Madeleine McCann: Sometimes We Feel Like Giving Up
“SOMETIMES WE JUST FEL LIKE GIVING UP” declares the Mirror “…but Maddie just keeps us going”.
The headline is not, as you might think, an anguished crie de coeur from the paper’s editors. It is, of course, a quote from Kate McCann. The legend at the top of the page reads: “McCANNS 1 YEAR ON”.
Other papers follow suit, with the Sun featuring a 12-page special and pin-up size pictures of “The face we will never forget”.
The Star eschews such tacky emotionalism and goes for a hard news story for its cover: “MUSLIM SICKOS’ MADDIE KIDNAP SHOCK.”
The paper says police are set to investigate a “vile attack on Madeleine McCann’s parents” by Muslim extremists.
What kind of attack? A suicide bomb, perhaps?
No. In a “hysterical rant” on the internet, “fanatics blame the couple for her disappearance”.
All very interesting. But what of the Star’s stablemate, the Maddy Express? What extravaganza are they offering for Day 365? A 28-page special?
Curiously, the front page is bereft of the face we will never forget. Perhaps Express Newspapers have issued a completely separate edition of the paper devoted entirely to all things McCann?
Nope. The newsagents’ shelves are bereft.
We jest, of course. The paper has, as you know, steered clear of the subject since being hammered in court for its scurrilous and exploitative coverage of the case. Coverage that included far from subtle insinuations that the Kate and Gerry McCann were implicated in their daughter’s disappearance. (Not to be confused, we hasten to add, with “hysterical rants” by “fanatics”.)
With no Maddy and no Diana, what is “THE WORLD’S GREATEST PAPER” to do?
Read on, dear reader, read on…
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April 29th, 2008 at 10:55 am
Noseycow & M&As……. the 3A’s thing is weird, some of them are so clever. I mean ‘Toast’ and ‘Narrow Agenda’ mimic Ian’s syntax extraordinarily well, prefectly in fact, as they slag off Anorak and support him!
BF…. I reckon what you’re really after is the female equivalent of the Playboy mansion. Lots of fit and half naked young men waiting around, hanging on your every word and attending to your every whim in the hope of being selected as Buck of the Day.
I am sneaking a few minutes on the desk top while no-one is watching me. It’s feels like being naughty at school.
April 29th, 2008 at 10:43 am
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SteveT Says:
April 29th, 2008 at 10:38 am
Morning.
Where is everybody else? Overdosed on McCanns?
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We felt like giving up, so now we are in a better place.
New thread…
April 29th, 2008 at 10:38 am
Morning.
Where is everybody else? Overdosed on McCanns?
April 29th, 2008 at 10:17 am
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False Flag Says:
April 29th, 2008 at 12:26 am
Chenier 429:
“Cheer up.
Remind yourself that under the Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Act 2004 the new offence of causing or allowing the death of a child or vulnerable adult carries a maximum sentence of 14 years and includes deaths caused by neglect.”
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But the ‘deed’ occured in Portugal……..so how can British law be applied ? Surely such a case would be rejected in the same manner as TB’s private prosecution was ???
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Possibly but not necessarily; fascinating excercise in jurisdictions, indeed.
I’m simply pointing out that the brigade of people claiming that Portugual’s law is far more stringent than our own are wrong.
That might be useful in extradition cases; we are not being asked to dispatch them to a hellhole with cruel laws.
After all, they could always ask to be tried here…
April 29th, 2008 at 10:02 am
M&A
Thanks
April 29th, 2008 at 2:34 am
Hi Internet Friends, miss you, I mean ,the real ones,shame our conversations got cut short!
When someone explains to me how a girl can grow one or two years in a couple of months ( re; her PHOTOS etc),then I’ll probably understand the “live,safe and well” bit,
“devoided” of all religions parts!!!!
Science look is the key to it all,
Have a Peaceful Life,Take Care of Your Kids!XXXXXMag
April 29th, 2008 at 1:37 am
136 Salomon Es:
“We’ve been thinking a lot about the potential political casualties that Mr Amaral could cause in the UK, but what about in Portugal?”
Hope he’s being really careful………..
April 29th, 2008 at 1:20 am
M&A
I confess that i followed Cheniers Link to the 3A site and Ians thread.
Someone implies on that thread that AGW also posts here as Agenda Wide.
Is this true?
M and A
No, not true he posts as himself, but he doesn’t debate.
I’ve been reading the Ian wail on 3A’s too, but none of us have posted there at all
April 29th, 2008 at 1:02 am
Coco 446:
“Who pays MWT’s wages and expenses? Has he done this off his own bat?”
Mark Warners, I believe………..part of their ‘crisis management’ arrangements
April 29th, 2008 at 1:00 am
SORRY,
It was David Payne who went to check on Kate and the children, not
Oldfield.
My mistake
April 29th, 2008 at 12:58 am
Who pays MWT’s wages and expenses? Has he done this off his own bat?
April 29th, 2008 at 12:56 am
The GMTV story by MWT just about disregarded every well-regarded ex-copper and criminologist in the World that has proved beyond doubt that M could have been abducted.
Not a good career move.
April 29th, 2008 at 12:53 am
Maravilha …….
Precisely. And when you think how much the Home Office have fucked about with the Portuguese - especially over the rogatory letters, then we can see how much time this could take.
I am actually enjoying the long dran-out process of the Portuguese coz I believe that if you give people enough rope, they eventually hang themselves.
I love the fact that every week each major player drops bollock after bollock after bollock …..
April 29th, 2008 at 12:51 am
134 Miss match:
“Mark Williams-Thomas’ theory of Madeleine wandering off has a fatal flaw. Who opened the window?”
Exactly ! ! ! And how can he just ‘clunk whoosh’ all the initial claims and statements as if they can simply be discounted - as if never said………
April 29th, 2008 at 12:40 am
http://www.abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=4741235
friday, why did they show no emotion and leave her etc on abc
April 29th, 2008 at 12:35 am
Annie, could it be that Rachael Oldfield went to Algarve to identifie Murat and short ago to BBC 4 to cover up Matthew Oldfield did not see Maddie at 6.40?
Maybe Kate said she was taking a bath.
Because if she died in the apartment and the cup board had a scent of cadaver, and the McCanns left to the Tapas at 8.30pm, it could be she was not anymore there at 8.30pm.
The scent starts to manifest two hours after the death.
In this case, she could have been dead by 6.40pm.
April 29th, 2008 at 12:26 am
Chenier 429:
“Cheer up.
Remind yourself that under the Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Act 2004 the new offence of causing or allowing the death of a child or vulnerable adult carries a maximum sentence of 14 years and includes deaths caused by neglect.”
But the ‘deed’ occured in Portugal……..so how can British law be applied ? Surely such a case would be rejected in the same manner as TB’s private prosecution was ???
April 29th, 2008 at 12:24 am
Annie1, yes, Oldfield saw Kate playing happily with the children6.40 pm.
I could have been the twins.
I did not see specificaly anywhere that he actually saw Madeleine.
April 29th, 2008 at 12:20 am
And I think I am going to give up, if only for this evening; good night all!
April 29th, 2008 at 12:16 am
Coco (I think),
after the reconstruction, which will certainly be filmed as files, for the police, the PJ will have to study everything before jumping to conclusions.
And check if all matchs with the statements.
This is also going to take time.
April 29th, 2008 at 12:09 am
New thread; Ade snaffled it…
April 29th, 2008 at 12:09 am
and jj’s edited my post 410 so well that the only reason i can tell is that it says so at the bottom.
April 29th, 2008 at 12:08 am
c
April 29th, 2008 at 12:05 am
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Châtelaine Says:
April 28th, 2008 at 11:56 pm
Firestar & Chenier,
Would like to thank you for your reaction, but somehow find myself in spam filter …
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could be worse.
i still giggle thinking of bransons birthday when you could see her getting more and more frustrated cos no one was talking to her and she spent 24 hrs in the birthday spambin.
April 29th, 2008 at 12:05 am
Somebody broke in in a house of a neighbour(lady) of Gonçalo Amaral’s .
The thief took only documents out of that house.
Correio da Manhã, today.
April 28th, 2008 at 11:58 pm
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Châtelaine Says:
April 28th, 2008 at 11:56 pm
Firestar & Chenier,
Would like to thank you for your reaction, but somehow find myself in spam filter …
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Well, this message got through; you are most welcome!
April 28th, 2008 at 11:57 pm
ah. that one went through!
O.K.
I’m off to [boring ...] silken sheets
Good night “all”.
April 28th, 2008 at 11:57 pm
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coco Says:
April 28th, 2008 at 11:49 pm
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Cheer up.
Remind yourself that under the Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Act 2004 the new offence of causing or allowing the death of a child or vulnerable adult carries a maximum sentence of 14 years and includes deaths caused by neglect.
Makes Portugual look like a positive haven…
April 28th, 2008 at 11:56 pm
Firestar & Chenier,
Would like to thank you for your reaction, but somehow find myself in spam filter …
April 28th, 2008 at 11:55 pm
had to laugh at grand finales post earlier.
i think the answer is yes.
grand finale says:
Have you got a fixation with blokes arses ?…………………..
Gandolf Says:
April 28th, 2008 at 1:56 pm
Stick that up your arse and light the touchpaper,
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, your grande finale must be pulling your head out of your arse.
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grande finale your arse.
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dickheadpedia and your reverberating arse.
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he is now a mod on the 3arses,
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April 28th, 2008 at 11:49 pm
Just thought that I had best mention that the Portuguese police are up against some of the best legal eagles in the World.
The charges will not be made until absolutely every witness statement has been burned into ashes.
The reconstruction will show that there is very little truth in all the statements and then the charges will be made.
How many doctors will be sent to prison for abandonment?
This will depend on the Defence team making out that the Clan were a reasonable distance from their children - ‘like having dinner in your back garden’ has GM was primed to do since day one.
Portuguese parents would now be serving about 4 years for a similar offence in PDL.
When in Rome do as the Romans would do and when in Portugal - abide by that country’s laws. Full stop!