Find Madeleine McCann On Facebook
MADDIE WATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann
SAY the McCanns: “We strongly support and encourage this new initiative to use Facebook to increase awareness of missing children.”
Wherever you are, whatever you are doing, you will know that children go missing.
Although not if you’re watching the TV news of reading the newspapers because Madeleine McCann is no longer in the mass media.
But the campaign has not been in vain. She is on a press release.
And the better news is that no children have gone missing in the past few weeks. We look through the mainstream press every day. It’s a fact. But what of life on the internet?
The statement goes on: “Using the power of social media in this way will undoubtedly capture the attention - and hopefully the help - of a younger population who are a hugely valuable and resourceful group.
“We would urge the millions of Facebook users around the world to keep looking and to do what they can to help bring these children home.”
Missing People has set up a widget for Facebook users to download, which will mean information on current appeals will be displayed on their homepage.
Says missing People Chief Executive Paul Tuohy: “If every Facebook user downloaded our BT-powered application, millions of people internationally could see an appeal that could help us to reunite a family.”
Because BT cares…
Madeleine McCann: Fighting the PR war
Posted: 25th, May 2008 | In: Madeleine McCann, Online-PR Comments (1,240) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink
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May 26th, 2008 at 10:14 am
761 - coolandcalm
Shit !!!
That one night stand a couple of months ago when I was well gone in drink
It wasn’t you was it?
Oh my Gawd, You’re not pregnant are you ?
May 26th, 2008 at 10:13 am
769…Salomon ES
…..But I doubt if the PJ are into putting all their eggs into one basket.
May 26th, 2008 at 10:10 am
769…Salomon ES
Time, as always, will tell.
May 26th, 2008 at 10:07 am
742 Jo
Morning all, just wanted to share with you something concerning the reconstruction that I think is possibly relevant.
There’s been a lot of speculation and misinformation about this motion. But the bottom line IMO is that the McCanns don’t want to go back but they have to go (within the remit of their arguido status). The T7 are therefore the obvious escape route for the McCanns. Without the T7 going, there’s no reason for the reconstruction to take place. And because the T7 are not arguidos… there’s no legal way to get them to participate in the reconstruction.
The key question to me is “how important is this reconstruction, and for what?”.
Contrary to some, I don’t think that the request to have this reconstruction is some highly sophisticated plan from the Policia Judiciaria to show the world that the McCanns and their friends are unwilling to cooperate with police and therefore are involved in Madeleine’s disappearance. Anyone with some basic understanding of the PJ and the judicial system in Portugal will know very well that these are not games that the authorities play. If they have asked for this reconstruction, it’s because it is necessary - and maybe essential to progress with the case.
The second question is why exactly is this reconstruction necessary - and maybe essential? Some have argued that it will discredit the abduction theory in a court of law and show that some have lied. That is possibly true. But in that case alone it would have been more likely that the request for a reconstruction would take place after charges are brought against one or several individuals, ie in the instructory phase, after the investigation phase has been concluded and before the Trial phase is started. This would allow the instructory judge to order the reconstruction - imposing an obligation on all parties to attend the motion. The fact that this request for a reconstruction occurs now (dependent on the goodwill of the witnesses), suggests that the reconstruction is necessary - perhaps essential - to pinpoint who exactly should be charged (ie before conclusion of the investigation phase) and not necessarily to prepare the prosecution case in court.
Finally, and assuming that this reconstruction is necessary - maybe even essential - for charges to be pressed against someone (and not only for the prosecution to build a robust case to be used in court proceedings), one has to question if without a reconstruction there will ever be charges against anyone. Unfortunately, whilst I’m led to believe by the media that there is unequivocal evidence that Madeleine died in the apartment and that she was not abducted, I doubt it that there is sufficient evidence that will determine who performed the exact actions that led to her death and subsequent disappearance.
Under these conditions, I’m tempted to think that without a reconstruction there will be no meaningful charges against anyone. Perhaps charges for abandonment or obstructing justice… but I doubt it that the prosecution will be able to substantiate what the investigation believes happened to MAdeleine.
I hope I’m wrong.
May 26th, 2008 at 10:07 am
There was a poster from another board here last night, I read several of his rants against certain people on Anorak.
May 26th, 2008 at 10:06 am
765…Ferdinand
Ah…a mere speculator….sigh…for a very short moment I though you
were quoting factual inside information.
Thus, it seems….the Investigation is ongoing.
May 26th, 2008 at 10:04 am
I see that we are on our best behaviour, providing links with gusto, so I thought I’d join in:
Recent RCoA statement on alleged gassing in motor vehicles
Despite the increasing numbers of reports of people being gassed in motor-homes or commercial trucks in France, and the warning put out by the Foreign Office for travellers to be aware of this danger, this College remains of the view that this is a myth.
It is the view of the College that it would not be possible to render someone unconscious by blowing ether, chloroform or any of the currently used volatile anaesthetic agents, through the window of a motor-home without their knowledge, even if they were sleeping at the time. Ether is an extremely pungent agent and a relatively weak anaesthetic by modern standards and has a very irritant affect on the air passages, causing coughing and sometimes vomiting. It takes some time to reach unconsciousness, even if given by direct application to the face on a cloth, and the concentration needed by some sort of spray administered directly into a room would be enormous. The smell hangs around for days and would be obvious to anyone the next day. Even the more powerful modern volatile agents would need to be delivered in tankerloads of carrier gas or by a large compressor. Potential agents, such as the one used by the Russians in the Moscow siege are few in number and difficult to obtain. Moreover, these drugs would be too expensive for the average thief to use.
The other important point to remember is that general anaesthetics are potentially very dangerous, which is why they are only administered in the UK by doctors who have undergone many years of postgraduate training in the subject and who remain with the unconscious patient throughout the anaesthetic. Unsupervised patients are likely to die from obstruction of the airway by their tongues falling back. In the Moscow seige approximately 20% of the people died, many probably from airway obstruction directly related to the agent used.
If there was a totally safe, odourless, potent, cheap anaesthetic agent available to thieves for this purpose it is likely the medical profession would know about it and be investigating its use in anaesthetic practice.
13 Sep 2007
http://www.rcoa.ac.uk/index.asp?PageID=64&NewsID=565
May 26th, 2008 at 10:03 am
764 Matt. Says:
” 762…Ferdinand
”
So…which department of the PJ are you in, Ferdy ?
I’m from the internet boards monitoring department.
May 26th, 2008 at 9:59 am
762…Ferdinand
So…which department of the PJ are you in, Ferdy ?
May 26th, 2008 at 9:58 am
759…coolandcalm
Don’t worry….they always stupidly reveal themselves and give us all
a good hearty chuckle.
May 26th, 2008 at 9:58 am
758 Rasputin Says:
” It is amazing that this case has been going so long and we came up with hardly any facts, last night. ”
If there were facts, the case would long be over in one way or another
May 26th, 2008 at 9:57 am
Duncan 757. Prove it.
May 26th, 2008 at 9:57 am
757…DuncanR
Hmmmmphh…a likely story…NOT. !!
IMO.
May 26th, 2008 at 9:56 am
Aaaah….. I flicked through last nights posts and noticed a certain syntax similarity between a newish poster and an old banned one (Oh how I love syntax and personality that can’t be disguised for long… ) but I don’t want to cast aspersions. However if I do you’ll be the first to know! (its not one thats been mentioned)
May 26th, 2008 at 9:56 am
It is amazing that this case has been going so long and we came up with hardly any facts, last night.
May 26th, 2008 at 9:54 am
756 -Matt.
I did NOT have sex with that woman !!!
May 26th, 2008 at 9:51 am
755…coolandcalm
Who are you “stalking” ?
I promise total secrecy….
May 26th, 2008 at 9:49 am
can someone tell me how to check on old posts and first posting date from a specific poster? I just want to look back through but haven’t been able to find out how.
Ta.
My oh my… the rain. No airshow today methinks which I don’t mind.
The windows rattled yesterday as the Red Arrows flew over six inches above the roof (well, maybe a bit higher but not a lot) . Birds went into a frenzy followed by silence and the kitten didn’t come out from under the stairs for hours!
May 26th, 2008 at 9:47 am
Rasputin
Thanks for those links
May 26th, 2008 at 9:40 am
Yes Duncan you must have missed them. http://tinyurl.com/4q2ba3
May 26th, 2008 at 9:35 am
You may have missed them Duncan, http://tinyurl.com/5xozsd
May 26th, 2008 at 9:35 am
Time to make that Pan sizzle.
Good sleuthing !!!!
May 26th, 2008 at 9:34 am
Morning Jo
742
jo Says:
May 26th, 2008 at 9:24 am
Reconstruction in Praia da Luz scheduled for Thursday, 26 May 2008
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Is my ‘puter date wrong today
missing time syndrome praps
May 26th, 2008 at 9:34 am
745…irish girl spain
Morning, IGS.
Yes….tragic….and too common a thing nowadays…well….actually…shouldn’t
happen in the first place.
May 26th, 2008 at 9:32 am
746…jo
Sorry to hear that…
Summer colds are a darned nuisance. IMO
Big secret ?? Hmmmm….toughie that….I think they deserve their
Legal Status.
May 26th, 2008 at 9:30 am
Must go now for a while
See you soon
May 26th, 2008 at 9:29 am
Hi Matt
More or less,leaving me a nice cold tho”
What is the mccfools big secret?
May 26th, 2008 at 9:29 am
good morning all
gloomy here, bundles of mozzies and bites
Another lovely young lad stabbed, another family broken.
It’s so sad.
May 26th, 2008 at 9:28 am
Duncan I posted direct links to the articles.
May 26th, 2008 at 9:27 am
Good morning, jo.
Hope the “Rain in Spain” has ceased….for the time being.