Wednesday, January 19, 2011
50 questions that may now have answers...'borrowed' from DS forum.
1/ Why have the McCanns held press conferences about sightings of people with no known link to the case, yet have ignored the sighting by a whole family who saw a man carrying a child in PDL on the night of the 3rd May 2007 at the time it is alleged Madeleine was taken - is it because they recognised the man as looking like Gerry Mccann?
2/ Why did the McCann's own website claim a man seen before they even arrived in PDL was "Madeleine's probable abductor," when there has never been any evidence whatsoever for this?
3/ Why did Tanner identify the above man as the abductor, even though he bore no resemblance to the man in her police disposition and to the artist's impression based on her description?
4/ Why was there no forensic evidence whatsoever that Madeleine had slept in the bed from which the McCanns claim she was taken from?
5/ Why did the dogs react ONLY in the McCann apartment and ONLY in the McCann hire car?
6/ Why did the dogs react to Kate McCann's clothes, the key fob, Cuddlecat, the rear of the hire car, the closet, under the sofa?
7/ Why did the McCanns refuse to answer police questions?
8/ Why did Tanner claim she saw Madeleine being carried away and Gerry McCann claim he sensed there was already somebody in the apartment, yet they did nothing about it at the time.
9/ Why did both Gerry McCann and Wilkins say they did not see Tanner, who allegedly walked right by them as they were talking outside the apartment?
10/ Why did the McCanns flee Portugal as soon as they were made arguidos?
11/ Why did the McCanns hire a Gordon Brown media manipulator?
12/ Why did the McCanns claim the shutter was "jemmied" when this was later shown to be false and the only fingerprints were Kate McCanns?
13/ Why did the twins sleep through all the commotion that night?
14/ Why did the McCanns allow the apartment to be contaminated with 20 people stampeding through it that night?
15/ Why did Gerry McCann once say Cuddlecat was on the bed, yet Kate McCann said it was on a high shelf?
16/ Why did Kate McCann later say she knew it was important to preserve Cuddlecat for forensics, yet she washed it?
17/ Why have the McCanns never pleaded that others do not make the same mistake they made in leaving children unattended?
18/ Why did the McCanns waste little time in putting their other children back in the creche if they really believed one child had already been taken.
19/ Why did Kate McCann leave the twins alone that night if she really believed one child had already been taken?
20/ Why had the apartment been clinically cleaned?
21/ Why was it reported the McCanns left the boot of their car wide open day after day?
22/ Why did Mrs Fenn hear continual crying for 90 minutes on 1st May?
23/ Why did the McCanns (according to McCanns themselves) leave the children alone AFTER Madeleine had asked why they had been left all alone the night before?
24/ Why have the McCanns in all their appeals, never even told us the time that Madeleine was last seen, when this is basic information in any other missing person campaign?
25/ Why did the McCanns and their friends sit down to agree a timeline, when they could have spent that time looking for Madeleine?
26/ Why did the McCanns wait for over three weeks until they hired a car, when any other parents would do that immediately and spend day after day physically searching for their child?
27/ Why do the McCanns put on an act for the cameras, faking a sense of loss for rhe cameras only to fall about in laughter when they think the cameras have stopped rolling?
28/ Why did the McCanns syphon off money from the fund to pay for their own mortgage - money given by pensioners, the poor, people who spent their weekends holding charity events in order to help find Madeleine?
29/ Why do the McCanns appear to be having so much fun in the aftermath of Madeleine's disappearance. Their smiles and laughter, just days after Madeleine went missing, their jogging, their going to the beach, their international travel, when any other parent of an abducted child would be out searching, rather than enjoying the limelight?
30/ Why do some of the things the McCanns say indicate an emotional disconnect from Madeleine, such as saying they could sleep better soon after the event because the weather had improved, and comparing the situation to a student overdraft?
31/ Why did the McCanns create a lot of publicity by claiming they would take a lie detector test, then later they refused to take one?
32/ Why has there been so much political interence in this case, such as the involvement from the start of Gordon Brown who meddled in the case?
33/ Why would an abductor break in when the McCanns left the sliding doors unliocked?
34/ Why was it that night after night all the children went to sleep just like clockwork so the McCanns and their friends could go out?
35/ Why did Gerry McCann have to ask the police where the church was, when he had already been next to the church to go to another restaurant?
36/ Why did the McCanns lie about the frequency of the checks on the children?
37/ Why did the McCanns lie about the distance from the Tapas bar to the apartment?
38/ Why did the McCanns lie when they said they could see the apartment from the Tapas bar?
39/ Why did their spokeman lie when he said they were fully co-operating with the police?
40/ Why do the McCanns need a government spin doctor - are they unable to speak for themselves?
41/ Why was their spin doctor so happy to point the finger at Murat and compare him to Ian Huntley when speaking to the media?
42/ Why have the McCanns been given special treatment by British politicians - for example being recruited as child saftey ambassadors to promote Amber Alert?
43/ Why have the McCanns never given the public a full and honest account about what happened that night - refusing to publish a timeline that could be vital in the search for Madeleine ?
44/ Why won't the McCanns take any responsibility for what they did - describing their regular child neglect as "within the boundaries of responsible parenting" - thereby encouraging others to do the same?
45/ Why did the McCanns refuse to take part in a reconstruction unless it was a televised event?
46/ Why have the McCann friends had a "pact of silence" - refusing to talk about what happened that night?
47/ Why does Tanner's description of the man she says she saw, have no credibility whatsoever - for example she knew the man's age in poor light, yet says she never saw the face and later says he looks like a man with a big droopy moustache.
48/ Why does Gerry McCann pretend to be a loving family church-going man after Madeleine's disappearence, but before the event he was blatently swearing (as caught on film) "F*** O** on the way to PDL in front of his small children and his friends' children?
49/ What exactly are the McCanns and their friends doing with all the millions they are getting out of suing those who don't fall in line with their story?
50/ Why would anyone believe a word that the McCanns have to say when all these questions remain unanswered?
2/ Why did the McCann's own website claim a man seen before they even arrived in PDL was "Madeleine's probable abductor," when there has never been any evidence whatsoever for this?
3/ Why did Tanner identify the above man as the abductor, even though he bore no resemblance to the man in her police disposition and to the artist's impression based on her description?
4/ Why was there no forensic evidence whatsoever that Madeleine had slept in the bed from which the McCanns claim she was taken from?
5/ Why did the dogs react ONLY in the McCann apartment and ONLY in the McCann hire car?
6/ Why did the dogs react to Kate McCann's clothes, the key fob, Cuddlecat, the rear of the hire car, the closet, under the sofa?
7/ Why did the McCanns refuse to answer police questions?
8/ Why did Tanner claim she saw Madeleine being carried away and Gerry McCann claim he sensed there was already somebody in the apartment, yet they did nothing about it at the time.
9/ Why did both Gerry McCann and Wilkins say they did not see Tanner, who allegedly walked right by them as they were talking outside the apartment?
10/ Why did the McCanns flee Portugal as soon as they were made arguidos?
11/ Why did the McCanns hire a Gordon Brown media manipulator?
12/ Why did the McCanns claim the shutter was "jemmied" when this was later shown to be false and the only fingerprints were Kate McCanns?
13/ Why did the twins sleep through all the commotion that night?
14/ Why did the McCanns allow the apartment to be contaminated with 20 people stampeding through it that night?
15/ Why did Gerry McCann once say Cuddlecat was on the bed, yet Kate McCann said it was on a high shelf?
16/ Why did Kate McCann later say she knew it was important to preserve Cuddlecat for forensics, yet she washed it?
17/ Why have the McCanns never pleaded that others do not make the same mistake they made in leaving children unattended?
18/ Why did the McCanns waste little time in putting their other children back in the creche if they really believed one child had already been taken.
19/ Why did Kate McCann leave the twins alone that night if she really believed one child had already been taken?
20/ Why had the apartment been clinically cleaned?
21/ Why was it reported the McCanns left the boot of their car wide open day after day?
22/ Why did Mrs Fenn hear continual crying for 90 minutes on 1st May?
23/ Why did the McCanns (according to McCanns themselves) leave the children alone AFTER Madeleine had asked why they had been left all alone the night before?
24/ Why have the McCanns in all their appeals, never even told us the time that Madeleine was last seen, when this is basic information in any other missing person campaign?
25/ Why did the McCanns and their friends sit down to agree a timeline, when they could have spent that time looking for Madeleine?
26/ Why did the McCanns wait for over three weeks until they hired a car, when any other parents would do that immediately and spend day after day physically searching for their child?
27/ Why do the McCanns put on an act for the cameras, faking a sense of loss for rhe cameras only to fall about in laughter when they think the cameras have stopped rolling?
28/ Why did the McCanns syphon off money from the fund to pay for their own mortgage - money given by pensioners, the poor, people who spent their weekends holding charity events in order to help find Madeleine?
29/ Why do the McCanns appear to be having so much fun in the aftermath of Madeleine's disappearance. Their smiles and laughter, just days after Madeleine went missing, their jogging, their going to the beach, their international travel, when any other parent of an abducted child would be out searching, rather than enjoying the limelight?
30/ Why do some of the things the McCanns say indicate an emotional disconnect from Madeleine, such as saying they could sleep better soon after the event because the weather had improved, and comparing the situation to a student overdraft?
31/ Why did the McCanns create a lot of publicity by claiming they would take a lie detector test, then later they refused to take one?
32/ Why has there been so much political interence in this case, such as the involvement from the start of Gordon Brown who meddled in the case?
33/ Why would an abductor break in when the McCanns left the sliding doors unliocked?
34/ Why was it that night after night all the children went to sleep just like clockwork so the McCanns and their friends could go out?
35/ Why did Gerry McCann have to ask the police where the church was, when he had already been next to the church to go to another restaurant?
36/ Why did the McCanns lie about the frequency of the checks on the children?
37/ Why did the McCanns lie about the distance from the Tapas bar to the apartment?
38/ Why did the McCanns lie when they said they could see the apartment from the Tapas bar?
39/ Why did their spokeman lie when he said they were fully co-operating with the police?
40/ Why do the McCanns need a government spin doctor - are they unable to speak for themselves?
41/ Why was their spin doctor so happy to point the finger at Murat and compare him to Ian Huntley when speaking to the media?
42/ Why have the McCanns been given special treatment by British politicians - for example being recruited as child saftey ambassadors to promote Amber Alert?
43/ Why have the McCanns never given the public a full and honest account about what happened that night - refusing to publish a timeline that could be vital in the search for Madeleine ?
44/ Why won't the McCanns take any responsibility for what they did - describing their regular child neglect as "within the boundaries of responsible parenting" - thereby encouraging others to do the same?
45/ Why did the McCanns refuse to take part in a reconstruction unless it was a televised event?
46/ Why have the McCann friends had a "pact of silence" - refusing to talk about what happened that night?
47/ Why does Tanner's description of the man she says she saw, have no credibility whatsoever - for example she knew the man's age in poor light, yet says she never saw the face and later says he looks like a man with a big droopy moustache.
48/ Why does Gerry McCann pretend to be a loving family church-going man after Madeleine's disappearence, but before the event he was blatently swearing (as caught on film) "F*** O** on the way to PDL in front of his small children and his friends' children?
49/ What exactly are the McCanns and their friends doing with all the millions they are getting out of suing those who don't fall in line with their story?
50/ Why would anyone believe a word that the McCanns have to say when all these questions remain unanswered?
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Thursday, January 06, 2011
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A hugely important organisation, Action on Rights for Children (ARCH), that has done tremendous, though often unsung work, in the area of childrens' rights over the past ten years, is in danger of closing. I'm sure Terri Dowty won't mind if I post her appeal for help in full here:"It’s possible that you don’t know much about ARCH. We work on children’s civil rights, in particular the effects of new technologies on their privacy, freedom, consent and data protection rights. Some of it doesn’t attract attention because it’s quite complex, and in any case a lot goes on below the radar. We try to stop things happening, preferably before they even start. If we can’t manage that, we do our best to mitigate the effects. As you read on you’ll recognise some of our issues - though you may not have realised that ARCH was behind them. It is really important work and ARCH is the only organisation doing it, but we need your help to carry on. Otherwise we won’t last beyond this spring.
10 years ago, a rather irritable civil servant at the DfES described ARCH to a Newsnight researcher as ‘a bunch of ranting housewives’. At the time, our new organisation was already starting to annoy the government with awkward questions about their ‘Connexions’ reward card – a system that quietly created consumer profiles of teenagers to sell to companies. ARCH (in reality a network of lawyers, social workers, health professionals, academics and families) certainly outlived the Connexions card, and it has gone on to do a great deal more since.
Last year’s coalition agreement brought serious action on some of our hard-fought campaigns: the end of Contactpoint; the promise that schools will no longer be able to take children’s fingerprints without consent, and that new legislation will ensure that children’s DNA will only be kept on the national database in exceptional circumstances. During the last few years we’ve also brought the whole array of children’s databases and profiling tools to public attention; worked to secure confidentiality for young people using sexual health services; made sure that the new Academies will be bound by the Human Rights, Equalities and Freedom of Information Acts; brought an end to the misuse of children’s data by the Youth Justice Board and the UK Border Agency, and raised questions on everything from truancy sweeps to child-location devices. It’s a track record to be proud of, and we have worked our socks off to achieve it.
It’s pretty ironic, then, that just as the coalition agreement was being published, ARCH was involved in a last-ditch attempt to stave off complete closure. We’ve come near to it before, but this time the shoestring that we run on finally snapped. Fortunately the Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust came to our rescue with a bail-out package that will see us through until April this year, but one thing is absolutely clear: if we are to continue fighting for children’s civil rights, we have got to build a sustainable support base for ARCH.
We are just coming up to ARCH’s 10th anniversary and in ten years, ARCH has become an effective organisation with experience and expertise in protecting children’s civil rights. We badly need your help if we are to continue to build on our success.
There is so much more to do. We have got to rein in the use of CCTV in schools, and keep a check on the development of RFID chips and GPS tracking. We need to find out what is happening to data from the Preventing Violent Extremism ‘Channel’ programme, and how children come to be labelled as potential terrorists. We must ensure that young people and their parents caught up in the youth justice system actually understand what’s going on – and have secured partnership with McCormack's Law, a leading criminal law firm, in order to do so. We need to work with the Information Commissioner to stop schools ignoring Freedom of Information requests. We want to investigate how local authorities store and share children’s data, and challenge the unlawful way in which ‘consent’ may be obtained. We need to get some regulation of the storage of babies’ blood samples. And then there are all the other issues that will undoubtedly crop up as we go along.
There are several ways of making donations to ARCH. To make a one-off donation, simply click the Paypal button on the front page. Alternatively, go to our ‘Join Us’ page for our bank details. Better still, come and join us by arranging a monthly subscription via Paypal or online banking, or by completing a Standing Order mandate and sending it to your bank. We ask that you commit to a regular monthly sum of £2, £5 or £10 depending on what you feel able to afford. Alternatively, you can make a single, annual payment of £20.
In return for your subscription, you will receive a regular quarterly update on ARCH’s work and access to the subscribers’ area of the website. We are establishing online discussion forums and will add other features as we develop our new site. You will also have the satisfaction of knowing that you are guaranteeing ARCH’s future.
Please do pass this letter on to your friends, colleagues and to anyone whom you think might help. If you would like to know more about ARCH, simply email us at: info@archrights.org.uk
Best wishes
Some of the most significant damage done during the 13 year Nu Labour obsession with database cures for everything was in the area of childrens' rights and ARCH was one of the few civil society groups actively campaigning against their worst excesses. The UK genuinely cannot afford to lose them at a time when the coalition government have been showing dangerous signs, despite pre-election promises to the contrary, of adopting the previous government's mindset on basic liberties.Terri DowtyDirector
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