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IRONSIDE
16/02/2010 at 8:46 pm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/7517883.stm
Amaral interview
Ironside
19/03/2010 at 8:03 pm
Well this is nice…
Hi,
A big thanks for signing the libel reform petition, coming to libel reform events, blogging, tweeting and pushing this campaign to the front of the political agenda.
We need you to come to the Houses of Parliament next Tuesday, 23 March, for a mass meeting with MPs to convince them to commit to libel reform.
The Libel Reform Campaign has booked Committee Room 15 at Parliament, and MPs know that we’re coming. Please, if you can, come and join us. Simon Singh will be joining us to tell MPs about the real effect of our libel laws.
The political parties are on the verge of signing up to once in a generation reform of our libel laws. But we don’t have them signed up yet. This is our last chance to lobby parliamentarians before the general election.
So here’s the plan:
Mass lobby of Parliament
2 – 3pm
We’re trying to get as many campaign champions, press and MPs along as possible for a meeting 2-3 pm in Committee Room 15. You can come to this even if you don’t have an MP appointment. If you can, let us know you are coming by emailing us: news@libelreform.org
3 – 4pm
You can email your MP and ask them to meet you between 3 – 4 pm in Central Lobby. Even if your MP has signed the EDM on libel reform it is still worth doing this. (We’ve pasted all the information you need below and it is also at http://www.libelreform.org).
Please help
This is the closest we’ve been to fundamental libel law reform in a century, but we need everyone along to help it succeed.
See you Tuesday!
Mike and Síle
Ironside
20/03/2010 at 7:33 am
http://littlemorsals.blogspot.com/
Full transcript of ‘Faked Abduction’ radio talk show. Thanks to sasha at Little Morsals.
Christine
30/05/2011 at 10:01 pm
http://patbrownprofiling.blogspot.com/
Hi, I didn’t know where to put this, but i thought you might find it an interesting read. Pat Brown is a well known criminal profiler and she isn’t drinking the ‘McCann Koolaid’ either.
Ironside
20/03/2010 at 4:10 pm
Transcript
Gerry
Well in terms of the abduction of a foreign child in a foreign country is really very rare. The only case like this is certainly in British children, the only one we know of is Ben Needham, which was in 1991. So, thats sixteen years ago. So, that aspect is incredibly rare and speaking to people in Portugal and Spain, there not aware of any other EU Nationals having children abducted on the Iberian Peninsula.And you think about the tens and millions of tourists that come to Spain and Portugal every year. So, this really was a bolt out of the blue. Um in terms of whats happened to us, I think also the circumstances of a child being abducted from a bedroom are pretty rare as well.
I think what we definately want to do is continue awareness inEurope you know Southern Europe iberian Peninsula.
Kate
There are a few people who have said to us you know, too much publicity might not be good because somebody , whoevers got her might keep her hidden and obviously everything we are doing at the minute has a slight risk to it…which is a horrible situation to be in when you are dealing with your daughter, but over all we felt rather thnt sit back and do nothing , this was the way to go.
Gerry
We’ve done a lot of things on our own and clearly theres mixed signals from what could be done in terms of the North American experience.
Kate
Certainly, what Gerry learnt from (inaudible) washington was by having an image out there was definately the right thing to do. One in six children that are recovered is because somebody recognised them from a poster and the laws in the States are very different to here and again well ahead of the game…they’ve got their Amber Alert…you know within two hours of a child being taken a police report has to be filed….you know and um obviously the response time in Europe has to be quicker . it has to be quicker.
Gerry
But the problem is that and this applies to the child pornography laws as well, is that if you make regulation tight in one country, the perpetrators dont know any bounderies and they move to a country where legislation is less tight. So, you might be exporting your problem and um why it has to happen , international dimention and thats why the laws need tightening up not just in the UK and U.S. or anywhere else its where children can be abused or likely to be abused.
hardlinemarxist
20/03/2010 at 6:43 pm
GM- an advocate of global governance!
Ironside
20/03/2010 at 4:11 pm
Link to above Transcript
Ironside
20/03/2010 at 8:00 pm
I think also the circumstances of a child being abducted from a bedroom are pretty rare as well.
Nigh on impossible I would say. Yes, he had been at the CEOP manuals donated by his friend Gamble.
Ironside
21/03/2010 at 2:03 pm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/player/nol/newsid_7060000/newsid_7068900/7068982.stm?bw=bb&mp=wm&asb=1&news=1&bbcws=1
Recording of Mitchel talking about Fund money used for mortgage payments.
pablo
23/03/2010 at 7:15 am
Surely it would make better sense just to tighten up and enforce tougher child neglect laws?
That way you get jailled and lose your child instead of touring the globe taking the piss out of soft folk!
Love the page will spread it around.
Ironside
04/04/2010 at 5:12 pm
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Dey0baAlRrE&eurl=http://www.gerrymccannsblogs.co.uk/MADELEINE_LINKS.htm
The McCann Infantile Memory
Ironside
05/04/2010 at 2:31 pm
http://gazetadigitalmadeleinecase.blogspot.com/
Disgusting article
Ironside
05/04/2010 at 2:32 pm
From above link
Home Office launches secret review into Madeleine McCann’s disappearance
The Home Office has secretly begun a review that could lead to a fresh police inquiry into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann.
By Robert Mendick
Published: 9:00PM GMT 06 Mar 2010
(…)
“Pressure is now being put on Portuguese authorities to agree in the first instance to a three-day review of the case that could be held at Interpol’s headquarters in Lyon in France. The McCanns will hope the Home Office can persuade their Portuguese counterparts to co-operate in a case review. The review – were it to go ahead – would involve British police working with Portuguese counterparts as well as experts in child abduction across other European forces.”
(…)
“A further obstacle was removed with the death from stomach cancer two weeks ago of Guilhermino Encarnacao, who was in charge of the Policia Judiciaria in the Algarve.”
(…)
Ironside
06/04/2010 at 6:19 am
http://textusa.blogspot.com/
TEXTUSA:::::The Smith Sighting
Ironside
06/04/2010 at 8:15 pm
http://textusa.blogspot.com/
OPERATION ORE HAVE A COURT DATE::::
Ironside
08/04/2010 at 5:35 am
Message from Simon Singh: “A big step for me, a small step for libel reform, and what you can do to help today.”
Dear Friends
Sorry for the silence, but it has been a ridiculously hectic (and happy) time since last week’s victory at the Court of Appeal. However, I urgently wanted to get in touch to update you on the status of my case, the latest news on libel reform and what you can do today to push libel reform up the political agenda.
BCA v Singh
April Fool’s Day 2010 was a day to remember. The Court of Appeal gave a ruling in my libel case with the British Chiropractic Association. The ruling strongly backs my arguments and puts me in a much stronger position when my trial eventually takes place. At last, after two years of defending my article and my right to free speech, I seem to have the upper hand and can breathe a small sigh of relief.
Moreover, the judges made it clear that they did not want to see scientists and science journalists being hauled through the High Court. In particular, they endorsed the view that a so-called comment defence should be adequate for scientific and other articles on matters of public interest. As well as the legal technicalities, the three wise, charming and handsome judges quoted Milton on the persecution of Galileo and directed that the High Court should not become an “Orwellian Ministry of Truth”.
Libel Reform Campaign
This is a small step forward for libel reform, but there is still a huge battle to be fought over the issues of costs, libel tourism, public interest defence, balancing the burden of proof, restricting the ability of powerful corporations to bully individuals (e.g., bloggers, journalists, scientists) and so on.
The General Election was called yesterday and the manifestos will be published in the next week, so we need one last push to persuade the major parties to commit to libel reform. Although we have already achieved a huge amount (from editorials in all last week’s broadsheets to the Commons Select Committee recommending libel reform), we must keep up the pressure!
Both the Labour and Conservative parties have made encouraging sounds about libel reform, but now is the time for them to make commitments in their manifestos.
What you can do today to pressure politicians
I have spent over a million minutes and £100,000 defending my article and my right to free speech, so I am asking you to spend just one minute and no money at all persuading others to sign the petition for libel reform at http://www.libelreform.org/sign
The last time I made this request, we doubled the number of signatories from 17,000 to 35,000. Can we now double the number from almost 50,000 to 100,000?!
You could ask parents, siblings, colleagues or friends to sign up. You could email everyone in your address book. You could blog about it, mention it to your Facebook friends and twitter about it. In fact, I have pasted some possible tweets at the end of this email – it would be great if you could twitter one, some or all of them.
You could forward all or part of this email to people or just steer them to http://www.libelreform.org/sign . Or you could persuade people that English libel law needs radical reform by using some of the reasons listed at the end of this email.
Remember, we welcome signatories from around the world because English libel law has a damaging impact globally.
Please, please, please apply maximum pressure to the politicians by encouraging as many new signatories as possible. Please do not take my victory last week as a sign that the battle is over. My case is still ongoing and the campaign for libel reform is only just starting.
Thanks for all your support – it has been incredibly important for the campaign and a real morale booster personally over the last two years.
Simon Singh.
Ps. Please spread the word by sending out one, some or all of the following tweets
Pls RT English libel law silences debate, says UN Human Rights Committee. Sign up at http://www.libelreform.org & back #libelreform Pls RT English libel costs 140x more than Europe. We can’t afford to defend our words. Sign up at http://www.libelreform.org & back #libelreform Pls RT Two ongoing libel cases involving health. The law should not crush scientific debate. Sign up at http://www.libelreform.org & back #libelreform Pls RT London is notorious for attracting libel tourists who come to UK to silence critics. Sign up at http://www.libelreform.org & back #libelreform
PPs. Reasons why we need radical libel reform:
(a) English libel laws have been condemned by the UN Human Rights Committee.
(b) These laws gag scientists, bloggers and journalists who want to discuss matters of genuine public interest (including public health!).
(c) Our laws give rise to libel tourism, whereby the rich and the powerful (Saudi billionaires, Russian oligarchs and overseas corporations) come to London to sue writers because English libel laws are so hostile to responsible journalism. (Again, it is exactly because English libel laws have this global impact that we welcome signatories to the petition from around the world.)
(d) Vested interests can use their resources to bully and intimidate those who seek to question them. The cost of a libel trial in England is 100 times more expensive than the European average and typically runs to over £1 million.
(e) Two separate ongoing libel cases involve myself and Peter Wilmshurst, and we are both raising concerns about medical treatments. We face losing £1 million each. In future, why would anyone else raise similar concerns when our libel laws are so brutal and expensive? Our libel laws mean that serious health matters are not necessarily reported, which means that the public is put at risk.
PPPs. I know that I will leave people out of this list, but I owe a huge thanks to:
1. The 10,000 people who joined the Facebook group “For Simon Singh and Free Speech – Against the BCA Libel Claim”, particularly those who joined when the rest of the world ignored the issue of libel.
2. The 300 people who packed Penderel’s Oak in May 2009 and who helped launch the Keep Libel Out of Science campaign, particularly the speakers: Nick Cohen, Dave Gorman, Evan Harris MP, Professor Brian Cox, Chris French, Tracey Brown (Sense About Science), Robert Dougans (Bryan Cave) and David Allen Green.
3. The 20,000 people who then joined the Keep Libel Out of Science campaign.
4. Jack of Kent and every other blogger who ranted and raved about libel reform when the mainstream media was turning a blind eye.
5. Everyone in the mainstream media who is now covering the various libel cases and the issue of libel reform.
6. Sense About Science, Index on Censorship and English PEN, who formed the Coalition for Libel Reform. And thanks to everyone who has contributed pro bono to the campaign in terms of design, technical support, chivvying support for the EDM and more.
7. The 46,000 people (i.e. you) who have signed the petition for libel reform, particularly those who have cajoled others to sign up at http://www.libelreform.org/sign
8. All the big names who have spoken out in favour of libel reform, from Professor Richard Dawkins to Derren Brown, from the Astronomer Royal to the Poet Laureate, from the Amazing Randi to Ricky Gervais. Particular thanks go to Dara O Briain, Stephen Fry, Tim Minchin and Robin Ince, who have gone out of their way to step up to the plate when the campaign has needed them. Immense thanks also to the 100+ big names who were the first to sign the petition to keep libel out of science and highlighted the need for libel reform.
9. Everyone who has emailed and twittered and told me in person that I am not going crazy, and who reassured me that I am doing the right thing by defending my article.
10. Thanks to Nick Clegg, leader of the Lib Dems, for promising to put libel reform in his manifesto. And thanks in advance to Jack Straw (Justice Secretary) and Dominic Grieve (Shadow Justice Secretary), because I know that the Labour and Conservative parties are going to commit to libel law reform. I cannot believe that they will allow more scientists, serious journalists, bloggers, biographers, human rights activists and others to go through the same hell that I have had to endure for last two years.
Ironside
08/04/2010 at 2:33 pm
Operation Ore…
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Call for people convicted or cautioned
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From http://www.inquisition21.com
Operation Ore. We want to hear from you now.
We want to hear from you now if you were convicted or cautioned for incitement and if you were convicted or cautioned for possession.
The test appeal is listed for hearing in the High Court in London on 27 and 28 April 2010. If the outcome is successful, we will be arranging a raft of appeals and related actions.
Contact ed-inquisition@live.ie
Blackwatch
12/04/2010 at 7:02 pm
I seem to remember the Operation was being hailed as a roaring success until the ex-Labour Ministers were questioned – and then the idea of credit-card fraud was introduced – which saved their asses and several Police Officers.
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4161/is_20030112/ai_n9712997/
Didn’t that Soham Officer get collared during this Operation too? Detective Constable Brian Stevens? Evenetually got cleared on technicalities but word seems to be he was caught with his trousers down so to speak. Was hailed a success by the press and government alike right until Gamble’s men fingered some camp old cabinet ministers. Funny that. You lot sound like a bunch of old fiddlers yourselves if this response to the Operation is anything to go by. Carry on downloading chaps and chappesses.
Blackwatch
12/04/2010 at 7:07 pm
“Detailed checks are being made to ensure the credit cards had not been stolen or “cloned” by criminals before any arrests are made.
If the two ex-ministers are brought in for questioning they would become the highest-profile people yet held under Operation Ore, the biggest-ever enquiry into internet child porn in the UK.
A police source said: “When the names came in we couldn’t believe it. Everyone would recognise them immediately. We are proceeding very, very cautiously.”
Looks like they were already doing dilgence on the possibility of credit-card fraud. Balir served a D-Notice explaining the story would harm the pre-War preparations and a short time later they came up with a complete way to discredit the investigation after saying how great it had been.
Hilarious really.
hardlinemarxist
12/04/2010 at 10:13 pm
not for those abused. Thanks for the links btw, very interesting…keep em coming please
Blackwatch
12/04/2010 at 7:13 pm
The above article was banned by the way. But it remains online in some archives. Neil Mackay of the Sunday Herald also reported on it:
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4156/is_20030119/ai_n9627237/
Ironside
15/04/2010 at 5:39 pm
http://www.innocent.org.uk/misc/trawling.html
Operation ROSE
hardlinemarxist
24/07/2010 at 7:45 pm
patricia.patterson@hotmail.co.uk
IP address [?]: 86.142.154.111 [Copy][Whois] [Reverse IP]
IP country code: GB
IP address country: United Kingdom
IP address state: Cambridgeshire
IP address city: Ely
IP address latitude: 52.4000
IP address longitude: 0.2667
ISP of this IP [?]: British Telecommunications
Organization: British Telecommunications
Host of this IP: [?]: host86-142-154-111.range86-142.btcentralplus.com
Chris C.
31/07/2010 at 10:12 pm
I was wondering if you would take the time and read about a Eric Priemsberger on Valhalls blog at the above website. Eric has been missing, and all indicators point that he is no longer w/ us. He wife left with their two younger children without ever reporting him missing. His mother is trying desperately to find him and her grandchildren. Many people feel that the children are in danger, since the mother is a drug user, has no money and appears to be on the run. Any help with this story would be very much appreciated. Too many twists and turns to explain. Would you please take the time and read up on it and try to help? Thanks for the wonderful work you do.
hardlinemarxist
31/07/2010 at 10:28 pm
Hi Chris,
Sure, I will do background reading on the case get a blog up within the next couple of days.
Chris C.
01/08/2010 at 1:29 pm
Thank you, your are awesome!!!
hardlinemarxist
03/08/2010 at 2:13 pm
Just to let you know that I haven’t forgotten your request. Blog entry is in its final stages and should be up at some point later today. There is not a lot of information out there about Eric’s disappearance, that is very sad – he someone’s son and father, he is cleary loved by his bio family
TTW4
23/09/2010 at 1:18 pm
It is such a shame Dianne Webster’s face has been omitted from the banner. Webster has more right than most to be seen, without her input none of this would have happened in the first place.
HLM
23/09/2010 at 5:16 pm
What banner TTW4?
Catford
07/01/2011 at 12:29 pm
How do I contact HLM direct? Please get back to me …….
HLM
07/01/2011 at 3:51 pm
hardlinemarxist@hotmail.com
Informator
07/01/2011 at 11:28 pm
Get yourself a copy of the book – “Framing abuse: media influence and public understanding of sexual violence against children” by Jenny Kitzinger and you may begin to understand why the British media are not telling you about the facts about what really happened to Madeleine McCann.
http://www.amazon.com/Framing-Abuse-Influence-Public-Understanding/dp/0745323316/
This book offers fascinating insights into how the media shape the way we think. Combining in-depth analysis of media representations of child sexual abuse with focus group discussions and interviews with nearly 500 journalists, campaigners and a cross-section of ‘the public’, Jenny Kitzinger reveals the media’s role in contemporary society.
Which stories attract attention and why? What strategies do journalists and campaigners use to persuade people and how do we respond? Answering these and other questions, Kitzinger demonstrates how media reporting can impact on people’s knowledge of the ‘facts’, perceptions of risk, sense of appropriate policy responses and even how we interpret our own experiences.
Kitzinger examines feminist initiatives to challenge sexual violence, the emergence of incest as a social problem and the development of new survivor identities. She also explores stereotypes around sex offenders,interrogates protests against ‘paedophiles-in-the-community’ and presents a detailed analysis of the impact of scandals about disputed abuse accusations.
This book is essential reading for anyone interested in theories of media influence, identity and social change or who wishes to encourage responsible journalism. It is also a key resource for anyone concerned about sexual violence and the protection of children or who is attempting to design intervention strategies.
HLM
08/01/2011 at 8:00 am
This book is being sold on Amazon http://www.amazon.co.uk/Framing-Abuse-Influence-Understanding-Violence/dp/0745323316/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1294473353&sr=8-1
Many thanks for information, Informator. This is a book that will be arrriving at the hardlinemarxist household in the next few days.
bobsyeruncle
04/03/2011 at 8:21 am
5 – 6
Gerry playing tennis with three others. 6.30 Afternoon session.
Where? Tennis courts by Tapas left and right crossing road.
Dr Payne. 6.30. At Apartment 5A.
Activities, children in pyjamas BEFORE being bathed.
So how did three children get bathed in and then put back into pyjamas after being dried and fed milk and biscuits?
Children bathed at 7.00 after bath run and supervised and they undressed. Was Dr Payne there when they were getting ready for the bath or helping in bathing?
7.30. Children asleep. Right after bath, Kate does her hair and uses a hairdryer and goes out at 8.00 by herself? Diary entry.
Dr Oldfield and goes from Tapas Bar to Dr Payne to get them out to dine. 9.00 – 9.15. Direction, around to stairs and up or front door.
Mr Stephen Carpenter leaves Tapas at exactly the same time they are walking to this upstairs flat 9.15.
Nunio and another worker as female in cars. 9.00. 9.15
Exactly same location as Dr Oldfield.
Thus.
Jane Tanner. Exactly same location and time.
Jeremy Wilkins, same location and time.
Gerry McCann, same location and time.
Mr and Mrs Carpenter and two children same location/time.
Nunio, and parked car seen at 5A. Same location and time.
Hayley with Nunio, with her car at 5A, Same location and time.
Dr Payne and Mrs Payne, still in flat beside 5A, same location and time.
Time of said abduction 9.15.
Time of Smith sighting by Chaplin route, 10.00.
Please add other visitors or those at this time who were also said to be at this venue at this time and place.
P Mason
05/03/2011 at 4:13 pm
Unfortunately your blog site’s ” 50 Facts …” does nothing more than to support the bias towards the public voting “she died in apartment 5a and her parents covered up her death” which is shallow and irresponsible.
Needless to say, publishing so called “facts the British media is not telling you” does nothing more than to incite the uninformed public with the notion of suspicion against the McCanns. The British media hasn’t disclosed these so-called “facts” for obvious reasons, they are trivial and insignificant!
What do the authors of this blog know about the psychological symptoms and behaviour of grief and loss? What do they know about international paedophile rings? If the information on this site is so compelling why does the owner of McGannexposure remain suspiciously anonymous which is convenient, not surprising considering the content.
This blog site insinuates but fails to disclose the possible motive behind the notion of Madeleine McCann’s parent’s murdering their daughter. It is more plausible to suspect that she was kidnapped by an international paedophile ring. These kind of disappearances are rife in Europe and the U.S.A. Instead of suggesting readers to take a bias poll you would be wiser to suggest to them to read “The Franklin Conspiracy” or watch “Conspiracy of Silence” (Google videos) which would make them aware of the greater issue – paedophilia rings which are often orchestrated by people in high places. (Related cases, Pia Casa Orphanage, The death of Jon Benet Ramsy & The disappearance of the Australian Beaumont children).
Hardlinemarxist
05/03/2011 at 6:40 pm
More than you would give credit for, P. Mason.
McCannexposure does not insinuate that the McCanns “murdered” Madeleine. It considers the hypothesis that Madeleine died in apartment 5a and that her parents concealed her corpse – a far more probable scenario than the child being abducted by a international paedophile gang during a 4 minutes time frame in the cool of May in sleepy PdL. There are an abundance of motivators that would prompt the disposal of Madeleine, I suggest you think about it.
I suggest you start your own blog P. Mason!
Sickened
15/03/2011 at 2:23 pm
P. Mason – whatever gave you the idea that the Beaumont children were abducted by paedophiles? There is not one scrap of evidence for this. I have seen nothing ever to suggest this was the case, so would be very interested to know where you have seen such evidence.
I vividly remember when the children disappeared, and to my recollection the lead detective on the case, who never gave up looking for these children, never said he felt it was a paedophile ring?
guerra
06/03/2011 at 3:10 pm
The Casa Pia case did not involve missing children. Several prominent figures were found guilty of abusing young boys within the orphanage. Not a single child was abducted from the Casa Pia orphanage.
The English authorities and the Portuguese authorities that worked on the Madeleine McCann case determined from the evidence that exists and from the the incongruent testimonies and behaviour of the McCanns and their friends that Madeleine died in apartment 5A and the parents of the child disposed of the body and altered the crime scene.
In Portuguese law when you pose questions to someone relating to his or her direct involvement in a crime you have to declare them as formal suspects “arguidos” in order to protect their rights. As an arguido a person has the right to refuse to answer any questions made by the police. This is what happened in the Madeleine McCann case the parents were made arguidos and they chose not to answer police questions. You would think that if they had nothing to hide they would have answered the questions and thus not have hindered the progress of the investigation to find their child.
The McCanns soon left Portugal after being made arguidos and the English authorities that were in Portugal working on the case left with them. The Portuguese police soon found that the English authorities stopped cooperating with them and did not carry out the requests for information that were made.
Due to insufficient evidence to proceed to trial and the reluctance of the English authorities to fully cooperate with Portuguese authorities, (some say due to British political pressure), the case was archived. In archiving the case the arguido status of the McCanns was lifted. In the archiving dispatch the Portuguese authorities mention that they regret that the cloud of public suspicion of the parents involvement in the disappearance of the child lingers because the parents and their friends chose not to take part in a re-enactment of what took place on the night of May 3, 2007.
With regard to probabilities the fact is that in 75 percent of missing child cases the child was killed by one of the parents in most cases unintentionally as a result of hitting the child too hard. In cases of abduction a large percentage of the cases involve the child being abducted by one of the parents or someone the child knows. Abduction by a stranger is not as common.
It is my belief that the child was killed unintentionally by one of the parents, otherwise they would of not gone to all this trouble to deceive the public. Therefore the Fund that the McCanns have set up is fraudulent. We all know what they have purported to have done with the money they have received from the public. They hired Medodo3 to find their child an organisation known to have run ins with Spanish law and known more as a collection agency than anything else. And of course they hired Mr. Halligen who has been ordered to be extradited to the United States for fraud and money laundering.
What have the other people that the McCanns have hired as detectives come up with? Well we have been given stories of: Madeleine McCann being whisked away to Australia by a Victoria Beckham look alike; Madeleine being held in some lair in the Portuguese Algarve, whose terrain has been likened to that of Afghanistan; the son of a paedophile claiming to have received a letter months after his father’s death in which his father recounts that a Gypsy told him that Gypsies in Portugal had abducted Madeleine to order; etc. etc. etc.
And now because the novel written by Mrs. McCann is coming out soon, we are inundated with stories of rampant padeophile rings in Portugal. Just another PR campaign, this time to arouse public interest in her book, or in other words to deceive people into giving her their money.
mafraise
29/03/2011 at 4:43 am
March 28, 2011 Posted by Marosiala in Madeleine McCann, Thoughts
Could it be
Iam turning into the female version of Victor Meldrew. The number of times recently I have said to myself quietly “I don’t believe it” is no man’s business.
The only problem is that I’m now saying it out loud, which of course has now got those near to me asking “what don’t you believe now Vic”.
According to an article in Daily Mail as my years increase I should be feeling happier:
The conclusions are highlighted in a new book by Lewis Wolpert, the 81-year-old emeritus professor of biology at University College London, entitled You’re Looking Very Well – a familiar greeting to those of more advanced years.
‘What emerges is that people in their teens and twenties tend to be averagely happy but this declines steadily until early middle age,’ he said. ‘But from the mid-forties, people tend to become ever more cheerful, perhaps reaching a maximum in their late seventies or eighties.’
The only thing he forgot, in my opinion, was to warn people to stay away from the internet especially forums and blogs otherwise they could develop the “Victor Meldrew ‘I don’t believe it’ Syndrome”, especially if they take half of what they read serious. Because I’m certain that I may be on the road to developing this complex after reading some of the things I have read on the internet.
They say with every new experience you gain a wealth of knowledge. Well so far, my newly found knowledge has definitely left me with the impression that there are some serious head-cases on the World Wide Web and they are posting on forums and blogs.
Seriously though do these people expect to be taken seriously? Do these people think that their campaigns will change the minds of people? Do they think if they appear in your local shopping precinct armed with leaflets and a shopping trolley that people are going to take up arms against the family of a missing child?
Along with the “Victor Meldrew ‘I don’t believe it’ syndrome” comes the hilarity which then has you rushing to Boots for the latest anti-wrinkle cream because of the newly developed laughter lines.
I know one of these days I’m going to be carted away by men in white coats and placed in a padded room, as I’m starting to burst out laughing when I’m out in public. This happens when I think of some of the fruit-loop posts I have read (and it always seems to happen in Tescos in the middle of a packed aisle or whilst shivering in the frozen food department).
If this Country wasn’t in such dire straights and there was adequate funding it would be an excellent psychology exercise and social experiment to do a thesis ‘on the impact that forums and blogs have on mankind’.
With a chapter on ‘how to defy logic and common sense’ and a foreward in ‘how to make it about myself’ concluding with a chapter entitled ‘Conspiracy, innuendos and suppositions – a must read guide to illogical posting’.
Of course the benefit of such a social study could also ensure that some of these people posting under their aliases never get given the opportunity of holding a position of power. Because if some of these people had to think laterally or logically they most definitely would fall at the first hurdle.
In amongst the affray of anger, distaste for the parents, some poor soul tries to bring reasoned debate and points out that some comments are getting them recognised as a bunch of nutters. Do they pay attention? Like hell they don’t. All it does is make the battle cries ring out louder as the more rabid person springs into action by submitting another post with demands that justice is done and the parents are as guilty as sin. And the mods jump in with glee at the prospect of banning someone.
How dare someone question. How dare they voice an opinion is not the consensus of the said forum. How dare they have empathy and compassion and a desire only to deal in facts and not opinions. How dare they even consider that a missing child is still alive.
I am sure that some of these people that post on forums and blogs are posting away totally oblivious, that Oxford Street has been wrecked, Libya bombed and the Russians are having a go at the way the UN resolution is being carried out.
As I read these places, I think of years gone by and I can imagine half of them queuing up for the local executions, with their knitting at hand and then complaining that they have dropped a stitch during the mass executions. And at the end of another day of public executions I can envisage some of them descending on the local pub discussing at great lengths the daily culling and how one got away with less pain than he deserved.
And the very worst of them remind me of those characters who used to go out and form lynch mobs which dealt out hangings or burnings because somebody stated that the person involved was guilty. No need for judges and juries at all.
And the worst part is, it is not even localised this mass obsession with a tragic story has gone world wide. Everyone has an opinion and everyone is categorised into two groups – pro or anti. If the Government had really wanted to do a beneficial census they should have certainly included a section of recreation and talents. Because top of the list would have been posting on forums and being venomous. So the social needs for the generations to come, is more high-powered chips and 200MB broadband.
Seriously though if the Government monitored these forums and saw what people wanted we could become the leading nation in developing technology. Think of the money we could save, with the Courts. Judges could be fired, juries no longer needed, just a DVD of evidence and a forum which can be run on any free hosting platform. Problem solved, instead of 12 men we would have the ultimate majority deciding someone’s fate.
And if all the above isn’t bad enough, some bright spark in the meantime invents Twitter. What happens then, the twonks twit their latest conspiracy theory in less than 140 characters whilst trying to maintain that the McCann family and Clarence Mitchell are behind every story in every newspaper.
It has got to the stage that they have so many people involved in a world wide conspiracy it is now easier to name those that are not involved and a whole lot quicker.
‘I just don’t believe it’.
guerra
30/03/2011 at 1:08 am
I wouldn’t have believed it was possible a few years ago but I believe it now.
Who would have imagined that an international campaign would have been launched to discredit a police force because, based on the evidence that it had access to, it suspected that a couple had harmed their own child. A tragedy, that unfortunately is not uncommon. The vast majority of the British media made it clear to the world that they believed the McCann couple were innocent there was no need to look at the facts. Anyone who believed otherwise or even suggested that the police had to investigate all the possibilities was censored. The British media were judge, jury, the defence, and PR firm, all in favour of the McCann couple. According to the media child was abducted end of story; any evidence that pointed to something else was disregarded and anyone who chose not to ignore this evidence was portrayed as having some flaw as a human being, unlike the “exemplary “British couple. The admission by the couple that they had left 3 toddlers alone in a supposedly unlocked apartment on consecutive nights while they dined out, was irrelevant; it was even suggested that this was common practice in Britain.
Of course very little was said about the English police who were an integral part of the investigation. It was after all highly trained English dogs that indicated that someone had died in the McCann apartment; and of the ten vehicles the dogs examined it was when they came upon the McCann vehicle that they gave the alert. Much like the reputation of the Portuguese detective who initially led the investigation, the reputation of the once lauded dogs took a beating. Faced with these findings and incongruous testimony that kept changing, the police had no choice other than to ask the parents directly as to their involvement in the disappearance of their child. Did they answer the questions that the police asked? No, they chose not to cooperate with the police and returned a couple of days later to England. I’ve asked myself this question if a couple that was not English faced the same circumstances in England, would they have been allowed to leave the country? I know my answer, what do you think? Strangely the British authorities that were working on the case in Portugal, trying to find the girl, all departed with the couple. It seemed that there was no longer any interest in finding the child.
What did the McCann couple do when they returned to England; they immediately hired a lawyer who was renowned for preventing the extradition of the Chilean dictator Pinochet to Spain. They then hired more elite lawyers and PR firms; apparently this is of utmost importance when you’re searching for your child. They did hire a dubious detective agency. For some reason they chose Metodo3, an organization with no experience with missing children. Metodo3 seemed to be very efficient; they soon declared that they knew where Madeleine was and that they would have her home by Christmas. No doubt this kind of news would motivate the public to dip into their pockets to once again help the McCann couple, this time to help pay the outrageous fee that they said Metodo3 was charging them. Of course nothing came of this and we were later informed that Metodo3 was searching for Madeleine in Morocco. The Daily Mail told us about the exploits of a Mr. Jimenez, the lead investigator for Metodo3. Mr. Jimenez unfortunately could not finish the investigation because he was imprisoned for stealing cocaine from a seized shipment of cocaine in a Spanish shipyard. Mr. Clarence Mitchell, the McCann spokesperson was soon quoted in the papers as saying that the McCann couple had nothing to do with Mr. Jimenez and that he never worked for the them. I guess you can’t believe everything the Daily Mail writes. What followed next? Oh yes it was the “big boys” Oakley International that one man, Mr. Halligen, detective agency. The “big boys” didn’t fare much better. Mr. Halligen is awaiting extradition to the USA to face fraud and money laundering charges. Haven’t heard much lately with regard to his plight. I won’t even comment on the latest detectives on the scene, all they have achieved are some comical stories that have entertained the public.
What is the public suppose to think when a British judge makes an appeal to an abductor, while the people who are still the primary suspects in the disappearance of the child, are in her court? What is the public suppose to think when politicians accompany a couple, who is being investigated for harming their daughter, to the European parliament to promote a child welfare cause? What are the police suppose to think? What is the public suppose to think when Mr. Mitchell reveals that he sat down with the editors of British newspapers in order to “shape the stories.” Is all this par for the course?
Mr. Amaral complained that the English police were no longer fully cooperating with the Portuguese police and of course he was summarily removed from the investigation. The case is still lacking information which is in England’s domain. You would think that information such as someone’s credit records would be easily obtained, but apparently not so in England.
The case was later archived the formal suspect “arguido “status of the McCann couple was lifted. This has been interpreted by some to mean that the McCann couple was exonerated. Perhaps these people can enlighten me as to what evidence did Mr. Rebelo, the man who took over from Mr. Amaral, obtain that exonerates the McCann couple.
We are not in a court of law in which the jury has to abide by the edict of innocent until proven guilty; therefore we are entitled to our opinions. When I ask people why they believe the McCann couple is innocent, the reply I often get is to something to the effect that they just are. They give no reference to any fact which strengthens their belief. And often they hurl insults at those who believe otherwise. The only reason I bother with this case is that I hate to see people being duped into enriching the lives of a couple who has been far from honest. I also hate to see the reputations of hard working people being ruined in order further a lie.
Ano
30/03/2011 at 2:43 pm
guerra
Great article bringing out the outrageous way the McCanns, as chief suspects in the case, have been able to flaunt their lie of an abduction as a fact, when all evidence points to the child having died in the apartment.
Plus, they have made millions out of this lie. Yet, I personally believe there are others who know the truth of what happened to Madeleine, and it will come out. Maybe when Payne, who so far has been able to pass by unnoticed by the media, finds himself up against the ropes, somebody will be more forthcoming. That is why those Gaspar statements should not be allowed to be swept under the carpet. Somebody close to the case has already been to the authorities with information that the UK Government has kept under wraps, which is said could damage relations between Portugal and the UK if it became known. In this day and age, there are not many things that cannot become known. The McCanns know that, and their pal Brown is no longer there to offer the assistance he once promised them. Plus, who knows what Wikileaks may reveal next.
These McCanns, in their mission to get their own way, have also rubbed powerful people up the wrong way. I doubt Theresa May has forgotten what they had to say about her when she would not grant them their request for that ‘review’ they kept on about. The ‘review’ that was meant to distract from them having to ask for the case to be ‘reopened’ which they could have done. A reopening of the case is the last thing the McCanns want. Now why would that be when most parents with missing children would be there in seconds requesting it for their missing children.
Velma
07/05/2011 at 3:08 pm
How many people refer to their child as an “EU National?” Gerry is trying to impress his Common Purpose friends and Masonic brethren. Kate’s book is being serialised in ‘The Scum’ (The Sun) so I guess it wasn’t a best seller!
ennio Palozzo
27/05/2011 at 7:12 pm
after watching some of the documentary on this channel, I feel Madeleine was killed accidentally. She might accidentally have been given an overdose of a sleeping substance or the wrong medicine. If Gerry was responsible he may have been afraid to tell his wife (and still is). He did fear being found out, so he might have wanted to make it appear like an accident and possibly also caused phisical injury on the child’s body. He then hid the body at various areas in the room after thinking that the best solution was to make the body disappear He seems to have had help to take the dead child out of the room, as someone was seen walking with the child whilst he was talking to someone (correct?). Gerry might know and he seems uncomfortable with intereviews…his wife might still be ignorant of everything…just a preliminary thought!
ennio Palozzo
29/05/2011 at 1:29 am
The Cadaver ordor on Kate’s clothing and also madeleine (jumper?) was probably the result from covering up Madeleine’s body in the room before the “disappearance plan” developed. otherwise, how could the ordor also be on Madaleine’s clothes? If the body was then made to disappear a towel or blanket would have been used, Kate might know if some clothing/linen went missing and should be suspicious (unless also part of the cover up). The body might have at first been taken at a nearby sea location (Mariner?) and later taken to be buried somewhere, possibly within an area of 10 km…likely areas along the roadway could easily be checked, and the case practically resolved.
Anonymous
20/11/2011 at 10:28 am
I can’t imagine Kate McCann saying they all use the “same toothbrush”. Good grief. What a tale to discourage the crime lab from examining it which they wanted to do. Sometimes I think about the neighbors who heard the children crying when the parents left for dinner. Crying and begging. Madeleine was particularly upset that not one of her parents came to comfort her when he cried. I think sometimes that people felt these were lousy, negligent parents and the children deserved better. It has occurred to me that one of the neighbors might have known a couple who wanted a child and would give the child a happier, more loving home tending to her needs. Those kids were scared to death and Madeline was heard by the neighbors. If they found Madeleine’s body and she had been given too much sedation, that would be discovered in an autopsy. But no body – no autopsy. Early in the am a British couple were strolling on the beach. They saw a man in a black diving suit carry a 4 foot package into a small motorboat and drive out to a large boat where they handed the package over to someone on the boat. They never came back. I believe Madeleine was in that package and her body hidden somewhere on this boat. The Smiths did see a man carrying a child heading toward the marina. I think Gerry McCann is a bonified poker face.
Anonymous
01/01/2012 at 6:17 pm
Is it true that he is a Freemason? Don’t they look after their own.
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