI) - webindia123

- Is that before or after he joins the Carlyle Group?

Is Blair off to Join $30BN World Elite?
By Rupert Hamer The Sunday Mirror UK Sunday 21 August 2005
He's eyeing up £250K job with arms trade link firm.
Tony Blair is expected to join one of the most exclusive groups of businessmen in the world after he leaves Downing Street.
The PM is being lined up for a highly lucrative position with the Carlyle Group - an American-based investment giant with strong links to the White House and the defense industry.
The firm has been nicknamed "The Ex-Presidents Club" because it has had a host of former world leaders on its books including George Bush Senior, his former secretary of state James Baker and former British PM John Major. There a also a large number of former US Army top brass.
Mr. Blair has been keeping quiet about his plans after his departure from Number 10 - which could be as early as 2007 according to some Labour insiders.
But sources in the City have revealed that he is "seriously considering" a high-profile role with Carlyle - which manages $30billion (£20million) of investments worldwide.
The job could net Mr. Blair up to £500,000 a year for only a few days work a month giving speeches and making "networking" trips on behalf of the company.
The move comes after it emerged that the premier's financial affairs are in an increasingly perilous state His dream home has crashed in value by £700,000 in just seven months and he and Cherie have to find £13,000 a month for the mortgage. The £3million loan the couple took out to buy the house in London's Connaught Square is 17 times Mr. Blair's current salary.
Last night one leading City source said: "Private equity firms don't come any more powerful than Carlyle. It would be a huge coup for them if they could bring Tony Blair on board. "But the job is likely to infuriate MPs and campaigners opposed to Britain's role in the Iraq War because of Carlyle's strong links to the defense industry."
A senior Government source admitted: "We know that Tony is looking at a number of options for life after Downing Street including writing his memoirs. "But taking certain jobs could present the Labour Party with a large headache, particularly with firms investing in the US arms industry. "We are trying to move links with the US and the Iraq War down the agenda - and linking up with a firm like Carlyle could reopen all those wounds."
At one time, Carlyle's multi-million pound investors included Saudi members of the estranged family of al-Qaeda warlord Osama bin Laden, who have disowned him. But the family have not been involved with the group for several years. It has been criticized for using George Bush Senior to help land business deals in the Middle East while advising the American President on sensitive issues in the region at the same time.
City experts believe Mr. Blair would be ideally suited to the investment world because he has "the charm to schmooze almost anyone", according to one financier in the Square Mile. The PM would have the added advantage of having met many of the world leaders with whom Carlyle is keen to do business.
But friends of Mr Blair insist he is considering other money-making options after leaving frontline politics. They include a lecture tour in the United States which could net him more than £1million and the possibility of a visiting professorship at an American university.
The Carlyle Group is an American private investment firm which has branches across the world. It was named after the Carlyle Hotel in New York - although it made its headquarters in Washington DC.
A range of former US leaders either work for the company or invest in it including Frank Carlucci, President Ronald Reagan's former Defense Secretary. Former US President George Bush Senior was also involved with the huge corporation, but he left two years ago. [my note: not forgetting former UK PM John Major]

Clinton backs Blair as UN chief
Tony Blair would make a "good" secretary general of the United Nations, former US president Bill Clinton has said. Mr Clinton said he had discussed Mr Blair's future with him and told him there was "a lot of good you can do in the world" after leaving Number 10. Mr Blair has said he would step down before the next general election, but has not revealed his future plans.
The current UN chief, Kofi Annan, ends his term on 31 December this year.
When asked on BBC2's Newsnight if Mr Blair should run for UN secretary general, Mr Clinton responded: "That would suit me. He would be a good one." Mr Clinton said whatever Mr Blair did after leaving Number 10 he could expect "immense rewards" from speaking engagements, books and directorships.
"What I would say to him and what I have said to him - I saw him actually last month - is that, when he does go, he's still got a lot he can do, a lot of good you can do in the world and that's the most important thing," Mr Clinton said. "I think there are lots of things you can do. "You can... take a position, or you can do what I do - just create your own operation and try to find some public good you can do as a private citizen."
Since his own retirement from leading a country in 2000, Mr Clinton has established a foundation campaigning on issues such as the fight against HIV/Aids.
"This has been an immensely rewarding phase of my life and I think he will find immense rewards when his service is done," Mr Clinton added. BBC

Flashback: President Clinton breezed into Blackpool, grabbed a burger and then schmoozed a starstruck Labour conference with his Hollywood pal Kevin Spacey - as Mr Clinton's travelling companion in Blackpool 2002,
below Spacey is an acting coach...as he watches Clinton woo the vetted crowd at yet another managed rally

"When I see him speak, I thank the Lord he is on my side" - Tony Blair
Killing in the name of ???
Blair patently insane - its all down to GOD!
Asked about joining the US-led invasion in March 2003, he said: "That decision has to be taken and has to be lived with, and in the end there is a judgment that -- well, I think if you have faith about these things then you realise that judgment is made by other people."
Pushed to clarify what he meant, Blair, a devout Christian, replied: "If you believe in God, it's made by God as well." He said: "This is not just a matter of a policy here or a thing there, but of their lives and in some case their death ... the only way you can take a decision like that is to try to do the right thing, according to your conscience and for the rest of it you leave it to the judgment that history will make."
Parkinson asked Blair whether he prays to God when making a decision such as going to war. He responded: "Well, I don't want to get into something like that." Pressed on the subject Blair answered: "Of course you struggle with your own conscience about it because people's lives are affected and it's one of these situations that I suppose very few people ever find themselves in. In the end you do what you think is the right thing."
Blair came on to huge applause, which seemed to shock him...he was appearing alongside US actor Kevin Spacey - a known friend of Blair & Bill Clinton...
So...is Kevin Spacey Blairs acting coach?
watch the interview if you can find it - and notice Blairs acting technique is being observed and managed by Spacey...who, when Blair is asked about his relationship with Bush...actually moves away from him physically...as if to keep up the right/left paradigm pretense...the camera closes in on Blairs face as he tries to cover the simple fact that all of the questions are vetted / known beforehand...by looking apprehensive of Micheal Parkinson, who said he has shared many a coffee/beer/ footy match with the PM...
Blairs approval rating before this show was a measly 28%
Blair is a stooge - a puppet leader, no different to the Georgian, Ukrainian, and Iraqi US appointed leaders