Madeleine McCann - why are people so obsessed?

[Brietta]

As long as you accept that on both sides...

You have the floor ... I and I am sure others will listen ... but I must say the lines for debate seem somewhat stilted when assertions are open to challenge and further discussion as on this forum ... unlike forums where anything seems to be the order of the day, the more ludicrous the better. 

[Wonderfulspam]

Do you have a valid reason of your own for that which doesn't owe anything to the leaks emanating from 'a source close to the investigation' printed first in the Portuguese press and picked up and copied verbatim by a very lazy British press?

Course, I've been brainwashed by all the myths & lies circulated by the PJ who were trying to frame these innocent parents of an abducted child........zzzzzzzz

Nope, I've merely read the McCanns witness statement(s), watched them alter the version in various media interviews, contemplated the possibility of the gusty curtains which didn't blow the first time around, the key that Gerry forgot & the pyjama changing abductor who opens the noisy shutter & window & makes off on foot, & none of it makes any sense.

[Brietta]

so why do you stay no one forces you to be here/post here/read us

Are you saying ... "Here's your hat ... what's the hurry"?  LOL

A response on the thread subject might have been more appropriate.  Why is it that no-one seems to want to discuss a real or perceived obsession with Madeleine McCann's case?

One can only surmise that there might be a recognition that the indefensible indeed cannot be defended.

[Alice Purjorick]

Course, I've been brainwashed by all the myths & lies circulated by the PJ who were trying to frame these innocent parents of an abducted child........zzzzzzzz

Nope, I've merely read the McCanns witness statement(s), watched them alter the version in various media interviews, contemplated the possibility of the gusty curtains which didn't blow the first time around, the key that Gerry forgot & the pyjama changing abductor who opens the noisy shutter & window & makes off on foot, & none of it makes any sense.

Yeah but you are forgetting something along the lines of "it is possible for "that" to have happened therefore it did". Which seems to be the only logic that is applied. You and me mate should go into business and sell 'em a few bridges 

[Alice Purjorick]

Tell me jp, do you ever use cliches ?

Ex parte?

[Jean-Pierre]

Tell me jp, do you ever use cliches ?

1A phrase or opinion that is overused and betrays a lack of original thought:

Never.   

[misty]

Same old cliches from you, and they are getting supremely boring.

You called me obsessive.

I merely reminded you, as have others, you clearly are.

You defend the mccanns, and don't seem to comprehend, the reason why this forum exists, is because of what they failed to do.

You advocate abduction, where here is no shred of evidence to back it up.

You question the intelligence or motives of others, when your motive for being on here is plainly obvious, and has been from the start.

This is the ONLY forum, afaik, which allows both sides to express their opinion & debate without being blocked/banned/deleted. Both Brietta & I were subjected to merciless deletions on Yahoo from people with no authority who had acquired the technology to remove any post they didn't like. (Yahoo doesn't have Mods).
All I ever wanted was to discuss the case. Thank you to the Mods on here who allow that to happen. 

[stephen25000]

1A phrase or opinion that is overused and betrays a lack of original thought:

Never.   

I know what a cliche is jp.

Are you feeling over the moon, or as sick as a parrot ?


 

I'll get me coat. *&*%£

[stephen25000]

This is the ONLY forum, afaik, which allows both sides to express their opinion & debate without being blocked/banned/deleted. Both Brietta & I were subjected to merciless deletions on Yahoo from people with no authority who had acquired the technology to remove any post they didn't like. (Yahoo doesn't have Mods).
All I ever wanted was to discuss the case. Thank you to the Mods on here who allow that to happen.

Amazon serves that function quite adequately.

[faithlilly]

This is the ONLY forum, afaik, which allows both sides to express their opinion & debate without being blocked/banned/deleted. Both Brietta & I were subjected to merciless deletions on Yahoo from people with no authority who had acquired the technology to remove any post they didn't like. (Yahoo doesn't have Mods).
All I ever wanted was to discuss the case. Thank you to the Mods on here who allow that to happen.

When was this Misty ?

[misty]

When was this Misty ?

July 2013 onwards, Faithlilly. I started posting in June 2012 so I don't know the deleting had happened before - but I don't think it had. Basically, any "McCann supporter" was obliterated.

[misty]

Amazon serves that function quite adequately.

I thought that was the site a certain sceptic was encouraged to organise a sustained campaign of negativity against a certain book?

[Mr Gray]

Amazon serves that function quite adequately.

how often do you post on amazon...do you have a link to the forum

[Jean-Pierre]

I know what a cliche is jp.

Are you feeling over the moon, or as sick as a parrot ?


 

I'll get me coat. *&*%£

Fit as a fiddle, thank you.

I'll get my coat too! 

[Brietta]

July 2013 onwards, Faithlilly. I started posting in June 2012 so I don't know the deleting had happened before - but I don't think it had. Basically, any "McCann supporter" was obliterated.

The value of being a member of a forum such as this one which prides itself in allowing debate of differing viewpoints cannot be overestimated.
It is valued all the more if you have been on the receiving end of one which just does not tolerate diversity.

Innocently, I started posting around October 2013.

If you want to experience censorship and abuse of all kinds in the raw just nip over to a McCann board on Yahoo and post a mildly supportive comment regarding Madeleine' parents ... I guarantee the jaws of Hell will open for you.

Not only were we obliterated, our profiles were hacked, avi's taken and adulterated comments attributed to us.

It certainly was a learning curve of exactly the unscrupulous and wicked techniques adopted by those with a seemingly inbuilt antipathy to Madeleine and her family ... when one watches the counter on a post being thumbed down before one's eyes just as a demonstration ... it is instructive.  I stopped counting at 89.

I realised that people who were so intent on allowing no comment but their own to stand are a big problem.

So without the immediate attack I experienced and the nasty content of the posts which really sickened and disgusted me; if I hadn't followed links to mind numbing, intelligence insulting HiDeHo videos; I would probably have made a couple of posts and moved on, still blissfully ignorant.

So that is the root of my 'obsession' ... you could probably call it freedom of speech.

No-one has ever been allowed to dictate how I will think ... I make up my own mind based on the evidence available to me ... so if that is obsessive ... so be it.