From: awrc@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Al Crawford)
Newsgroups: rec.music.industrial
Subject: Re: Psychic[k] T.V. - Trouble in Paradise
Date: 15 Sep 92 08:40:15 GMT
Reply-To: awrc@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Al Crawford)
Organization: The University Of Edinburgh - Department Of Computer Science

In article <38052@sdcc12.ucsd.edu> pskibitz@sdcc13.ucsd.edu (Paul F A U S T !! ) writes:
>
> As far as GPO's situation goes...I've also been told that there
> was some sort of raid on TOPY's headquarters in Britain by the
> police. Several things were uncovered which I'm not in the position of
> mentioning, but were sufficent evidence under British law to
> incriminate him...thats when he fled.

I did at one time have a fair-sized newspaper article on this kicking
around in my account somewhere but it seems to have gone the way of most
non-essential stuff in my last cleanout. Still...

GPO's current problematic situation seems to have arisen when a documentary
here on Satanic abuse etc showed "video evidence" of some sort of Satanic
ritual involving S&M etc. A woman who claimed to have been at the ritual
(and who is supposedly well known as a professional nutcase) went on to say
that the ritual had involved ritual abortion etc etc etc but that those
bits hadn't been filmed.

However, the documentary was discredited when someone pointed out that the
video was in fact a hardcore S&M film that TOPY had put out sometime in the
early 80s. It was banned here when released, certainly, but it sure as hell
wasn't a Satanic ritual of any sort.

What this documentary *did* do, however, was redirect the law's eye toward
Mr Orridge.  While I don't think it's the case that there was enough
evidence to convict him (i.e. we're not about to see him being extradited
from CA) legal advice was that it was best that he didn't return to the
country (he was on a tour of Asia with his family at the time). They may
have unearthed stuff at his home that wasn't mentioned in the article.

Yes, I think part of it is that there have been brushes with the law (or at
least the law keeping a rather close eye on him) in the past, so they'd
probably throw the book at him if he came back. As for the posting that put
it down to Gen and TOPY being a bad influence on the youth of this country
- I'm afraid that most of them would look somewhat blank if you mentioned
either. If they're Out To Get Him, it's not because they see him as a major
destabilising influence that's about to topple the government, it's more
that they just don't like him very much :-)

> Right now as you know he's in the Bay Area (San Francisco area)
> where he's taken a liking to playing at raves with those members of
> PTV in America.

Has he actually managed to get a visa? Given the US's tendency to refuse
them to anyone who they view as even remotely dubious, and Gen's current
relationship with the UK police, is he actually managed to get a real visa
or is he still on the 90 day visa waiver scheme? (seems to me he's been
there for > 90 days :-))

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