A new member's perception - but are these points true or false?

[John]

well I do hope this applies to the anti brigade john ...as a anti already posted private pms on the board and didn't even get a warning ...double standards john double standards.....

You are quite correct, they have done now though. 

[Joanne]

Any behaviour seen as offensive either via the boards or pm route, please report it via the usual channels and it will be seen too. Thank you.

[Benita]

You are quite correct, they have done now though. 

the said pm was not sent to j.rob  ...so how the hell did she manage to post it on here  >@@(*&)  >@@(*&) >@@(*&)

[j.rob]

You say the press has been gagged...you say you go with the evidence..what evidence do you have that the press has been gagged

The influence of Clarence Mitchell on the media. That is a massive conflict of interest in my opinion. The McCanns were made suspects by the Portugese police. That is a fact.

The McCanns are using teams of lawyers to try to silence people who think that the Portugese police were on the right track. The Portugese Police did not believe their theory on why Madeleine died.

Amaral's book in which he gives his version of what he thinks happened is available in this country. Why not? You can get it in other countries.

Why would the Portugese police necessarily be wrong? Provide the evidence that the Portuguese police investigation is wrong. Impartial evidence that is.

In any cases of missing children/harmed children the last people who saw the child and the primary caregivers have to be completely ruled out as having had any hand in the disappearance.

[j.rob]

That should read Amaral's book is NOT available in this country. But in other countries it is. Why would that be?

Why should the British public not be allowed to understand why the Portugese police made the McCanns suspects? I think that is quite important.

Why was the case shelved? IN whose interests was that?

[jassi]

The influence of Clarence Mitchell on the media. That is a massive conflict of interest in my opinion. The McCanns were made suspects by the Portugese police. That is a fact.

The McCanns are using teams of lawyers to try to silence people who think that the Portugese police were on the right track. The Portugese Police did not believe their theory on why Madeleine died.

Amaral's book in which he gives his version of what he thinks happened is available in this country. Why not? You can get it in other countries.

Why would the Portugese police necessarily be wrong? Provide the evidence that the Portuguese police investigation is wrong. Impartial evidence that is.

In any cases of missing children/harmed children the last people who saw the child and the primary caregivers have to be completely ruled out as having had any hand in the disappearance.

Presumably because he couldn't get a publisher or distributor to handle it.
Didn't Amazon offer it for sale for a short while and then withdrew it?

[j.rob]

In actual fact, in my opinion it was our own police who initially bungled the case - the Leicestershire police force were far too chummy with the McCanns and accepted their version of events as the the only possible version of events. Which is quite extraordinary for a police investigation - to accept as truth the version of events given by people who were the last people to see the child?

Does that sound like a good piece of detective work? What would child protection experts say about that?

[Redblossom]

That should read Amaral's book is NOT available in this country. But in other countries it is. Why would that be?

Why should the British public not be allowed to understand why the Portugese police made the McCanns suspects? I think that is quite important.

Why was the case shelved? IN whose interests was that?

No British publisher touched it, good question jrob....I will see if I can find an interview of Amarals where he mentions it

Eta

From news reports the portuguese publishers were in negotiations with the UK when Mitchell threatened legal action......

[j.rob]

Presumably because he couldn't get a publisher or distributor to handle it.
Didn't Amazon offer it for sale for a short while and then withdrew it?

Yes - now why would that be?

[Mr Gray]

That should read Amaral's book is NOT available in this country. But in other countries it is. Why would that be?

Why should the British public not be allowed to understand why the Portugese police made the McCanns suspects? I think that is quite important.

Why was the case shelved? IN whose interests was that?

 quite simply amarals book is not available in the uk because it would fall foul of the laws of our country..ie the libel laws. Do you think we should change our laws so that amaral can print his book..
Change the laws of the UK to suit amaral..please

[Redblossom]

quite simply amarals book is not available in the uk because it would fall foul of the laws of our country..ie the libel laws. Do you think we should change our laws so that amaral can print his book..
Change the laws of the UK to suit amaral..please

Are you saying all published books inthe UK are not libellous in any way? Besides, it has not been deemed libellous by anyone in any authority.....Mitchell does not count.....

[jassi]

The thing is that no one is prepared to take the risk

[Mr Gray]

Are you saying all published books inthe UK are not libellous in any way? Besides, it has not been deemed libellous by anyone in any authority.....Mitchell does not count.....

 Do you really not understand the basics....

[Mr Gray]

The thing is that no one is prepared to take the risk

 It isn't a matter of risk...amaral makes defamatory comments in his book...and  he does not have the evidence to support them..no one would touch a book that is so obviously libellous

[Eleanor]

Amaral's book isn't just a little bit Libellous.  It's a big bit Libellous.  And no British Publisher was prepared to commit Hari Kiri.
Besides, it was translated and up on The Net before you could say hit me with a writ, baby.