McAlpine to take legal action

**Gentile** · 9 November 2012, 19:36

Originally posted by mudskipper View Post

BBC News - Lord McAlpine gets man's apology over abuse claims

Oh, it wasn't McAlpine after all...

Terrifying how easily lives get ruined.

BBC News - Lord McAlpine 'to take legal action' over abuse claims

He should count himself lucky. All he had to put up with was some self-appointed internet "experts" casting aspersions on his name. Sally Clark had to spend three years in prison and ended up dead because some court-appointed "expert" provided an incompetent "professional" opinion that she was responsible for child abuse. Donna Anthony served seven years after being accused of a crime she didn't commit by the same incompetent "expert".

Heaven preserve us from 'experts' of all types.

**adubya** · 9 November 2012, 19:39

Errr, so if you had been falsely implicated they would you "count yourself lucky" or be a bit pissed off that your reputation had been trashed by internet gossip ?

**Gentile** · 9 November 2012, 19:43

Originally posted by adubya View Post

Errr, so if you had been falsely implicated they would you "count yourself lucky" or be a bit pissed off that your reputation had been trashed by internet gossip ?

Yes, that's exactly what I said. Word for word. You didn't miss anything out at all.

**adubya** · 9 November 2012, 19:49

OK, so you sympathise with his position, I mis-interpreted your post

**Gentile** · 9 November 2012, 19:55

Originally posted by adubya View Post

OK, so you sympathise with his position, I mis-interpreted your post

And I apologise for my slightly sarcky response. I do sympathise with the guy. Self-appointed experts are the pits. I'm just adding that sometimes Court-appointed experts are worse and do even more harm to justice than a few internet loud-mouths.

FWIW, I'm not entirely happy with the pillorying of any of the public figures that's gone on recently, including Jimmy Savile. Deciding someone is guilty before there's even been an investigation is what happens in dodgy regimes like the United States. We should be better than that here. Fair enough if there's a legitimate police enquiry and he's found guilty in due course. But removing headstones from his grave?, vandalising a house he left to relatives?, and even talking about removing the body from the grave FFS? When did we become a pitchfork and flaming torch -bearing mob?...........scratch that, I'm forgetting this is CUK General.

**speling bee** · 9 November 2012, 19:59

Isn't McAlpine an illuminatus?

**Gentile** · 9 November 2012, 20:01

Originally posted by speling bee View Post

Isn't McAlpine an illuminatus?

No, it was Devil Worshipper I heard. Must be true, I heard it down the pub.

**speling bee** · 9 November 2012, 20:04

Originally posted by Gentile View Post

No, it was Devil Worshipper I heard. Must be true, I heard it down the pub.

I see.

**xoggoth** · 9 November 2012, 20:17

Sally Clark had to spend three years in prison and ended up dead because some court-appointed "expert" provided an incompetent "professional" opinion that she was responsible for child abuse. Donna Anthony served seven years after being accused of a crime she didn't commit by the same incompetent "expert"

Totally agree. Nobody thought to say it was only correct to multiply up the chance of a baby dying ONLY if there was no common cause. Why was her defence quite so ignorant that they did not to point that out?

Going back to child abuse, a number of men were convicted during operation ORE simply because their credit cards had been registered at child porn sites although nothing was ever found on their computers and there was no record of any download. It never occured to anyone that they had been victims of common card fraud of the sort I suffered last year although, fortunately for me, the fraudsters only brought some cheap sports gear before the bank picked it up.

Our legal "experts" seem to be totally ignorant fools at times, it's why I'm totally against DNA collection. Who wants to be falsely matched to some rape or whatever and for nobody to know enough about the subject to point out that these theoretical blanket figures of 10s of milions to one do not apply to all cases and, even when it does, that does not mean that only 6 people in the UK could possibly have done it? Even assuming the idiots haven't mixed up the samples or made some other stupid cockup.

PS Another very sanecomments Gentile.

McAlpine to take legal action