2. Google who?
Elish Angiolini has been supplied with just exactly the right
ammunition she needed to dismiss the Hollie Greig case as just the ramblings of
mad people and conspiracy theorists. How well-served she is by those that
actually fear the grip of Paedophile-central – or Westminster as it’s better
known - being broken.
Google Hollie Greig today and you will primarily be taken to
a couple of abandoned pro-Hollie sites not updated in a couple of years. Just one remaining blog is active on a daily basis. Allegedly and apparently the work of some weed-addled
‘stoner’ with a chip on his shoulder, it rants and raves incoherently with a particular type of paranoia and
obscurity consistent with being chemically induced; promoting a political and
personal agenda masquerading as concern for the unfortunate Miss Greig and the
befuddled Mr Green. It is no such thing in reality. Rather, the blog in question is merely a
confused knitting together of barely-grasped straws to construct a wicker man
with which the author’s own needs are sated…
Sad or sinister? I’m just not sure! Either way it’s not its
author’s greenest day.
The other side of the same coin is of course authored by individuals
such as the odious Greg Lance-Watkins; from whom the odd ‘braying sound’ continues to be ‘heard’ on the subject… Again
politically driven, and utterly obsessed with the obscene, he grubs around in
his own dirt seeking to deflect and project his issues on everyone and anyone
who might call him out. Then of course there are the ‘commercial presentations’
put out by ‘professional’ conspiracy theorists; the bizarre ‘aping’ of
professional newscasts and odd quasi-newspapers; trying to ‘milk' the case. The
conspiracy theory industry is now big business and very much of the
establishment.
Truly, the Hollie Greig case is lost in cyberspace!
It has been put to me very recently that the entire Hollie
Greig fiasco – from protagonists to ‘hoax exposers’ alike – might have been a
complex, orchestrated smokescreen ‘designed’ to draw the heat away from real
issues of child abuse and failures within the child protection system. The
theory goes that the case was deliberately built up for the whole purpose of being knocked down and publically discredited,
as it has been. – A carefully coordinated
‘boy (or rather grown man) who cried wolf’ scenario played out in real time,
live, using social media and the press as its stage. The catalyst for this
being various press investigations into Child Sexual Abuse (CSA) that were
making headway at the time, the aim being to thwart them…
Occam’s razor flicks casually at the throat of this one; per se, it’s a contention which in its
entirety is just a little too paranoid for my sensibilities. But objectively it’s
a possibility I can’t completely dismiss
or argue away with quite the ease I’d like…
I can tell you with some surety that the realms of conspiracy
theory are infested with those who seek to hide the truth in plain sight, and
make fortunes for themselves in the process. ‘Operation Mockingbird’ seems to
be alive and well, at least in some subset. And I think it a very strong
probability that there will be those in the pay of certain
authorities whose role it is to discredit the work of individuals outside an
‘accepted and approved media’.
You will carefully note at this point I’ve avoided using the
term ‘mainstream media’ here...
I do so for the simple reason that much of the so-called ‘alternative
media’ is, in my experience, just as much concerned with the spread of disinformation
as the worst propaganda sheet. ‘Mockingbird
Lane’, as I have labelled it, is a quaint, very British ‘virtual place’ in where
the truth is parked safely with ‘Looney-Toons’ tales of mystery, intrigue,
space aliens and shape-shifting lizards. It’s not-exactly the sophisticated cold war CIA
operation of old, but then it’s not exactly harmless either.
Ridiculous as it’s made to sound, much of what professional
conspiracy theorists tell you is
perfectly true and deeply disturbing;
but how are the public to separate the truth from the sort of fairy-tale
rubbish that would better fit a Harry Potter book with which this kind admix reality? The short answer is they are never meant to! The whole raison
d'être of many of these individuals (apart from lining their own pockets) is
to establish disturbing parts of the truth in the public perception as just the
ranting of madmen – these boys cry ‘wolf’ long and loud. By this means the most
heinous atrocities against the public good can be carried out in plain sight. Make no mistake, these people are very much of
the establishment, well-funded and flameproof. Their message carefully
orchestrated and metered.
Some commentators have noted that the timing of the Hollie
Greig case seemed to be set as a distraction from enquiries into the Dunblane
massacre and the subsequent travesty that was the investigation into it. It’s
not an ill-founded observation and it’s notable that the main source of
interference in the Hollie Greig case – Greg Lance-Watkins – had also tried to
inveigle himself into independent investigations of that horror. Watkins even
had the temerity to seek partial credit for another author’s work and published
the entire text of it on his blog.
As a man who boasted of both his own past firearms conviction
and a scheme he once had to murder his old headmaster, his involvement in such
things is chilling…
However, pressing as Dunblane was I don’t think it the
target. I can also now tell you that the Hollie Greig case first appeared on my radar about the same time I became
aware of research that would eventually lead to the Savile exposé. I don’t
consider the timing to be coincidence and I am very pleased to see the Hollie
case did not impact on or deflect from the purpose of that good work in any way.
But you will not be surprised to learn that there are other
journalists out there researching other related matters. And that the Hollie
Greig case has in some cases been an unwelcome distraction… Simply mention the name ‘Hollie Greig’ in
conversation during any line of enquiry – no matter how cogent – and that line
of questioning will be shut down on the assumption that the enquirer is just
another conspiracy-theory fuelled madman…
Paedophiles throughout Europe are currently well served by
the fact that any line of enquiry that directs through the Hollie Grieg case is
now rendered ‘dubious’. So, perhaps there is something in this ‘conspiracy
within a conspiracy theory’ notion? The Hollie Greig case certainly hampers
investigation of certain groves where the strange fruits of child abuse
flourish.
And that really isn’t good!
