{"id":60435,"date":"2012-11-19T09:22:06","date_gmt":"2012-11-19T09:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=60435"},"modified":"2014-01-21T08:02:57","modified_gmt":"2014-01-21T08:02:57","slug":"lord-mcalpine-plays-the-%e2%80%98victim%e2%80%99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=60435","title":{"rendered":"Lord McAlpine Plays the \u2018Victim\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

News Commentary \u2013 Nov 18, 2012<\/h1>\n

\"\"<\/a>It appears that the former Conservative Party treasurer is more than a maligned public figure after being accused of molesting young boys. He is also something of a Machiavelli admirer having written on the ploys that can be used to evoke sympathy in an unwitting public.<\/h5>\n
Some years ago Lord McAlpine was quoted saying some interesting things while promoting his book The New Machiavelli: The Art of Politics in Business<\/span><\/em><\/a>, which throw new light on his response to the allegations.<\/h5>\n
We\u2019ll get to those quotes a little later but first it\u2019s worth recalling McAlpine\u2019s shock at the recent accusations made against him.<\/h5>\n
\u201cI was in a state of total shock really\u201d, he was quoted as saying<\/span><\/a>.<\/h5>\n
\u201cI was in southern Italy. I don\u2019t have a television, I don\u2019t get newspapers and we don\u2019t have the internet. I suddenly found out I was mixed up in this and I didn\u2019t know what Newsnight was going to say about it.<\/h5>\n
\u201cIt really was a horrendous shock.”<\/h5>\n
Call me cynical but I cannot help feeling that McAlpine has been making a great play of being a \u201cvictim\u201d. By his own admission, he was left \u201cterrified\u201d<\/span><\/a> after the BBC Newsnight implicated him in the child sex scandal<\/h5>\n
“It gets into your bones, it makes you angry, and that’s extremely bad for you to be angry, and it gets into your soul and you just think there is something wrong with the world.”<\/h5>\n
Before we start feeling too much sympathy for Lord McAlpine however, we shouldn\u2019t forget that the \u201cshock\u201d he felt was also very profitable. The BBC agreed to a settlement figure with McAlpine<\/span><\/a> of nearly \u00a3190,000, paid for with viewers licence fees.<\/h5>\n
Much like the \u201cholocaust industry\u201d, Lord McAlpine\u2019s ordeal has proved very profitable indeed.<\/h5>\n
All of which brings us back to McAlpine\u2019s earlier advice based on Machiavelli\u2019s example.<\/h5>\n

\u2018McAlpine\u2019s advice on dealing with the media? Spread false defeat to gain public sympathy; or false accusation and then arrange for it to be exposed as such \u2013 so the accuser will forever be treated with suspicion.\u2019<\/em> <\/span>(Source)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

In 2000, when The New Machiavelli: The Art of Politics in Business<\/em> was published McAlpine readily agreed when it was described as:<\/h5>\n

\u2018<\/em>A book on how to manipulate people for the greater good\u2019<\/em> (ibid)<\/span><\/p>\n

The book\u2019s publisher\u2019s blurb described it as:<\/h5>\n

\u2018The New Machiavelli mines Machiavelli\u2019s The Prince for the timeless rules and stratagems that can help today\u2019s business rulers survive and prosper in the jungle of greed and treachery that is commerce.\u2019<\/em> (ibid)<\/span><\/p>\n

We are far from convinced of McAlpine\u2019s innocence on charges of sexual abuse. Call it instinct but we suspect that his accuser was threatened or intimidated into withdrawing the accusation.<\/h5>\n
As Aangirfan has detailed<\/span><\/a>, a growing list of Welsh care home residents who were victims of abuse have died prematurely, often in unexplained\u00a0 circumstances. We believe it more than likely that the man who named Lord McAlpine as an abuser, Steve Messham, was warned he would follow them if he didn\u2019t retract his statement identifying McAlpine.<\/h5>\n
The fact that the man who originally helped expose the Welsh care homes scandal <\/span>nearly had a fatal accident recently<\/span><\/a> is a further indication that forces are at work to silence acussations of abuse. Fortunately, Malcolm King survived but having his car breaks tampered with is the sort of method used the intelligence services, the same services that orchestrated Princess Diana\u2019s fatal \u2018accident\u2019.<\/h5>\n
Moreover, if the intelligence services are involved in keeping the lid on this then it probably reaches far higher than Jimmy Savile and second rate celebrities. Indeed, it probably reaches beyond Lord McAlpine to the very highest levels of the British establishment.<\/h5>\n

Also see: <\/span>Scallywag Magazine article on Lord McAlpine and Derek Laud<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By way of an obitutuary2: accused of molesting young boys, Lord McAlpine made a very profitable play for public sympathy <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":59790,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-jimmy-savile-scandal"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60435"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88881,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60435\/revisions\/88881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}