That's The Trouble With Hysteria

Update below.

There a sources aplenty running the with the nuts and bolts of Gamble's resignation, so I thought I might take a sideways look at things.

I recently posted a comment that I found at The Register. The poster, Anonymous Coward, had much to say on the subject of Mister Gamble but closed with this paragraph.

His legacy, such as it is, makes for pretty grim reading. Possibly the most offensive of them (and there really are so very many of them) is his championing of the 'cartoon pr0n' laws which have now become statute in England & Wales. It was CEOP who crowded round the Parliamentary consultation leading up to the law, urging Ministers to not only introduce this wretched law, but to attach fiercely punitive punishments to it - even going so far as to suggest (in all seriousness) that courts should treat 'cartoon pr0n' with the same level of severity as that of real, actual photographic CP. Just how delusional does one have to become to advocate such madness? The sky was the limit for Big Jim - who could stop him?

The Coalition, it seems. Bravo.

Which in turn brought this response from a reader here at GQW.

You commenter seems to have a problem with Gamble's desire to pursue people who have cartoon child porn on their computers.

In that discussion, I'd support Gamble rather than your commenter.

Gamble was no doubt self-serving, but some of the cheers surrounding his departure are coming from dubious quarters.

To which I duly replied. But my reply focussed more on Jim Gamble than the issue I am trying to address today. And rather than import that reply, I shall leave it in situ. (unavailable) But might be better for being read before moving on.

The first thing we have to do is establish just what we are talking about here. Cartoon child porn, or virtual/computer generated child porn is, and let us leave all the emotion out of this, the hysteria if you will, let us leave all that aside. Because not to do so is to put yourself exactly where the Jim Gambles of this world want you, emotional, irrational, and if not entirely hysterical, at least distracted enough to be susceptible to manipulation.

What better example of such emotional, irrational hysteria than the hasty, irresponsible signing of the American Patriot Act by both Houses of Congress. Signed without even being read, rights and freedoms that men had died for, signed away on a wave of hysteria by the very same men who were charged with protecting those rights and freedoms, and done so with such haste that it staggers the imagination.

If we are going to address a situation, let's try to so with a little less emotion.

And that's rich isn't it, especially coming from me. I had a bit of a wake up call yesterday. For reasons that matter not I was reading something that I had written previously, and on a subject that I really feel passionate about. But the emotion displayed in my writing of then and now is marked, and something I am trying to rectify even as I write.

So back to establishing what's what. Virtual child pornography is not child pornography, it is for all intents and purposes, a drawing, nothing more nothing less, and I have to say, is no business of the CEOP.

For a country that runs Saudi Arabia a close second on matters of sexual repression, let us see what they have to say on the subject. This from law professor Susan Brenner.

The Supreme Court held that the First Amendment does not prevent U.S. law from criminalizing real child pornography, even though it qualifies as speech under the First Amendment, because its creation involves the victimization of children, both physically and emotionally.

Real child pornography is essentially a product and a record of a crime, or crimes, against children. The Court also held that the First Amendment does prevent U.S. law from criminalizing virtual child pornography because it is speech and because no real person is “harmed” in its creation; unlike real child pornography, virtual child pornography is fantasy, not recorded reality.source

Thank God for the first amendment, what's left of it anyway.

virtual child pornography is fantasy, not recorded reality

Yet if our aforementioned commenter is to be believed, and I see no reason why he should not, Jim Gamble would like to attach fiercely punitive punishments to it and that courts should treat 'cartoon pr0n' with the same level of severity as that of real, actual photographic CP

Which to me suggests that the proposer might be better suited to running water than to running a national agency with the powers that it has, and still wanting more must be said. And that kiddywinks is a prospect so frightening it can barely be imagined. Jim Gamble in charge of an omnipotent, autonomous organisation and answerable to no one.

As I said in my own comment, where does it stop? It obviously doesn't stop at virtual porn, what next,art? and who is to be the judge of what is, or is not, pornographic, Jim Gamble?





And to put this into true perspective; why only yesterday the good faerie came to see me and left me not sixpence, well he's the good faerie not the tooth faerie, not sixpence but a little gem and perfect compliment to this post.

Oh dear, how sad, never mind - I presume that JG and his minions had never come across (no pun intended) Balthus' "The Guitar Lesson". They'd have wet themselves, poor dears.

I shall leave it to yourselves to Google The Guitar Lesson, and my dearest thanks to Vimes for supplying such a relevant and timely example.

I should also like to leave you this. Fortunately** I need not say an awful lot about it, it rather speaks for itself, but I shall indulge myself with a few highlights, the blue highlight however is for a different reason, which hopefully will become clear before the night is out.

In actual fact I shan't bother with the highlights, they are self evident.

Well Done Theresa May

.........But there is a more sinister reason why one organisation can not be cloak and dagger about child pornography and why it needs to be open and honest and answerable to the public as well as to Governments, MP’s, and even sex offenders themselves.

When you read this statement made by Professor Allyson MacVean in an article to the BBC and re-read it and re-read it again, then think it is rather a sinister statement and it is a statement that could have repercussions on other groups of offenders.

Take a minute read this statement:

Prof Allyson MacVean, director of the John Grieve Centre for Policing and Community Safety at London’s Metropolitan University, said police should be able to search sex offenders’ homes and computers.

“Internet addresses are so easy to make up and it doesn’t give any sense of who the person is or where their location is,” she told the BBC.

She said this was why the police needed access to sex offenders’ computers without needing to apply for a warrant.

Now add that to a secret organisation being run on the lines of MI5 and MI6 and Customs and Revenue and only answerable to Parliament and what do you have, an organisation that not only can clean the streets but an organisation that is open for corruption and political point scoring. Unfortunately even sex offenders have human rights, and even the sex offenders register has people on it that clearly should not be. Take for instance the young lad, in love with an under-age girl, cautioned or convicted of under-age sex, even though he is a minor himself, that alone warrants him to be a sex offender, but does that warrant him to be a serious sex offender and for the rest of his life denied his basic human rights?..........

......The public of course, having been instilled with the fear of sex offenders will back everything without questioning, but there are far more sinister connotations for an organisation that is allowed to basically run free without the scrutiny of the public or other professional bodies.

Control the world by controlling one group of people that every parent fears, paedophiles, and even worse, how long will it be before they could start cross-referencing minor crimes with searches using the justification that any kind of criminal behaviour breeds other criminal acts. In fact, I can just see some tame scientist coming up with some report saying that most offenders of any sort are likely to be viewers of child pornography. More, and with no small thanks, Headlines Today.

**Time is of the essence tonight, I would have liked to say a few words about the, Well Done Theresa May article, but alas, and I also would like to dig out a few relative links to give the piece more meaning, after posting this.



In regard to the blue highlight: Consensual Teen Sex And Lives Forever Ruined and Genarlow Wilson's sad saga, introduction here and how the story played out here. Genarlow Wilson is a black. Tag Genarlow Wilson

Both these young men fell victim to over-zealous prosecutors and squeamish sexual attitudes. To be put on the sex offenders register in the US is to be condemned to living under a bridge, such are the restrictions imposed on offenders. The law not only punishes the offender but their families alike.

In the case of Genarlow Wilson, a seventeen year old who received a consensual blow job from a fifteen year old girl. Justice in the eyes of the state of Georgia, was to sentence Wilson to ten years in the slammer for his moment of pleasure.

Whilst I'm on the subject of over-zealous prosecutors, have a read about Mike Nifong and the Duke Lacrosse players. I don't know which is the more outrageous, his motives or his jail sentence.

I think rather than bring you each individual story, most highlighting the perils of having zealots in charge of policy, it may be easier and quicker if I asked you to click the Sex-Prudery button.

Who* - Who is to be the judge?

When I first started this silly blogging lark, and being as green as grass, I purchased, yes I know, I purchased a pro-account with Photobucket to keep all my pics in. That association was doomed to fail. Having taken time and trouble to upload everything, it was then after a day or two I received notice that certain images were deemed unacceptable.

See if out of these two pics, you can managed to guess which of the two was unacceptable to Photobucket? I am not trying to shock or be contentious by my choice of pics, these are examples. The real pornography, that of violence to women, seemingly not a problem, breasts? oh no! no breasts.



Update: A victim speaks, sans hysteria. The Truth About Paedophilia

CEOP: More Toys Out Of The Pram

The crisis around the future of the government's Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (Ceop) deepened today as it emerged that three more senior managers are to quit following the resignation yesterday of its chief executive.

A spokesman for the agency, which leads the government's efforts to combat internet child abuse, confirmed that the three senior figures were preparing to hand in their resignations as a result of an upheaval in the way Ceop will function. He declined to name the officials but said their departure would have a significant impact on the 120-strong unit.

The news comes after Jim Gamble, the chief executive, resigned following a row with Theresa May, the home secretary, about plans to merge Ceop with the Serious and Organised Crime Agency and the UK Border Agency in a new National Crime Agency from 2013. He warned the move would undermine attempts to keep children safe from paedophiles and other abusers on the internet.

Gamble remained silent today but his stand was backed by allies, including the shadow home secretary, Alan Johnson, who warned the decision "will harm child safety networks".

"The Home Office's lack of consultation has led to the resignation of Mr Gamble who is highly respected within and outside of the organisation he served so well," said Johnson. "His expertise will be badly missed. To protect our children we need this expertise and Ceop have provided that beyond doubt. I could see as home secretary the potential for them to do so much more and it is very difficult to come to any other conclusion than the government should make them independent."

Since 2006 Ceop claims to have disrupted or dismantled 262 sex-offender networks, and it says inquiries by its online investigators have led to more than 1,000 arrests. Earlier this year May described Ceop, which has an annual budget of £11m, as "vital" and "a centre of excellence in protecting children online that the UK can be proud of". Labour had proposed to make Ceop a non-departmental public body, but May said last night the coalition government did not want to create another "quango".

Child protection experts are worried that combining Ceop with what the Home Office has described as "a powerful new body of operational crimefighters" means its focus on victims will be lost. It claims to have initiated the training of 6 million children in online safety through a programme disseminated through teachers, youth workers and schools. Ceop officials also believe they will lose millions of pounds a year in non-governmental funding from organisations such as Visa and Microsoft if it becomes part of the NCA.

"We cannot begin to describe how disgusted we are with our own government for betraying him and for betraying all of our children," said Shy Keenan, who works at Phoenix Chief Advocates, representing victims of paedophilia alongside Sara Payne, mother of the murdered schoolgirl Sarah Payne. "This cannot be allowed to happen, we must stand up and fight, we must do what is right for the protection of our children against the crimes of paedophiles. You cannot approach child protection with a 'crime only' police unit. We need a pro-active child protection centre, not just a reactive police approach."

The Association of Chief Police Officers, of which Gamble is the lead on child protection, also protested against May's decision. "Acpo continues in firm support of Ceop operating as a stand-alone agency," said Warwickshire's chief constable, Keith Bristow. "If the government chooses not to support this option, then Acpo would seek to be consulted on whatever new governance arrangements are put in place."

In a submission to the Home Office consultation on the NCA earlier this year, Acpo warned of a "real risk that the advances that Ceop has made, particularly with regard to wider child protection partnerships, will be compromised".

Peter Saunders, from the National Association for People Abused in Childhood charity, said Ceop could have performed better. "I can only say it's a loss to child protection that Jim Gamble has resigned," he said. "But there has been an enormous amount of money spent on Ceop that would have been better spent elsewhere."

Gamble developed a reputation for having a confrontational style and clashed repeatedly with Facebook over his desire for it to include online safety buttons on its web pages. guardian

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A comment from the web.

The only people I hear sobbing over Reverend Gamble's departure are the self-same advocacy groups who have made such a commercial killing 'partnering' with his congregation at CEOP over the past few years. As usual, they employ highly emotive and wilfully misleading terminology to describe the Reverend as nothing less than a saint. But I guess it's kind hard to wave goodbye to the goose that laid quite so many golden eggs. Times were so good back in the good old days at the height of the Paedogeddon, after all... it was the gift that just kept giving.

The Operation Ore class action comes to court next month (finally). Big Jim is likely to feature prominently as it was he who led the entire fiasco from the start. That he should fall on his sword just about now is...well, let's just say it's 'interesting'. He does appear to have rather a lot of rather awkward questions to answer.

For a fledgling CEOP, Gamble as CEO (it really is a commercial outfit, albeit one which also enjoys huge public handouts) was a star performer - his well-rehearsed patter was so very effective at dazzling the media with endlessly sensational soundbites - not one of which he was ever required to explain or to prove. The Reverend could say what he wanted, claim what he wanted, and threaten whomever he wished - all with impunity. The media (El Reg excepted, of course) rarely if ever took him to task for his increasingly hysterical utterances. With him, it was all about perception - and keeping the moral crisis high on the public agenda was an effective business plan during the cosy NuLabour years of huge (£multi-million) public handouts. How things change.

No doubt at some future date he'll receive his gong for 'services to child protection' or some such. Quite where that leaves the hundreds who's lives were systematically ruined by CEOP's repeated witchunting over the years is anyone's guess, but I doubt they'll be applauding from the sidelines. The fact that Theresa May has not seen fit to reject his offer of resignation speaks volumes - I'll allow you to draw your own conclusions. When the only people arguing for his retention are those bottom feeders who - in these difficult financial times - happen to have a vested interest in his being at the head of CEOP, I think the picture's fairly clear for all.

His legacy, such as it is, makes for pretty grim reading. Possibly the most offensive of them (and there really are so very many of them) is his championing of the 'cartoon pr0n' laws which have now become statute in England & Wales. It was CEOP who crowded round the Parliamentary consultation leading up to the law, urging Ministers to not only introduce this wretched law, but to attach fiercely punitive punishments to it - even going so far as to suggest (in all seriousness) that courts should treat 'cartoon pr0n' with the same level of severity as that of real, actual photographic CP. Just how delusional does one have to become to advocate such madness? The sky was the limit for Big Jim - who could stop him?
The Coalition, it seems. Bravo.

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I found the Guardian story at the same place that I found the comment. More here.

Kate and Gerry McCann 'very upset' at Loosing Their Protector

Well they would be wouldn't they?



But then I think anybody would be upset loosing a man who, from his position as the chief executive of the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre, had this to say about them:

"WE ABSOLUTELY SUPPORT THE McCANN FAMILY," he says, sitting in his glass-walled office in Pimlico, Central London.

THEY ARE TO BE APPLAUDED FOR THEIR TIRELESS WORK TO KEEP THE CAMPAIGN TO FIND THEIR DAUGHTER IN THE PUBLIC CONCIOUSNESS. IT IS A CASE FOR EVERY PARENT OF "THERE BUT FOR THE GRACE OF GOD GO I."

And the date for this unequivocal message of support? ONE MONTH, THIRTY DAYS AFTER THE McCANNS WERE DECLARED PERSONS OF INTEREST (Arguidos) IN THE DEATH AND DISAPPEARANCE OF THEIR DAUGHTER MADELEINE McCANN.

An involvement I might add, for which they have never been exonerated. But this is not about the McCanns, this is about Jim Gamble. A man who abused his position to such an extent that his message of support if not downright criminal, then borders it as to make no difference.

Talk about resigning! that message alone should have seen him sacked, on the spot, there and then. And this is the crux of this thing, no copper, let alone one of his standing, should be within a country mile of a suspect, let alone supporting the bugger. Stroll on!

So please, for shame, don't give me the nine of hearts about what a wonderful bloke Jim Gamble is, he's as bent as the proverbial.

Joana has articles from the Press Association and the Mail.






And the same applies to this lot. Not within a million miles should they be of the McCanns, let alone a link from Leicester Police's web page to the bloody McCanns own page of lies, nonsense and fraud.

Stroll on! the world's gone fucking mad!

A Good Day For Kids A Better Day For Integrity: Gamble Gone

Going anyway; who's next on the twat list?




Whatever the reason for him going I'll guarantee it's not this one offered by CEOPs.

The agency said it did not feel it was in the best interests of children and young people for Ceop to be assimilated into the National Crime Agency.

A tad upset perhaps at the thought of loosing his little fiefdom and to say nothing of loosing his platform from which pervert the course of justice on behalf of his best mucker, Gerry McCann.

Maybe he can use his free time to go and search for Madeleine, who will now be six years old.


I've just borrowed this tweet from Joana.




Here's the latest as of hr 22:30 _ 04/10/11

BBC
Online child protection chief Jim Gamble resigns

The chief executive of the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (Ceop) has resigned in a row over its future, the BBC has learned.

The Home Office confirmed the home secretary had accepted Jim Gamble's resignation letter.

Mr Gamble did not believe the decision to assimilate Ceop into the National Crime Agency was in the best interests of children and young people.

The merger proposal was outlined by Theresa May in July.

In a statement Ceop said: "The Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre does not feel that it is in the best interests of children and young people for Ceop to be assimilated into the National Crime Agency, as was announced a short while ago.

"This direction of travel does not seem to have changed and Ceop's CEO, Jim Gamble, has therefore today offered his resignation to the home secretary with a four month notice period."

Mrs May said: "As chief executive Jim Gamble has done a great job at Ceop and made a huge contribution to protecting children. I wish him all the best for the future and arrangements for his successor will be outlined in due course

"The government recognises the importance of child protection and wants to build upon the work of Ceop, but does not necessarily feel this is best done by creating a new quango."

It is understood that Ceop has made representations to the government since the announcement that its work was to become part of the proposed National Crime Agency.

'Badly missed'

Ceop is currently affiliated to the Serious Organised Crime Agency (Soca).

It is believed that Mr Gamble was keen on gaining more independence for the agency rather than allowing it to become part of a greater National Crime Agency.

It felt it would lose its identity and priorities given to its work would be devalued.

Claude Knights, direrctor of anti-bullying charity Kidscape said Ceop had proven its worth and the news was concerning.

"It is so sudden as well and to have a person with as much experience as Jim Gamble being taken away from the horizon, really at such speed is a worry, because he is a leader in this field," she said.

Shadow home secretary Alan Johnson said Mr Gamble was a passionate advocate for effective measures to protect children from threatening people on the internet.

"Under his leadership the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (Ceop) was gaining an international reputation for its tremendous work. Labour would have given Ceop the operational freedom it needed to become even more effective, " he said.

"The government's plans will harm child safety networks. Their lack of consultation has led to the resignation of Mr Gamble who is highly respected within and outside of the organisation he served so well. His expertise will be badly missed."

Ceop was set up in 2006 with the aim of finding and convicting online paedophiles.

Mr Gamble was head of Northern Ireland's anti-terrorist unit before joining the agency and was one of five senior police figures shortlisted to replace Sir Hugh Orde after he stepped down as chief constable of the Police Service of Northern Ireland.

As Ceop chief executive Mr Gamble led calls for Facebook to set up a "panic button" to give reassurance for young users. The application has been downloaded tens of thousands of times since its launch in July. BBC

Sky has a report, link here. This snip from Martin, I'm such a little tart of the yard, Brunt, no less.

"He (Jim Gamble) believes the issue of child protection is so important it merits its own agency and should not be subsumed by a national agency."

Jim Gamble is a cunt.



The McCann Archive tag CEOP/Gamble

Although Ceop does not work directly with the Portuguese police - who shelved their investigation in July last year - any relevant information received will be passed on to Leicestershire Police, who will share it with detectives in Portugal.

Sorry, I've no source for the above, I can only assume it's CEOPs.

This piece from the Independent was part of a saved draft that included links for my previous Jim Gamble posts, as was the video above. I have never aired it, so I might as well up the lot whilst I'm about it.

British police join inquiry into Madeleine's disappearance
9th May 2007

The growing influence of British police in the hunt for three-year-old Madeleine McCann was underlined last night when it emerged that child abduction and paedophile behaviour specialist officers had flown to Portugal to help.

Two officers from the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (Ceop) arrived yesterday in what Ceop described as an "unprecedented" move, that comes amid mounting concern over the capacity of the Portuguese police to undertake a missing child investigation of this kind.

Their arrival was organised through the Foreign Office, the point of contact between Madeleine's parents, Gerry and Kate, three family liaison officers and Portuguese detectives. The Ceop has expertise in data analysis concerning paedophile activity.

There are major concerns about the ability of the local police to engage with the Portuguese public. The British Crimestoppers organisation has established a telephone number for information ­ something the Portuguese have not done.

Leicestershire Police, the McCanns' local force, said they have passed on information received from members of the public and other forces, although the force refused to confirm they had compiled a list of Britons on the Sex Offenders Register who had informed them they were travelling to Portugal.

Britain's contribution came on a day of confusion and mounting concern over the competence of the Portuguese investigation, a day which ended with Ch Insp Olegarion Sousa ­ who has been brought in from Lisbon to take over ­ dashing the hopes of Madeleine's parents that their daughter might have been found.

In the first possible sighting of Madeleine, road blocks were set up yesterday in the town of Nelas, six hours north of the Algarve resort of Praia Da Luz from where she went missing six days ago. A man and child were spotted in a car. It was a false alarm, said Ch Insp Sousa. "It was not Madeleine. It was a child who looks like Madeleine, but she is a child who lives in the area."

Clearly flustered by the clamour for information, Ch Insp Sousa was more forthcoming at a later press conference. He revealed that 500 apartments had been searched in and around the resort, more than 100 people formally interviewed, 350 leads followed and fields and streams searched over an area of 15 sq km. Curiously, Ch Insp Sousa also said the only clues to Madeleine's disappearance had been found at the apartment where she was last seen.

The British ambassador to Portugal, John Buck, said he had been in contact with the office of the Portuguese Prime Minister, Jose Socrates, to discuss the investigation. "I wanted to assure myself the necessary links between British and Portuguese experts here on the ground are working well ­ and they are," he said.

Mr and Mrs McCann, who had been dining in a tapas bar when Madeleine went missing from their nearby ground-floor apartment, appeared only briefly yesterday to pray at a local church.

Ch Insp Sousa refused to discuss their daughter's case because of a clause in the country's Process Penal Code of Law, that forbids the disclosure of information relating to a case while it is under investigation, unless it is in the public interest. Portugal's most senior prosecutor in Lisbon has decreed that the possible presence of an abductor does not create a public interest.

But a former British police child protection officer, Mark Williams-Thomas, said the absence of police/public contact prevented people helping the investigation and left officers relying "only on police officers scanning their own databases". Mr Williams-Thomas also criticised the haphazard nature of the search. "You could continue searching forever unless you have a targeted area," he said.

Detectives from Portugal's sex abuse and homicide unit in Lisbon have been dispatched to the resort.

In Manchester, the footballer Cristiano Ronaldo, a superstar in Portugal, made his own televised appeal for help in tracing the missing three-year-old. The Manchester United player said: "I appeal to anyone with information to come forward."

The Chelsea players Paolo Ferreira and John Terry also made appeals last night.

Questions about the case

Is a paedophile ring involved?

A Portuguese newspaper has reported that the British police have supplied details about paedophiles who may be in the area. Leicestershire Police confirmed they have passed on information.

Do the police have a prime suspect?

The police were reported as saying on Saturday that they "had a prime suspect in mind" and an artist's sketch. They have since said that the reports were mistranslated. What they had was a description of a man seen by a key witness, and an artist's sketch, but only of the back of his head.

Why have police not issued an artist's sketch?

Under Portugal's law of "judicial secrecy", it is a criminal offence to give away details of police investigations. This is unlike British law, where restrictions only come into force after someone is charged.

Are the Algarve police experienced enough to handle the case?

Until last week, there had not been a kidnapping on the Algarve for 17 years. Forensic evidence had to be sent to Lisbon, because of a lack of resources locally. Specialist detectives from the sex abuse and homicide unit in Lisbon have been sent to assist.

Did the police bungle the start of the inquiry?

Kate McCann was in no doubt from the start that her daughter had been taken, because a window had been forced. The police appeared to have thought that she had wandered off. News of her disappearance came when a relative rang GMTV asking for help. But the police say they were on the scene in 10 minutes.

Is the family under suspicion?

Internet bloggers have passed judgement on Madeleine's parents for leaving their children asleep while they had dinner 50 yards away. Now, unconfirmed reports say that police inquiries are including extended family. Independent

Previous Jim Gamble posts. I have no doubt there are more, but for tonight, that's it.


Wednesday, 6 January 2010
The Gerry McCann Punch & Judy Show with Special Guest Jim Gamble

Tuesday, 17 November 2009
CEOP Are You Going To Share The New Evidence With Us?

Tuesday, 26 January 2010
Hype The Threat - Implement The Legislation

Sunday, 29 November 2009
CEOP: New Evidence? plus Intercalary Report

Friday, 8 January 2010
Thoughts For Today - The CEOP

Sunday, 10 January 2010
Out of the Mouths of Babes Sucklings and Jacqui Smith

Thursday, 14 January 2010
Hey You Jimmy, Yes You Jimmy at the CEOP

Tuesday, 26 January 2010
CEOP Let Us Have A Little Reminder About The Merits Of Your Guest Speaker Gerry McCann

Thursday, 21 January 2010
CEOP Contrary To Your Email Madeleine McCann Is Not Presumed Abducted She Is Presumed Dead

Sunday, 29 November 2009
The Available Evidence Supporting an Abduction and the CEOP

Sunday, 29 November 2009
Jim Gamble, What's Your Game Matey?

Wednesday, 16 December 2009
Uncleared Suspect in Simulating a Crime and Hiding a Cadaver to be Guest Speaker at CEOP Conference on Child Abduction

Monday, 21 December 2009
CEOP Set To Become Independent

Sunday, 27 December 2009
Jim Gamble CEOP A Question If I May

Wednesday, 6 January 2010
Anything you say will be ignored

Wednesday, 6 January 2010
Gerry McCann To Be Guest Speaker Of CEOP

Thursday, 7 January 2010
How Credible An Organisation Is The CEOP?

Doing a Bit Of Grooming Yourself Mr Gamble?

McCanns: "New Private Investigation" Will You Ever Stop?

Interesting update at the bottom of the page.

Taking the piss that is.

Tucked on to the end of this article, and seemingly unnoticed, this below.

Meanwhile a new private investigation into Madeleine’s disappearance has begun in Portugal.

It is being run by three British former police officers: Nigel Brown, who was named Investigator of the Year after securing the rescue of a kidnapped oil company executive, Dave Carter, who worked in Northern Ireland, and Ray Cooper, who investigated war crimes in Bosnia and gang murders in Trinidad and Tobago.

This revelation I didn't see anywhere else on the net, just the one unsurprising source though; go on, have a guess.
Just something I suppose, that Paul Dacre must have picked up from his weekly audience with Saint Gerald of Rothley. Not unsurprisingly though, this little snippet did not carry an "exclusive" tag, I know such a tag is normally reserved for the World's Greatest Newspaper, but it's so unlike Dacre and the Mail not to crow a little given the chance. Maybe a bit of cop on doing the rounds.

So what are we to make then of this latest bunch? I'm not going to go there today, but the first thing that jumped out at me was, another bugger with a Northern Ireland connection.

Thinking about it a little more, the NI connection wasn't the first thing off the page. The moment I read the thing it was "Big Boys" big boys, big boys. This latest bunch, are they big boys, or are they big big boys? The only reason I ask, is that we have already had the big boys, so is it natural progression and a fair assumption that this latest lot of super crime fighters must be worthy of the latter tag?

You remember the Big Boys don't you; no? Let me refresh your memory a tad with just part of a previous post.


"These are the big boys" - Clarence Mitchell

A private detective whose company was paid up to £500,000 from publicly donated funds to find Madeleine McCann has been charged with fraud.
The McCanns had previously hired Barcelona-based detective agency Metodo 3 on a reported £50,000 a month. But the company lost credibility with the couple when its head of operations claimed he knew who had kidnapped Madeleine and hoped to have her home by Christmas.

After Halligen, the McCanns hired two former British detectives, David Edgar and Arthur Cowley. In August, Mr Edgar appealed for sightings of an Australian 'Victoria Beckham lookalike'. But a Mail on Sunday investigation revealed the detectives had failed to make the most basic of inquiries in Barcelona where the woman was seen.

The McCanns' spokesman, Clarence Mitchell, insisted the fund had not been duped. More The Mail November 2009

Here's a direct link (same as above) to the rest of the article, but if you went via this route you could treat yourself to a comment from the article that is no longer available. Written in a style I might add, that seems a tad familiar.


Now let us step back to a time fifteen months earlier and have a look at who said what.

Again from the same pretentious arsewipe, Paul Dacre's Daily McMail with quotes from that ubiquitous "McCann friend" and of course Clarence Mitchell. (Shurely shome mishtake?)


Reading what is writ, you could be forgiven if you came to the conclusion that these were an entirely different bunch of super crime fighters to those that we have just read about.

But as you read, never forget the source, with his manifestly odious personality, Clarence the Coffin Mitchell, nor the outlet for all this merde, the effect clearly reflected here, Paul Dacre's Daily Mail.

And for a change I think I shall indulge myself and offer a few highlights.

McCanns hire crack team of ex-FBI agents to find Madeleine

Kate and Gerry McCann have hired a team of crack U.S detectives to lead the hunt for their missing daughter Madeleine, it has emerged.

The unnamed US firm is said to have been offered a £500,000 six-month contract by the Find Madeleine Fun (sic) to help spearhead the search.

A friend of the McCanns said: 'The hunt for Madeleine is becoming more and more international and it was felt that a truly international firm was now needed to lead the inquiry.

"These really are the big boys. They are absolutely the best, but they are extremely secretive and cloak-and-dagger about what they do.

'Since their appointment, Metodo has very much taken a back seat and they are now concentrating primarily in Portugal and Spain and across the Straits of Gibraltar into north Africa, where they have their main contacts.

'The American agency is pretty much handling everything else.'

The secretive firm is said to employ ex-FBI, CIA and U.S special forces, according to the Daily Mirror.

The McCanns' spokesman Clarence Mitchell, said: 'Kate and Gerry made it clear from the outset they would leave no stone unturned in finding Madeleine and that means employing the very best people in any given field.

'It is correct that an international firm of investigators have been appointed.

'But I am unable to say anything at all about them because of the covert nature of their work and the need for secrecy, not only in looking for Madeleine, but also in relation to previous operations.' blah

You just couldn't make it up could you, English Journalism, as the man said: Once a whore, always a whore. (Bottom of the page.)


Are we now to assume Mister Dave, imprisoned in a hellish lair, Edgar, he of, snatched by someone who wanted a child to love, fame, is now a recipient of the long overdue order of the boot?

So what might we expect from this select set of super sleuths? I really don't know. But one thing I do know, they are going to have to keep her lit if they want to upstage all the previous clowns that have been in the McCann's employ. I have put together a small collection at the post below this.









Update. h/t Anonymous

Nigel Brown: New McCann PI Has Links To Israel, Russian Exiles and the Death of Stephen Curtis

The McCanns clearly haven't learned much when it comes to recruitment. The last man they hired that was involved in securing the safe return of an oil tycoon was Kevin Halligen, now wanted by the FBI in realtion to money laundering charges. Now they have employed former Met Officer, Nigel Brown, former owner of GSS Global who had been advising on security in Israel. More The Sargeants Inn

And when you have read it, you might join me in thinking, what an earth is going on, because somehow I just can't see this geezer looking for Madeleine. Not that he was ever going to.




"his manifestly odious personality" Borrowed from this recently featured article.


Mitchell inflames people, we think, both because of what he is - his manifestly odious personality - and, more important, the related matter of what he does. Of all the actors in this drama Mitchell is the one with the fewest excuses, the one who, above all others, chose to involve himself in the affair – and people sense it.

Clarence Mitchell is different: he sought out the opportunities offered by the shit-filled tank and chose to enter it up to his neck, finding, perhaps for the first time in his life, a place where he was comfortable and fitted in. h/t Blacksmith Bureau

Gerry McCann's Collection of Clowns and Helpers

These images accompany the post above.