(sorry to snip all your hard work)
Me: Its possible space aliens came down and were playing a videotape of children crying for their daddy in one of the empty vacation suites, but neighbors to the suite reported that they had complained about a child crying for daddy in the evening coming from the McCann suite.
Actually it seems the rules on posting have changed somewhat since I first became a member. Although I looked for it again before posting here and could no longer find it, one of the mods had once posted rules for being able to post on Websleuths that said you had to be able to link your source info to a viable news source and blogs and other forum posts were specifically not allowed. So some of us find ourselves still asking for such links when someone posts. Also I often ask for source links anyway as people are often trying to pass off their own opinion as fact and I want to know if what I am reading is fact or opinion and so I ask. I am surprised that you get offended at being asked to say whether your post is fact or opinion and I am a bit puzzled that you would feel that is somehow an attempted form of censorship.
Absolutely gobsmacked, how can you not criticise the parents when they say stupid things like that. But then it was written in a newspaper so it might not be true.
If you had read my post carefully you would have seen that I said the rules have changed since I became a member. Those were once the rules but now they are no longer rules as I stated in my post. You were not lied to, I said what is true. Also I said that I searched for the older posted old rules prior to posting and could no longer find the old rules. That fact along with the new and looser TOS which is available for all to read is why I said things have changed. I mentioned the old rules so readers might better understand one of the reasons some of us post so many source links when we post and one reason why we often ask it of others.
All the information that has been reported or aired on TV plus interviews with witnesses and suspects has been posted on this site and the links have also been posted. It just gets annoying when everything we post, has to be backed up by posts and links that are already somewhere in the threads regarding this case. If posters want a link or more information then look for it, with so many threads about the disappearance of Madelaine it is hard to recall the exact link or time when it was posted.
Given some of the statements I have seen posted I know that is not entirely true but I am not responding to the post in depth. The whole thing is not worth battling over. This should be about finding the little girl and instead it has become some sort of battle for power and I have no time or energy to waste on such. You who so want to have this thread to just vent can have it for that or any other purpose the mods see fit to allow. Call it case discussion or justify it however you want. I for one am going to move on to other threads and when and if this thread ever does more than just rant against the parents I may return. After all you all should have the right to speak your mind without being bothered by those of us who have differeing views and thoughts and questions, else why all the resistance?
There is no resistance all the information that any of us know is here in the Madelaine threads, how each poster interprets it is entirely up to them. But having to back up every post with more information that is already here is a waste of time. Everyone has eyes and ears, and their opinions, which we are all free to post here and the posters who are interested in finding Madelaine and want to know how, why and when, can access the same information or if they find more they post it here, what more can one do.
I read an article yesterday, just a reiteration of previously published info, that again stated the Tapas bar was only 40 yards away. In this case, it has become my thought, that there is no desire to publish facts, on either side of the fence.
In following as much of the media as I can find and the additional information posted by Colomom, Calikid and others from the SOL, Aussie Mike and other media links I have trouble seaching out, I have come to the conclusion that:
The Portugese media is at "war" with the UK media (or vice versa), making it necessary to read between the lines of all information published.
Aside from one or two "leakers" of the PLE, there is no substantial information from this source.
I have thought on several occassions that LE was on the brink of a break through in the case. One was very early on, when the (I think retired) British investigator consulted with PLE and determined that the windows and shutters had not been compromised the night Maddie disappeared. The BI said that he had, if IRC, satisfied himself that the shutters were not disturbed, PLE was doing everything possible and had a great deal of evidence and he predicted the case would be solved within a week or so.
This was an early article - it has been at least two months since it was published (there is a link to it in one of the earlier threads).
Now we again hear that specialist are helping in the investigation, but it is too late? Some articles state that the specialist and PLE do not seem to be working together and are at odds (see Calikid's link from yesterday). Then, they say British LE have been involved all along.
At different times, I have highly suspected that somewhere in the ranks of the PLE, someone was involved if this is really an abduction. There have been different reasons for this, but the main reason was the lack of action in the search identified by the Dutch psychic. This particular person appearantly managed to locate a couple of British girls within a mile or so of their location. Dutch authorities seemed to think there might be something to the communication and it was passed on to PLE. According to media reports - PLE would not have acted at all except for the media outcry and when they did act they did not do a very good job.
We still don't know what happened to the towel that was found? We don't know what happened with Murrat's DNA? We don't know who sailed away? And we don't know who the last person to see Maddie was..... was it Matt, the friend or was it Gerry?
Salem
This is how I feel too. All too often Madeleine is being forgotten in the rush to get at the parents.
At different times, I have highly suspected that somewhere in the ranks of the PLE, someone was involved if this is really an abduction. There have been different reasons for this, but the main reason was the lack of action in the search identified by the Dutch psychic. This particular person appearantly managed to locate a couple of British girls within a mile or so of their location. Dutch authorities seemed to think there might be something to the communication and it was passed on to PLE. According to media reports - PLE would not have acted at all except for the media outcry and when they did act they did not do a very good job.
