Re: PRESS VICTIMS PETITION FOR NEW LAW

**Sabot** Fri Nov 30, 2012 7:03 pm

Ed Milliband has changed his mind. I can't remember where I read it but I told you he would.

**Maggs** Fri Nov 30, 2012 7:17 pm

Sabot wrote:
Ed Milliband has changed his mind. I can't remember where I read it but I told you he would.

Yes I read it too, Sabot. But Cameron promised these victims more than he has/is giving, now.

**Sabot** Fri Nov 30, 2012 7:21 pm

Bunch of bloody cowards, Maggs. But The British Public don't like it. That Petition will be 50,000 by tomorrow. If it takes that long.

**muratfan** Fri Nov 30, 2012 7:23 pm

Trouble is...with state regulated press, would we have heard about the MP's expenses scandal and such

**bb1** Fri Nov 30, 2012 7:29 pm

IMO, carrots and sticks are needed, muratfan. There is a huge difference between exposing the Westminster troughers, and deliberately smearing and harrassing innocent people to sell more papers.

Further exposure of his trougher friends may be what is behind Camerons' reluctance to act.

**Sabot** Fri Nov 30, 2012 7:36 pm

The Expenses Scandal was the provable truth. That's the difference.

**bb1** Fri Nov 30, 2012 7:48 pm

http://hackinginquiry.org/news/j-k-rowlings-statement-on-david-camerons-response-to-leveson/

J.K. Rowling’s statement on David Cameron’s response to Leveson

Posted November 30th, 2012 by Hacked Off & filed under News.

Following the announcement yesterday of Lord Justice Leveson’s report and the Prime Minister’s response, author J.K. Rowling, a Core Participant in the Leveson inquiry and supporter of the Hacked Off campaign, has released the following statement, in which she calls for people to add their voices to those of victims of press misconduct and sign the petition.

I am alarmed and dismayed that the Prime Minister appears to be backing away from assurances he made at the outset of the Leveson inquiry.

I thought long and hard about the possible consequences to my family of giving evidence and finally decided to do so because I have made every possible attempt to protect my children’s privacy under the present system, and failed. If I, who can afford the very best lawyers, cannot guarantee the privacy of those dearest to me, what hope did the Dowlers, the McCanns and the Watsons ever have of protecting their own children and their own good names? Those who have suffered the worst, most painful and least justifiable kinds of mistreatment at the hands of the press, people who have become newsworthy because of the press’s own errors or through unspeakable private tragedy, are those least likely to be able to defend themselves or to seek proper redress.

My understanding is that Lord Justice Leveson’s recommendations would give everybody, whatever their degree of celebrity or their bank balance, a quick, cheap and effective way of holding the press to account. They would also protect the press against frivolous complaints and reduce costly lawsuits. At the moment, only those of us who can afford the immensely expensive, time-consuming and stressful services of the legal system are able to take a stand against serious invasions of privacy and even this offers little to no protection against the unjustified, insidious and often covert practises highlighted by the Leveson inquiry.

Without statutory underpinning Leveson’s recommendations will not work. We will be left with yet another voluntary system from which the press can walk away. If the Prime Minister did not wish to change the regulatory system even to the moderate, balanced and proportionate extent proposed by Lord Leveson, I am at a loss to understand why so much public money has been spent and why so many people have been asked to re-live extremely painful episodes on the stand in front of millions. Having taken David Cameron’s assurances in good faith at the outset of the inquiry he set up, I am merely one among many who feel duped and angry in its wake.

I hope that those who share similar concerns will speak up now and sign the Hacked Off petition. Mr. Cameron said that he would implement sensible recommendations: it is time for him to honour that commitment and join the other political leaders by supporting the Leveson recommendations in their entirety.

**Sabot** Fri Nov 30, 2012 7:56 pm

Wow, I'd sign The Petition again after that, if I could. I think Britain might be having a minor Revolution.

**Maggs** Fri Nov 30, 2012 8:04 pm

Having taken David Cameron’s assurances in good faith at the outset of the inquiry he set up, I am merely one among many who feel duped and angry in its wake.

Exactly what I said.

**bb1** Fri Nov 30, 2012 8:20 pm

Mavis ponders... ‏@mavisMacCruet
@IWILLNOTGOAWAY @ranty_man perhaps their smug faces all over tv preaching morals WILL BACKFIRE NOW !!!- MAYBE folk will read #mccann story !

Oh, no doubt about that - normal, decent people are indeed reading what the press did to the McCanns and others - and rushing to sign that petition in their tens of thousands.

Right this minute, it stands at:

28862

Stings, does it?

**bb1** Fri Nov 30, 2012 8:40 pm

How funny! Bennett's lot are now pretending to be enthralled with backward speech, or some such rubbish.

Gone off the idea of saying that 'no-one' will support this petition, have they?

**bb1** Fri Nov 30, 2012 8:49 pm

I am delighted to report that the petition has now got more than 30,000 sigs, in a matter of hours.

PRESS VICTIMS PETITION FOR NEW LAW - Page 2 Petition2

http://hackinginquiry.org/petition/

**bb1** Fri Nov 30, 2012 9:35 pm

Still soaring:

32127

I doubt if Cameron expected the public to be quite so sickened with the press and what they have done to people.

**bb1** Fri Nov 30, 2012 9:42 pm

Today, Gerry McCann was very much the public face of this petition:

http://news.sky.com/story/1018659/leveson-mccann-urges-pm-to-remember-victims

Leveson: McCann Urges PM To Remember Victims

PRESS VICTIMS PETITION FOR NEW LAW - Page 2 8789052-3-1-340x192

PRESS VICTIMS PETITION FOR NEW LAW - Page 2 8789052-3-1-340x192

And the public is signing the petition in their tens of thousands.

I hope the forkers, hounders and general riff-raff McCann-haters think long and hard about what this means. Because it means that the public trust the McCanns and sympathise with what has been done to them, and others.

No-one wants to know about the haters and their vile remarks, nasty minds, and endless vendetta.

**Pedro Silva** Fri Nov 30, 2012 9:46 pm

about:

"I am delighted to report that the petition has now got more than 30,000 sigs, in a matter of hours.",

excellent, the more signatures the better.

bb1, I agree with you.

**Sabot** Fri Nov 30, 2012 9:48 pm

The nasty vendetta on The Internet has almost certainly helped this Petition. People are sick of that too.

**Pedro Silva** Fri Nov 30, 2012 9:54 pm

Yes Sabot, I agree with you.

**muratfan** Fri Nov 30, 2012 10:21 pm

Yes, and the Anti's who insist putting the #leverson on their #mccann posts will be regretting it pretty soon. Everyone can see how vile they all are

**Sabot** Fri Nov 30, 2012 10:28 pm

muratfan wrote:Yes, and the Anti's who insist putting the #leverson on their #mccann posts will be regretting it pretty soon. Everyone can see how vile they all are

Oh Gosh, so they will. What a lot of silly billys they are.

**bb1** Fri Nov 30, 2012 10:34 pm

36416

Amazing how well it's done since Gerry McCann launched it earlier today. There won't be a carpet left unchewed in hater households.

**Max** Fri Nov 30, 2012 11:25 pm

bb1 wrote:Mavis ponders... ‏@mavisMacCruet
@IWILLNOTGOAWAY @ranty_man perhaps their smug faces all over tv preaching morals WILL BACKFIRE NOW !!!- MAYBE folk will read #mccann story !

Oh, no doubt about that - normal, decent people are indeed reading what the press did to the McCanns and others - and rushing to sign that petition in their tens of thousands.

Right this minute, it stands at:

28862

Stings, does it?

Now 39257

**bb1** Fri Nov 30, 2012 11:34 pm

Phenomenal, Max. Speaks for itself about who the public support.

**bb1** Fri Nov 30, 2012 11:44 pm

Leveson Report: victims of press intrusion too 'angry' to attend meeting with Culture Secretary
Victims of press intrusion refused to attend a planned meeting with Maria Miller to discuss the Leveson Report because of anger over David Cameron's stance. JK Rowling says she feels "duped".

Victims of press intrusion refused to attend a planned meeting with the Culture Secretary to discuss the Leveson Report today because they were so “angry” at David Cameron’s dismissal of its key recommendation.
Gerry and Kate McCann, Bob and Sally Dowler and Christopher Jefferies were among those invited to attend the meeting with Maria Miller, but they felt so “let down” by Mr Cameron that they stayed away.
JK Rowling, the Harry Potter author, said she felt “duped” and “dismayed” when Mr Cameron announced he did not intend to impose statutory underpinning of a new press regulator.
Instead of meeting victims, Mrs Miller met journalism professor Brian Cathcart, one of the founders of the Hacked Off campaign, and the former LibDem MP Evan Harris, associate director of Hacked Off, to discuss the Government’s response to the Leveson Report.
Dr Harris said: “The victims that we asked along felt too let down to meet her and too angry, so we went on our own.

“We wanted to know the basis for David Cameron’s principled objection to legal backing of an independent regulator when he had never mentioned this objection to us in previous meetings.
“We left the meeting none the wiser.”

More at:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/leveson-inquiry/9715505/Leveson-Report-victims-of-press-intrusion-too-angry-to-attend-meeting-with-Culture-Secretary.html

**Sabot** Sat Dec 01, 2012 5:39 am

Good Morning.

41,907.

**Maggs** Sat Dec 01, 2012 10:04 am

Sabot wrote:
Good Morning.

41,907.

Now 47314 wow thumbsup

ETA 47780

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