Jimmy Savile was one of the most well-know stars of British television. Everyone knew he was eccentric and many people apparently knew he was also a sexual predator who targeted young girls for decades.
Jimmy Savile scandal on BBC.co.uk.
‘If we blabbed on Jimmy, the family would have been left with nothing’: Savile’s abused great niece tells how paedophile DJ bought his relatives’ silence, on DailyMail.co.uk.
Britain’s Jimmy Savile abuse scandal: how could his crimes have gone unnoticed for so long? on WashingtonPost.com.
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Eralyn
OxD and Skylar,
I hadn’t heard anything about this. It’s coming, I am thinking. There are some big players being exposed.
Skylar,
I feel like Sandusky felt so much larger than life that his defense team couldn’t control him. He wasn’t speaking from reality. I imagine he didn’t take heed to warnings or advice from the “little people” until he got knocked down a few pegs undeniably. That’s the impression I got on the Sandusky issue.
skylar
Eralyn,
Sandusky was not in control. His lawyer was a pedophile too. He had sex with an underage girl and married her.
Spaths know that this stuff is beyond our ability to believe, so we won’t believe it. They know we would rather believe what makes “sense” to us.
Forget about what makes sense. FORGET ABOUT IT. The stuff that doesn’t make sense is what really happened. You know this from experience. Now apply it EVERYWHERE. Why not? Why not believe that what happened to you is what is happening everywhere?
I see what my spath did and it is now a pattern that I can see other spaths doing.
Remember the “Balloon Boy”? That was 2009, right after I left my spath. Everyone was looking for the little boy, but I knew he was hiding in the house. What? Am I psychic? no. Just knew from the pattern. Spaths ARE ALL THE SAME. THEY ARE PREDICTABLE.
Truthspeak
Skylar, spot-on!!! Absolutely spot-on. Regardless of who the spath might be or what their preferred targets are, they ALL do the same farking stuff! The patterns of behaviors are an unwavering and permanent roadmap. They all run the same courses and take the same roads. Some of them just go slower or faster, but they all do the same things.
Brightest blessings
G1S
Years ago, I was living in Norway because I married a Norwegian.
Those of us with English as a native tongue clustered together. Not that we were necessarily great friends, but when we were out on the town, we knew which table to join for coffee.
Anyway, there was a DJ from England who became part of our loose group at one point. He was working at a club in town.
I don’t know why he singled me out, but he began telling me how much he liked little girls. He wouldn’t let the subject go. It seemed like every time that our paths crossed, he went on and on about the subject. He even told me that he lots of pictures of little girls.
It began sounding compulsive on his part telling me about his preferences. I don’t think it mattered who was present. This guy was going to talk about liking little girls. He wasn’t getting off on telling me and it wasn’t a cry for help. It was simply compulsive.
I finally got so creeped out that I went to the police. In my then pigeon Norwegian, I reported what this guy had been saying. I remember telling the cop that I was concerned that this guy would hurt a little Norwegian girl and it didn’t sit well with me that was a possibility.
Why I am telling this story is the reaction of the police. Unlike the US and apparently Great Britain, I wasn’t dismissed or simply tolerated. The guy listened very intently. He took notes. He thanked me for alerting them. What happened after that I don’t know. I don’t remember seeing the DJ much after that and then he was gone.
My ex said that they wouldn’t have arrested him. They would have simply deported him and wouldn’t have let him back in the country.
It seems to me, and perhaps this is a generalization, that the Brits have a much higher tolerance for “characters” or “oddballs” than the US. So what’s-his-face acts a little naughty at times? So what? He’s otherwise a likeable chap; give the guy a break. Or, she’s a comely lass, what did you expect? Complete and total disregard for the victims.
What about Savile’s enabling relatives? He gives us a lot of money so the girls need to put up with this because our goose will stop laying those golden eggs? Even his niece who was molested sounded like she thought this might be an acceptable excuse.
On the other hand, in the US, we either brush it off as “guys will be guys” or sweep it under the carpet entirely, look the other way, freak out in silence (if at all,) and don’t know how to talk about it.
We know that people wouldn’t have done anything. Sandusky is a great example of that. He wasn’t coming across as normal. There were people who thought him odd and were concerned about his behavior. Then there were those who did know, like Paterno and Penn State, who did nothing. And what about those who were willing to overlook Paterno’s inaction because he made us feel really great otherwise?
Let’s not forget the Boyscouts and all the kids abused by clergy – Roman Catholic and all the rest.
By the way, they arrested Gary Glitter.
http://news.msn.com/world/glitter-arrested-in-connection-with-bbc-sex-scandal
Sky, I remember “Balloon Boy.”
I thought something was off there as well. Before the parents got exposed, I was asking if they had checked out the home. Some people were very puzzled by my questions. They looked at me oddly. Why would I think the parents would pull a stunt? Why wasn’t I believing their statements? Why wasn’t I upset like everybody else in the world? Why, indeed.
G1S
What is this about Sandusky’s lawyer being a pedophile?
What’s this about an investigator being murdered?
Does anybody have any links or proof regarding either?
skylar
G1S
http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/college/jerry-sandusky-lawyer-joe-amendola-16-year-old-client-pregnant-married-article-1.977873
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/sandusky-investigator-center-mystery/story?id=14905668#.UI1am29LXIc
G1S
Thanks for the articles. The one about the investigator said it’s highly unlikely Sandusky is involved in his disappearance and that there is absolutely nothing connecting his disappearance to Sandusky.
The other one about the lawyer – ugh!
Truthspeak
What the hell is that response supposed to mean, “Boys will be boys,” when a victim has been raped or molested? Where did that come from and how did it begin? I have heard that response for my entire life, and it has never made any sense, at all.
Tolerance can become a disease of enabling. As a complete aside, my son found a prank phone call on FaceTube that featured one guy calling a restaurant and getting into a verbal altercation with the business owner. The call ends. Then the prankster calls this business BACK and does the same thing. The call ends. This cycle continues 4 times, and I told my son that it was abusive. My son insisted that it was “just a prank call” and that it was funny. I held fast that everyone has pulled pranks – or, just about everyone – but, a prank becomes abuse when the prankster counts on a predicted REACTION and pulls the prank over, and over. It ceases being “funny” when it becomes an act of malicious intent. Then, my son responded, “Well, the guy could always have hung up and not answered the phone.”
Tolerance begets enabling. Enabling begets victim-blame.
KatyDid
GS1 said: “He gives us a lot of money so the girls need to put up with this…. even the niece.”
It strikes me that there was more payoff than money for the niece. In a very bizarre way, she was validated as being harmed, and she received compensation. As an incest survivor myself, the deed was bad, but the invalidation afterwards was worse. I was made to be the BAD one. No one listened to me, “took care of it” like the aunt did, there was NO acknowledgement at all. Silence was my outcome so… I will say, I’d have preferred to be heard, believed, and a type of apology (compensation), as opposed to being shunned, ridiculed, shamed, and cut off – this is the normal consequence to telling on most pedophiles. I don’t blame her a bit. my 2 cents…
Louise
G1S:
I loved your comment about how the Brits have a higher tolerance for odd balls, etc. Hahahaha, mine is a Brit so you can only imagine! That’s exactly how he has been treated here in the US…”oh, that’s just how he is”…that’s what people have said, blah, blah, blah…all the while he is walking around destroying lives. It makes me so angry, but that is how he is viewed. So you mingle him being a Brit with people here in the US who view it as looking the other way or sweeping things under the rug and it has been a recipe for disaster 🙁