A new member's perception - but are these points true or false?

[AnneGuedes]

Carter Ruck, the lawyers who work for the McCanns to shut up anyone who doesn't believe their theory.  You know perfectly well what I am talking about.

All these expensive professionals they are using to manage their reputations and silence their critics. It all costs money - where does the money come from?

The fund that is supposed to be looking for Madeleine.

Be fair and admit the fund is supposed to carry out their well-being and their well-being depends on their public image..

[Aiofe]

Carter Ruck, the lawyers who work for the McCanns to shut up anyone who doesn't believe their theory.  You know perfectly well what I am talking about.

All these expensive professionals they are using to manage their reputations and silence their critics. It all costs money - where does the money come from?

The fund that is supposed to be looking for Madeleine.

Carter Ruck have stated that they work either Pro Bono or use other methods to work for the Mccanns and have charged them nothing.

If you believe differently, please provide evidence.

[Aiofe]

So if they lose against amaral is he telling the truth in his book?

N

No.

[BigFatBlonde]

No.

didn't think so

N

[Aiofe]

Be fair and admit the fund is supposed to carry out their well-being and their well-being depends on their public image..

That is one of the aims. There is no evidence that Carter Ruck have claimed any money from the fund. I suspect the fund is being used in Portugal, but this is perfectly legal. Given that over half the money was donated by the McCanns from their own money, I do not find this to be a problem.

[Aiofe]

didn't think so

N

Well think about it. He could be making fair comment and still not be telling the truth. It may be that Portuguese Law will find that his right to speculate and tell other than the truth is protected speech.

The case will tell us little.

People will keep on calling it a libel trial. It is much wider than that!

[Mr Gray]

You're spreading a myth suggested by Mrs McCann ! Don't you think that after 5 years she had time to rectify those mysterious "mistakes" in a translation she signed ?
Translating isn't just substituting a word in language A to a word with the same meaning in  language B, even the very insufficient Google translator does better than that.

 She Would have signed  a portuguese statement that she had no knowledge of as she had to rely on the translator..thats one of the reasons that none of these statements could be used in court...

[j.rob]

That seems to be a statement by the police bound by their belief that she was dead. At the time the McCanns were very insistent that she was alive.

This is how myths start- Police ideas and words put into Gerry's mouth.

'Police ideas and words put into Gerry's mouth' - hmmmm. Interesting phrase which is conjuring up some amusing images for me.

A lot of words have also come out of Gerry's mouth, some of them his own, presumably.  Where is the evidence that the words that came out of his mouth were all the truth?

Or indeed the words that came out of Kate's mouth - were they her words, or did someone put them there?

If they were her words, how do we know for sure that they are true? If someone else put the words there, does that mean that they are lies? Or perhaps they are true, even if planted in her mouth by a third party....

All those words coming out of Kate and Gerry's mouths.....plus their friends.... How can we know what words might be true and what words might be planted and what words might be lies.

It's all a giant puzzle - let's get Mystic Meg to unravel it for us and report it in The Star.

[Mr Gray]

So if they lose against amaral is he telling the truth in his book?

N

not necessarily

[AnneGuedes]

For instance, they said that Madeleine didn't cry on the 1st May. They were at the Tapas... however they said that Mrs Fenn, who heard a child crying and calling Daddy for 75 minutes, was wrong.

And how is that a lie?

Had they been in the flat, one could consider that it's their word against Mrs Fenn's one.
But there's evidence they were not in the flat. They couldn't possibly claim that Mrs Fenn was wrong. Yet they did it.

[AnneGuedes]

She Would have signed  a portuguese statement that she had no knowledge of as she had to rely on the translator..thats one of the reasons that none of these statements could be used in court...

No. She signed after the statement in portuguese was carefully translated in English.
And no, the statement is as valid as a statement made and signed by a Portuguese.

[AnneGuedes]

Your knowledge of the correct uses of English words is abysmal.

It was a belief. It is not a lie.

Your despising my knowledge of English reveals abysmally your lack of arguments.

[Mr Gray]

No. She signed after the statement in portuguese was carefully translated in English.
And no, the statement is as valid as a statement made and signed by a Portuguese.

So to confirm..she signed a statement written in portuguese

[j.rob]

Do the McCanns live in a different world to the rest of us? They have beliefs while other people tell lies. The police have even planted lies in Garry's mouth, according to Aiofe. And this has lead to myths.

[Cariad]

Your knowledge of the correct uses of English words is abysmal.

It was a belief. It is not a lie.

Why is it you never pick up on anyone else's use of English? There are posters on this forum who have English as their first language who struggle to put a sentence together, yet I only ever see you criticising Anne, whose intelligence and articulate manner shine out of every post.