I don't know how many people are influenced by Tony Bennett. From what I know not many. He can't be accused of hiding, at least. Everything he says he says under his own name. I also have no idea what his motivation is. It may be malice or it may be something else. You can say it's 'organised malice', but that is just your opinion.
The parents of a stolen child must suffer terribly. Although the McCanns say their child was stolen we only have their word for it. There is no proof of what happened to Madeleine Mccann. She is missing and hopefully one day someone will be able to prove what happened to her. Until then people will wonder and discuss the case. Some believe the parent's story, some don't. Attacking people for their honest opinions achieves nothing useful at all in my opinion. The worst attacks I have seen, to be honest, are upon those who doubt their story.
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no proof of what happened to Ben Needham either. I find the idea that his family may be culpable simply on the grounds of 'no proof' as bizarre as the McCanns being suspected of the disposal of Madeleine on those same grounds - and for the same reasons too i.e.:
There is not a scrap of evidence that either families were capable of even thinking about committing such a vile crime against their own beloved children - let alone carrying it out. No adverse evidence about the kind of families they are - either before or since they lost their children has emerged to change my mind. It's obvious that both children were loved and wanted.
Both families are still trying to keep their missing child's profile in the public's mind. IMO it's a strange kind of mindset that believes
guilty people would CHOOSE to embark on such a personally dangerous course of action year in year out - which clearly involves the serious risk of their own incarceration being the final outcome - when they have no need to. That makes no sense whatsoever to me.
Pure speculation on my part but I suspect that quite a few of Tony Bennet's opinions are 'shared' by his co-horts who are willing and able to promote identical opinions to those he cannot express himself in public.
IMO there is a vast difference between folk who
choose to hurl abuse at one another on the internet (they can get on with it IMO) and the fact that sustained malice is directed at the parents of a missing child via the internet on a daily basis and has been for the last 8 years. Your comment appears to relate to the former. My concern refers to the latter.