The Times of India reports:
Internet companies like Google and Facebook have been summoned by British prime minister David Cameron for a “council of war” meeting to find ways of battling child and rape porn.
Cameron said it sickens him to see the internet full of child abuse images and rape pornography which is perverting people watching them to carry out the acts in real life.
Cameron on the June 17 meeting will exert pressure on the companies to do more in order to clean up the internet.
Laudable stuff Cameron, laudable, but it doesn’t go near far enough.
The Times of India explains that this conference has come about because of pressure applied by various organisations.
Organisations like Rape Crisis South London, supported by Rape Crisis (England and Wales) and 100 others have written to the prime minister Minister urging him to urgently close a loophole in the extreme pornography legislation in UK which permits the possession of pornography depicting rape.
The letter to Cameron draws attention to the fact that the possession of rape pornography is already criminalised in Scotland where law-makers took its harm into account when legislating.
What Cameron may fail to understand is that Scotland has the lowest rape conviction rate in the EU, and if you are part of the judiciary or a lawyer, then it probably stands no chance of getting to court at all, thanks to a working instruction issued by ‘Dame’ Elish Angiolini in 1991.
On the 29th April 1991 a meeting was held between Lord Fraser (the Lord Advocate), Lord Roger (the Solicitor General), Duncan Lowe (the Crown Agent), Alfred Vannet (the Deputy Crown Agent) and persons unknown, to discuss a report written by Elish McPhilomy (now Dame Elish Angiolini), that sought to establish a rationale for, and the extent to which, the protections offered by Common Law could be circumvented, and statute law ignored.
Directions were issued by the Crown Office to the Procurators Fiscal (directive No 2025 on the 28th November 1991) in which the Crown Office effectively sanctioned particular criminal acts, contrary to Law – of teenage boys being sodomised by older men. That directive provided the means by which such activities were to be ‘legitimised’ by The Crown.
In response to what the Crown Office described as “public misapprehension”, an amended set of directions was issued (directive No 2025/1 on the 20th December 1991). However those directions amounted to little more than an adjustment of detail – and with an additional Crown Office directive stating that it saw little justification in pursuing cases involving the clients of ‘rent boys’.
(see Operation Planet, Abuse of Justice & The Crown Office Of Scotland for more details of those directives).
We now call upon Cameron to condemn these Crown Office directives and to make the appropriate legislation that would make it illegal to place anyone above the law, and to strip Angiolini of her titles.
If Cameron is unwilling to ensure that everyone is equal before the law, then his faux concerns about children’s welfare and this conference will be seen for exactly what it is, a sham, simply another opportunistic problem/reaction/solution move by government to control the internet.
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