{"id":183820,"date":"2012-11-08T22:34:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-09T03:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/11\/08\/why-do-conservatives-keep-defending-child-rapists\/"},"modified":"2012-11-08T22:34:00","modified_gmt":"2012-11-09T03:34:00","slug":"why-do-conservatives-keep-defending-child-rapists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/11\/08\/why-do-conservatives-keep-defending-child-rapists\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Do Conservatives Keep Defending Child Rapists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First, it was the Catholic Church, and now it&#8217;s the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/crime\/downing-street-attacks-phillip-schofield-for-ambushing-prime-minister-with-internetsourced-list-of-suspected-paedophiles-8297661.html\">Conservative Party in the UK which is trying blame the victims and those reporting the abuse<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Downing Street has denounced \u201ctrial by Twitter\u201d and a \u201csilly stunt\u201d by the ITV presenter Phillip Schofield who ambushed David Cameron live on air by handing him an internet-sourced list of suspected paedophiles &#8211; causing a shocked Prime Minister to complain of a \u201cwitch hunt\u201d against gay people.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Schofield was forced to apologise after it emerged he had \u201cmisjudged the camera angle\u201d and the names of several former senior Conservative politicians were visible on a card which he thrust into the hands of the Prime Minister before an audience of around 1.2 million. \u201cYou know the names on that piece of paper,\u201d the This Morning presenter told the Prime Minister. \u201cWill you be speaking to those people?\u201d<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The presenter claimed to have found the names of the Conservative Party figures in \u201cthree minutes\u201d during a \u201ccursory glance at the internet\u201d for details of a scandal relating to abuse at children\u2019s homes in north Wales during the 1970s and 1980s.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s been about 30 years since this all happened, so I&#8217;m not sure why they are going into full stonewall mode over this, unless a <b>major<\/b> Tory icon of that period, was somehow involved in the original abuse or the original cover up.<\/p>\n<p>H\/t Atrios.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First, it was the Catholic Church, and now it&#8217;s the Conservative Party in the UK which is trying blame the victims and those reporting the abuse: Downing Street has denounced \u201ctrial by Twitter\u201d and a \u201csilly stunt\u201d by the ITV presenter Phillip Schofield who ambushed David Cameron live on air by handing him an internet-sourced &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1052,984,969,972,1064,1075],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crimes","category-europe","category-evil","category-justice","category-media","category-sex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183820"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183820\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}