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Madeleine McCann: Hairdryers In The Bath And Paedos

danger-300x264 Madeleine McCann: Hairdryers In The Bath And PaedosMADDIE WATCH - Anorak’s at-a-glance guide to press coverage of Madeleine McCann, Kate McCann and Gerry McCann

ONLINE OPINION – This his “Australia’s e-journal of social and political debate”

“Hush little baby, don’t say a word”

If it is our biological imperative to make babies, it is our most basic instinct to protect them. Baby-makers and baby-carers everywhere know what a challenge it can be to shelter a tiny human being from the dangers of the world … from the cold, the rain, the sun, the road. Sharp objects, moving vehicles, heights, fire. Hairdryers in the bath, knives in the toaster, fingers in the electric socket. Things they could fall off, fall into, have fall on them.

Save the children… Who will save the children? Might we pray?

How will we know where Baby is all the time, without eyes in the backs of our heads? How do we stop Baby falling from a great height in a flaming vehicle? How could we live with ourselves if we left Baby alone long enough to take the hairdryer swimming in the rain?

We would all die, surely?

What happens when we have to protect Baby from ourselves?

Social services?

“Our Maddie” is emblematic of the fear that pervades the Western psyche and the media’s propensity to play into it. Her parents have made a website complete with daily blogs, links to donate money and a timer to count how many days she has been missing. British tabloid papers have paid the McCann’s $60,000 compensation for accusing them of killing their own child. Busloads of tourists have arrived in Portugal to see the places where Maddie slept and where her parents ate.

They have?

Consider Madeleine McCann herself, whose angelic face has been seen by anyone who has watched TV, read a paper or been on the Internet in the last year, whose parents have been accused of her murder and whose trauma has been exposed for all to see. If she were to be found, she would grow up a morbid kind of celebrity whose personal horror held the world captive during her formative toddler years.

Media coverage of the “Maddie” case has misrepresented the significance of the story and implicitly suggested that foreign abduction is a perennial concern. This is a terrifying notion for parents, but because of their underdeveloped grasp of empathy children have far more difficulty in qualifying that kidnapping is not an ever-present threat.

A blonde Russell Grant?

The writer has the mind of a six year old. She knows.

Similarly, how are children to know that babies are not left by dumpsters, killed by their axe-wielding grand-fathers or gassed to death in a car with their brothers and father every day?

It doesn’t?

  1. 1 2_pot Says:

    farts

  2. 2 Saul Says:

    Phew!

  3. 3 Gailen Says:

    turd

  4. 4 June Says:

    weyeyeyey! cess pit

    peas up nose, you forgot that

  5. 5 2_pot Says:

    pardon me.

    ’twas the curry.

  6. 6 PeterMac Says:

    “Media coverage of the “Maddie” case has misrepresented the significance of the story and implicitly suggested that foreign abduction is a perennial concern. This is a terrifying notion for parents, but because of their underdeveloped grasp of empathy children have far more difficulty in qualifying that kidnapping is not an ever-present threat.”

    This is what the McCs have planned all along.
    By keeping it in the public domain and by concentrating on the ‘bigger picture’ in this way they have suggested
    1 that it happened to them - which it probably didn’t
    2 that it can happen to anyone else - which it probably won’t

  7. 7 sam Says:

    peter mac, that sentence makes no sense anyway, shouldn’t it read ‘underdeveloped understanding of danger’, or something like that. the sentence is non-sensical.

  8. 8 sam Says:

    in the independants article about the american agency’s contract not being renewd it states that the agency was paid for out of the fund but underwritten by brian kennedy. i’m not sure what underwritten means, is it a bit like being a garentor ?

  9. 9 sam Says:

    i don’t think satire’s one of my strenghts.

  10. 10 sam Says:

    went whoosh clunk right over head again. has everyone gone back to bed then or something ?

  11. 11 Marie Nicholas Says:

    Sam

    Hello Sam! I think the sentence is full of sense. It says that there is a lack of empathy from the parents who don’t put themselves in the place of children, and because of that, there is that stupid fear that everychild abroad is at risk of being kidnapped. I don’t now if the “lack of empathy” refers to people who spread such lies, and terrify everybody with them, children included, or to parents who leave children alone at night.

  12. 12 Marie Nicholas Says:

    I don’t know if you are like me, but I am fed up with the news of how much is left in the Fund. We are kept informed of it as if it was national news. Only so much left etc… I am surprised there is any money left with all the expenses, but I don’t believe one word of what we ar told about it. What do I care anyway? Like the rest of the story, it isn’t clear, and false news is spread from time to time in the media.

  13. 13 âde Says:

    Marie Nicholas Says:
    August 25th, 2008 at 10:23 am
    I don’t know if you are like me, but I am fed up with the news of how much is left in the Fund.
    __________________________
    mornin’ marie and mornin’ all
    seems to me the single reason for telling us how poor they are, slush fund-wise, is to get more suckers to hand more cash over to the wretched odiates
    an easier way to raise money is to sell that crappy house in rothley and get a council flat
    oh and sell the cars and use public transport
    great fun to watch though :lol:

  14. 14 âde Says:

    off out to enjoy the rain
    have fun for me :lol:

  15. 15 Julia Says:

    Marie N

    You might be fed up hearing about the fund, well ive been reading through these posts recently and am fed up with hearing about thow the Mccanns left their children alone. It was definitely not a good thing to do, but after 15 months , it seems most of the people that write on here have nothing else of any substance to say, except ofcourse Garths humor!

    M and A

    Had they not left the kids, maybe MM might be around?

  16. 16 sam Says:

    marie n, ah yes, that makes more sense. breeding fear iow, peter mac is right. yes, i’m fed up of the money angle too. morning ade, have a good time :)

  17. 17 Dr. Watson Says:

    With the drop in house prices soon the pink head lines might sound like:

    “Ex-dr. Mccans, 39 (+1), from Rothley, live in a detached £250K (and still does not sell) house… and feel a pressure of a credit crunch, so your donations are highly appreciated (put in a Swiss bank with high interest rate).

  18. 18 yampster Says:

    Morning Wobbler! Will it be safe there do you think

  19. 19 âde Says:

    Argentine dog saves abandoned baby
    An eight-year-old dog has touched the hearts of Argentines by saving the life of an abandoned baby, placing him safely alongside her own new puppies.
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7577275.stm
    ______________________________________
    back briefly… i suggest one of the pro-child neglectors here contact the odious ones and suggest they get a dog pretty damn quick…
    could come in handy in case they abandon the remaining kiddos to go on the piss
    great fun :lol:

  20. 20 chenier Says:

    That depends on the dog…

  21. 21 chenier Says:

    Remind me, someone; has ade been recruited, or was it ted?

    Best person in the field was definitely mentioned.

    Perhaps the duty antichrist could clarify?

  22. 22 jo Says:

    A very quick hello to all…..and back to resting :evil:
    Ade,I heard about the she-dog in argentina
    May be the mccfools will sue her? :lol: :lol:
    Bye for now
    xxxxx

  23. 23 Anorak Says:

    37th!

    Where is every one? Crank up the amber alert system…

  24. 24 Daisy Says:

    G’day All,

    Reading back through the previous thread and Marie N’s translation of JT’s statement to the police, I personally don’t believe JT saw someone the night in question. I have always felt that she could be the one hiding something, more than the parents of MM. I feel she could be covering up for someone, but not the parents of MM.

    On the matter of the possibility of scents being planted, I don’t think the police would do that, with the World watching their every move. If, and I say “IF” any scent was planted, it would IMO have been done by one or more of the T9 to throw people off what really might have happened to the child and make the investigation so difficult that no conclusions could be drawn (like is the case now). All of the above is just speculation and my personal views.

  25. 25 chenier Says:

    It’s the alligator; people take one look at the thread and develop pressing business elsewhere…

  26. 26 Marie Nicholas Says:

    Julia

    If we talk about them and what they did, it is because the press keep us informed of what they do, what they say, how much money they have etc…

    We are doing a counter PR exercise on this site. At least I am. I feel manipulated by the press as regards the case, which also reached France, and I want to say high and loud that I don’t buy everything I am told about it, if only because so contradictory. At the beginning, I didn’t pay attention to the case. My mother talked to me about it first. She was full of compassion about the plight of the poor couple abroad (strangely not about the missing child). Big mystery. According to her, the parents were almost at the foot of the building when it happened. it was big news even in France. Then, it has been on the news constantly, with different versions, and the parents campaigning themselves, with a PR to tell us what to believe. They have brought us to argue back, and now, the public interest is bringing them to go on with the PR exercise. It is a vicious circle.

  27. 27 jo Says:

    How much are the mccann going to suck out of Angelina Ugly?
    Or is La Jolie going to make them pay for a Famous Hug?

  28. 28 Daisy Says:

    Julia,

    I agree to some extent with what you wrote. However, anti or pro, I believe everybody on the forums wants to know what really happened to that little unprotected girl. Until the case is solved, if it is ever, we will all read every piece that we can get our hands on in the hope that some new clue has surfaced which can lead to the truth and to the punishment of the guilty ones (if any). This little girl would still be around if it wasn’t for the ones that she loved leaving her alone night after night after night. Why they are still continuing with their PR campaign is also not known to most. Is it genuine search or is it a scam? That is the other aspect that keeps us all looking for answers.

  29. 29 jo Says:

    Marie Nicholas

    I am not sure when I will be able to be here freely but yes,we are doing a pr job: the only vicious thing here,are the mccNasty :evil:
    On that,I am off again and wont be back unless I cheat :lol:
    xxx

  30. 30 sam Says:

    dr watson, should we circulate a clarence spin letter ?

    dear sir, i am clarence spinall, spokesperson of the barrons of the manor of rotherly whose child dissapeared under mysterious circumstances on the 3rd of may 2007 in some strange and foreign parts of this world whilst her parents imbibed in a causual supper not a stones throw away.

    considering all eyewittness acounts and after consultation with an expert ex fbi sketch artist,we fear she has been heiniously abducted, by a swarthy looking flying sardine with an extremly large egg shaped face and greasy permanent waved locks wearing casual slacks and a brown suede jacket (barbour perhaps ?). ludicrous, we know, but evidence of this is are the many sightings, from malta to brazil via antwerp, all in one day!

    we have followed every lead, no matter how ludicrous, expensive or ridiculous and have hired the most expensive solicitors we could to read though ten thousand pages of documents and a book to see if we can sue anyone else. but this, all of this, has left us only another half a million to squander on ribbons and balloons and posters, and i fear if brian pulls the plug on me too, i’ll be without a job! and you’ve no idea how expensive the laundering of these pink shirts are, really.

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