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OOOh Marian, how can you say that when they are such wonderful parents…… I heard they had been nominated for Parents of the Year, but no seconders came forward…then nominated for Tightwads, which received deafening applause.

put up with it Simon, I find you very tedious.

Some people are so blind….if the parents are able to keep Madeleine in the media’s attention (not for their own publicity) they are able to reach more people, and keep her in the spotlight. How many times have you seen a missing child splash, only to see it disappear in a couple of days? Often never knowing what happened to the child.

The focus is obviously on getting Madeleine back, so I applaud their efforts to keep her face in the publics eye. It’s hard to forget a face if you’ve seen it a thousand times, and maybe, just maybe, someone will see her one day, and she will be returned to her parents.

This type of extortion bid is disgusting, but unfortunately one of the side effects of such a huge publicity campaign, especially when so much money is so publicly involved

In hindsight perhaps the publicity to keep Madeleine high profile could have been acheived without advertising the private rewards and fund so much - it is that which attracts these losers on the look out for a quick buck. Sadly, not only do these extortionists cause much distress, but they also take valuable police time away from the real focus of actually looking for Madeleine, which is defeating the whole point of the publicity campaign.

As for asking questions - well isn’t that the way to get answers? Not to cast blame, but in seeking to find out what exactly happened on the night that Madeleine disappeared - because therein lies the key to finding out what happened to her after that, and ergo to finding her, which is after all what we all want isn’t it?

OMG it’s Vanda/frances now!!! You certainly pick some exotic names for your multiple personalities dear.

DEAR MCCANN HATERS,

look up the word compassion, and grow a soul. He who hath no sin can cast the first stone. Shame on all of you! I hope that you never make a grave mistake in your lives. Sit and think for a moment, look in the mirror, really……

Who are the criminals here, NOT THE MCCANNS, we must unite here and help find Maddie and hope that Margaret Hill is also released.

This is not just about two abducted girls, this is about a war on terrorism and abduction and exploitation of children, the innocence of the world is taken away and God has been removed from everywhere and you want to point fingers at the McCanns……….oh that is logical.

Here are some numbers for you, a child goes missing in the US alone every 40 seconds, a girl stands a 30% chance of being molested and a boy is less but, 800,000 children are abducted every year, some from their own homes, are those parents to blame too,

I wonder what the abductors think of your view. Hmmmm support of what they did? Great message people. C’mon keep your eye on the ball.

Susan

frances - when you started posting as “Anorak round up” it was fresh and original and a good laugh. It’s just boring now.

pclandster - where have you been for the last 9 weeks!? Your post is just a
repeat (almost word for word) of numerous posts put up on these forums many weeks ago when this all kicked off. No, pclandster, the real scary people are your type - the extremely gullible ones who have no original thoughts and who just repeat mindlessly what they have read in the tabloids.

Susan - you say, “Who are the criminals here, NOT THE MCCANNS…”

Oh, really? It is a criminal offence in Portugal (and should be in the UK too) to leave children as young as the McCanns three children (babies really) ALONE. Duh…

You McCann sycophants are nauseating. Read what the rest of the world is saying about the McCanns, and particularly some of the foreign media. Grow up and learn to think for yourselves. What are you all going to do when the UK media turns against the McCanns? (it’s already happening by the way).

The parents are culpable and directly responsible for Madeleine’s disappearance, and in any other country they would have had to answer rigorous questioning by the child protection authorities and the police.

You all say that the McCann critics are “heartless” and “without pity” and you tell us how much “Kate and Gerry” (do you know them personally?) are suffering. NO, NO, NO!!! It is MADELEINE who is suffering, or who has suffered the ultimate fate (pray not).

If you really care about Madeleine as much as you say, why the hell aren’t you insisting that the McCanns be rigorously questioned, and be made to take a lie detector test?

Why would the McCanns have to do that? To please a few bored forum members with overactive imaginations?

I should imagine that they don’t give a shit what you think. Their priority is getting maeledine back, not answering to all and sundry who feel they are owed soemthing by the mccann family.

I think we are all getting very frustrated with the small snippets of hope given out….we all get our hopes up…when we read a report of a sighting…or more investigation of suspects…. We just want her to be found alive and well.
We also have to remember the facts……WHY MADELIENE IS MISSING! We are not saying/ writing what alot of people are not already thinking…..everyone has the right to express the views we think or believe. There are times when i have spent hours…if not days putting out posters…emails etc etc not sleeping…worrying. Wondering also why the parents are not out searching door to door…asking..why the hell are they going to concerts instead of jumping on planes to where numerous sightings have been reported?????
I also think they should be investigated more thoroughly…and i guess if they have nothing to hide…why don’t they agree to a lie detector test to clear any suspicion…then they could get on with dealing with the guilt of leaving the kids alone….They could have lost 3 kids that evening….there are alot of strange unanswered questions surrounding this case. Hopefully it will not be too late for Madeleine…..I am also a Catholic…and i would never leave my children alone….not for nights out. Being a devout Catholic doesn’t make you a saint!

Dear Forum Members; Please keep up the goss because whilst there is plenty of talk be it positive or negative there is hope. Its when lips fall silent that Madeleine will have a problem. We to are following up on all excerpts, and if any one out there has any information to contribute in Madeleine’s case please feel free to do so. Our site is confidential and neutral.
Thanks to all
John Graham

Good morning everybody,

I am the newly appointed Moderator (offically ). My name is Themis, she who is atop the Old Bailey with her scales of justice.
I have started a thread in the Forums, so if anyone has any genuine grievences I can be contacted there. You will have to register to post there.
Some of my duties are to prevent libel cases, so I shall ask you now to think very carefully what you say before you post, read it through very carefully BEFORE you hit submit, and edit it then.

Here in Opinions, views are just that, you may disagree, of course you will, but your point can and will be made without rudeness, and in the Madeleine threads without accusation of insanity,paedophilia or other perversions.

There have been serious complaints about multiple user names and abusing other peoples user names, including Anorak’s own. This will stop soon especially after Mods and Admin have stepped in officially and exposed the violators for who they are.

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Susan said:

“Here are some numbers for you, a child goes missing in the US alone every 40 seconds, a girl stands a 30% chance of being molested and a boy is less but, 800,000 children are abducted every year, some from their own homes, are those parents to blame too?”

Let me break those figures for abducted children down a little: 400,000 of those will have been parental abductions (usually as a result of child custody disputes)… so in half of the total cases, yes, the parents are to blame (well - one of the parents)… and those are the vast majority of cases where the child has been taken from the home/garden.

Of the 400,000 remaining 60% are abducted by someone who knows them - leaving 160,000 stranger abductions. Still a horrifying statistic, but I just wanted to clarify the figures - they are quite openly available online incidentally, for anyone who would like to check them for themselves.

99% of children who are molested are NOT abducted, but are abused by a member of their immediate family or someone who knows them… child group leaders, priests, teachers, friends of the family - people who are in a position of trust and who can ‘groom’ the child to accept long term abuse, which gives the abuser a regular victim with minimum risk. The remaining children are 99% of the time picked up by an opportunistic paedophile working on his own and acting on impulse. Again these figures are verifiable.

We have all heard the urban legends of children being snatched from beside their parents and later recovered just in time with their hair and clothes changed, but these are always anectotal and I have been unable to find any confirmation of them from official sources. In fact official figures on Country of Origin for child trafficking victims shows that only a minute percentage come from America and the developed world - and most of those are teen runaways not small children.

But we seem to have gone off track yet again - the matter in hand is Madeleine, not other children or Gerry and Kate McCann. Given the official figures, and the complete lack of a similar crime in Portugal, one has to wonder why the McCanns have so insisted that Madeleine was abducted from the apartment. Being charitable, the only reason that I can imagine is that to do so makes them feel less culpable for leaving the children in the first place - but the questions still need to be asked if Madeleine’s whereabouts are to be discovered.

After all, if Madeleine was taken by an opportunistic paedophile rather than snatched from her bed she is not likely to have ever left Portugal and the search for her should be concentrated there … scrubland, disused wells, drainage pipes and ditches in remote locations, empty properties, ruined buildings. Portugal is one of the poorest countries in the EU, it has a small population spread in clusters with a lot of undeveloped land to search. IF people are genuinely concerned with finding Madeleine, rather than protecting her parents, then it seems reasonable that they be pushed on some of the anomalies which originate with them.

Hear Hear Molly, its become chaotic trying to hold meaningful dialogue on this subject. The latest news from Portugal sadly is that allegedly the fund raisers have placed plastic boxes around so passers by can put their spare change in them.

What next? Street urchins begging in packs?

YUK!

Janet and Co you are cordially invited here: http://www.anorak.co.uk/forums/topic.php?id=235&page&replies=6#post-3050

Themis