nivjourney Wrote:
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> Fucking hell...
> I don't like the band, but I can't say good
> riddance because of that. I'd rather any band I
> don't like bow out than a child be molested to end
> their career.
> And like Gary says, no one KNOWS anything.
> If this is wrong, and it does say arrested on
> conspiracy charges, so as yet he's not guilty of
> committing the act, then this kind of stuff, and
> people spreading rumours within minutes, is
> incredibly damaging.
> I work in child care and have done for 10 years.
> Being a bloke i've had two incidences of older
> women voicing their suspiscions of why a 25 year
> old guy would want to look after kids, and it made
> me so ill, and broke my heart (and for a while my
> mind), and i've given up more and more work in the
> field that I have trained and specialised in for
> most of my young adult life, and am looking
> elsewhere for employment rather than ever being
> made to feel like that again, even though i have
> never and would never harm a child, have several
> clean police checks dating back over 10 years, and
> great references from every parent and several
> children i've worked with.
> Innocent untill proven guilty, and people should
> consider the harm their slander can do before they
> go venting and reading into things...
> It's very dodgy ground, but allegations like this
> are possibly the worst thing you could say about
> someone. Let the law take it's course first,
> perhaps?
> Perfect example is how c***s like Max Clifford
> will name and publicise photo's of the man who
> lived in the house next to the hotel of Madelaine
> McCann, (because he was a weirdo, I mean living
> alone with his elderly mother in a foreign land!)
> potentially ruining that man's life, and he was
> completely innocent. Yet at the same time,
> Clifford covered up over 30 years of Jimmy Saville
> sexually abusing young girls, that he had freely
> admitted he knew was going on...
> It's completely wrong.
> Sure Lostprophet's guy might well be guilty, but
> let's wait untill we know that before we vilify
> him and drag his name and the name of all his
> innocent bandmates through the mud...
> Niv

Don't start me again, I've only just calmed down from this morning ;)

And don't forget, if the world gets too bad, you can always come to Happyclappyland and Papa McNeice will make sure no one says anything bad to you.