Hi, Oliver Myers from UK! I found your wallet on the train and have handed it in to the office at Shinbashi Station. I hope this message reaches you and you’re able to get it back.
GREATER MANCHESTER POLICE HAD A PLAN FOR CHILD RAPE VICTIMS. IT INVOLVED DROWNING.
Not literally. Relax. That would have required effort.
A senior Greater Manchester Police officer reportedly told detective Maggie Oliver @MaggieOliverUK that the girls being groomed and raped across Rochdale "should have just been drowned at birth."
Lovely stuff. Very professional. The kind of leadership culture you want running a child protection investigation.
So they didn't drown them. They just closed the investigations instead. Much cleaner. Better for the budget.
Operation Augusta. 2004. Twenty-six girls identified. Ninety-seven suspects. One detective doing the work. Then GMP pulled the plug, citing costs. Eight of those suspects went on to commit further serious sexual offences, including rape. The girls kept being abused. The files got buried.
When Maggie Oliver came back and raised the alarm again during Operation Span, her bosses dismissed her as an "emotional woman."
She had evidence of hundreds of perpetrators and countless victims beyond the nine men eventually convicted in 2012. They called it resolved. Fantastic result for British justice.
She resigned. Faced potential prosecution under the Official Secrets Act. @BBC eventually made Three Girls in 2017 because a detective did what a police force would not.
January 2024. Independent review published. One hundred and seventy three pages confirming everything she said. Ninety-six men identified as still posing a risk to children, described as only a proportion of those involved. The review placed blame firmly on senior GMP officers throughout.
Nobody went to prison for the cover-up. Nobody lost a pension. Maggie Oliver almost lost everything.
But sure. She was the emotional one.
@BBCNews | @BBCThree | @guardian | @thetimes | @Channel4News@Wikipedia and others.
Oh, so being a Viking is “chauvinistic” now? Apparently it’s also “neo-Nazi.”
Cry harder, wokies.
We’re Norwegians, descendants of Odin, sons of seafarers and berserkers.
Til Valhǫll! (figuratively speaking)
i should not have left x
created a vacuum for grifters
i was wrong, that’s on me
elon wanted $50k for my deleted account so i made a fresh handle and kept the bitcoin
The zcash inflation bug is arguably a vindication of the Bitcoin approach. Keep it simple and easy to verify the total supply.
Bitcoin's path forward for privacy can include Payjoin, Silent Payments and perhaps Shielded CSV. It won't be perfect, but good enough for most.