Madeleine McCann - why are people so obsessed?

[Alice Purjorick]

I would say there is quite  a significant difference between the supporters and detractors

It is like pressing "lamp test" on a control panel   

[Mr Gray]

It is like pressing "lamp test" on a control panel   

again predictable...you seem obsessed with trying to score points rather than addressing posts

[Alfred R Jones]

Of course it could be but is it really worth losing sleep over ?

I don't recall saying that I had lost any sleep over the matter at all.  I am simply puzzled by the obsessional devotion  to a young child by those who have no connection to her - be assured I will sleep soundly tonight (unless this storm gets much worse!)

[Alfred R Jones]

You mean Freddy and The Frog? (that'll get whooshed I bet!)  *&*%£
I firmly believe that the polar extremes of this debate are populated by the same sort of people.

To whom are you referring?

[slartibartfast]

When I spoke to Clarence Mitchell in November 2008, he said that the film director hadn't asked Kerry if she wanted to meet Kate McCann, but whether she would appear in the documentary as the mother of a lost child. "Kate finds the idea of meeting a parent in that position quite daunting," he told me then.

"[Kerry] has been living with it for 18 years and the idea of facing it as long and stoically as Kerry has is a bit daunting. It's not that she doesn't want to meet her, she's sure she's a lovely person and maybe one day she will feel like it. But she doesn't want to face a lifetime without finding Madeleine."

So when a letter arrived out of the blue on 24 January from Kate McCann, Kerry was amazed.
"I thought it was sweet of her. I didn't think she'd ever get in contact with me. I was really moved, it's a really heartfelt letter. She'd wanted to be in touch with me, but had been scared of having to admit that Madeleine's disappearance might end up like Ben's. Nobody wants to think a child could be missing for years and years. If the boot had been on the other foot I wouldn't have wanted to get in touch with somebody whose child had been missing for all these years because it would give you no hope. You'd think, is that me in 18 years?"

Sorry Anna, is that all a Clarence quote?

[Alice Purjorick]

again predictable...you seem obsessed with trying to score points rather than addressing posts

If you say so.
You do not have to respond to my (or anybody's come to that) posts with feeble one liners.
What was there to address in a post that was merely a gainsay?

[Mr Gray]

If you say so.
You do not have to respond to my (or anybody's come to that) posts with feeble one liners.
What was there to address in a post that was merely a gainsay?

one liners because I cannot be bothered to compose long posts....if there's  nothing to address why answer the post

[DCI]

The subject of obsession was brought up on another thread and I thought it would be interesting to discuss why people are so obsessed by this case.  What, for example, drives people to sign up to a Facebook group called Madeleine: Unite For Justice which has as its banner a picture of a Knight on bended knee leaning on a large sword, next to this "A Solemn Oath"

"I swear to discover the truth about the unexplained disappearance of Madeleine McCann.  I will see through the lies & deceit, the cover up and watch as the Guilty are made to face the Laws of the Land.  My allegiance is to Madeleine.  My age is timeless and tireless and is solely given to this Duty"

(Misplaced capital letters copied verbatim from the header)

Now, what drives this level of obsession?   What makes them declare that their whole being is given in service to a missing child they never even knew?  Is this normal, healthy behaviour?
https://www.facebook.com/groups/459770540741264/?ref=ts&fref=ts

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Is that Oaf Oath a joke. I wonder who's behind that little nugget?  &%+((£

[Alfred R Jones]

Is that Oath a joke. I wonder who's behind that little nugget?  &%+((£

According to Faithlilly it may be, though she's not sure. If it's a joke it's a pretty sick one, don't you think?

[DCI]

According to Faithlilly it may be, though she's not sure. If it's a joke it's a pretty sick one, don't you think?

Sick as the others set up. Don't need many guesses for who's helping run that one &%&£(+

[Brietta]

I doubt if any other parents of a missing child have been subjected to the full frontal attack that Madeleine McCann's parents had to endure within hours of her disappearance.

On the 4th May journalists were being briefed that abduction was doubted and the parents were being untruthful; I find that absolutely incredible.

On May 5th an article “This Is A Very Badly Told Story,” was published in the  Diario de Noticias under the byline of Jose Manuel Oliveira who stated that the story had been leaked to him by the PJ before 5pm on May 4th.

These leaks were undoubtedly the start of a controversy which has lasted for nearly eight years and I think rank as the first of many unprecedented events surrounding the Madeleine McCann case; including the many obsessives who have attached themselves to the bandwagon which for some has been a particularly profitable enterprise.

[Lyall]

Forget it, Jake. It's Facebook...

(... I'll get me coat)

[Alfred R Jones]

Forget it, Jake. It's Facebook...

(... I'll get me coat)

Yeah, it's only Facebook so not important is it?  Yet for some it so very clearly is, hence the need for 1700+ people to work together obsessively for justice in private, like some secret army, with only it's Pledge of Allegiance on display.   I wonder what gains they have made in their fight for justice since their inception? 

[DCI]

I doubt if any other parents of a missing child have been subjected to the full frontal attack that Madeleine McCann's parents had to endure within hours of her disappearance.

On the 4th May journalists were being briefed that abduction was doubted and the parents were being untruthful; I find that absolutely incredible.

On May 5th an article “This Is A Very Badly Told Story,” was published in the  Diario de Noticias under the byline of Jose Manuel Oliveira who stated that the story had been leaked to him by the PJ before 5pm on May 4th.

These leaks were undoubtedly the start of a controversy which has lasted for nearly eight years and I think rank as the first of many unprecedented events surrounding the Madeleine McCann case; including the many obsessives who have attached themselves to the bandwagon which for some has been a particularly profitable enterprise.

Didn't take them long to leak that did it? The McCanns weren't taken to Portimao till Mid morning on the 4th.


Mind you Amaral was probably in a rush that day, for his arguido court appearance.

[Lyall]

Yeah, it's only Facebook so not important is it?  Yet for some it so very clearly is, hence the need for 1700+ people to work together obsessively for justice in private, like some secret army, with only it's Pledge of Allegiance on display.   I wonder what gains they have made in their fight for justice since their inception?

Join up and have a look at what goes on if you're wondering?