Where Art Thou Madeleine?

Despite initially claiming that they would remain in Portugal to clear their names, it’s being reported that the parents of Madeleine McCann are now flying back home to Britain.

It is worth noting, I think, that the McCann’s have effectively been on an extended holiday without work (no doubt on full pay,) for the past one hundred and twenty nine days since their daughter mysteriously disappeared from their holiday hotel room in the Algarve..

Public media criticism of the McCann’s has often been muted and condemned by others. Being both NHS Doctors, the many see the family as beyond criticism because they must automatically be good people if they work for the National Health Employment Bureaucracy.

However, for example, if one of your children had just been snatched from your hotel room, would you then keep a constant eye on your other children or would you place them in a local Portuguese day-care centre with a bunch of complete strangers while you searched for your ‘missing’ daughter? Needless to say the McCann’s chose the latter.

If it does eventually turn out that Gerry and Kate McCann in some way killed or contributed to the death of their daughter, then there are going to be a lot of very angry people throughout Europe. As it stands, it would be unprecedented if Madeleine were found alive and well, and it appears increasingly likely that she has been murdered – though I thought that right from day one, because unfortunately they usually are in these cases.

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Rising Violent Disorder

Today brings yet more news of the growing violent crime problem in this country, with two men in Hertfordshire reportedly having been shot, leaving both lying critically ill in hospital.

This is just the latest in a long series of brutal and completely unacceptable assaults which are reaching seemingly epidemic proportions, and unfortunately becoming more common by the day.

Yesterday there was the tragic news that an eleven year old boy, Rhys Jones, had been shot dead on his way home from evening football training. Today, more shootings. Tomorrow it will be someone else.

Yet, what do the Government and the Police have so say about these incidents? Very little is the answer, and when they do eventually remark upon these cases, it is of small comfort to families like those of Garry Newlove, Evren Anil, or Rhys Jones.

I found this selective quote featured at the end of a BBC report particularly telling of the liberal establishment’s attitude: ‘He died because he was in the wrong place at the wrong time’. This apparently neutral statement in actual fact suggests that somehow the blame falls, in part, upon the shoulders of poor Rhys Jones, rather than the sickening thugs that murdered him – that being in the wrong place by his decision, he died, whereas being in the ‘right’ place, he would have survived.

Like those signs in car parks which tell you to hide your valuables, lest you tempt the poor criminal to steal them; this statement makes out that the victim is as much to blame for the crime as the perpetrator.

How many more people will be condemned to die; how many more families must suffer until something is done?