Does publicly "doubting" the McCanns add to the distress of the McCann family?

[Anna]

Please try to adhere to the topic of thread. Thank you

[Alice Purjorick]

Of course it adds to the distress of the McCanns family...particularly the grandparents, but many posters on here don't care as we have seen. As I have said before...I wonder what has happened in their lives that has made them such bitter nasty people.

I wondered about that myself when reading some of your posts on the Brenda thread earlier.
Who appointed you as policeman of the other mans morals?

[stephen25000]

Please try to adhere to the topic of thread. Thank you

I did.

So why was my post REMOVED ?

[stephen25000]

I wondered about that myself when reading some of your posts on the Brenda thread earlier.
Who appointed you as policeman of the other mans morals?

Do you really have to ask Alice ?

Davel's unwavering backing of the mccanns, has been obvious from the start.

[stephen25000]

I prefer not to drag the children's names into these discussions.  But thanks for the predictable response which does not address one single point raised in my post.

Predictable responses Alfred.

Yours always are.

[Mr Gray]

I wondered about that myself when reading some of your posts on the Brenda thread earlier.
Who appointed you as policeman of the other mans morals?

Your post doesn't make any sense...where am I acting as a policeman re morals

[Lyall]

Have you been following the online activities and antics of the McCann doubters since 2007?

No, I haven't, but there's a contradiction in your analysis: if things were going in the right direction in October 2014, why did Sky News do what they did?

Why are you so concerned if you think online discussion isn't as bad now as it was and it's reducing?

[G-Unit]

Of course it adds to the distress of the McCanns family...particularly the grandparents, but many posters on here don't care as we have seen. As I have said before...I wonder what has happened in their lives that has made them such bitter nasty p eople.

If I were a member of the family the opinions of people on the internet would matter not one jot. I have seen no posts on here abusing or insulting any member of the family. I have seen posts expressing doubts about certain aspects of their story. That doesn't mean the posters are bitter or nasty. The police forces of two countries also doubted their story of what happened on 3rd May 2007. Does that make them bitter and nasty?

[Mr Gray]

If I were a member of the family the opinions of people on the internet would matter not one jot. I have seen no posts on here abusing or insulting any member of the family. I have seen posts expressing doubts about certain aspects of their story. That doesn't mean the posters are bitter or nasty. The police forces of two countries also doubted their story of what happened on 3rd May 2007. Does that make them bitter and nasty?

I'm not talking about doubting...and I'm not talking about abusing the family ...I'm talking about abusive posts against Kate and Gerry that would therefore upset their immediate family...there certainly have been abusive posts on here.

[Alice Purjorick]

Your post doesn't make any sense...where am I acting as a policeman re morals

Anything you say Walter

[Mr Gray]

Anything you say Walter

You really should stop trying desperately to score points against me...you are looking foolish

[Alice Purjorick]

You really should stop trying desperately to score points against me...you are looking foolish

Really?

[Mr Gray]

Really?

Really

[G-Unit]

I'm not talking about doubting...and I'm not talking about abusing the family ...I'm talking about abusive posts against Kate and Gerry that would therefore upset their immediate family...there certainly have been abusive posts on here.

Gerald and Kate McCann are a part of this family and they have made it abundantly clear in my opinion that doubting their story is not allowed. This thread is about doubting not abusing unless you equate the two? I haven't seen any abusive posts, but I haven't been here all that long.

[Brietta]

What is the point of it all?

It does nothing to help Madeleine McCann; in fact some of the campaigns have actively tried to derail Operation Grange from its inception.

How does the immediate family feel about constant referral to the costs.  How does the immediate family feel about "What about all the other children?"

In days gone by it was done with green ink and capital letters and always had a stamp on the envelope, and the perpetrators were always despised.  Now the internet serves the purpose and it is truly amazing the number of dedicated poison pen writers it has uncovered.

At least the green ink brigade perhaps had the excuse of actually having personal knowledge and perhaps a personal grudge or personal envy of the subject of their vitriol.  I think to keep an internet campaign or rather a variety of campaigns going for an eight year period to attack a family you do not know and have never met could be considered a really weird thing to do.

I don't know what kind of family these folk come from but in my family if you injure one of us you have injured us all and I imagine that the McCanns and the Healeys might be cut from much the same cloth.