There is no doubt an invested interest in discrediting the Mcanns. But you are fooling no one only your sick depraved selves.

I can see loads of paedophiles and child abusers having invested interests in their smear campaign against the Mcanns. REMEMBER AS YOU SALIVATE AT YOUR NASTY SMEAR TACTICS THE PRESSURE IS ON NOW ONCE AND FOR ALL AND You will be squeezed out like the festering zits that you are!!! Have you ever heard of the Castration programmes?
Do yourself and society a favour and get yourselves sorted out.

Unlike your post, mine did not tell anyone what to do: I pointed out what I found offensive.

I’m not going to use humour in a post arguing that humour about Madeleine is inappropriate. That would lead me into the same sort of trap you fell into when arguing that everyone is entitled to their own expression unless its expression that you find humourless and sanctimonious.

Your question isn’t rhetorical if I answer it: I come back to Anorak to learn. Education is often a miserable process.

Agreed: it’s the ad hominem attack, a type of ethical fallacy in argument. There’s lots of it here, on both sides.

Also, some posters do not seem to realize that sarcasm is reputed to be the lowest form of wit. It’s just so easy to do, for example:

“Thanks Hal for introducing Mike Hitchen a much needed blast of common sense instead of the sugary gooey gloop”

Yes, because the problem with our world is definitely that there is so little righteous indignation and so much compassion.

That was easy and made me feel smug. In their exuberant exercise of such cheap sarcasm, certain posters make use of Madeleine herself as raw material from which to construct and display their rather undergraduate form of cleverness. I find such glee offensive.

#Goodbye Madeleine, though I never knew you at all
I went and asked your nanny, and she said you were a doll.

We flew out of the country, then left you all alone in bed
Then when we’d had our tapas, you were missing - presumed dead

And it seems to me, you lived your life
Like a candle in the wind
Never knowing real affection, till the fund kicked in

I would’ve liked to have known you, my precious little kid
But I was just too busy, getting the drinks iiiiinnnnnnn#

How come their friend claims she saw someone who was almost definitely Murat, definitely carrying a child at 21:15 when their other friend claims to have done a room check at 21:20 and found them all safe in their bed?

Who’s the mystery witness that saw Gerry McCann lurking near the supermarket bins that night with something wrapped in black plastic?

Why was Kate so SURE that an almost 4 year old could not have walked out of the room?

What is the likelihood of getting three very young, excitable children to sleep at exactly the same time every night? Remember, these are children on holiday, who’ve spent all day away from their parents at a Club with other children, playing and having fun.

Functional alcoholics who drug their kids to sleep (so they can go out on the lash), fuck up on the dosage, and accidentally knock one off, deserve NO SYMPATHY.

Carl - ahh that explains where they all were! Fapping away to yet more mourn-porn.

More peanuts and bananas for the chimps, please, Waiter.

No exactly, I’d be leaving no stone unturned, but then as Manon says greed is paramount, and probably counting the £xk is much more important

And constant gooey goo drip drip from the chimps, you call that skillful?

Ann, I agree all the attention is focussed on the parents , including theirs.