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Something a little lighter to finish.


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Greetings From Himself

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Thank you all for your kind wishes and may I send you mine in return via these three cards, hopefully something for everybody, so if the cap fits, wear it.




My apologies if I have not returned your greetings personally, I'm running late and I suppose I had better do a bit of Christmas shopping, humbugs anybody?
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Madeleine McCann: Never in the field of human conflict have so many been bullshitted by so few

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This incredible one page display is the result of a Google News search for today.

Madeleine McCann's parents in Christmas heartbreak - BBC News

Madeleine 'wants to be home this Christmas' - news.com au

New heart-rending appeal for Madeleine (sic) mcCann, who 'dreams of Christmas back home' - mirror.co.uk

Fresh appeal as McCanns face their third Christmas without Madeleine - Daily Mail

Madeleine McCann: Icons of the decade - U.TV

Madeleine search cash set to run out in three months - Leicester Mercury

Family of Madeleine McCann issue Christmas appeal - click Liverpool

MCCANNS: WE'LL KEEP SEARCHING - UK Express

XMAS PLEA FOR 'SWEET MADDY' - Sunday People

Family releases new photo of Madeleine McCann as Christmas draws near - Examiner.com

Madeleine McCann's parents renew appeal - UPI.com

McCann parents launch Christmas appeal - InTheNews .co.uk

McCanns make Luz return - Portugal News

Pain at 3rd Yule with no Maddie - Mirror.co.uk

McCanns: No Madeleine at Christmas - PA

New McCann appeal to find Madeleine - PA

ABOVE: Kate and Gerry McCann are convinced Madeleine is still alive - Daily Star

MCCANN FAMILY'S HEARTBREAK AT THIRD CHRISTMAS WITHOUT MADDIE - Daily Star

McCanns face third Christmas without Madeleine - Leicester Mercury

MADELEINE: NEW APPEAL - UK Express

Isn't that nice, isn't that thoughtful?





After you have read this grotesque tissue of lies, I have a message for you all, no matter where your feelings may lie in this case, my Christmas message if you will.
Something to take away and ponder, something to really have a think about, something quite extraordinary, unique in fact.

We long for our ‘baby', our daughter, our sister, our granddaughter, our friend, our dear sweet Madeleine to be home. This drive and perseverance to find her is not wishful thinking; it is reinforced by facts and evidence. The facts and evidence say: Madeleine is still missing and there is a very real likelihood that she is alive. Hence the search to find her must continue.

‘There will be a spare place at the Christmas table again this year.

‘If you know anything, do the right thing and helps us fill it.'

Madeleine McCann, not yet four years old, has been "abducted by paedos," what, among other things, does Gerry McCann the father of the "missing" girl do?

He trade marks his daughter, he fucking trade marks her, he turns Madeleine McCann into a registered fucking trade mark!

Give that one some thought, sit down in a quiet moment and really really think about it.

Merry Christmas.

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Anna Andress Doing What She Does

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Best, that is, what she does best when she is not translating of course.

The correct and polite term is parsing, but for those of us tend to stray on occasions from such correctness, opting as we do, but only I must impress, on the rarest of said occasions, do we then opt to employ the vernacular.

The use of vernacular or dialect, particularly that which is employed in the civilised area of this country, this being loosely, the areas North of Manchester to the South of Carlisle.

Vernacular you see lends itself more easily to many of the technical terms that enjoy frequent patronage and are much uttered in this green and pleasant land.

"Taking the piss" for instance, a much used and must be said a much favoured technical term.

No longer do we have to "put wood in t'hole" with the frequency we once did, far easier to keep the coal in the bath, thus eliminating the need for the many Siberian expeditions to the coal house.

"Eeeeeeee by eck!!!" somewhat slipping into disuse these days, perhaps a result of our increasing sophistication, it's true I tell you, why only the other day...

Why only the other day on a wee sojourn around the town I was privy to a conversation 'twixt father and son, and a reet little ragamuffin he were, .......

"Fatha, fatha, sithi tits on yon lass."

The use of the vernacular in this particular instance earning the little toe-rag, in the fashion of good Northern parental guidance, a great clout round lug'ole, accompanied by the words, "What have I told you about saying sithi?"




Anna Andress: Cutting through the bullshit.

From Esther Addley of the Guardian, an article that takes an unusually objective look at the media campaign that transformed a little three-year-old girl into an icon. I say 'unusually objective,' compared to the usual sycophantic rubbish churned out by the UK media, wherein Kate and Gerry McCann attain the status of sainthood and become the self-pitying martyrs of the decade.

It's the unsettling mix of the incredibly intimate and the coolly tactical that has made the mystery of Madeleine McCann the biggest and most extraordinary child abduction story in history.

In an interview for Vanity Fair magazine, Gerry McCann referred to Madeleine's distinctive eye feature:

Late in 2007, Gerry McCann gave an interview to an American magazine and talked about the decision to publicise the eye defect. "Certainly we thought it was possible that [the publicity] could possibly hurt her or her abductor might do something to her eye . . . But in terms of marketing, it was a good ploy." more, From my big desk.

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A Stocking Filler by Dr Martin Roberts

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By Dr Martin Roberts
20 December 2009

A STOCKING FILLER

And why not? Continuing the on-going theme of 'bloomers' by the McCanns and their various spokespeople, a stocking is merely more appropriate apparel for one's metaphorical foot than the oral variety preferred by the McCanns.

Just a few days ago we heard the not so edifying account of how a couple's foiled attempt at intimidation inside a court of law was transmuted into an act of piety, in the shape of a pilgrimage to Praia da Luz (well it justified the air fare at least). With the McCanns' penchant for comment unabated, the waiting world was treated to gaffes at both ends of their crusading compass.

The Sun newspaper of 12 December recalls the following:

'Gerry said: "There is an innocent child missing here and this is what this is about. It's not about freedom of speech but the search for our daughter."

'Standing by his side at the entrance to Lisbon's Palace of Justice an emotional Kate said: "Freedom of speech should not outweigh the rights of human beings."' (Especially since it is a right of human beings, Kate. Or are you wishing to imply that, like lesser species, the rest of us can do without it?).

Ironically, Kate informs us via the Daily Mirror (also 12 December) that "Freedom of speech should not include distortion of the truth, lies, fabrication and slander," all criteria from which her own speech acts demonstrably suffer. We have the evidence: 'Gerry hardly ever sent a text message until after Madeleine was taken' (But hardly ever sending any in no way accounts for deleting a baker's dozen previously received. Hence distortion of the truth). 'If what happened hadn't happened' it wouldn't have occurred to Kate to mention the crying incident to the PJ (Except she did mention it, three times, at dinner, before it had happened at all. Lies therefore). 'They were watching us, I'm sure.' (Fabrication). And as for Goncalo Amaral, he was simply 'a disgrace' both as a person and a professional wasn't he? (Slander). Yes, Kate McCann is well and truly conversant with behaviours inappropriate to Freedom of Speech. More mccannfiles
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CEOP Set To Become Independent

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But soon to be a QUANGO!

I don't think it would come as a surprise if I told you there was a distinct lack of that warm and fuzzy feeling when I heard this.

Could it be because there appears to be much controversy surrounding ex RUC man Jim Gamble?

Could it be because Jim Gamble is actively trying to legitimise the McCann's claim that Madeleine was abducted from apartment 5A?

Could it be because Jim Gamble is actively trying to legitimise the McCanns claim that Madeleine was abducted from apartment 5A in spite of there being no new evidence to support that an abduction had actually taken place, or that indeed there is any evidence at all to support an abduction?

Could it be because Jim Gamble is actively trying to legitimise the McCanns claim that Madeleine was abducted from apartment 5A by inviting an uncleared suspect in a major crime to be a guest speaker at the CEOP.

Could it be because the first thought that crossed my mind was, who will monitor the CEOP and to whom will the CEOP be accountable.

There could be many reasons that I don't have that warm and fuzzy feeling that this situation is about to come to pass, and not least those I have mentioned, but no matter how many other reasons there may be for my disquiet, it is above all things, the impermeable stink that emanates from this Gamble - McCann association that really gets up my nose.

CEOP to become independent

Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP) is to be made an non-departmental public body, a junior Home Office Minister announced this week. Non-departmental public bodies (NDPBs) are more commonly known as “quangos”.

The significance of the announcement is that it will give greater independence to CEOP to set its own strategic goals and priorities. CEOP is currently accountable to the Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA); while CEOP enjoys operational independence, SOCA oversees its annual plan, budget etc. NDPBs generally have full independence: their purpose and powers is set out in the statute that creates them and within that framework they have almost complete strategic freedom.

Jim Gamble, the senior police officer who is the Chief Executive of CEOP, has a record of being outspoken in his criticisms of the Internet industry, particularly social networking sites, and arguing that CEOP should not have to pay costs to ISPs, unlike the regular police. Heading an independent quango, rather than answering to a policing agency, he will have even greater freedom to campaign to set limits on industry self-regulation. source Lynx Public Affairs

h/t Ironside
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Something a Little Different: The Trial of Tony Blair

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I am posting this first part, one of seven, primarily for those of you outside the UK who have never seen or perhaps never even heard of the program.

Given what has transpired this week I thought it would make rather splendid viewing or re-viewing for that matter. Others have already written on the subject, so saving me the job.

War crime case against Tony Blair now rock-solid

Neil Clark: A trial would be warmly welcomed by millions – so what happens next?

Tony Blair's extraordinary admission on Sunday to the BBC's Fern Britton - that he would have gone to war to topple Saddam Hussein regardless of the issue of Iraq's alleged WMDs - is sure to give fresh impetus to moves to prosecute our former prime minister for war crimes.

The case against Blair, strong enough before this latest comment, now appears rock solid. Going to war to change another country's regime is prohibited by international law, while the Nuremburg judgment of 1946 laid down that "to initiate a war of aggression", as Blair and Bush clearly did against Iraq, "is the supreme international crime, differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole".

Blair's admission, that he "would still have thought it right to remove him [Saddam]" regardless of the WMD issue, is also an acknowledgement that he lied to the House of Commons on February 25, 2003, when he told MPs: "I detest his [Saddam's] regime. But even now he [Saddam] can save it by complying with the UN's demand. Even now, we are prepared to go the extra step to achieve disarmament peacefully. I do not want war... But disarmament peacefully can only happen with Saddam's active co-operation."

The view that Blair is a war criminal is now mainstream: more The First Post.

Below, the Channel 4 blurb for the program, which can be watched uninterrupted at Channel 4 UK only.

It is some time in the future. Gordon Brown is moving into Number 10, President Clinton is thinking about her second term in the White House, and Tony Blair is swapping the corridors of power for the comforts of his home in Connaught Square.

Blair departs Downing Street with an unshakeable belief in his continuing relevance as an international figure of influence. But with Washington's warmongers discredited, he finds himself increasingly isolated.

Haunted by the continuing nightmare of Iraq, and obsessed by his legacy, Tony Blair retreats into denial, refusing to see the dangers he faces from the Special Tribunal on Iraq that has been set up to investigate war crimes.

As the film moves towards the final image of the former Prime Minister being hauled off to The Hague to face charges of waging an illegal war, The Trial of Tony Blair asks us to imagine a future where the unthinkable becomes thinkable.

Robert Lindsay returns to the role of Tony Blair, with Phoebe Nicholls as Cherie Blair, Peter Mullan as Gordon Brown and Alexander Armstrong as David Cameron.

Says writer Alistair Beaton: "I gather Mr Blair is very concerned about his place in history. This film is my idea of where that place might be. Whether it's fiction or prediction remains to be seen."

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Update: Everybody loves Tony.

Tony Blair says it is not true that nobody likes him.

He insists he is very popular - especially abroad.

The former prime minister defended the huge amounts he has made since leaving office, claiming he could have made five times as many lucrative speeches if he had wished.

Mr Blair is believed to have earned £15million since leaving Number 10 in 2007 - and is using a loophole in company law to shield his earnings from public view.

An indication of his huge earning power is that he has raised more than a million dollars in a year for his U.S. charity with the equivalent of one hour's work per week.

In an interview, Mr Blair said his negative image in Britain was entirely down to journalists rather than any failings on his part.....

...Papers lodged with the U.S. tax authority show the Tony Blair Faith Foundation received more than $1.1million (£680,000) in 2008 although he put in just 50 hours' work.....

....The purpose of the foundation, according to the tax return, is to 'promote mutual respect, tolerance, friendship and understanding between the major religious faiths and to make the case for faith itself as a relevant, positive and benign force for good in the modern world'.....more the wail

h/t Ironside


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New Blog

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Leicestershire Police: A McCann Gallery Tribute

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So here it is merry Christmas, Everybody's having fun

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Merry Christmas Everybody
So here it is merry Christmas, Everybody's having fun
Look to the future now, It's only just begun





New McCann appeal to find Madeleine

Kate and Gerry McCann have issued a fresh appeal for help in finding their missing daughter Madeleine as they face spending a third Christmas without her.

The couple also released new pictures of the little girl on their Find Madeleine website.

In an emotional plea greeting visitors to the site, they said: "There will be a spare place at the Christmas table again this year. If you know anything - do the right thing and help us fill it."

Mr and Mrs McCann added: "There's only one thing Madeleine wants this Christmas - and that's to be back home. If you know where she might be, please help."

The new pictures show Madeleine smiling and feeding a chocolate lollipop to her younger sister Amelie before she disappeared.

The McCanns, both 41, from Rothley, Leicestershire, said: "Christmas is a time for children. Please help us bring ours back."

Madeleine was nearly four when she went missing from her family's holiday apartment in Praia da Luz in Portugal on May 3 2007 while her parents dined with friends nearby. Despite a massive police investigation and publicity worldwide, she has not been found.

Last weekend Mr and Mrs McCann returned to Praia da Luz together for the first time since Portuguese police named them as suspects in their daughter's disappearance.

The couple, whose suspect status was later lifted, visited the seaside resort's church and wandered along the beach.

Mrs McCann said: "Although our pain feels much rawer here, it is comforting at the same time since we feel closer to Madeleine." source

Odious fucks.

Talking of lollipops, one from the archive.


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Leicestershire Constabulary Perverting The Course of Justice. Shurely Shome Mishtake?

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I wouldn't bet the farm on it, about it being a mistake that is. The other? I would bet the farm on it.

Blog News: Before you drive on; I never quite realised just how much Leicester Plod had featured in the content of The McCann Gallery, so much so in fact I think the material and the fore mentioned bent fucks are deserving of their own dedicated blog.
This will be in the form of a one time post and will not be updated, unless of course a change in the situation warrants it. Perhaps you might wish to stop by here tomorrow for the link.

I Could be So Good For You - The LPLO Arrive .........( Leicestershire Police Liaison Officers

........ This sighting of the LPLO in May, was 3 clear months before the Portuguese police were to call off their weekly meetings with the McCanns, the last of which was held in the first week of August 2007. The weekly briefings were terminated as the Portuguese police determined the meetings had become obsolete in terms of progressing the investigation.

The Portuguese police said at the time the LPLO had rendered their investigation as null and void, as it was the LPLO who were divulging operational tactics and information to Clarence Mitchell, the McCanns then unofficial PR spokesman and civil servant. Mitchells behaviour was clearly frowned upon as in September Mitchell had to leave his employers under something of a cloud as a result of the complicity he had demonstrated in Portugal with the suspects of a criminal investigation.

The LPLO passed crucial information to Mitchell who in turn passed it on to the McCanns. This briefing of the McCanns by the LPLO was unorthodox to say the least. The integrity of the investigation had been breached and shot through by the very....more TTW4

A significant other, Dr Martin Roberts, also writes on the subject of the Leicestershire Police and it's dubious role in this shameful affair.

I featured this equally significant and well argued observation by Dr Roberts previously and I can take this opportunity to give it another well deserved airing.

Ignoring my own blogging code of practise, I am publishing the complete article here, I feel it has been in the public domain for sufficient time that I am able to do this, but primarily, I can find no way of linking to individual posts that appear on the mccanfiles.

Worthy of being read in it's entirety, I have however highlighted the two relevant passages, and rather than present you with great tracts of bold text, I have highlighted but three words at the begging and end of the relevant parts.

CHAPTER AND VERSE by Dr Martin Roberts

"I disagree with what you say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it."

This statement, attributed to Voltaire and first articulated over two hundred years ago, is no cliché. As a cornerstone of democratic practice its significance is timeless. The principle it enshrines, however, is one to which some clearly find difficulty in subscribing, as illustrated by the following (translated) comments posted recently on a Spanish 'blog', beneath an article discussing the injunction against Gonçalo Amaral; an injunction banning both his book and any future comment thereon by himself and, in effect, outlawing his thesis (which, it is prudent to recognise, is not his uniquely, either in origin or derivation).

9.9.2009
Manuel Carballal: Prohiben en Portugal el Libro sobre Madeleine McCann (Book on Madeleine McCann banned in Portugal).

13.9.2009
"The police might perhaps be unable to find the girl, but what is clear is that they should have found those responsible for her disappearance.

"The Portuguese police were prevented from doing so on account of clear interference by the British government.

"What I find shameful is that people bend over backwards to defend a couple of parents who left their children alone every night in order to go out with their friends.

"To defend such negligent parents who have since refused to return to Portugal in order to reconstruct their actions, a mother who refused to answer 48 questions put to her by the police, despite being told that her refusal was compromising an investigation, the purpose of which was to find her daughter.

"This book is based on an official summary made public by a judge, but it seems there are still people more intent on defending negligent liars than freedom of expression."

Justice for Madeleine Beth McCann

Mercedes

16.9.2009
Anonymous said...

"Manuel Carballal, I am both sorry and disgusted that you allow your interesting web site to host comments by people who still attempt to call the McCanns' suffering into question, and further to suggest they killed their own daughter. I do not propose to revisit your site while you permit these comments."

This is clearly one reader who would not shrink from censoring what they have just read or, given the opportunity, prohibiting its publication. Draconian enough perhaps, but what makes this dogmatic posture all the more alarming is that the type of comment to which 'anonymous' objects is nowhere represented among the observations they are criticising. Reactionary, yes. Illogical, certainly. And, if taken to extremes, dangerous.

Such is the case with The Truth of the Lie, a book banned in Portugal and thereby legally denied a readership elsewhere (Britain especially, since a version in English was on the cards).

Legal jousting aside, prohibition of this publication has no logical basis whatsoever. The ideas it contains, having first been made public by the Portuguese authorities themselves, have since been broadcast by numerous internet sites, including those maintained by the national dailies. Can it really be the case that a book written in the Portuguese language is capable of causing personal distress to two people who seem scarcely in command of their own, which is English? It has been claimed that widespread dissemination of the belief expressed by the author, i.e. that Madeleine McCann is dead, would jeopardise the on-going search for the child. But how can this be so, when the 'search' is being co-ordinated by private detectives; mercenaries contractually immunised against adverse opinion. And, as the Portuguese police have long since desisted in this case, what possible difference can a Portuguese publication make to their contribution? A thousand or more new leads, offered by the general public in the wake of a recent press conference by the parents, gives the lie to any notion that this book, or any like it, would have the effect of discouraging people from coming forward with information.

Hypocrisy is an insult to anyone's intelligence, but when dressed in lawyers' silks it becomes offensive. The following extract is taken from an interview, given by Gerry McCann to Vanity Fair magazine's Judy Bachrach, and published as a 'web exclusive' on September 10, 2008:

"Portuguese attorney general Fernando Pinto Monteiro suggested that one way or another the McCanns were responsible for their child's death. Specifically he said that if indeed Madeleine had been kidnapped, it was the carefully contrived publicity engineered by her parents that likely sealed her fate. 'With the whole world having Madeleine's photo,' he observed, any abductor would have been pushed to such a degree that 'there's a greater probability of the little girl being dead than alive.'

"And with this last devastating conclusion—namely that Madeleine will likely never reappear—Madeleine's own father haltingly agrees."

As far as the recent injunction is concerned, armchair strategists are bound to argue about motives and purposes, such as paving the way for libel action, pre-empting publication of an English Language version specifically, destroying the author personally etc., etc. In public at any rate, the objectionable core of the work is held to be the hypothesis of Madeleine's death - Chapter 16. But like so much of this case, this too may prove to be misdirection, on a grand scale. The casual observer, unfamiliar with prior examples of conceptual leger de main, such as forced/unforced entry, soft toys in the autopsy room and invisible passers by, may well be inclined to take this particular stance at face value. Others might rather consider whether the truly sensitive material in this publication resides elsewhere.

Gonçalo Amaral, author of The Truth of the Lie, has been widely vilified in the British press. 'Disgraced', 'bungling', 'incompetent' are three epithets which spring to mind. But what, exactly, precipitated his fall from grace? There can be little doubt that the Portuguese authorities were pressured by Gordon Brown to remove Sr. Amaral from office, as his dismissal was notified to our Prime Minister before even it was made apparent to the then PJ co-ordinator himself. Suddenly, the team leader had become persona non grata. Why? Because he obstinately refused to renounce the hypothesis that Madeleine had not been abducted, but was instead deceased? Not at all. That hypothesis had become a collective opinion in relatively short order, following scrutiny of the circumstances by British expert Mark Harrison, who had as good as said, 'Start looking for a body.'


Whilst the off-hand remarks may have drawn unwelcome attention to the British investigative contingent at the time, they were by no means as revelatory as the observations published since. If impounding, with a view to destruction, copies of The Truth of the Lie is reminiscent of the role of the Fireman in the story Fahrenheit 451, i.e. to start (book) fires not extinguish them, then it is not an altogether surprising development, given other precedents in this case.

The fundamental role of the police in any developed society is that of crime prevention and detection, in which context it is by no means unknown for individuals to take their personal contribution to extremes, even going so far as to falsify evidence in an attempt to ensure a conviction. Ironically, whilst this is something Gerry McCann voiced as a suspicion of the Portuguese, during a September 2007 conversation with Ed Smart (father of abductee Elizabeth Smart), it is, perversely, a charge that might be laid at the door of the British, whom Amaral portrays as having introduced false evidence, not with a view to securing a conviction, but forestalling one. How else might one describe investigative attention being suddenly and deliberately drawn to a video purporting to show Madeleine present at an orgy engaged in by wealthy arabs, when the video in question had been in police hands since February/March of that year, weeks before the announcement of Madeleine's disappearance on May 3! Whilst Chapter 16 may be significant, Chapter 18 is truly revealing.

As a younger man I once enjoyed the company of a mathematically adept colleague, whose principal out-of-hours interest was the 'Sport of Kings'. He would study The Sporting Life assiduously, and wasn't so much in the habit of placing a bet as making a calculated investment. When assessing the odds, this individual typically thought 'outside the box', well before that phrase was ever coined. He had a sharp eye for the unusual, and one memorable observation of his has stayed with me ever since: 'You won't find a trainer in the North of England sending his horse all the way to a small track in the South if he doesn't have a very good reason for believing it will win.'

Now, this is not quite the irrelevant anecdote it may appear. Soon after attending at apartment 5A of the Ocean Complex on the night of May 3, 2007, the GNR decided they were out of their depth and called in the PJ, an organisation the McCanns would go on to criticise in no uncertain terms, Gerry making it perfectly clear that, in his view, the British had more experience in handling child abduction cases. So there he was, a visitor to the Iberian peninsular, whose child was inexplicably missing from a resort of little consequence and, as the local police, recognising the potential seriousness of the crime, defer instinctively to their senior investigative colleagues, what does Gerry McCann do? By way of bringing the full resources of the more experienced British police to bear, he encourages the PJ to collaborate, not with Scotland Yard, but a provincial constabulary.

Are we to suppose that the expertise to which Gerry McCann was necessarily appealing was particularly well represented by Leicestershire Police? Simply observing the law of averages, as well as the highly skewed distribution of the UK population, specialist expertise in all manner of things is most likely to reside in or around London and the South East. So was experience in the handling of missing child cases a Leicestershire forte or the criterion which singled them out as the most appropriate authority to co-ordinate the UK contribution? If not, what made their affiliation to the enquiry so important for the McCanns? Like the horse being sent a long way to compete in a small race meeting, the specific engagement of a provincial police force on a case with international parameters cannot have been without purpose. And that purpose cannot have been simply facilitating subsequent liaison back home in the UK, since no-one, outside of the protagonists, can pre-determine the length of time for which a missing person might remain so. It could all have been over inside a week. Still, there is no denying the quality of the liaison, with guidance, in the form of police manuals, later finding its way onto Gerry McCann's bedside cabinet.

Experience being the culmination of prior knowledge, perhaps one should enquire as to the class of prior knowledge which recommended the Leicestershire Police in this instance and, if it was not missing persons related, what was it? Logic dictates that no wisdom could have been applied to the problem before the problem had arisen. Knowing how best to go about searching for a missing child is clearly only an advantage after a disappearance has occurred. Surely, in this case, there wasn't something of importance that might have been known beforehand. There was no 'beforehand', was there?

Perhaps we should turn our attention from Chapter 18, to Chapter 12; not of the Truth of the Lie this time, but the Old Testament's second book of Samuel. There, is recounted the story of how King David, having put the Hittite Uriah to death, takes his widow for a wife, incurs the wrath of God in so doing, and is punished by the death of the one child to have resulted from the unacceptable union (verses 15 - 19). PJ investigators discovered a Bible in the apartment to which the McCanns had adjourned, following the disappearance of their daughter Madeleine from 5A of the Ocean Club complex, and this is the episode retold at that point where its pages were noted to be marked or crumpled.

Kate McCann summarily dismissed the PJ's view that this passage was of significance, referring as it does to the death of a sick child. In truth, there does appear to be little more than coincidence attaching to the seemingly allegorical connection. Madeleine McCann had inexplicably disappeared. She had not fallen ill and died as a consequence. But there is something more to the biblical scribe's story. Not only is the reader told that a child of David dies, but we are also told why; not in terms of causality, but God's justification for inflicting the punishment: Avarice, Lust, Adultery - take your pick. David had wives enough.

Careful scrutiny of the telecomms traffic around the time of Madeleine's disappearance has previously yielded an indication that, on the night of Tuesday 1st May, Kate McCann was actually back in the family apartment some 14 minutes before Mrs Fenn claims she heard a child start crying. This is the night when aerobics instructor and sometime quiz hostess, Miss Najoua Chekaya, was on duty for the Mark Warner resort, and the only night when an invitation to join the McCann table can have been extended to her (she did not work on Thursdays). There has to have been a reason, therefore, why the impression was freely given that Miss Chekaya joined the Tapas diners at their table on that fateful Thursday night, when she clearly could not have done so. There has also to be a reason why a young child should cry for "Daddy" in "Mummy's" presence.

When interviewed for Expresso TV, on 6 September 2008, Kate and Gerry collaborated in circumnavigating a question put to them regarding the deletion of 16 text messages, which Gerry was known, through police analysis, to have received. Their joint answer was unconvincingly dressed in an explanation of Gerry's own reticence about sending text messages prior to Madeleine's disappearance. While the content of communications sent and received is perforce of interest, even a skeletal call history has a tale to tell, being a record of who was in contact, even if not what information was shared. The devil, as always, is in the detail.

One has to question why, in such alarming circumstances as the disappearance of their daughter, both Kate and Gerry saw fit to engage in some electronic 'pruning' when there was no casual need to do so. It does rather raise the suspicion that there was a need, and not a casual one at that, to protect the identity of earlier contacts which might, upon later scrutiny, appear to have been untimely, inappropriate or both. In much the same way as the ready availability of photographic enlargements was perceived by the PJ to have been premature, there is at least a hint here of 'prior knowledge', i.e., that there was a 'beforehand' after all, and that someone outside of the McCanns' immediate circle knew what it was.

That ubiquitous 'source close to the McCanns' told the Daily Mirror (Mirror.co.uk News, 29 May, 2008) that, as far as Gerry was concerned, "The only time his phone rang was when work called and he explained he was on holiday. There are no mystery texts. Gerry has nothing to hide. It's yet more nonsense coming from Portugal."

When one surveys the data sheet itemising Gerry McCann's deleted text messages, two things at least become immediately obvious: that this source is lying, and that another forensic 'shadow' is clearly visible.

Having discovered that Gerry McCann was on holiday, 'work' is unlikely to have called repeatedly thereafter. And whilst 'Work' may not have sent Gerry fourteen text messages on May 2nd somebody clearly did. There was a constantly changing situation somewhere of which Gerry McCann was being kept informed via messages transmitted in close-knit batches, approximately hourly at first, then precisely two hourly. The tell-tale timings are:

8.07.12, 8.07.17
9.10.45, 9.13.01, 9.18.15
10.35.50, 10.47.56
12.35.58
13.46.23, 13.48.33, 13.59.32
15.49.05
17.49.26
19.49.34

The phrase 'regular updates' comes readily to mind. The mendacious 'source close to the McCanns' would no doubt try to convince people that these calls were unrelated to each other, but the timings between salvos, as well as the tight proximity within them, tell us otherwise. Of course we may never know who this mystery contact was, but being unusually optimistic for once, I should like to think that the word 'never' does not apply in this instance.

h/t and source Dr Martin Roberts mccanfiles.

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Uncleared Suspect in Simulating a Crime and Hiding a Cadaver to be Guest Speaker at CEOP Conference on Child Abduction

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And let's make no bones about it, uncleared major suspect he is and and uncleared he will remain until exonerated or not in a court of law.

Insufficient evidence is not an indication of innocence, nor might I add, the indecent and unprecedented haste by the Portuguese authorities in archiving the case of a missing child is not an indication that there is no case to answer.

On the contrary, the unprecedented, and believe me not only is it unprecedented it is unique in Portuguese criminal history* that a case of a missing child should be archived after such a short period of time is not only indicative that there is a case to answer but is confirmation in fact.

Why was the case archived you may ask, I don't know, the same as I don't know why McCann attended and received a standing ovation at the National Police Federation annual bravery awards.

The same I don't know why, that the ineffectual Leicestershire Constabulary have, and continue to have, a direct link from the force's own website to the grotesque Find Madeleine/Fund/Online Shop website of two uncleared suspects in a major crime.

And if I don't know the answer to any of the above, there is one thing for sure, I don't know why Gerry McCann is a guest speaker of the CEOP.



A reminder then for the reason Gerry and Kate McCann being made arguidos.

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They were made arguidos, this was public, for simulating a crime and hiding a cadaver. Expresso 04 July 2008

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And beyond that, in our law there exists the principal of no self-incrimination. A person can't continue speaking forever as a witness and providing evidence ("indications"). There is certainly a stigma in the arguido status, but I don't know what is worse. They were made arguidos, this was public,(knowledge) for simulating a crime and hiding a cadaver.

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They were made arguidos on suspicion of two crimes: concealing a body and simulating an abduction and potentially the crime of abandonment. But saying they were made arguidos on the merest possibility that they were involved in the disappearance of their child is not true. The conclusions reached by the team investigating the crime, including colleagues in Britain,

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“there was a common understanding”, between Portuguese and British police officers involved in the investigation, about the fact that Madeleine was dead.There was evidence, about two different crimes – which were referred by the defence lawyer, Pinto de Abreu, in a public statement – and it was hiding a body and a criminal simulation. That was the situation, when I left the investigation,” Mr. Amaral said. The former PJ inspector, who has a Law Degree from Lisbon University, mentioned the fact that “these kind of cases of disappearance, frequently bring with it other crimes, sometimes fake statements or physical abuse”. Source The interviews. McCannfiles

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Yet somehow this uncleared suspect, the last person to see Madeleine McCann alive and statistically most likely to be involved the disappearance of the child is somehow a guest speaker at a conference hosted by the Child Exploitation and Online Protection (Centre) (CEOP) on the subject of sexually-motivated child abductions.

I despair I really do, and not just for Madeleine McCann, I despair for this country, for what it has become and what has become acceptable to it, no matter how corrupt and offensive that it may be.


This is a much reduced version of the CEOP webpage.

Taken: Sexually-motivated child abductions

A One Day Conference, Tuesday 26 January 2010. School of Oriental and African Studies, Bloomsbury, London

Introduction

The stereotypical, high profile incidents of child abduction play into every parent’s worst nightmare and often result in media attention and public hysteria. Whilst the names of those children and offenders alike are engrained within our collective consciousness, these cases are mercifully very rare. Indeed, parental disputes resulting in the abduction of a child by one parent still make up the majority of abduction cases per se................

Conference objectives

This one day conference will explore the issues associated with a variety of child abduction cases, predominantly focussing on sexually motivated stranger abductions.

By using a combination of recent research, operational case studies and offender debriefs, this conference seeks to identify pertinent issues for any such investigation...........

Agenda

09:00 Registration

09:30 Welcome: Jim Gamble, Chief Executive, Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre

09.45 Multiple case research: Jim O. Beasley III, Supervisory Special Agent, Federal Bureau of Investigation

10.30 An holistic approach: Adam Gregory, Senior Behavioural Investigative Adviser, National Policing Improvement Agency

11:00 Break

11.30 Operation Paris – the Shannon Matthews investigation: Detective Superintendent Andy Brennan, Detective Inspector Andy Walker, West Yorkshire Police

12:30 Lunch

13.30 False allegations of abduction: William Donaldson, Supervisory Special Agent, Federal Bureau of Investigation

14:30 Break

14.45 Insight from the minds of child abductors:Detective Chief Superintendent Graham Hill, Dr Joe Sullivan, Consultant Chartered Psychologist, Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre

16.00 Closing speech: Gerry McCann

16.30 Questions and answers session: All speakers

Key Note Speakers

James O. Beasley III, Supervisory Special Agent, Federal Bureau of Investigation

Andy Brennan, Detective Superintendent, West Yorkshire Police

William H. Donaldson, Supervisory Special Agent, Federal Bureau of Investigation

Adam Gregory, Senior Behavioural Investigative Adviser, National Policing Improvement Agency

Graham Hill, Detective Chief Superintendent, Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre

Dr Joe Sullivan, Principal Forensic Behavioural Analyst, Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre

Who should attend

This one day conference is most suitable for those involved in child abuse investigation including:

Senior Investigating Offices and their deputies;
Police Family Liaison Officers working in major crime investigations;
Child protection professional who support major crime investigations; and
Critical incident managers and front line senior supervisors.

Delegate criteria and cost

There is a delegate fee of £195 per person which includes lunch and refreshments throughout the day.

I was going to hint that perhaps someone that lived in the area might take the trouble to attend, having seen the entrance fee perhaps I won't.

* Should I be proved wrong on this statement I will stand correcting.

h/t mccannfiles and as ever to those that work so tirelessly to bring us the various English translations of documents et al.

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The Crying Game: Looking Back

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This article dates back to October 2007. Tears have been a bit topical of late, so I thought I would offer this up as a last post on the subject and then I can move on to things contemporary.

It does, among other things remind us of things that were said at the time, such things as: schooled not to show emotion, and "It's extraordinary. Whenever she opened her mouth to talk he squeezed her hand," and of course no interview would be complete without the likes of this: "Everything Kate and Gerry said on that interview was totally genuine." They have nothing to hide." followed by the standard issue, "Our lawyers are watching..." now who could that be I wonder? then just before the article ends, this on the subject of Low Copy Testing. The FSS claims the technique is just as reliable as standard DNA testing.

Be kind to Kate: Mother's desperate plea after astonishing attack on McCann's 'TV circus act'

The mother of Kate McCann has made a desperate and heartfelt appeal for the public to be 'kinder' to her daughter.

Susan Healy, 61, argued her Kate wasn't at breaking point but called for the public attacks on her daughter to stop: "I want people to start being kinder to Kate, she has enough to cope with.

"Yes, she is distressed at times and she can't smile that often at the moment. But she is very strong and she is going to fight on to get Madeleine back.

"People are saying she's at breaking point but she's not going to have a nervous breakdown."

Analysed: Kate McCann wipes away a tear on Spanish TV

I previously did a little analysis of my own regarding this interview.

Her mother's defence comes as Kate was left reeling after her tearful breakdown was savaged as 'a circus act' by critics who claimed it showed she had 'psychiatric problems'

Friends of Mrs McCann and her husband Gerry said they were stunned by the "vile criticism" about their behaviour during a television interview.

They are considering taking legal action against a Spanish psychiatrist who made the worst of the slurs.

Jose Cabrera analysed the couple's television interview on Wednesday for the Portuguese newspaper Correio da Manha, who described him as a forensic psychiatrist and facial expression specialist.

'Staged': Kate, sitting next to husband Gerry, breaks down during the interview

He said: "When people cry they move the muscles in their face and she (Kate) did not move one single muscle, just like poker players. That is very significant."

"It brings us the certainty that she is hiding something."

He described the interview, with Spanish broadcaster Antena 3, as "staged" and "nothing but big theatre", and said he thought Mrs McCann "has had psychiatric problems for a long time" before saying: "Now they've got worse."

He added: "Any Englishman is cold but she has something else - her personality is not normal - and he (Mr McCann) causes an impression because all he worries about is her answers."

Mrs McCann, 39, has faced criticism about her apparent "coolness" and her seeming control over her emotions in public.

Not featured in the article but from the same interview.

Mrs Healy, of Allerton, Merseyside, added: "Kate was speaking for herself in that interview - there were no restraints on her at all. Yes, she was very distressed at times but she can't be blamed for that."

A friend of the McCanns said Kate had been schooled not to show emotion because psychologists warned Madeleine's abductor could get kicks from watching her emotional response.

He said: "It is devastating for Kate and Gerry to be criticised in this way. Some of what has been said is beyond belief.

"The same people who criticised Kate when she managed to hold herself together are now attacking her because she couldn't.

"The fact she cried during a TV interview proves nothing except the fact that Kate is running on high emotions, as you would expect any mother whose child has gone missing would be.

"Kate and Gerry are philosophical about the media coverage but they cannot let this level of vile criticism go. They are absolutely shocked and stunned.

"When the time is right they will be taking action against anyone who they feel has overstepped the mark. It is good that Correio printed the name of the Spanish psychologist whose opinions they published. He is one more person on the list of people to sue."

The couple have already threatened legal action against the Portuguese weekly newspaper Tal e Qual, which accused them of killing their daughter, and the daily tabloid 24 Horas, which claimed Mr McCann was not Madeleine's biological father.

Mr Cabrera, 50, did not restrict his comments to Mrs McCann. The Madrid-based psychiatrist - who has never met the couple - said Mr McCann's only concern during the interview was to "control" his wife.

He said: "All he worried about was controlling her. It's extraordinary. Whenever she opened her mouth to talk he squeezed her hand - and all this because the key to this mystery is definitely with her."

He added: "It is he who dominates the whole situation. He is aware of everything and knows he has to control her and her problematic personality so that she does not go too far in front of the cameras and speak too much."

Mr McCann, also 39, did whisper a warning to his wife at the end of the interview, telling her not to speak until her microphone was taken off, but friends said that was because they had just been asked a question which their lawyers had told them not to answer.

The couple were said to be horrified by the response to the interview, which was given to appeal for help in finding Madeleine and to launch a 24-hour information hotline.

Mr Cabrera was not their only critic. Portuguese criminologist Moita Flores, a former detective with the Policia Judiciaria, said: "The interview was a circus act.

"The most curious thing is that before this interview was agreed to, everybody already knew she was going to cry, which is what happened, and she even managed to play the part quite well."

He told Correio da Manha: "It was an act which nobody believes. After their theory of abduction they now insist on their innocence, and those who are innocent don't need this."

McCann spokesman Clarence Mitchell said: "A few days ago Kate was criticised for not showing enough emotion and then when she does cry she is criticised too.

"Everything Kate and Gerry said on that interview was totally genuine. They have nothing to hide.

"Our lawyers are watching the media coverage very carefully in both Portugal and Britain and action will be taken against anything we feel has gone too far."

The 24-hour hotline was said to have attracted a huge number of calls in its first day of operation. It was set up on the advice of private investigators working for the McCanns, who will follow up potential sightings and leads.

Murat feels 'forgotten' and 'desperate'

The first official suspect in the Madeleine investigation feels he has been 'forgotten' in the furore over Kate and Gerry McCann.

Robert Murat is so desperate to clear his name that he is willing to submit to further police interviews and searches of the villa he shares with his mother in Praia da Luz.

His lawyer Francisco Pagarete said: "Mr Murat has been living with this for a long time now and it is time the police admit they have no evidence against him. He is desperate to get his life back.

"If the inspectors want another interview, we are willing. Mr Murat is very keen to see the case against him finished."

Mr Murat, 33, was named as a suspect on May 14 and his villa was searched. The British ex-pat property consultant has always insisted he had nothing to do with Madeleine's disappearance.

Doubts raised over DNA evidence

Questions have been raised over the DNA technique which led to Kate and Gerry McCann being made suspects.

Experts at the Forensic Science Service in Birmingham used a method called "low copy number" profiling to analyse material found in the couple's hire car.

They claim that LCN profiling can obtain an accurate "genetic fingerprint" from just a single human cell.

But other experts have warned that the Portuguese police have placed too much significance on the DNA results, which link Madeleine to the car hired weeks after her disappearance.

The technique, pioneered by the FSS in 1999, differs from standard DNA testing in that it does not rely on the presence of bodily fluids or significant amounts of skin or hair.

Instead, just a single cell of sweat or skin, left by a mere touch, is all that is needed. The tiny DNA fragment is then copied many times over to provide a big enough sample to match with other profiles.

The FSS claims the technique is just as reliable as standard DNA testing.

But some experts suggest the copying process can be prone to errors, and that because such small samples can be transferred from place to place by touch alone, finding someone's DNA at a crime scene does not necessarily mean they were ever there in person. source thisislondon

h/t Ironside.

Don't you know each cloud contains, pennies from heaven

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It's probably happened to us all and probably far more than just the once. Seeing something quite often that is, but never noticing the detail.

Twice this evening as chance would have it, I came across some previously unnoticed detail. The first is one of those "yer what!?" no it's not, it's one of those "yer fuckin' what? you cannot be fuckin' serious!" sort of things, but the second one is a nugget, and how I have never noticed it before, I really don't know.

"For the first time, the heartbreaking TRUTH that destroys the lies of the Portuguese police."

And there it is as bold as brass on the front page, says who!? the News of the fucking World! What a shitty little rag.

If the Portuguese think such outrageous shite is representative of us as a people and us as a nation, little wonder that they think we're all tossers and wankers.



But below, a gem, a pearl, pennies from heaven, a gift from.... well we won't get into that one.

Ignoring, if humanly possible, the nauseating, pass the bucket, sickly sentimental fucking drivel, and the implications of just why our mother of the year ain't lighting four candles, ignoring all this, you have to admit the banner is a cracker.

"Maddie's mummy should be celebrating her beloved baby's fourth birthday today."

Don't seem to be making too bad a job of it, celebrating that is, him an'all.


A long time ago
A million years BC
The best things in life
Were absolutely free.
But no one appreciated
A sky that was always blue.
And no one congratulated
A moon that was always new.
So it was planned that they would vanish now and them
And you must pay before you get them back again.
That's what storms were made for
And you shouldn't be afraid for
Every time it rains it rains
Pennies from heaven.
Don't you know each cloud contains
Pennies from heaven.
You'll find yor fortune falling
All over town.
Be sure that your umbrella is upside down.
Trade them for a package of sunshine and flowers.
If you want the things you love
You must have showers.
So when you hear it thunder
Don't run under a tree.
There'll be pennies from heaven for you and me


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Kate's Diary by A Miller

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Reasoning that they may compliment each other I thought I would add A Miller's comment, and a comment it was, not an article as such, as a suffix to an earlier observation of my own, Kate McCann's Private Diary.

Kates Diary by A Miller

I have never until now read Kate McCann's diary. I came across it in an article in the press whilst looking for something else.

Given that it is written by the mother of a 3year old child who disappeared when her parents where out dining, leaving her and her twin siblings, two years old at the time alone in an unlocked holiday apartment, to say it is the most bizarre thing I have ever read is an understatement.

I believe this diary was written after Aunty Phil suggested it would be something nice to give to Madeleine when she returned.

What strikes me most about the entries, is that in the main, they are about Kate and occasionally about Gerry. She continually speaks of HER pain, HER suffering, how SHE wants Madeleine back as this will restore HER, FORMER lifestyle as she is not happy with her life as it is at the time of writing.

What I find odd too is that she writes 'M' for Madeleine. I cannot imagine every referring to my missing child, in diary entries or other, only by the first initial of her name. She does likewise with Sean and Amelie. Yet when she has something to tell us about herself, her activities, going to church or running, nothing is abbreviated. We see this in great detail.

It is clear also, that she finds the twins challenging. So many entries about how she finds it difficult to get them to bed. Wasted days etc. Madeleine is the child who it is said was more full of energy, not a good sleeper. Did Kate have difficulty getting Madeleine to bed in the evenings?

She is also very angry at the suggestion that they, she and Gerry, allowed contamination of the crime scene to take place. She expresses this by wanting to phone to speak to someone to vent her anger.

Further along in the diary, she mentions that there has been a suggestion that Madeleine is buried near cliffs.

Her response to this was: "What can I say?" She then goes on to talk about herself once more, how can one BODY, take so much pain etc.

There is not the same anger at the thought of someone saying her daughter may be buried at beach/cliffs, as there is when it is suggested that she and Gerry were to blame for something.

The self protection always to the fore.

What I find most bizarre about this diary, is that it is not something you would want to pass on to your child if she returned.
She speaks of her pain, then includes comments in reference to Madeleine, 'IF' we have let you down. 'IF' you are suffering.

She speaks of Madeleine being with paedophiles. Then comments - 'IF' you are suffering.

She states also, that she hopes Madeleine's suffering is less than her own.

A mother would hope that her child is NOT suffering at all. Not just suffering less than she herself is. She appears to be comparing levels of pain.

She speaks of worrying about Madeleine as she knows that Madeleine FEARS PAIN.

What pain could a three year old child have experienced that would make a mother make such a statement?

If a child falls and grazes a knee, the child may cry. They may not like a vaccination, as it may be painful. No child likes to feel these types of pain obviously.

But what is Kate McCann referring to when she states that she KNOWS Madeleine doesn't like pain. If she thinks her child is with a paedophile - she will be experiencing the most awful pain in every sense.

She speaks of paedophiles at the shops? She speaks of paedophiles being held in 'NICE' surroundings, she wouldn't mind that, as long as they don't get to children. She thinks she should have been informed of paedophiles and then they could have taken more care, felt more safe.

These are two medical professionals. Are they telling us that they did not know of the dangers of paedophiles before Madeleine, in their thesis, was taken by one?

She makes comment on Amelie, saying that she did not realise Amelie could speak so well.

Why would she not know that her daughter could speak as well as she could at the time? How can you not know?
THURSDAY, MAY 3: Milk and biscuits for the kids..........More at the McCann Gallery.

Original source: http://joana-morais.blogspot.com/2009/1 ... mment-form
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The English Gag Preface by Francisco Moita Flores

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The following text is the Preface to Gonçalo Amaral's new book, "The English Gag". Titled "Locard's Truth", the preface is authored by Francisco Moita Flores, a former Polícia Judiciária inspector, now the Mayor of Santarém, and a renowned criminologist, and author.

Locard’s Truth

I read this outcry for freedom by Gonçalo Amaral at a time when the country wallows, and when I say the country, I say the politicians, some characters within the judiciary system supplying the pyrotechnical material for the fireworks that the media launch every day around the ‘Face Oculta’ process [major corruption scandal presently being investigated in Portugal]. And it is the greatest example of hypocrisy. Exactly the same newspapers, the same columnists, who in the name of respect for the parents’ "pain", in the name of respect for arguidos with no other coercion measure, practically imposed the end of any newscast about Maddie, they are exactly the same that, forgetting today what they had said yesterday, flog personalities from the areas of politics or economy with suspicions, half truths and hearsay, based on wiretaps that nobody knows, savagely destroying the character and honour of their targets.

Two weights and two measures. And now, after reading this painful, nostalgic, and yet brave book, following a temporary injunction against ‘Maddie – The Truth of the Lie’, accepted by a Portuguese court, I understand even better what I always understood: the McCann couple’s strategy, since the first day of their media folklore, never had any other purpose: to discredit the Portuguese Justice, the Portuguese Police, and, fundamentally, Gonçalo Amaral, the man who knew the most, and still does, about what they did. And what they didn’t.

Gonçalo Amaral is not a fictional character. He is the boldness of truth. He is the challenge of truth. Even if he doesn’t fully know it. He knows what nobody else does, about Maddie’s hidden destiny. And it’s no use to try to conceal the sun with a sieve, which seems to be the child’s parents’ only obsession, because like Sherlock Holmes invariably replied to his unavoidable friend Dr. Watson, the method of deduction, applied to facts, as long as they are seen in connection, becomes elementary, even for the most stupid living beings, that if action A produced result B, if result B is coherent with consequence C, then A is related to C. It is elementary! Aristotle formulated this reasoning in the shape of syllogisms, Edmond Locard, the father of modern criminal investigation, recovered it to become the instrument of all investigation police forces worldwide, and the results are there. More Joana Morais

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A Quotation or Two

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I have little doubt that there are countless other quotes that could be employed here, these are just those few I collected yesterday, prior to loosing interest that is.




"Being a low life worthless piece of shit I feel no remorse in desecrating the name and memory of our dead daughter Madeleine.

Equally I feel no shame in besmirching the names of my two remaining children, no matter how vile and repugnant this may appear to anybody possessed of decency and an ethical moral code.

Possessing neither decency or an ethical moral code myself, and fuelled by a most earnest desire that we may never face the kind of justice that we so richly deserve, I shall, on behalf of my wife and myself, carry on in the same disgraceful and reprehensible manner to which by now you are all well accustomed."

(Well perhaps I can't attribute the above directly to the lying fuck, but you get the idea I'm sure.

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"We are pleased with the Judge’s decision preventing further distribution and sale of Mr Amaral’s book and DVD –‘The Truth of the Lie’.

“Mr. Amaral’s central thesis has no evidence whatsoever to support it. To claim as he did, that Madeleine is dead, and that we, her parents, were in some way involved with her disappearance, has caused our family incredible distress and it continues to do so.

“Without doubt, Madeleine will have suffered as a result of the negative effect this book and DVD will have had on the search for her.

“Sean and Amelie need protection too from such awful claims. (see above)

“Hopefully this injunction today will go a long way towards reducing further unnecessary and unjust distress to us all and allow people to concentrate completely on what is important - finding Madeleine,” the statement read.

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“There’s one thing that has been revealed in the case files which is that there is no evidence that Madeleine is dead and there is no evidence to suggest that Kate and I were involved in any theories. It’s about Madeleine. As her parents, I hope people understand that we have to do what we are doing.” (If I had a nickel for every time I have heard this, I'd have more money than the fund.)

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"Freedom of speech should not include distortion of the truth, lies, fabrication and slander," said Kate McCann on Friday. (Never a truer word, never a one. You've haven't been taking foot in mouth lessons from Mitchell, perchance?)

Gerry McCann added: "The key thing here is we're here to fight for our daughter, and if anyone steps over the lines then they should be prepared to defend what they say in court." (I think that became quite apparent on Friday, don't you?)

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When asked about how he felt about meeting Gonçalo Amaral again, he said: “I haven’t thought about it. We are here for the trial. We’re not here to meet Mr. Amaral,” he said. He added: “We believe that the law will do justice.” (Of course not Gerry, never gave him a thought did you?)

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Their spokesman, Clarence Mitchell, said: "It's regrettable that Mr Amaral chooses to do this on the same day as the trial opening.

"Most people would expect him to concentrate on the trial rather than launching any new book and the court will take its own view of his activities." (Yes Clarence, most regrettable, and pray tell us when you became the spokesman for "most people"?)

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McCanns condemn new book
Leicestershire couple Kate and Gerry McCann have condemned a Portuguese policeman for launching his second book on the day a libel trial is to start over his first book on Madeleine case.
(The last time someone condemned a book without reading it, Salman Rushdie ended up with a price on his head.)

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English journalist named Kier Simmons who was constantly and rudely interrupting Mr. Amaral, he said multiple times, “Why don’t you speak in English for our viewers? Can’t you give us an answer in English?” (You make me so proud Sir, how well you deport yourself, both as a journalist and as an Englishman, we must meet up for a beer sometime, we really must.)

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He says his new book has emerged from his indignation in the face of censorship. - GA (Rather reminds me of the author who wrote his second novel from the movie based on his first.)

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Q: Have these two years been difficult?

If the path was easy, what would our merit be? - Goncalo Amaral (Respect Sir, respect.)

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I once asked Joana what she must have thought an extremely naive question, why "Dr" Amaral, I guess I'm just not used to associating cops with doctorates.



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The Crying Game

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Not a startling new post, more a gathering in one place of some crying themed bits in response to TTW4s post Just a Moment in Time.

Six seconds of bollocks trying not to be a bollocks but ending up being a complete bollocks, it's priceless.



I took these screeshots back in the early days, a unique moment captured for posterity, half a teardrop of Kate McCann.







It could be said Kate cries in the "style of" Casey Anthony, or would that be the other way round?

The Editor Daily Mail and Kate McCann

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Sir, I have much studied, both past and present, your coverage and reporting on the Madeleine McCann affair and I have to admit to finding that coverage somewhat disconcerting, and truth be told more than a little baffling.

Baffling, perplexing, bewildering even, call it what you will, but this type of confusion is all too present when I try to discern your motives in treading the editorial path that you do.

After much thought and deliberation I eventually experienced a small eureka moment as to why your newspaper reports in the manner it does.
Having first ascertained that the owner of the Daily Mail was not in fact News International Ltd, I could discount editorial control and interference, the type of which one normally associates with the dirty digger, aka Rupert Murdoch.

That does beggar the question though, does the Mail suffer equally from said editorial control and interference, surely not, not the Mail. of course it doesn't.

So that brings me back to my eureka moment, and please you must correct me if I am wrong, but are you in fact engaged in a competition between yourselves and Kate McCann as to who might appear the more pathetic?

Is it the wooden and transparent Kate McCann, who in her efforts, fails so spectacularly in trying to evoke feelings of sympathy, pity, and sorrow as she so pathetically attempts to project an aura of pathos, or is it yourselves, as a newspaper, that equally fails so spectacularly in trying to evoke feelings of sympathy, pity, and sorrow? The efforts of which I speak are those taken by yourselves in printing such wooden and transparent photographs, typified so blatantly in yesterdays nauseating example?

Though I ask these questions, truth be told, if it was money I had to wager, I could only place it with the odds on favourite, a broken down old nag out of the Associated Newspapers stable.

Above: A previous gem, courtesy of the Daily Mail.

By the by Mister Editor have a look at the true face of Kate McCann, these photographs taken just nine days after the "abduction" of Madeleine McCann, do you notice the difference, perchance?







Might I take this opportunity to appeal to any journalist, from the Mail or otherwise, that has similar feelings to my own and that this travesty has gone on far too long, to please contact me.

My email address can be located by clicking my profile, top left of this page, any communication will be treated with utmost confidentiality, please be assured of that.
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The Portuguese Failing: No Few Meter

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Hard to blame the Portuguese I suppose, the Few Meter, sorry I stand corrected, the Phew Meter, the Phew Meter at the time was top secret and I suppose even today it's existence is still pretty hush hush.

Invented by our intrepid inventor who, when not eating cheese, is mostly inventing most of the time, the Phew Meter was designed for primarily for use by Her Majesties Customs.

Placed surreptitiously at the exit of the nothing to declare green channel, the purpose of the Phew Meter was quite simply to measure phews, albeit clandestinely.

Rather pleased it wasn't around when I was gadding about the world, I've let a few phews out in my time, how about you?






I'll wager there were a few phews in the air after this little lie fest, oh for the want of a meter.

Perhaps then we might then have been spared such nauseating displays as this from the grieving and obviously extremely relieved parents, inasmuch that they had got this far without being arrested.

Hampering The Search For Madeleine. Perspective and Translation

Mrs McCann said: "Our main worry, obviously, was people believing that Madeleine was dead. "If people believe that she is not alive, then people will stop looking for her."

As you are probably aware the Portuguese Court is to hear appeals tomorrow against the temporary injunction that bans, among other things, the sale of Goncalo Amaral's book A Verdade Da Mentira.

Part of the complaint lodged with, in my eyes a somewhat dubious judge, was the claim that Goncalo Amaral's assertion that Madeleine McCann was dead would inhibit or hamper the search for the girl.

Leaving aside all the arguments that would endorse Amaral's conclusion, and leaving aside yet another disgraceful example of the McCanns abusing the name and memory of their dead child in yet another shameful and blatant attempt to protect their own worthless selves, leaving this apart, just who and just why would anybody be looking for Madeleine at all?

It does strike me as a rather odd that the McCanns include this as part of their argument when they themselves couldn't be arsed to go and search for their first born child in the hours immediately following the Madeleine's disappearance.

Kate: It was so dark...

Oprah: uh huh...

Kate: it was dark, erm I've never had such a long night it was dark and you're just praying for the light you know to come up to get out there it's just...

I have already made my feelings known regarding this extremely bizarre statement by the mother of the missing girl, I won't import it here, it is shall we say a tad passionate and a tad Anglo Saxon and perhaps not suitable reading for the prurient or small children.

Mrs McCann said: "Our main worry, obviously, was people believing that Madeleine was dead.

"If people believe that she is not alive, then people will stop looking for her." BBC

I took another look at this sixty second video clip today, in fact I have looked at it quite often, it's a classic.

If anybody was ever in doubt that the McCanns were up to their miserable necks in the death and disappearance of their daughter's body, they only need to watch Kate McCann squirm her way through these sixty seconds to dispel any doubt they may have harboured.

Short of a signed confession it's the nearest thing guilty I have ever seen in my life, as I say it's a classic, a pearler in fact.

But I did something else today, I made a transcript, read Kate McCann's response to the question put to her.

Q: I spoke to a lot of people over the weeks-local people that have given up a lot of time, you’ve talked about the support they’ve given you, I met people who didn’t go to work for more than a week because every day they were down on the beach, searching the streets. Did you as a mother Kate just sometimes think I’ve got to go and be out there with them, I want to go and just physically look as well?

Kate McCann. (Big sigh and shrugs shoulders)
I mean I did, erm tut we’d been working really hard really apart from the first forty eight hours as Gerry said were incredibly difficult and we were almost non functioning I’d say, erm but after that you get the strength from somewhere, we’ve certainly had loads of support and that’s given us strength and it’s been able to make us focus really so we have actually in our own way, it might not be physically searching but we’ve been working really hard and doing absolutely everything we can really to get Madeleine back.

Which translates in the lesser as: No, or in the greater: No there wasn't any point, Madeleine was already dead.


Here is another fine example from Madam McCann, this from the Sandra Felgueiras interview.

Kate: Yes I have read the files.

Sandra: What did shock you most? Any part of the... any detail that...you weren't... aware of? Something that has really surprised you or you didn't find anything?

Kate: Oh I have been through them and I have made notes and I passed that on to our investigation team obviously.

Sandra: And you found any evidence? Of anything?

Kate: Well obviously the only evidence I wanna find is who has taken Madeleine and where she is. They are the key things and until we actually get that bit of information you know we are always gonna feel like we are a long way away. But basically what we are doing is trying to get as much information as we can and trying to put the jig-shaw, jigsaw together, so finally we have the complete picture.

Again, short translation: yada yada waffle, or the longer: yada yada waffle, the only reason I read the files was to see how close we were to being brought to justice.

And to round off this post here be insight and common sense from:

Dimsie The Maddie Case Files.

Just Who is Looking

I've never been sure who these people who've stopped looking for Madeleine because of GA's book actually are. They can't be the McCanns' friends and relations because obviously they believe every word Kate and Gerry say about the 'abduction' and so will be ignoring anything Amaral says to the contrary.

They can't be the pro's that keep popping up in forums to tell us how we're all wrong and how dreadful Amaral is (and Tony Bennett too, of course), because they too are convinced Amaral is a monster for not believing in the 'abduction' and so they'll ignore him.

They can't be members of the public because most members of the public have jobs to go to, families to look after, lives of their own to lead, and are far too busy to head off somewhere looking for Madeleine. So who are they? Who has stopped looking for Madeleine because of Amaral's book?

Come to think of it, who has STARTED looking for Madeleine? I haven't read any reports in the papers about the friends and relatives of the McCanns combing the wilder parts of the area around PdL where Edgar informs us she's being held.

I can't see how the pro's who spend their time writing rubbish about the rest of us can have any time left over to join search parties; how many of THEM are in Portugal, knocking on doors and asking to inspect people's cellars?

I don't know of any member of the public who's gone anywhere looking for Madeleine, let alone join Dave and Arthur for a tramp around the lawless wastelands of the Algarve, where presumably white man has not yet laid foot.

I don't think either of Madeleine's parents is in Portugal, co-ordinating the search, though of course I could be wrong. Maybe we'll hear tomorrow that now that Kate has translated the files she's off to Portugal to tell the PJ how to start this most important search. But until I see it on tv I won't believe it.
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Hmm, it seems NO ONE is looking for Madeleine, except a couple of incompetent (according to the Mail on Sunday) ex-cops, whose opinions change from one week to the next and who think that the way to find a child they're sure is entombed in a cellar in Portugal is to take a trip to Australia.

The English Gag by Goncalo Amaral Launched Friday

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Isn't there something else happening Friday, I'm sure it will come to me?

I like your style Sir, and not least your timing.



This one line only from Paulo Reis.

"The English Gag" will be realesed this Friday, 11 December, at "Livraria Ler Devagar", in Lisbon.


And a little more from Joana Morais.

«Gonçalo Amaral is not a character.
He is the boldness of Truth. He is the challenge of Truth.»
Francisco Moita Flores in Preface

Gonçalo Amaral's new book, "The English Gag - The story of a forbidden book", will be publicly launched on Friday, the 11th of December, 2009, at the Ler Devagar - Lx Factory bookshop, in Lisbon, at 6.30 p.m.

With a preface by Francisco Moita Flores, the book will be presented by Professor José Adelino Maltez.

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