This whole Madeleine McCann thing...
Posted: Wed Sep 12, 2007 2:20 am
daniel robert chapman wrote:Josef K wrote:daniel robert chapman wrote:
So I find it interesting that the Portuguese Police seem to have been following the parental lead as closely as they have; I don't believe they are incompetent, and I think they must have some reason to be searching the McCann's hire cars, for example.
If there is no evidence pointing to an abductor, but some evidence pointing to the parents, well, it's a logical way to go, isn't it?
/ah, I wrote a load else but it amounted to nothing so fuck it/
I have not read that much about the case, I don't read the tabloids so I never bought into the whole frenzied approach and I don't want to get into analysing evidence but regarding the car, what's being implied here? that they disposed of the their child's body 20 odd days after she was killed. Is this a joke? That family have been under 24 hours-a-day surveilance since the story broke, do you think they would have had time to do that?
I can undertand people getting bored with the coverage but that's no reason to start fucking the family over.
No, I've not been on top of it either. And I find it difficult to work out how the McCanns could have moved the body too. But I don't understand why nothing else has come to light, or why the police have been actively pursuing this line, if there is nothing to it. Something must be driving the police in this direction; something that the media - and us - aren't privy to? That's why it seems plausible to me; because people who are much closer to this than you and I think it is. There was some reason to search a hire car used weeks after the toddler disappeared. What reason? I don't know, but some reason.
And let's be straight: media- and public-wise, the McCann's are still subject to enormous levels of popular support. Just look at those comments on the Daily Mail site - the 'silent majority' are convinced of their innocence and that clueless foreigners are to blame. The sympathy is still with them. In a way that makes the potential for them to be responsible all the more fascinating. I can't deny it; I am fascinated by the way this would play out if they are responsible. Well, the interaction between media and society has always interested me so there I am. That doesn't mean I'm hoping for that as an outcome, though.
It is all confusing and tough and overhyped and overdone. Do you know the McCann's are being advised by the law firm that successfully defended General Pincohet against extradition? Like, what am I supposed to make of that tidbit? I'm sure I don't know, but it's out there. And there's a lot of that kind of thing floating around.
So I reach for gallows humour and sick jokes because there is no way I can solve this case and if I'm not going to find the whole thing profoundly depressing - and I refuse to succumb to that - then I have to look lightly. It'll all happen around me anyway, whatever I do.
DRC, I don't want to paint myself into a corner by defending their every move, but I'm a father of two young children and when I put myself in the McCann's position, I honestly have sympathy with the helplessness that they must be feeling.
With regards the lawyer, it's not just the guilty that need good lawyers. Ok, he defended Pinochet against extradition, but I'm guessing that's not his specialisation. The McCanns are not poor and, aside from the money they get from public support funds or the papers or whatever, would undoubtedly be able to afford a good lawyer regardless. If I was innocent of an alleged crime, I would want the best defending me.
Gallows humour is ok in my book, but sometimes the lack of compassion, the incessant rumour mongering and eagerness to condemn, really depresses me.