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Don't high ranking officials in ivory towers....er, sorry.....organisations, usually 'step down' from their exalted positions? Not so in this case it seems. If a whirlwind IS sweeping through the bbc, the term 'swept aside' might have been more appropriate. Could it be that many are those who're running scared at the prospect of any inquiry outcome?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-20024904
Quote: There are some very interesting rumours going about personalities both alive and dead that we're / are in VERY high places. One in particular about a very prominent politician in the 70's.
I saw some of those allegations - specifically about a former prime minister (now dead). I do wonder what he knew about people that they let him carry on like that.
Quote: Your TV License at work...
Yes, but it wasn't only the BBC. The other TV organisations, newspapers etc seem to have all be aware, to some degree, of untoward behaviour. Surely it would have made a fantastic story?
One would like to think high-profile people these days - with camera phones, and the like, recording every move - would never get away with such things. But we can't be sure...............
In the 70's, the GTO girls were a famous collective of groupies doing the rounds in the USA. Their 'conquests' are well recorded in several books on the Super Groups and Rock Stars of the era. Some of them were as young as 14 (if not younger on a few occasions).
I don't recall any real major national outrage as yet.
Quote: Their 'conquests' are well recorded in several books on the Super Groups and Rock Stars of the era. Some of them were as young as 14 (if not younger on a few occasions).
I imagine for the people like Jimmy Saville it was the norm for that kind of "backstage activity" to occur in that era. I have a feeling many big rock star names are going to come out in the not too distant future and I suspect a lot of people are currently feeling very nervous! - Sex and Drugs and Rock n Roll.
At present everything is understandably being directed towards the BBC, I wonder if everyone in the commercial TV companies are sleeping peacefully?
Quote: ......forced by law to pay its existance is almost criminal !...
Similar to being forced to pay for commercial TV even if you don't own a TV set. 
Quote: I imagine for the people like Jimmy Saville it was the norm for that kind of "backstage activity" to occur in that era. I have a feeling many big rock star names are going to come out in the not too distant future and I suspect a lot of people are currently feeling very nervous! - Sex and Drugs and Rock n Roll
One can only guess at what was and likely still is available to the so-called big names, not just in the music business but in all walks of life. Yet this particular occurrence is made all the more astonishing because of what the supposed perpetrator stood for and was supposed to represent. If it did happen, it seems very likely that others, if not party to it, were at least aware of what was going on. As said earlier, there'll be those going in fear of a public inquiry's findings.
Quote: One can only guess at what was and likely still is available to the so-called big names, not just in the music business but in all walks of life. Yet this particular occurrence is made all the more astonishing because of what the supposed perpetrator stood for and was supposed to represent
too true, as I know from my own childhood. You only have to look back over the years at the scandals involving senior members of the clergy( (of all denominations, in my case over 60 years ago it was the Baptists - god damn them) Politicians, Scout and Boys Brigade leaders etc, anywhere that there is power associated with status and position there will be corruption and sexual deviance, with defenceless children prime targets.
Worse still, even to this day the system is biased against the victims and in favour of the perpetrators because that goes with " power associated with status and position".
It never ceases to sicken me the way in which, when a story finally breaks, all those in power fall over themselves to proclaim how shocked they are and how they never imagined how such a thing could happen. Its always been the same and always will.
Power Corrupts and no amount of press outrage, public enquiries and the like will ever change this.
Its not just a UK thing by the way, many other societies are even worse, its just we are so damned hypocritical about it and keep on being "Suprised and shocked" when it, once again, becomes undeniable
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