Boycott Portugal
Yesterday the incompetent Portuguese fuzz officially declared Dr Kate McCann "arguido" and offered her a two-year prison sentence in exchange for a confession! Now husband Gerry joins the list of three official suspects, all Brits you notice. Evidence? A spot of Madeleine's blood in Madeleine's hotel bedroom, a sniffer dog trained to detect corpses wagging its tail in the same bedroom, and DNA in a car hired by the McCann's 25 days after their daughter went missing. Are we to believe that Kate McCann killed her daughter, kept the body hidden during a massive search, then hired a car to dump the body 25 days later, and nobody noticed the smell of a decomposing body around the hotel during that time? No way! The first place any efficient police force searches is where the child lived. Young children have locked themselves in abandoned refrigerators or drowned in a back garden pond. And it is well known that Kate McCann carries with her one of Madeleine's fluffy toys, which is a likely source of any DNA found in the hire car. Accusing the McCanns smacks of politics, not police work. The McCanns' unending campaign to find Madeleine has embarrassed the Portuguese authorities and threatens to damage Portugal's tourist industry. How's that as motive for a false accusation? But the Daily Mail is already carrying a stupid story by one of its hacks: "I have a terrible nagging doubt the McCanns might be involved," writes David Jones (CLICK). That's all the McCanns need: half-baked hacks jumping on the accusatory bandwagon. A much more sensible approach would be for Britons to boycott Portugal until Madeleine's kidnapper is found and the Portuguese cops have paid massive compensation to those Brits they have wrongly labelled "arguido".
posted by Unknown @ 8.9.07
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4 Comments:
I completely agree with all that you have said. I am completely outraged by the Portugese police and their mishandling of the search for Madeline. As a mother of a 4 year old daughter, all that Kate McCann is going through is unimagineable. What seems fairly obvious is that the local English ex-Pat's want their peace restored, the Portugese police must be under some pressure to get the status quo back, and they want the case closed. If they can blame the British holiday makers, then all the better. It's an outrage and the British government should be coming in to protect the McCann's and highlight the incompetence of the Portugese police.
Thank you for writing. I'm so glad you agree with me. Another Anonymous has given me some stick for the stance I've taken.
The Home Secretary's idiotic statement that she's satisfied with the Portuguese Police investigation into this case has given the Portuguese authorities the green light to continue their stitch-up of the McCanns. Like you, I find this appalling.
One of the stupid police allegations I haven't mentioned is that the McCanns drugged their children to insure they slept! As a parent, you know that young children who've enjoyed a day in the fresh air and sunshine sleep like logs. It seems there isn't one parent among the Portuguese detectives allegedly investigating this case.
If you would like to use the graphics I've recently created - Boycott Portugal and Home Secretary Resign - please do so. Put them into emails (select HTML mode) and spread them around.
I'm certain the Portuguese authorities are scared of the damage this case is likely to do to their tourist industry. So let's hit them where it hurts.
I don't agree with you! You don't have all the information, and the portuguese police PJ is rated as one of the best in the world. There's a lot of misleading information from the media, but if you look carefuly nothing has been said by the PJ.
Things like this unfortunately happen everywhere, and I doubt that the police usually does as much as the portuguese police has already done.
The boycott idea is ridiculous or you would have to boycott all the countries in the world, even the UK where there's lots of similar cases. Or boycott the English guy that owns the apartment complex that doesn't have CCTV installed.
Regards,
L.I.
Hi, L.I.
There's a lot of fair comment in what you say. I certainly don't claim to know all the facts, but I can apply logic to the nonsensical accusations that are being made.
Ludovic Kennedy investigated a number of miscarriages of justice in Britain. I recall him remarking on TV that he had never found a case in which UK police had knowingly stitched up an innocent man. First came the police belief that the suspect was guilty, then they found ways of "proving" it. More often than not, they persuaded some mentally retarded person to confess.
What the British police have never done to my knowledge is set out to convict an obviously innocent and grieving couple in order to hide their own incompetence and to protect the British tourist trade. From where I stand, that is exactly what the Portuguese police are doing.
If this were a criminal case in the UK, the British press would never be allowed to indulge in the frenzy of evil speculation that the Portuguese press is indulging in, thanks to leaks from the police. The P. press is doing as much to blacken the name of the P. police as is the failure of the police to find Madeleine.
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