Omniboligist accused

[Dick Smith]

You may find this article interesting. And very, very depressing.

[Gluestick]

It is immediately apparent that as authority has been increasingly villified by the public for their failure to control certain undesirable and horrendous aspects of daily life, authority is suffering a knee jerk reaction.

In so doing, unfortunately, they are increasingly behaving ultra vires: i.e. in excess of their delegated powers.

Perhaps the first significant event in this area which hit public awareness was the way women and children, innocently trying to shop in London's West End a few years back, when the Anti-Capitalist Demonstration took place, were herded indiscriminately into a dead end and denied access to toilet facilities or water for over four hours on a hot Summer day.

Resorting to believing everyone is a miscreant is a clear sign of both lack of control and contempt for the law abiding majority.

It started with police and government's purposive harrassment of car drivers.

 

[Clair]

Mother told baby's bare bottom is pornographic

A quarter of adults to face 'anti-paedophile' tests

Who must have criminal record checks

[Callie]

Sorry folks about the long ramble earlier.........

I can't believe the item about the baby - Asda must have a pretty sad lot of management.  We are going to end up like the Victorians who covered up chair legs as it was deemed unseemly to display a dainty ankle - even on a chair.  Whatever next...[:'(]

What I can't understand is why they jump on a baby's bum and yet allow girlie magazines to be displayed for all to see - they are not always on high shelves here.  What about corrupting children that way ???????????????

[Clair]

Easier targets...

[AnOther]

My 'Omniboligist' seems to have tapped into a nerve and a very serious topic which, by bizarre coincidence, is touched on in the BBC TV news this morning.

I'm sure we'd all understand Betty if you wished to edit your 1st post [;-)]

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[Gluestick]

British society has now reached the epic point, where if one sees a lost young child wandering along by a major motorway, one would naturally drive on by, rather than risk the slightest suspicion of being labeled a potential paedophile.

Unless, of course, one was in the company of the proverbial coach load of Vicars.

No hang on.............................

Bearing in mind what has transpired with the Lambeth Conference, perhaps that's not a good idea any more either.

 

 

[Clarkkent]

[quote user="Clair"]

Mother told baby's bare bottom is pornographic

A quarter of adults to face 'anti-paedophile' tests

Who must have criminal record checks

[/quote]

I was once "jumped upon" by police officers when I was engaged in perfectly lawful behaviour. However, I was a man close to playgroup premises so I was considered "suspicious". Men, in general, have been condemned as potential paedophiles simply because they are men. I have just heard an item on the Today programme with Frank Furedi and Esther Rantzen "discussing" Professor Furedi's report. I used to have a modicum of admiration for Esther Rantzen, but after hearing her small minded and myopic rambling, this, I fear, has evaporated.

We are sleepwalking into a world where everyone is assumed guilty unless they can prove their innocence. It is not only being driven by politicians but the gutter press.

[Russethouse]

I can see a case for people involved in child care, running clubs etc to be vetted (by the way most Childminders which are usually women have to be vetted) but when people get their children's playmates parents vetted I think they are really saying that they are abdicating responsibility and do not trust their own common sense.

[Gluestick]

As it happens, on the question of plastering a photograph of anyone's Gluteai Maximus over a cake, I'm with Asda: uniquely.

However, in this case, on the grounds of taste...............

And not that of the alleged "Cake", either!

 

[Callie]

[quote user="Gluestick"]

British society has now reached the epic point, where if one sees a lost young child wandering along by a major motorway, one would naturally drive on by, rather than risk the slightest suspicion of being labeled a potential paedophile.[/quote]

There was the incident of a driver seeing a little girl wandering along beside the road unaccompanied.  His first thought was for the safety of the little girl.  Then he realised he would be seen getting out of his car to talk to her...etc ....etc.  So he continued on his way.  (you can't assume everyone has a mobile phone but I don't know whether or not he called the police).  Shortly afterwards the little girl was run over.....

In this day and age, who can blame the man for not daring to stop.  And how must he have felt afterwards????

[powerdesal]

[quote user="Puzzled"]

Here is another one http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/merseyside/7474968.stm 

 

 and this which supports the point Russethouse made  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7474692.stm

[/quote]

As a point of interest regarding the bbc link above, perhaps Prof Furedi should get himself up to date. Those young ladies in blue uniforms "Girl Guides" have not used the "girl" for many years, they are members of "The Guide Association", and their adult leaders are "Guiders" not "Girl Guiders". (SWMBO was a 'wheel' in the Guide association for many years - 40 + to be less than exact).

I used to be an Army Cadet instructor, but the present UK system would never tempt me back. Volunteering to work with young people is definitely NOT on my list of things to do, which is a shame really.

[Chancer]

Another take on this to show how much we may all have sub-consciously changed our ways towards the children of others.

Can you remember the first time you were inroduced to a new French family and the young child looked up at you expectantly with his/her head raised and tilted for you to kiss them?

Did you feel embarrassed and unsure of what to do? One person (British) who admittedly is over-protective of his own children (refuses suppositories etc) told me that he thought he had stumbled on a paedophile ring.

I remember when I was a growing child my late father had a real natural affection for all young children, one lady in a seaside shop allowing (probably encouraging) him to take her daughter for a walk outside on his shoulders while she finished her shopping, unthinkable in todays modern Britain.