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   On Wed, 4 Feb 2026 10:15:29 -0800, Dude  wrote:   
      
   >On 2/4/2026 7:19 AM, Julian wrote:   
   >> Truth and Reconciliation is Needed   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> Now that Peter Mandelson’s crimes have become undeniable the British   
   >> right-wing press (with the noble and notable exception of Guido Fawkes)   
   >> are kicking into their ‘Operation London Bridge’ Jimmy Savile   
   >> revelations mode. We will be told by hundreds of hacks that they ‘always   
   >> knew’ about Mandelson (why didn’t you write about him, then?) Fiat 500   
   >> rent-a-grinch women will watch spooky true crime docs about Mandelson   
   >> and pretend they never liked him when, in fact, they didn’t know who he   
   >> was. Mandelson will have his royal palace taken away like Prince Andrew   
   >> and then get pardoned by an ‘impressive’ judge who will never be named   
   >> or criticised in any of the papers.   
   >>   
   >> The reality is, everyone over the mental age of 12 knew, the moment it   
   >> was confirmed Mandelson retained contact with Epstein in 2011, that he   
   >> was a culprit.   
   > >   
   >Finally something interesting to read!   
   >   
   >As a military brat, we lived in East Anglia for three years, so I'm   
   >always interested in news from Great Britain. Thanks for bringing this   
   >to our attention.   
   >   
   >It looks like Peter Mandelson is accused of passing on market-sensitive   
   >information that was of clear financial interest to Jeffrey Epstein in   
   >the wake of the 2008 financial crisis.   
   >   
   >Then, there was that book compiled for Epstein’s 50th birthday in 2003.   
   >Mandelson had penned a handwritten note describing Epstein as “my best   
   >pal.” Apparently, he was also pictured in a bathrobe sitting with   
   >Epstein, talking.   
   >   
   >You just can't make this stuff up!   
   > >   
   > > It is not the job of Prime Ministers, intelligence > agencies and   
   >journalists to let judges do their thinking for them,   
      
   So ignore judges?  Nah, that dog won't hunt.   
      
   >it is   
   >> their job to exercise something called ‘discretion’ or ‘Intelligence’   
   >> where you reason likely conclusions from available evidence. One use of   
   >> ‘intelligence’ would be to deduce appointing a man with an existing   
   >> misconduct record, who is now known to be friends with a foreign spy to   
   >> a sensitive diplomatic role is a bad idea. Barely a single Westminster   
   >> journalist even thought it merited comment. That would make one a   
   >> “crank.” Let’s talk about headphones on the tube.   
   >>   
   >> Of course, many of you will be genuinely angry about Mandelson’s crimes.   
   >> But you know, deep down, you have no way of avenging yourself upon him.   
   >> Last year, many people were talking about a grooming gang inquiry. It   
   >> did not take a tripos mind to see the problem. The issue of the grooming   
   >> gangs inculpated so many people, and required scrutinising so many   
   >> different aspects of law, that to really stage an ‘inquiry’ it would   
   >> mean putting the entire British government on trial. And to do that, you   
   >> need a new government first. Not just a new name you put a tick next to   
   >> at the election. New judges. New civil servants. New police inspectors.   
   >> Similarly, with Mandelson, you think about the issue for more than five   
   >> minutes and it becomes apparent multiple layers of the state must’ve   
   >> consciously abetted his behaviour. Gordon Brown could have known   
   >> Mandelson knew Epstein in 2008 and he would’ve certainly known about his   
   >> past record of sleaze.   
   >>   
   >> SIS would’ve almost certainly been informed by foreign intelligence   
   >> services about Mandelson’s behaviour in 2024 at the absolute latest when   
   >> he was vetted for the diplomatic role. Indeed, one of the most   
   >> disappointing things about the media coverage thusfar is how nobody is   
   >> holding SIS responsible. Preventing an easily compromised individual   
   >> with a track record of corruption from getting access to official   
   >> documents and selling them to a foreign intelligence agent is minimal   
   >> baseline competence for a public intelligence organisation. That SIS   
   >> were not monitoring Mandelson in 2006 is a failure, that they didn’t   
   >> prevent his appointment as ambassador in 2025 is a disgrace. I seriously   
   >> hope the occasional fawning over this obsolete body, which routinely   
   >> attempts to meddle in democratic politics, from the Right will be tested   
   >> by this scandal.   
   >>   
   >> What makes the mainstream reaction so enraging, to those of you who   
   >> think, is that they describe Mandelson as a lone individual who did   
   >> something wrong. Treating Mandelson’s corruption as the actions of one   
   >> man, rather than the logical consequence of the New Labour machine, is   
   >> like if the South African press pretended Wouter Basson was just ‘a bad   
   >> scientist’ who happened to be working on chemical weapons, ignoring that   
   >> he was only able to do this because of laws and cultural norms inherent   
   >> in the society in which he lived. This required people to come to see   
   >> this period not as a natural extension of this society’s history but as   
   >> a ‘regime’, distinct and illegitimate from its predecessors and the new   
   >> order. Every real moment of lasting political change relies upon these   
   >> events, in which it is clearly and loudly declared by the voice of   
   >> progressive society that the old ways are unacceptable and a line is   
   >> drawn under the past. The officials responsible for the Marian   
   >> persecutions were punished in their turn. After the Glorious Revolution,   
   >> the Jacobites were outlawed. There is never going to be any permanent   
   >> victory for ‘the Right’ and Basically Fine future unless this happens in   
   >> Britain. We must draw a line under the whole New Labour period and I   
   >> shall explain how this is reasonably achievable in a court of law.   
   >>   
   >> The crimes of Mandelson, the perjury of Parliament which led to Iraq,   
   >> the grooming gang scandal and systematic harassment of civil society are   
   >> not isolated crimes perpetrated by individuals but the actions of a   
   >> regime deriving from collective conspiracy. Some individuals might not   
   >> have benefited, or participated, in the crimes of others but the   
   >> testimony of Nuremberg shows this is no defence. They deliberately   
   >> created a culture in which these crimes, against both humanity and the   
   >> state, were covered up and opposition to them silenced.   
   >>   
   >   
   >> https://x.com/Jaccusepaper   
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