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• Tom O'Carroll is suspended from the Labour Party but despite the moral panic of party officials he can't be kicked out straight away

Tom O'Carroll, 70, former chairman of the Paedophile Information Exchange (PIE), who called for sex with children to be legalised was today suspended from Labour but party rules mean he cannot be immediately expelled. ( Emma Glanfield - The daily Mail, UK, February 16, 2016)

• Operation Midland: why the paedo panic won’t die

As one hysteria is exposed, another replaces it. (Tim Black - spiked, UK, February 9, 2016)

• The yellow star, the scarlet letter, and ‘International Megan’s Law’

When I was growing up, in a Jewish family in Brooklyn in the 1950s, Hitler and the Holocaust were common subjects of conversation in my household. Though at the time it all seemed like ancient history — (David Post - The Washington Post, US, January 6, 2016)

• Lord Janner: you can’t try a dead man (Luke Gittos - spiked, UK, December 29, 2015)

It would be a perversion of justice to put the deceased on trial.

• St Helena is no paedophiles’ paradise

How a charity and two social workers succeeded in witch-hunting an entire island. (Barbara Hewson - spiked, UK, December 21, 2015)

• The Goddard Inquiry: therapy, not justice

This huge inquiry into child abuse has nothing to do with truth. (Luke Gittos - spiked, UK, December 1, 2015)

• The make-believe world of child-abuse campaigners

A new report is light on facts and heavy on scaremongering. (Joanna Williams - spiked, UK, November 26, 2015)

• John Robin Sharpe: sexual outlaw

He successfully challenged Canada's obscenity laws, but opinion in political queer circles was divided on the self-styled rebel pervert. (See also:Robin Sharpe) (Maria-Belén Ordóñez, Robert Teixeira - NOW, Ca, November 8, 2015)

• Tom Watson: the unacceptable face of the paedo panic

Watson is being sacrificed to save the child-abuse crusade. (Tim Black - spiked, UK, October 14, 2015)

• Operation Midland: treating fiction as fact

The crusade against historical sex abuse is destroying due process. (Frank Furedi - spiked, UK, September 28, 2015)

• Are Sexually Violent Predators Dangerous Enough?

On June 15, U.S. District Judge Donovan W. Frank struck down Minnesota's law allowing for the civil commitment of so-called sexually violent predators. SVP laws allow a person to be locked away indefinitely after he has completed his maximum prison sentence. Twenty states and the federal government have passed such laws, and over 5,000 SVPs are incarcerated at an annual cost in excess of 450 million dollars. (Lave and McCrary, The Huffington Post, US, September 15, 2015)