Originally Posted by eatmychild

I hope the parents are guilty just because of the publicity campaign they've launched. I hope all the over the top sympathy turns into hate, and they become notorious sickos.

This hate of the McCanns I'm sure is justified. Media attention is fixed on the story because they think the public wants to hear about it, that's what sells papers, improves ratings etc. However, I doubt it would have reached this peak of saturation into the media and public interest if it wasn't for the relentless pushing of the McCanns themselves, who were appointed public representitives and media liasons by our government to help them bombard us.

Then there's the thoughtlessness of the public who participate in and perpetuate the campaign. Not only do the public/media seem to be forgetting people who aren't white or middle class, they've forgotton that Madeleine McCann is not important, no more important than the tramp on the street.

I understand that people who knew Maddy are concerned, but to the millions of people who have never met her, and know nothing about her except that she was kidnapped....well don't they have lives to be living? More pressing matters than the disappearance of a stranger?

Things like this show how retarded the nation is.

Originally Posted by Diesel

i don't have children but i do know how that kid will be feeling right now. if she is still alive.

Originally Posted by h8kurdt

nononoNO!

OK so the media have pushed this thing a hell of a lot but fucking hell you're one cold cunt. Look, we are fucking humans our nature is to worry and get sad about other humans known or not known (the latter to a lesser extent). How the fuck can you turn around and say "oh well I don't know her so I don't give a shit about her"?.
Forgive me I seem to exagerrating this point I'm gonna make but deal with it-Every war going on around the world, every murder you see in the paper do you honestly sit there and read about the problems going on in Darfur for example and just shrug your shoulders and say "well it's not my problem"?

Humans feel compassion even for things that seem trivial because that is what we do. Yes I am not one of those people who are taking this to the extrremes but I still have curiosty purely because it is something I do worry about and do wish her to be safe. If she turns out to be dead then that's another kick in the teeth. For you to say this nation are retards because of the fact that they're saddened by it is just pathetic.

Originally Posted by racehorse

well i have plently of compassion - but the fact is that a total of 17 children in the uk were reported missing inbetween between the month madeleine dissapeared and now, (as well as 3 portugese children in the past few years) and does anybody know their names? a boy of 11 was even shot dead on the streets around his council estate for crying out loud. these facts alone demonstrate how incongruous it is to claim that the factor keeping this story alive is compassion. in reailty it is down to something much more sinister. surely genuine compassion can perpetuate through ideas of class, race and sex. eatmychild has a point, it does seem silly and even worrying that the media and the nation is so infatuated w/ this story that it pays such little attention to crimes being commited to children in darfur, for example, or hundreds of thousands starving across the world. it is absolutely absurd to call it compassion.