I listen to True Crime podcasts. Casefile. Crimetown. Sword and Scale. Those Conspiracy Guys. Over the last year I have become increasingly repelled by the stories told on Shaun Atwood’s True Crime Podcast.
SATCP is a pendulum that swings between hilarity and horror. Guests range from cheeky bank robbers, relatable drug-dealers, and lifelong chancers, to victims of rape, former police and prison officers, and specialists concerned with unmentionable crimes. With the selection of his guests and in his line of questioning Shaun is as impartial an interviewer as you are likely to see or hear. However, his criminal past, his experiences during incarceration, his subsequent research into societal evils and their causes, and fan responses to each his shows, mean the podcast, as a channel, has a perceptible counter-mainstream lean to it. Which is fine by me. It’s worth noting that, coming from this perspective, the show often highlights the ill-deeds of institutions just as often as crimes committed by individuals. Institutional scandal is at the core of most, if not all, conspiracy theories.
Conspiracy theories are wonderful. They’re extravagant and expressive and grand and vague. They exist on a spectrum. Very Plausible at one end and Absolute Horseshit at the other. I’m a 9/11 man. I think BigFoot was a fat guy in a suit, that UFOs are probably real, and that Freemasons are a bunch of powerful, dodgy guys. I believe a story when it sounds true. With this in mind, I find it alarming how many people have appeared as guests on Shaun Atwood’s True Crime Podcast to talk about the abuses they have suffered in their own home and in public institutions, sanctioned by individuals in prominent government positions.
Even the episode list is a grim read. Episode 108 is titled Gang-Raped by Social Service: Darren Jeffrey. Episode 101 - SRA Survivor’s Horror Story: Jeanette Archer. Episode 67 - Ted Heath Victim Speaks from Hospital Bed: Mike Tarraga. Episode 43 - London Epstein-Style Pedo Rings Protected by Police: Ex-Cop John Wedger.
SRA stands for Satanic Ritualistic Abuse. Perpetrators of SRA beat, rape, and otherwise mentally and physically torture children. Do not listen to these podcasts if you have a sensitive disposition. I nearly threw-up while I was washing the dishes listening to Darren Jafferty’s story. Darren spoke about how he was abused by his schoolteacher, then taken by social services and put into a care home where he and tens of other boys and girls were regularly raped and beaten. Not only by the staff, but by strangers that would appear in the night, who had paid for the privilege. Volunteers. Teachers. Judges.
People have the potential to be evil. That’s just a fact. Where else could the concept have come from other than the past behaviours of deviants? It absolutely makes sense to me abuse of this kind goes on at a familial and institutional level. Disconcerting to me is the disparity between my reality, and the reality of those who have endured such undeserved horror. More shocking is the dignity these survivors maintain when retelling, reliving, their trauma. As for the perpetrators, they seem to be able to recognise their own. How else do networks of abusers come into being? It’s when the possibility is raised that these vile networks exist within, and perhaps across, public institutions, the subject begins to steer towards the realm of conspiracy. If something becomes widely accepted as a conspiracy theory, it somehow loses its potency in the public imagination. How and why something comes to be regarded as such is best left for a longer, better researched blog. But if you are in doubt as to the extent of institutional, governmental, involvement in child abuse cases, you have only to ask yourself a few questions, and dive down the rabbit hole behindA each one.
Why were the crimes of Jimmy Saville so quickly forgotten? Why wasn’t the Westminster Pedophile Dossier and its disappearance not given a hundredth of Brexit’s news coverage? Why isn’t Ted Heath held up as a beacon of shame in this country? These fuckers are politicians, and they’re raping children! This isn’t tinfoil hat talk. These are documented criminal activities with paper trails and everything. (That would sound more convincing if I had references at the end of this piece, which may have to be a policy from here on in.) I could only guess as to why heinous acts committed by members of the government aren’t given more attention by the national media. But I would hazard a guess.
What the fuck is going on?! I look out of my window and see cars driving past and people walking with their kids, going in and out of shops, staring at their phones. People on TV are selling antiques and redecorating houses. Youtubers make fun of other Youtubers. Video games take me into another world entirely. All the while, a horde of pedos are waiting in the shadows, just waiting, like monsters in children’s books. They’re worse. At least a wolf will rip your throat out and have it done with. And there are others who live alongside the monster, who are willing to ignore their crimes for their own benefit, financially or otherwise.
I believe the stories these people are telling though I have been lucky never to witness anything of the sort, firsthand. When I revisit this subject I will provide referenceable material to present a scholarly argument rather than an anecdotal one. I’ll finish with this: I don’t think a sizeable crowd would gather outside Buckingham Palace to chant ‘Pedophile! Pedophile!’ for a laugh.
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