“A Laughable Story”

[Eleanor]

Thou doth protest too much.

Some times its best to say nothing.......a reaction can speak volumes.

Can't it ever.

[Vertigo Swirl]

Nothing has changed, imo, despite your increasingly desperate attempts to pretend it has. The Scarlet Pimpernel has nothing on the 'abductor' the McCanns and their ilk have promoted. This mythical person has been sought here, there and everywhere but never found. Millions have been spent, endless rumours of a breakthrough have been circulated, but the situation remains the same.

An abduction remains a possibilty, but by no means is it the certainty that the McCanns strove to make it imo. Operation Grange was instigated by politicians 'encouraged' by a newspaper editor and agreed to by the high ups in Scotland Yard imo. Those continuing it are constrained by a remit based on insufficient evidence.

You sound like you're losing the plot in this post, hope it's OK to say so.

[Vertigo Swirl]

Hoi Poloi, Rob.  Basically The Pits.

We are the Ilk. 

[Eleanor]

We are the Ilk.

According to Gunit.

[Vertigo Swirl]

According to Gunit.

She's a different species of Ilk - Sceptic Ilk.

[Eleanor]

She's a different species of Ilk - Sceptic Ilk.

I resent the connection.  I am upper class Ilk.

[Lace]

Nothing has changed, imo, despite your increasingly desperate attempts to pretend it has. The Scarlet Pimpernel has nothing on the 'abductor' the McCanns and their ilk have promoted. This mythical person has been sought here, there and everywhere but never found. Millions have been spent, endless rumours of a breakthrough have been circulated, but the situation remains the same.

An abduction remains a possibilty, but by no means is it the certainty that the McCanns strove to make it imo. Operation Grange was instigated by politicians 'encouraged' by a newspaper editor and agreed to by the high ups in Scotland Yard imo. Those continuing it are constrained by a remit based on insufficient evidence.

I disagree that nothing has changed.   OG have been working with the German Police.   Just because we are not reading anything in the papers doesn't mean things are not moving.  The German Police have said they are gathering evidence.  We have to wait and see what happens.

[G-Unit]

One would have to blame it on an accident, made more likely by the use of Calpol and the infrequent checks by the parents.
That was Goncalo's theory.  - No actual proof just a theory.

Do you really think one policeman had a theory and managed to persuade all his colleagues and the Public Prosecutors to go along with it?

This whole case is about rival theories, given the lack of evidence showing what happened.

[Vertigo Swirl]

I disagree that nothing has changed.   OG have been working with the German Police.   Just because we are not reading anything in the papers doesn't mean things are not moving.  The German Police have said they are gathering evidence.  We have to wait and see what happens.

Very sensible.  This is so obvious, talk about those who are so blind they cannot see - I would say that describes sceptics and their ilk to the tee. 

Ooh, I'm a poet and I know it!

[Anthro]

I answered straight away as it happens, only the mods didn't like the answer.

And you said it was Kate who killed Madeleine.

[The General]

Doesn't 'ilk' mean 'type' or 'kind' of person?

[Brietta]

Do you really think one policeman had a theory and managed to persuade all his colleagues and the Public Prosecutors to go along with it?

This whole case is about rival theories, given the lack of evidence showing what happened.

No it is not about rival theories.  It is about a missing little girl whose case was wrecked by an incompetent who then set about making his fortune from her in conjunction with attempting to destroy har family.

Once all possibilities have been investigated and impossible ones discarded the police will concentrate on what is left.

What is left are the British police ~ the German police and the Portuguese police putting a lot of time and effort into investigating Madeleine's abduction.

You are in denial but that is the fact of the matter.

[Eleanor]

No it is not about rival theories.  It is about a missing little girl whose case was wrecked by an incompetent who then set about making his fortune from her in conjunction with attempting to destroy har family.

Once all possibilities have been investigated and impossible ones discarded the police will concentrate on what is left.

What is left are the British police ~ the German police and the Portuguese police putting a lot of time and effort into investigating Madeleine's abduction.

You are in denial but that is the fact of the matter.

It is all quite plain to those blessed with Logic.  Those who have none are to be pitied.

[faithlilly]

It is all quite plain to those blessed with Logic.  Those who have none are to be pitied.

You never said a truer world Eleanor and my pity is boundless.

[G-Unit]

No it is not about rival theories.  It is about a missing little girl whose case was wrecked by an incompetent who then set about making his fortune from her in conjunction with attempting to destroy har family.

Once all possibilities have been investigated and impossible ones discarded the police will concentrate on what is left.

What is left are the British police ~ the German police and the Portuguese police putting a lot of time and effort into investigating Madeleine's abduction.

You are in denial but that is the fact of the matter.

It is not I who am in denial in my opinion. Repeating one's beliefs does not a fact make. You still insist that only one man suspected the McCanns, that the PJ didn't investigate all possibilities and that they are now investigating an abduction.

How about offering some evidence to explain your beliefs?