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Where did hear that Gerry said that? You even say ‘words to that effect’???? Are you sure that Gerry really said that to Kates mother?

Also why are the police being stalled to interview the Tapas group again?? Im sure if they were ready they WOULD!!! They wouldnt have to wait would they!!

RE:MODS & Admin

NEUTRAL?????????…….lol
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736/anna(uk)
Interesting ?? The million dollar question is :Why the big cover up from British Ambassador?

More recently, Kate’s mother went on record as saying that Gerry told her ‘it’s very important that you accept that Madeleine was abducted’ or words to that effect. This gives the same impression - that a decision was taken to portray Madeleine’s disappearance as an abduction at all costs. Something is being hidden and enormous lengths are being gone to to keep it hidden. This is why I now believe that the Portuguese police will be thwarted at every turn and the truth will probably never come out. They want to come here to interview the other members of the Tapas group and are now ready to - but are continually being stalled - anyone who can’t see this has their head well and truly in the sand.

It is something nobody talks about a lot, maybe because it is so sad to think of what it means to be abducted. It is brave, and right of you to say it.

I see what you mean, but I had loads of seriously nasty stuff said to me by pro-McCanners and only the Mods stepped in to save me (not that I asked them to, I never would - if I can’t think of a decent retort I deserve to burn in forum hell).

I was quite nasty to you once though, which I regret.

I’m glad you’ve wiped it from your memory.

I felt nothing but sorry for the McCanns for the 1st 3 weeks - even though my Dad kept saying they were talking rubbish and were complete idiots - but as the weeks, months and P.R. campaigns went on (ribbons, balloons, kids writing poems, adverts at sporting events and in the cinema, Justine, Clarrie, Pray for Maddie slogans, wrist bands, fun runs, speaking at the Edinburgh festival, visiting America and on and on…) I had to admit they were talking rubbish and were complete idiots.

I did think Kate looked in pain, till I saw a photo of her holding baby Madeleine - same look.

But I do feel sorry for them to the extent they lost Madeleine (even if they should learn to lock their doors) - but the P.R. campaign - I intend to keep ripping it to shreds esp. now innocent men keep ending up in the newspapers labelled creepy.

January 28th, 2008 at 9:06 am
Cheryl

You like the McCanns, I don’t. That’s all you’re really bothered about.

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Karen, who said I liked the McCanns? I don’t even know them; I don’t live over there. BUT as a civilized human being and mother I feel compassion for them on the loss of their child. Whether she is missing because of their leaving her alone or whatever else they have a lost a child and one can only imagine the emotional hell and heartbreak of wondering from day to day if their child will be found. Then pile on the emotional guilt of knowing just maybe she would not have disappeared if they had not left her alone - frankly, being a mother, I’m not very sure I could go on living if I was in the same situation and circumstances.

I have personally known and been around friends who have lost their children or baby and it is an experience one never forgets to watch and literally feel their reactions. Yes, some say sitting in judgement that Mrs. Mccann showed little outward grief - but you study her face, having seen such same reactions in some before, and you see written all over her face and in her eyes - pure hell.

So, I should pile on shit and condemnation? No thank you. I prefer to stay civilized and feel compassion for them and the thousands of others who lose their children no matter what the circumstances.

January 28th, 2008 at 9:06 am
Cheryl

You like the McCanns, I don’t. That’s all you’re really bothered about.

Being rude to Sledge is not denying him freedom of speech - he calls us the barmy brigade, he’s hardly polite himself. I suppose you’d have all journalists and comedians censored if they told President Bush to go shove it?

A forum is nothing like a march and all the McCanns have to worry about is the PJs.

Anorak is about the media, the McCanns are using the media, so we’re commenting on it. Like we comment about Amy Winehouse. If they stepped out of the spotlight, they wouldn’t be on this website, they wouldn’t come across as total freaks and we wouldn’t comment.

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REPLY: Karen, I was laughing because I found it quite funny what you said about shoving it. As for your comment re Bush - I’ve said far worse than shove it about him!

If you have a problem with me then do please just email me and say so and I shall retire gracefully from here! . I’ve not been rude or offensive yet in the past few days nearly every mail I’ve posted has been picked up by Mods and Admin and critcised.
My last post was polite and to Karen yet once again Mods and Admin intervene. I understood M&A were neutral on the subject matter and there to avoid abuse etc.
The stuff the other day in support of Ian was really bizarre!

Could you explain? Many thanks.

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Mods and Admin

Firstly my reply to your post towards Karen, should not be seen as criticism of your self.
We often do reply directly to posts, it doesn’t have to be seen as intervention on behalf of the person it was originally addressed to.
But my summary of the majority of posters feelings of indifference and and at the other end of the spectrum , utter comtempt for the McCanns just explains the general feel of the posters who choose to post here in Anorak. Others with a different view also post, they are read, and challenged usually in the tone the original poster set, if its was put in a courteous way that is how it would be answered. If the level of good manners is transgressed posts are pulled by the moderators here, and we do not discuss pulled posts on site

Many months ago the majority of the posts were all very very pro McCann, and indeed they assumed wrongly that Anorak was here for the sole purpose to support of the MCCanns, and there was very little defence from any fence sitters then towards posters who didn’t go with the pro- McCann flow. But neither was Anorak an anti McCann site. But it does reflect the general view of the general public. In addition I must add we have been the only site at times where someone had their opinion heard, whether it supported the parents or not.

If you have any beef about our moderating please go to the forums and put your comments there.

I don’t think its the criticism per se that Cheryl means but the real nastiness.
I know you know what I mean because you don’t do it!! Its the really gleeful attacks on not only the McCanns but anyone who becomes embroiled like Mrs Cooper.
Its the celebration of the negative and the dismissal of the positive without really checking any of it out properly.

I personally don’t like the McCanns and I think they are fools to themselves a lot of the time…. (I often wonder if he is on the outer perimeter of the Autistic spectrum with his lack of perception. Very clever people can be so removed from real life. My late brother had Aspergers….) However I HATE the truly personal stuff.

But of course we are all entitled to our opinions!!!

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I think the fact that the McCanns have placed themselves well inside everyones personal perimeter, the reaction is just to repel them back to their own mess. People cannot pick up a paper turn on the tv or radio, and there is the McCann media out in force.
The sightings of their little girl and or ugly great creepy bastard who ‘took’ her whether wrapped in a blanket, on her ‘abductors’ back or being fed in cafe somewhere, and the constant admonishments to look for her, really do not help the McCanns.
They do seem to be passing the buck of responsibility, its up to us to see her, find her rescue her, but who left her alone and who actually knows for certain what happened to her? NOBODY knows, least of all the parents, as they were not there, and there is NO proof of abduction , just assumption.

Everyone feels desperately sorry for Madeleine , and prefer not to dwell on what could have happened had she been abducted, and its also very likely all 3 children could have gone that route. People feel concern for the twins too, as they have to grow up surrounded by an imploded family aided largely by their parents avoidance of duty of care.
The people who could have prevented all this are the good doctors with their presence and not their absence.
It is that fact that people pillory the McCanns. I dare say they don’t like it, but IF Madeleine has been abducted , I wonder what she thinks of Mummy and Daddy? It is she who counts.

“Ah…what about their arguidos status? arent you made arguido when you are a suspect?”

Yes I’m talking about the arguido status. It’s not to be announced publicly by the authorities, and indeed has never been announced.

It’s a legal technicality during an ongoing investigation, and the investigation is not public. It has no implications whatsoever for the public.

You like the McCanns, I don’t. That’s all you’re really bothered about.

Being rude to Sledge is not denying him freedom of speech - he calls us the barmy brigade, he’s hardly polite himself. I suppose you’d have all journalists and comedians censored if they told President Bush to go shove it?

A forum is nothing like a march and all the McCanns have to worry about is the PJs.

Anorak is about the media, the McCanns are using the media, so we’re commenting on it. Like we comment about Amy Winehouse. If they stepped out of the spotlight, they wouldn’t be on this website, they wouldn’t come across as total freaks and we wouldn’t comment.

January 28th, 2008 at 8:14 am
This is not correct. The McCanns have never been publicly named as suspects by the portugese authorities. It were their own lawyers who announced this in public.
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Ah…what about their arguidos status? arent you made arguido when you are a suspect?
And their lawyers would just go around giving that good news to the world without any problem whatsoever???? come on…..