Christmas , almost here again and once
more I shall place the fairy ( the same one from my
childhood) on top of my pine christmas tree, buying
gifts and sending greeting cards to friends. While all
this is happening in happy family homes, there will be
Christmas activity of another kind in Rothley. I am not
saying this is not a happy family home, I am sure that
it is.. BUT a different Christmas being prepared ,a
commercial - type plus interviews for television. The
ever faithful Sun will have an exclusive. The Interviews
may have already taken place. Christmas is a busy time
for the media and they like to be prepared.
The latest video, or never seen before
photograph of Madeleine McCann, the speech from the
McCanns and of course the need for more donations to
keep up the search for their lovely daughter Madeleine
,who will be eight years old in May.
The gullible, still believing the McCanns
have people working in Portugal , their own private
detectives, who would be arrested on sight for even
attempting to meddle in this shelved affair.
Madeleine, who is according to her father
now wearing contact lenses and her mothers off the cuff
comment 'Oh it is just a flash, you would have to be
really close to even notice it ' is no longer of any
importance. So, the little girl with the unusual right
eye would no longer stand out in a crowd.
Christmas, and the time of all things
majical. Children who still believe in father christmas,
will be taken by loving parents to large stores with
their christmas list to sit on his knee and pull at his
fluffy white beard. After, roasted chestnuts as carols
are sung by the Salvation Army in the crowded London
streets.
The year 2007, many did not believe and
believe even less today. One day, at sometime, little
children all realise father Christmas does not exist as
surely one day there will be those who realise Madeleine
is not alive and will never come home. Madeleine died
young still believeing in father Christmas, now thats a
comforting thought.
Reporter David Jones was there in PDL and
his own thoughts were it would be impossible to have
taken the child, something niggled at him and he thought
the McCanns were somehow involved
David Jones had to make a retraction. Why
was David not allowed to keep his own personal opinion,
why two years later was he made to change his mind?
This article from
Greens Insite, well written and well thought out, taken
from 2007.
Maddie McCann: Miracles Don’t Happen
November 6, 2007
http://insite2out.wordpress.com/2007/11/06/maddie-mccann-miracles-dont-happen/
It’s about six months now since little
Maddie McCann disappeared without trace from her
parents’ holiday apartment in Praia da Luz. Six months
is a long time and unless you have an extra faith and
confidence gene in your biological make-up the logical
conclusion would be that she is now dead. It’s extremely
unlikely that -as some have reported- Maddie has
actually been seen in Morocco, Belgium, Spain or
anywhere else. I rule out Morocco because no childless
Moroccan woman would, in desperation, snatch a northern
European, blonde toddler who chats only in English and
would, in a Berber village, stand out a mile.
For the same reason I don’t believe that
a paedophile would have taken her to North Africa. It’s
not the sort of place where deviant sexual tastes are
allowed to flourish, is it? As for sightings in Spain,
Belgium or Malta, I remember when Elvis for years after
his death kept turning up in shopping malls, supermarket
checkouts and petrol station forecourts. People tend to
see what they want to see. So, unless she’s been stolen
to order on behalf of a white, English speaking
childless couple in, say, Washington DC (and, with hair
dyed dark, made unrecognisable) we might as well start
operating on the premise that Madeleine is no longer in
the land of the living. The fact that, so far, no body
has been found should not sustain false hope; a dead
girl is much easier to hide than a live one.
Which brings me to the McCanns. While, on
one level, I find it utterly impossible to believe that
either parent had anything directly to do with Maddy’s
disappearance, on another I’m dumbfounded by the fact
that two apparently intelligent people have, through
their subsequent behaviour, managed to arouse the
suspicions not only of the Portuguese police but also of
a hitherto understanding, commiserating public. British
opinion polls show that domestic support for the
McCanns, once almost universal, is now down to as little
as 50 percent. In other words: for every person who is
sympathetic towards them there’s another who feels they
know more than they let on. The McCanns’ choice of an
active media campaign and an almost manic courting of
publicity is beginning to look to many peope as a
’flight forward’: something like “so long as we blind
everyone with TV appearances, appeals, fundraisers,
adverts, photographs of the poor child and images of
Kate clutching a cloth rabbit we may stave off public
scrutiny of our own role in the affair.” Whether the
parents actually played a role in the disappearance of
Maddie I’ve no idea, but the fact that their behaviour
doesn’t follow the expected pattern of panic, grief and
eventual resignation to the inevitable (i.e. Maddie’s
not coming back) is a cause for worry.
Another
reason for worry is, of course, the fact that the Maddie
disappearance has been blown up into a global cause
celèbre, whereas each day hundreds of children around
the world vanish without attracting much attention at
all. The amount of money raised to fund the McCann’s
search for their child and their defence against any
future charges is unprecedented. I’m not concerned about
the large amounts donated by captains of industry and
other celebrities; £100,000 -as in the case of Richard
Branson- buys you a favourable mention on the front
pages and seems well worth it. Lots of other
publicity-hungry celebs jumped on the same bandwagon
with great alacrity. But I feel for the ordinary people
who, out of the kindness of their hearts, made smaller
gifts of money they could ill afford. To see that
frittered away on £300-an-hour lawyers, flights up and
down Europe for all the family, newspaper and TV adverts
and billboards, following up on spurious sightings and
the occasional mortgage payment on a £300,000 house is
sad indeed. Of course, if Maddie McCann turns up alive
tomorrow I’ll have to eat my words. But I don’t expect
to have to, merely because the girl’s immediate family
profess to know she’s not dead. A few days ago, after
six (6) months of fruitless campaigning and fundraising,
the McCanns on their website still spoke to us from
cloud-cuckooland:
“We
know in our hearts that Madeleine is still out there,
alive, confused and aching to be returned to her family
where she belongs.”
In other words: keep the money rolling
in, folks, we’ll decide when enough is enough. |