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spiked-online.com wrote: Paedophile Imperialism

The British government is exploiting the odious Gary Glitter to smash freedom of movement and hector governments in the Third World.

Be it terrorism, or now child abuse, the politics of fear is one export that Western governments have a monopoly in producing.

The reckoning is still to come. Having been freed after serving 27 months in a Vietnamese prison for committing obscene acts with two girls then aged 11 and 12, 64-year-old Paul Gadd, otherwise known as ‘pop-star paedo’ Gary Glitter, was due to arrive in the UK this morning.

If his case ‘proves’ anything, it is that the paedophile panic, so passionately indulged by our leaders, is a threat to the sanity of society and to civil liberties, too.

This is dangerous stuff. Activists and officials seem keen to use the politics of fear to meddle in other, apparently untrustworthy states. Internationalised, the paedophile panic paints other countries as cesspits of abuse and slavery, and it permits the massive simplification of genuine problems of child exploitation.

As the media’s eyes focus on Gary Glitter and what he will do next, those of us concerned about justice, freedom and social sanity might do better to keep an eye on the Glitter-obsessed Home Office.

Tim Black is senior writer at spiked.

Commander Jameson wrote:This all now par for the course. I don't see any successive governments changing this either. Every time someone says 'if you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear' I die a little inside.

Cal wrote: Home Secretary Jacqui Smith

Pan wrote:

Cal wrote: Home Secretary Jacqui Smith

Aston Villa season ticket holder. Not all bad then.

Anung Un Rama wrote:If he is a "Pop-Star Paedo"

Can i be the "Duke of Date Rape"