Madeleine McCann: The Great War On Paedos
“SURROUNDED by a mass of yellow ribbons, he kneels alone with his thoughts and reads the countless messages from well-wishers.”
Of course, Gerry McCann is not alone, not even in the Mail. Amid the teddy bears, yellow ribbons and cards are the gentlemen of the press, massed in the McCanns’ home village of Rothley, Leicestershire. McCann is at the midst of swarm of media workers, well-wishers and the ghoulish who want to see the poor man. “FATHER’S PAIN,” says the Mirror’s front-page headline. “DAD FIGHTS BACK TEARS.”
The Mail says that local traders have supplied an estimated 14miles of yellow ribbon, to tie around old oak trees, a bench and a sign hand-painted by local children that reads: “Maddie. Please bring her back.”
Gerry McCann spends 15 minutes at the “shrine”. Says he: “The support is fantastic. It really does help us. The incredible support gives us strength.”
Madeleine McCann is now a public figure. The McCann family’s pain has been transmuted to our collective suffering. “Every parent’s worst nightmare” is the nightmare for all of us.
Lest We Forget
This shrine to a missing girl is founded on the village’s old war memorial, that memory to they who gave their lives in battle.
But Madeleine is not dead, is she? She did not die in a brutal war. The call to have Madeleine McCann brought back echoes the call for our boys to return from the dangers of Iraq. Who knew that one missing child was symbolic of so much? One tragedy becomes indistinguishable from another.
“BRING MADDIE HOME,” says a banner held up by the Liverpool football team. Madeleine, renamed Maddie by the press, is pictured. There are two numbers for anyone with information to ring.
But look at the cards and the flowers and the ribbons. And wonder if any information will amount to more than well-wishers keen to inform the world of their concern and anxiety.
In The Frame
If you want to help, the Sun says British police want anyone in the area at the time of Madeleine’s disappearance to check their holiday snaps.
Have you taken a picture of Madeleine McCann? Are you the kind of person who takes pictures of other people’s children on holiday? Are you a paedophile?
These photographs will be analysed by a computer programme that can pick out “600 facial features”. Detectives say they only want photographs that include strangers.
So look over your holiday snaps. And see if you can spot Madeline McCann. And then work out how you can get the shots to the police without giving the speculation-happy press a new name to talk about – yours…
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September 10th, 2007 at 11:43 pm
Re: Watching Tears Flow / privious email.
You made very good points for those observing the unfurling course of events regarding Madeleine Mccann’s disappearance is to not jump to conclusions, and let the ‘full’ truth come out as facts and evidence come to light. I agree with this totally as this is what is happening and the world watches in compassion and empathy with Madeleine.
It is your next paragraph that I would like to comment on:
“By the way offences against children are very rare and it is both dangerous and unpleasant to see every male as a potential predator. It is dangerous because the whole community must watch out for children and if men and women are required to avert their eyes every time a child is nearby innocent lives may be lost. Just think of the numbers of people who saw Jamey Bulger dragged off down the street but felt unable to intervene. Think of Rhys Jones - nobody saw anything, it seems.”
Crimes against children is the most pervasive crime and the perputrators are 75% MALE.
Not only are crimes against women and girls 75%+ always male generated crimes, but againist boys as well.
In the world the children of third world countries need the real intervention of national aide from all countries, and at time of writing the majority of governmental officials who can pass legislation are MALE.
Marital spouse agression is more than 75% abuse by MALES.
The children vicariously if not directly, emotionally, mentally and environmentally are subject to mass betrayal by their fathers, or father figures. This causes a lifetime nightmare of trying to restore trust and worthiness.
Sexual abuse toward the female half of humanity is by far the most haneous crime by the cowards of life. They steal life right out of life for their own selfish peverted gain, with no responsibiltiy to themselves or to the victim.
Until we reach the point on this planet where ‘THE LIFEBOAT SCENARIO’ is firmly rooted into raised consciousness we will flounder as a culture of humanity.
….and that is where the highest priority is placed upon women and children. When the needs for life itself translates to the engendered protection of our most innocent, and their environment and were mother’s who bore and brought these precious lives into the world are seen as a ‘gift’…only then do we make it.
Men…here is the clue and the key to success…make your relationships as important as your work…make your work the reason you care for your relationships…AND make the planet you live on….and the environment you share with loved ones a place where dreams are built and exist.
We will champion you, make you are leaders, you will stand beside us in a truth and beauty and a love you have yet to even imagine.
Madeleine deserved that, she did not get that, and that is why she no longer is with us now. They didn’t know what they had, and did not cherish the life (lives) of their own children. We unfortunately are living through apathy’s nightmare as a family who abandoned their children now pay the price
September 6th, 2007 at 11:05 pm
My reading of the mbs relating to this unsolved crime began only with today’s news - the questioning of Kate by the police.
This case is parallel with Chamberlain case in Australia. Parents left their baby in their tent to attend a camp barbecue and returned to find their that their child was missing - attacked and dragged away by a dingo.
It is clear that the McCanns and Chamberlains bear responsibilty for the fate of their children. It is mad and bad to leave infants and young children unattended. However, we should not jump to any further conclusions. ven if the the McCanns are innocent of involvement with the disappearance they will suffer their own guilt and public obloquy for the rest of their lives. If they are guilty one of them or both of them will eventually break and some of the truth will come out.
By the way offences against children are very rare and it is both dangerous and unpleasant to see every male as a potential predator. It is dangerous because the whole community must watch out for children and if men and women are required to avert their eyes every time a child is nearby innocent lives may be lost. Just think of the numbers of people who saw Jamey Bulger dragged off down the street but felt unable to intervene. Think of Rhys Jones - nobody saw anything, it seems.
June 4th, 2007 at 1:06 pm
[...] plot that went wrong?” No, not a readers’ poll in the Express (“Is hanging too good or sex offenders?”), but the Mail’s question. And with no phone line to register a “Yes” or “No” vote, [...]
June 3rd, 2007 at 4:20 pm
Well Ragingkatsuki, you read the 3rd paragraph and it seemed to have left an impression on you.
Yeh, there are some people in this world who don’t have any concience or remorse for their actions and think they have done nothing wrong at all……… it is always someone else’s fault.
I am glad you read this paragraph, for it only takes one person to start a seed of hope which begins with a capital H in this case regarding Madeliene. Perhaps the attention seeker read it too…….. or even the person who is at the back of all this concerning the disappearance of Madeliene. A little hope can go a long way.
Add a bit of faith into the hope and somehow, the message will be heard or read by the: abducter, paedophille, whoever knows what really happened and where Madeliene actually is today……
I am only hoping somehow, somewhere, that, that certain person or someone who knows them will break their silence and come forward
thats all…………. Take Care Madeliene, you are an Angel sent from Heaven and you are in all our hearts and with so many people thinking about you, the sheer strength of this alone along with the rest will help find you one day.
June 3rd, 2007 at 12:52 am
All this “Team McCann” business comes over as very false - even if good intentions are behind it. The self-centered “parents” didn’t show much in the way of ‘team’ spirit when they abandoned their very young children in their selfish desire to have a nice meal together. They should be charged with child neglect. Simple as.
June 2nd, 2007 at 3:30 am
…..Did you expect the paedophile who took Madeliene to read your 3rd paragraph? Tis very unlikely
May 28th, 2007 at 9:57 pm
Hi everyone, maybe it is better for the press n media to try and cool this story down a bit, for we never know whether or not, whoever took Madeliene is thriving at the attention of all of this, but what does concern me, no matter where Madeliene is, someone must recognise odd behaviour of a neighbour, relative, friend, partner since this started, but then again if it has been a child abducter or a paedophille, then they think their behaviour is the “norm”.
Yes Madeliene is now 4 years old, and it is almost difficult to keep a child of this age indoors, who ever is protecting this offender is just as bad as whoever did take Madeliene, if that is what really happened.
Madeliene is a tiny sweet child, just like we all were once, so are her siblings, please please, if you are the person reading this, you were a child once too, please do not harm Madeliene any more than you have already by taking her away from her siblings, relatives and if there is a new kid on the block ………. then do the right thing eh……… Concience starts with letter “C” and therefore open your eyes, before it’s too late. If not for yourself then for Madeliene………
May 28th, 2007 at 7:01 pm
Bout Madeleine, I can’t help but wonder what she is feeling right now. Seems her story reached the whole world. May be a little weird but I regret not being there when she was snatched (or if she was snatched), I would have prevented it for sure. Something does, however feel strange about this. Something is not right. But I am not going to believe that the parents would worry more than 100000 people for their satisfaction.
I am pissed at the people who have in their minds ‘oh, its just another child abduction, let’s just get on with life’. Another child abduction or not, it’s still a child abduction.
Peace out people. Hope to God Madeleine will be found.
May 25th, 2007 at 8:26 pm
The campaign just heated up. Yes. She is on the cover of the new peoples magazine.
May 25th, 2007 at 5:16 pm
Every morning I am looking for a happy ending. My heart goes out to Madeleine and her family. God Bless.
May 25th, 2007 at 5:15 pm
I could believe that Madeleine simply went out looking for her folks and got lost if it wasn’t brought to my attention about the rented car, the phone call and the house the had a secret room under the living room. Also, the erased computer. I am wondering however why the photo of the gas station that showed a little girl matching Madeleine’s description was not blown up and distributed? What worries me with this whole story is why who ever has Madeleine did not take her other two siblings?? Which brings me back to my first point, is she somewhere wondering the streets lost and looking for her folks??
May 25th, 2007 at 11:18 am
Joanne -
Save your pennies….give it to the DEC.
May 25th, 2007 at 9:06 am
Molly…Are you suggesting that they have staged the whole thing? Simply to get a fund going, raise some cash and have a long holiday for all the family (except little madeleine of course). What have they done with her then?
Or, perhaps you think that she has genuinely been abducted (albeit from wandering around the streets looking for her parents as opposed to being snatched from her bed) and her parents are simply using this as a wondeful opportunity to travel Europe and have an extended Jolly?
It is you that needs to wake up my dear. Thier daughter is missing. I really don’t think they are having a great time right now. Irrespective of the fact that they made a very big mistake, I personally am prepared to forgive them for that and continue to offer my support. I will not sit around slagging them off, and I will offer financial support.
Talk about kicking people when they’re down. You should be ashamed.
May 25th, 2007 at 1:14 am
Molly….
I concur!
May 24th, 2007 at 7:49 am
Yes Confused, I do find the behaviour of the McCanns incomprehensible, both before and after their daughter disappeared…
On returning to the apartment to find Madelaine gone, Kate McCann ran back to the restaurant screaming ‘They’ve taken Maddie’ - what a very odd thing to say. In the circumstances my (and I believe most people’s) first response would be that the child had wandered off - why would you instantly assume a kidnapping?
The whole abduction angle is something that has been driven by the parents - They told the police that the door and window to the apartment were locked and then had to backtrack and admit that they had left them open when the police and Mark Warner staff found no evidence of any break in…. When she was first found missing, resort staff who dared to mention that she had probably gone looking for her parents and got lost were shouted down by the McCanns, who insisted that she had been kidnapped… And it was the McCanns who fed the abduction scenario to the press - easy to do as the Portuguese Police are not allowed to comment or give any details of the investigation whilst it is still in progress. Given the then massive press pressure the police have had no choice but to fall in with this angle - however on all Portuguese Police notices she is simply shown as ‘missing’ or ‘disappeared’.
The chances of this child having been deliberately stolen from the apartment are ludicrously small - paedophiles do NOT generally work this way!! They groom children close to them and very, very occasionally will take a child who opportunistically crosses their path. Now that may have happened in this case, but the question IS - how did Madelaine cross a paedophiles path? Probably because she was wandering around lost and trying to find the parents who had left her and her siblings alone!!
It is noticeable that despite parading around for the press every minute of the day, the McCanns have yet to actually acknowledge that they should not have left their children - they really don’t seem to think that they have done anything wrong. Focusing on the nebulous ‘abductor’ who ’snatched the sleeping tot from her bed’ is an excellent way of avoiding that issue.
As for the Fund - well for heavens sake wake up and smell the bacon people … even in the Aims and Objectives of the Ltd Company it is clearly stated that the money is to be used to pay the Family’s expenses during the search (check with the Company House registration if you don’t want to take my word for it). With well over £200,000 in the bank at my last check, I would be hiring private detectives in their droves, not renting a luxury villa to house all my relatives (remember that Mark Warner have offered them FREE accommodation for as long as they need it).
Switch off the pathos for a moment and take a long hard and objective look at this whole pantomine - apart from discovering that wearing yellow ribbons, lighting candles and saying ‘Maddie come home’ a lot are all completely futile exercises, you might also be surprised at how dodgy it all looks.
May 24th, 2007 at 2:39 am
As the days go on and on, has anyone even given thought to the other two children as well as how Madeline may be coping amid this crisis?
Every time I see the parents on T.V. somehow they don’t seem to have any kind of emotional tone in their voices or on their faces, surely we would of expected to see something……. I wonder what psychologists have to say about this behaviour as I am not the first person to have noticed this.
I am over 40 years and I still remember to this day overhearing a conversation between relatives of how much I would be worth if they were to sell me abroad, because of my redhair! I am not saying this has happened, but it is a train of thought………. as children are sold into some markets which are too horrendous for us to open our ears and eyes to. My heart goes out to the children, who rely on parents and society to protect them from possible harm and it is hard not to try and instill fear into children, or wrap our kids up in cotton wool, but it is the children of such a young age group who are the innocent party in such cases as this.
May 23rd, 2007 at 8:56 pm
I am confused as to why the McCant’s are contributing to this fund themslves. (I am sure that if they were they would be blogging about it! Perhaps they’re too busy on expedia booking tickets to Paris)
They own a large house themselves - why should they expect the proles to pay for something that they caused themselves.
Nevertheless, I am not in their position so I don’t know what is going through their minds.
May 23rd, 2007 at 8:36 pm
Molly, thank you for your comment, finally someone that thinks the way I do. First of all, the leaving the children alone at that age speaks volumes, I don’t care what the reasons. Secondly, does anyone besides me (and hopefully Molly) find it just a tad odd that in the midst of this unimaginable tragedy the parents are a) find the time to invite the press into the most intimate moments of their day such as spending time in their home reading to their twins; or b) strolling down a bech holding hands, clutching a teddy bear; or c) visiting shrines and posting a very detailed, somewhat upbeat “daily routine” on the find Madeline website? One entry written by the father even boasted about the time in which his wife had ran to the top of some cliff, 19 minutes I believe it was. ARE YOU FRICK’N KIDDING ME?? If that was one of my children, I would be sedated someone, finding it hard to breath, not running to the top of cliffs and timing myself, and doing interviews so that the press could see how well I was coping. Please, there is nothing more horrifying that the prospect of this happening to your child and the very thought of it makeS me physically sick to my stomach and yet these two somehow manage to parade around providing the press with the ultimate photo op ever ten minutes or so.
I find the whole thing more than a little fishy and God forgive me if the parents are not involved but in my opinion they are not acting like two people who just lost their little girl, and thanks to their own bad judgement I might add. It just doesn’t make sense. And if they are as rich and prominent as the papers are reporting where are the private investigator, I would have a team of them working round the clock. AS I said, I am not in this situation and do not pressume to know what it would feel like and I pray to God I will never know but I think the parents are getting along pretty well considering the horror that has supposedly been cast upon them.
May 23rd, 2007 at 8:02 pm
people who r out there who is blaming her parents what to be ashamed saying this if this was your little girl u would want the support they need so stop blamming them and help them find there little girl
May 23rd, 2007 at 7:53 pm
who ever has this little girl bring her back to her family u cant even begin to think what they r going through and the feeling of that poor little girl with out her mum and dad so please the world is begging u to return her safe and well
May 23rd, 2007 at 7:46 pm
preety little girl happy with her family please can you bring her back
May 23rd, 2007 at 7:45 pm
preety little girl happy with her family please bring her back
May 23rd, 2007 at 7:21 pm
Oh Dear … no point sending me any - I have over 800 unopened emails that I can’t be bothered to open LOL
May 23rd, 2007 at 6:37 pm
Molly -
I’ve just recieved a threatening email re: casting aspecrtions about this case so….you might think that, but I couldn’t possibly comment!
May 23rd, 2007 at 6:09 pm
Her parents are doing everything they can to find her? Oh - you must mean the Maddie Fund … you know - the one set up as a private company with the McCann family as directors and not the slightest bit accountable to the mawkish citizens who donated.
Have they hired private investigators? Oh no - they are going to tour Europe themselves, putting all their considerable investigation skills into play.
And of course they have to pay their campaign manager, their top barristers that they have had flown over from the UK (not to mention their own Catholic Priest)… how nice of the donators to pay for all this… but I don’t quite see how any of it will help find their child…. who may or may not have been abducted (but a good paedo angle will always create paper selling hysteria).
Here we have two criminally neglectful parents who abused the trust of their children by habitually leaving them alone for hours at a time while they indulged themselves (portuguese papers report that the attending waiters say that no-one left the table at any time during the meal - a report not seen anywhere in the UK press, suprise, suprise), who have been turned into ‘untouchables’… This fund smells as fishy as a kipper left out for a week.
May 23rd, 2007 at 5:35 pm
i hope maddie gets found soon! me nd mi m8s @ school have been wearing yellow ribbons to up the awareness the sooner she is found the better !!!!!!!!!!!!
Plz come home madeline plz!
May 23rd, 2007 at 4:07 pm
Nothing to report - truth and fiction.
Read:
http://www.anorak.co.uk/news/tabloids/173530.html
May 23rd, 2007 at 3:59 pm
I would like to think - Joanne - that is trying to look at things objectively and independently, rather than as directed by the red tops.
And in reality, I do not think the child will be found alive, if at all. However, that does not effect the search for ‘our maddie’ (sic) at all, just as an MP wearign a yellow ribon doesn’t suddenly lead to a child snatcher feeling compelled to return the child - if indeed the child was taken at all.
Despite this, I do hope the child is found. I also hope that the other 2 children in this case are properly cared for in future.
May 23rd, 2007 at 12:35 pm
Ross and edwina and anyone else who agrees with them. You seem mto be fighting a corner that denies Madeleine any hope of being found. You seem to spend you time trying to convince everyone that the mccanns deserved this because of their ‘neglect’.
What planet are you on? Just take a look at yourselves and ask yourself just whose side you are on.
Yes, they made a mistake, but a little girl is missing and her parents are doing all they can to find her. Why do you have such a massive chip on your shoulder about that?
Flic - excellent post.
May 23rd, 2007 at 12:16 pm
Some people can be so heartless.So what the macanns made a mistake by leaving their children alone.Yes it was wrong I am sure they know that now.Been a parent is hard work having 3 kids myself and all parents make mistakes,stop critasing the macanns for their mistake,They are been punished for their mistake BUT no PARENT should have to go through what the macanns are going through,my heart goes out to them.Yes children do go missing everyday and the cases are ignored but not many cases like this happen.I believe maddie is still alive and will be returned home safley,her safe return is the only thing thats important right now so stop criticising the macanns for there mistake and start giving them surport.
May 23rd, 2007 at 7:28 am
Clew -
where do you get the evidence for your posting?
I doubt your comment about wars and children, although would gladly concede defeat if you could enlighten me.