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 4:23 pm
427 Jolie
Thank you for the link.
February 18th, 2008 at 4:22 pm
397 Marie Nicholas
Yes. That wasn’t quite what I meant!!!
In case Karen has misunderstood me, I was trying to say that local councillors, members of parliament, etc., etc. do not. Of course people can contribute in some way to their immediate community through local (or national) politics. There are lots of little things that can be improved. But what Jolie calls the Big Boy League is something quite different.
February 18th, 2008 at 4:22 pm
432…brandon flours
How very neighbourly of you, young lady.
February 18th, 2008 at 4:20 pm
427…Jolie
Mrs Healy now a Devout Roman Catholic.
February 18th, 2008 at 4:19 pm
matt
I bet you are a lovely neighbour
I would give you a cup of sugar and feed your cat any day!
February 18th, 2008 at 4:17 pm
414 Karen
Aardvarko is much more convincing than you, according to me. I wouldn’t have told you if you hadn’t said you had better qualifications than him, which argument is shit, to use your words.
February 18th, 2008 at 4:17 pm
Jolie
I find myself questioning everything now!
February 18th, 2008 at 4:17 pm
404 Karen
What on earth do you mean by real politics? If you mean local politics, then I already have. In England and in Spain. In fact, I belonged to the British Labour Party as far back as 1978 (certainly wouldn’t do the same now). Please be careful when you jump to conclusions about people.
But, as several other posters have just pointed out, that has nothing to do with what we are discussing now. Can I suggest you read Jolie’s posts carefully? I find they express the basic issues to consider very clearly.
February 18th, 2008 at 4:16 pm
373 Jolie
I thought the HIV virus was introduced into the Gay population, originally from
the American male prison population. Apparently, the “known” homosexuals”
were paid to test the drug, some ingredients having been extracted from African
monkeys……….to what purpose I don”t know. as I don”t know whether this theory is correct.
There was a case here in the U.K. quite recently of 6 young lads suffering really
badly from being paid to act as guineapigs.
February 18th, 2008 at 4:16 pm
McCanns slammed by father of missing Spanish girl for putting Madeleine on poster with his daughter
Last updated at 15:27pm on 18th February 2008
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=515636&in_page_id=1811
February 18th, 2008 at 4:15 pm
413 Anonymousthe1st
Sometimes it is as hard to accept that there are good people out there as it is to accept that there are evil people. I believe the makers of Zeitgeist are very good people who love their country and it’s inhabitants. They are true patriots and they need our support, just like we need them. I hope you finish your thoughts on the third part because this world needs your help.
February 18th, 2008 at 4:15 pm
424…brandon flours
Neighbours ?
I ain’t got any….chased them all away.
February 18th, 2008 at 4:15 pm
Matt
Why arent your neighbours friendly?
February 18th, 2008 at 4:14 pm
418 brandon
Don’t you hate that all the media manipulation and lies of the McCanns and their supporters has us wondering questions like that?
That some have even suggested the M3 may have hired people to commit these almost-abductions (or pay others to say that they happened?).
It stinks.
February 18th, 2008 at 4:13 pm
420…brandon flours
Fine here, Thank you, brandon.
And yourself ?
Think I should move to the Madeleine Thread.
February 18th, 2008 at 4:11 pm
Matt
Indeed
How are you today?
February 18th, 2008 at 4:11 pm
414 Karen
to add:
But you were a bit provoked, I suppose.
February 18th, 2008 at 4:11 pm
414 Karen - my qualifications are far in advance of yours, so if that’s at all relevant here, I prevail.
However, I don’t believe it is relevant.
February 18th, 2008 at 4:10 pm
They have been quite insistant that she could never have wandered off.
Was this because they would have definately been charged with neglect?
But on balance would prefer to be done for this now, instead of manslaughter and hiding the body?
Are they getting scared?
February 18th, 2008 at 4:10 pm
414 Karen
You are disrespectful, I think. A degree doesn’t make you all that, by itself.
February 18th, 2008 at 4:10 pm
412…brandon flours
M3.
February 18th, 2008 at 4:09 pm
Do you think Clarence Mitchell’s explanation that the Cortes parents had given a blanket approval of ‘anything you can do to help’ will help the McCanns avoid legal trouble? Will it protect them from negative public opinion? Will people take a negative view of the Cortes parents because of his comments?
February 18th, 2008 at 4:09 pm
Aardvarko
And your qualifications are?
Let me guess.
Reading shit on the internet. Reading shit in the newspapers. Talking to your friends down the pub.
I’m very impressed.
February 18th, 2008 at 4:08 pm
409 MOAH
Yes I did.
Agreed with the religous part.
Mostly agreed with the financial part.
Asked myself questions about the war part, but not there yet.
February 18th, 2008 at 4:06 pm
This lateset ’spate’ of ‘abductions’ is quite interesting
2 men in a car
opportunists
Are they paving the way to a change in story
one where she wandered off?
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23438808-details/Madeleine%20McCann’s%20disappearance%20is%20′linked%20to%20a%20string%20of%20child%20abductions’/article.do?expand=true#StartComments
February 18th, 2008 at 4:05 pm
Jolie 403.
”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.”
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Oh how true…sadly!!
February 18th, 2008 at 4:05 pm
Karen 404 - “Real” politics, at the level you or I can get involved in, are as far away from the politics of the real world as you could imagine.
Normally age isn’t an issue in things like this, but unfortunately, a lot of 20-year-old students will claim to know far more than they really do, and to have far more experience than they really have. Even if your father was a trade-unionist, that doesn’t even begin to give you the grounding or experience required to understand complex matters such as these.
I don’t understand a lot, but I won’t pretend that I do.
You’ve been found out and are starting to make a bit of a fool of yourself.
Please stop digging!
February 18th, 2008 at 4:04 pm
388 Anonymousthe1st
Did you watch all of zeitgeist?
February 18th, 2008 at 4:04 pm
404 Karen
I think you have taken your book learning too seriously and not questioned what you have learned, swallowing it whole.
What we are taught in schools and universities as what is true and how things work in politics is make-believe cover stories, very often. History books are in effect written by (or at least published by) the controlling powers. They control the messages fed to students.
Your local experience in politics may be just what you say. But we’re talking about the big boy league, much of which is happening behind the staged debates and PR distractions of government operations that the public is fed. That’s not where the real business is government is done, I’m afraid.
February 18th, 2008 at 4:04 pm
394
Marie-N
377
Karen
Hegel -or simply the ‘ Selfish Gene ‘?
Which conveniently takes us back to the MC couple….