tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606798.post8693454388914794775..comments2024-03-27T16:39:43.522+00:00Comments on Liberal England: Jersey child abuse: new readers start hereJonathan Calderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00730157683743989696noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606798.post-13181410135722996922012-11-13T12:58:15.226+00:002012-11-13T12:58:15.226+00:00The Jersey Evening Post (there is no other paper) ...The Jersey Evening Post (there is no other paper) is no longer owned and controlled from Jersey but the Editor and senior journalists from the period when it was are still there so the attitudes linger on.<br /><br />Back then, when Frank Walker became Chief Minister, it was as if Murdoch had become Prime Minister!<br /><br />I don't know of any direct influence on reporting and coverage that may have happened because of the confluence of media and State, but it wouldn't have been much needed anyway - the way the establishment line gets plugged is that just about every Island resident who makes it to a position of power influence or riches metaphorically "takes the Queen's shilling" to fit in and becomes part of the army that is too eager to look the other way when unpleasantness is revealed.<br /><br />Further, they are far too keen to nitpick testimony from whistle blowers for microscopic errors in "procedure" so they can turn a blind eye to stuff. Thus you will often hear people discount dissenting testimony because the whistleblower did not raise their concerns in "the right way" which they usually consider a letter to the "appropriate authorities" or similar. Of course, they, in their cosy and blinkered belief that all is for the best in the best of all possible worlds (Jersey) seemingly are unaware of the problem with that, which is that the incumbents of the appropriate authorities have that same squash, ignore and slur attitude to any flies that might turn up in the ointment.<br /><br />The corruption in Jersey is not "brown envelope" corruption. It is more insidious than that. It is that those in power, and the many more who mix in their circles, seem to be totally convinced that things here are about as good as it could get, so anybody who rocks the boat must be automatically a threat. If the authorities' ways of handling the threat is carried out in sometimes dubious ways, they look the other way and turn a blind eye to it because it is "probably for the best."<br /><br />They believe everything is great here and the authorities, and those who hold positions of power in those authorities, must be "rather good chaps" so they expect that any whistle blowers must be either mad, liars, troublemakers or primarily looking for financial compensation <br /><br />In a tight closed environment like Jersey, where few speak up publicly, many of the general public also seem to take a strange smug delight in sometimes expressing private support for whistleblowers whilst simultaneously congratulating their own "street smartness" on not saying or supporting any dissent out loud because of their self-perceived beliefs that pursuing such a course of openness would go badly for them or their situation. They seem to take a masochistic delight in being "smart" enough to "know" that they will get discriminated against in future, so they say nothing - this mentality, of course, allows them to feel as if they still have morality but justifies their doing or saying nothing to "rock the boat."Damoclesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606798.post-64496865517026832502012-11-13T10:42:22.313+00:002012-11-13T10:42:22.313+00:00Liberal England.
You wrote;
"When the Haute...Liberal England.<br /><br />You wrote;<br /><br />"When the Haute de la Garenne children's home failed to yield up any bodies."<br /><br />"Bodies" being the operative word. Please look <a href="http://voiceforchildren.blogspot.com/2011/02/no-body-remains.html" rel="nofollow">HERE</a> for the "documented evidence" of juvenile remains that were unearthed among much more "evidence" that dispels many of the "myths" peddled by our government and State Media. voiceforchildrenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16825129148579102037noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606798.post-73174787481689603762012-11-13T07:10:53.307+00:002012-11-13T07:10:53.307+00:00A couple more Jersey oddities.
The only print new...A couple more Jersey oddities.<br /><br />The only print newspaper was owned by Guiton Group whose chairman became a former Chief Minister of the States of Jersey.<br /><br />Whilst there have historically been organised political parties, there is in effect now no organised party politics in Jersey. I suspect the bloggers <br />now constitutes organised politics.<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com