The word 'victory!' isn't the only word in the ransom note. There are other words. They have nothing to do with sports.
Victory! AND 'fat cat' AND 'not the country that it serves' AND low ransom matching unsightly bonus AND 'group of individuals' taken together at prima facie tells us one and only one thing.
Quoting Occam's Razor while shunting prima facie is paradoxical, BTW. They're like cousins or something.
http://socialist-courier.blogspot.com/2007/04/fat-cat-capitalism.html
Here's an article going on and on about excess bonuses for executives. A sore spot for socialists perhaps? Socialism dovetails with the ransom note.
HOTYH, I used the expression 'prima facie' on Monday and a good 80% of your posts since then have included it. Prima facie means, 'at first glance,' or 'on first appearance.' It doesn't suggest that the first glance is necessarily the right glance. At first glance, this was a case in which a child was murdered in her own home on Christmas night with a ransom note left behind by someone with some familiarity with the house and the family. You seem to think that the RN should have been taken at face value despite the fact that it didn't even take itself at face value - JBR was murdered, not held safe and unharmed, and no one 'phoned the Ramsey home regarding the ransom note even though it was possible that the body hadn't even been found by then.
Occam's Razor would demand the simplest answer as being the right answer. Tell me, is the simple answer a SFF who had to identify the Ramseys, gain some familiarity with their home and their lives, wander around in the dead of night in the Ramsey home rather than abducting her on one of her many forays outdoors, remove a child from bed, feed her pineapple, write a ransom note, murder JB, wipe her down and redress her, wrap her up papoose-like, lock the wine cellar door after them and leave the house without being apprehended by anyone? Or is the simplest answer that four people went into the Ramsey home and one of them came out dead and that it was probably one of the other three who did the damage then concocted a scheme to try to get away with it?
I'd also love to know how you think LE should have investigated this differently, bearing in mind that a prima facie acceptance of the note demands that you accept that the kidnappers knew John Ramsey?
ETA: Thing about a prima facie acceptance of a crime is that it is the stager's best friend.
Also, thanks for your link but bonuses are sore spots for plenty of people who aren't socialists.
However, I am still baffled by your view of my comments on Occam's Razor and Prima Facie being paradoxical. They are entirely different things - one refers to initial appearances which may or may not be right, Occam's Razor refers to the simple solution being the right one - irrespective of how many looks you've taken at the evidence.