BSG you can have a go at the media circus and all the cynical and amoral characters who are making a buck or building their image (to make money) off this case.Quote:
Originally Posted by Boh_So_Good
But I don't understand the thrust of your main point - that the McCann parents deserve to be punished. I don't know if you are a parent or not yourself, but I have to say, having your child kidnapped, realising after a few weeks the strong liklihood that she has been murdered, and also having the fear that these acts were done in order that she be sexually abused... Plus, on top of that, not even having the body to bury, is a punishment of a magnatude far beyond your couple of "hard questions" or a 6 month suspended sentence that a court might hand down for neglect. I think you are losing sight of that - or maybe not.
Most of your posts seem to be taking the tone of a conspiracy theory. You might want to have a look at that in relation to how people live their lives according to propaganda from Sky News, because conspiracy theories are the opposite side to the same coin of some oddball hanging a flag at an irrelevant football game in another country.
You seem to be saying that the McCann parents are amoral and cynical people themselves who are attempting to make some kind of profit from the media circus. In fact, reading between the lines of your posts, I think I have got where you are really coming from so I am going to invite you to say it out load. Is it your opinion that the McCann parents killed their daughter and the rest is their grotesque attempt at a diversion and cover-up?
Now it is commonly accepted that the majoity of serious crimes (murders and rapes etc) are committed by somebody known to the victim. In fact quite a high percentage of murders are committed by family members. But this is usually where the police start their investigation - but if they are following this line of inquiry they are certainly doing it in secret. Or maybe the Portugese police are bumbling fools just like Sky News say they are. But, I have to hand it to you, despite not having any first hand access to any of the evidence or people you managed to crack it when the cops did not.
As for the huge outpouring of support, emphathy and whatever other foolishness the Irish public are getting up to I'd say it's becuase most parents are human and at some stage of their lives they have selfishly put themselves ahead of their children in some minor way (like leaving them unattended while they went into the shops or whatever) and got away with it. This case is a warning to them and a reminder of their guilt, that is why you see the reaction you do.
But if you want a bit of good old fashioned revenge as well, then a scolding from the police, pointless court appearance + minor sentence and taking their remaining children away from their parents and into an orphanage should do the trick.
That'll teach those smug child-leaving b*stards.
