Reply to: McAlpine to take legal action

[tractor]

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Theres a mob?? Who are we against and where do I get my pitchfork?

We don't know yet, we are waiting for Pretty Boy Schofield and his biatch to tell us on Monday morning. Just have the stake and 'fork ready for we are going witch-dipping down the pond.

[speling bee]

I think it's possible that McAlpine is the guy responsible, and that they've paid off the guy who accused him, and/or threatened to bump him off, in order to change his testimony.
They do say that the rich and powerful are above the law; maybe this is the mechanism by which this happens, and all you lot suckers on here criticising what happened to him are part of that process

Mind control?

[MarillionFan]

I think you will find that many of us are criticising the populist mob or the outspoken (daft as a brush) expert process, not the result.

Theres a mob?? Who are we against and where do I get my pitchfork?

[tractor]

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I think it's possible that McAlpine is the guy responsible, and that they've paid off the guy who accused him, and/or threatened to bump him off, in order to change his testimony.
They do say that the rich and powerful are above the law; maybe this is the mechanism by which this happens, and all you lot suckers on here criticising what happened to him are part of that process

I think you will find that many of us are criticising the populist mob or the outspoken (daft as a brush) expert process, not the result.

[KentPhilip]

I think it's possible that McAlpine is the guy responsible, and that they've paid off the guy who accused him, and/or threatened to bump him off, in order to change his testimony.
They do say that the rich and powerful are above the law; maybe this is the mechanism by which this happens, and all you lot suckers on here criticising what happened to him are part of that process

[captainham]

At the other (neanderthal) end of the scale you have a mob who don't know the difference between paediatrician and paedophile terrorising a doctor .

Holy sh!t....now there's the strongest case yet for selective breeding that I've ever seen. These people cannot be allowed to exist in the gene pool.

Stunned.

[tractor]

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These mob-led, media fuelled witch hunts are really getting out of hand but it's not something new. As far as the experts go, I remember well the Orkney event of the 80's . At the other (neanderthal) end of the scale you have a mob who don't know the difference between paediatrician and paedophile terrorising a doctor .

The media are most of the problem and in the case of the BBC they are damned if they do (MacAlpine) and damned if they don't (Savile). The lesson for them really is, if they have any evidence it should go to the police, not the public. They can report all they like after the court case. I sincerely hope those responsible for yesterday's news are pilloried like MacAlpine would have been, had it been true.

Our society has been going backwards for years, very soon we will be burning people at the stake for homeopathy because anything that starts with hom- must be sexual deviance

[minestrone]

He is saying that he was never at the location but I think we can find out where he was with his mobile phone records. They do it all the time on CSI

"wat! u nvr had mobs in the 80s?!?!? wat did u do brov? 4 like, meetin the crew an that"

[centurian]

What was all the more worrying about the Sally Clark case was that there was no-one on the defence team (including Clark herself, who was a solicitor) that had even the basic grasp of statistics to blow apart Meadow's testimony.

[NotAllThere]

... I'm just adding that sometimes Court-appointed experts are worse and do even more harm to justice than a few internet loud-mouths...

Isn't the legal definition of an expert "someone who knows more about a subject than anyone else in the room".

The Sally Clark case and others are truly terrifying. I'm glad I live in a civilised country.

[OwlHoot]

I watch a lot of Columbo on the telly, so I am a bit of an expert on forensic science, and detective logic.
What I want to know is this. If he was being bummed by a peer of the realm, surely he had his face in the pillow, or at least he was looking the other way

so THEREFORE, how could he know what the perp looked like ????

It really makes you wonder what journalistic standards are being used these days, when such an obvious error is allowed to slip through the editorial net

Yes, but would you have guessed he was a devil worshipper? It's always the last person one expects.

I can't wait to tell everyone down at the pub

[OwlHoot]

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? ...

all the more so as the prosecution's case, based on twat Roy Meadow's testimony, hinged on that very fact, a sort of argument by contradiction with the conclusion that the common cause could only be her abuse. All the defence had to do was point out that there could be some _other_ common cause.

PS Another very sane comments Gentile.

WHS - Shame I'm maxxed out Gentile rep wise

[minestrone]

The jury of twitter is out of control, if he is guilty bang him up and cut his nads off as far as I am concerned but let's do this through the courts first.

Not heard the PM thing on ITV from the other day but the girly said the PM dealt with it very well, she strongly dislikes Cameron as well.

[EternalOptimist]

I watch a lot of Columbo on the telly, so I am a bit of an expert on forensic science, and detective logic.
What I want to know is this. If he was being bummed by a peer of the realm, surely he had his face in the pillow, or at least he was looking the other way

so THEREFORE, how could he know what the perp looked like ????

It really makes you wonder what journalistic standards are being used these days, when such an obvious error is allowed to slip through the editorial net

[Gentile]

When did we become a pitchfork and flaming torch -bearing mob?...........scratch that, I'm forgetting I live in the UK.

FTFY

That's a fair correction.