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Jimmy Savile: pressure grows for full inquiry into historic child abuse
29 Jun 2014
Another attendee, and enthusiastic participant from the floor, was one Tom
O’Carroll, a multiple child sex offender, long-time campaigner for the legalisation
of sex with children and former head of the Paedophile Information Exchange.
“Wonderful!” he wrote on his blog afterwards. “It was a rare few days when I
could feel relatively popular!”
Last week, after the conviction of Rolf Harris, the report into Jimmy Savile and
claims of an establishment cover-up to protect a sex-offending minister in
Margaret Thatcher’s Cabinet, Britain went into a convulsion of anxiety about child
abuse in the Eighties. But unnoticed amid the furore is a much more current threat:
attempts, right now, in parts of the academic establishment to push the boundaries
on the acceptability of child sex.
Jimmy Savile exploited the trust of a nation for his own vile purposes
A key factor in what happened all those decades ago in the dressing rooms of the
BBC, the wards of the NHS and, allegedly, the corridors of power was not just
institutional failings or establishment “conspiracies”, but a climate of far greater
intellectual tolerance of practices that horrify today.
With the Pill, the legalisation of homosexuality and shrinking taboos against
premarital sex, the Seventies was an era of quite sudden sexual emancipation.
Many liberals, of course, saw through PIE’s cynical rhetoric of “child lib”. But to