Gerry McCann says that thousands did or would have done the same as them.

[stephen25000]

Is that why he's an ex-minister?

Is that an example of your logic ?

[Alice Purjorick]

Posted by ALGARVERESIDENT on August 17, 2007
Thousands of letters for support

KATE AND Gerry McCann received seven thousand emails and countless letters of support last weekend, which marked 100 days since Madeleine disappeared. The couple have now thanked “the thousands of people who have written messages of support” to them.Some of the comments in the letters the couple received included: “We are in solidarity with you and believe in Madeleine’s return. I hope she returns alive as soon as possible”, from an identified Portuguese retired teacher; and “I am praying that God will bring your agony to an end very soon and Madeleine will be found” from a housewife in Belfast.
http://portugalresident.com/thousands-of-letters-for-support?qt-why_pick_us=0

Yeah! good article. It is a bit light on words to the effect "we the udersigned wholeheartedly support your decision to leave your children alone at night while you dined". So may be it's not that relevant after all.

Like my daddy once said:  "there are ways and ways of telling the truth so you can lead someone up the garden path without actually having to lie".

[Brietta]

Yeah! good article. It is a bit light on words to the effect "we the udersigned wholeheartedly support your decision to leave your children alone at night while you dined". So may be it's not that relevant after all.

Like my daddy once said:  "there are ways and ways of telling the truth so you can lead someone up the garden path without actually having to lie".

Golly gosh it always amazes me how on the ball you sometimes are with what I'm thinking

[faithlilly]

I wasn't slow to admit it.  I first admitted it on 3As back in early 2008 as Sabot, you know, Maureen Eleanor Lang.  But then everybody knows that.

So it wasn't true when you claimed this in post 47?

"It took me some time to admit to this on a Forum, on several occasions, including this one"

[faithlilly]

Thousands of letters to the McCanns where the senders admit leaving children alone = acceptable behaviour.
Hundreds of thousands of comments from the general public condemning the McCanns for their neglegent behaviour = ?

You see my point? A certain amount of public support cannot be used to justify behaviour when a greater number feel it is abhorrent.

[faithlilly]

My children and grandchildren think I am wonderful and a really brave spirit.  And  I've got letters to prove it.

I'm sure they do Eleanor. I wonder though if they would think you were quite so wonderful if they had faced a fire or injured themselves permanently while small and alone?

[Eleanor]

So it wasn't true when you claimed this in post 47?

"It took me some time to admit to this on a Forum, on several occasions, including this one"

Don't be silly.  I was talking a couple of weeks originally.

I thought that once was enough, but obviously it wasn't, since when I have repeated it when pertinent.

[Eleanor]

Thousands of letters to the McCanns where the senders admit leaving children alone = acceptable behaviour.
Hundreds of thousands of comments from the general public condemning the McCanns for their neglegent behaviour = ?

You see my point? A certain amount of public support cannot be used to justify behaviour when a greater number feel it is abhorrent.

Sadly, a lot of people don't admit it.  The decision itself is entirely up to the people involved.  It is not the business of the public at large, so their opinions are irrelevant.

[Eleanor]

I'm sure they do Eleanor. I wonder though if they would think you were quite so wonderful if they had faced a fire or injured themselves permanently while small and alone?

These things happen whether children are alone or not.  But I think we have done this one before.  Several times.

[Alice Purjorick]

Golly gosh it always amazes me how on the ball you sometimes are with what I'm thinking

Frightening isn't it ! Somedays I have been known to meet myself coming back.

[stephen25000]

I think you should really consider doing so as you appear to have put your own interpretation on what posters on this forum and elsewhere actually did say.

Unfortunately you have not had the grace to back up your OP claim with even one cite ...
"It has been said repeatedly, on this forum and elsewhere that the Mccanns received many letters from people saying they did the same as the Mccanns, and ergo by implication, what the Mccanns did was perfectly normal behaviour."

Go on ... be a devil and show us the source of even just a couple of these alleged comments.

Have you forgotten what Gerry McCann said ?

In what respect by the way is it normal behaviour to leave very young children by themselves and totally unprotected ?

[Miss Taken Identity]

You miss my point.

Thousands of letters to the McCanns where the senders admit leaving children alone = acceptable behaviour.
Hundreds of thousands of comments from the general public condemning the McCanns for their neglegent behaviour = ?

You see my point? A certain amount of public support cannot be used to justify behaviour when a greater number feel it is abhorrent.

I can see your point, they can see your point they just do not like it as it does not fit in with the McCanns morality  swim in that Egyptian river...de nile. It wasn't us gov,nope we don't know anything. apart from it wasn't us.

Oh. oh. oh. I worked it out...'Hundreds of thousands of comments from the general public condemning the McCanns for their neglegent behaviour = McCann bashers/abusers/evil trolls!

[Brietta]

Have you forgotten what Gerry McCann said ?

In what respect by the way is it normal behaviour to leave very young children by themselves and totally unprotected ?

On 13th August 2007 Gerry McCann said

"Kate and I would also like to thank the thousands of people who have sent us messages of support over the last few days. It really does help and we know that you will keep looking for Madeleine."
http://www.mccannfiles.com/id14.html

[Brietta]

I can see your point, they can see your point they just do not like it as it does not fit in with the McCanns morality  swim in that Egyptian river...de nile. It wasn't us gov,nope we don't know anything. apart from it wasn't us.

Oh. oh. oh. I worked it out...'Hundreds of thousands of comments from the general public condemning the McCanns for their neglegent behaviour = McCann bashers/abusers/evil trolls!

There may indeed have been "hundreds of thousands of comments" of condemnation but that these may have been made by the "general public" is stretching credulity a bit.

For example, I imagine you must have contributed quite a cache over the years to the 'hundreds and thousands' and may even have churned out a few hundred thousands of your own.

It is all very negative, don't you think?
Much better to think positively and whatever you may think of Madeleine's parents ... please be aware the majority of the 'general public' probably never give it a single thought ... beyond wishing Madeleine well.

The topic of the thread is "Gerry McCann claimed that they received many letters of support" Which they did; and these are the only ones which matter in the real world

[mercury]

There may indeed have been "hundreds of thousands of comments" of condemnation but that these may have been made by the "general public" is stretching credulity a bit.

For example, I imagine you must have contributed quite a cache over the years to the 'hundreds and thousands' and may even have churned out a few hundred thousands of your own.

It is all very negative, don't you think?
Much better to think positively and whatever you may think of Madeleine's parents ... please be aware the majority of the 'general public' probably never give it a single thought ... beyond wishing Madeleine well.

The topic of the thread is "Gerry McCann claimed that they received many letters of support" Which they did; and these are the only ones which matter in the real world

Stretching credulity? A bunch of journalists were all over them as soon as they started giving interviews in may 07 and onwards for years

Where is your evidence that the majority of the british public "never gave it a single thought"
Do you thnk the vast majority of the british public keave their babies all alone then at every opportunity when on hols?

LOL