The Campaign Against Public Morals

The Campaign Against Public Morals (CAPM) was initially formed in 1980 as a defense committee for Thomas O'Carroll and his PIE co-defendants at the 1981 trial for "Conspiracy to corrupt public morals". The committee was hi-jacked by two radical paedophiles (Dave Landau and Tim Brown) with a different agenda, hostile to PIE, and O'Carroll resigned from his own defense committee. In 1981, CAPM produced a left-wing / a quasi-anarchist booklet entitled "Paedophilia and Public Morals" (1980) which scrutinized patriarchal, state and family oppression of young people, as well as defending the indicted PIE committee members. Notably, the booklet also criticized O'Carroll, his book, PIE and its politics, as well as the trial and society's disdain for the freedoms and capacities of children and young people. Their political analysis was strong, their sense of solidarity less so...

Among the people involved in CAPM was Lord Justice (Adrian) Fulford, an Appeal Court judge and Privy Counsellor named in 2013 as an adviser to the Queen of England. Fulford was a founding member of the organization, and stated many years later that he had no recollection of the group - that any contribution he made would have been in general terms against a law banning the right to freedom of speech and freedom of association.