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Thread #110916 Message #2333176
Posted By: Backwoodsman
05-May-08 - 05:58 AM
Thread Name: BS: Madeline McCann. One year on.
Subject: RE: BS: Madeline McCann. One year on.
"Some of the comments on this thread amaze me, a crime has been committed. Leaving children alone is a crime. Should we ignore this fact ?"
Maybe mine are some of the comments you're referring to, Victor, but surprisingly we're in agreemnet over much of this sad case. You're right, leaving children alone is criminal - but Lynch-Mobs are illegal in the UK, so let's leave it to the law. In due course minds much smarter than mine and yours, however clever you think you are, will be concentrated on this matter, but I'd guess that, for now, and for reasons we perhaps aren't yet aware of, kicking the McCann's arses for being such idiots is not the top priority.
There are many things about this case that may well turn out not to be what they at first seemed.
You ask, "Should we ignore this fact?". Frankly, it's not up to 'we', it's up to the police and/or the CPS to decide if and when to charge the McCanns. God help us if that responsibility were to be directed by the kind of rabble-rousing rhetoric and invective we've read a-plenty on here. It's not the suggestion of their culpability that offends me, Victor, I agree that they have much to answer for - it's the language and the venom, the 'Sun-Speak', that I feel is out of order.
And going on about what a perfect parent you are/were really doesn't cut any ice, and has no bearing on the McCann case. Did you never, ever make a mistake in bringing up you're kids? I know I did. I wish I was such a saint.
And yes, as doctors they would have responsibilities regarding evidence of child-neglect amongst their patients, but having training and professional responsibility doesn't make the individual infallible. How many times do you hear of senior police officers being caught speeding, or over the drink-drive limit? More than you would expect, given their background. And I'd bet that the McCanns know just what selfish fuckwits they were too. They lost their child, almost certainly for ever, through their own negligence and stupidity. They have that, and the anticipation of prosecution, to live with. Rather them than me. I pity them.