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Deputy Commissioner Of Police
Rob Pope

Dear Sir,
The following is a defamatory post made about you on the message boards of Trade Me. Any inquiries would likely show that the poster linz4me is gentleman who has some difficulties, which may in part excuse him for his apparent condition in often naming well known figures as being corrupt and in Contempt of Court. However, my concern is that this poster has made defamatory comment about yourself and others at will on the TM boards, and that TM allow it to continue.

You may know that they operate a post first policy, relying on other board users to moderate the boards or indeed contact them with a complaint. I complained about the following post yesterday and it remains. One of the obvious disadvantages of a 'post first' policy is that the material enters the cybermedia and can be absorbed into files or other publications very quickly, so that even when an 'offending' post is removed there is no specific way of knowing the extent of the damage it may have caused.

I will be up front and acknowledge that I am active in pressuring Trade Me for a fairer system whereby they don't live post but moderate first, and also where they don't rely on members of their boards or of the public to complain. I feel such a complaint policy assumes that anyone such as yourself is obligated to monitor message boards of which you may have no interest but on which you must keep an eye in case, as in the following and previous posts, you are defamed. I think any reasonable person would be offended by the post, the delay in it's removal, none of which - withstands your role in the Police.

I have suggested to Trade Me that this gentleman linz4me be prevented from posting because of his inability to prevent himself straying into defamatory statements.



Yours faithfully
etc.




url http://www.trademe.co.nz/Community/MessageBoard/Messages.aspx?id=343730&p=312&topic=7
ro42 wrote:

That's daft, Linz. Everyone's entitled to state their opinion, within the law, and within the TM rules.


I'm afraid I will have to agree to disagree with you, there has been a shift in what is acceptable to the detriment of those who happen to believe Robin Bain is a victim not a monster. There has been talk of screen shots taken to prove a point there has been talk of misconduct by those of one opinion but if some one retaliates there is the threats again.
When I first started posting on R. v Watson I was subjected to some pretty nasty and intemperate comments and I was forceful in my opinion of both Pope and Davison calling both liars and corrupt many times which invoked some very strong replies from some members who were police officers.
But even at is worst it was play school compared to to abuse some have suffered and the abusers are in most part back under different names.
I have defended Robin Bain simply because he has no one to speak for him and deceased or not he is entitled to a defence, I find it abhorrent that because he is deceased it is a licence to vilify him on little or no evidence. It is repugnant that anyone finds it totally acceptable to do this and when asked to produce evidence to support their position refuse to do so.
I try to speak for those who have no voice, no defender, no rights why even pigs in sow crates have more rights than a deceased person.
It is so sad that we have sunk to the level of blaming the dead for their own death.

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linz4me (273 ) 5:02 pm, Mon 2 Aug #15592

I think I might have solved one of Kent's problems. I'm sure he'll be so pleased. Taken from the above it has become plain to me that linz4me is not advising kenty boy on how to defend charges of defamation but rather advising Kenty how defamation should be conducted. Jolly, jolly good.

We may have also discovered a deeper wisdom thanks to linz(I've got everything in the world wrong with me and nobody, loves me)forme: pigs in sow crates have more rights than a deceased person. I imagine having abused the Judge and all the lawyers first that linz4me will open his final address to the jury with that pearler, leaving all present, to wonder whether it had been an animal rights trial of some discription or just a circus with Kent and linzo-binzo vying for the clown's role. It'll be such fun, I can hardly wait.