Oppose the PIE prosecutions | Socialist Action 1983

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ON THE orders of the government, three leading members of the Paedophile Information Exchange have been arrested and charged with number of offences, lonowing ine media hysteria around the rape of a boy in Brighton.

They are to be prosecuted for inciting people to have unlawful sexual intercourse with a girl under 16: inciting people to commit buggery: inciting people to indecently assault a boy under 16 and inciting people to commil an act of gross indecency with or to a child under 14: and for publishing an article and sending indecent' material through the post. these persecutions The proof that these laws are aimed at the repression of young people, not their protection, can be found in the media treatment of the Brighton case and the PIE prosecutions.

These have been used to attack gays, but they have been used even more to put over propaganda for good old-fashioned childhood. A series of articles have preached the need tor greater parental supervision and discipline for children, and regretted the passing of Victorian childhood and oppression meted out to children. . The real meaning of their current activity around "child sex' is to reimpose discipline on young people as part of putting back together the Victorian family. JOHN INIGO, London WC1 I FEEL that it was the

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