Texana
Overreaching
Witch hunt? What do the McCanns call what their friends and the press did to Robert Murat? A walk in the park?
Yes, Cali, but you should understand, Murat deserved it. He's a single guy and he looks kind of different as well. And he has a daughter who doesn't live with him, so who knows why his marriage failed. Plus, he lives with his mother, right, which we all know is fairly suspicious, or he's with her a lot, which is just as odd. And he lives overseas, apparently, which unless you are a retired elderly Brit, is another sign of personal oddness verging on freak.
Whereas the McCanns are a professional couple with a lovely big house and three beautiful children, and a circle of equally successful and attractive friends, who were on a vacation in a quaint little resort area.
Murat fits the classic definition of "witch hunt" --the classic odd one or village loner--for anyone familiar with the Salem witch trials, the phrase "all the witnesses agreed that the man they saw was Murat, has a nice echo to "all the witnesses agreed that they saw Goody Murat put a hex on Goody Smithers' cow. "
Seriously, if we have two sets of "arguido" and neither one has been brought to trial or indicted of the crime, either both to get be victims of a witch hunt or neither do.
And Murat is just as deserving of having the arguido status lifted as the McCanns, and possibly more so.