Current Cultural Issues | July 29, 2009 | 8 comments

Our paedophilia hysteria makes life in Britain a misery... Same in US...

source: http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/edwest/100004883/our-paedophilia-hysteria-makes-life-in-br...

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MotherForTruth
I was in a bookshop the Sunday before last when my other half noticed a toddler running away from his mother, who had her back turned. The boy was moving fast towards the front door and the busy high street, so I chased after him and, just as he was about to make it to no man’s land, picked him up.

And then, for a split second, I was terrified that everyone in the shop would stop and stare at me, someone would shout “paedo!”, and before long a portable gallows would be improvised using various Swedish furniture parts.

The mother was very grateful, as it happened, but maybe it was because she was from overseas and had not picked up that strange British obsession with paedophilia.

The English language really needs a word to describe all those hundreds of small things that make life in the UK so needlessly unpleasant, such as overzealous parking attendants or overseas call centres or the Jeremy Kyle Show. And paedo-hysteria is certainly one of the more unpleasant ones.

This seedy and weird prurience really became noticeable at the start of the decade, when mobs in places like Portsmouth descended on suspected child molesters who had allegedly been placed in the area, whipped up by hysterical tabloid newspapers. What struck me was the site of 8 and 9-year-old girls in boob tubes carrying banners that said “Kill the pidofiles!” Only in Britain – a child dressed like a lap-dancer protesting against paedophilia.

The paedo-mania was an exercise in displacement by the British working-class, who had recently adopted wholesale fatherlessness and a consumer youth culture that glorified in child sexualisation. Mysterious nonces in dirty macs became suitable bogey figures, when sexual abuse of children was far, far more likely to happen in broken homes at the hands of a mother’s boyfriend.

At its worst this atmosphere makes people reluctant to discipline strangers’ children and puts men off becoming primary school teachers, but on an everyday level it burns out those invisible bonds that make a society. And what makes it more offensive is that it is encouraged by petty officialdom such as that displayed in Edinburgh.
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8 comments // Our paedophilia hysteria makes life in Britain a misery... Same in US...

  • MotherForTruth
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      MotherForTruth  

    • There will never be a society with out evil souls nor will there ever be a policy that will protect all from pedophiles or other criminal minded. The law without any common sense will simply heart the innocent not real criminals.

    • 2 years ago
  • MotherForTruth
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      MotherForTruth  

    • I think the fear is real and it's cased by too many laws that have lost all common sense. The laws are in response to public with so many types of victims of something and "someone must be punished for my tragedy".

      I also believe the fear is a result of too many laws; in fact it's hard to identify what is legal and what is acceptable nowadays.

    • 2 years ago
  • Tyrannous
  • Newcastle81
  • MotherForTruth
  • sirpaulmcdarkney
  • Newcastle81
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      Newcastle81  
    • MotherForTruth:

      Sorry MotherForTruth my apologies for that it is a worldwide issue, but as sirpaulmcdarkney said "The Jeremy Kyle show" in the Uk is like a mix of Jerry Springer & a public execution on a day to day basis. There should be more common sense with the laws we have however with each new case that comes to light the courts & police need to change tactics in order to protect the most important people they are there to help the children.
      Children need to be protected more than ever as the risks are now so great.

    • 2 years ago
  • Tyrannous
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