Padeo doors
This was a world-class bit of irresponsible journalism from the Sun - printing the name and address of a man who was cautioned for having child porn images. I shan't link to the article itself because I think they're a festering dump of bubbling hatred who should all be fed into an industrial grinder feet first, but be my guest and go search for it if you can stomach it.
Needless to say, the nutcases came sprinting round to Mr Wand's house and sprayed it with 'PADEO' on the door. Yes, that's right, PADEO.
As this marvellous comment on the Epsom Guardian's coverage says:
Have you seen what has been written on this guy's front door?
PADEO
Another example of declining educational standards among vigilantes.
Which is a magical spoof of website commenters and their dumbass attitudes. At least, I hope it is. Sometimes it's hard to know.
Needless to say I'm no big fan of Mr Wand or others who like looking at pictures of kids, but he's been cautioned for the offence, the matter has been dealt with; what the Sun did is just dumb and irresponsible. Please, please don't dredge up the ridiculous, pointless and bullshit argument of 'He lives just YARDS from a SCHOOL?!?!?!?' because, well, so do a lot of people. He's a man who's looked at porn; that doesn't make him a predatory paedophile or guilty of any other offence. Fair enough, don't invite him to the kids' birthday party, but printing his address - what does that achieve other than inviting neanderthals to commit another crime?
Or is that OK if you're the Sun, nice and cosy in your air-conditioned Wapping office, washing your hands of responsibility for any of your actions? If someone gets murdered as a result of these actions, will that make a difference to the utterly cynical 'campaigning' of this shitty newspaper? I doubt it; I imagine they'll pretend they had nothing to do with it.
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April 24th, 2008 - 10:44
how they get away with this is beyond me; well done for reading all this, by the way, it makes me so angry, I can barely manage so look past the front page…
April 24th, 2008 - 23:43
FWIW, he’s probably not even a man who’s looked at child porn.
If he was “tracked by his credit card” and “given a police caution”, that almost certainly means he was one of the thousands of innocent guys caught in the Operation Ore worst-miscarriage-of-justice-ever: in cases where there was any evidence beyond the (hopelessly tarnished, given that the website that Ore was based on also hosted paid-for adult porn) credit card data, people were charged.
The cautions were a scummy pollis way of getting a clearup: “if we charge you, you’ll go through court and you’ll lose your job, friends and family even when you’re acquitted; or you can just take this nice little caution here”.
Utter, utter bastards the lot of them. Can someone hang Rebekah Wade now, please?