09-03-2017, 09:14 PM (This post was last modified: 09-03-2017, 09:15 PM by BIAD.)
This'll be a bit 'problematic' for the statue-topplers, A Go-fund-Me for flight tickets, perhaps?
Quote:Buying and selling maids online.
'Migrant labour in Gulf countries has long been a subject of controversy, and the system that regulates it has now spawned a black market for domestic servants who are bought and sold online.
BBC Trending has discovered that dozens of private Facebook groups are being used to circumvent local laws and regulations. Messages like these appeared recently on a Facebook group that matches maids to potential employers:
"Am looking for a maid who is on visit/tourist visa to work as a live in maid."
"Urgently need a maid even for monthly basis 1 month or 2, 3 months till I travel in December"
"Looking for live in maid Indian/Philippino to take care of 2 month old baby"
Although group moderators warn participants against breaking the law, the messages are a window into a black market that's developing online and which has resulted in investigations and prosecutions in Saudi Arabia.
In Saudi Arabia, as in many Gulf countries, workers from Asian and African countries can obtain visas under sponsorship system known as "kafala". The system ties immigrants, who often work as live-in maids, to their employers for the duration of their stay.
Most of the working arrangements are done through official recruitment agencies, but the black market that has developed on social media has allowed some employees and workers to circumvent the system.
"The main reason social media recruitment is attractive to employers is going through a recruitment agency can be very expensive," says Vani Saraswathi of Migrant Rights, an advocacy group based in Qatar.
"For a contract period, you have to pay anything from $2,500 to $5,000 (£2,000 to £4,000)... if you go through social media, you don't have to pay any of this."
Employees can potentially benefit as well - one Saudi activist and campaigner told BBC Trending that maids can potentially double their salaries if they find employers illegally online. Black market employers, freed from those expensive agency fees, can afford to offer their workers a higher rate of pay.
"Unfortunately social media made it really harder for working families to obtain help lawfully," says Nawal Al Hausawi. She says that she has previously hired maids through legal channels.
"Once [a worker] enters the country legally that she will make twice as much if she breaks the contract and uses social media to find another family."
There are dozens of Facebook groups online with thousands of members putting women looking for work as maids in touch with potential employers in the Gulf - although not all of them are facilitating illegal employment.
And the kafala system itself has come under intense criticism for tying workers to abusive employers and other scandals. Human rights groups say the system gives workers very little protection against mistreatment.
Gulf countries have been promising to bring in labour reforms. Last month, Qatar adopted a new law giving workers new rights including at least one day off a week and paid annual leave. Activists say the bigger challenge is implementing these new guidelines, getting rid of loopholes and adding more provisions so that new laws meet international standards.
One maid told Trending that domestic workers will often run away, and look for illegal employment, because of delayed pay, physical and emotional abuse and poor working conditions, and that maids were well aware of the market being facilitated by social media.
"Now, when you go tell somebody 'I'm looking for work', legally or illegally, the person will post your number on these [Facebook] pages," said the woman, who asked to remain anonymous so as not to jeopardise her work status. "That's how you can get work through social media… But that's illegal."
Khaled Aba Alkhail, a spokesman for the Ministry of Labour Affairs in Saudi Arabia says that the country is aware of the problem and will prosecute anyone who in effect runs illegal recruitment agencies using social media platforms.
He says that in the last few months, the labour ministry investigated 90 adverts on social media and that a number of individuals involved have been prosecuted...'
09-10-2017, 10:11 AM (This post was last modified: 11-19-2017, 12:10 PM by BIAD.)
Isn't it indicative of the mainstream media with the manner they play on peoples emotions for ratings?
Forgive me for seeming heartless, I'm merely pointing out -once again, how the Fourth State acts in
that very manner every day.
Hurricanes are pounding the southern shores of the United States and islands at the mouth of the
Gulf of Mexico. The main cities -inland as well as those along the coast are dealing with the destruction
or bracing themselves for the impacts
Now, where everyone was once reading or viewing the terrible wrath handed down from the White House
in regards of The Dreamers', the focus moves away from the kin of illegal immigrants from Mexico and
how than Russian-puppet-of-a-man just doesn't care for those who doesn't look like him, the deadly storms
now take centre-stage.
If anyone from around the world clicks onto the front page of the US established media websites, they will
see how the United States is coping with the violent temper Mother Nature can throw at humans regardless
of skin colour or ideology.
But for Mexico, it's earthquake and it's -at least 90 dead ...? Old news relegated to a small section some and
completely missed out by others.
This is the nonesense-world the MSM frolic in, they howl at the moon or in the White House briefing room about
'those poor Mexicans' who are supposedly being treated unfairly by Trump and then when another appropriate
subject pops up that means photographs (page-fillers) writing about people's feelings (usually negative ones)
and has the luxury of not being overseas, the seagull-like Journalists are there dressed in their monogrammed
windcheaters and rain-swept backdrops.
And for the devastation of the original home of those who work for low pay in the United States...? F*ck 'em and
if asked, it's Trump's fault. If we could could inject humour into such a awful time for the Americas, it would be to
laugh at the false concern of the tele-prompter-reading Presenters on the screen every evening.
Here are your deplorables.
What does the MSM really want to report,,,,, just look...
[img]NBC News came under fire on social media on Saturday after making an unsavory observation about Hurricane Irma’s path and properties in Florida that belong to President Donald Trump. The tweet “Irma locked and loaded towards several Trump properties,” the tweet read, linking to an NBC news story.[/img]
Quote:NBC News came under fire on social media on Saturday after making an unsavory observation about Hurricane Irma’s path and properties in Florida that belong to President Donald Trump.
The tweet “Irma locked and loaded towards several Trump properties,” the tweet read, linking to an NBC news story.
Quote:Handful of Leftists Call Irma Karma for ‘Climate Deniers’
Of-Course we're all Trump Supporters.
Quote:Good-hearted, patriotic Americans all across the country are praying for those in the likely path of Hurricane Irma. A small handful of liberals, however, mocked conservatives whose lives or property are threatened by the storm.
The Daily Beast published an article on Friday that appears to suggest that certain high-profile right-wingers could lose their homes as some sort of karmic retribution for “denying” climate change.
In the article, which has the seemingly celebratory title “Monster Hurricane Irma Barrels Toward Climate Change Deniers’ Playground,” author Michael Daly casually writes that “were it not for all the innocent souls who have been and likely will be hurt by Hurricane Irma, you might see poetic justice in homes owned by President Trump and billionaire David Koch and commentators Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter being battered by a storm made the most powerful ever recorded in the Atlantic with a boost from warmer water and moister air.”
Quote:But there was no shortage of liberals on social media eagerly endorsing The Daily Beast's insensitive article.
"Can they all be strapped down on Miami Beach?" tweeted @tinalouise37.
For days, angry liberals on Twitter have been vocal in their hope that Hurricane Irma destroys President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate.
"Surfs up, Mar-a-Lago," tweeted CounterPunch editor Jeffrey St. Clair.
"Hey @realDonaldTrump, this would be a great weekend to stay at Mar-a-Lago. Don't mind that Irma stuff, it's all fake news," tweeted user @rcdent62. View image on Twitter [img=1133x0]https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DJDMOSeUEAAnwm-.jpg:small[/img]
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Many liberals engaged in similar behavior, mocking conservatives and bringing political division into the conversation, in the run-up to and aftermath of Hurricane Harvey.
Politico published a shocking cartoon that depicted Texans as racist, anti-government cretins (despite the fact that Houston is an overwhelmingly Democratic city), while French magazine Charlie Hebdo issued a cover that depicted the afflicted population of Texas as actual Nazis. Link[/size]
09-10-2017, 05:49 PM (This post was last modified: 09-10-2017, 05:51 PM by guohua.)
Yes there is more.
Actually this is a good article of how a trump supporter see it.
Quote:Hurricane Irma has left death and destruction in her wake and Hurricane Jose is right behind her promising more. Entire islands have been destroyed, families torn apart, and property wiped out. This crippling devastation so close to the last hurricane in Texas, from which people are still reeling, is tough to take. These people require our unceasing prayers and help, not scorn and snark.
So who would be cold-blooded enough to savage hurricane victims? Rabid sufferers of Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS). These are people who were so blindsided by a Clinton loss that they can't see past their election night rage and are wishing destruction on all the Trump voters in Florida along with Trump properties. I don't want to be neighbors with these kinds of people anymore. Who raised them?
Quote:There's no "common ground" to be found with people who want me and those like me (and our children) to die violently in a hurricane! These are not friends, compatriots, or countrymen.
Imagine the outcry if a hurricane was coming toward San Francisco and the right was tweeting, "Boy, those gays have it coming!
Serves them right for putting Heather Has Two Mommies in our curriculum! I hope they all die!
" The foaming at the mouth would be epic. The people the left is targeting for death-by-hurricane are not the monsters they want them to be.
Most of those firemen, SWAT members, and first responders running into danger to rescue hurricane survivors are Trump supporters. That's who elected him — blue-collar, police, firemen, military and trade workers.
And the Trump Derangement Syndrome zombies want them to get killed. This isn't an abstract idea and it isn't a joke either.
As a Trump supporter,[url=https://pjmedia.com/lifestyle/2017/08/22/making-hats-great-again-my-maga-hat-experience/] I feel unsafe wearing a #MAGA hat without backup or a gun. College professors and public school teachers are attacking Trump supporters with deadly weapons (for fun) on the weekends.
This is the kind of stuff that is dangerous to our republic because we've stopped caring about one another as brothers who disagree. We have turned into strangers and worse — strangers who hate one another. Until I saw these sentiments about wiping out people like me I thought we could coexist.
That's over.
I want a divorce. Link
09-10-2017, 09:35 PM (This post was last modified: 09-10-2017, 09:35 PM by BIAD.)
Quote:BLAME TRUMP FOR IRMA
Fury as Jennifer Lawrence says deadly Hurricane Harvey and Irma are fall out from President Trump’s views on global warming. Hollywood actress claims mammoth storms are 'mother nature's rage' against the president and his supporters.
'Jennifer Lawrence has sparked fury after claiming deadly Hurricane Harvey and Irma are "mother nature's rage" against Donald Trump. The Hollywood actress appeared to blame the president and his supporters because of their views on global warming.
Hurricane Irma has killed at least 22 people after ploughing through the Caribbean, while 66 people were confirmed dead after Harvey tore through the US. Lawrence, 27, made the comments in an interview with Channel 4 to promote her new movie Mother!
She said: "You know you're watching these hurricanes now, and it's really hard especially while promoting this movie, not to feel mother nature's rage and wrath.
The Hunger Games star also said: "It's also scary to know, that climate change is due to human activity, and we continue to ignore it, and the only voice that we really have is through voting."
When reminded the US went to the polls just under a year ago and elected Trump, she added: "And we voted and it was really startling." Lawrence also said she has "heard things and seen things" in the US that "devastate me and make me sick".
She was slammed for her comments - with some fuming viewers calling for a boycott of the new film, which also stars Javier Bardem. One woman said: "PLZ #BOYCOTT #JenniferLawrence's new #MOTHER Movie!! Make it SINK LIKE A ROCK!!"
Another fumed: "In matters of politics, science, morality, and religion I always turn to shallow, self absorbed movie stars for guidance...said no one ever!"
It isn't the first time Lawrence has hit out against the US president - in 2015 she told Entertainment Weekly: "If Donald Trump becomes president, that will be the end of the world".
Millions of Americans are currently fleeing Hurricane Irma as Florida braces for a direct hit from the killer storm. The US is preparing for a catastrophic blow this weekend after forecasters warned Miami is in the “worst possible position” as Irma – which is now a Category Four storm – continues on its destructive path.
The mammoth hurricane poses a significantly bigger menace to power supplies than Hurricane Harvey did because of Irma’s 150 mph winds that could down electric lines and close nuclear and other power plants...'
09-14-2017, 08:38 PM (This post was last modified: 09-14-2017, 08:55 PM by BIAD.)
In many of the Brexit forums of debate, one of the suggestions is that migrants -whether legal
or not, are tolerated by Governments because it's preferable for cheap labour for businesses and
assists in keeping national wage levels down.
These reasons are perfectly viable, but the 'cheapness' comes at a different type of cost.
Quote:Accused M1 crash driver with NO LICENSE has bail plea denied.
'A Pollish trucker accused of killing eight people in a horror M1 smash does not have a driving licence, it was revealed today.
Ryszard Masierak, 31, is charged with causing eight deaths by dangerous driving and being over the drink-drive limit.
During his bail application, a judge was told that Masierak’s licence to drive heavy goods vehicles in the UK had been revoked in 2014 -but his employers had never been informed of this.
Judge Francis Sheridan heard that Masierak – in an artist’s impression – had been asleep for 12 and a half minutes on the southbound carriageway of the M1 near Newport Pagnell, Bucks, when the tragedy took place.
Six men and two women died as their minibus swerved to avoid the truck in the inside lane and it was then flattened in a collision with another lorry. The judge told Aylesbury Crown Court: “I am not going to grant bail in this case.
“This is the most serious road traffic collision which has come before the courts certainly in the last 10 years and the flight risk is enormous. “The position is that this man was asleep for 12 and a half minutes in his articulated lorry in the inside lane, not the hard shoulder, and he was already in excess of the legal limit for driving.”...'
Think about this for a moment, he was drunk, he'd had his licence revoked three years ago and
his employers were never notified.
The Police from where the Polish man's employers originated never dispersed the information
across Europe and the countries the truck would visit.
Quote:'..."VOSA [The Vehicle and Operator Services Agency] has revoked his licence and sent paperwork to his last address. Of course his employers weren't aware and they are not to blame. However, I refuse bail."...'
Quote:"VOSA [The Vehicle and Operator Services Agency] has revoked his licence and sent paperwork to his last address.
Of course his employers weren't aware and they are not to blame. However, I refuse bail."...'
Serves him right!
Off topic, I've always wondered what happens to the packages on a Fedex truck if it is involved in a crash? You have to know some of that stuff is going to be broken to bits. Do they return it all to the company and ship it out again, or are the people involved notified they will get a refund, or what?
(09-14-2017, 09:48 PM)Mystic Wanderer Wrote: Off topic, I've always wondered what happens to the packages on a Fedex truck if it is involved in a crash?
You have to know some of that stuff is going to be broken to bits. Do they return it all to the company and
ship it out again, or are the people involved notified they will get a refund, or what?
From what I've read, it's usually the latter to some extent.
But in this instance, I'd suggest the senders of any odd package that is damaged will be notified and
through insurance claims, reimbursed if they re-send another item.
09-17-2017, 10:57 AM (This post was last modified: 09-17-2017, 10:58 AM by BIAD.)
Here's one that I not only missed, but was never seen in the mainstream media on Tuesday, Wednesday,
Thursday, Friday or Saturday. Odd, don't you think?
The UK.
Quote:Massive explosion heard across Manchester was a ‘NAIL BOMB’ planted outside a café.
'The explosion heard across Manchester earlier this week was a nail bomb, police have reportedly said. The bomb had been left under the shutters of The Lounge, cafe in Salford on Tuesday.
The explosion caused damage to the shutters, canopy, windows and pavement. A source told the MailOnline: "It was packed full of nails and screws and forensics have been pulling them all out of the woodwork." Greater Manchester Police said the nature of the device is still the subject of forensic examinations.
A police spokesman said the incident was not thought to be terror-related. It was initially thought to have been an industrial firework. Local residents were terrified and feared that a building had exploded.
Emergency services were called to the cafe in Whit Lane, Salford, at around 12:30am. Witnesses claimed they saw their windows shake after the blast. The nail bomb comes just days after a car was blown up with an industrial style firework in Eccles, also in Greater Manchester.
Police are investigating whether the two incidents could be linked...'
'..."It was packed full of nails and screws and forensics have been pulling them all out of the woodwork."...'
'...A police spokesman said the incident was not thought to be terror-related....'
We're gonna need our top guys on this, it's subtle.
Quote:'..."It was packed full of nails and screws and forensics have been pulling them all out of the woodwork."...'
'...A police spokesman said the incident was not thought to be terror-related....'
We're gonna need our top guys on this, it's subtle.
They must not realize their chemtrail spray hasn't worked on EVERYONE just yet. Sigh... Some of us still have a few brain cells working.
09-21-2017, 11:43 AM (This post was last modified: 09-21-2017, 11:52 AM by BIAD.)
I can lightly suggest 'not all' news is false and manipulative, but when dealing with this sort of well-produced digital
trickery, when can we be really sure to use the 'not all' stamp?!
(09-21-2017, 11:43 AM)BIAD Wrote: I can lightly suggest 'not all' news is false and manipulative, but when dealing with this sort of well-produced digital
trickery, when can we be really sure to use the 'not all' stamp?!
Great eye-openers for those who still need to wake up to the truth in how "they" manipulate us.
Okay, I'm ready to move to the woods... no phone, no internet, no t.v., and just live my life without all this BS.
10-05-2017, 12:14 PM (This post was last modified: 10-05-2017, 12:21 PM by BIAD.)
Sir Edward Heath abuse report to be published.
Quote:'A police report on sexual abuse claims against Sir Edward Heath is expected to be published later. Wiltshire Police launched Operation Conifer two years ago after the former Conservative prime minister was accused of historical child sex abuse.
The BBC understands the investigation has concluded that if Sir Edward was still alive, there would have been sufficient grounds to question him. Sir Edward, who led a Tory government in the 1970s, died in 2005, aged 89...'
Ta-Daa! The Establishment always waits a decent period before slowly, begrudging allow an investigation
to move on. That's why the recent problems in the first-world countries are so prevalent, it's not about race
and it's not about ideology. It's a class war.
Quote:'...Last year, the Chief Constable of Wiltshire Police, Mike Veale, said his officers had examined a "significant" number of allegations against Sir Edward Heath from a "significant" number of people. BBC home affairs correspondent Danny Shaw said most of the complainants were male and were children at the time of the alleged abuse...'
Yep, little boys in orphanages and runaways picked up from London railway stations.
Ted Heath was only one of many being fed by others such as Jimmy Savile.
Quote:'...It is understood investigators have discounted some allegations and identified inconsistencies in the accounts of other complainants, our correspondent said...'
The British Broadcasting Company making sure that the whole sexual abuse situation -that their Journalists knew
was happening and even employed many of the abusers, are making sure that the reader is made aware that the
allegations sometimes were vague.
Imagine a middle-aged adult attempting to correctly recall the whole grown-up logistics of being fuelled with booze
and drugs, taken to a house in a wealthy area of Mayfair or Dolphin Square in London and being sodomised by
several well-dressed strangers.
Also dwell on the bullsh*t negative assumptions and insulting opinions from Journalists when it comes to Trump and
his actions. But with this situation... just very diluted cautious doubt.
Quote:'...However, detectives believe they have found grounds to suspect the former prime minster of an offence in about six cases for which he would probably have been interviewed under police caution if he was alive, he added...'
If he'd been alive.
Unlike Ted Heath the Prime Minister, the accusations against Jimmy Saville came quite quickly and that was
because no matter how much the cigar-smoking dead-body-f*cking celebrity rubbed shoulders wih Royalty and
politicians, he was always just a millionaire peasant from Northern England.
Money doesn't get you into the Establishment, breeding does and Ted Heath's family background was very
touch-and-go. He scraped in through due his education being at Oxford University and possibly his penchant
for males.
Quote:'...As part of the £1.3m investigation, two people were arrested and released. There have been no charges. Ahead of the "closure" report's publication, Sir Edward's godson said he believed the investigation was flawed and called for a judicial inquiry into the police's handling of the abuse claims.
Lincoln Seligman, who knew Sir Edward for 50 years, said: "If you make a mass appeal for victims you are sure to get them, whether they are legitimate or not. "A proper investigation should have taken place, but that's not what happened," he told Radio 4's Today programme. "We had really quite a close relationship... and I think I did know him very well. "Our thinking is that he will be completely exonerated but I fear, even if he is, that damage has been done and that seems grossly unfair."...'
Read that again, Mr. Seligman states he knew Ted Heath for 50 years and knew him very well. Yet, his statement never
offers his belief that his 'friend' didn't commit the sexual crimes he's been accused of and one my own concerns is that
Seligman comments 'Our Thinking'... who is the ''our'?
Quote:'Who was Ted Heath? 1950: Heath becomes Conservative MP for Bexley in south-east London, a seat he will represent for 50 years 1965: He takes over as Conservative Party leader - the first in modern times who is not from an upper-class background 1970: Heath defies expectations to beat his great rival, Labour's Harold Wilson, in a general election 1973: He fulfils his long-held ambition of taking Britain into the European Community. 1974: Heath calls a general election, which results in a hung parliament, with Labour's Wilson winning a majority in a second election later that year 1975: Margaret Thatcher ousts Heath as party leader, a betrayal he never forgives her for 1990: Heath comes face to face with Saddam Hussein to get British hostages released during the Gulf War
Other friends of Sir Edward's have also criticised the investigation, and a psychologist who advised detectives claimed it was based on the allegations of a handful of fantasists. One of Sir Edward's closest advisers told the BBC that the former Conservative leader was "completely asexual".
Lord Armstrong of Ilminster said he "never felt a whiff of sexuality about Ted Heath, whether it was in relation to women, men or children"....'
'Or children'...?!
Quote:'...During the course of the lengthy investigation, the police have defended their response, with Chief Constable Veale insisting Operation Conifer was neither a "fishing trip" nor a "witch-hunt". Former Scotland Yard detective Clive Driscoll, who was approached with an allegation about Mr Heath while he was alive, said the bar to interview someone was "incredibly low"...'
Thank God for vagueness! What does that mean...? Some sort of 'bar' was low to interview Heath whilst he was alive and
now... what? The imaginary bar has faded away because the former-Prime Minister is dead?!
But, this is how the BBC report on their masters.
Quote:'..."Mr Heath was innocent at the start of the Wiltshire investigation and he's innocent to this day," he told the Today programme. The findings of the investigation will be passed to the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse. Sir Edward, who lived in Salisbury, Wiltshire, led the Conservative government from 1970 to 1974...'
He also enjoyed sailing his yacht 'Morning Cloud' to the Jersey Islands and even though it was initailly denied and
reported by the MSM that it was untrue, he did visit there and at the same time Jimmy Savile went there on one of
his orphanage 'Hi kids, I'm the gold-festooned disc-jockey from the BBC and I'd like to introduce you to someone famous' -gigs.
But that's just a peasant saying it and believe me, the trouble I had with the internet to post this, was very unusual!
Quote:the trouble I had with the internet to post this, was very unusual!
The 'Cyber gods' are watching you.
It's strange. I post to threads here and there's no problem and yet, when I attempted the put the
post below in, my connection was suddenly lost. I've heard of this before regarding the subject matter
and it makes you wonder!
10-09-2017, 11:41 AM (This post was last modified: 10-09-2017, 11:43 AM by BIAD.)
If anyone has ever read the details of Jimmy Savile's terrible lifestyle of feeding young children to
the Establishment with the knowledge that the same 'upper-class' structure would hide his misdeeds,
the exploits of the massively-overweight Liberal Member of Parliament Cyril Smith parallels it with the
use of the same 'I'm-One-Of You' hypocrisy.
Smith died in 2010... and yet he started his abuse in 1961.
Quote:Cyril Smith: the predatory paedophile protected by establishment.
For four decades Cyril Smith, the former Liberal MP, was free to abuse boys with impunity. How did he get away with it?.
'When Simon Danczuk first arrived in Rochdale as a prospective Labour candidate in 2006, he could not help but be impressed by Cyril Smith. Although increasingly frail and supposedly "retired" from politics, Liberal activists would still push the 29 stone former MP into the street on his wheelchair where constituents would queue up to speak to him.
Mr Danczuk told The Telegraph: "I thought he was a good politician, I thought he was smart. He got on with people, he could speak their language, he was entwined with the public he represented."
However over the next six years Mr Danczuk, who became Labour MP for Rochdale in 2010, came to realise that the public image that Smith so carefully cultivated as a jovial and charming man of the people was far from the truth. Instead he was confronted with irrefutable evidence that Smith was a predatory paedophile who had used his power and influence to prey on hundreds of boys, some as young as eight, for over four decades.
He and his researcher, Matt Baker, were told by victims and whistleblowers how Smith had been protected by his own Liberal party, police and even the security services. During his lifetime, Smith was apparently untouchable. Mr Danczuk and Mr Baker have detailed the industrial scale of Smith's abuse and the decades long establishment cover up in his new book, Smile for the Camera: The Double Life of Cyril Smith.
Last week, the welter of new revelations left the Liberal Democrats in disarray. While Nick Clegg, the Deputy Prime Minister, said the allegations were "truly horrific", he claimed that he and his party knew nothing about the sex abuse allegations. He has refused to launch a new investigation.
Mr Danczuk says the Liberal Democrats have been "defensive, slippery and shifty". "They are a party in denial," he said. "I don't think they're fit for government. They are a small political party, I find it incredible that they are claiming that they didn't hear the rumours about Smith."
Mr Danczuk's book raises as many questions about Smith as it answers. How did Cyril Smith get away with it? Who in the establishment protected him? And was there a network of paedophiles operating in Westminster?
Victims reduced to 'quivering wrecks' by '29 [406ibs] stone bully' On 13th November, 2012, Mr Danczuk made a speech in the Commons before a virtually deserted Commons naming Cyril Smith as a child abuser. He admits to feeling "nervous" because he is "not a great parliamentary performer", but said he felt compelled to go public.
“I knew I had to do get this message out there and let Rochdale have some comfort. It had been carrying this bloody secret for too long,” he said. Mr Danczuk had been passed affidavits from eight boys abused by Smith at Cambridge House boys’ hostel in Rochdale in the 1960s. The statements made for grim reading.
Smith, who had helped found the hostel, was given "free rein" to administer punishments and took pleasure in spanking boys "for their own good" and also conducted "medical examinations" of the boys after asking them to pull down their pants and trousers.
His speech in the Commons was brief. "Young boys were humiliated, terrified and reduced to quivering wrecks by a 29-stone bully imposing himself on them," he said. "I call on the minister to do everything in his power to bring police files from previous investigations about Cyril Smith to light.”
In the house, Mr Danczuk's statement was met with virtual silence. Few MPs commented on it and it received little press coverage, coming shortly after the BBC falsely alleged that Lord McAlpine, the former Tory Party treasurer, was linked to sex abuse in children's care homes.
Back in Rochdale, however, the impact was seismic. Over the next few days Mr Danczuk and Mr Baker received numerous of calls from Smith's victims, who were overwhelmed to see their abuser finally named. Mr Baker said: "We had a really powerful email from a victim who had said he had been at home having a cup of tea and flipping through the channels when he alighted on the Parliament Channel. He said he couldn't believe someone was talking about this."
Another victim from the Cambridge House made a personal visit to see Mr Danczuk and Mr Baker. He said he had been abused by Smith as a boy,” he said. “He ended up at Cambridge House after his mother had died. He had a day off sick and had to be examined by Smith and was abused. He has lived with it for the whole of his life and still hasn’t told his wife.”
Smiths’s modus operandi was becoming increasingly clear. “He used his veneer of respectability to gain access to vulnerable boys who were easy targets,” Mr Danczuk said. “He took on a father figure role, and picked victims who were essentially voiceless with low self-esteem.”
Mr Danczuk’s office in Rochdale, which is streets away from where Smith once lived with his mother, also began to receive calls from former police officers who have spent years investigating Smith.
One officer revealed that the police had compiled a heavy dossier on Smith that had been sent to the Director of Public Prosecutions in 1979 but gone missing. Another former officer said that he had been warned off questioning a teenager who had been abused by Cyril Smith by special branch.
Faced with growing evidence about Smith’s activities, Mr Danczuk chose to speak at Prime Minister’s questions, where he called on David Cameron to publish the police files on Smith and mount an investigation. Mr Danczuk’s revelations became front-page news, and within days both Greater Manchester Police and the Director of Public Prosecutions admitted that Smith should have been prosecuted.
As the investigations into Smith widened as it emerged police had received 144 complaints from victims of the paedophile from across the country. Some of the most serious were at the Knowl View school for boys with learning disabilities in the 1990s, where the local authority found that children were being put at risk of aids through liaisons with known sex offenders.
Smith was chairman of the governors, and former pupils recounted how they had been abused by the former Liberal MP after being summoned from their beds at the night. One whistleblower described the establishment, which was closed down, as a “sweet shop for paedophiles”.
Greater Manchester Police are now investigating 11 new suspects in relation to child abuse at the school. Mr Danczuk, however, believes that the ramifications of the scandal go far beyond Rochdale.
The Liberal Democrats are 'in denial' For the Liberal Democrats, the revelations about Cyril Smith’s history of sex abuse have proved particularly difficult. On Smith’s 80th birthday in 2008, Mr Clegg hailed him as a “beacon” and an “inspiration”, and said he was “deeply saddened” at his death two years later.
Last week, in response to Mr Danczuk’s book, Mr Clegg said that the allegations took place “well before the party I now lead even existed -in fact, took place before I even existed”. He said that following Mr Danczuk’s 2012 speech in the Commons, Lib Dem whips had asked MPs and peers whether they were aware of the allegations. They said that they knew nothing, despite evidence to the contrary.
In 1979 the Rochdale Alternative Press, a local magazine, published details of Smith’s abuse at Cambridge House A spokesman for Lord Steel, then leader of the Liberal Party: "All he seems to have done is spanked a few bare bottoms." Last year Lord Steel, who is now a Lib Dem peer, confirmed he had been aware of the allegations but accepted Smith’s denials. He last week threatened to sue a newspaper who confronted him about the allegations.
Mr Danczuk is now calling for a public inquiry into Smith because he says the Lib Dems cannot be trusted on the issue. “Nick Clegg has failed to show leadership on this,” he said. “It is pretty close to cowardice. In the 90s people went to jail over Tory sleaze, but nothing is happening here.”
The Labour MP is convinced, however, that that scandal goes deeper. One of the victims he contacted was abused by Smith at the Elm Guest House in south-west London in the 1980s.
Police are investigating allegations that the house was at the centre of a “VIP” paedophile ring frequented by politicians, high-ranking policeman and celebrities. The victim told Mr Danczuk that he was surprised he was focusing his attentions on Smith when there was a “much bigger fish” who was a guest at the lodge, a politician who is still sitting in Parliament.
Mr Danczuk believes it is “inevitable” that the scandal will become public. “He was clearly giving the impression never mind Smith, what about this person,” he said. “There is someone higher up the food chain, much more important.” For Mr Danczuk, the revelations about Smith are only the beginning...'
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