Giving Thanks For Nothing, Courtesy Of The mccanns

Official Find Madeleine Campaign

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We would like to thank all the staff from Operation Grange for the meticulous and painstaking work that they have carried out over the last four and a half years. The scale and difficulty of their task has never been in doubt. We are reassured that the investigation to find Madeleine has been significantly progressed and the MPS has a much clearer picture of the events in PDL leading up to Madeleine’s abduction in 2007.
Given that the review phase of the investigation is essentially completed, we fully understand the reasons why the team is being reduced. We would also like to thank the Home Office for continuing to support the investigation.

Whilst we do not know what happened to Madeleine, we remain hopeful that she may still be found given the ongoing lines of enquiry.

~Gerry and Kate McCann

Seriously?

Who thanks Law Enforcement for failing to find their missing loved one, in this case, a child called Madeleine, and for failing to make any arrests in relation to the disappearance (alleged abduction by paedophile according to the parents and supporters) of said child, Madeleine?

Guilty persons thank law enforcement for not finding their missing loved one or failing to make arrests for same.
They are thankful law enforcement failed as they get to remain free.

Innocent persons are not thankful when their loved one isn't found.
They are not thankful when no arrests are made in relation to their missing loved one.
 
What have they to be thankful for?

Their loved one is either still missing or, the guilty person or persons are still running around free, escaping justice.

Innocent people are furious their loved one has not been found.
They are raging the perpetrator has not been arrested and charged and cooling their heels in some prison cell for the rest of their miserable lives.
Anything short of finding their loved one and getting justice is simply not acceptable.
They refuse to understand why there is no progress in their case.
They refuse to accept the investigation is essentially completed, after all, how can it be essentially completed when their loved one is still missing and the perpetrator is still out there living a free life?
They will demand the case be kept open.
They will practically camp outside the station in order to know what is going on or, if they remember the slightest thing that could help find their loved one.
Doing nothing is not an option.

Shelving the case or winding it down is not an option, and most certainly not one to be greeted happily by the innocent parents.

If given the chance to keep the case open, YES is the only word expected to be said

Guilty persons however love it when cases go cold.
Investigations are wound down or shelved, it means they have gotten away with the crime.

They feel secure, confident even, that they won't be discovered and arrested anytime soon.
The longer the case goes unsolved, the less evidence there will be to incriminate them.
Granted they may have to be a bit more careful in their lives so as to not draw any unwanted attention, apart from that, they essentially get away Scot free.
They greet the shelving of the case with glee and, if offered the option of keeping the case open, say NO.

You may remember when mick philpott thanked the police and fire department, even to referring to them as gentlemen in the press conference relating to the murder (for that is what it was) of six of their children in an arson attack on their house, a fire set by their own parents and their friend.

At the time he was thankful as he believed he had gotten away literally with murder.
He couldn't even bring a real tear to his eyes, instead we had fake wiping of his eyes whilst his wife pulled weird faces pretending to be grief stricken


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In missing persons cases, especially when it is a child involved, there is expected language and behavior from parents when they are not involved in said disappearance.

It is consistent and predictable.
Ask yourself what you would do if it were your child or loved one that is missing?
This is the expected.

It is often claimed by the guilty, and even kate said so, there is no book to tell a parent how to behave when their child goes missing.

This may technically be correct (don't hold me to that as someone may well write a specific book)
 
However.

There are decades of records in countries all over the world that reveal the normal, consistent and expected behavior in such cases.
In missing persons cases, especially when it is a child involved, there is expected language and behavior from parents when they are involved in said disappearance.
This too is the expected.The language and behavior is consistent, and even predictable at times.

It will however be unexpected when compared to that of innocent persons.

Anything that does not follow the path set by decades of innocent parents  in a missing persons case, especially where a child is involved, where tens of thousands of cases have been investigated and solved resulting in guilty verdicts of the non parental perpetrator, is unexpected and thus flagged and further investigated.

Questions then arise as to why there is unexpected language and behavior from the  parent.
Why do they have the need to be deceptive?
Is it down to guilt?
Guilty knowledge of the crime?
Guilt or guilty knowledge about something else not related to the crime such as perhaps infidelity, drugs, alcohol abuse, financial matters or other crimes?

Expected and unexpected language and behavior are always consistent.
They are mutually exclusive.Why then were kate and gerry not only delighted when the original case was shelved due to lack of cooperation from the mccan's and chums, they are now thanking all the staff from Operation Grange and the home office for not only not finding their daughter Madeleine, they are thanking them for  not making any arrests in relation to any part of the investigation.

Note no mention of the PJ.

They are, in fact, thanking the staff for getting absolutely nowhere in the case (as far as is known currently) after four and a half years and counting.
 
Whilst we do not know what happened to Madeleine.

Really?
 
For the last eight plus years and change, you have been loudly proclaiming to the world the exact opposite.


You have told the world that Madeleine was abducted from apartment 5A in PDL on may 3rd 2007.
In fact you actively pursued and litigated against anyone who claimed anything otherwise, even to suing the now retired lead  detective Dr. Goncalo Amaral, a suit which is currently being appealed by Dr. Amaral in the Portuguese courts.


If, as you now claim, you don't know what happened to Madeleine, then surely it is possible, if not probable (if you look at the large amount of forensic evidence) that Madeleine was not abducted by a paedophile as you have claimed for so long, she did in fact die in apartment 5A sometimes during the week of your vacation and that you and at least one of the tapas 7 was involved in her death, subsequent disposal and filing of a false police report.

To claim you don't know what happened to Madeleine allows for other theories in relation to what happened to Madeleine during that week.

Heck even gerry told us:
"I don’t have a problem with somebody purporting a theory, writing fiction, suggestions"
 
Except when it contradicts your version of events, in which case you sue, or at least threaten to sue.

I disagree that you don't know what happened to Madeleine.

You kate and gerry, and yes, even clarrie your spokesman have all told the world Madeleine is dead.
"Police don't want a murder in Portugal and all the publicity about them not having paedophile laws here, so they're blaming us.Kate said: "It really isn't easy," coping. "Some days are better than others. ... There's days when you think, 'I can't do this anymore,' and you just want to press a button, and we're all gone, and it's all finished, and we're all together and gone. Wherever. But you can't, you know. Just occasionally you'll have a -- if you're having a really bad day, which we do. And you can't help but think that."

The key word here being ALL.Gerry even posted a mea culpa on his blog
 "Sometimes people do things for reasons that even they cannot understand."
"An act of madness, an accident or sudden impulse can lead to consequences that people may never have imagined or intended."
"Faced with such a situation we believe any human soul will ultimately suffer torment and feelings of guilt and fear."

Then gerry  being who he is, he also told us

"There's no evidence that Madeleine is dead and there's no evidence to implicate us in her death"
As well as:
 "Kate killed her in frenzy.  Madeleine was sedated by us, she fell down the stairs, in which case you would have thought they'd have found her body.
I've heard all that.
What I want to know is, who told them all that?"
Who indeed gerry?

Remember also order is important, it tells us what is at the forefront of the subjects mind at that particular moment, it tells us what the priority is for the subject.Then we have the fragrant Clarrie telling us this:

Clarence Mitchell: "I believe Kate and Gerry are not responsible for Madeleine's death"Really?
With a spokesman like that, who needs enemies?

Let me ask you this kate and gerry.

On whose behalf are you being thankful for?

Yours or Madeleine's?

Would Madeleine be thankful for the case being scaled down?
Would Madeleine be thankful for the investigation being effectively completed?Would Madeleine be thankful for the lack of progress made in the last four plus years?Would Madeleine be thankful for the current lack of arrests?Would Madeleine be thankful for not being found?
Would Madeleine be thankful for the claimed clearer picture of what happened during that vacation and her subsequent disappearance?

Who is benefiting from this?

You kate and gerry, or Madeleine?

I know, and it isn't a name beginning with the letter M.