dunno scott... kids off estates have always gone missing, this little girl was taken from the sanctity of her bed whilst on holiday,and thats the difference and why its newsworthy.... if she was black then im sure it would have the same coverage...

 

Whether estate kids "go missing all the time" is totally irrelevant, and it hardly makes it okay for the press to ignore it Rob, please dont make excuses for them... Craig is spot on, Maddie is white, blonde, angelic-looking, and above all from a nice, middle class family (ha, fukkin' ha) who are totally Media Savvy....... Estate kids are a bit "rougher", a bit less "angelic" somehow, perceived to be a bit less "innocent" maybe (somehow deserving of their fates as far as some quarters are concerned?)....? And the parents are certainly less Media savvy than the McCanns, who seem to have graduated from the Tony and Cherie school of PR and Spin... We're talking about kids as young as SIX here mate, there damn well SHOULD be something a lot more proactive done about it..... It really angers me, you have no idea how much, kids going missing in THIS country off OUR STREETS, and no one seeming to care......

 

The facts are obvious to me mate, a black or asian kid from an estate from a "rougher" background does not seem to merit the same attention a white girl from the suburbs from a "respectable" background does.... You'd better believe that pisses me off.... <_<

Children go missing everyday, hundreds in London they can't keep tabs on them all. So you're telling me that all white kids that go missing end up the paper everyday where you are? You're going off Holly and Jessica, and now Madeleine, who are all white...As Rob said if Madeleine was black she'd be all over the news.........

 

I never "went off" Holly and Jessica, I just thought that the Met Police Commissioner had a point... At the end of the day, he's seeing a totally disproportionate level of press attention given to certain cases, and felt he had to comment... I thought he was right to do so....

 

And I dont believe for a second that if Maddie was black the level of press hysteria would be anything like the magnitude that it is, it would be mentioned certainly (cos it's still pretty big and all with it happening in a foreign country to a British kid, the Tabloids love sh!t like that....), but the actual level of press attention would be nothing like as high or anything like as sustained, I can pretty much guarantee that.... In the cases of Victoria Climbie and Damilola Taylor you could go for weeks without a mention of it in the press, not so with Maddie, it's plastered all over the press EVERY SODDING DAY in every minute, irrelevant and trivial detail..... Same with Holly and Jessica....

no... i think its the way in which she dissappeared that merited press attention. she has clearly been abducted by the new evil.. a paedophile. the estate kids you go on about scott DO run off with startling regularity, have they all been abducted? or are they just scummy brats? i suspect that the vast majority are the latter, however i do sympathise with all genuine abducted/abused kids, i was deeply moved by victoria climbiers (sp?) plight.

no... i think its the way in which she dissappeared that merited press attention. she has clearly been abducted by the new evil.. a paedophile. the estate kids you go on about scott DO run off with startling regularity, have they all been abducted? or are they just scummy brats? i suspect that the vast majority are the latter, however i do sympathise with all genuine abducted/abused kids, i was deeply moved by victoria climbiers (sp?) plight.

 

Man, you just cannot assume that they're all "scummy brats" just because they're off rough estates, that's a bit out of order.... Maybe you CAN assume that a kid that's 13, 14, 15 has just "run off", but a SIX year old, a SEVEN year old...? I dont think so mate..... You dont hear about this, that's the whole problem, that's my whole issue... No one actually knows the circumstances under which some of these estate kids are disappearing, because nobody fukkin' well cares to make a media cause celebre out of it..... It IS a Social Class thing, it's very obvious to me, I just cannot believe you cant see it man....

 

Also, no one cares to make a big deal out of the kids from Eastern Europe stolen off the streets of places like Romania, Russia, Bulgaria and Hungary, sold into sexual slavery and to slave masters IN THIS COUNTRY...... <_< <_< Yeah, let's see the press actually fukkin' grow a pair and do summat to throw light on this..... I doubt they'd have the balls to go up against the Russian Mafia....

i didnt assume anything m8, i asked the question because i am unaware of mass abductions off our estates... however i do know scummy brats run away from home!

A very popular theory on the Sun and Mirror forums is that it's all one big hoax by them to make a fortune. That she's safe with someone she knows and will "appear" soon. Wouldn't surprise me.

A very popular theory on the Sun and Mirror forums is that it's all one big hoax by them to make a fortune. That she's safe with someone she knows and will "appear" soon. Wouldn't surprise me.

Is this a big occurence for all of you?!? A child is kidnapped every other day in America...it's sad that it's almost a daily occurence :(

Is this a big occurence for all of you?!?

 

You'd think wouldn't you..? And it aint as if it doesn't happen on a fairly regular occurrence... But like I say, the Meeeeeedjjjaaaaaahhhhh doesn't give a toss about what happens to black and asian kids on estates, much like your media doesn't give a damn about black and hispanic kids from the "wrong side of the tracks" who go missing or turn up dead... Only the "angelic", middle-class or extremely rich little white girls (preferably blonde haired and blue-eyed) seem to merit any kind of press attention in either of our countries....

 

A very popular theory on the Sun and Mirror forums is that it's all one big hoax by them to make a fortune. That she's safe with someone she knows and will "appear" soon. Wouldn't surprise me.

LMAO. Yeah, I'm sure she's been in the apartment the whole time, and no-one has noticed her despite hundreds of policemen/other holidaymakers/relatives/other people having gone in there. And yeah, I'm sure already wealthy people would WANT to pretend their daughter was missing just to make a few extra bucks (and besides, they're not "making a fortune" anyway)...

LMAO. Yeah, I'm sure she's been in the apartment the whole time, and no-one has noticed her despite hundreds of policemen/other holidaymakers/relatives/other people having gone in there. And yeah, I'm sure already wealthy people would WANT to pretend their daughter was missing just to make a few extra bucks (and besides, they're not "making a fortune" anyway)...

 

erm the door was left open to the apartment, they could have arranged for a friend or acquaintance to go in there and "abduct" Madeleine and take her to a safe house while they become A List celebs and rake in the cash, I am not saying they did do that but it is not beyond the realms of possibility

Uh, what cash are they raking in? All the cash that doesn't go towards this they've said will go towards other missing children's charities. Even if they wanted to keep it for themselves, do you really think the media would not notice and would let them get away with it?

erm the door was left open to the apartment, they could have arranged for a friend or acquaintance to go in there and "abduct" Madeleine and take her to a safe house while they become A List celebs and rake in the cash, I am not saying they did do that but it is not beyond the realms of possibility

 

 

nonsense..... just because i cant disprove this though doesnt make it a vallied point, my theory is that she was eaten by a giant hedgehog... possible... :)

You'd think wouldn't you..? And it aint as if it doesn't happen on a fairly regular occurrence... But like I say, the Meeeeeedjjjaaaaaahhhhh doesn't give a toss about what happens to black and asian kids on estates, much like your media doesn't give a damn about black and hispanic kids from the "wrong side of the tracks" who go missing or turn up dead... Only the "angelic", middle-class or extremely rich little white girls (preferably blonde haired and blue-eyed) seem to merit any kind of press attention in either of our countries....

 

I totally agree with everything you said.

Uh, what cash are they raking in? All the cash that doesn't go towards this they've said will go towards other missing children's charities. Even if they wanted to keep it for themselves, do you really think the media would not notice and would let them get away with it?

 

 

The reward money, shared between the person who "finds" her and the Mc Canns. It's just a theory.

Uh, what cash are they raking in? All the cash that doesn't go towards this they've said will go towards other missing children's charities. Even if they wanted to keep it for themselves, do you really think the media would not notice and would let them get away with it?

 

If Madeleine is found alive the taboids will be desparate to sign an exclusive deal with the McCanns and would be willing to pay a lot of money to get that. Of course the McCanns may choose to reject all offers. OTOH they could choose to sell to the highest bidder.

What about the money used for flying them about visiting the pope? I don't think it came out their own pockets.

What about the money used for flying them about visiting the pope? I don't think it came out their own pockets.

Yeah, and "the money used for flying them about visiting the pope" was "used for flying them about visiting the pope", meaning they don't have the money so I don't see what the relevance of that point was.

What about the money used for flying them about visiting the pope? I don't think it came out their own pockets.

 

Bloody right it didn't Lucy... They're jetting off around Europe on their "fact-finding missions", neglecting their other two kids.... So much for their original pronouncement of "we will never leave Portugal until Maddie is found...." <_< Two-faced, lying b/astards....

Yeah, and "the money used for flying them about visiting the pope" was "used for flying them about visiting the pope", meaning they don't have the money so I don't see what the relevance of that point was.

 

They're using the money to pay for all their expenses though mate... That would include staying in nice, posh hotels, ordering room service (summat if they HAD done in Portugal in the first fukkin' place they'd probably still have Maddie safe and well.....), going off on their little jaunts..... You are WAY too quick to defend these so-called "good parents" highly questionable actions..... But hey you just keep swallowing what the Tabloids spoon-feed you hook, line and sinker about these two..... The facts are, the working class families of kids who go missing from estates in THIS FUKKIN' COUNTRY do NOT get 2 Million euro fighting funds, do NOT get the press thinking the sun shines out their arses (quite the opposite would occur actually, the Press would be in like a shot to criticise 'Dole Scrounger' single parents who neglect their kids..), do NOT get to go off and have tea and biscuits with the sodding Pope, and certainly do NOT get to go off on Pan-European jollies..... <_<