The example you have given is very different from the subject of my post. Mike says that he has seen a photograph of Sheila on the bed and nobody can say from their own knowledge that what Mike says is false. You may be sceptical about this but that is as far as you can take it. There is no evidence to contradict what Mike says. In the case of the Mike/Smiffy allegation both Mike and Smiffy have categorically denied that they are one and the same. There therefore is direct evidence to contradict this John Lamberton invention.
That's fair enough, there are however many instances of something being claimed, or claims that a document irrefutably indicates something, when in reality it is simply a persons opinion or view.
Examples of this include:
Pargaters rifle case being at WHF, Smiffy has posted Ann's note as the proof, the reality is that it's not proof at all, merely somebodies opinion of what it refers to. However since then countless people on the forum have repeated it so many times that many people accept it to be the 'case' without question.
Another example is Ann taking a bucket of blood stained clothes home, which was accepted on the same face value and isn't actually true.
Or we have the old story about the police being in conversation with somebody inside the house, unfortunately the 'met with no reply' was omitted.
I could go on, but all of these things are (or were) accepted as fact simply because they were repeated over and over again. It has more to do with people trying to persuade others around to their way of thinking, regardless of whether it's the truth or not.
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Many of Mikes theories are based on such terms, such as Sheila being downstairs, Sheila being in the scullery, bodies moved around, June being the shooter, Anthony Pargeter being the shooter, Pargeters rifle/silencer/magazines being at WHF, a phone call from Ralph, a scratched/unscratched mantel piece, edited witness statements, falsified hand swabs... etc .... etc ... etc.
Which is fine, it's a 21st Century method of brainstorming I suppose, the problem is in the manner in which such theories are put across, they are stated as the absolute matter of fact truth, even though many of these absolute matter of fact truths are incompatible with each other.
Other people then read these theories and accept them as fact and repeat them over and over again until they almost become accepted. There's even been newspaper articles and TV programs repeating these things, not to mention the various comments added on to online articles and blogs and forums.
And as I say, that's all fine, folk can do as they please, but I do question what the point of it is, why does someone reply to one of my posts shouting and screaming in an almost uncontrollable rant that their opinion is far more credible than mine when the reality is it's just their views differ to mine. My views may not be accepted by everyone but they are usually fairly well thought out and conveyed, so I do wonder why they appear to offend people so.
It's one thing to convince a few people of something (whether it's true or not), it's another to actually convince the courts. I sometimes get the impression that priorities are the wrong way around.
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Anyway I've rambled on enough and I've forgot what the question was, or if there even was one.
And this all has nothing to do with the identities of anybody on the forum which just doesn't bloody matter anyway.
