FOIST????

Tird

G’morning Mr Anorak & Jo (I had a very naughty urge to correct the spelling of “Tird”, but I shall behave)

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What am I going to do if 14 July is the Big Bang #2 and the paers are released?

I’m going on Holiday on 13th for a couple of weeks and will miss everything. I can’t spend two sunnt weeks in a Cypriot cyber cafe.

Maybe I should cancell my holiday just in case.

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Recommanded reading of the day written by an ex convict (35 years in jail) lawyer and extremely inteligent man

I am going to work now (again)
Julie, you are in charge, try to behave if this is possible

http://hypocriteandliar.wordpress.com/2008/06/18/mccanns-physicians-heal-thyselves/

I could not help
I find they look like the healthiest, happiest, wealthiest parents on earth
What the hell are they complaining about?

http://bp0.blogger.com/_mXbRBcSh0gs/SFhP-kK8QuI/AAAAAAAAByY/NbBtsWKN2XE/s1600-h/SmillingParents.jpg

13 jo

They do don’t they! I am not being sarcastic but the new hairdo is quite nice, and the lovely outfit is too. Makeup looks well done, and Gerry’s dark suit makes him look like the business man he is. Disgusting pair IMHO. [edited - dr]

McCanns ‘confident’ on alert plan

Gerry and Kate McCann say they still have much to do to raise awareness

The parents of missing Madeleine McCann say they are “confident” of gaining the support they need for an EU-wide alert system for abducted children.

The couple have been lobbying MEPs - they need 393 of them to back the plan by 24 July for it to be published.

But they are still 167 short, and say some are “surprisingly” unaware of their proposal.

Meanwhile, Portuguese authorities have said the family will soon be allowed access to the police files in the case.

Madeleine, of Leicestershire, vanished aged three in Portugal in May 2007.

Amber Alert

Kate and Gerry McCann believe that a European version of the US Amber Alert system would have helped the search for their daughter in the crucial hours after her disappearance.

Whilst we remain confident… we have also learnt that we still have much to do to increase awareness
Kate McCann

The US system enables an early warning to be given via the media across the country when police confirm a child has been abducted.

The couple launched their campaign in April and by Tuesday evening had collected the names of 226 MEPs.

But they need another 167 signatures before the 24 July deadline if the declaration is to be sent to the EU president and published.

Although publication of the proposal would carry no legal weight in the European Union, the McCanns believe it would help them win the moral argument over whether such a cross-border system is needed.

‘Declaration fatigue’

In a series of meetings in Strasbourg on Tuesday unsigned members vowed to add their names, and persuade colleagues to join them.

Addressing a press conference with a statement Mrs McCann said their visit to the plenary session had been “extremely useful and very encouraging”.

“Whilst we remain confident that the declaration will have been signed by a majority of MEPs by the deadline, we have also learnt that we still have much to do to increase awareness of the declaration amongst MEPs before then.”

“We were, however, also surprised to learn that some MEPs remain unaware of the declaration and its aim of improving child welfare - despite the international publicity that has surrounded it.” Declaration sponsor and European Parliament Vice-President Edward McMillan-Scott said the McCanns were up against a European Parliament suffering “declaration fatigue”.

Last year, only 12 out of 116 written declarations received the required number, he said.

After a vote in the European Parliament on Tuesday, several MEPs approached the McCanns to express their support for the scheme.

French member Alain Lamassoure, of the European People’s Party, said he would sign it because it was “a very painful issue” that required far better co-operation between the judiciary and police of member states.

The reason we have got a problem is that we have the EU
Nigel Farage MEP
Ukip leader

Irish Fianna Fail member Liam Aylward said: “It’s a heart-rending case and it captured the imagination of people around the world.

“If we can influence anybody, we will do.”

However, the UK Independence Party’s policy of not signing written declarations could cost the McCanns nine British signatures.

UKIP leader Nigel Farage, who met the couple, said he agreed in principle with an alert system.

But he dismissed written declarations as just “‘mother and apple pie’ statements so MEPs can show what wonderful people they are”.

He added that “the reason we have got a problem [with abducted children being carried across borders] is that we have the EU”.

Official secrecy

Meanwhile, Portugal’s attorney-general has said Mr and Mrs McCann will soon be allowed access to the police files relating to the search for their daughter.

Fernando Jose Pinto Monteiro told a Portuguese newspaper the period of official secrecy in the case would end next month.

But Portugal’s summer judicial holiday would mean the couple would not be able to gain access to the papers until August, 24 Horas reported.

The McCanns were officially named suspects, known in Portugal as being given “arguido” status, in September last year.

Clarence Mitchell, the couple’s spokesman, said they had not yet heard anything about the release of the papers but would welcome such a move.

“In the meantime, their legal teams in Britain and Portugal will continue to push for full access to the information from the police files and the lifting of their wrongly-imposed arguido status.”

16 Julie

There have been many people unfortunately, on TV appealing re their missing child. All obviously (except on a couple of occasions) present in their own way, but are genuine.
The Mcs don’t seem to be IMHO this way now, and never have been. Are they looking for Madeleine. She won’t be found in the halls of parliaments in other countries, where the couple are trying to get votes of amber alert.

Sky news this morning.
Millionaire whose wife disappeared 10 YEARS ago, arrested and charged with her murder.
Millionaire !
10 years !
I bet a lot of people on his blog said that the police had been doing nothing, and had no evidence and had dropped the case and that having a million pounds in the bank was a way to stop proper investigations, and that they were simply the plod with no ideas, and that they had probably put boots marks over the crime scene …..

Anyway, he is in custody, awaiting trial, so he is innocent. Which is why he is in custody.

I just hope Madeleine doesn’t have to wait that long.

I nearly had a fruity experience reading that

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brandon

Bye……xxxxx

Brandon, what crimes could have been committed in the UK and by whom?

Noseycow, sweet dreams to you.