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The McCanns
"We’re not characters in a soap opera" --- Gerry McCann
"Oh I thought they were," said G, when I mentioned what Gerry McCann had said (on one of their recent TV blitz appearances). "Perhaps they should extend their search to Austria - they do a good line in hidden people there, don't they?" he added.
*sigh* the McCanns, don't get me started. But they have got me started. I viewed their latest media onslaught, and I do find myself completely in two minds about them. On the one hand they are acting very much like concerned parents, anxious to recover their missing daughter Madeleine, preferably alive. On the other hand, we have seen perpetrators of child murder (the Soham murderer) and kidnap (Shannon's own relatives) play the part of the concerned citizen or aggrieved victim, to an unsuspecting public. Now, the McCanns, officially designated "aguidos" (suspects) by the Portuguese, could well be seen as very much the part of parents with a terrible secret (or two) to hide. WHY should I believe everything the McCanns say? Give me one good reason.
I really think they are playing dangerous game by coming onto the media, all guns blazing. It's all very well trying to help their daughter. But what I find irritating is the McCanns insistence that they had done nothing particularly wrong in leaving their children unattended while they dined on tapas. They keep saying - had they even the tiniest suspicion that anything like that (abduction) could have happened to Madeleine, they would never have left them alone. Somehow with all this media news flow, it seems forgotten that they didn't need to leave their children on their own. The hotel catered for a nanny service. Why didn't they take that up? (Pinching pennies?) Someone should ask the McCanns - a GP and a hospital consultant - just that. (I think people are just too darn polite to ask them that). There is no excuse for leaving Madeleine and her (not one ... but) two younger siblings all on their own. I feel they should just not try and defend their actions any more, and apologise and show some humility and contrition for child neglect. They should hang their heads in shame and advise other parents to learn from their mistakes. They should, like the Catholics they claim to be, ask for forgiveness. They should ask for our forgiveness too, since they have involved us all in their personal tragedy. They owe us the public a lot.
Plus the fact (as put forward by the McCanns) that Madeleine had asked them why they weren't around when she was crying the night before, any parent would have taken that to be alarm bells ringing. They might say to the child, "Don't worry sweetie, we'll make sure we're around tomorrow night" might they not?
On the matter of the "Austrian syndrome" theory (mentioned here) - there might be something in that. Did you know, during the second world war, people were required by law to have underground bunkers? Is it any wonder then, that some of these bunkers would emerge during peace time as crime scenes?
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