Savile And Lagarde

The British police investigation into Sir Jimmy Savile's reign of sexual abuse together with related enquiries, has a strange echo  with  the infamous Lagarde list in Greece.

The rancid Savile business has been splashed over popular papers worldwide, which is not surprising as it is rare for a celebrity of such fame to have sexually abused and  raped so many ( mostly underage ) people and to have got away with it for 40 odd years.The general public were also amazed at how many other famous people were, on a vastly smaller scale, doing similar activities . Shocked and horrified  has been the reaction of Joe public.

The Lagard list though has kept a very low profile.It is rarely mentioned in the Greek papers I have seen, but I don't read them all.

The Lagarde list is  a list of names of people in Greece who sent the money they had kept in Greek banks to  banks abroad. It has been rumoured to contain some very prominent people.The list was lost, then found, then lost again, and recently , we have been told that it has come to light.It also contains names of ordinary, but well-off individuals, who have, I have been told ,been contacted by the Greek tax authorities about this repeatedly over the last few months.

As an aside , I really don't see that this has anything to do with governments; it is legal and it's your money.

Isn't it typical how the little fishes always get caught, while the big ones always seem to get away. Just look at the global companies that evade tax. If  a member of the masses does this, or tries to do it, he is in big trouble.

For the big fishes though, no net appears to be hovering over them. So far, hardly anything has happened. Relatives of a Minister are alleged to have transferred  large sums of money abroad. And that's it, so far.

Back to the Savile investigation.This was, at the start, only about Savile. It showed that his sexual assaults against girls, boys and adults over a 30 to 40 year period was staggering in the number of cases involved.Depending on what paper you read, he is accused of anything between 80 to 459 sexual assaults ,some on children as young as ten, and these include rapes.

Almost every police force in almost every county in the U.K received complaints and accusations about his
illegal sexual behaviour, over three to four decades, but not a thing was done about it. In most cases, the police were told to drop all charges against him, by the Director Of Public Prosecutions, and you can't get much higher than that. Talk about a cover-up- it's in your face.

The second police investigation led to D.J's and pop singers of yesteryear having their breakfasts interrupted by a load knock on their mansion doors by the boys in blue. Quickly, some quite famous types were accused of sexual crimes against adults or children.Gary Glitter was one of the early arrests, which pleased the tabloids no end ,because they hate him.The public love a bit of scandal and this satisfied their blood-lust.

Then Scotland Yard ( that's the head police force in the U.K.) announced that they were now having a second investigation into ' others' involved. This was, to people who read the alternative news sites ,a code for mega - celebrities,  members of Parliament, Judges, Lords, leaders of industry, top policemen, Foreign Office officials and, last but certainly not least, members of the British Royal household or possibly family.
Such people are rumoured to have all visited a child brothel for boys only in London.This was a favourite haunt for seriously rich, famous and well-known faces in positions of high authority.

After the quick arrests of  Gary Glitter( a faded pop star), Dave Lee Travis ( a D.J ) Freddie Starr ( a comedian) Jim Davidson ( comic ) Max Clifford ( a publicist for the rich and famous) and a few T.V producers , it seems it's not so easy to collar the pillars of  the Establishment.

The silence is  loud., and it's certainly not golden.All we ever hear is," Shortly we expect to be making arrests of some very prominent people.." In fact , just before Christmas, Scotland Yard said that these arrests would happen early in the new year.Now we are near the end of March.

Both the Lagarde list and the post- Savile enquiry, on the present evidence available, have one glaring aspect in common; they remind me of a man taking one step forward, then three or four steps back.

This is amusing in a sick way as all the politicians round the world keep talking about a new era of transparency, and a cracking down on corruption and illegal practices in high places.

We shall now see, over the next few months, if any big names are caught.If they are not, we will know for sure that nothing has changed and the same time-old cover-ups and protection of the rich and powerful is alive and well, and still going strong. In other words- business as usual.

If though, for once, the ones at the top are named, people would regain trust in , if not the system, in its ability to treat the 1% the same as they treat us.

Let's wait and see. Mind you, don't hold your breath. I wouldn't be at all surprised if the Lagarde list suddenly vanishes again, and the police in the U.K. lose all the evidence.It's always worked in the past, they will reason, so what's so different now ?