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CounterPunch
January
29, 2003
Blackout in
Britain
Alleged Pedophiles
Helm Blair's War Room
by MIKE JAMES
A child-sex scandal that threatened to destroy
Tony Blair's government last week has been mysteriously squashed
and wiped off the front pages of British newspapers. Operation
Ore, the United Kingdom's most thorough and comprehensive police
investigation of crimes against children, seems to have uncovered
more than is politically acceptable at the highest reaches of
the British elite. In the 19th of January edition of The Sunday
Herald, Neil Mackay sensationally reported that senior members
of Tony Blair's government were being investigated for paedophilia
and the "enjoyment" of child-sex pornography:
"The Sunday Herald has also had
confirmed by a very senior source in British intelligence that
at least one high-profile former Labour Cabinet minister is among
Operation Ore suspects. The Sunday Herald has been given the
politician's name but, for legal reasons, can not identify the
person.
There are still unconfirmed rumours that
another senior Labour politician is among the suspects. The intelligence
officer said that a 'rolling' Cabinet committee had been set
up to work out how to deal with the potentially ruinous fall-out
for both Tony Blair and the government if arrests occur."
The allegations are the most serious
yet levelled at an administration that prides itself on the inclusion
in its ranks of a high quota of controversial and flamboyant
homosexual men, and whose First Lady, Cherie Blair, has come
under the spotlight for her indulgence in pagan rituals that
resemble Freemasonic rites. Unconfirmed information also suggests
that the term "former Labour Cabinet minister" is misleading
and that the investigation has identified a surprisingly large
number of alleged paedophiles at the highest level of British
government, including one very senior cabinet minister
The Blair government has responded by
imposing a comprehensive blackout on the story, effectively removing
it from the domain of public discussion. Attempts on the part
of this journalist to establish why the British media has not
followed up on the revelations have met with a wall of silence.
Editors and journalists of The Times, The Daily Telegraph, The
Guardian, The Independent, The Sunday Times, The Observer, The
Sunday Telegraph, The Daily Mail, The Daily Express, The Mirror,
The Sun, the BBC, Independent Television News and even The Sunday
Herald have refused to discuss the matter.
Speaking from London, freelance journalist
Bob Kearley told me:
"Whether or not a D-Notice has been
issued is not clear. But based on some of the feedback I've been
getting it's apparent that editors and media owners have voluntarily
agreed not to cover the story at this time. Operation Ore is
still being reported, but not in regard to government ministers,
and it's taking up very few column inches on the third or fourth
page. Don't forget that the intelligence services are involved
here, and Blair is anxious to ensure that the scandal does not
rock the boat at a time when the country is about to go to war."
"You can imagine the effect this
would have on the morale of troops who are about to commit in
Iraq. In fact morale is reportedly quite low anyway, with service
personnel throwing their vaccines into the sea en route to the
battlefront and knowing how unpopular the war is with the British
people. And a lot of squaddies I've met think there's something
weird going on between Bush and Blair. If you're then told that
the executive responsible for the conduct of the war is staffed
by child-molesters ... well, then Saddam suddenly looks like
the sort of bloke with whom you can share a few tins [beer]."
References:
<http://www.sundayherald.com/30813>
<http://www.sundayherald.com/29876> <http://politics.guardian.co.uk/cherie/story/0>,12713,857416
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