Madeleine McCann: Child Alert, Fear And Tony Bennett’s McCann Club
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DAILY TELEGRAPH: “Madeleine McCann: Kate and Gerry’s fury at ‘club’ devoted to prosecuting them”
Gerry and Kate McCann have expressed their anger at the establishment of a fee-paying “club” dedicated to seeing them prosecuted over the disappearance of their daughter Madeleine.
A retired British solicitor, Tony Bennett, has set up a fund called The Madeleine Foundation, which aims to bring a private prosecution against the McCanns for alleged child neglect.
Tony Bennett has been on Anorak.
But Madeleine’s parents fear members of the public will inadvertently donate money to it because they may mistake it for the McCanns’ own Madeleine Fund, which pays for private investigations into her whereabouts.
Mr Bennett says his fund is a “subscription-only members’ club, charging a £10 annual fee”.
Says Clarence Mitchell, the McCanns’ spokesman: “It is a great shame that Mr Bennett feels the need to make money out of Madeleine McCann. He did not seek permission from Gerry or Kate to use Madeleine’s name.”
It’s a brand?
“This so-called foundation is in no way doing anything to help find Madeleine.”
Says Bennett:
“Some of the money immediately raised will be used to pay for a barrister to give his or her opinion on how best to proceed with a legal action against the McCanns. We are a group of people, which is rapidly growing in number, who want to get to the truth of what happened to Madeleine. We will also campaign for changes to the law about parents who leave children on their own.
DAILY MAIL: “Brussels throws out McCann’s appeal for European missing child alert system”
Kate and Gerry McCann’s campaign for an alert system for missing children across Europe will not be adopted by the EU, ministers said yesterday.
FENLAND TODAY: “McCanns win more backing for child abduction alert”
More MEPs have backed a campaign spearheaded by the Rothley parents of Madeleine McCann for a Europe-wide child abduction alert, the couple’s spokesman said.
WALES ONLINE: “Common sense not cotton wool for children, says safety tsar”
PARENTS should not respond to fears of child abduction and knife crime by wrapping their children in “cotton wool”, a leading charity’s new child safety tsar warned.
Karen McFarlane has been appointed by Children in Wales to promote a reduction in avoidable deaths and injuries.
She said: “What we’d like to try to do is empower both the children and the parent as they make informed choices. We don’t want to wrap them in cotton wool”…
Lynne Hill, the charity’s policy director, said children’s fears could be fuelled by the portrayal of dangers in media coverage.
She said: “Children are very, very aware of what’s reported on the news. The decision of some children to carry knives was often in response to a fear of attack,” she said.
“What’s striking is very often children think it’s a way of protecting themselves.”
Fears of child abduction had escalated following the disappearance of Madeleine McCann from the Portuguese resort of Praia da Luz in May 2007.
Ms Hill said: “I know when Madeleine McCann was kidnapped there were a lot of reports of children being very fearful that someone would snatch them or a friend of theirs”
Increasing the fear. It could be you…
Posted: 9th, July 2008 | In: Broadsheets, Madeleine McCann, Tabloids Comments (701) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink
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July 10th, 2008 at 12:02 am
Bette
and you can stop that eye rolling
July 10th, 2008 at 12:01 am
I reckon we are all on a government list of subversives because of the Tapastwats!
I only started posting because I could not believe the parents from the moment I saw them and heard them. And then when all the rest of the Clan wormed their way out of the woodwork I could not believe my fucking eyes.
Especially when I found out that Gordon Brown’s wife Sarah used to work for an agency with a woman who now runs Editorial Intelligence and then the media-savvy CM is suddenly looking after two oicks who haven’t got a pot to piss in! Fuck me I was concerned!
July 10th, 2008 at 12:00 am
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Noseycow Says:
July 9th, 2008 at 11:55 pm
Bloody Hell Coco
Will you stop it
First you accuse me of being arrested - then of going to bed with the other posters.
Good god woman you are ruining my reputation
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Nosey…you naughty nurse, tut, tut…
July 9th, 2008 at 11:58 pm
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Portia Says:
July 9th, 2008 at 6:05 pm
It has been a while since I posted anything on the Maddie case, but the news that Maddie was made a ward of the court has left me with a disturbing question.
Why didn’t the court act on Maddie’s behalf to end the parent’s dangerous, high-risk publicity campaign?
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I knew something was bothering me! Yes indeed!
July 9th, 2008 at 11:58 pm
Chântelaine
Nurses are notorious for being obsessed with bowel movements. Reading some of the posts on here justifies that obsession imo
July 9th, 2008 at 11:57 pm
The Ramsey case happened at home by the ……..
July 9th, 2008 at 11:56 pm
NOSEYCOW!!! I don’t want anybody shot to death! Just severely maimed so that they can no longer burgle or nick my car on a night when I need it more than they do! lol
I would never support the death penalty when we can make people suffer! Get’em resurfacing the roads in chain-gangs is what I say!
Get the stocks in a public park and throw things at them! lol
July 9th, 2008 at 11:55 pm
Bloody Hell Coco
Will you stop it
First you accuse me of being arrested - then of going to bed with the other posters.
Good god woman you are ruining my reputation
July 9th, 2008 at 11:54 pm
Did you know that 9/10 people who’ve be given a death penalty want John Terry to take it.
(thanks to whomever posted this in forums a while ago - I still chuckle)
July 9th, 2008 at 11:54 pm
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Noseycow Says:
July 9th, 2008 at 11:49 pm
Chântelaine
Its probably because of all those diplomats that she hangs out with
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That might be it. Let’s hope so, because other explanations are … eh … well … you know …
July 9th, 2008 at 11:53 pm
NOSEYCOW! LOL Because I have never used a chat-room before - I thought that people could come and get you in the night for treason or libel etc.
So when some of you weren’t onboard one night I automatically assumed thatthere had been bother and you were all barred! I never thought that you all went to bed at the same time!
July 9th, 2008 at 11:52 pm
Coco
am against the death penalty meself
July 9th, 2008 at 11:51 pm
Cheryl
I can see that you are outraged by the smears against this family.
But frankly if my child had been murdered I doubt whether the thoughts of others would come close to upsetting me.
And as a Christian I’m sure you’ll agree that Mrs Ramsey will, no doubt, be getting her just rewards in heaven.
July 9th, 2008 at 11:50 pm
ADE IS NOT A BULLY! He talks good old English common sense!
The kind we used to have before all this politically correct bollocks where people have too many rights!!! Not to mention too much knowledge!
Everybody is born equal but if they fuck about and do naughty things and say naughty things they should be positively discriminated against - and shot against a wall.
July 9th, 2008 at 11:49 pm
Chântelaine
Its probably because of all those diplomats that she hangs out with
July 9th, 2008 at 11:48 pm
Maria, Whoops, Garth if you are still on,
Below is the link to the just released ‘update’ on the Ramsey case - look at the similarities in them - the police suspicions, public’s rants and raves, smearing their names, destroying their lives - 10 years kept under a cloud of suspicion by the police and hounded by the public. Now what do they get? An apology “we are deeply sorry”… under the cloud of suspicion for a decade, lives ruined, mother dies of cancer while still under a cloud of suspicion and they hear “we are deeply sorry”!
http://news.aol.com/story/_a/dna-clears-ramsey-family-of-murder/20080709151409990001?icid=200100397×1205471204x1200245560
July 9th, 2008 at 11:48 pm
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Noseycow Says:
July 9th, 2008 at 11:45 pm
Chântelaine
Did I just read that right?
Is Our Cheryl accusing Chenier and Ade bullies?
You know I’m not getting the hang of the american sense of humour at all
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Yes, Nosey, “our Cheryl” is displaying a very peculiar sense of humor … again …
July 9th, 2008 at 11:47 pm
Coco
Well you can always depend on someone who knows someone imo
Arrested??
how did you know??? 
July 9th, 2008 at 11:47 pm
Do we know if Smith was on his way to Portugal the day that Amaral was sacked/removed?
July 9th, 2008 at 11:45 pm
Noseycow LOL. When I used to come here on my own at first I thought you had all been arrested if nobody posted within an hour! lol
July 9th, 2008 at 11:45 pm
Chântelaine
Did I just read that right?
Is Our Cheryl accusing Chenier and Ade bullies?
You know I’m not getting the hang of the american sense of humour at all
July 9th, 2008 at 11:44 pm
I think it’s looking like it’s the Smith guy. The thing is - he had quite a high profile when he was mentioned - however, a mate of mine who knows somwbody who knows somwbody etc. thought it was somwbody completely different to Smith.
But I don’t rely on her because I know where she gets her info from - so it might be embellished because her mate’s a bit of an exaggerator like Moi!
July 9th, 2008 at 11:43 pm
Coco
Join the club
I’ve been pottering around alone in cyber space wondering if I need a shower… coz everyone seemed to whoosh clunk
July 9th, 2008 at 11:42 pm
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Cheryl Says:
July 9th, 2008 at 9:36 pm
466 Châtelaine Says:
July 9th, 2008 at 8:42 pm
And thanks to Chenier & âde to deal with Cheryl & Maria
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You got the picture, Chatelaine, with Ian gone and a few others who loved to bully and lord themselves above others, they are the new self-appointed bullies of the site now.
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I beg your pardon…?
July 9th, 2008 at 11:40 pm
Noseycow!!! Hi hun! Thought I was going to be ranting alone again! X
July 9th, 2008 at 11:40 pm
Whoops! I can’t remember if it was you last Saturday that suggested my neighbours wouldn’t want me at their BBQ after half an hour! Ha!
July 9th, 2008 at 11:39 pm
Hiya Coco
Have you found your witness yet?
July 9th, 2008 at 11:38 pm
How the fuck do they manage to play with the kids so many times a day? I walk the dog twice a day and I am buggered! Not that I walk the dog on my hands and knees either!
July 9th, 2008 at 11:35 pm
Hi Guys!
July 9th, 2008 at 11:17 pm
Mrs T
yep the same staff.
Chenier I also found this.
‘The website http://www.bringmadeleinehome.com was launched on May 9 and it changed to http://www.findmadeleine.com on Wednesday’ Reuters article Friday 18th May
http://uk.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUKL1820079420070518?pageNumber=1&virtualBrandChannel=0
So they launched a website - then decided that it wasn’t good enough - got a new domain and relaunched it all within 13 days of her going missing.
My mind is boggling