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

[Mr Gray]

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.

I've seen plenty of abusive posts...is calling someone a liar , doubting or abusive?

[Alice Purjorick]

Really

Good

[carlymichelle]

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.

if it upset them so badly  why would they search google for  forums about maddie or the  mcanns use some logic  people like you though run to them over everything i would imagine

[Mr Gray]

if it upset them so badly  why would they search google for  forums about maddie or the  mcanns use some logic  people like you though run to them over everything i would imagine

any chance of repeating that in english

[Mr Gray]

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.

It is libel that is not allowed...not doubting their story

[Mr Gray]

Good

if it makes you happy ..seems like you need something

[Alice Purjorick]

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.

They must have had an overinflated sense of their own capabilities. Is that result really likely?
Is your name Sackett? [Google Louis L'Amour if you don't get it ]

[Alice Purjorick]

if it makes you happy ..seems like you need something

Would you care to make a suggestion?

[Mr Gray]

They must have had an overinflated sense of their own capabilities. Is that result really likely?
Is your name Sackett? [Google Louis L'Amour if you don't get it ]

no..they are just nice, decent people...you might find that a little hard to understand

[Mr Gray]

Would you care to make a suggestion?

yes

[Brietta]

They must have had an overinflated sense of their own capabilities. Is that result really likely?
Is your name Sackett? [Google Louis L'Amour if you don't get it ]

They definitely do have that sense of entitlement however unlikely the result, or else why do they continue to do it?

[carlymichelle]

no..they are just nice, decent people...you might find that a little hard to understand

and you know   this how how do you know if they are nice  or decent? are you a family friend??

[Lyall]

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.

How on earth can a disorganised relatively small bunch of online folk possibly "derail Operation Grange"? Explain, please.

And when there is complete, total, 100% anti-doubting in the mass media, why is that not enough?

[Mr Gray]

and you know   this how how do you know if they are nice  or decent? are you a family friend??

If you follow the posts you might see I am not talking about the mccanns

[Alfred R Jones]

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?

What gave you the impression that I believed online discussion isnt't as bad now?  It's as bad as it's always been!