[kj] OT : Maddy ... I might be wrong ...
Tim Bucknall
tim.bucknall at googlemail.com
Sun Sep 9 08:43:30 EDT 2007
yeah i agree,
Its Funny, Helione (original gatherer) wrote a blog about it recently on
myspace
we all seem to be of the same mind
On 08/09/2007, pssyche23 <antoni at clara.net> wrote:
>
> * http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6983604.stm *
>
> This saga has now got rather political ... but as the Portugese
> authorities,
> media and tourism industry has had to deal with this unprecedented adverse
> publicity for over 4 months now, I suspect that everyone has got pretty
> fed
> up with it all and want closure ... the problem with the McCann's is that,
> whether they did do it or not, they (and their family and friends) have
> burnt too many bridges and made too many enemies on foreign soil, so that
> if
> the police think they have sufficient evidence to convict, they are
> prepared
> to do so and in some countries being charged is the worst thing possible,
> you are guilty unless you can prove you are innocent (hello Kalamata) ...
> if
> and when they are formally charged, Kate McCann has a stark choice
> (especially if she is innocent) to enter into a plea bargain, take the rap
> and be out in a year or face a considerable and unpleasant time in jail.
> Personally, I feel they have brought it upon themselves.
>
> Like many others, I've been in many discussions from day one about it all
> being strange, the lack of emotion, leaving young kids unattended to go
> out
> for a meal, a highly organised media campaign ... all these things
> probably
> don't endear the family to the locals and could easily add to a whispering
> campaign against them ... for my own part when, after 8 days, we had the
> sight of Everton players wearing t-shirts and a minute's silence at a
> Chelsea FC football match, I couldn't help thinking that truly distraught
> parents just wouldn't be doing such things ... surely the not knowing
> would
> make complete wrecks of them ... were these just actions of a highly
> intellegent & calculating man, trying to cover up that fact that his wife
> had accidently killed their 3 year old with sedatives ? Maybe, I just
> don't
> know ... but with the parents travelling to see the pope, the US president
> and all those visits to other countries whilst countless other children go
> missing ... it is all very strange to me ...
>
> Another thing that always bugged me was that if the child was abducted,
> surely such a widespread publicity campaign would make it almost
> impossible
> for that child to come back alive ... the real cynic would say that if
> they
> put as much effort into the original childcare arrangements, none of this
> would ever have occurred.
>
> Regards, Antoni
>
>
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