#peter ball

What an utterly disgusting family, calling an abuse survivor ghastly.

Just one of many victims of the BRF’s friends and family who are protected and supported by them

(including Andrew, lord Mountbatten, Jimmy Savile, Peter Ball, Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell, Harvey Weinstein, Charles’s valet etc etc etc)

On the edge: The Cramps play a gig on this day, July 4th, 1978, at an Independence Day party at Peter Ball's family mansion, Bratenhal, Cleveland, Ohio, along with Pere Ubu and The Pagans.

This gig took place in Lux, Ivy & Nick’s old Cleveland stamping grounds, en route back to New York from California (where they had played their strangest gig ever at Napa State Mental Hospital around 3 weeks before that one). The bands performed on a concrete ledge built into a cliff face overlooking Lake Erie and the audience, various hippies and members of Cleveland’s underground scene, watched from the lakeside 15 feet below, while others were twisting on boats and yachts moored in the lake, later on enjoying the 4th of July fireworks.

The situation proved irresistible to Lux who had this idea of how to surprise his hippie audience and wake everybody up:

“There was a beach there at the time and he ended the set by jumping off a cliff and kept on rolling”

Peter Ball, party host (“Journey to the Centre Of The Cramps”)

In case you also want a piece of the action, here’s a bootleg audio file of “Human Fly” from that gig (and it`s a cracking version): https://soundcloud.com/kctaper/track14

Mr Carey (in his testimony to the investigation) said “I had known him (Peter Ball) for a while, and I didn’t know his accusers. I could not believe this of him, so I dismissed the allegations”

Does this sound like a familiar story?

A public figure (Bishop Ball) is accused of gods-awful things (sexual assault, rape, abusing children) and someone who knows him well (Archbishop Carey) says that because the accusations were coming from people he didn’t know well, and because he knew Bishop Ball well, he basically dismissed the allegations because he could not believe them and could not countenance that they were true.

And yet now we know they were - without a shadow of a doubt - true. He was convicted of his crimes and sent to jail.

So when you hear accusations of harassment, of sexual abuse, of rape against famous figures, do you still want to dismiss them out of hand? 

Should you say “No - he would never do that?” or “I can’t believe someone like him would do that?” Should you not countenance the accusations because you cannot believe someone like that could do something like that?

Or should they be taken seriously? Fully investigated? Should you listen to the accusers, no matter who they are and give them the benefit of the doubt?

George Carey admitted he was wrong.

So - here’s an interesting thing.

George Carey - the former Archbishop of Canterbury - testified before the panel on Child Sexual abuse today.

It was reported on the PM program but I cannot find a link on the BBC News Website to any hint of the story.

It’s almost as if they want to bury the story.

Basically the report said he covered up - mostly through incompetence and disbelief - the crimes of one of his bishops who was later sent to prison for raping young men and boys. (Peter Ball)

And the BBC News Website doesn’t mention it at all.

Kind of curious, don’t you think.

The reason I was looking for a link was I was going to lead into a comment about the whole #metoo movement. But this, to me, is far more appalling.

The BBC News Website appears to be hiding this story, or at least not reporting it as openly as it should.

Why? To cover up the fact an Archbishop of Canterbury was responsible for not only actively preventing a bishop in the Church of England being investigated and possibly prosecuted, but also for letting him start serving as a bishop again?

For giving him (I think) £17,500 to go on holiday after he retired when his victims were ignored - despite sending letters to Archbishop Carey about what Bishop Peter Ball had done?

Why would the BBC News Website want to hide all this and not bring it to the public’s attention, especially since it reported on it less than two hours ago on the radio?

I am curious.

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