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He didn ’t get away with anything. He was strip searched in 1993 and he was not even indicted. He would not have submitted to a humiliating strip search had he been indeed guilty , especially , if he had by then molested three kids, not only Jordan Chandler , but James Safechuck and Wade Robson as well , who denied any misconduct for 20 years and they changed their story in 2012/2013 when they both reportedly hit financial hardship.The Chandlers were extortionists and there is a tape recording of Evan Chandler with Jordan Chandler’s step father David Schwartz during which Evan Chandler clearly threatened to ruin Michael Jackson if he didn’t get what he wanted , which was money.The Chandlers wrote in their book ALL THAT GLITTERS (2004) , which ironically completely exonerates and vindicates Michael Jackson , that if he had paid the 20 million $ Evan Chandler , who owed his ex wife June 68000 $ on unpaid alimony, demanded from Michael Jackson in August 1993 instead of January 1994 they would never have accused him , instead they would have left him alone. If anything this proves they were extortionists.The settlement in 1994 was paid by Michael Jackson ‘s insurance carrier, not himself , in spite of his protests , and it was over negligence , NOT sex abuse and it was agreed by both parents that it was not an admission of guilt on his part. Nobody / Nothing precluded the Chandlers from testifying in a court of law. These two aren’t legally related. The Chandlers never wanted a trial, they played smart to get money. Bert Fields and Anthony Pellicano resigned then because they both disagreed with Michael Jackson’s decision to settle the civil trial out of court which apparently he later regretted too, which is exactly the Estate refused to settle out of court with Robson and Safechuck in 2013 because they learned from their past mistakes as it was Howard Weitzman, the Estate’s attorney, who insisted Michael Jackson settled out of court then, which was clearly a mistake as it opened the Pandora’s box for further extortion attempts. Anyone who tries to use Latoya to boost the credibility of Leaving Neverland are at best and at least hypocritical. Latoya was in abusive relationship with a Genovese Mafia connected lunatic by the name Jack Gordon who forcibly married her against her will in Las Vegas in 1989, turned her against her own family, beat her to death daily, was twice arrested for assaulting her , made her strip for Playboy, made her pretend she was a psychic, write a tell all book degrading her family, he took all her money, threatened to kill her if she didn’t do as she was told , made her sell sordid stories to the tabloids about Michael Jackson in 1993 for money. Latoya is a real abuse survivor, there are many pictures of her which clearly show she was badly bruised, no one has the right to twist her experience to back up the bogus allegations of two proven liars. Latoya never went to the Police Station to report her brother molested kids as she ought to have done if that had been true , which wasn’t . Her ex husband tried to profit from the allegations but since they had zero proof MJ molested anyone the media paid them nothing because they were lying for money. Latoya left Gordon in 1996, she got a divorce in 1997, he died from cancer in 2005. She set the record straight in her book Startin Over.Regardless the settlement, there was a 14 month criminal investigation, before and after the settlement , and it concluded in zero evidence to get a single indictment. Two Grand Jury , from 2 different jurisdictions , Los Angeles and New York , did not even indict , let alone charge Michael Jackson with a crime in 1994 , after 400 witnesses , a strip search during which his entire body was photographed and filmed and unexpected raids by the Police to his 3 houses, Neverland, Hayvenhurst and a condo he had in Los Angeles. They found nothing , de rien , nada , niente , zip on him. Anyone who mentions MJ FACTS garbage hate site must be promptly ignored. Anyone who mentions OJ Simpson ‘s acquittal again must have brain transplant. OJ Simpson was acquitted because the trial took place in Los Angeles two years after the Rodney King riots and for the black and hispanic jury OJ Simpson was payback time for Rodney King and all the injustice the black community endured at the hands of the LAPD due to racism , prejudice and bigotry with Marcia Clark . Clark foolishly chose only black jurors who could have seen a video of OJ Simpson committing those murders and they would still have acquitted him. Michael Jackson however did not use the race card, the jury were not black, they were not frustrated with the Santa Barbara County Police Department, they were not sequestered, they were not low IQ , starstruck and uneducated like in the OJ Simpson trial , who was found indeed guilty in the civil trial in 1997.If Jordan Chandler had indeed described Michael Jackson’s penis accurately then Michael Jackson would have been immediately arrested. That was not the case however. Michael Jackson was clearly uncircumcised , which is confirmed in his autopsy report. Jordan Chandler , being Jewish on his father’s side ( and thus circumcised) described a circumcised penis. If he had seen Michael Jackson naked as many times as he said he did , if he had performed oral sex on him , if he had given him hand jobs , as many times as he alleged he did , then , he would have known that Michael Jackson ‘s penis was not circumcised, unless one is stupid enough to believe that Michael Jackson had an erection non stop. The Chandlers’ were Jewish , in fact , their real name was Charmaz , and they changed it to Chandler because Evan wanted to pursue a career in Hollywood as a screenwriter, though he was a dentist by trade, which career Michael Jackson refused to finance, hence, he used his son to extort money from Michael Jackson. Evan Chandler admitted he administered a psychiatric, barbiturate drug (sodium amytal) to his son in the pretext he took out his wisdom tooth , which is known for creating false memories , and it is , needless to say , not even used in dentistry and it is not even allowed in court. This video says it all.“It’s a psychiatric medication that cannot be relied on to produce fact,” says Dr. Resnick, the Cleveland psychiatrist. “People are very suggestible under it. People will say things under sodium Amytal that are blatantly untrue.” Sodium Amytal is a barbiturate, an invasive drug that puts people in a hypnotic state when it’s injected intravenously. Primarily administered for the treatment of amnesia, it first came into use during World War II, on soldiers traumatized—some into catatonic states—by the horrors of war. Scientific studies done in 1952 debunked the drug as a truth serum and instead demonstrated its risks: False memories can be easily implanted in those under its influence. “It is quite possible to implant an idea through the mere asking of a question,” says Resnick. But its effects are apparently even more insidious: “The idea can become their memory, and studies have shown that even when you tell them the truth, they will swear on a stack of Bibles that it happened,” says Resnick.To even consider celebrity worship or the settlement as the reasons Michael Jackson was not charged in 1993 or he was acquitted in 2005 , after a 4 month public, jury trial , which concluded a month early due to complete lack of evidence and 10 of the 12 jury ( two of them wanted to profit from a guilty verdict as they were offered book deals for thousands of dollars but it backfired , they never made a cent ) were ready to vote not guilty before the Defense even put on a case as the Prosecution’s witnesses either crumbled under cross examination or defended Jackson and the accuser’s family had zero credibility, is beyond ridiculous. If they had found anything on him they would have convicted him right then and there. To actually believe that Robson was the first Defense witness , albeit MJ allegedly molested him for 7 years , and he lied either to protect Michael Jackson or because he feared he might go to jail (depending on which version he is spinning each time ) is beyond ridiculous. No guilty person would ever have their own abuse victim testify for them and there is no way Robson , a High School graduate , could have fooled top and experienced attorneys like Mesereau and Yu and an overzealous prosecution like Sneddon and Zonen. Robson never wavered in 2005 because he was 100% truthful and he is lying now for money. When he lied under oath to get past the statutes in 2016 he got caught by the judge who threw away his entire witness statement and dismissed his lawsuit ( twice). Robson and Safechuck kept their story straight for 20 years ( that they were never molested ) without any financial motive and since they made these allegations in 2013 they have been caught in numerous lies , they have repeatedly changed their stories , which are contradicted in every single way, and they have filed civil lawsuits for hundreds of millions $ , hence they have a massive financial motive to lie and undeniably they have lied big time for money. Their lies in the one sided, bias , slanderous hit piece, which is entirely copied from a pro paedophilia book written by Victor Gutuirrez ( a gay peadophile and NAMBLA member ) and in fact promotes the NAMBLA agenda, have already been debunked since day one , hence they rushed to edit it and delete scenes from future airings , which were called out for being utterly false.The lie which completely dismantled their story was Safechuck’s daily abuse from 1988–1992 in the Neverland train Station , which was not even constructed until May 1994 , two years after his claimed abuse supposedly ended. They are both perjurers and profiteers , they both had their frivolous lawsuits thrown out of court and they ended up owing the Estate’s legal expenses as well as their own.Robson and Safechuck share the same legal firm since 2013 exactly like the Arvizos accused Michael Jackson after they were referred to the same civil attorney, named Larry Feldman , who got the 15 million $ settlement for the Chandlers in 1994. Safechuck joined Robson in a multi million dollar claim against the MJ Estate in 2013 after he was contacted by Robson ‘s lawyers , Henry Gradstein and Marianne Marzano, who were since his as well, until Robson’s case was dismissed in 2016 and they resigned , realizing of course there was zero chance to win the case. Then, Robson and Safechuck hired Stewart and Finaldi , who are known for fishing victims and winning sex abuse cases with outlandish lies in the media.Larry King testified in 2005 that Larry Feldman, Evan Chandler’s lawyer in 1994 and Janet Arvizo’s civil lawyer in 2005, told him that Janet Arvizo , who prior to Michael Jackson falsely accused of sex abuse a JC PENNEY security guard who caught her kids shoplifting , was a psychopath who was only after money. Had Michael Jackson been convicted in 2005 then Feldman would have represented Gavin Arvizo in a civil action against Michael Jackson for money because based on the legislation at the time any civil lawsuit would have been inactive without a criminal trial first. The Arvizos however were completely discredited in court , no juror believed them , they had a history of shoplifting, perjury , extortion, welfare fraud and hustling celebrities for money. They were caught in many lies and contradictions and they were refuted by almost all witnesses. In 1993, however, Michael Jackson tried to postpone the civil trial and get the criminal trial go first but the Judge sided with the Chandlers and did not allow the criminal trial to go first under CA speedy trial law, which was Chandlers’ plan all along. However , under 1108 prior bad acts , the jury , who were all white and conservative , after they saw evidence and testimony from both 93 and 03 cases, they completely cleared Michael Jackson on all counts and they could not even nail him on a single misdemeanour ( lesser charges) in 2005 . The not guilty verdict was not a racially motivated verdict like the OJ Simpson travesty and OJ Simpson was completely found guilty in the 1997 civil trial. Michael Jackson was never found guilty at any trial either criminal or civil.Anyone who actually believes that a civil settlement prevents Prosecution or that a criminal trial can be settled out of court should not be answering this question. If that were the case then Bill Cosby with his at least 400 million $ net worth , maybe more, would not be in jail now. Andrea Constand received a 3 million dollar from Bill Cosby in 2005 , yet , she pursued a criminal trial because she was a real rape victim, not a gold digger. The Chandlers on the other hand took the money in 1994 and ran. They never cared to testify in a criminal court yet they kept making further extortion attempts until 2001 which were all thrown out of court . The alleged victim refused twice to testify against Michael Jackson , both in 94 and 05, and requested legal emancipation from his parents in 1996 ,he refused to speak to either of them since 1996 ( his own mother June Chandler Schwartz testified it in the 2005 trial ) , sued and took a restraining order against his own father in 2005 because he assaulted him and tried to kill him and did not even attend his own father ‘s funeral in 2009 who killed himself only 4 months after Michael Jackson died and no one attended his funeral because he was a rotten to the core mental sociopath. Journalist Mary Fisher did an extensive research in 1993–1994 and she revealed a lot of exculpatory evidence for Michael Jackson, which was included in her GQ article , but is was buried in the anti Jackson media propaganda.James Brown , Bobby Brown , Bill Cosby, Jerry Sandusky , Mike Tyson , and Harvey Weinstein , R Kelly ( not yet , but soon ) , Tupac, Oscar Pistorius all went to jail. If there was evidence against Michael Jackson he would have gone to jail too. The jury in 2005 were all educated , middle class , conservative, family people. If they believed he was actually guilty they would have convicted him accordingly. Michael Jackson went through the due process as he should have. They found nothing. He is only guilty in the court of the public opinion because the media have been lying about him for 35 years. The difference between Jerry Sandusky and Michael Jackson is that Sandusky had at least 35 accusers , none of whom had mentally ill parents who asked for money, like Gavin Arvizo and Jordan Chandler , none of them defended Sandusky under oath like Robson and Safechuck who have repeatedly , especially Robson, tried to profit from these allegations , which is not an attitude or behavior consistent of abuse survivors.Wade Robson , after he was not hired by the Estate to direct the MJ ONE show in 2012, which debuted in Las Vegas in 2013, and since he was reportedly in financial trouble , hence he ’d already sold to Julien’s Auctions’ all his MJ related items in 2011, before any ‘’ abuse ‘’ disclosure or realization, he unsuccessfully tried to shop a book deal about his alleged abuse for which he asked a huge amount of money but there was no interest in his book. However, during legal proceedings, during which he perjured himself , he was ordered to present a draft of his book in court , in which he referred to himself as a ‘’master of deception’’ and he wrote that his ‘’ abuse experience and its effects will make me relevant and relatable again. It ‘s time to get mine’’. What abuse victim says that?In Michael Jackson ‘s case there was never a single accuser who ever filed a complaint without first consulting a high profile civil attorney for money. They all consulted and contacted civil attorneys for money. Every single one. None of them ever went to the Police to file a complaint ever. They all wanted money.To believe Michael Jackson was given a free pass because he was a celebrity is beyond unfair and ridiculous. The media deliberately sensationalized his 2005 trial for ratings and thus profit. The media coverage of the 2005 trial , which was the most media covered and highly publicized trial of all times , was extremely unfair and the only journalist who admitted the error of her ways was Aphrodite Jones who, though she was once Michael Jackson’s detractor, she started defending him once she looked into the evidence and realized that Michael Jackson was framed for money and the criminals were in fact the plaintiffs, not him. To right the wrong she wrote a book , which no one wanted to publish because it was pro Jackson , under the title ‘’Conspiracy’’, in which she writes in detail the Arvizos’ absurd and ludicrous testimonies as well as the media hypocrisy , which deliberately misstated facts to vilify Jackson for ratings. Geraldo Rivera, an investigative journalist also stated publicly then , after he looked into the 05 case that Michael Jackson would be acquitted and if he hadn’t he would have shaved his moustache. Geraldo Rivera was right. Michael Jackson should have been acquitted and he was. The 2005 trial was a travesty and it should never have taken place. It was a waste of time and money. That joke ended on 13 June 2005 with MJ’s acquittal.This is Mike Smallcombe , a UK journalist who completely and easily exposed ‘’Leaving Neverland’’ as a fraud.I would like to borrow a part from another Quoran’s answer who incidentally is an attorney.Any lawyer would take the two compromised protagonists of the Leaving Neverland documentary apart at the joints. They have a long history of contradictory statements (prior inconsistent statements, we call them). They had cases against the Jackson Estate dismissed, and owe it over $100K in attorneys fees, so they have interest in making money at the Estate's expense. They are making uncorroborated claims (which, as noted, they previously repeatedly denied) charging a dead man with offenses for which he was actually tried and acquitted. In addition, the FBI conducted a decade-long investigation into similar claims and came up with goose egg, nothing, nada, zip. And probable cause is a low standard. The documentary is deliberately one-sided, telling only the men's stories in the most sympathetic possible way and not subjecting them to any critical interrogation. Pardon me if I'm less than impressed. You should be unimpressed too. I'll believe it if is there is real evidence. A preponderance, even. The problems with this documentary, which I have barely scratched here, indicate that the evidence doesn't remotely support its claims.And this is what Roger Friedman wrote about Leaving Neverland , Robson and Safechuck.Sneddon knew the names of Wade Robson and Jimmy Safechuck, the two men who claim in the documentary to have been molested. If Sneddon had thought there was any real story there, he’d have gone after it. He never did. Meanwhile, Robson has started a not for profit foundation and is soliciting donations. There can be no transparency, as he’s parked his 501 c3 very cleverly under something called the Hawaii Community Foundation. That way, Robson doesn’t have to file a form 990. We’ll never know if the makers of “Leaving Neverland” have donated money to it, for example. This was done on purpose. Leonardo DiCaprio does the same thing with his Foundation. It’s hidden. Safechuck, meantime, is accused by Jackson fans of creating his story from a very disgusting book published years ago by a man named Victor Guitierrez. Jackson sued Guitierrez and won a $2.7 million judgement against. The writer has never paid up, and now lives in Chile. I threw my copy out a long time; I didn’t want it in my house. “Leaving Neverland” can’t be taken seriously, and I’m surprised the press in Sundance– who didn’t cover Jackson — was so swayed by it. The movie offers no independent evidence, or third parties, just the claims of Robson and Safechuck. Just because it’s graphic, doesn’t mean it’s true. The rush to judgement here is alarming, and dangerous.So, which version of the Arvizos’ , Robson’s, Safechuck’s, Chandler’s ever changing story should have Michael Jackson been convicted for , none of who can keep their stories straight to save their lives?These are only a few of Robson’s and Safechuck’s lies. They have provably lied and anyone who still denies it is clearly disconnected from reality.James Safechuck claimed abuse from 1988–1992 in the Neverland Train Station where there was a room on the second floor. The Neverland Train Station provably did NOT even exist until 1994, two years after his alleged abuse ended. That alone proves he is a liar. The permit for the Railway Train Station was ONLY given in September 1993, one and a half year after the claimed abuse supposedly ended. It was constructed several months later.James Safechuck claimed he was pressured by Michael ‘s lawyers to testify in 2005 but he refused. Safechuck’s testimony was rendered irrelevant months before the trial even began. He was a non entity , for purposes of the 2005 trial Safechuck did NOT even exist. Nobody asked him to testify , let alone pressure him.James Safechuck claimed he ONLY realized his alleged abuse and disclosed it in 2013 after he saw Robson on the Tonight Show in May 2013. His mother however claimed in the film that she danced when Michael Jackson died in 2009 even though she supposedly did not know about her son’s alleged abuse until 2013.James Safechuck claimed in the film he cried himself to sleep in a condo in L.A. in September 1992 because Michael Jackson supposedly preferred another kid to him. Michael Jackson was reportedly in Europe performing on his Dangerous Tour then.Wade Robson claimed in the film that Michael Jackson taught him to hate women yet he forgot to mention that he set him up with his niece Brandi Jackson who dated Wade for at least 7 years. Robson mentions Britney Spears in the film but he forgets to mention that he cheated on Brandi with Britney who dated Wade’s supposed friend and lead singer for N sync Justin Timberlake , hence he got fired. He also forgot to mention that Britney fired Robson and his wife from her Circus promotion tour and replaced him with Jamie King , who Branca also chose to direct the MJ ONE show , a job Robson begged Branca to give him in 2011. In 2016 Robson lied under oath to get past the statutes and claimed he did not know about the administration of the MJ Estate until 03/2013. The same people he contacted and negotiated a job he provably applied for in May 2011 he claimed UNDER OATH he didn’t know until 2013 at which point judge Beckloff threw away his entire witness statement.Wade Robson claims that he was convinced to testify for Michael Jackson in 2005 during a dinner in Neverland which in fact took place after he had already testified , NOT before. He also claims he was subpoenaed to testify but in fact he was not , he willingly testified , as did his mother Joy and his sister Chantal.Wade Robson claims that he was sexually abused for the first time in Neverland when he was 9 years old in 1991 and his parents went to the Grand Canyon but he stayed alone in Neverland where Michael Jackson sexually abused him. However , this story is contradicted by his own mother’s 1993 sworn deposition where she said that the whole Robson family went to the Grand Canyon , including Wade, and they all returned to Neverland together the following weekend. In addition, in his own lawsuit as well as a deposition Robson gave recently for his appeal he gave an entirely different version of the same story , he said that he was sexually abused for the first time with his entire family also in Neverland and in fact his own sister sleeping in the same room. Two entirely different versions of the same story.Wade is seen burning MJ related objects at the end of the film but according to Julien’s Auction’s he had already sold all his MJ memorabilia by 2011 because he needed cash. He tried to do it anonymously but Julien’s Auction’s didn’t agree to that. Neither Wade Robson or James Safechuck ever owned the original Thriller Jacket , which was sold for almost 2 million $ to a rich guy from Arizona in 2011 and Harrison Ford never gave Safechuck the Indiana Jones bull whip as there was only one which was in fact donated to the Institute of Archaelogy in 1990.Robson implies in the movie that Brett Barnes and Macauley Culkin replaced him and thus they were groomed and molested albeit they have repeatedly said they weren’t even under oath. Barnes was harassed by people who told him to come forward and admit he was molested too , he is completely distraught and he is considering to take legal action against HBO for including him in the film.However , i am not afraid to admit when i ’m wrong. When i watched Leaving Neverland ( after reading the court documents in which they non stop contradicted themselves and the entire Robson family contradicted each other ) and i thought ‘’ oh, my God , this can’t get any more unbelievable ‘’ they got to the part where Wade Robson was astra abused at the Grand Canyon and James Safechuck was phantom abused at a nonexistent train station and i thought ‘’ my God, they are so stupid’’. Post traumatic stress syndrome does not explain/ justify time traveling. You don ’t even need evidence to trash Michael Jackson but just the most ridiculous claims , one can ever fabricate, any unjustified rumor about Michael Jackson is considered the universal truth by haters / gullible sheep who are spoon fed by the media and conditioned to believe anything without the least critical thinking. Basic rules of the world which apply to every individual on earth doesn’t come into play when it comes to Michael Jackson. Smear him, accuse him , disrespect him without any evidence or due process.Michael Jackson was 1. insulted for his skin disorder, 2.mocked for his torments, 3. his generosity is labelled as grooming, 4. his artistry is disrespected for no reason and is compared to objectively overrated artists 5. he was a victim of false allegations 6. his supporters/defenders who have done extensive research and gone through thousands of pages of court documents are labelled as crazed fans/blinded by his celebrity / songs/ dance moves yet people who know nothing about him but only what the ( tabloid ) media reported think they are experts on Michael Jackson and make a case he was a paedophile on the basis of a deeply flawed, proven false, one sided , agenda driven , manipulative hit piece by two people who denied any wrongdoing for 20 years , have been caught in numerous lies and they stand to make millions by changing their story with zero evidence to prove their claims. Unbelievable.Those who should however be immediately arrested for slander, perjury and extortion are Dan Reed , Wade Robson and James Safechuck. Robson, Safechuck, Adrian McManus and Victor Gutuirrez can start by giving back to his Estate the money they owe him. They are all court ordered to compensate him/pay his legal expenses and they have not paid a penny.

In 1976 working at Texas Instruments I used an electronic messaging system invented by IBM. It was called IMS. Though initially I used it via teletypewriters, by 1977 I did so via minicomputers with text screens. Its sphere of operations was Texas Instruments worldwide, ie it is was an internal system, and plain text only.TI was a testing ground for some IBM software at the time, as I recall, because its Dallas and Lewisville mainframe systems were among the largest in the USA, but its IMS and TSO and SPF were not specific to TI.In 1981 I invented a help system for use on TI 990 minicomputers. I originally called it PANIC but was told no one would use it. I tried GUIDE. No luck. Then I called it HELP. I had it running by 1983 on 14 minicomputers concentrated in one computer room at the TI Wilcrest II site in Houston (which has long since ceased to be there), serving 200 screens throughout the building.I mention this because I had some awareness of the UK Post Office PRESTEL system, which used a numeric phone keypad to select items from screens that listed up to 9 items, which would route you to the next screen, and so on. Users of that system required a phone line, a modem, and a computer with a text screen. There was also a broadcast teletext system called CEEFAX run by the BBC at the time, and TV remote controls could call up weather reports, stockmarket and national news, etc.I sat in on a couple of PRESTEL technical meetings in London around 1978 with a colleague from TI. Other attendees included CAP’s Alex D’Agapeyeff. We were discussing what programming language to use for downloadable programs. Alex D’A pushed for Microcobol, a product of his company. Everyone else wanted Basic, as I recall. Nothing came of it.What I had NOT realised until MUCH later, despite seeing a MINITEL terminal while on a visit to France, was that the French MINITEL system was shockingly advanced for its time. If you want a forerunner of the web, THAT IS IT. And yet TBL (Tim Berners-Lee) seems to get all the credit. Was TBL first? Don’t know. Haven’t checked. May do so later.So anyway, in my HELP system, the default file opened by the program identified up to 9 items which were then listed on the screen together with any text in the file. You could select one of the items by means of digits 1 to 9 on the keyboard. T (Top) would take you back to the home screen. B (Back) would take you back up one level.So if I had called my program WEB, given that it presented exactly that, a web of pages looked up from files formatted so as to contain text and links to other pages and rudimentary diagrams using graphics characters, I could claim to have invented the World Wide Web. Yeah?The idea of routing around a web of pages is hardly revolutionary. Paper books do this. They contain references at the bottoms of pages, and indexes that provide rudimentary searching.And dare I mention Vannevar Bush. Add him to the list with TBL, Vinton Cerf, MINITEL etc. Hard to see the wood for the trees. Throw in Xerox Parc, Englebart, and loads of others. Stir well and imbibe. They all had their part. The days of the ‘single inventor’ ended a century ago, at the time that the USPO considered closing because ‘everything has been discovered’.Even further back, in 1975, when studying for undergraduate exams, I bought a pack of 3x5 record cards, and used them to produce a concise set of revision notes. I also got some Blu-Tack and used it to stick a calendar on my wall giving all the exam dates and times and subjects etc.Later I bought some small binders to put the 3x5 cards in, and a hole punch so that I could clip the cards in. There were separator cards for the major sections, which were Calendar, Phones & Addresses, Critical Info, To Do List, etc.I could therefore claim to have invented the FILOFAX. (I don’t know when the original was invented, and don’t much care. Although it would have been nice to be rich and appear on talk shows.)I also note that, while there is a guy who was credited with the invention of the electronic spreadsheet (my dad as an accountant used paper ones going back many decades before that), IBM had a system called MODPLAN which I became aware of in 1977 and was probably older, and on the TI 990 minicomputers around 1982 on which I was responsible for OS upgrades and software installation, we had a program called QUBECALC, which was a THREE dimensional spreadsheet. I remember the problem we had installing it, because it required updating the keyboard driver to get it to work.So coming back to who invented email, it seems to me that the invention of routing mechanisms, a naming convention for identifying sender and recipients, and the To Cc Bcc From Subject Date Time fields, was all done before the 14-year-old Ayyadurai came on the scene in 1978. So he invented a way of communicating text messages between users on the same computer, as far as I can figure out. But the header format was already there, and transmission mechanisms that he probably knew nothing about.So what did he do that was original? He called his program EMAIL. I do not know when the word ‘email’ originated, but I doubt that he coined the word. But even if he did, that’s just a word. But the thing he claims (as best I have been able to determine from Wikipedia etc) that is significant (if correct) is the transfer of items other than just plain text, ie attachments of one form or another. Oh, and he apparently also claims to have invented such things as Inbox, Drafts, Outbox, etc; but I see those as being pretty obvious things to do.It should be pointed out that handling attachments within one computer system is easy because they can be placed in a common folder in which they are given numerically successive names and referenced within the plain text of an email.I mentioned my HELP system. It could do that. It showed links numbered 1 to 9 which could be followed by typing a digit, to take you direct to the relevant page/document. This is NOT rocket science. My HELP program was quite short, and written in TI Microprocessor Pascal.So to sum up, there are lots of minor things people come up with just in the process of doing their jobs. A lot of inventions come that way. However, sometimes those minor things are like pieces of a jigsaw, or better, pieces of an aircraft, and only when they are all present and interconnected can the aircraft fly.The lucky person who seizes on the significance of all the necessary pieces having come about, and connects them up and produces the first flight, is the one who goes down in history as the inventor, and tends to be credited with all the minor things too.In the case of Tomlinson and Ayyadurai, I think the judge was right to not conclude either in favour or against the latter in the court case. Both were contributors. Lots of other people did their part too, and none of them get mentioned.This too is one of the problems with Nobel Prizes (the case of Rosalind Franklin stands out; not black; not non-Western; just guilty of being female while doing science).As for Ayyadurai’s claims of White Supremacist Racism, I think that is over-the-top. I don’t see any such racism with regard to the likes of Srinivasa Ramanujan or Rabindranath Tagore.ADDED:To the list of Indian achievements we can add number notation: The base-10 positional notation system we use today, AND the concept of ZERO that it HAS to embody. We all know how much we would have been held back by the Roman number system. No one attempts to portray these things as inventions of White Supremacists in the Western military-industrial complex.I have been reading a bit about Ayyadurai on the web and have come to the conclusion that his email claims fit within a more dubious overall framework.I don’t buy straw-man arguments by Ayyadurai about a conspiracy in the military-industrial complex to claim that all human progress arises out of war. Ok, so Tomlinson was an employee of Raytheon. So what?I find it strange that Ayyadurai is a Republican and Trump supporter making claims about White Supremacist conspiracies. Sounds like he joined the wrong party.But he seems to be big on the Trump approach to news he disagrees with: Use insults and legal threats to force discrediting or withdrawal of news he does not like.If that is his modus operandi, he is another danger just like Trump, and it does not help with any credibility about bold claims about inventing email, which one might see in the same context as Trump boasting about being omnipotent and omniscient. At least Ayyadurai can’t become president.I seem to recall that Al Gore claimed to have invented the internet. That didn’t go anywhere.MORE ADDED:I notice on his Twitter page Ayyadurai says he wants to destroy the Deep State.This interestingly aligns (suspiciously much) with his position that Tomlinson worked for a military-industrial-complex company Raytheon and that Raytheon wanted to propagandise that war is good because it leads to useful progress (such as inventing email).I would expect that he would see the military-industrial complex as part of the Deep State. (Which is kind of ironic, given that you can bet that companies in that complex are big Republican supporters.)To me, it makes his claims about inventing email now highly suspicious, especially as he didn’t seem bothered about it until he decided he wanted to go into politics as a Republican.It seems to me that it is part of him creating a public image for himself. And playing fast and loose with truth (given the above-mentioned irony) in order to do that, reminds me of Trump. The words Inventor Of Email are big headlines on his Twitter page.