The Madeleine Fund beginnings.

[Robittybob1]

Sorry rob I have only just noticed this post. I put them all one one. Oops.

It is all good.  But do you really expect answers to your questions?

[Sunny]

It is all good.  But do you really expect answers to your questions?

They weren't questions Rob they were reasonable requests for cites which as per forum rules should have been provided.  I didn't expect this to happen as I find that some supporters (not all) seem to despise the provision of cites and some moderators don't enforce it.

[Robittybob1]

They weren't questions Rob they were reasonable requests for cites which as per forum rules should have been provided.  I didn't expect this to happen as I find that some supporters (not all) seem to despise the provision of cites and some moderators don't enforce it.

How were we to enforce it?  But if you really think the claim needs an answer, I'd start a new thread and let the topic be discussed.

[Sunny]

How were we to enforce it?  But if you really think the claim needs an answer, I'd start a new thread and let the topic be discussed.

What is the point if it isn't enforced though Rob.  Only Misty has made an attempt to provide a cite and the others? Nothing and no penalties. It looks like to me like some supporters can't discuss things reasonably.

[Robittybob1]

What is the point if it isn't enforced though Rob.  Only Misty has made an attempt to provide a cite and the others? Nothing and no penalties. It looks like to me like some supporters can't discuss things reasonably.

There was no easy method of enforcing it.  We were asked to delete the post with the claim.  Major problem going back to find it.  I don't have the time to do that.

[Eleanor]

They weren't questions Rob they were reasonable requests for cites which as per forum rules should have been provided.  I didn't expect this to happen as I find that some supporters (not all) seem to despise the provision of cites and some moderators don't enforce it.

Some Moderators know that Cites have already been provided.

[Eleanor]

So yet more rubbish designed to derail discussion.  Why is that, I wonder?

This is a Discussion Forum.  Absolutes are impossible  to prove and actually not required  anyway, since they are mostly impossible to prove.

So could we get back to what we think might have happened, without any Libellous intention.  There is too much Libel going on here for my liking.  And I am no longer prepared to tolerate this.

I am a Senior Moderator, and I didn't get there by being biased toward my own kind.  So do be warned.  I will no longer be quite so kind.

[sadie]

OK Davel I will provide cites (of my cite requests) on a new thread. Then on that same thread I will share all the times I have requested cites from yourself and failed to have them.  You will reciprocate by removing all the posts that I requested cites to- or actually giving me the requested cites.

Is that a deal?

Yet you have failed to give cites, at least once when I have aked for them, and that was since your new signature.

[Vertigo Swirl]

They weren't questions Rob they were reasonable requests for cites which as per forum rules should have been provided.  I didn't expect this to happen as I find that some supporters (not all) seem to despise the provision of cites and some moderators don't enforce it.

How would you like it if I asked you for a cite every time you write a post?  In this instance I demand cites for supprters seeimg to despise the provision of cites and some moderators not enforcing cite provision.  Perhaps Rob could start a new thread for my request?

[Lace]

OK This one does work

http://www.gerrymccannsblogs.co.uk/FUND_2017.htm

Page 5 but I am sure you both already know that by now.

What do you mean 'I am sure you both already know that by now'    the other link definitely did not work for me.  This one does.    They are paying Duarte money she had earned over a number of years,   she was helping the McCann's.

[G-Unit]

What do you mean 'I am sure you both already know that by now'    the other link definitely did not work for me.  This one does.    They are paying Duarte money she had earned over a number of years,   she was helping the McCann's.

The Fund was paying legal expenses incurred by the McCann family, not by the Fund itself. If I was a director of a company I wouldn't expect the company to pay for me to sue someone for libelling me. 

[Robittybob1]

How would you like it if I asked you for a cite every time you write a post?  In this instance I demand cites for supprters seeimg to despise the provision of cites and some moderators not enforcing cite provision.  Perhaps Rob could start a new thread for my request?

We don't ask for cites for opinions. 

When Sunny says "I didn't expect this to happen as I find that some supporters (not all) seem to despise the provision of cites and some moderators don't enforce it", that is obvious her opinion.

[xtina]

What do you mean 'I am sure you both already know that by now'    the other link definitely did not work for me.  This one does.    They are paying Duarte money she had earned over a number of years,   she was helping the McCann's.

IMO this is why the fund was started in the first place....

and made into a private company.

how does anyone know what that money was spent on....

[Brietta]

IMO this is why the fund was started in the first place....

and made into a private company.

how does anyone know what that money was spent on....

Hmmm ... that explains why Kate deposited the profits from her best selling book into the fund set up for Madeleine.

Bit of a strange way of getting her hands on her own money I would have thought ... but it takes all kinds 

[G-Unit]

Hmmm ... that explains why Kate deposited the profits from her best selling book into the fund set up for Madeleine.

Bit of a strange way of getting her hands on her own money I would have thought ... but it takes all kinds 🤣

This post is my opinion only.

If all my efforts were directed at convincing people that I was innocent of any wrongdoing I would need to appear to be beyond reproach. Writing a book and donating all the profits to a good cause might give that impression.

If my family and I are able to influence how my donation is used, and if I and my family benefit from that use, then
my actions might be seen as self-interested rather than philanthropic.