BBC sacks 400 staff members in two years

          Has anyone been awarded the Order of the Boot at the Beeb?

Sorry, sorry, sorry.......correction, please note THIS IS A CORRECTION, I was wrong, wrong, wrong......it wasn't the BBC, (God bless them) it was Pope Benedict who sacked 400 paedophile priests within a two year period.

The BBC?........well, they are thinking about it.......??????

Correct versions of what took place in Rome are HERE

And, HERE......

.....and HERE

But the BBC, employer and contractor to Sir Jimmy S, and others (I must emphasize that these people are not paedophiles, no trials or judgements have been made (I think that covers me) and quite a few more......(allegedly).........have sacked precisely......um......erm.....not sure, really.

Jimmy Savile is guilty!

Some months ago when the first, early rumours that Savile might have been involved in some sort of sexual advances on the young and vulnerable first came to light I issued a post stating that "Jimmy Savile is innocent".

And, so he was. He had not been tried by any court of the land, there had been no official inquiry to determine the truth of the rumours and the police had not even begun their investigation.

Now an investigation has taken place and it is evident that the man is guilty of some horrendous sexual and paedophilic activity.

OK, now it can be stated that he is guilty but I stand by my previous post which was issued at the start of a period of media frenzy and outrage. Without any form of trial or inquiry we cannot pronounce on the guilt of an individual.
Of all the organisations concerned, the BBC spewed forth such volumes of cant despite having made a field day out of clerical paedophilia in the past.

But there are no winners here. Those abused may feel that, at last their complaints have been addressed but there is no punishment for Sir Jimmy - other than that he may have brought upon his own head.

I did receive some funny emails from people who thought that I was trying to stage a sort of cover up of the scandal; nothing could have been further from the truth, I just don't like mob law.

Guilty until proven innocent

There is a strong moral in the following true story.

It covers events that took place some 30 years ago in, coincidentally, the Welsh seaside town of Aberystwyth, and it concerns a company employee who was entrusted, each week, to deposit the business takings of several thousand pounds, in the night safe of the local bank.

On one occasion, his employers noticed that the takings for week X had not been deposited and they asked him why.

He told them that he had posted the bag containing the money into the night safe as normal.

Enquiries with the bank showed that they had not received the cash.

The police were called in and, following an investigation, arrested and charged the employee concerned, despite his protestations of innocence.

He was eventually brought to trial and sentenced to a prison term. During his spell inside his wife left him in disgust along with their small children.

After serving his term he was released but, due to his criminal conviction, he could not find work and ended up on the streets.
All of his friends and work colleagues disowned him.

He drifted on a downward spiral until, after a couple of years of unrelenting misery, he took his own life.

Some ten years after his death the bank concerned underwent renovations including a new fascia.
The old bank night safe was demolished and, in the course of the work a wallet full of cash was discovered lodged in a crevice within the shute.

Savile row grows apace

More and more women have come forward to make a claim that they were molested, or worse, by Jimmy Savile some 30 or 40 years ago.

Jimmy Savile received a Papal Knighthood from Pope John Paul II in 1990, a poorly advised award if ever there was.
Regardless of these claims against him, a Papal award should not go to lightweight TV celebs just as MBEs should never be awarded to tea ladies or traffic wardens.

An anonymous comment prompted me to re-visit my earlier post, Jimmy Savile is innocent, because this blog (commentators and self) were accused of being unCatholic in the views expressed.
I removed the comment because it was somewhat abusive; I have allowed some anonymous comments but, from now on I will only maintain comments from named individuals.

My position has not changed. Despite a rather appalling level of accusations against the man I am bound, as a Catholic, to keep an open mind.

As a citizen I am bound to believe in innocence until guilt is proven.

Of course, the sheer volume of women coming forward makes this stance a hard one to maintain but we have seen cases in the past where trumped up charges have resulted in people being found unjustly guilty; and we do have the example of an innocent man being tried, found guilty and crucified have we not?

And, no, I am not saying these accusations are trumped up. And, yes, if these gross acts did, in fact happen, then my sympathies go out to those who may have been abused.

It's just that I abhor trial by media where the front headlines of The Sun newspaper can condemn out of hand.

And I dislike the cant and hypocrisy of those in show business who are now throwing up their hands in horror that such things could have happened.
If ever the phrase "whited sepulchres" could be used in today's climate, it would apply to BBC and ITV celebrities who are now running flat out to distance themselves from  Sir Jimmy Savile.

And, if you should wish to comment, please do not do so anonymously. And, yes, the headline is intentional.

Jimmy Savile is innocent

I never have liked trial by media or the lynch mob mentality.
They smack of insecurity, self guilt,of bullies and cowards.

 I've never liked Jimmy Savile either. Too much corny ooohing and aaahing for my money.

But it needs to be said that we cannot judge this man even if there is a growing wave of accusations from those who allege abuse by him. He is not here to present a defence.

He is dead and will by now have faced the most important judgement that any of us will receive.

It was wrong of the senior police officer who, when interviewed, described him as a "sexual predator".

If Savile was still alive such language would have rendered a potential trial null and void; we have only heard the voices of those in the defendants' box, we cannot hear the plaintiff's account.

Time for all those tabloid newspapers to stop their cant and hypocrisy and to look at removing the 'page 3' models instead.