tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1073021351804532798.post7946190154247256113..comments2024-03-15T06:02:30.623+00:00Comments on The Lockerbie Case: Slim Virgin and LockerbieRobert Blackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03606456028430261555noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1073021351804532798.post-70444629848199647852017-07-26T13:50:27.063+01:002017-07-26T13:50:27.063+01:00DOSSIER LOCKERBIE, 2017
MEBO Ltd, is in possessio...DOSSIER LOCKERBIE, 2017<br /><br />MEBO Ltd, is in possession of several recorded telephone conversations, between Edwin Bollier and Linda Mack, from this time-window - but these will not be released or ever published!<br /><br />Edwin Bollier, MEBO Ltd. Telecommunication Switzerland. Webpage: www.lockerbie.chebolhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12681382726604052927noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1073021351804532798.post-64850393317591446882017-07-26T12:16:10.641+01:002017-07-26T12:16:10.641+01:00More recently I looked again at the wiki article o...More recently I looked again at the wiki article on Pan Am 103 and saw that it was still woefully out of date and didn't seem to have been touched for quite a while. I discussed it with one or two people and made a start on a re-written article which would give better weight to the important facts on the case and eliminate a lot of the verbiage surrounding things that turned out to be either untrue or unimportant, but I ran out of steam.<br /><br />Maybe I need to start again. Maybe after I retire....Rolfehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17849975010197698907noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1073021351804532798.post-41366922721817744872017-07-26T12:13:25.522+01:002017-07-26T12:13:25.522+01:00Goodness! How convoluted. All this happened befo...Goodness! How convoluted. All this happened before I began taking a serious interest in Lockerbie and I really had no idea. I didn't pay much attention to the Wikipedia articles on the subject as I could see they were pretty out of date, not having been touched for some time, and in the very nature of things likely to be subject to partisan editing.<br /><br />Then imagine my astonishment when certain notorious Lockerbie fruitcakes started declaring that I was Slim Virgin! I'm certainly an unmarried lady and after a successful diet (thanks to Professor Black for his excellent diet tips by the way) fit neatly into size 10 clothes. But I'm not Linda Mack! My few Wikipedia edits (made under my own name) have mainly involved musicology. (Please see the article on Prokofiev's "Alexander Nevsky" film music, including the discovery of which I am particularly proud, and the article on my own mother Anne Sharp. I need to do more work on some of the articles on Benjamin Britten some day.)<br /><br />If it's so easy to call me an MI5 operative, when I'm just an ordinary observer with an interest in the case, then I take all such accusations with a large pinch of salt. Miss Mack seems to have a very chequered history (whereas I'm boringly conventional), but there's a great deal of speculation going on. Speculation which isn't necessarily well founded.<br /><br />Oddly enough I came across Slm Virgin's Wikipedia activities in an entirely different context, and a more favourable one. A few years ago I was interested in the case of Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito, victims of the Italian police deciding that the people who called the cops to a murder scene were the most likely perpetrators. It's all now resolved, happily in their favour, but for a time it was quite the cause celebre. The Wikipedia article on that case was the scene of edit wars more vicious than anything described here. The page was effectively taken over by a group of people obsessively punting the proposition that the pair were guilty, and I believe they succeeded in getting some people who believed in innocence banned.<br /><br />It got so bad that Jimmy Wales himself intervened and assigned an editor to rewrite the article from the ground up. I first became aware of this when innocence-supporting people on the forum where I was discussing it started to praise the high quality and lucidity of the resulting article - by Slim Virgin! At that point I read the article and it was indeed good, even-handed, and giving due weight to all the reasons to believe that this was a miscarriage of justice (at the time the pair were convicted).<br /><br />So she ain't all bad.Rolfehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17849975010197698907noreply@blogger.com