Saturday, 10 December 2011
Pat Brown: Crank Or Genius? You Decide
Pat Brown, criminal profiler, the woman whose head is so big, she has to enter the house via a window. They wrote about people like her during the war: "Over here, over-mouthed, over-paid!" Thankfully, we're separated from her by the Big Pond, and let's hope it stays this way.Ms Brown wrote a book about missing Madeleine McCann wherein she put forward her own ideas regarding what happened in Portugal one evening in May 2007.Not surprisingly, complaints were made and the book was pulled by Amazon, citing (as happened recently with one of my own books, since reinstated) that its content may contravene the company's guidelines. Ms Brown did not take kindly to being treated in such a way, and now claims that she is suing the McCanns themselves for various things. I dislike this couple intensely, but even I can see where they are coming from with this issue, if it was they who removed the book. Write what you believe may be the truth, by all means, but do so once the case has been solved, if this ever happens. Ms Brown also boasted that she would be attending Goncalo Amaral's libel trial in Portugal in February, and that she was also about to launch her own private investigation into Madeleine's disappearance. So, the "profiler" becomes Jessica Fletcher. I should imagine, what with the British review team and the team of private detectives still allegedly working for the McCanns, it really would be a case of too many cooks spoiling the broth. Still feeling snubbed, Ms Brown posted on the Justice4Maddie Facebook page, asking members to leave kind comments after the one-star reviews on retail sites where the book is still on sale. Therefore I politely made her aware of a few facts. First of all, there is no shame in having one-star reviews--I get them all the time and still sell thousands of books each week--but there is shame in asking people to write nice things about your book when they might not want to. Also, I again politely pointed out that, as she had since changed her mind about going to Portugal, after all the initial fuss, she risked a ribbing from the opposition.Then it was whoosh! Ms Brown goes off her head, accusing yours truly of spreading lies and libelling her--how dare I, a humble skivvy, talk like that to the mistress of the house! "It's him or me," she tells the site administrator, Ceri Poole, whose previous long posts concerning the post have usually amounted to little more than the occasional, "Aww, the poor wee thing!"Earlier in the day, a very nice young man who posts regularly on the Justice4Maddie site was accused of being a paedophile. Ms Poole chose to ignore such a serious accusation--not so much as one word of sympathy. Someone else posted there from Canada, with links to some very dodgy images. Ms Poole ignores once more. But Ms Brown bleets, and Ms Poole springs into action, not only banning me from the page, but from seeing any of its content.Therefore the moral of the equation is: it's fine to turn a blind eye to a good man being called a paedophile, to another man with possible links to obscene material--while jumping to the defense of a "top criminal profiler", against polite comments which were neither libellous nor offensive. With supporters like this, Maddie McCann certainly does not need enemies!I have now decided to distance myself from all things McCann. I'll close the petition--it's served its purpose--and I'll withdraw my statement from the Leveson Enquiry. I may or may not close this blog. I still have the tabloids to deal with, but now with the assurance that if I go down, I will be taking someone else with me.As for poor little Madeleine McCann, who time and time gets left behind in the machinations of this circus--and I'm referring to BOTH sides--I'm sure you'll be found one day.By The Great Pat Brown....or by Ceri Poole.Regarding the other 140 members of the Justice4Maddie Facebook group, some of which have become very good friends--you could not anywhere on earth find a better bunch of people.
A prize might be available if anyone can enlighten us as to what this is all about. Bit like a couple of prima donnas both trying to steal the limelight.