Rolf 'other' Harris named and shamed.

[klr]

Stuart Hall stripped of OBE by Queen after sex offences conviction:

Former BBC broadcaster Stuart Hall has been stripped of his OBE by the Queen after he was jailed for a series of sexual assaults on young girls.

The Queen has directed the honour should be "cancelled and annulled" and his name be "erased" from the register.

...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-24023832

It's good to see Lizzie earning her keep.

[cronus]

Stuart Hall stripped of OBE by Queen after sex offences conviction:

Former BBC broadcaster Stuart Hall has been stripped of his OBE by the Queen after he was jailed for a series of sexual assaults on young girls.

The Queen has directed the honour should be "cancelled and annulled" and his name be "erased" from the register.

...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-24023832

It's good to see Lizzie earning her keep.

Simply protecting the reputation of the family business. Two faced cow - should grass on her son instead of covering up for him.

[cronus]

Not a good day for ol' Rolf....?

[mistermack]

They'll have to tie his kangaroo down, and let his abbos go loose.

Bruce.

[pErvinalia]

Can you stop being a racist cunt, please?

[JimC]

Can you stop being a racist cunt, please?

It was actually a line in the original song...

[cronus]

Now he's guilty it looks like the gold diggers are rising too...?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... paign=1490

[Hermit]

Now he's guilty it looks like the gold diggers are rising too...?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... paign=1490

Gold diggers? There's on mentioned at most: his daughter.

[pErvinalia]

Can you stop being a racist cunt, please?

It was actually a line in the original song...

yes I know that, but this isn't the only instance of him using "abbo". In fact he uses it virtually every time he talks about aboriginals. This occasion just gives him a thin cover of respectability. I've explained to him before how it is equivalent to calling an african american a "nigger". He doesn't care, because he is a racist wankstain.

[JimC]

Can you stop being a racist cunt, please?

It was actually a line in the original song...

yes I know that, but this isn't the only instance of him using "abbo". In fact he uses it virtually every time he talks about aboriginals. This occasion just gives him a thin cover of respectability. I've explained to him before how it is equivalent to calling an african american a "nigger". He doesn't care, because he is a racist wankstain.

Historical quotes must always be allowed, in original form, or we will become locked into a revisionist hell of political correctness...

[cronus]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-28112605

The story behind Rolf Harris's child safety film

The TV entertainer Rolf Harris, who has been found guilty of 12 indecent assaults against girls, once made a video telling children how to avoid sexual abuse. The film is an extraordinary example of hiding in plain sight.

In 1982 Rolf Harris visited a youth theatre in Vancouver, Canada. A workshop taking place there addressed the issue of child abuse, in a way that was designed to advise the potential victims themselves.

The Green Thumb Theatre's Feeling Yes, Feeling No programme put into simple language the best ways to ward off unwanted attention, how to look for signs of inappropriateness and report sexual crimes. Harris, impressed by what he had seen, decided he would make a film along similar lines when he got home.

But Dennis Foon, who wrote the script for Feeling Yes, Feeling No when he was artistic director at the Green Thumb Theatre, did not know Harris had imitated his concept, formulated in the late 1970s, until he was approached for this feature following the guilty verdicts.

"It's amazing," he says. "I had no idea he'd done this. He plagiarised what we did here. What we set up here was a whole programme, designed to ensure everyone in the community was aware of the problem and how to deal with children's complaints. After all, it's a situation created by adults."

Harris's 20-minute video, called Kids Can Say No, came out in 1985. The last of the offences of which Harris was found guilty earlier this week was not committed until 1986.

"It's very significant that he wanted to do the film and actively pushed to offer his services," says David Wilson, professor of criminology at Birmingham City University. "It was probably a reaction to the feelings of guilt about what he was doing at the time.

"It's also a case of hiding in plain sight. He was possibly trying to cover up what he was up to by doing a film about the subject. Perhaps, also, in his mind, it was a kind of penance for the abuse he was committing," says Wilson, a former prison governor responsible for a sex offender rehabilitation programme.

Kids Can Say No features Harris talking to a group of four, seven and eight-year-olds on London's Hampstead Heath. It was promoted as demonstrating "situations where children might be in danger from people they know and trust, as well as from strangers".

The film starts with a jingle. "My body's nobody's body but mine. You run your own body. Let me run mine," Harris sings with the children.

(continued, never trust any man who likes brats...)

[mistermack]

I only quoted abbos because I knew rev would bite.
But to be honest, I learned the word when it wasn't racist. And I've only got his word that it is racist.
And as Australians add an O to virtually all names, it doesn't exactly reek of them being singled out for special treatment.

If people want to promote the idea that it's a racist term, good luck to them. I think they are just substituting a bit of concocted outrage, for actually doing something about the shameful way that Australia still treats its indigenous people. Which is actually worse, people saying abbo, or children being brought up in squalid conditions, with very little chance of advancement?

But if you feel you've done your bit, by complaining about the word, then at least someone feels better.

[MrJonno]

They'll have to tie his kangaroo down

I thought it was tie a kangroo down sport, fuck a wallaby.

That's how I learnt it

[pErvinalia]

I only quoted abbos because I knew rev would bite.
But to be honest, I learned the word when it wasn't racist. And I've only got his word that it is racist.
And as Australians add an O to virtually all names, it doesn't exactly reek of them being singled out for special treatment.

If people want to promote the idea that it's a racist term, good luck to them. I think they are just substituting a bit of concocted outrage, for actually doing something about the shameful way that Australia still treats its indigenous people. Which is actually worse, people saying abbo, or children being brought up in squalid conditions, with very little chance of advancement?

But if you feel you've done your bit, by complaining about the word, then at least someone feels better.

Nice false dichotomy.

It's a racist word, just like nigger is. You really don't need to say it, regardless of how shit the Australian government treats it's first peoples.

[mistermack]

Nice false dichotomy.

Except that it represents the facts on the ground. Australia has no genuine plan to change conditions for abbo kids, but they frown on using the word and make it officially racist. (according to you).

I see that as massive hypocrisy.