Missing Toddler in Portugal

[bill]

"The father of missing Madeleine McCann has been forced to defend himself during a grilling from American journalists.

Gerry McCann was asked why he and wife Kate had left their children alone while they ate dinner on May 3, the day his daughter disappeared.

During an appearance on Good Morning America, he was told many US parents are "puzzled" why they did not make use of a babysitting service during their holiday in Portugal."

Aye ,bout time someone raised the question.

[Malky]

The last few posts have been moved to the holding pen as I think Aquiline went way over the top there. I know this is speakers corner but there is a limit to what we can allow to stay in the public domain.

Malky

[Bobbie En Tejas]

“God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.”

Voltaire

Some people think that a sense of humor is the ability to laugh at everything and anything.. good ol' boy.. actually, it is a sense of making the distinction of what is actually funny and witty and what isn't.

It wasn't.

[Pans Lass]

Thanks, Malky.

[general jack o'niell]

i see, the last few posts so the quick ones among us that showed their anger at the post are being tarred with the same brush while you have alook at it, how long do you need? it took me two seconds to be repulsed by it, and i stand by every word of my post in reply, in fact, my reply being removed to your so called holding pen makes me even angrier!!!!!

if thats a crime, sue me, i'd say it again a thousand time over!!!!!

[Malky]

Oh go away general

Do you think I have the time to be on here all the time? I don't. As soon as it was pointed out to me I had a look and I immediately removed it. The comments after, all seemed to be related to aquiline's postings so were all removed with it. I didn't read them all the way through.

Things will get reviewed and removed (if needs be) quicker if someone PM's or emails me. I check email frequently but I can't always check the forum - it takes too long.

Malky

[Bobbie En Tejas]

I posted and deleted, because i have to think about this one. General, it wasn't against you or your posts..

The post was way over the top, but it was a reflection of the poster, not the forum. I think the bigger reflection of the forum is where the other forum members drew the line. To a man/woman we didn't find it of any merit or funny at all.

Maybe the poster's posts can be edited with something like, "post deleted due to violation of forum rules" or something, with the other posts still standing.

[Malky]

Maybe the poster's posts can be edited with something like, "post deleted due to violation of forum rules" or something, with the other posts still standing.

Well, I've made the decision now and I'm not changing it....

Malky

[Bobbie En Tejas]

Yeah, I saw that after i wrote my post..

No problem with me.. just just a thought.

[Pans Lass]

The post was way over the top, but it was a reflection of the poster, not the forum. I think the bigger reflection of the forum is where the other forum members drew the line. To a man/woman we didn't find it of any merit or funny at all.

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True Bobbie, I was just happy aquiline's posts were removed and glad the angered posters said what they said to get these posts off.

[aquiline]

The populist authoritarianism that is the downside of political correctness means that anyone, sometimes it seems like everyone, can proclaim their grief and have it acknowledged. The victim culture, every sufferer grasping for their own Holocaust, ensures that anyone who feels offended can call for moderation, for dilution, and in the end, as is all too often the case, for censorship.

Truth always rests with the minority, and the minority is always stronger than the majority, because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion, while the strength of a majority is illusory, formed by the gangs who have no opinion.

[Bobbie En Tejas]

Your "joke" wasn't an opinion, it was a stupid joke, with no merit whatsoever..

Kind of like standing over a car wreck and laughing about the people inside. some things are just not funny.

What you are saying doesn't even take into account that while her parents are out looking to share their grief with everyone, they may have actually been the ones who did it. So you are not making fun of the parents or society.. you are making fun of a little girl who was probably murdered.

“God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.”

Voltaire

Maybe you ought to save the jokes and let god tell them himself.

By the way, great cut and paste: http://www.quotegarden.com/censorship.html
You should at least acknowledge your sources

[Ship called Dignity]

The populist authoritarianism that is the downside of political correctness means that anyone, sometimes it seems like everyone, can proclaim their grief and have it acknowledged. The victim culture, every sufferer grasping for their own Holocaust, ensures that anyone who feels offended can call for moderation, for dilution, and in the end, as is all too often the case, for censorship.

Truth always rests with the minority, and the minority is always stronger than the majority, because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion, while the strength of a majority is illusory, formed by the gangs who have no opinion.

You Ioinsaigh in disguise

[aquiline]

What right do they have to burden others with or "share" their grief with anyone other than their family.

If you had bothered to actually read subsequent posts after my (self confessed) shocking joke(s) you would have realised that there was opinion on the matter.

I was "making fun" as you like to put not with the murder of a child - if you recall my jokes stated quite clearly that the child was alive and living in another country - but in general the media and the publicity machine.

I wrote something along the lines of: "if everyone who has put time, effort and money into helping "find" Madeleine channelled their efforts elsewhere, the world would be a far better place.

The McCann publicity machine is taking the opportunity to raise as much awareness as possible, and while i don't blame them for it, it has the effect of creating rapid fatigue in casual, balanced observers (let alone how the thousands of other families without such media assistance and public support must feel about loved ones they have lost)."

stalin once said...

"one death is a tragedy, a thousand deaths is a statistic"



"By the way, great cut and paste: http://www.quotegarden.com/censorship.html
You should at least acknowledge your sources"

I normally do - see above. Sorry.

[Bobbie En Tejas]

after the fact