A letter to the General Synod 04/2021

 Open and Important Synod Safeguarding Letter 21/04/2021

Dear Synod members and other recipients,

This is important to all of you as it relates to safeguarding, the upcoming Synod and the Church of England. Those who write, who speak up, tend to be ignored or dismissed even made out to be mad in the tradition C of E unchristianity, but remember, we are ‘The Nation’ who Justin Welby and Steve Cotterell have taken to trying to address; they need to let us respond and they need to listen or they need to stop addressing us. The church barely acknowledges responses and feedback, they even played the victim and wailed about ‘Malicious Voices’ the oldest gaslighting trick in the book, when challenged by one of those odd little papers recently. Quite a desperate response.

Each Synod, we see the self-important little files marked ‘safeguarding’, ‘clergy discipline measure’ and among the garbled lines and bullet points, there seems to be an implication that things may change for the better one day - one day when those accountable can no longer be held to account, presumably, as is the Church of England way. The reality is, even proposals for ‘independent oversight’ are not all that they seem. The C of E have historically not understood the word ‘independent’ and the small print says nothing will change. Independent has a different meaning to the C of E.

Those endless reams of paperwork and Sir Humphrey Appleby strategies aren’t making any difference and haven’t made any difference. There is a major safeguarding crisis that is not addressed by including safeguarding as a synod topic for the sake of the media.

Jayne Ozanne and various others who are on the synod to try to change the church for the better, have embarrassed the church, quite rightly too, with articles discussing whether it is viable to remain in the Church of England and Synod and continue to try to change things or if the harm to them is too great, and this past weekend, Sam Margrave has embarrassed the church by getting an article in the Church of England’s own newspaper, the Guardian, speaking up about the situation that the C of E faces, and funnily enough, after weeks of the Archbishop of Canterbury abusing the media for his routine self-advertising, which often occurs after revelations such as the cover-up of the Fletcher and Smyth cases - which he has links to, the C of E have no response to Mr Margrave’s article. And this is the image of the C of E, communication from the C of E is all a one-way street and very poorly managed.

The C of E represent a tiny percentage of the nation and yet routinely inflict C of E publicity on the nation, including the recent strategy by the Archbishops to ‘order, advise, beg or warn’ the nation through ‘joint letters’ in the press. Putting two really bad Archbishops in a position where they think that together their autocratic power has more influence over the nation was a bad strategy, it reflects poorly on the C of E and doesn’t improve on one really bad Archbishop re-abusing victims who have been denied justice by the C of E by advertising that he only cares about getting limelight and acting as a pseudo-politician.

Nothing that Mr Welby says puts the C of E in a good light, even his scripted praise of the Duke of Edinburgh could have been trotted out by any politician and occurred just after a comment by Mr Welby that being part of the Royal Family was like a life sentence without parole, obviously a jeer while some people await Prince Andrew’s questioning by the FBI, and inappropriate. Mr Welby is basically telling the world that some people, himself included, are above the law.

Think about this. The other Christian denominations in the UK collectively outweigh the C of E; the C of E are driving their own congregations away, and if you think about the 2% or so of the population who actually worship in the C of E, a percentage of those are clergy and employees of the C of E, and then there are schools, where worship and evangelism is being forced on children and families, according to reports. The other denominations are not being a burden to the general public with delusions of controlling them through letters or upsetting them though silly publicity stunts. However, this is a safeguarding letter. Quite apart from fearing for Sam Margrave’s safety because I know what the Church of England can do to people who challenge them on such serious matters, all those Sir Humphrey safeguarding and CDM papers produced at each synod are making no difference while senior clergy actively involved in safeguarding failures and deliberate harm remain in their positions.

This synod must not be used as further public harm to abuse victims. One victim in particular whose case caused the channel islands to be moved to a diocese they preferred, is already being harmed again and further harm is a safeguarding failure. The use of the press and media by the church is a safeguarding issue while there is no justice to victims of the church. The use of the media and press for false safeguarding compliance, for example pretences about the IICSA’s recommendations, is harmful to victims. The constant falsehoods about safeguarding by the C of E in the media have been very harmful to victims of the church over the past 8 years, it is a fresh abuse to hear the senior clergy who have harmed victims lying about their commitment to safeguarding but that barely touches on the safeguarding issue that I need to raise. Justin Welby’s fake passion about safeguarding is an indication of something very flawed after his own serious misconduct.

This week, Justin Welby has continued his PR run, presumably because he’s not looking forward to being without limelight while he goes away on Sabbatical, that paid-for holiday while British people have been denied holidays. Because Mr Welby has unresolved safeguarding complaints against him, including serious harm, the Church of England are liable for ensuring that Mr Welby’s hosts for his sabbatical are aware that he is considered to be a safeguarding risk. ‘Sabbatical’ is sometimes a code name for ‘suspension’ in high profile cases, and in Mr Welby’s case, ‘Suspension’ wouldn’t be adequate, only dismissal or resignation would be acceptable, and arrest would be ideal.

The response to Panorama’s ‘Is the Church Racist’ investigation was Mr Welby stating that he didn’t know about NDA’s being used. Two years ago an abuse case in Birmingham made headlines, a C of E abuse victim was made to sign an NDA, it was headline news but Mr Welby apparently missed it. NDAs are used routinely in Dioceses to silence clergy, according to a church leader. Does Justin Welby not know his own church? Despite his constant vanity headlines being unconnected to the church, this is unlikely, as, some five years ago, the case I have mentioned which Mr Welby was closely involved in, involved the National Safeguarding Team trying to get the victim silenced through an NDA, immediately after failing to prevent catastrophic harm to the victim, and while simultaneously prioritizing illegally paying a forensic psychologist to order that ‘The victim was ignored’ purely to protect the church against the consequences of manifold crimes against the victim, making any kind of safeguarding utterances by the church in the press into a mockery.

Justin Welby doesn’t seem to have learned that professing sorrow for every wrong he is part of and responsible for, purely for press acclaim, is not making any difference to the situation. His accusations that the congregation en masse are racist, when the racism stems from the senior leadership are deeply unjust. Mr Welby’s interference in Covid 19 purely for his own acclaim is sickening after his failure to the church and the nation, he really needs to stop making headlines and give the church’s victims and the nation a break. BBC 4 churn out church propaganda to ensure that the elderly audience continue to bequeath to the C of E, but Mr Welby shouldn’t be using BBC 4 or his position for more 99p store books floated on his position and vanity and otherwise not worth publishing, while he’s refusing responsibility for himself and his actions and harming many people and destroying the church of England with his dishonesty and plain unsuitability for his position.

I’ve been listening to victims of the Fletcher case talking about Bishop Rod Thomas’s statement. The C of E have a way of playing with words to cover themselves and gaslight victims, and Bishop Rod Thomas did just that in the ugly aftermath of the recent Fletcher publicity. He said he had referred himself to the Archbishop of Canterbury, who would decide on whether he merited action. The Archbishop himself and his senior clergy have done horrendously wrong and no one has been suspended, removed or resigned even though those wrongs are open to see, and Rod Thomas knows that. There have been two PR scapegoating suspensions of Bishops for the fake safeguarding campaign of the past 8 years, no one Mr Welby favours or protects will be suspended. These two-edged gaslighting/publicity stunts harm victims but are the way the church has behaved during the past 8 years, and before, but it has become increasingly noticeable.

In 2013 Justin Welby and the Bishops of Winchester and Dover and safeguarding Bishop of the time committed a very serious safeguarding failure, a case with many NDAs that Mr Welby is well aware of, but none signed by the victim unless it was faked, which wouldn’t be surprising. A vulnerable adult with the most horrendous past of abuse and neglect was groomed and abused by two serial abusers in responsible positions protected by the church. The Diocese of Winchester and safeguarding refused to help the victim and prioritized silencing her and humiliating her, blaming her, making her out to be mad. Suffering severe trauma from being regressed to childhood by one abuser so that he could groom and abuse her, and efforts by the church to forcibly silence her by their influence over the police and other authorities, the victim’s trauma became uncontrollable. The church subjected her to arrest, police violence, efforts to deem her mad, and imprisonment. Many many laws were broken by the church and police throughout.

As a result, she was left on the streets, of her home town, Winchester, much to the embarrassment of the Bishop at the time, Michael Scott-Joynt, who was patron of the homeless services there, and had her slandered out of the homeless services there despite her specific request for protection from him and his house, and he and his safeguarding officer attempted again to silence her through police violence and efforts to have her deemed as mad. But she wouldn’t be silent, even though she was left on the streets as a rough sleeper for years.

In 2013, a conflicted church counsellor was used to produce an unqualified statutory mandatory report on the case, breaching the ethics of her BACP accreditation by using her qualification as a counsellor to ‘validate’ the report and not declaring her interest as a member of the C of E. What she produced wasn’t a report, it was a regurgitation of carefully selected correspondences about the case that she was given and a number of illegal attempts by her and the Diocese to change the victim’s legal diagnosis of autism to insanity and efforts to undermine the victim, for example trying to label the victim ‘unforgiving’ over a totally unrelated case in the Diocese of Winchester where a special needs teacher, part of the victim’s church and one of her youth leaders, abused multiple children in his special school and in Romania.

The victim’s horror that her youth leader did this, and her need to speak up about the way the church tried to silence it, led to the vicar who was abusing her telling her that ‘She would be judged the same as the paedophile because she had Asperger Syndrome’ and the report in 2013 labelled the victim as ‘unforgiving’ for her deep shock over this but failed to explain what had happened or why it was relevant to the victim being abused and denied justice. The victim wasn’t included in the report, and when she took the Bishop of Winchester to court in 2013, it was lied that there were attempts to contact her and include her in the report, easily refuted by correspondence after the report was released.

Justin Welby used the report as an international vanity publicity stunt, one of his first, and despite being an Archbishop, apparently failed to realize how dangerous this was for the victim, he failed to fact check the report and ensure it was a complete account and failed to ensure the victim was included. He allowed the victim to be attacked constantly by strangers from the day the report was released to this very day. 8 years of horrific damage by press, media and strangers, while some celebrities and stars who have support and legal teams and much better foundation are killed by much lesser smear campaigns and the victim has been without support of any kind throughout, and was still a homeless rough sleeper when the matter was vomited all over the press and media without any thought for her safety.

Paul Butler showed an equally limited understanding of safeguarding to Justin Welby’s and stated that he was ‘praying for everyone involved’ which apparently he thought sufficed as safeguarding cover, he refused to communicate with the victim, he failed to declare his conflict of interests, both Paul Butler and Peter Hancock were former Bishops in the Diocese of Winchester and knew the perpetrators in the case. Currently the Bishop of Southampton has taken that gatekeeper role as it appears the Diocese of Winchester need to be safeguarded against the consequences of their wrongs. Paul Butler didn’t just fail to restore safeguarding to the situation, he actively enabled harm to the victim and didn’t protect her as the powerful men in Jersey took over and ran a hate campaign against the victim, including a conflicted report by ‘Jersey Safeguarding Partnership’ which they subjected the victim to violence to try to force her agreement of its publication, and a report by their own in-house conflicted judge, which the victim took the Bishop of Winchester to court over in 2014 and brought an injunction against him, not a gagging order as the police who the Bishop used to try to violently silence her were wrongly told in 2018, an injunction, by a destroyed vulnerable adult with no money or representation, and the Bishop of Winchester still hasn’t been suspended, because Justin Welby was deeply and openly involved in this matter and committed grave and criminal misconduct.

During the three years from 2013 to 2016 the victim was attacked constantly by strangers and the press and media and left devastated and suicidal, she had been rebuilding her life, and she lost lodgings, she lost work, she lost friends, she lost everything she tried to build up, repeatedly, and yet Paul Butler and Justin Welby thought this was a safeguarding kick, nearly killing this woman constantly for years on end, essentially what they did was attempted murder, no one in their right mind would facilitate such severe harm for so long and not imagine the outcome being death. These are educated men, ignorance cannot be pleaded.

The nastiest and most persistent media was the Jersey media, overseen by the brother of one of the serial abusers and influenced by the powerful men who held positions in the Jersey church as well as the government, judiciary, police and other bodies. Openly a church reader who was also Jersey Home Affairs Minister read out lies extracted from records he could access to use against the victim. Openly the External Affairs Minister broke the law in a similar way. Nothing has been done. These men weren’t brutalized and imprisoned, the victim was.

Of course a vulnerable adult stating this alone when asking for help would be made out to be mad, and with the church pushing this view forward with their power and ability to conflict any authority, the victim was left voiceless. Not a single report in this farce contained the victim’s story, and so she wrote what she could on a blog, powerless and too traumatized to write, she tried. The media attacking her, especially the Church Times, whose behaviour was despicable, attacked her blog as ‘hate and rage’ which it wasn’t and didn’t offer a link so that others could judge for themselves, but simply worked hard to uphold the farce and the lies published and destroyed the victim.

Out of the media, the Church Times publication of hatred and undermining of the victim was horrific with the Huffington Post, ‘Thinking Anglicans’ who need to drop the ‘Thinking’ because their pseudo-intelligent babble about the C of E tends to uphold Justin Welby’s PR pretences, close runners-up, and the Jersey Media were the worst. The church were stumped when former police officer Bob Hill whose Jersey blogspot still tells some of the story, stepped in and tried to defend the entirely defenceless victim. Mr Hill, although very misguided by the false reports, tried to highlight the severe corruption in the case and as a result, the church used another vulnerable adult to try to drive a wedge between Mr Hill and the victim, causing severe trauma all round and further removing support from the victim. This was when Winchester became embarrassed and had to fake ‘supporting the victim’ and the disgraced safeguarding officer who had had the victim arrested multiple times illegally liaised with the NSPCC, totally inappropriately, and the NSPCC contacted the victim unsolicited, adding to her distress, she was neither a child nor a parent but this highlights the huge abuse of power that the church of England commits unquestioned as well as unresolved serious misconduct relating to the NSPCC, who have failed to process the complaint.

The victim took the Bishop of Winchester to court but was prevented from attending and the Bishop’s solicitors lied but the Bishop was put under an injunction which he has breached. Nothing Justin Welby says has any credibility while this remains the case.

Justin Welby publicly upheld the wrongdoers after arranging so with the powerful politicians, Lords, judiciary and others conflicting the case, he did this publicly as a synod/PR stunt exactly five years ago, with no warning to the victim. He did this a little while after hijacking a clergy discipline complaint against the Bishop of Winchester shortly after making a mockery of the whole investigation by upholding the wrongdoers in the case live on BBC during the course of the investigation. Making it clear the investigations were pure PR and box-ticking and the outcome was decided.

The victim refused to be silent and the National Safeguarding Team manipulated and insulted and enraged her, they told her they had the report that was bound by an injunction, so obviously the injunction was breached. The Bishop lied to the press and media and claimed he had withheld the injunction-bound report ‘for the victim’s sake’ thus feeding the press-led smear campaign by the people in power in the church, the House of Lords, Politicians, conflicted police and others, that the victim was in the wrong and imposing this on the general public. The Bishop claimed the report would be ‘fed into’ another report, thus breaching the injunction multiple times and framing another Bishop, Bishop John Gladwin for breaching the injunction. This too remains unresolved.

The National Safeguarding Team tried to entrap the victim while unable to explain to her why they had allowed her to forced to suicide by the matter, she would have committed suicide if someone hadn’t phoned her and told her they saw through every scrap of the church and Jersey dignitaries actions. Unable to explain themselves to the victim who continued to demand answers, the national safeguarding team hid behind their use of a ‘forensic psychologist’ paid to protect the church without the victim’s side of things being heard. The victim didn’t cease to ask for justice just because of the widespread slander of her by Graham Tilby, Moira Murray, Jane Dodds (yes, liberal democrat MP, former safeguarding worker) and others with the help of their illegal validation by a ‘forensic psychologist’. So the Bishop of Winchester, who lied to the police in order to do so, had the victim violently brutalized and imprisoned again in 2018 after the C of E had set other victims on the victim like a pack of dogs at a controversial protest at Canterbury. The attempt to force a distressed person to be insane and into psychiatric care or prison to make the church’s wrongs go away speaks more for the archaic church than any of the C of E vanity PR that causes nuisance and distress to so many.

The matter remains unresolved, with the Bishop of Salisbury preferring to retire rather than face it as it would now be his duty. The National Safeguarding Team keeping up the same barrage, Meg Munn ignoring the case, Justin Welby and the Bishops of Winchester and Durham refusing to step down, the Safeguarding Bishops studiously ignoring the case and all correspondence surrounding it, and all considering the matter firmly under lock and NDA, especially under the orders of Lord Faulkner and Baroness Butler-Sloss and their colleagues who abused their extensive and inordinate power to traduce the victim and uphold the senior clergy responsible for destroying her.

The final question before Mr Welby swans off to focus on ‘reconciliation’ after his horrendous onslaught of vanity PR is, Mr Welby, where is the victim who you and the Bishop of Winchester publicly apologized to in 2013 as PR game before horrifically destroying her? Is she still homeless as a result of the 2018 destruction of her whole life when the police violently brutalized and seriously injured her and dragged her from her home in front of the whole community who they then lied to? Or is she dead from a police beating or suicide or locked up and deemed insane thanks to your corruption despite many reports upholding her mental health and severe distress, just to silence her and protect the senior clergy from consequences? Stop using victims as PR, stop initiating and circulating false reports and answer for this. Then Mr Welby, no more holidays at taxpayers’ expense unless in HMP, step down and take those involved with you. Your all PR persona and no human status is a bit too transparent, (except to ‘Thinking’ Anglicans’, who are a grand paradox).

This safeguarding failure/murder, is a matter which shows the futility and failure of all authorities and systems in the UK, which shows that the C of E is dangerous to all vulnerable groups and which speaks of the suffering of not one but many victims who have faced this. This matter has been raised as high as the speaker in the House of Lords and yet Mr Welby has just spent a month on public vanity shows. The Church of England isn’t safe and can’t be deemed to be safe until all the Sir Humphrey paperwork and the vanity shows stop and matters like this are addressed.

John Carter, on behalf of the silenced. 

A letter to the House of Lords

 Dear House of Lords, 

This is a serious formal complaint.

Several weeks ago, the IICSA report on the Church of England was published. 

The Church of England's response was pitiful. Following the advice of their disaster management firm, Luther-Pendragon, the Archbishops released a 'joint' 'apology' BEFORE the release of the report, making a mockery of the report and the victims. 

The release of the report led to victims being further harmed by the Archbishop of Canterbury and Bishop of Manchester carrying out glib and misleading interviews about safeguarding, when both men are guilty of cover-up and harming abuse victims and neither are able to respond well to victims. Indeed the Bishop of Manchester is still unable to respond to my safeguarding complaint and as for Justin Welby, hubris is his middle name, he is guilty of serious harm to abuse victims by his active part in cover-ups.

The Church of England's disaster management firm have decided that once the IICSA report was firmly sat upon with all the fake weeping and wailing and characteristic fake sorrow that Welby and his church are known best for and which enrages victims, it is time for business as usual the Church of England way. Find out what public feeling is and try to use it to curry favour for the Church of England. At the expense of all the victims left distressed by the Church of England's response to the IICSA report.

So this week the Church finds everything they can to try to gain favour. John Sentamu, who covered up for abusers and rapists and denied their victims, is carrying out an unchristian act of demanding a seat in the House of Lords and trying to play the race card. His harm to abuse victims should make him so ashamed of himself that he should be keeping his mouth firmly shut, but the Church of England is all about self-glory, and so the ignorant are standing up and wailing about racism, and victims who correct them and mention Sentamu's history of unpunished misconduct are attacked, me included.

But this week's terrible behaviour by the church seems to know no bounds, anything they can virtue signal about, they are virtue signalling about.

Brexit is none of the Church of England's business, their interference is inappropriate, I understand that Welby was removed from his interference in Brexit position, quite rightly because of his insane behaviour, but his sponsors, whether they are from Russia or the UAE or even just his fellow peers, wouldn't have been too happy. Welby's behaviour and interferences in politics indicate that his behaviour is sponsored by someone or some people who want specific outcomes and can pay an old oil baron millionaire enough or is he being blackmailed over his African adventures? And as that has been consistent, I think it should be looked into.

Luther-Pendragon are presumably the ones who look at public feeling and try to gain glory for the Church of England by making them play on public feeling. The Church of England is irrelevant and hated in England, and is of worth for worship to less than 2% of the population, including children being forced to worship because their is no choice of a secular school. The strategy is, to use the culpable, guilty, abuser-protecting Bishops and Archbishops to try to gain admiration and sympathy for the Church of England. Anyone who supports Brexit is more likely to say 'Oh, the good old abuser-protecting hypocritical Bishops and Archbishops, standing up for our rights' when they interfere in Brexit and make a huge shameless show of it to the media who are determined to go on re-abusing the victims of these men publicly and making the victims endure these awful PR shows. 

The same goes for Sentamu and his unchristian desire for a seat of power after a career protecting rapists and harming victims. He wants the general public to pick up his cry of 'racism' when who knows, maybe the government are aware of his horrendous harm to abuse victims, and while they haven't yet removed the rest of the abuser-protectors from the House of Lords, Rowan Williams has removed himself, apparently, and presumably the current Archbishops can be asked to be quiet, have some humility and do the same and take their interfering unelected and undeserved Lords Bishops with them. Because right now, no matter how much victims are attacked by remainers for saying that Brexit is none of the Bishops' business and they have more important things to do such as deal with their continued obstruction to abuse victims and resign, those Bishops, by being in the House of Lords, are effectively being rewarded richly for abuse and misconduct, while their actions are triggering further harm to victims.

The Lords Speaker and Standards have received a number of serious complaints as the Church of England are not properly regulated or held to account elsewhere and are able to use the Lords and Parliament for their own protection when their corrupt and abusive actions should lead to them being prosecuted, charged or otherwise held to account. The Church of England, irrelevant to the UK population and currently consisting of a monster backbone of unaccountable power and a load of failing parish churches, is a body that cannot go on as it does, abusing the general public with their interferences that are eagerly helped along by the terrible UK press, while they have no safeguarding or accountability in place. The IICSA report was a farce that failed to hold them to account and enabled them to do as they do, use abuse as  PR game full of falsehoods and move on, and it is the closest the Anglican Church have ever come to being held to account, and now it is business as usual, using public opinion to curry favour while victims suffer.

The Lords Speaker and Standards are failing to act upon complaints, which makes them guilty of enabling this harm to continue.

Sentamu has no right whatsoever to demand a seat in the House of Lords, and his colleagues should not be behaving as they are in the press, they should be resigning and leaving. 

Stephen Cotterell is not a suitable Archbishop, his misconducts would have prevented him from applying for promotion in a normal decent organization, but he was chosen by Welby because he behaves as Welby does, all PR and show, happy to cover up abuse and harm victims, and to be Welby's nodding dog, always co-signing these men's silly virtue signalling letters to the press, every letter is currently treated as if it was a once-in-a-lifetime event by the press who announce it, presumably this is another Luther Pendragon trick but it is getting ridiculous.

 The situation remains that anyone contacting the Archbishops or Bishops, including David Walker and Jonathan Gibbs, will be studiously ignored, or even blocked, and persistent calls for action and change are treated as 'pestering' or harassment or insanity, as if Victims and the general publichad no right to criticize or call for justice and change, even since the IICSA report. So The virtue signalling, PR stunting, silly Archbishops and Bishops in the house of Lords need to change their priority and instead of the vain efforts to run to the front of wherever the nation is leading to crawl for favour from the nation, they need to address the way they treat the general public and their victims. Living in fortresses and ignoring correspondence doesn't fit well with trying to use current affairs to gain popularity. 

I write this as someone who is against Brexit and the internal market bill, and I write it knowing what Welby and his church are, which not all the general public do, so I and other victims of the church of all kinds, are being attacked by those who the church have managed to mislead over their virtue signalling pretences to gain acclaim over the Brexit situation, because we speak out and say that these guilty senior clergy have other priorities rather than using the general public's feeling to gain favour. This situation should not be happening. A church which reaches only 2% of the population through worship, including the children who they force worship upon, doesn't have any place at all in the Lords, especially when they are simply doing a recovery PR run after the IICSA report which they have basically spat on. Business as usual, the Church of England way, and if the Lords do not address this, they should as a whole be brought into question, especially the Speaker who has been well aware of Justin Welby and John Sentamu's personal serious misconducts for some years. 

This matter is a safeguarding failure, it is an operational failure, it is a systemic misconduct. The House of Lords and the Press should start an inquiry into the impacts of their support of the failed and abusive church of england and their behaviour. The press of the UK are profoundly abusive and subversive and their constant support of the church of england's behaviour as well as their other misleading non-news, should be the subject of an inquiry, their failure to give the church's victims an equal voice and their persistent ignoring of complaints even when their PR articles for the church rack up thousands of negative online comments means that it is time for a new inquiry, a new stage of the Leveson Inquiry perhaps? Newspapers should be for news, not for vain nobodies who have a cult relevant to less than 2% of England to show off that they have undeserved and unearned places in Lords and government and can interfere in any matter that is nothing to do with their 2% cult to suit them while their victims, more than 2% of the population over the decades! Are made to suffer and be re-abused. The Church of England's behaviour in the recent destruction of the UK over this 'virus' should have been their last word, they are of no use to the UK and are being allowed to continue to harm their victims while the Lords are aware of this.

The church of england can choose to have a vested interest in anything that gains them money, power or favour, unregulated and without concern for those who they harm, despite their reach of only 2% of the population through worship, and we didn't elect them, so this must be brought to an end. one could say this is their desperate attempt to avoid being kicked out of the Lords as part of the reform, the general public who they despise can be duped into being on their side. No other Lords abuse the press as much.

There are concerns that the church are trying to build their dying congregation by forcing recruitment in the schools that they still have power over despite their systemic abuses of children, no one should be pressured into a cult that can't safeguard, this situation is so unreal, it simply wouldn't happen in any other modern country, and certain Lords reply to criticism by boasting about the church's 'humble good works', secular organizations do more good work, the gap would close if the abusive church was disposed of, and we wouldn't have the secular organizations boasting all the time in the press or using 'missions' to abuse vulnerable children, one would hope.

I speak for all victims. Sentamu has no right to the Lords, whatever colour, neither do his colleagues, whatever colour. Peerages for abuse is as corrupt as this country gets. Enough is enough. If the press cannot grant the victims they have harmed justice and a voice, they should not be granting the oppressors a voice. Trolls calling me racist, I have no reason to be, abuse caused by anyone of any colour should be punished, and John Sentamu isn't above punishment, I am Jewish and Justin Welby's bipolar attack that led to him making Jesus out to be any race but Jewish came across as antisemitic. But the press didn't report that, only the church's side, not the general public's.

The Church of England have failed to respond to this letter, so have the press. They need to deal with correspondence and be competent in that before any more national press advertising campaigns:

https://johniancarter.blogspot.com/2020/10/letter-to-press-and-bishops-on-anglican.html

In the meantime, victims wait in silence and suffer these insufferable men.

Sincerely, 

Mr John Carter

Behind Closed Doors

 I haven't been blogging for a while. By the time it gets to the weekend. I am usually too tired. For that matter, by the time I get to the week, I am also too tired. 

There has been so much going on in the news, and out of it, with the Janner investigation, as secretive and redacted as all the police investigations into Janner, and probably heading for the same failure. Various other things have caught my eye, but I haven't even had time to look at the Telegraph this week at all, I have a whole week's catching up to do. And I don't agree with their views on Johnson and Trump, so it won't take long.

A few years back, the Church of England did a PR show of installing a helpline called 'safe spaces' supposedly for abuse victims. I knew it was another show, so did many, but it took until this month for it to be labelled as a fake in the news.

The Guardian are running a Church of England PR show today as I write this, as far as I know, because they go on publishing the Church of England's every word without question or thought for the victims, they are owned by the Church of England.

I have been meaning to write more about individual cases we knew in the Church of England but I am tired, I am tired because I have chronic illness to battle and family matters to attend to, and tired because of the IICSA and the response by the C of E. 

Julie - (this account is from before the current virus crisis).

'What goes on behind closed doors is nobody's business'. This is a typical church line when they want to excuse failure to act.

Julie doesn't like waiting for her husband to come home from taking Evensong on Sundays, he doesn't like Evensong and thinks it should be abolished but the PCC won't allow it, he has to drive out to the furthest church just because about seven people want a droning old service in a cold church. So he may well come home in a bad mood.

He never hits her round the face, because of course there would be questions, but some Sunday mornings she sits in church aching from his cruelty and listening to the words of his sermons about 'love, forgiveness, kindness etc' and thinking how paradoxical it all is. She doesn't dare to leave, she has nowhere to go, and of course it would be such a big scandal, the congregation who are so friendly and treat her with such respect because she's the vicar's wife, would be horrified and disgusted and would turn away, while she would end up in that awful shelter in town that the church like to make a fuss of supporting. 

It's not just the violence, its the things he says, he calls her fat, tells her he's always looking round for a 'pretty young thing' to play with, she doesn't know if there have been any 'pretty young things'. He tells her she's stupid, she's useless, no career, 'just a vicar's wife', and that she isn't even good at helping with church events - she ignores that because there's always more than enough for her to do at church events, but it still hurts.

She endures it, it wears her down and she looks tired, it is hard to smile. Some of the ladies in church say it is because the life of a vicar's wife is a constant cycle of entertaining and attending obligatory events. There's always an excuse in the church, and Julie doesn't really do anything that isn't to do with the church, she doesn't go anywhere or have any activities or friendships outside the church, which is why she would be lost if she spoke up or left. So she goes on pretending that all is well.

She's not allowed to touch his computer, it's password protected anyway, but he's taking a funeral at one of the other churches and going to the wake afterwards, so he won't be back for lunch, and she's cleaning his office. She wipes the desk, and the computer springs to life when she moves the mouse.

Horrified at what she sees, she can't bear it any longer, she phones the Diocese. They coldly tell her that they can't deal with 'such allegations' and she needs to phone the police, they brush off her tearful protest that she's too afraid of him, she's afraid of the impact on the church and she has nowhere to go. They tell her again, robotically, that they can do nothing until the police investigate. Not a word of support or comfort.

Julie goes into the police station in town, she has a bag of clothes and essentials, and her handbag and purse. Having phoned the diocese, she didn't dare to stay at the house. They may have ignored her situation but they will undoubtedly contact her husband. That's how they work.

While she was left waiting to be interviewed, she phoned the Diocese again to ask where she could go and what she could do as she felt unable to return home. The Diocese gave the same cold response, that they could do nothing if the police were investigating, they offered to find her the numbers of homeless services, but she said she could manage that herself, and put the phone down.

The police interview was quite harsh, she was shocked. They kept asking if she had really had no idea, and she told them over and over that she never touched his computer and it was normally locked, that it had been by chance that he had forgotten to lock the computer or hide what he was doing. She felt like she was on trial, and now she was increasingly afraid, both of  her husband and his anger, and of the police, she felt accused.

Finally things changed, a WPC brought her a coffee and told her that they had seized her husband's computer and police were waiting at the house for his return. The WPC handed her a list of phone numbers and asked if she would be alright, they would be in touch. And that was it, now she was standing outside the police station with nothing but what she had packed.

She had savings, he hadn't taken that from her, interestingly enough, because while she didn't touch the savings, she was otherwise financially reliant on him. She had been entrenched in the life of the rectory and the church for a long time, a bland life of constant events and the sexism of the church and the violence of her husband, so this was a life-shattering, terrifying step into the unknown. She walked round the town centre, aimlessly looking round the market and shops. In the end, she went into the information centre and looked up hotels. 

Julie's husband was arrested, he wasn't charged with his violence against Julie, but he was charged with other crimes, and was bailed. Julie lived in fear, she was staying in a cheap hotel and trying to find a flat that she would pay for with her savings, it took her a long time to navigate the support services and the council, with all the red tape, many services were oversubscribed, and a number of services were connected to the church, so she felt she had to avoid them. The Diocese continued to be extremely unhelpful, and when she received no contact from anyone at the church, she was told in the street by a congregant that they had been advised by the Diocese to avoid contact with her.

Julie found that she quite enjoyed being alone, not having a house to look after or any events to attend and not having to anticipate violence. She enjoyed walking round the town and parks, walking beside the river. It didn't take away the shock of her experience, and she sometimes spoke to the Samaritans, but it was a relief to be free. She could get a cheap breakfast at the hotel or a cafe, she enjoyed the library, and she began to think about work. She was afraid that her husband's trial might get in the way of any job, so she took some computer training classes at the local day centre while she considered things, and she made some friends there.

The police investigation took a little while, and then the court only sentenced her husband to 3 years, it did make the papers along with all the praise and good references he got from the church; and the Diocese couldn't keep the fact that this was a Vicar out of the press, as they usually manage to do when it's a church officer, reader or layperson. three and a half years! And he probably wouldn't serve all of it. Julie wasn't mentioned, but she also wasn't supported by the Diocese or the church. When her husband was released from prison, he would be provided for by the Church for the rest of his life, while she was left to fend for herself. She hadn't been back to church since the arrest, and as she still had faith, she decided that a fresh start with another denomination and also in another area, outside of the Diocese, would be a good idea. 

Now Julie is working full time in a good job, she left the Diocese, she belongs to a large Evangelical church, she still has counselling for traumatic stress, and she still admits to being a bit scared of her husband but tries to be realistic. He was released and the Church of England look after him, she says the Church of England are total hypocrites and have lost their path, and she speaks up for other victims of violence and abuse. Julie says that it was hard to leave behind the social side and illusion of respectability that being a vicar's wife brings, but she enjoys being her own person now and although she enjoys church events, she also enjoys solitude and quiet walks. She feels that her eyes have been opened to the all-too-common abuses and violence that are widespread in the church and the world, she will never be the same again, and that is good as well as bad.

end.

Letter to the Press and Bishops on the Anglican IICSA abuse report

 A Letter to the press and Bishops of the Church of England regarding the news headlines of the IICSA report.

Dear Recipients, 

As survivors know, this week's headlines have been a big show. A big harmful painful show to those who know that now that the IICSA with it's past tenses about abuse and safeguarding are out of the way, and the PR boasts by Welby and Walker have been trotted out, it will be business as usual, the Church of England way. The IICSA failing to hold Welby and the 'safeguarding bishops' to account and advise their resignations was the final word on that.

The serious safeguarding failures are not in the past, they are not someone else's problem, they are here and now, and one such failure is allowing guilty men to boast in the press as Welby is doing when he has personally harmed victims through cover-up. For 7 years Welby has boasted in the press in response to abuse and safeguarding failures and whatever other whim takes his fancy. The general public in their thousands respond in disgust but Welby's psychopathy is abnormal and he ignores the mass disgust in response to his behaviour.

It is usual for the Church of England to make sweeping statements and promises without challenge or follow-up, and that was the case this time, the Bishop of Manchester, who has failed to respond to a recent serious safeguarding complaint against Justin Welby that has been going on for years and currently leaves a vulnerable adult homeless and seriously injured as a direct result of Welby's criminal misconduct, has claimed that things have improved, he's claimed that to Cathy Newman, unchallenged, while such statements are like a physical blow to the many victims who are suffering because of Walker, Welby, Butler, Hancock and others' failure to act properly or at all. Justin Welby himself is under investigation by his safeguarding team who themselves have harmed victims, and yet that was very muted in the media and now he's showing off about 'wake up calls'. What kind of nation and media allows a charity with such a serious safeguarding failure right up to the leader, allows them to posture instead of resignations and closing down?! 

The abuse of the media by the church on these matters has long been an abuse of victims. 

I am among the many who feel revulsion at the sight of Welby all over the press and media with his posing, his  untruths and boasts. How is the IICSA report a 'Wake up Call' when Welby has been a knowing part of harm to victims and appears to have no intention of resigning? And the IICSA have failed to hold him or anyone else to account - presumably because the church of England were able to interfere with and conflict the report and make sure specific allegations against current leaders were not aired. The IICSA was even led by two C of E dignitaries in a row, one of whom acted repeatedly in abuse cases to cover up and to harm victims, Baroness Butler Sloss, whose work in the Chichester case is well known but whose interference in other cases to harm victims and cover up is less well known.

In effect, the IICSA has changed nothing, because we still have the unaccountable cult, the church of England, basically pissing all over the press and media with their interferences in matters that don't concern them, politics, the vulnerable groups who they abuse and look down on while making a pretence of helping, the general public endure this and complain, and are ignored and blocked by this high and mighty closed cult, the church of England, but there is no accountability, and the IICSA hasn't ensured any. The C of E are still reined in by corrupt insurers in the Ecclesiastical-Allchurches trust inner circle who ensure that each atrocity by the church, each press release that puts the church in a bad light, is met by the Welby and Walker style falsehoods. This week and the press have shown that it is business as usual the Church of England way. 

The routine fake apology by the guilty and compromised Archbishops beggared belief. Welby was willing to kill people to protect the church's image, he destroyed this man: http://bobhilljersey.blogspot.com/ and the victim that that man felt forced to protect against the horrendous acts by Justin Welby and many senior clergy and laity and the press in Welby's first fake safeguarding stunt that went horrendously wrong. That matter alone should have led to Justin Welby's resignation rather than his being congratulated on it by the dignitaries who aided him in destroying them victim. That matter alone where he started out by abusing the press for a false apology and whitewash report, leading to the victim, homeless because of the wickedness of the church of England, vulnerable, diagnosed with Asperger Syndrome, attachment disorder and PTSD, being attacked for years on end. The Church provided no protection to the victim and Welby ended what he started with PR apologies to the victim with PR apologies to the aggressors. The press aided the destruction of the victim without a murmur let alone an investigation into such openly criminal acts When the victim refused to be silent, the church of England had her violently dragged from her home in front of her neighbours and brutalized and flung in police cells, with no defence and the church telling the police she was insane, for what? continuing to ask for justice. She remains homeless, seriously injured by the police violence, and a fugitive with the church claiming to anyone who asks, that she is insane and the police are after her, forced from society forever, while Welby still boasts. Tell me Bishop Walker, what has improved as this continues? 

Obviously the case above was not included in the IICSA report because this was a vulnerable adult repeatedly groomed and abused by two serial abusers, and left with those abusers laughing at her as she was left as a criminal and rough sleeper with the church still hounding and defaming her, and there are thousands of vulnerable adults who the church have harmed in similar ways, who this week are suffering trauma badly because of the press and the church of England. Victims should not be subjected to the church of England, which is little more than a cult in numbers of worshippers, hogging the limelight in proud humility over their sins, as previously described 'dribbling, piddling and leg humping like untrained labradors over their wrongs'.

 The IICSA have been irresponsible to extremes both by failing to deal with the current senior clergy who have harmed children, vulnerable adults and their families and friends and by allowing the church's behaviour in the media and allowing the matter of the serious abusea and cover-ups to be in the past tense as if it was all in the past. Nothing has changed. The victims who have lost their lives, often branded as insane by the church and the authorities who they conflict and subjected to violences that took their lives, have been left without justice, as have the living victims, the outcome of the IICSA report is no justice, no change, just the guilty men who have taken part in the cover-ups, crowing and preening and making victims sick.

Shame on you, IICSA, shame on you leaders of the Church of England, shame on you newspapers and media who have printed and broadcast the lies of these wicked men. Really, shame on you all for this show when it is business as usual the C of E way, with the help of the IICSA and at the expense of thousands of people who are suffering and will be affected for life, those who live. 

For the information of Cathy Newman, this victim, who asked you among many, for help and was ignored because the media only publish the church of england's lies and PR, is a CURRENT safeguarding matter, a vulnerable adult who Justin Welby, Tim Dakin, Paul Butler, Trevor Willmott, Peter Hancock, Baroness Butler Sloss, and more, publicly destroyed, has been homeless for two years, a fugitive from further police violence which would kill her after she has suffered a broken spine and lost part of her hand to police violence, she is diagnosed as autistic and suffers PTSD and psychological damage, the church have worked hard to make her out to be insane for her response to decades of church harm to her in cover-up of two prominent serial abusers. The church have covered up her case with vile whitewashes that totally excluded her story, and efforts to make her out to be insane and persecuted her with the police and efforts to make her out to be insane. 

Jonathan Gibbs and the Bishops of Southampton and Bristol have failed to respond to this case that prominently involves Justin Welby, the Bishop of Manchester the same. The Archbishop of York who's premier show was PR apology for his wrongdoing that should have prevented his installation, blocked me for referring the complaint to him but as he received it, he is liable for it and is repeating the serious misconduct that he did a PR apology for. Justin Welby was publicly congratulated on apologizing to the aggressors in the case by a conflicted Lord who sits with Baroness Butler Sloss on the ecclesiastical team, Sloss was actively involved in the cover-up as well. This is NOW, Bishop Walker lied to Cathy Newman and was not challenged on his lies. The IICSA don't appear to have made proper recommendations to remove the corrupt Ecclesiastical team for their persistent misconducts and abuse of the law to aid the church in their corruption.

Victims of other cases where Justin Welby has been involved in cover-up have also been harmed by Walker and Welby's distressing PR interviews this week, and victims are calling for his resignation, but he goes on and on, unchallenged by his Bishops with their virtue signalling and PR stunts that attempt to gain favour for the church while harming its victims. Theories are that Welby's mental condition is so serious that he really doesn't see the harm he does, which would make him unfit to be an Archbishop of course, and that thought is very widely upheld, he is unfit to be Archbishop, but other theories include him being paid by Oligarchy to remain, to interfere in Brexit and elections as he so obviously did, and no one effectively either called him to account or shamed him for his openly corrupt behaviour. 

What the IICSA and the media and news have done is violently re-open victims' wounds, and for some, that will be a step too far, there are likely to have been or to be deaths because of the way the IICSA, C of E and press have behaved this week.

I was astounded to see how Cathy Newman enabled the C of E this week. I do not watch Channel 4 News, to me it is all propaganda and efforts to stampede people over this virus hoax and C4's personal opinion of Brexit and I thought Newman had gone, rattled off to be on some obscure radio station after refusing to expose Justin Welby and the biggest cover-up in Church of England history, I am disgusted that she allowed Bishop Walker to harm abuse victims and show that it is business as usual the church of England way. I am one of several people who

when the C of E dominate the media, asks, how much money changed hands for these lies to be published unquestioned and for such open abuse and corruption to be ignored?

Nothing the church of England proudly blare into the press and media is ever questioned or followed up, they can make grandiose pretences of any sort of care and help and they distress all of their victims, and not a single follow-up is ever made. No other religion or denomination is allowed to behave this way and considering that the IICSA, very redacted and church protecting report hasn't absolved them, isn't it time for such behaviour to stop? The C of E is no more than a large cult who are very proud of themselves and like to be seen, they offered nothing to the general public and congregation during the pandemic and behaved appallingly. Well, behaving appallingly is their modus operandi.

Senior Bishops, current senior Bishops, the National Safeguarding team and others, have circulated emails making victims out to be insane when they persist in asking for justice. This is on Welby's watch, he knows, he is part of it. Why are the Church getting their views made headlines and not the victims?! The IICSA should have ensured that their report did not become part of cover-up and PR. 

Having harmed victims further and lied about the state of things, having refused and ignored serious safeguarding complaints, having been part abuse and harm, Justin Welby and his senior Bishops should now go. The Dean of Sheffield, who has obviously been in serious trouble for some time and tried to hide and defend it, making himself look worse, seems to be the only resignation in this horrendous situation which encompasses most of the senior Bishops, why is there only one resignation, and from a Dean?! 

Now there need to be further inquiries, into senior Bishops, safeguarding Bishops, Archbishops, the national safeguarding team, the behaviour of the press and news outlets in relation to church of england PR and abuse of news space for their advertising, virtue signalling and lies, especially lies about abuse. Welby isn't the slightest bit bothered about the impact of his boasting while victims suffer, he has been contacted thousands of times about it and he continues. He's not 'shocked', this isn't a 'wake up call', he's known and been part of it all along and is only sorry that his church had to face the redacted past tense report before their boasts and lies in response made more news headlines than the suffering of the victims. During the IICSA report, Welby distressed victims by forcing on every church his lies about sorrow and shame, and yet that was two years ago and nothing has changed, his serious misconduct against the vulnerable adult hasn't been addressed, indeed it was within months of his narcissistic PR sorrow letter that he and his clergy had the vulnerable adult violently destroyed again and have left her homeless and unable to rebuild her life. What state are things in for this man to have falsehoods published still!!!

The bottom line is, the headlines by the senior clergy are a safeguarding failure and a risk to victims, most victims have been denied justice, most abusers have remained in high standing and in respected positions in the church, every Bishop and diocesan safeguarding officer has harmed and silenced victims. Removing safeguarding from Bishops and handing it over to safeguarding officers who have harmed victims would be utterly ridiculous. The failure of the senior clergy to resign who are blocking safeguarding complaints, including Bishops Walker and Gibbs and the Archbishops, will mean that nothing changes. 

Guess what response my letter and many many others being sent will get? Nothing, none. Business as usual, the church of England way, they will go on harming and abusing with impunity with the IICSA out of the way and no further reports ever being done. They will continue to do false independent reports for their own PR glory, and victims will go on suffering and the press will go on being complicit. The telegraph refusing comments on Welby's boast after previous boasts are met with fury from the general public is typical of the situation.

Justin Welby's narcissism and psychopathy makes the Church of England's poor image as a leeching lying abusive burden on the country even worse, and at a time like this, when the church have turned their back on the country during the crisis, things really do need to change. The pre-emptive apology and the use of the disgraced and under a formal complaint archbishops' council to try to bring attention to the 'probably never distributed' compensation to abuse victims should be the lowest that Welby and his dying church can stoop, but they never fail to surprise, and victims wearily know that now that the IICSA have enabled the church rather than holding them to account, the boasting will go on and on and on, year after year, especially while Welby refuses to resign or is being forced not to by his sponsors in the UAE or Russia or wherever. What other reason could there be for something like Welby to remain and behave like this? 

 A sample of further information on the real situation with abuse and safeguarding here and now and not in the past tense is available:

1.  https://seaofcomplicity.blog/
2. http://survivingchurch.org/
   
3. Justin Welby's manslaughter victim - https://whatreallyhappenedinthechurch.blogspot.com/ and https://lifeafterthediocese.blogspot.com/
4. http://bobhilljersey.blogspot.com/

Words fail me. Nothing anyone says or does seems to stop the Church of England's vanity and harm to the vulnerable, the IICSA have actively enabled it and now it is business as usual for the cult that interferes in politics and current affairs to try to glorify themselves while re-abusing victims and the vulnerable. Words fail many people this week, but the church of england is only relevant to the minority of mainly elderly people who naively believe what BBC 4 broadcast to protect the C of E, it is only relevant as a place of worship for less than 2% of the UK and at the moment still wrongly has guardianship of schools despite the level of abuse and safeguarding failure, and is otherwise irrelevant. It is laughable that Baroness Nicholson tried to berate me over the 'humble good works' of the C of E when in reality every little 'good work' is spewed all over the news in direct opposition to Jesus' teaching and the amount of abuse, harm, lives lost far outweighs the 'good in return for PR glory'.

Bishops please don't abuse us through the media any further, even your vain lies on your websites in response to the report are an abuse of victims; millionaires in palaces who hate the vulnerable, leave the media for real news; and news and press outlets, please stop taking part in this farce and ignoring the victims and their advocates and families, give us a voice.

sincerely, 

John Ian Carter

Response to the Anglican Church's Response to the IICSA report so far

 Dear Press and Media Outlets, 

It is important that you are aware that publishing only the Church of England's response to the IICSA report, as you are doing already, is an insult to victims and further harm to those silenced and denied justice by the church.

For 7 or 8 years now the Church of England have endured routine falsehoods about safeguarding, false apologies and false reports from the Church of England via the media and newspapers. 

Nothings shrieks falsehood more loudly than 'apologizing in advance' and repeating the vague falsehoods of huge compensation sums and care already falsely raised in February as a PR stunt, but being unable to explain how, if safeguarding isn't improved and victims who have been forcibly silenced by the church are not reached, this show money is going to make any difference.

It is sad to see that the new safeguarding Bishop, Jonathan Gibbs, and his associate safeguarding Bishops are as ineffectual and PR focused as the previous so-called 'safeguarding bishops'. I made a serious formal complaint to Jonathan Gibbs and the associated Bishops some months ago and despite it being a safeguarding emergency, a vulnerable adult seriously harmed from criminal misconduct by the Archbishop of Canterbury and other senior figures, the response has been appalling. Gibbs himself has tried to fob me off, while the others have failed to respond at all. And yet they have time to try to gloss over the current dangerous mess that the church of England is in response to survivor Gilo: (seaofcomplicity.bog) speaking up about the situation.

The church of England continues as it always has, to treat abuse as irrelevant except when it affects the church's image, then their cruel and psychopathic attitude to victims is glossed over and they scramble eagerly for press attention and fake but desperate apologies and protestations about safeguarding improving that harm the victims who they are refusing justice to.

The Church of England provide fully for abusive priests, from legal support to housing and pension. Each clergyman who is convicted knows that they have a comfortable future, unlike their victims who may never live a full life. This support of rapist clergy, having gone on for decades on end, has amounted to far more paid out to offenders than the church of England are pretending to offer to victims. As ever, when the church virtue signal and pretend to carry out virtuous and altruistic projects, the press slurry sprays it all over the suffering victims of the church, and the outcomes, the results, are never heard of, the victims, their voices of no worth to the press who print the church's lies without question, go on shouting as loud as they can, and are barely heard. Many many victims have no voice at all, and some are even afraid to speak, seeing how others have been crucified.

The church are making excuses about helping victims in 'distressed circumstances' while they provide for all paedophile and rapist clergy, but the excuses and loopholes regarding the compensation scheme will leave many victims without help, including the victim who Justin Welby had publicly destroyed with the help of the press and media and cronies in judiciary, law, Lords, police and others, the case that Jonathan Gibbs and his colleagues apparently daren't even respond to emails about. Many victims, those forcibly silenced by the church and accused of insanity, harassment or pestering for persisting in asking for justice in a distressed state and being denied it for the sake of the church's image or because their abusers weren't convicted, are unlikely to receive anything, and their suffering will be intolerable as the compromised IICSA report is used as a PR slurryfest by the C of E, who love to turn their shame, scandal, crimes and corruption into limelight and fake remorse.

Baroness Butler-Sloss and Fiona Woolf, both Anglican Church dignitaries and in the case of Butler-Sloss, guilty of harming abuse victims to protect the C of E, were allowed to lead and compromise the IICSA inquiry and access evidence, leading to victims not believing that the inquiry would bring justice. Not a murmur was made by the C of E or press about these conflicts. Why didn't the profusely false apologizing Bishops and Archbishops act swiftly on this for the sake of the inquiry's integrity, as it is, some believe that the report will be a whitewash, and some Anglican victims have personally been hurt by the inquiry. But the statutory fake apologies have to be rolled out, and Mr Welby actually seems to enjoy such things, self-flagellating with glee in front of everyone, which creepily reminds me of the Smyth case.

As I said before the recent synod, this is going to be an incredible slurryfest for the church in the press. An extra synod strategically placed just before the IICSA report, what new lies can the church cook up to try to take the attention off the reality of the report?

It was a bit of a feeble one, the repeat of February's false boasts about recompense and care for victims, the only addition really, was that because victims have brought a complaint against the Archbishop's council for their barbaric behaviour towards abuse victims, and that complaint is aimed towards the Charities Commission, the Archbishop's Council were strategically to look as if they voted unanimously in favour of the compensation and care move. Funny isn't it? These men have shown utter hatred and contempt for victims and have taken part in cover-ups that have destroyed victims, and suddenly, for the sake of the media reaction, they all care very much.

Not enough to refrain from nasty attacks on their own clergy in the letters column of the Telegraph because they felt threatened by what was written about the diminishing congregation, not enough to personally apologize to the victims they have harmed, and resign, but enough to 'be seen' by the press, showing off the pre-arranged 'unanimous' vote for something already arranged in February for the last synod's PR, but the press don't question the church nor do they print the other side of the story, our side, the victims' side, the side of those the church has harmed, the side of the many of us who have had to leave the church of England because of the serious corruption and abuse of power. The press have a short memory indeed, to keep printing conflicting outbursts by Welby.

In the event of the safeguarding bishops failing to respond well to the case of Justin Welby and other senior clergy's serious and criminal harm to a vulnerable adult, I referred the case to the new Archbishop of York, he used his own serious misconduct in an abuse complaint as his opening PR show as Archbishop as is becoming standard with clergy, they enter office with an apology that is supposedly to gain them favour, even though it is inconceivable, but the new Archbishop received my complaint and was obliged to act upon it. When I wrote later, having not received a response, he had blocked my email. The previous Archbishop of York and the ongoing assistant, Daphne Green, were involved in the complaint I made and would need to be investigated too. So a change of management brings no change in attitude.

The congregation of the church of England is down to the size of a large cult. They have no genuine safeguarding but work according to archaic rules that state that the vulnerable are an insurance liability and a risk. The C of E spam the press relentlessly with virtue signalling, falsehoods about safeguarding, and their interference in politics. No other denomination or religion in the UK is even allowed to abuse the papers and media this way. Or is it that the press refuse to give them the opportunity? Every whim, fancy or lie by the church of England is published without question. And the press slurry about the IICSA report began on synod week, so victims are having to endure a very long run of the publicity that causes them so much distress. Tomorrow's major outpouring of falsehood by the Church of England may kill some victims who know that as the falsehoods continue, they will remain without justice.

For years, Justin Welby and Bishops led a public character assassination against a vulnerable adult who had been abused by two serial abusers in the C of E, one of the abusers had been sacked from official positions at one church, only to be moved to another, with his powerful legal, judicial and government friends supporting him, and had been in a position to abuse this vulnerable adult as a result. The other serial abuser was a magistrate, also well connected. Neither men paid for the abuse, Justin Welby made the victim pay, by allowing all the powerful friends of the defendants to destroy her publicly, in the unquestioning and eager press and media. The victim was presumably supposed to suicide and be labelled as insane under such onslaught because even strong people can't survive such violence, but went on fighting for justice and a voice, so she was accused of 'harassment' and subjected to violent police assault and imprisonment and left homeless and seriously injured, as she remains while Welby keeps up his vanity shows.

 Most people wouldn't survive these matters but they are the very tip of the iceberg in this story. The vilification of the victim remains in archived press and media and occasionally a repeat attack on the victim is launched. The press and media onslaught led to physical attacks on the victim which destroyed her life over and over. The Church of England's safeguarding leads even encouraged other victims and the two conflicted 'church abuse' charities, while Macsas and 31:8, undeclared as run by church of england safeguarding members to protect the C of E, also played a strong part. 

Justin Welby and Stephen Cotterel, with all their fake apologies, are failing to take responsibility for this. Jonathan Gibbs and the Bishops of Southampton and Bristol are failing to act on what is a safeguarding emergency and a case that involves criminal actions by senior clergy and authorities influenced by the church. The Bishop of London often reminds victims of how there is no safe place for victims of the church to turn, as she advertises herself leading services for NHS, Police, Judiciary and more, making sure that those wronged by the church know just where they stand, and of course many victims do find out the hard way that reporting C of E misconduct will lead to harm to them from the authorities and malicious misreporting, as happened with the victim mentioned above and others such as Theresa Cooper found out. None of this will be mentioned in the PR slurry from the church in response to the IICSA report, which is why I am mentioning it. Even a small voice in reply is a voice. Justin Welby's effusive empty apologies which he has trotted out routinely for years and had published, even though a published apology is a stunt and not a directed apology to the party concerned, are so hypocritical considering what he has done.

The matter of John Smyth, Justin Welby has changed his story on that unquestioned by the press, and has seriously failed victims to the point of being under investigation, but the press and authorities are silent, he has included the Smyth victims in the fake apologies for the press, but as with the previous matters, he has failed to take responsibility for his actions and inactions; in fact one thing Justin Welby seems unable to do, is take responsibility for himself or even look at himself and his bizarre behaviour. His tenure as archbishop has been a disaster, people have abandoned the church in droves, his frequent silly and offensive press releases shouldn't even be published, and as he is under investigation for even just one of his misconducts, which the media have been muted about, he should be suspended at very least, and not distressing victims with more false sorrow. 

But the press don't question this, let alone print it. The press printed the new Archbishop of York's PR stunt apology for his misconduct, but he shouldn't have been installed under such a cloud, it makes the church of England worthless. And his subsequent refusal to deal with Welby's misconduct when the new and already failed safeguarding bishops refused, compounds the air of total futility and falsehood that the Church of England's lifeline press and media presence displays. 

It is overused but Jesus told His disciples 'Do such as this unseen', and this week we have seen a real charm offensive from the church in the media ahead of the IICSA, worse than usual, blatant virtue signalling and pretences of care to poor and vulnerable groups from the elderly millionaire Bishops in their palaces. Without the press, what would be left? Dying parish churches and the monsters of the Lambeth Palace and Church House corporation. The corporation is operating under false pretences, using the Name of Jesus for a money and power game and endless harm to the vulnerable. 

The press can and should help victims by bringing the PR to an end and giving the church of England the choice of returning to Christ or disbanding. The C of E have no right to offend the nation with their hogging of the press for irrelevancies and falsehoods.

tiredly and sincerely, 

John Ian Carter

Synod

Today the C of E starts another synod.
Synod is the word for meeting of pretences.
Or pretenders.

The Bishop of Buckingham's Chaplain did an article in a very minor media, a whisper so her church wouldn't hear, about how the synod fakes responses to questions.
What never ceases to amaze me is how people who know what the anglican church is, remain in it. The excuses usually include reaching out to people, being a light in the dark or setting an example, changing the church from within - not working - but anyone who chooses to knowingly remain is upholding the abusive church, part of it, part of victims being called mad, part of complainants being blocked.

No offence to the chaplain but she threatened to stand down from the synod, but not the church, so removing her part in holding the church to account but not her participation in the corrupt organization. 

https://viamedia.news/2020/09/18/secrecy-and-an-unaccountable-church-of-england/

She also fawns over the lying Justin Welby, believing his lies about caring about victims. Welby is personally responsible for harm to victims. People within the church of England are blind. They have to be, it is a subscriber club for the middle class, to assuage their consciences and make them feel that they will live self indulgently for eternity, what does a little abuse and corruption and deceit matter in the grand scheme of things?

As ever I don't have time to blog, but just to pre-empt the slurry that the church of England unload into the press on synod week, forcing themselves on the general public with smarm, lies and their own personal businesses irrelevant to the public - what a load of bollocks! 

The Archbishops of York are traditionally known for refusing to accept or act upon abuse complaints, the previous archbishop of York retired without being held to account.
The new archbishop of York started his career by using his misconduct as a PR boast, almost a set script in the C of E. He has tried to block my complaint, following the tradition of his predecessor who allowed abuse to continue and refused to remove a rapist from a clergy position etc. He still has to address my complaint as he received it. They are real shites, the way they behave.

No other organization could behave as the c of e do. And in a few weeks they will inflict the shitfest of a lifetime on the public when the iicsa report is released, lies about sorrow and care, lessons learned. A while barrage of lawyer and PR firm led slurry, then business as usual. Lone voices like the Bishop's chaplain will never change things. Especially if they whisper on obscure media.

I predict that the iicsa report will lead to the conflicted Stockholm syndrome group of victims being invited to some sort of panel to fake inclusion in safeguarding decisions. As they have harmed victims such as HG, and are exclusive and entrenched in the church, and their involvement will be token, it will be a PR solution only.

Suffragettes

We watched  Suffragette tonight, a moving film that depicts a young woman unwittingly getting caught up in the movement and losing her husband and son, being imprisoned, being left homeless, losing her job, when she decided as a result of wrongly labelled as a suffragette, that she would become one. She ended up sleeping rough in an old church.

The police brutality, the way those women were ostracized, it hits hard. And why? So that men could keep their pride and be autocratic? In a way it is hard to imagine a world where women were oppressed like that, and yet in some countries it still happens and even in this day and age, sexism and sexual harassment is still around in every level of work and society.

The way the Church of England behaves is reminder of those bad old days. Although they have 'allowed' women into senior positions otherwise they would have been forced to by the government, they are still a cold patriarchal bunch, and the way they treat abuse victims is sadly reminiscent of those bad old days when the suffragettes had to face violence and imprisonment and even death in order to be heard.

I know I spoke up about a group of abuse victims who tend to inflict the Church's legislation and endless waffle on everyone and I got to a point where I just didn't want that, a group that has become like a splinter of the C of E, and who have two of the church's best known perverts among them, but I believe that they, and I, and all others, should receive proper treatment and care from the C of E, that the Anglican Church should stop virtue signalling and judging others and deal with their internal dirt.

Many think that 'mandatory reporting' will make a difference, it won't. It will drive abuse further undercover, it will do NOTHING about the way the victims are treated, and without the Anglican Church being regulated from the outside, it will make no difference, but the frenzy-whippers have for some reason tried to make it into a solution for everything. I think they are missing the point.

I never wanted to be involved in speaking out. I live with severe pain and my life is too full, but seeing victims being made into a gang, with solutions such as 'mandatory reporting' being made their goal, is hard. Seeing thousands of people angry with the oblivious church, and seeing the harsh and painful accounts of people who have suffered for making CDM complaints, or people who have had to quit the clergy or church after decades and had the door slammed behind them. Hearing victims of abuse suffering. It's hard not to butt in.

Recently I read Giles Fraser's well-written article about the decline of the Parish Church, and the astoundingly out of touch and unchristian response by Simon Butler, a chilling reminder that the C of E are run by a kind of warlord setup that has nothing to do with Christianity or God.
I was surprised how much attention my letter to Simon Butler received, except from Butler himself, I still eagerly await his reply.

The Suffragettes are an extreme of standing up to injustice and being voiceless, but here and now, in this day and age, many victims of abuses are still fighting a harsh and damaging battle for justice and being changed for life by the harm that comes of the fight.

The news is that the Bishop of Oxford has 'admitted' some of his safeguarding mistakes. Some, and he's still there, no resignation. The victims have to go on fighting like Suffragettes while the C of E remains draconian with no sign of 'root and branch change'.