Yawn. Every post from you here is some kind of pointless and unnecessary snipe.

I was primarily trying to move on from your 'it's outrageous that we should either spend money on this or KNIFE CRIME YOBS!!' which enters every post you make, based solely on a suggestion & false choice that one person made, and is attributed to multiple people who didn't even say it since.

My point stands. I'd rather money was invested in other missing kids because it can do more good. Regardless of whatever on the go gripe you have, it's a perfectly valid point and more central to the issue at hand that your recent foolishness. In fact it's the only point I've even made aside from making the grave mistake of replying to your equally stupid '9/10 parents' comment. Latch onto someone else with your attitude problem.

Get back on topic.

Edited by dollardays (08 May 2019 8.02pm)

Edited by dollardays (08 May 2019 8.03pm)

You've spend the entire thread talking about devoting money to Maddie, so the irony is lost on you not me and I've deflected from nothing.

If you want to talk about this issue in a serious way, I suggest that you attempt to do so. My comment and suggestion of where I think our attention and resources should be reflect the seriousness of the topic at hand. If you want to instead endlessly rinse a dark and depressing topic for some kind of forum thrill or point scoring you keep at it.

It does sound like a harsh approach, but it's a valuable and sobering perspective to highlight too. It shines a light on the constant media obsession with the case here and how it's impacted the national psyche.

It's in the media's interest to have go to cases that they can pontificate about for a decade. For them it's more like a soap storyline that the public become engrossed in rather than trying to help solve a crime. I wonder how many other missing kids' plights have been snuffed out or not properly investigated or funded due to the weight this case carries.

More chance in my opinion of success then spending a single bean on knife crime without addressing community enablement, which was my original point.

The fact that it's almost hopeless is what I'm getting at.

In terms of guilt and innocence I've been in both camps over the McCann incident. My automatic bias was obviously towards innocence at first because of how most of the media presented the case and of how the McCanns front up.

When I looked into the evidence side of things I ended up 65/35 with accidental death and cover up.

Sure I could be wrong.....I think it happened once in 92.

As for the money spent on it. Initially I think few of us would have had a problem: a missing child is a missing child. However, after a time it really hasn't been defensible from a balanced and/or rational perspective. However, Maddie is a headline and the politician who says no gets the hitjob articles.

Edited by Stirlingsays (08 May 2019 10.27pm)

'Who are you and how did you get in here? I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.' (Leslie Nielsen)

Tragically, almost no chance. You're bang on in my view with what has become the futility of it all. It's turned into an something that's distasteful and yet always has legs due to the media obsession surrounding it.