by supporttheunderdog » Tue Oct 23, 2012 3:59 pm
I always thought there was something odd about Jimmy Saville. He used to host a show called Speakeasy, and I attended a recording of one such show. A few years later on I met a lady who had been a part of the guest singing act on that particular show, and we chatted about the show and her singing. She told me that Jimmy Saville was not a nice man and indeed a bit of a groper of ladies. It does not come as surprise to find he was into young kids and though I suspect some may not have been virgins when he screwed them and they may have been gagging for it with him, No excuse, though, if they were under 16 it was still illegal. What is totally dispicable is his abuse of those who were extremely vulnerable, who were certainly not wanting his attention but were not able to resist and under circumstances where they possibly could not complain or felt they could not complain. For that he should have had his meat and two veg slowly removed with a blunt knife.
As for the BBC it was always a bit lefty and at that time some lefties were trying to liberalise the idea of peadophilia - Harriet Harmon was for example involved with an organistion trying to decriminalise the work of PIE - an infamous organisation devoted to "young love".
However if there is evidence that individuals at the BBC were involved in a cover up, those who knew at the time but did nothing deserve to go to prison. Those involved in binning the newsnight diocumentary should be slung out in disgrace.