RobertLatimer.net is not a Credible Source

Dear Spartacist/Workers' Vanguard/PDC,

If you are to come across Robert Latimer and his ilk they are likely to refer to site called www.robertlatimer.net. This site, I don't think is credible for the following reasons. First of all, there is no About Us section meaning that one has no idea who is providing the information.

Second, for a lot of the people they site they have no contact information for those people. This makes it impossible to confirm whether or not these people are saying the things that robertlatimer.net alleges they are saying or whether robertlatimer.net is merely making it up.

Third, for things like court transcripts are on the website. There are no links to the original sources such as the Canadian Department of Justice, the Government of Canada etc.

Fourth, for a lot of their "doctors testimony" they do very little in terms of siting respected medical sites.

Another point, I think there a number of factual inaccuracies on this website site. They seem to be describing Cerebral Palsy as "increasingly degenerative". According to more reputable sources such as the Saskatchewan Cerebral Palsy Association (http://members.shaw.ca/saskcpa/Who_What_How_.htm earlier), the Cerebral Palsy Association of BC (http://www.bccerebralpalsy.com/faq.htm#q1) and the Ontario Federation of Cerebral Palsy (http://www.ofcp.on.ca/aboutcp.html##A) Cerebral Palsy is not degenerative, doesn't get worse, isn't life threatening and isn't a disease. The claim that Cerebral Palsy is "degenerative" seems to have been regurgitated by other groups, including groups like the facebook group 'Support Robert Latimer's Release from Prison'.

Finally, they site an individual name Daphne Naegele at one point who they seem, I think, to be claiming is the editor of Transition which is a publication of the British Columbia Coalition of People with Disabilities (BCCPD). However, I recently spoke to the BCCPD and they said that Daphne Naegele was never the editor of their publication Transition. The founder Editor of Transition magazine, apparently, is an individual named Richard A. Watson. In fact the BCCPD is supports the incarceration of Robert Latimer.

Comradely,

M.G.

http://members.shaw.ca/saskcpa/Who_What_How_.htm Saskatchewan Cerebral Palsy Association

http://www.bccerebralpalsy.com/faq.htm#q1 Cerebral Palsy Association of British Columbia

http://www.ofcp.on.ca/aboutcp.html##A Ontario Federation of Cerebral Palsy