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

[Jiri]

That's funny (well not "funny" exactly, but...), I watched that Chelsea 
match on TV and wondered what the shirts were about (our U.S. feed from 
the Premier League shows some random pre-game clips with American 
voice-over, then goes straight into the English commentary at the first 
whistle, so there was no explanation). I assumed it was a missing kid 
and that was that.  I heard/didn't notice nothing about her in U.S. 
press until last weekend, with headlines referring to "Madeline" as if I 
knew who she was. No idea all that publicity was going on. The one story 
I read to catch up sure did make everything sound...odd.

Not to be crass, but she clearly fills a void in the "missing white girl 
story" slot that U.S. cable news outlets are always needing to fill. Yay.

pssyche23 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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