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reckless
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I've just seen a harrowing documentary on BBC2 about the alleged satanic child abuse in the Orkneys. It seems it never happened. Police and social workers invaded this community on a say so and took away children by force. The children were placed in 'care', split up from their siblings and subjected to weeks of questioning and medical examinations. No evidence was found, either physical or verbal, with all the children maintaining that nothing had ever happened. After the case was thrown out and everyone was cleared, social workers still refused to return some of the children, and some were kept in 'care' for years afterwards. One child, a young adult now, said that the social workers had 'stolen my childhood". Some of these social workers are still refusing to accept that they were wrong, and still insisting that abuse occurred. Apparently they worked to a model that stated that you assume abuse has occurred, even when the children say it hasn't.

To me this raises profound questions about our liberty. How have these people been able to acquire powers to invade someone's home and accuse them and take away children without any evidence? Is it just me or is this akin to Nazism? Who are the real abusers? Why haven't these people had to answer for what appear to be crimes?

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I didn’t see the documentary in question, but… As much as we shouldn’t belittle the potentially devastating effects of child abuse, in all its horrifying forms, it also seems to me dangerous this concept of assuming that abuse has occurred, even when the children say it hasn’t. Firstly, it does seem to pervert the notion of “innocent until proven guilty”… and secondly, inasmuch as we shouldn’t just accept the child’s initial assertion that abuse has not occurred (they might be afraid of the possible retribution of their abuser or whatever), we shouldn’t just ignore what they say. We should listen to our children more. This kind of thing reeks of “Wer’re doing it for your own good” and when the children, even when they are adults, are still saying nothing happened, who’s “good” is it actually for? Perhaps the Social Services’… A parallel issue to this, I think, is the recent paranoia over “Cultism,” “Satanism” and the like. In a country which is considering conceding to a few Muslims’ demands for Sharia Law, it still feels like there is little tolerance for followers of fringe religions such as Wicca, Spiritualism, etc. Now I’m not promoting the tolerance of the burning of wicker effigies or anything (unless they don’t actually contain a real live human being…), but mention “The Green Man” or “The Goddess” or that you might just own a pack of Tarot cards, in some quarters, and you are immediately branded with the label, “Satanist!” Abuse of children should not be tolerated under any circumstances, but when it seems to be used as an excuse for religious intolerance, that, I think, is inexcusable, and actually takes the focus away from the real and widespread abuse that is occurring elsewhere (and in far more innocuous circumstances). ~PEPS~ “There is no spoon.”

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This country is NOT going to concede to any bloody law except our own. There is a large population of integrated jewish people here and they've never demanded recognition of their religious festivals. They just get on with being a part of Britain and accept its law as it is.

 

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eh?
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