Crime is pretty good. I've got a copy here. It's kind of the follow-up to Filth, about Ray Lennox years after Filth.
Crime is pretty good. I've got a copy here. It's kind of the follow-up to Filth, about Ray Lennox years after Filth.
The Daily Mail has questioned the politician, her MP husband Jack Dromey, and former health secretary Patricia Hewitt over their actions while officials at the National Council for Civil Liberties (NCCL) in the 1970s and 1980s and its ties with the Paedophile Information Exchange - a group which spoke positively about adults who were attracted to children.
Although the body granted "affiliate" status to the Paedophile Information Exchange (PIE) prior to her appointment, Ms Harman said the NCCL was "an organisation which anyone could apply to join and indeed any organisation could apply to be 'an affiliate' on payment of a fee".
There is no evidence to suggest that Ms Harman, Mr Dromey or Ms Hewitt personally supported the views of PIE.
Ms Harman told BBC Two's Newsnight. "It is not the case that my work, when I was at NCCL, was influenced by PIE, was apologising for paedophilia or colluding with paedophilia. That is an unfair inference and a smear.
"My work has always been, when I was at NCCL and when I have been in politics and ministerial office, to protect children, especially from child abuse."
She was a bit more involved than she is making out.
Look into the story a bit more and see what she was signing her name to.
I will try to find some links later on.
No excuses can be made for allowing an organisation such as PIE to be affiliated no matter what she says. She wouldn't say sorry for it on last nights Newsnight.
In 1976, the NCCL in a submission to the Criminal Law Revision Committee of the British Parliament argued that "Childhood sexual experiences, willingly engaged in, with an adult result in no identifiable damage… The real need is a change in the attitude which assumes that all cases of paedophilia result in lasting damage".[12] Organisations such as Paedophile Information Exchange (P.I.E.), a pro-paedophile activist group, and Paedophile Action for Liberation became affiliated to the pressure group.
Regarding Harriet Harman if you check page 34 of this thread I posted a link to The Telegraph which has an article explaining about her involvement with PIE.
I'm surprised that the press is only jumping on this now as all the info has been on countless blogs for ages now.
No excuses can be made for allowing an organisation such as PIE to be affiliated no matter what she says. She wouldn't say sorry for it on last nights Newsnight.
Doesn't accepting a fee from such an organisation appear that you agree with what they have to say?