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• Fry’s right – self-pity is nothing to celebrate

The belief that sexual abuse is uniquely traumatising is damaging to victims.
(Luke Gittos - spiked, UK, April 18, 2016)

• Cottage Grove man admits setting fire to sex offender's future home

Cottage Grove man Monday admitted to setting fire to the future home of a sex offender, and was convicted of felony arson.
(Tony Galli, WGEM, US, April 11, 2016)

Follow up

Man gets 3 months jail for arson that burned home for sex offender

A town of Cottage Grove man was sentenced Friday to five years of probation for setting the fire that burned a home where a sexual offender, released from a state treatment facility, was supposed to live.
(Ed Treleven - Wisconsin State Journal, US, May 6, 2016)

• No end in sight to paedo hysteria

Operation Midland may have closed, but the elite obsession with child abuse continues. (Tim Black - spiked, UK, March 22, 2016)

• President Signed HR 515, International Megan’s Law

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President Obama signed HR 515 into law on February 8. The law will require federal agencies to notify destination countries that registered citizens are coming to visit as well as to require the Secretary of State to add a “unique identifier”….
( CA RSOL, US, February 8, 2016)
See also, International Megan's Law

• Tom O'Carroll is suspended from the Labour Party but despite the moral panic of party officials, he can't be kicked out straight away

Tom O'Carroll, 70, former chairman of the Paedophile Information Exchange (PIE), who once called for the abolition of age-of-consent laws in the UK was today suspended from Labour party in a move that appers to be an attempt to embarrass and destabilize the current leadership of the Labour Party by associating the party leader with Mr. O'Carroll. (Emma Glanfield - The Daily Mail, UK, February 16, 2016)

• Operation Midland: why the paedo panic won’t die

As one hysteria is exposed, another replaces it. (Tim Black - spiked, UK, February 9, 2016)

• The yellow star, the scarlet letter, and ‘International Megan’s Law’

When I was growing up, in a Jewish family in Brooklyn in the 1950s, Hitler and the Holocaust were common subjects of conversation in my household. Though at the time it all seemed like ancient history — (David Post - The Washington Post, US, January 6, 2016)