ABUSE OF POWER | VOL. 4: BLUE BLOOD
What events precipitated Great Britain’s “satanic panic” over the last decade? How has a satanic pedophile network corrupted the justice system by quashing criminal investigations? Written by Adam Riva and edited by Mouthy Buddha, ABUSE OF POWER VOL. 4: BLUE BLOOD explores the rot at the highest levels of British society including connections to the Royal Family.
TRANSCRIPT & SOURCES
In October 2012, acclaimed investigative journalist Liz MacKean quit her job of 14 years as a BBC Newsnight reporter when director-general George Entwistle scrapped her documentary on Jimmy Savile right before it was set to air in December 2011. Entwistle resigned the follow year over the controversy.
“It was an abrupt change in tone from one day ‘excellent, let’s prepare to get this thing on air’ to ‘hold on’.”
With media spotlight on her story, MacKean described facing years of resistance and suppression in her bid to expose VIP child trafficking networks while working for the organization. Her resignation made international headlines and drew attention to the culture of pedophilia presiding above government and entertainment. Her Newsnight report on Savile’s crimes would not be aired by the organization until April 2016, five years later and long after Savile’s death.
Beleaguered by the BBC, MacKean chose to go freelance to ensure her investigations would henceforth be unhampered. As if she could not put child trafficking out of her mind, she continued to expose heinous crimes of the British establishment. She was named journalist of the year by Stonewall in 2014, and journalist of the decade in 2015. She was instrumental in spreading awareness about the satanic ritual abuse by Sir Cyril Smith as she expressed the intention to never back down from reporting the truth.
MacKean’s partner on the censored Savile documentary, senior reporter Meirion Jones, also resigned from the BBC in protest, walking away from a 23 year career with the company. He claimed in 2015 that at least 3 of his colleagues who helped expose Savile were considered “traitors” by the BBC and had been fired or reassigned to dead-end roles.
“Everyone involved on the right side of the Savile argument has been forced out of the BBC.”
On August 8, 2017, MacKean was found dead. She reportedly died from “complications from a stroke” at age 52.
Meirion Jones tweeted in response,
“…far too young. Loved by everyone she worked with. Hated by villains she turned over.”
Following the Jimmy Savile scandal of 2012, Great Britain was on high alert for abuse of power.
The public became more willing to investigate historical cases of child sex trafficking, which was a thread that seemed to unravel much more than Brits had anticipated.
Vice draws our attention to a handful of scandals that emerged over the coming months and years which demonstrated that far from being an isolated case, Savile was merely a symptom of a widespread problem.
Mark Watts, editor of Exaro News, said,
“I think we have come across the biggest political scandal in Britain’s postwar history… It goes way beyond Jimmy Savile. We’re talking about people in positions of real power in Britain and the ensuing cover-up. Because of the sheer gravity of what went on, it does rather explain why so much effort has gone into covering it up.”
Allegations of abuse and coverup would eventually reach to the highest level of British government, including two prime ministers. This confluence of scandals proved to be a perfect storm that would cast Great Britain deep into the throes of its own “satanic panic.”
The first of the ensuing scandals revolved around Rotherham security guard James Cole who blew the whistle on child trafficking gangs beginning in 2005 but was ignored by authorities.
“He reported incidents to the police and the South Yorkshire Transport Executive but, he says, “Whatever I reported went into a black hole.” His bosses asked him to draft a child protection policy for the Interchange, which he did, but it gathered dust in a drawer.”
According to a report commissioned by the Rotherham Borough Council, over 1,400 children as young as 11 were sex trafficked by the network between 1997 and 2013.
“The inquiry team found examples of “children who had been doused in petrol and threatened with being set alight, threatened with guns, made to witness brutally violent rapes and threatened they would be next if they told anyone.”
The second scandal resurfaced the alleged coverup of a child trafficking ring which operated with impunity in Great Britain in the 1970s and 80s. MP Keith Vaz insisted that a coverup on an “industrial scale” occurred when the MI5 seized the Geoffrey Dickens dossier that police insisted had been lost, in addition to 114 files related to the organized abuse. The dossier named 21 pedophiles operating within Margaret Thatcher’s administration, including Sir Cyril Smith. Lord Norman Tebbit also asserted that there was a media blackout on the crisis.
With the first two coverups front and center, Britain was dragged into yet another scandal thanks to the emerging testimony from Peter McKelvie, a former child protection officer for the councils of Hereford and Worcester. McKelvie claimed to have spent the previous 20 years compiling evidence of an elite child trafficking network that had been operating for over 65 years in the UK.
According to Daily Mail,
“For the last 30 years and longer than that, there have been a number of allegations made by survivors that people at the top of very powerful institutions in this country – which include politicians, judges, senior military figures and even people that have links with the Royal Family – have been involved in the abuse of children.”
According to McKelvie, a seemingly omnipotent network of at least 40 prominent figures including Members of Parliament from all three major parties has blocked every attempt at exposing the institutionalized abuse.
McKelvie originally provided his documentation to Labour MP Tom Watson in 2012, spurring Operation Fairbank, a Scotland Yard investigation which led to four separate criminal investigations.
“Fairbank is the Met Police’s umbrella inquiry into historical child sex abuse claims involving politicians and other public figures. It began in 2012 as a “scoping exercise” to establish evidence for formal investigation and went on to establish a number of criminal investigations: Operations Fernbridge, Midland, Cayacos and then later Athabasca.”
Operation Fairbank resulted in the convictions of pedophiles with ties to Downing Street, the British equivalent of Washington D.C. For instance, Operation Cayacos led to the conviction of the Director of Education for the National Council of Social Work, Peter Righton, who advised the government on childcare policy in the 1970s, despite being a founding member of the Pedophile Information Exchange.
In response to the investigation, Lord Norman Warner, who conducted an inquiry in 1992 into systemic abuse cases, warned that these investigations have never been thorough or honest enough to bring elite pedophiles to justice. He also reminded investigators that children’s homes have historically been a “supply line” for powerful pedophiles.
“Warner, a director of social services in Kent in the 1980s, said insufficient action was taken to deal with child abuse in that decade because there was “disbelief in the public mind”.”
Some of the most shocking reports of the Fairbank inquiry, which became the basis for Operation Midland, involved claims of the brutal murder of children at the hands of politicians.
According to an article published by Daily Mail,
“Detectives say they believe a witness who claimed he was sexually assaulted at Dolphin Square, in Pimlico, by senior MPs, spies and prominent military figures during ‘abuse parties’ over a period of almost a decade.
The alleged victim, known only as Nick, says he was molested from the age of seven to 16. He has told how he saw a Conservative MP strangle a 12-year-old boy at an orgy in a London townhouse around 1980, and that a Conservative Cabinet minister watched two men kill another boy in a depraved sexual assault a year later.
A third boy aged ten or 11 was deliberately run over in broad daylight in south-west London by an unknown member of the paedophile gang in 1979, he alleges.”
The article mentions that some of the tips that the Royal Military Police received indicated military bases were used by the traffickers.
Operation Midland was commissioned in November 2014 by Theresa May when she served as Home Secretary. Midland ultimately gave the British establishment a clean bill of health, prompting the Metropolitan Police to issue a public apology, and the accused families who were deemed innocent were financially compensated. The investigation concluded in March of 2016 with no prosecutions whatsoever. In fact, May was urged to resign by former Tory MP Harvey Proctor.
At present, Operation Midland, and by extension the larger effort to investigate VIP abuses in the UK, was portrayed by news media as a cautionary tale about the dangers of believing in such conspiracy theories. However, there appears to be much more to this story that is conveniently left out.
On August 11, 2017, Sharon Evans, former journalist, child abuse survivor, and founder of Dot Com Children’s Foundation, gave startling remarks on a radio show detailing her experience working for the Parliamentary Committee. She claimed she was given a 23-page gag order by the Home Office which prohibited her from discussing “very serious allegations about very public figures” during committee meetings.
“I was chairing the panel on one day, and I suggested that we wrote to Theresa May, who was the Home Secretary, to express our concerns. At the end of the day I was taken to one side and it was made clear to me – this is what I was told – that Theresa May was going to be Prime Minister, that this inquiry was going to be part of this, and that if I didn’t toe the line and do as I was told, if I tried to get information out I would be discredited by her advisors.”
Before Evans made the decision to quit the panel in protest, she reported this obstruction to the investigation’s clerk, but it became abundantly clear to her that the inquiry was a sham from the start.
Theresa May took office as Prime Minister in 2016, only four months after Operation Midland was shut down and the child trafficking rings were declared a hoax.
Thatcher and May were not the only prime ministers to become embroiled in child trafficking related scandals. In August of 2015, Operation Conifer was launched, which was an inquiry into allegations against deceased Prime Minister Edward Heath who served from 1970 to 1974. According to The Telegraph, a former Conservative MP told the BBC in 1995 that a worker under Heath’s government had boasted that Heath could cover up a pedophile scandal involving members of United Kingdom’s elite.
The Daily Beast reported on August 3, 2015 that Heath was named in a secret government dossier about an alleged satanic pedophile ring that was obtained by Barbara Castle, a senior Labour Party politician in the 1980s. Those allegations, amid claims of an establishment cover-up, never made it to a courtroom.
“Barbara Castle, a Member of the European Parliament at the time, said she had been given copies of classified documents from the Home Office, which oversees British law enforcement, proving there was a clandestine investigation underway into sex abusers in Parliament. The results of that investigation by government officials never wound up being published or reaching a court of law, but Castle claimed that Heath was one of those implicated.”
On October 5, 2017, The Guardian reported that Wiltshire police had sorted through 1,580 lines of inquiry as part of Operation Conifer and concluded that,
“…had the former prime minister still been alive, seven were serious enough to merit questioning him under caution.”
According to The Telegraph, these crimes were purported to have spanned between 1956 and 1992, and included the rape of an 11-year-old boy and indecent assault of a 10-year-old boy.
“Five accusations were made of Heath committing serious crimes aboard yachts including allegations of murdering children, as well as of child sexual abuse. Heath owned five yachts between 1969 and 1984, all named Morning Cloud.”
The article goes on to describe how the individual who claims to have been 11 years old at the time of the assault reported the crimes to Scotland Yard police in 2015 but the investigation was dropped abruptly just 4 months later, ostensibly for insufficient evidence.
Operation Conifer, which was shut down in 2020, shared the same fate as Operation Midland. It was criticized as erroneous, outlandish, and a waste of taxpayers’ money. In a bizarre twist, Carl Beech, a member of the inquiry who lodged some of the original accusations, was sentenced to 18 years in prison for “paedophile offences.” It is unclear whether Beech was truly guilty or framed for exposing the beast.
In 2014, Prince Andrew, Duke of York, was accused by Virginia Giuffre of sexually assaulting her 3 separate times when she was 17 years old. Giuffre claims that billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein had paid her $15,000 to have sex with Prince Andrew in London on March 10, 2001, and two other times at Epstein’s mansion on Manhattan’s Upper East Side and at Epstein’s private island, Little Saint James.
“I have no recollection of ever meeting this lady, none whatsoever.”
However, this was contradicted when images surfaced of Andrew, Giuffre, and Ghislaine Maxwell posing together in London on the same date Giuffre claims the first incident occurred.
“I don’t see any obvious signs of manipulation,” said Hany Farid, professor of digital forensics and image analysis at University of California, Berkeley, after studying the image for this newspaper.”
Other photos show the prince spending one-on-one time with Epstein. Although Andrew asserted his innocence, he resigned from all public roles in May 2020 and was stripped of his military honors.
Although Prince Andrew claimed he could not remember Giuffre, he asserted to BBC Newsnight that he “weirdly distinctly” remembers attending a pizza party that same night. The interview was panned as the worst public relations disaster for the Royal Family since the death of Diana, Princess of Wales.
Andrew peddled several blatant lies in the interview, such as a “rule” that he and his ex-wife never left their children home alone. However, photos emerged from 2001 showing Andrew in the US and ex-wife in India while their children were home in Britain. This, among other demonstrable lies, resulted in 6% of the public believing Prince Andrew, according to a Sky News poll.
By August 2021, Giuffre would bring a civil suit in New York against the prince.
On February 15, 2022, Prince Andrew and Giuffre reached a settlement which remains undisclosed to the present. However, speculators believe the settlement was as high as £14 million, which was far less than he would have had to pay if he had been found guilty by a jury trial.
Despite his emphatic denial of a friendship with Epstein, several pieces of evidence contradict this.
In his infamous Newsnight interview, he revealed that he was introduced to Epstein through Ghislaine Maxwell in 1999, and that he met with Epstein 2-3 times per year, long after Epstein was convicted of child abuse.
According to Julie Brown’s book Perversion of Justice: The Jeffrey Epstein Story,
“On the heels of a messy divorce, Andrew agreed to escape to the U.S. and stay with Ghislaine at Epstein’s Upper East Side mansion. Andrew was soon squiring Maxwell around Manhattan, attending social events and dinner parties.”
Much like the 21 phone numbers Epstein reportedly had for Bill Clinton, the Telegraph revealed in 2019 that Epstein had 13 separate contact numbers for Prince Andrew.
Deidre Stratton, a housekeeper who worked on Epstein’s Zorro Ranch, revealed on the podcast Epstein: Devil in the Darkness that Prince Andrew frequented Epstein’s estate and that Epstein had provided a neurosurgeon for Prince Andrew to have sex with that she described as “quite young.”
In 2019, Mirror ran the testimony of a former stripper who claimed she was paid by Epstein to accompany Prince Andrew at parties with Maxwell. She claimed that vulnerable teenagers including homeless girls or runaways, were kept in sex rooms that were equipped with surveillance cameras.
On June 6, 2019, the prince held a secret meeting with Maxwell at Buckingham Palace as tempers flared over the scandal.
If Prince Andrew’s escapades with Epstein and Maxwell were an open secret, why was nothing done for decades?
In June of 2021, Channel 4 News reported that not only were Giuffre’s two complaints to the Metropolitan Police ignored, but at least one other complainant was ignored. Channel 4 later interviewed Nazir Afzal, former chief crown prosecutor for Northwest England, and Harriet Wistrich, a human rights attorney, who agreed that Prince Andrew was either directly or indirectly responsible for blocking action in these cases.
The following month, Dame Cressida Dick, the head of London’s Metropolitan Police, responded to allegations against Prince Andrew stating that she had reviewed the evidence twice but declared – perhaps unsurprisingly at this point – “there is no investigation to open.”
👍🏼
epic as always. great video
Keep up the good work!👍🏼