That must be it, then!

Cool
Sure you’re right.

In any case, if the case was still open, the Mcs would be being blamed for the waste of police resources! In fact, I remember GMc in some interview shortly after it was archived, being tackled on this very issue of the expense they had put the Portuguese police to! He said that they did not expect Portugal to go on and on footing the bill, and that they were now willing to conduct it themselves using the Fund alone. The implication was that he was being BLAMED for the cost of the police investigation! Now they’re being blamed (only by a tiny number of people, I know) for NOT pushing to have the case reopened and having even MORE public money spent on it.

This is the usual “Damned if they do, damned if they don’t!” syndrome.

I don’t know what happened to Madeleine but until there is evidence against someone of his or her criminal involvement, the usual principle of presumed innocence should apply. It’s what we’d all rightly expect for ourselves. It’s a crucial principle which should be defended absolutely. So far, the police have said there is no case to be made against anyone at all.

Ah expenses…..

“These people have been protected by a ring of British politicians including Prime Minister Gordon Brown and those close to him, including a spin doctor, the Foreign Secretary, a government spokesperson and former Prime Minister Tony Blair.”

!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

So THAT’S why they’ve not been running the country, then…….!! Too busy protecting the McCanns.

Oh….and here’s the Flat earth Society website……

http://www.alaska.net/~clund/e_djublonskopf/Flatearthsociety.htm

I always thought it was a hoax.

The parents could request that it be opened at any time. I also thought they just had to say before the deadline and it wouldn’t have been archived in the first place.

Since it has been archived, they evade answering questions about whether they want it opened (see Oprah interview and others). Plus, it is understood that the parents themselves could ask for it to be opened at any time, (other people would have to have a reason e.g. new evidence) but the McCanns can simply ask, but don’t ask.

How could they?

It wasn’t.

You’re confused.

Nobody is forced to wear the T-shirt. It may seem a bit mawkish to some (me, for example) but it’s only a gesture of comforting solidarity with the family, and a reminder about the search for Madeleine. Where’s the harm? It’s in a good cause.

And nobody is forced to give a single penny to the Madeleine Fund, well………… ………..er……..with one or two exceptions, maybe………!

Tom Franks offered 1m to hunt down the man the McCanns claimed “probably abducted Madeleine”if they cld provide evidence to substantiate that claim.The alternative offered was that the McCanns cld remove their lies.The McCanns quietly removed. from their web all reference to “Madeleine’s probable abductor,” without an apology for either misleading the public or an apology for taking money from the public based on lies.
Tom Franks offered 1m to hunt down the man the McCanns claimed “probably abducted Madeleine”if they cld provide evidence to substantiate that claim.The alternative offered was that the McCanns cld remove their lies.The McCanns quietly remove…d from their web all reference to “Madeleine’s probable abductor,” without an apology for either misleading the public or an apology for taking money from the public based on lies.

Have you got any proof of this?

Mods:

http://www.anorak.co.uk/madeleine-mccann/180382.html

“We don’t want the case to be archived in any way. We still believe Madeleine could be alive, so the police must keep an operational inquiry going, looking for a missing person. Of course we want Gerry and Kate to be cleared as suspects, but we do not want the police to stop looking for Madeleine. We will never give up the search for her”

Mods: They did not want the case shelved and wold love for it to be reopened.

I don’t know why, but I’m still finding it impossible to get a straight answer about Madeleine McCann from Leicestershire police.

I called to ask about Madeleine and almost before I’d asked the question was being given the old brush off: “It’s a Portuguese investigation, not ours.”

The Portuguese authorities closed their investigation in July last year. The press officer said she hadn’t heard or read about that.

Apparently, the Leicstershire force still passes on any potential leads to the dynamic Portuguese police who established precisely nothing about Madeleine’s disappearance during their 15-month inquiry.

I gave it 24 hours and called back. This time I was told that all the Leicestershire cops involved in the Madeleine case were on half-term holiday. So push off.

She didn’t actually say that, but it felt like she had.