It's taken a while but it seems that the McCann's might just be getting charged with criminal negligence, for the obvious: leaving their kids.
It seems strange that it's taken a year to work this one out, but at least the Portuguese seem to be, from their point of view, taking some action at last.
Having watched Sky News, the reporter traced the distance with the camera following him and it was certainly a great deal further than the McCann's estimates of the distance and completely out of sight of the bar in which the McCann's and their 'buddies' (Other medico's) were socializing.
Are the British authorities now prepared to do the same thing or avoid and ignore the negligent actions of the McCann's because of who they are and their professions?
The McCann's and class.
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speedybert
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Re: The McCann's and class.
A real can o worms this one.I don't have children myself so I can only speak with the knowledge of friends and family who have young children and without exception NONE of them would leave their kids alone at that age(4/5yrs old).However I have seen at least one female journalist appearing on TV syaing that the above part of my statement is normally made by men who don't understand!!
Having said that I don't know if at what age most of them would leave their kids unsupervised.In most cases if they were holidaying abroad probably none of them.
THere is little or no doubt that if innocent the McCanns suffer enough every day not having their daughter.If guilty then they will either go to the grave with the knowledge or one will crack under pressure.
Some years back the BBC ran a programme on reconstructions where out of the 5 or so covered 3 were made with the express intention of nailing the guilty party i.e one of the family members who appeared at police press conferences breaking down over the loss of loved one's.
One of them was the bank manager who kidnapped himself and the other was the stepfather of a young girl who was responsible for her murder and the police needed to put him in the spotlight to nail him.
The most recent example of this is was the delightful Matthews family and their assortment of peadophiles/benefit fraudsters who just didn't seem right from the word go.Again I think the police knew VERY early on what the score was.
Having said that I don't know if at what age most of them would leave their kids unsupervised.In most cases if they were holidaying abroad probably none of them.
THere is little or no doubt that if innocent the McCanns suffer enough every day not having their daughter.If guilty then they will either go to the grave with the knowledge or one will crack under pressure.
Some years back the BBC ran a programme on reconstructions where out of the 5 or so covered 3 were made with the express intention of nailing the guilty party i.e one of the family members who appeared at police press conferences breaking down over the loss of loved one's.
One of them was the bank manager who kidnapped himself and the other was the stepfather of a young girl who was responsible for her murder and the police needed to put him in the spotlight to nail him.
The most recent example of this is was the delightful Matthews family and their assortment of peadophiles/benefit fraudsters who just didn't seem right from the word go.Again I think the police knew VERY early on what the score was.
Thought you were smart when you took them on,
But you didnt take a peep in their artillery room,
All that rugby puts hairs on your chest,
What chance have you got against a tie and a crest.
But you didnt take a peep in their artillery room,
All that rugby puts hairs on your chest,
What chance have you got against a tie and a crest.
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speedybert
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Re: The McCann's and class.
Something else occurred to me.That being that the other members of the "Tapas7" as they are now being referred to didn't bat an eyelid when the McCann's left the kids back at the apartment.
Thought you were smart when you took them on,
But you didnt take a peep in their artillery room,
All that rugby puts hairs on your chest,
What chance have you got against a tie and a crest.
But you didnt take a peep in their artillery room,
All that rugby puts hairs on your chest,
What chance have you got against a tie and a crest.
Re: The McCann's and class.
That's because those of them with kids were doing the same.
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Re: The McCann's and class.
What revolts me about the backlash against the McCanns is that it's primarily inverted snobbery at a perceived difference in their treatment due to their being middle-class. Because they are intelligent, articulate and together, they've used the media to keep their plight in the spotlight because THEIR DAUGHTER IS MISSING, not because they fancy the limelight.
The suggestion that their fund is being used inappropriately is false and simply malicious. Where the fuck do people get this from? Why do they spout it as if it were fact rather than pub gossip?
I have kids. I would never have done what the McCanns did that night. I've been on holiday in a similar situation and my partner and I took turns sitting with the kids, with the other one sitting with our friends in the restaurant. Other families without babysitters did the same as us. Everyone there was a middle-class professional, as if that matters. Do I think the McCanns need to be prosecuted for negligence? No. It would serve no purpose and they've been through enough. They have no daughter. Why does the red-top reading rabble still want its pound of flesh from them?
The point is people 'dislike' the McCanns based on some ludicrous assumptions about their personalities seen through the filter of the media at a time of monumental stress in their lives; and out of schadenfreude because they're comfortably-off doctors. I believe they were irresponsible. That doesn't encourage me to gloat at their misfortune or insinuate that 'they done it' with precisely zero evidence and neither Portuguese or British police implying that they are suspects, in that sense. (The confusion of how they're classed in Portuguese law has confused a lot of people).
In the absence of evidence why not reserve judgement? A girl is missing, presumably dead. Those are the facts. Nobody, beyond her abductors, knows any more.
The suggestion that their fund is being used inappropriately is false and simply malicious. Where the fuck do people get this from? Why do they spout it as if it were fact rather than pub gossip?
I have kids. I would never have done what the McCanns did that night. I've been on holiday in a similar situation and my partner and I took turns sitting with the kids, with the other one sitting with our friends in the restaurant. Other families without babysitters did the same as us. Everyone there was a middle-class professional, as if that matters. Do I think the McCanns need to be prosecuted for negligence? No. It would serve no purpose and they've been through enough. They have no daughter. Why does the red-top reading rabble still want its pound of flesh from them?
The point is people 'dislike' the McCanns based on some ludicrous assumptions about their personalities seen through the filter of the media at a time of monumental stress in their lives; and out of schadenfreude because they're comfortably-off doctors. I believe they were irresponsible. That doesn't encourage me to gloat at their misfortune or insinuate that 'they done it' with precisely zero evidence and neither Portuguese or British police implying that they are suspects, in that sense. (The confusion of how they're classed in Portuguese law has confused a lot of people).
In the absence of evidence why not reserve judgement? A girl is missing, presumably dead. Those are the facts. Nobody, beyond her abductors, knows any more.
Re: The McCann's and class.
It's fair to say that whatever the social class of the people involved in such reports that the 'story' is constructed by the media. That's what they do. We are manipulated as our eyes and emotions are led by insinuations, emphases, exaggerations, falsehoods and omissions.
We only know what we read in the paper and see on television and they're not reliable sources.
We only know what we read in the paper and see on television and they're not reliable sources.
Re: The McCann's and class.
Have a look at the way Shannon Matthews mum treated by the press compared to how the McCanns were. For the most part Shannons mum didn't get anywhere near as much publicity that the McCanns didleading up to her daugher being found,and was then ripped to shreds by the media when her daughter had been found. There is no evidence that Shannons mum loved her daugher any less than the McCanns loved Madelaine,but its easy to pour scorn on working class people with low intelligence,the british media are expert at it.