Originally Posted by Thornfield:
“I remember some years ago Corey Feldman spoke of the abuse he and Corey Haim endured in Hollywood as youths and it really did seem like the roof was going to be lifted right off of the industry. Then the subject matter just disappeared, as if he'd never spoken of it. I assumed he was paid off and I still believe that. I believe the abuse he and Haim went through was real but the truth will never come out while those in power have anything to do with it. Corey Feldman seems like a damaged guy and I feel bad for him. I think he desperately wants to expose this abuse and has come close to seriously giving it a try but is always silenced in the end.”
That's pretty much what has been happening here in Britain with our own paedo scandal - that is nothing at all. Zilch. Claims were made that that the scandal went right to the heart of the Establishment.
Well, if that is true we have two possibilities:
1 there was far less to it than originally made out (very unlikely, given that, for example, MI5 was allowing Republicans and Nationalists in Northern Ireland to screw little boys at a care home so that they could then blackmail them into doing what MI5 wanted, and given the very credible accounts from former coppers of how they were taken off cases once they were getting closere);
2 the Establishment has so far succeeded in keeping the lid on things.
Take the much vaunted independent inquiry into child abuse: it's a non-starter. Yes, I know the reasons - three chairwomen were appointed, then for one reason or another resigned. Fair enough you might think, but squint a little - 'far-reaching inquiry with no holds barred' - it's a fiction. It still hasn't started. Why not?
Well, we know why not - three chairwomen couldn't cut the mustard. Shame you might think. But you might also allow yourself to be a tad more cynical - or in this case realistic - and admit that so far the Establishment has managed to sit on everything.
Let no one be in any doubt: when push comes to shove power exerts itself to preserve itself. Sometimes it can be defeated but not often.