[kj] OT : Maddy ... I might be wrong ...

[Tim Bucknall]

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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