Even as a child, I refused to watch his programmes. To me, he was always a cold, sinister charlatan who was creepy around children. Long before I understood what paedophilia was, I knew that I wouldn't want to be left alone in a room with this man.
And that was just his body language. Then there's his appearance. Look at the picture above. If that doesn't scream "paedophile" at any normal woman I'd be very surprised (all, without exception, of the women I have spoken to about Savile have said "He gave me the creeps.")
And the cigar. Whenever he could, he was pictured with a full cigar sticking out of his mouth. What do you think that cigar represents? Um? A torpedo? A cucumber? A rolling pin? No, it represents
an erect penis. It is Savile's way of mocking a world he has hoodwinked. He is saying "This is what I do. I'm a rapist. It's right in your faces and you're all too stupid to see it." By using that cigar as a continual metaphor he was laughing at us all. The shell suits were also a metaphor. They were his clown costume to make him seem like harmless, colourful, friendly Uncle Jimmy. One of his rape victims commented
here that the elasticated waist of his shell suit made it easy for him to pull his pants down to rape her.
A few years ago, a close friend who himself had a degree of power on the club circuit in Leeds in the 60s told me that it was an open secret that Savile was a paedophile and therefore by definition, a rapist. And let's be clear about this. "Dirty old man" "Abuser" "Molester" all mean one thing. Rape.
Lots of people at his place of employment, the BBC, knew about Savile too. And they chose to keep quiet. Paul Gambaccini recently said in
this article in The Independent:
"You just didn't mess with Jim. He was the governor, because after all he had been the first great club DJ, he had been the originator of Top of the Pops presentation, and you just let him have his turf."
You what? You just
let him have his turf? What, you just
let him carry on raping children because of your careers? What was Savile's "turf", Paul? Savile's "turf" was
childrens' bodies. And you, and many others like you, let him rape with impunity because you were too scared to speak out. Having the courage to speak out now that big bad Jimmy can't get back at you is
too fucking late.
And Esther Rantzen, quoted
here in The Telegraph, now says:
“We all blocked our ears to the gossip. In some way we colluded with him as a child abuser.”
You betcha Esther. As the founder of Childline why weren't you actively pursuing stopping Savile from his systematic raping of children over the decades? You of all people should not have been turning a blind eye. Anyone who turns a blind eye to child rape is in collusion with it.
Thank goodness that former detective Mark Williams-Thomas had the determination to make the documentary,
The Other Side of Jimmy Savile, to be aired on ITV tonight as part of its Exposure series (11.10pm to 12.05pm.) Finally, five decades after the first allegations were being made about Savile, he's being exposed for what he was, a systematic and repeat-offending child rapist most of whose victims were too cowed by his power to speak out against him, and those that did were silenced, not believed, or packed off under a shroud of secrecy to have abortions.
Make no mistake, this man had power. He spent more than a decade having Christmas dinners with then prime minister Margaret Thatcher and her husband Dennis. You don't get much more access to power than that. And of course he was the BBC's golden goose with Top of The Pops and Jim'll Fix It and, as has been quoted, those working there were too scared to confront the open secret of his paedophilia.
Above: Savile at Haute de la Garenne
He has also now been accused of rape by a former resident of the notorious Haute de la Garenne children's home in Jersey, many of whose carers have been found guilty of child abuse for which they have received custodial sentences. He denied ever visiting Haute de la Garenne.
The onion skin layers of Savile's lifetime career of placing himself in jobs where he had control and power over children and then raping them are only just beginning to be peeled away. There could very well be hundreds of victims. By rights, he should have spent his life behind bars, not having royalty, politicians and the supposedly impartial BBC obsequiously toadying to him.
How did he get away with it for all those years? He had worked his way into such a position of power through being a psychopath, that's how. These are the boxes on
Hare's psychopathy checklist which he ticks:
glib and superficial charm
grandiose (exaggeratedly high) estimation of self
need for stimulation
pathological lying
cunning and manipulativeness
lack of remorse or guilt
shallow affect (superficial emotional responsiveness)
callousness and lack of empathy
parasitic lifestyle
poor behavioral controls
sexual promiscuity
impulsivity
irresponsibility
failure to accept responsibility for own actions
Psychopaths use charm and empty, grandiose gesture as a smokescreen to disguise their cunning and manipulative quest for power over others. So skilled are they at doing this that most people in their lives have no idea they are gullible victims in the psychopath's widespread web of power. And those that suspect the psychopath of abuse of power, as can be seen from the examples of Esther and Paul above (who nonetheless should be applauded for having the humility to admit their errors and finally speak out when so many others are still remaining silent) are often too cowed and intimidated to speak out about it for fear of the retributions from the psychopath or those under his or her control.
Savile has also been accused of necrophilia. A habitual child rapist who spent days with his mother's corpse and volunteered to work as a hospital porter thus bringing him in the proximity of corpses, he also stated on Louis Theroux's 2000 documentary "When Louis met Jimmy" that he hated children and had no feelings for anyone. Witnesses to knowledge of his necrophilia will start crawling out of the woodwork in the future, mark my words.
This is his headstone, at Woodlands Cemetery in Scarborough. I would not be sorry if it were defaced and smashed to smithereens although a broken stone will never equal him defacing and breaking countless lives. Defacing a gravestone is a criminal offence of course, but nothing compared to the offences Savile got away with in his lifetime. I also think he should be stripped of his knighthood. I've started the hashtag
#stripsavileofknighthood on twitter this morning.
Cunt.
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