{"id":6,"date":"2014-07-09T10:45:50","date_gmt":"2014-07-09T10:45:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/bologs\/vng\/the-great-paedophile-conspiracy\/"},"modified":"2014-07-09T10:45:50","modified_gmt":"2014-07-09T10:45:50","slug":"the-great-paedophile-conspiracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/the-great-paedophile-conspiracy\/","title":{"rendered":"The Great Paedophile Conspiracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Somehow I missed this whole thing the first few times around and it&#8217;s nice to see it come back and get taken seriously because if it&#8217;s true then it&#8217;ll make Operation Yewtree look like a case of nicking a Twix bar from a newsagent. In 1981 Dickens used parliamentary privilege to <i>name<\/i> a senior MI6 operative, and knight of the realm, as head of a paedophile ring with the user-friendly branding of &#8220;Paedophile Information Exchange&#8221;. This is extraordinary for so many reasons. Also bear in mind that back in those days HMG denied the very existence of MI6 and so Dickens&#8217; action was pretty audacious. Hardly surprising he was later the victim of two &#8220;burglaries&#8221; and multiple death threats. Damn it, I&#8217;ve started to respect a Tory.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/crime\/tory-mp-warned-of-powerful-paedophile-ring-30-years-ago-8507780.html\" title=\"paedophile ring\">http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/crime\/tory-mp-warned-of-powerful-paedophile-ring-30-years-ago-8507780.html<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2014\/jul\/08\/keith-vaz-questions-butler-sloss-inquiry-child-abuse-allegations-parliament\" title=\"butler-sloss questions\">http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2014\/jul\/08\/keith-vaz-questions-butler-sloss-inquiry-child-abuse-allegations-parliament<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/morning-mix\/wp\/2014\/07\/07\/a-big-political-cover-up-of-1980s-pedophile-ring-in-u-k-parliament\/\" title=\"pedophile cover-up\">http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/morning-mix\/wp\/2014\/07\/07\/a-big-political-cover-up-of-1980s-pedophile-ring-in-u-k-parliament\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Somehow I missed this whole thing the first few times around and it&#8217;s nice to see it come back and get taken seriously because if it&#8217;s true then it&#8217;ll make Operation Yewtree look like a case of nicking a Twix bar from a newsagent. In 1981 Dickens used parliamentary privilege to name a senior MI6 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}