Perversions

I picked up a copy of the Daily Mail today and read several stories. There was the usual invasion of the privacy of Prince William and his girlfriend Kate who were on holiday on the island of Mustique. Comments were made about the lithe body of Kate and the boyish antics of William. They're on holiday, for Pete's sake! Why can't the perverted paparazzi leave the poor couple alone? It was probably just an excuse to show another very attractive female body in the newspaper.
Then there was a ghastly photograph of two lions attacking an ox. Nothing too ghastly in that, you may think. It happens all the time in the wilds of Africa. Except that this was in an enclosure in China with human onlookers drooling at the sight of the carnage. The lions are let into an enclosure where there is an ox. Unlike in the wild, the poor animal has no chance to run away because it is in a fenced off area. The look of absolute fear in the eyes of the ox was very clear. The look of excitement and enjoyment was very clear in the eyes of the Chinese onlookers - safe behind the wire fence. The lions were only doing what was natural but the ox was not allowed to do what was natural - namely run like hell. It was thought that this sort of thing had been banned in China but obviously the totalitarian regime does not have as much control as it likes to think it has. Somebody should put the organisers of this grisly spectacle in the enclosure with the lions.
The third story which struck me was the story about criticism of the BBC for airing an interview with Paul Gadd. Mr Gadd - or Gary Glitter as he was known in the seventies - was convicted in Korea of child molestation. The charge would have been child rape except that he bought off the parents of the girls in question. Mr Gadd was challenged about his actions and tried to plead innocence. He said that the eleven-year-old girl who shared his bed did so because she was scared of ghosts.
Yeah, right!
The criticism came from people who said he should not have been allowed to plead his innocence in a prime time slot on BBC. But anyone who saw that interview would have surely seen that the interviewer was extremely accusatory. She obviously didn't accept his extremely weak explanations and pressed the point again and again. Gadd stuttered his way through his answers and his eyes gave no real look of honesty.
Good on you BBC. You helped to show that this world will not tolerate the sort of perversions that are perpetrated in the Far East by rich Western perverts. You showed this low-life up for what he really is.