#GhislaineMaxwell: Will 2022 start with the downfall of the UK #Monarchy?
Let’s start this article with the important question: is anybody tracking down the perverts who had sex with underage girls provided by Ghislaine Maxwell?
It’s all very well saying that the procurer has been convicted so the route via which these vile creatures gratify their disgusting desires has been cut off – but it only means they will find other ways.
Police – in America – are going through the now-infamous black book kept by Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein, but they are treating the associates listed within merely as possible witnesses, rather than as possible suspects (until and unless evidence is found to justify criminal proceedings).
That may come as a relief to people like Keir Starmer’s recently-appointed henchman Peter Mandelson, who has 10 entries in the book (suggesting that he wanted the paedophile pair to be able to get hold of him wherever he may have been), and newly-to-be-knighted Tony Blair, who has an entry in the book himself.
It may not be so much of a comfort to Prince Andrew, the Duke of York, who appears in the book 16 times and is accused of child sex offences.
And the repercussions may undermine the foundations of the UK Monarchy – an institution that has survived for almost a thousand years. That’s plenty of time to fall into filth and corruption – and to hide it by abusing the privileges that come with the highest position in the land.
It’s being reported that Andrew has just begun to show concern that his alleged crimes may bring down the Monarchy. It seems he had not previously spared a thought for the fact that being involved with people in a paedophile ring (whether he was a part of it or not) might bring that ancient institution into disrepute.
In This Writer’s opinion, the acts that have really put the future of the Monarchy in question are his attempts at evasion – his refusal to travel to America to face charges is not the behaviour we would expect of an innocent man; I understand he has claimed that his accuser should not be permitted to continue with her case because she now lives in Australia, not the USA (but that should have nothing to do with it; this is an international sex crime case and it seems logical to base the prosecution in the country where the offence was allegedly committed); and it seems he has also put forward a claim to have been in a UK branch of Pizza Express with one of his daughters at the time of the alleged offence – although nobody has come forward to corroborate the claim (and members of the public would certainly remember, even from 21 years ago, if a Royal walked into their local fast food joint).
His continued attempts to avoid justice are hugely harmful to the UK Monarchy because it makes the Queen complicit in the alleged crimes; Andrew is seen as having committed them (whether he really did or not is immaterial to this part of it) and then gone running behind his mother’s skirt tails for protection from the consequences.
Bear in mind that both Epstein and Maxwell, along with another sex offender – the US film producer Harvey Weinstein, were photographed at the 18th birthday celebrations of Andrew’s daughter, Princess Beatrice. It seems that Royalty and sex crime are well-entwined.
In his evasion attempts, Andrew is hugely aided by the UK’s mass media organisations – particularly the BBC. Maxwell was the daughter of a newspaper magnate (who was himself disgraced after he fell off his yacht and died, when it was found that he had been stealing from the Mirror Group’s pension fund). This means she is well-known to many of the journalists who have been writing about her – and their work has reflected their own sympathy for this child abuser.
The hypocrisy enough to send you reeling: the same people who took glee in claiming that former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn should take responsibility for his brother Piers advocating criminal damage of Covid-19 vaccine-supporting MPs’ offices have conspicuously failed to suggest that Boris Johnson should take similar responsibility for his sister Rachel’s article, It’s hard not to pity Ghislaine Maxwell.
This Writer has absolutely no pity for anybody who uses children to gratify their (or other people’s) perverse sexual desires.
The BBC’s editorial position has also been characterised as calling for us to bless this poor lost soul – with manipulative choices of verbiage. So when referring to the girls or children who were abused in Maxwell’s paedo ring, the BBC describes them as “underage women”.
That’s sickening.
And there is worse. Coverage refers to Maxwell by her first name, as though she’s our friend; her victims are described as “accusers”; after previous reports of similar crimes referred to “grooming gangs”, there is no such attempt to whip up outrage here (quite the opposite); and there are no calls to interrogate participants in the abuse (going back to the black book).
The BBC went too far when it booked people who are known to be sympathetic to Maxwell, to comment on the case in its news programmes.
The backlash, after Epstein’s former lawyer Alan Dershowitz – himself now accused of child sex crimes – appeared on BBC bulletins, giving a sympathetic view of Maxwell and insisting on both his own and Andrew’s innocence, was huge.
The corporation’s bosses had to issue a statement admitting that Dershowitz’s appearance had not met BBC editorial standards, and that the matter would be investigated to find out “how it happened”.
The statement led to what some have described as “the Twitter burn of the year” – from the Sunday Sport‘s Twitter feed: “That’s putting it mildly. It didn’t even meet OUR editorial standards.”
Of course we all know how it happened. Dershowitz was booked by a BBC booking agent who – knowing that he is himself a suspect – contacted him or his agent/manager and asked to interview him. They then falsely presented him as an independent legal expert. It was deliberate – and deliberately misleading.
And now the BBC has lost any right to claim that its news coverage is impartial in any way, as people across the UK are accurately accusing it of deliberately protecting the rich and privileged at the expense of the poor and vulnerable.
I say accurately because, having admitted its fault over Dershowitz, the BBC compounded the mistake by booking Maxwell’s brother Ian, who was interviewed about his sister the very next day.
Of course he made a big fuss about claiming she was innocent – on a news platform that is watched and believed by 70 per cent of the UK’s population. Think about that.
A former BBC political news editor, Rob Burley, has claimed that failures like the Dershowitz booking are results of budget cuts at the corporation – to which critics responded by pointing out that such errors exclusively benefit the UK’s rich and powerful elite. They quoted a current saying: “It’s not a bug; it’s a feature” of the BBC.
Even former BBC reporters like Adil Ray have railed against the corporation’s biased coverage. In a tweet, he stated: “When I filmed a doc on the sexual exploitation of young girls by some Pakistani men it would not have been acceptable to hear a defence from their brothers. Why is it ok now?”
The answer is obvious: families of abusers who travel on buses, instead of luxury cars or yachts, simply don’t get that platform. And the question isn’t why the former don’t – it’s why the latter do.
And let’s face it – the BBC doesn’t have a good record of identifying, accusing and denouncing child sex offenders. Look at the way Jimmy Savile was protected for decades. He was a close friend of former prime minister Margaret Thatcher, of course.
Sadly, this deference to the rich and powerful isn’t limited to the BBC and Rachel Johnson – whose bias towards Maxwell is likely to be due to the fact that the child sex procurer was at Balliol College, Oxford, with her own brother: UK prime minister Boris Johnson.
See how the people in this group link up and protect each other?
Returning to Andrew, it’s one reason we should be grateful that proceedings against him are taking place in the United States; it is unlikely that the UK’s compromised legal system would ever have even accused him. It didn’t accuse Savile during his lifetime, after all.
And let’s remember that Metropolitan police commissioner Cressida Dick is another alumnus of Balliol College, Oxford, who may well have known Maxwell there at some point – either as a student or as a former student.
I’m sure I don’t have to tell you how accusations against this fellow Balliol alumnus may have been taken by a Dick police administration, because we have the evidence of the Christmas 2020 parties that allegedly involved fellow Balliol alumnus Boris Johnson to help us.
That’s right: if Ghislaine Maxwell had been accused in the UK, the police would probably have responded by saying they don’t investigate incidents from more than a year ago.
Below please find material from Twitter that may provide valuable further information:
Ghislaine Maxwell deserves to go to prison, but where the fuck are all the men who actually had sex with these girls???
— WhyAmIHere 🇨🇦❤️✌🏼 (@ChangeMyMindPlz) December 30, 2021
Now that Ghislaine Maxwell has been found guilty of selling children for sexual abuse, don’t you think we should investigate whom she sold the children to?
I don’t want to hear another word about how tragic her life is, only want to hear about the devastation caused to victims
— nazir afzal (@nazirafzal) December 31, 2021
So let me get this straight…
Julian Assange faces 175 years in a Supermax prison for exposing the crimes of the powerful, but Ghislaine Maxwell only faces "up to" 65 years in prison for running an international child-sex trafficking ring for the global elite?
— Jackson Hinkle 🇺🇸 (@jacksonhinklle) December 30, 2021
Three sex offenders, including two paedophiles, attending the 18th birthday party of some Princess at Windsor Castle.
We’ve really no idea how big this cess-pit is. https://t.co/oTI1HPNFy4— John Edwards (@JohnEdwards33) December 31, 2021
Interesting how people were screaming at Jeremy Corbyn for the actions of his brother Piers, are now silent on that fact that Boris Johnson’s sister literally wrote an article “It's Hard Not to Pity Ghislaine Maxwell"
— Free Palestine🇵🇸 (@chibiandchill) December 30, 2021
https://twitter.com/TheMendozaWoman/status/1476549948980224001
For anyone in any doubt about whom the @BBC serve the #Maxwell case exposes its role in defending the establishment. It’s not independent it’s not neutral it’s a tool of the powerful to influence how we think.
— Ian Hodson (@IanBFAWU) December 31, 2021
Surprised the BBC are using the term “underage women” when – in fact – they mean “girls” or “children”. #ghislanemaxwell
— Dave Jones (@WelshGasDoc) December 29, 2021
The framing of this case & the language used @BBC is a reminder of how the narrative is being controlled. First names of the guilty; accusers not victims; no "grooming gang" outrage; no drive to interrogate those who participated; sympathetic spokespeople. https://t.co/vpc9vXsjde
— Suzanne Gannon (@meandmarmalade) December 31, 2021
If only the TV and radio stations showing compassion to convicted child trafficker #Maxwell would direct that care and understanding to the survivors we would live in a better world.
— Dawn Butler MP✊🏾💙 (@DawnButlerBrent) December 31, 2021
https://twitter.com/RickyDHale/status/1476885670668951553
You spelled "victims" wrong. https://t.co/KfUHgxdylR
— Steve Peers (@StevePeers) December 30, 2021
As well as being one of the accused, this is the guy @BBCNews went to for first reaction to Ghislane Maxwell’s guilty verdict. pic.twitter.com/trpa7RP4KJ
— Philip Proudfoot (@PhilipProudfoot) December 29, 2021
https://twitter.com/unionlib/status/1476496256864239622
Even longstanding critics of the BBC were shocked by its decision to interview Alan Dershowitz following the Ghislaine Maxwell verdict. What does this tell us about the state of the organisation? (Thread) pic.twitter.com/gvfBWikhsY
— Tom Mills (@ta_mills) December 31, 2021
Someone booked him, that’s how it happened.
They got in touch with him / his agent / his management and asked him to be interviewed.
It was intentional. https://t.co/dfaUTZ2FKF
— James Foster (@JamesEFoster) December 30, 2021
https://twitter.com/stephenfarrow/status/1476614642453594114
Hmm…@BBCNews did you
1. Know Dershowitz is a SUSPECT or
2. Did you not know?If 1. How could you introduce him as an independent legal expert?
If 2. WTF! Everyone with an interest in the case KNOWS
— Tom London (@TomLondon6) December 30, 2021
.@RobBurl was in charge of BBC Politics coverage while Jeremy Corbyn was Leader of the Opposition
Under him @BBCNews was systematically biased against Corbyn; so much so that it was profoundly antidemocratic https://t.co/WgzGIg5tQx
— Tom London (@TomLondon6) December 30, 2021
Pretty extraordinary how the BBC’s “mistakes” always just happen to benefit the rich, powerful, establishment elite.
It’s almost as if they’re all in it together.
— Evolve Politics (@evolvepolitics) December 31, 2021
Ian Maxwell is on r4Today defending convicted sex trafficker #ghislanemaxwell just now. Can you imagine the #bbc giving the family of a convicted Pakistani grooming gang leader a similar platform to defend a relative?!
— Frances Naggs (@FrancesNaggs) December 31, 2021
Why is @BBC giving airtime to the Maxwell family on their main news bulletin? Ghislaine was found guilty of sex trafficking. The Maxwell family cannot accept the verdict. Families of abusers who travel on buses, not luxury cars or yachts, do not get this platform.
— Josephine Cumbo (@JosephineCumbo) December 31, 2021
Why is the BBC now running an interview with Ghislaine Maxwell’s brother, pleading her innocence, on its main bulletin on R4? Would they do that for any other child sex offender found guilty in a court of law?
— Sonia Sodha (@soniasodha) December 31, 2021
So yesterday the BBC was forced to issue an apology for inviting Alan Dershowitz to “analyse” Ghislaine Maxwell’s conviction as he clearly wasn’t an independent voice.
Yet today they’ve literally handed a primetime platform to *her own brother* to back her up!
Just astonishing.
— Evolve Politics (@evolvepolitics) December 31, 2021
Is this another one of those 'mistakes' that somehow just keep on happening at BBC, @RobBurl? https://t.co/Tl8W9eSM3Z
— simon maginn (@simonmaginn) December 31, 2021
BBC & others running interview by brother of convicted #ghislanemaxwell, claiming her innocence. In 2011, when I filmed a doc on the sexual exploitation of young girls by some Pakistani men it would not have been acceptable to hear a defence from their brothers. Why is it ok now?
— Adil Ray OBE (@adilray) December 31, 2021
Does anyone remember the relatives of the Rochdale child abusers being given prime BBC slots after a guilty verdict to protest their innocence and undermine the testimonies of the victims? https://t.co/WiRqDLxbJD
— Owen Jones (@OwenJones84) December 31, 2021
Maybe, and hear me out on this, British political journalists are often more absurd than any satire – including
#dontlookup pic.twitter.com/BSECK33xdD
— Aaron Bastani (@AaronBastani) December 30, 2021
https://twitter.com/TheMendozaWoman/status/1476574388669591553
"Can someone who moves in our social circles really be that bad?" is the most BBC thing ever.
— Jo Maugham (@JolyonMaugham) December 31, 2021
Confess I'm genuinely surprised by the ongoing tone of the BBC's coverage of Maxwell's conviction. Mostly because it's hard to see who benefits. My best reading, it's not conspiratorial, it's a reflection of the deeply embedded deference to power & wealth across the organisation.
— Ally Fogg (@AllyFogg) December 31, 2021
Look, many of the country's leading journalists know Ghislaine Maxwell
The same goes for many of our leading politicians
The UK has a small, smug, entitled "ruling-elite" and she was very much part of it
Hence some of the bizarre behaviour @BBCNews, for example
— Tom London (@TomLondon6) December 31, 2021
The BBC providing sympathetic coverage for a convicted paedophile with wealthy friends is a feature, not a bug. pic.twitter.com/SEZE1APe14
— Breakthrough Party 🟠🌤️ (@BThroughParty) December 30, 2021
Interesting how quiet royal correspondents are. Or could it be, they are waiting for instructions from their publication owners, who in turn are waiting for the Palace to instruct their next move?
— Esheru (@AkanKwaku) December 30, 2021
Of course the BBC News framing of Ghislaine Maxwell is appalling, they've been doing it for decades to protect the establishment, they lied about Scottish Independence, they lied about Jeremy Corbyn, etc Analyse any BBC News story and it's twisted to protect the powers that be.
— Matt Thomas (@Trickyjabs) December 31, 2021
https://twitter.com/ArtCrunchy/status/1476531598313107466
it is true that Ghislaine Maxwell was friends with Boris Johnson at Oxford Uni which obviously reflects really badly on her
— dave ❄️ 🥕 🧻 (@mrdavemacleod) December 30, 2021
Memo to @BBCNews : You can be rich, expensively educated and a criminal. It seems that you find that hard to believe, but trust me, just open your eyes and you will find the evidence all around you. And some are even convicted, however unlikely you think that to be.
— Richard Murphy (@RichardJMurphy) December 31, 2021
It is surely now time for all those politicians and other public figures that have visited one of Epstein’s or Maxwells homes to be investigated for possible involvement in child sexual abuse. Can we now start to put together a list of U.K. residents known to be associated.
— Pamela Fitzpatrick (@pamelafitz4HW) December 30, 2021
I fear that were Maxwell truly looking for a deal by giving evidence against Epstein's rich and powerful friends, she would suddenly discover she too had committed suicide.https://t.co/7zqyMTm326
— Craig Murray (@CraigMurrayOrg) December 31, 2021
https://twitter.com/JewSoc/status/1476628224029429767
I have a feeling there is going to be the most almighty fallout from this, both sides of the Atlantic https://t.co/xoZ2T1AB96
— Richard Murphy (@RichardJMurphy) December 30, 2021
The conviction of Ghislaine Maxwell is welcomed. I will state I believe after 3 years work on this case, I believe she was the chief and the former taxi driver Epstein the functionary. I now call on the Met Police to reopen their 1994 investigation into her activities in London.
— Matthew Steeples (@M_Steeples) December 29, 2021
Will quick witted journalists be asking Peter Mandelson why he called Jeffery Epstein & Ghislaine Maxwell friends?
— Essex Boy (@GregClinker) December 30, 2021
https://twitter.com/mish_rahman/status/1476665939206750209
This is so important – Mandelson’s alleged Epstein associations can’t just be ignored by @UKLabour because it suits them https://t.co/NWQeUDbfn4
— Kevin Pascoe #PoliticsOfFairness #Ex-Labour (@KevinPascoe) December 31, 2021
I don't say this lightly, but I have grave doubts about whether the UK law enforcement and justice systems would have brought down two powerful figures like Epstein and Maxwell.
— Brian Moore (@brianmoore666) December 31, 2021
https://twitter.com/CE_Media_/status/1476907959884165120
Jimmy Savile's love letter to Margaret Thatcherhttps://t.co/M8YFlS9INs
— Dorset Eye (Independent Citizen Community Media) (@dorset_eye) December 31, 2021
It’s amazing and shocking to think that after the disastrous impact of the Jimmy Saville cover up on the BBC, they’re still going with the “let’s be soft on famous paedos” strategy. pic.twitter.com/VltDlePCMP
— Devutopia (@D_Raval) December 31, 2021
Liz Truss and Margaret Thatcher have one thing in common. Jimmy Savile.https://t.co/2z4cjBhi8d
— Dorset Eye (Independent Citizen Community Media) (@dorset_eye) December 30, 2021
😂😂😂 has he only just realised pic.twitter.com/2FuV6iLZIJ
— Kevin Pascoe #PoliticsOfFairness #Ex-Labour (@KevinPascoe) December 31, 2021
Ghislaine Maxwell is a predatory sex offender who trafficked vulnerable girls for sex
There is a photo of Maxwell with Prince Andrew and a girl who accuses Andrew of raping her
How long will the Royal Family & British Establishment shield Andrew from facing justice?
— Tom London (@TomLondon6) December 29, 2021
We need to know who is paying Prince Andrew’s legal fees
I suspect it is the British people
It is hard to think of a more despicable use of our money than to help a very rich man in his attempt to escape justice from credible allegations of child rape
— Tom London (@TomLondon6) December 31, 2021
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while i FULLY agree with EVERY word of the article, the chances of the monarchy collapsing into the cesspit it also FULLY deserves are sadly MINIMAL given the BBC coverage it’d get when 70% of the fuckwits believe it!
ho hum… come the Revolution etc, things WILL be sorted out PROPERLY, once and for all!
this is just the tip of the iceberg, our armies are used so corporations can access resources in lands they have no rights to!