Cultured Views

The recent mysterious disappearance of young Madeline McCann in Portugal back in May has brought to mind a similar mysterious child disappearance, except it was back in 1980 and it was in Australia.

The McCanns have been without their little girl ‘Maddie’ for 3 months now, and it seems the Portuguese police – in charge of the investigation – are no more clued up now than they were back at the beginning. To me, the Portuguese police have been far more concerned with keeping to their ‘protocol’ than they have with actually DOING anything worthwhile. What an inept bunch of keystone cops they are!.

Recently, because the Portugese cannot come up with anything else, the McCanns have been subjected to a vile media campaign hosted by the media in Portugal accusing them of drugging their children; drugging Maddie and also killing her. Unfortunately, the UK press have been just as bad fuelling ignorant and vicious remarks from an equally ignorant and vicious UK public. And the sole reason?…the McCanns don’t ‘behave properly’. They dont scream, howl and wail in front of a voyeuristic public. A voyeuristic public that actually loves this type of thing. 

The McCanns are deeply religious people; they have faith; dignity and hope. And for upholding these values, for not revealing their true agony in public, they are being held in deep suspician. After all, we all know how we would behave if we were in their situation…? We have all had a deeply loved child simply disappear into thin air…? We all know what is best for them to do, even though we have never been through a similar thing…?

This all reminds me of the Azaria Chamberlain case in Australia back in the early 1980′s. A baby girl disappeared from her parents’ tent during the night at Uluru (Ayers Rock) and the only witness was her mother who saw a wild dog – a dingo – leaving the tent with a large object in it’s mouth. That baby girl was never found. No body; no weapon; no motive; no witnesses (except those who heard her screams); and yet this mother was sentenced to jail for murdering her baby two years later. Why?. Because Lindy and Micheal Chamberlain did not ‘play the game’ according to how the media and the public thought they should. They also were deeply religious people; he was a Pastor; they had true faith, yet because they did not scream; howl, wail and thrash around in front of the cameras they were immediately suspicious. The most vicious media campaign was waged against them; and a gullible Australian public bought into it. They did not stand a chance.

In 1982 Lindy Chamberlain; 8 months pregnant; was hauled off to prison for ‘killing’ a baby she never killed, only grieved for. And the major ‘evidence’…? so-called ‘foetal bloodstains’ in their car that were not ‘foetal bloodstains’ at all…it was rust proofing fluid as proved some years later. And the ‘expert’ who found this evidence’?…a British woman brought out from the UK at great expense to ‘nail’ an innocent mother.

Lindy Chamberlain was eventually freed from prison in the late 1980′s but she had to divorce her husband and leave the country to escape the stains left by the media. I would be very bitter if I had been her.

I have a feeling the McCanns are heading the same way.

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