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Thread #78748   Message #1432911
Posted By: GUEST,GUEST - Terry Redmond
12-Mar-05 - 05:43 AM
Thread Name: Padstow Darkie Days
Subject: RE: Padstow Darkie Days
Subject: RE: Padstow Darkie Days
From: GUEST
Date: 11 Mar 05 - 11:36 AM

still in denial?

I'm not in denial, I'm puzzled - what is your point?

The article you refer to is dated 10th March and says that after consultation with the organiser and some minor changes had been agreed-presumably to avoid accusations in future-there was no case to answer.

The original investigation report was published on the 25th Feb. So if the changes had already been made there would have been no point in filming, if they hadn't been made then a crime had been committed.

A prosecution would have had to have followed.

So I ask again- are you really saying that the changes were contrived between organisers and authorities before the Police videos were made, that despite these changes nobody thought to simply make a sworn declaration "This is NOT what normally happens" which would have forced the CPS to take the matter to court?

This was first investigated SEVEN years ago with the same result. A Press Complaints enquiry took place on the reporting. The CPS took evidence from MP's, the CRE and the Police- no evidence of racist content.

In SEVEN years, not one of the complaints of RACISM has had the intelligence or the moral courage to video the event or put their name to a complaint.
IF IT'S RACIST - IT SHOULD STOP. And I promise that I'll take no further part in the guising activities for the museums, churches and civic processions that I have been participating in for the last five years.

These traditions go back at least a couple of hundred years.
Hasn't ANY one of the complainants got the guts to stand up to present the case and substantiate this 'evidence' without a mask of anonymity?

Terry