In article <cfr2u39q6vt64knmvj882c6ksg7iejmc5v@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, me@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Simon) wrote:
> 'Once they have reached the age of puberty, it is OK... It doesn't
> do any harm,'' said Clarke, who has lived in Sri Lanka for 40 years.
>
> "I am trying to think of the youngest boy I have ever had because,
> of course, you can't tell it here. I think most of the damage comes
> from the fuss made by hysterical parents afterwards. If the kids don't
> mind, fair enough,'' he was re****ted to have said in the interview
> which was conducted at his house.
Yeah, "...re****ted to have said..." isn't the same thing as "said",
especially when the story was later proven to be bollox.
'In early 1998, Clarke was to be made a knight, with Prince Charles
visiting Sri Lanka in order to make the investiture. Just before the
ceremony, a British tabloid, The Sunday Mirror, claimed in a
sensationalist story that Clarke was a paedophile, giving supposed
quotations from Clarke about the harmlessness of his predilection for
boys. Clarke released a statement saying that "the accusations are such
nonsense that I have found it difficult to treat them with the contempt
that they deserve." He also said, "I categorically state that The Sunday
Mirror's article is grossly defamatory and contains statements which in
themselves and by innuendo are quite false, grossly inaccurate and
extremely harmful". He later asked that the investiture of his knighthood
be delayed "in order to avoid embarrassment to His Royal Highness the
Prince of Wales during his visit to Sri Lanka". In answer to the
newspaper's allegations, Clarke was investigated by Sri Lankan
authorities, who eventually dismissed the accusations. The Sunday Mirror
later printed a retraction and Clarke was made a Knight Bachelor on May
26, 2000, in a ceremony in Colombo. A formal investigation undertaken by
Sri Lankan police cleared Clarke in April 1998.'
And
'There is no evidence that science-fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke
is a pedophile, Sri Lankan Deputy Inspector General of Police
M.S.M. Nizam said April 6.
"We are satisfied that he has not violated any Sri Lankan laws or
committed any crime," Nizam said, noting that police interviewed
three of the sources quoted in the Mirror story. "Two of them
told us that they were given money to say what they allegedly
said," Nizam said.'
Jon.
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