Madeleine McCann: Scare Stories, Kate McCann’s Job And No Mari Luz
MADDYWATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann
DAILY EXPRESS: “FIVE ATTEMPTED KIDNAPS LINK TO MADELEINE CASE”
“Detectives searching for Madeleine McCann are now investigating a spate of attempted child abductions across Portugal.
“At least five kidnap attempts have been reported in the past month, leading officers from the Madeleine team to examine the details for possible connections.”
What of the headline “link” to Madeleine McCann – well, the alleged attempted kidnappings all occurred in Portugal
But “Last week Justice Minister Alberto Costa revealed that the head detective, Paulo Rebelo, was coming to the end of his case”, says the WORLD’S GREATEST NEWSPAPER
Says Clarence Mitchell, the McCanns’ spokesman: “It’s alarming to hear that this sort of thing can happen, particularly in a country that is so aware of the potential for abduction”
DAILY MIRROR: “Maddy: 5 scares in Portugal”
Police searching for Madeleine McCann are also investigating five attempted child abductions in northern Portugal. They began when a nine-year-old girl was bundled into a car as she got off her school bus. Two more children were attacked last month and last Thursday two men tried to lure a girl of nine into a car. Last Saturday, another child escaped abduction. One police source said: “It is causing a lot of alarm.”
DAILY MAIL: “Madeleine McCann’s disappearance is ‘linked to a string of child abductions’”
Police investigating Madeleine McCann’s disappearance have been alerted over a spate of attempted child abductions in northern Portugal, it has been revealed. At least four children have been targeted in the last month in the region of Coimbra, where a nine-year-old girl escaped from an abductor in December.
It’s five children. The Express and Mirror both say its five
KATE McCANN: “Meanwhile, it is understood Kate McCann is quitting her job as a locum GP to devote her life to children’s charities. Mrs McCann has not returned to work since Madeleine’s disappearance in May and has reportedly told friends she feels she has a lot to offer charity organisations.
THE SCOTSMAN: “Torment of Madeleine’s family ‘is like being crucified’”
Kate McCann’s mother Susan Healey says: “It is almost like being crucified day to day. I read the most stupid things about Kate not crying enough or whatever”
Adding: “Kate and Gerry know they made a mistake and shouldn’t have left the children, they know that, but they certainly don’t deserve what has happened to them. If the Portuguese can’t find out what happened to Madeleine, we have to find out. There is no way Madeleine will fade into insignificance”
Gerry McCann is a “surgeon”
IRISH INDEPENDENT: “Missing Amy’s parents offer cash reward”
The parents of missing Irish expat Amy Fitzpatrick have offered a cash reward for information on her whereabouts. Franco Rey, spokesman for Amy’s Stepfather David Mahon and Amy’s mum Audrey, said: “A substantial reward is on offer to anyone who can provide reliable information on Amy’s whereabouts. Any information received will be treated within the strictest confidence.”
And:
Dubliner Mr Mahon (36) has also travelled to Tangiers in northern Morocco to investigate the possibility the teenager was snatched and taken to Africa.
Rewards have also been offered for missing Briton Madeleine McCann and missing Spanish girl Mari Luz Cortes. The family of five-year-old Mari Luz, snatched from her home in Huelva in south-west Spain on January 13, is offering €300,000 for information on her whereabouts. Rewards totalling £2.6m were offered within 10 days of Madeleine McCann’s disappearance on May 3 last year from the Algarve holiday resort of Praia da Luz.
TYPICALLY SPANISH: “parents of missing Mari Luz are against her image being used in a Madeleine McCann poster campaign”
Mari Luz’s father, Juan José Cortés, said after a meeting with Manuel Chaves, President of the Junta de Andalucía, this weekend, that, while he is not against collaborating in the search for Madeleine and ‘even helping to draw up a poster of all the missing youngsters,’ the lines of investigation into the disappearance of the two young girls are distinct, and are being carried out in two separate countries. EFE [Spanish news agency] said he is considering taking legal action for using his daughter’s image for the campaign.
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February 18th, 2008 at 4:02 pm
Marie Nicholas
I don’t think we’ve seen the last of Hegel or Marx - people like the Grand Narratives.
Even the deconstructionists slip up.
February 18th, 2008 at 4:00 pm
348 Anonymousthe1st
Read the Article, interesting but not incisive……….like your comment!!!!!!!
I typed what I thought was a balanced view, pointed out his description of the
McCanns as “Upper middle class” was inaccurate, they are working class
Professionals IMO
Anyway, when it came to the numbers and letters bit, three times I was “advised”
I had made an error, so gave up and all were in vain.my efforts
February 18th, 2008 at 3:58 pm
Chloe, Spain
Get involved in real politics.
I mean that nicely.
Assuming you don’t have a nervous breakdown - you’ll realise that even a dictator has to watch their back and no one is all-powerful
February 18th, 2008 at 3:56 pm
388 Anonymous the 1st
But there are people who are not keeping quiet. That’s the point. They are speaking up. But there are many people who are choosing not to believe them and dismissing their witness testimony and evidence as crazy invention.
Bottom line: some people don’t want to believe it is possible. But many, many people are very suspicious and don’t believe the government’s version of events.
Does it matter. No, not in the real scheme of things, because the government will continue to do what it wants. They repeat their lies over and over as if it were gospel and don’t care if you believe it or not. They will move forward with their agenda and run right over whoever gets in their way. The real power is not in the hands of the population, no matter how much you’ve been taught that you live in a representative democracy. It just isn’t so and hasn’t been so for maybe almost the last 200 years, in the US anyway. Our political freedom is an illusion. Voting is an empty exercise–a pretense that we actually have a choice in the matter of where our country is headed. Whatever candidate wins, he will answer to the moneyed elite who has paid for his campaign and controls him/her through other means of pressure. The politicians at high levels sell their souls to have their place at the head of the table and make some money off of their subterfuges.
February 18th, 2008 at 3:56 pm
Cheers
February 18th, 2008 at 3:56 pm
Cheryl, he was and the case was never satisfactorily concluded.
February 18th, 2008 at 3:55 pm
WTF
Why thank you ! :-0
No conspiracy theories, films I havent seen, etc………..
I dont mind them, but they make me stay awake at night!
February 18th, 2008 at 3:55 pm
See what you mean brandon, all a bit heavy for my poor p.c. im afraid! shall i pur us a glass
February 18th, 2008 at 3:54 pm
Philosophy is simple it consists of life and death, nothing more nothing less. Conspiracies are the invention of minds without reason, and believe it or not shit happens.
February 18th, 2008 at 3:54 pm
391 Chloe
Hitler, for one.
February 18th, 2008 at 3:53 pm
201
Gandolf Says:
February 18th, 2008 at 12:42 pm
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Gandolf - thanks for printing that! I found that information, by the way, plus more the second day that dear child went missing. Her ‘disappearance’ had the ’smell’ of the work of one of those ‘creatures’ who prey on children, so I instantly did a search on Portugal and any problems they had or have over there and bingo! I found what I was searching for. The current Investigator, by the way, I believe was involved in investigating some of those crimes…need to research that more to be certain.
February 18th, 2008 at 3:53 pm
392 brandon flours
Of course you can, your more than welcome. Is there fighting in the ranks again, sorry, havnt read throught posts, have been domestic goddess today and am f******d!
February 18th, 2008 at 3:52 pm
377 Karen
Hegelien dialectict is also that “there is some master in the slave, and some slave in the master”. Cf Losey’s film : The Servant.
Besides, Hegel and Marx have had their time. Marx has now been discredited by his followers. Time to evolve in our approach of history.
February 18th, 2008 at 3:52 pm
Jolie
Getting your population to want a war is done by Rhetoric and propaganda - both are well studied fields - and not a conspiracy.
During the 1st world war some poor sod went about spreading the idea that the war was started by German homosexuals who had infiltrated the nation’s elite.
Conspiracies aren’t new - and they’re rarely accurate.
Right now Gordon Brown is getting a pasting in the House of Commons. What part of the master plan was that???
Labour lost control of Scotland for the 1st time in 50 years because of the Iraq War - is that part of the master plan?
February 18th, 2008 at 3:51 pm
390
WTF
Can I come for dinner, all this is giving me a head ache !
February 18th, 2008 at 3:49 pm
382 Karen
How many politicians who have been democratically elected into office really have an influence on a nation’s fate? Not many, I’m afraid.
And now I really must go.
February 18th, 2008 at 3:49 pm
afternoon everybody, just popping in while waiting for parents to arrive, shepherds pie in the making and wine chilling, any news?
February 18th, 2008 at 3:49 pm
386 Pilimary
I am in awe of people who communicate clearly in languages other than their native tongue.
February 18th, 2008 at 3:48 pm
374 MOAH
Sorry “7/11″ was a typo, no disrespect intended.
Just for the record, I do not claim to be an expert 9/11, but have surfed the web to see what’s out there. I do not believe the government version of things. I found the picture on the Zeitgeist film where you saw the steel beam had been cut at an angle used for demolition shocking and raised doubts in my head. I believe the event has been used cynically as a tool to pilage the middle east by those in power. I believe Bush and Blair both suffer from the “Hubris Syndrome” (see David Owen’s book).
But, I still have a hard time believing you can get away with murdering 3000 people in NY and blaming someone else … too many people need to keep quiet.
I just don’t
February 18th, 2008 at 3:47 pm
Maria… good to see you back here. Yes I am resoanably well thanks…….. and yes, TB is no longer here, blotted his copybook! Next book is getting there. one a year is time-consuming but off on hol next week to compensate!
I agree with all those who have commented on the bad manners and rudeness. There are a couple of posters whose posts I now scroll straight past without reading a word, makes the forum much more interesting when the dross is weeded out.
Having said that there are many I like (thats why I stay here!) and find amusing and informative on both sides of the debate….. many I am polar opposite to but who debate well with hunour and good nature.
February 18th, 2008 at 3:47 pm
Meant healthy minded…
My Englishs is worse on Mondays
February 18th, 2008 at 3:45 pm
Ian and all others who fear we’ve gone too far off track from the Madeleine story:
What we know so far has been discussed and rehashed to death and we are in a waiting period, waiting for more news.
These posts on conspiracies are ever-so-related to the web of conspiracy that may surround the Madeleine case, as well.
Why not discuss something of substance while we wait for something more substantial to develop in the Madeleine case? It certainly can’t be any worse than the diversion of flirting and recipe sharing (which I don’t mind at all, either).
Just explaining myself…
February 18th, 2008 at 3:45 pm
366 Salomon E S
How could pretending the little girl was abducted be linked to real estate operations in the Algarve ?
The only answer which I see is : making the prices go down by pretending it is an unsafe area. To me, this seems too complicated, too far-fetched. What about the police dogs?
Is there a way to know if the price of land has gone down in the area, and who is buying a lot of it?
February 18th, 2008 at 3:45 pm
Jolie
You’re truely right. But… (too long to talk about this now. Im crazy busy).
Long live to good, mind healthy and reasonable people!
February 18th, 2008 at 3:45 pm
Chloe, Spain
I’m not scared of anything.
Do you know any politicians? They’re not super-human Satanists. They’re ordinary human beings with right or wrong ideas doing a job badly or well. Same goes for Scientists. I don’t disagree that they do shitty things - it’s the scale of the shitty things I’m disputing.
And the half of them don’t know what day it is if their researcher doesn’t tell them - never mind them secretly meeting to plan attacks on their own voters.
February 18th, 2008 at 3:45 pm
379 Jolie
Good post. Expresses my feelings exactly.
February 18th, 2008 at 3:44 pm
376 Pilimary Says:
Is this Anorak or Conspirak?
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I wish they would go feed themselves elsewhere.
February 18th, 2008 at 3:41 pm
For people who dismiss conspiracy theories, please ask yourself what you do when you start a project? You sit down and plan on how to accomplish your objectives, task by task. Why is it so difficult to believe that this doesn’t happen on a grander scale. It does! History is full of these stories. Do you think the general populace of any country wants to go to war? No, no, no! Their leaders have to find ways to get them stirred up and angry enough to go to battle (if they are in supposed ‘democracies’ or ‘representative republics’ and not in outright dictatorships). The events of history are often created and led by powerful people who want to gain something from the chaos.
It puzzles me why someone would prefer to ignore information, brushing it aside as ‘impossible’ without carefully examining the possibility.
Remember, these people, these extremely wealthy, greedy, immoral people are NOT like you and me (at least I hope not). You cannot judge what they are capable of by the boundaries of your own standards of morality and behavior.
Perhaps you choose not to believe in conspiracy because it allows you to maintain belief that everything will be okay, that there is sense and reason in humanity, and you can go about your life as you have before, without added worry. That’s okay, too. These are ugly truths, imo, and not everyone can cope with them.
February 18th, 2008 at 3:40 pm
But its OK. I love antisystem believers (im one of them)
February 18th, 2008 at 3:39 pm
JustLooking
It’s the Hegelian dialectic (appropriated by Marx) - history is the process of the slave rising up against the master and the master trying to hold the slave in check.
No matter how hard political philosophers and scientists try and get rid of bloody Hegel and his bloody dialectic - it keeps turning up as the root of most post-Enlightenment belief systems.