2ND HOAX ON MF BY MCCANN-SUPPORTERS

Once again we have to respond to a second hoax press release, which purports to have been issued by us.

We can categorically state that this hoax press release has not been released by The Madeleine Foundation, nor by any of our members and supporters. The person who placed this hoax press release on Free-Press-Release is a professed and prolific supporter of Dr Gerald and Dr Kate McCann who has for the past two years run a particularly nasty internet campaign involving serial lies and impersonations about ourselves and about some of our Committee members.

It is a pitiful attempt by one of the McCanns' vociferous supporters to try persuade the public to believe that we are carrying out or intending to carry out certain actions.

In the light of the contents of this latest hoax press release, which we reproduce below together with the link, we are compelled to state the following unequivocally on the record:

* We do not and have never said that either of the McCanns killed Madeleine

* One of us in the past (November 2007) did attempt to issue a summons for child neglect against the McCanns. This was unsuccessful -as the court was unsure whether it had jurisdiction, since the alleged neglect occurred in Portugal. We have no plans at all to renew such an attempt

* We do not in any way whatsoever believe that the McCanns should be prosecuted for manslaughter

* We do not urge, nor have we ever urged, Leicestershire Social Serivices to remove the McCanns' other children from their care.

The only thing that is of any value in this hoax press release is that it gives links to our website ([You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]) and to an excellent discussion forum on Madeleine McCann ([You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]) where there is much valuable source information and analysis about the disappearance of Madeleine McCann.

The people who perpetrate these hoaxes, which consist of outright lies about the work of The Madeleine Foundation, vigorously back and support the McCanns and, as is crystal clear from the McCanns' own Facebook pages, the McCanns class such people as their 'friends' (direct quote from Dr Kate McCann).

We beloeve we know the person responsible for this latest hoax press release and the previous one issued three days ago.

Our final comment is that those who tell outright lies and perpetrate hoaxes such as this will for certain find out, sooner or later, that such action will rebound on them.

That these hoaxes are made at all is a tribute (though not one which we wlecome) to the ongoing work of The Madeleine Foundation in continuing to ask questions about the McCanns' claim (which they admit is only an 'assumption' or 'hypothesis') that Madeleine McCann was abducted.

Sttaement issued by The Madeleine Foundation, Wednesday 2 March, 11.00pm


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THE HOAX PRESS RELEASE

Members of the Madeleine Foundation are attempting to persuade courts to act against the McCanns and make their children subject to Social Services intervention

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
([You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]) March 2, 2011 --

We, at The Madeleine Foundation seek to persuade the courts that Kate and Gerry McCann, the parents of missing, believed killed, Madeleine McCann should be prosecuted for neglect and manslaughter of Madeleine McCann.
Also we urge the Leicestershire Social Services to remove the remaining children from the McCann's household to secure their safety until a time when it is clear if the McCann's were, or were not involved in Madeleine McCann's death.

Details of the case can be found at [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] or [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]

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Sorry to hear about this Tony, they clearly must be very disturbed
to do something like that. As we said before though all they are
doing is giving more publicity to the MF and the important work
it is doing.

This is an act of desperation, but misjudged and mistimed.
Paradoxically, it might even cause some people to reflect on the undoubted child negligence aspects of the case.

should be prosecuted for neglect and manslaughter of Madeleine McCann.

Rainbow, Harrison and Amaral wanted to prosecute the McCanns for far more serious crimes than the above. So by comparison, The Madeleine Foundation would look like a bunch of pussycats had any of them had the time or inclination to write this press release.

Do the people who write these ridiculous things believe they are so far above the law that they cannot be prosecuted? If so, one can easily think of another doxen people with whom they would feel at home..

PeterMac wrote:This is an act of desperation, but misjudged and mistimed.
Paradoxically, it might even cause some people to reflect on the undoubted child negligence aspects of the case.

Good point, Petermac. One was also contemplating as to whether one of the personalities within this person may now be a closet supporter of Madeleine McCann, yet still have a personal hatred of Tony Bennett, which is forcing them to continue presenting such great danger to Tony Bennett and his family and friends.

The police have the power and the technology to put a stop to this, and they should now be forced to act. What we are seeing here, is not at all dissimilar to the persecution of Salman Rushdie. Shame on Team McCann for not standing up and asking their more deranged fans to stop what they are doing.

Football managers had to ask their hooligans to behave after Hillsborough. The McCanns should be doing the same.

The behaviour currently being exhibited by those who believe the tale of abduction is an act of terrorism:

•A radical who employs terror as a political weapon; usually organizes with other terrorists in small cells; often uses religion as a cover for terrorist activities

•Terrorism is the systematic use of terror especially as a means of coercion.

•terror - panic: an overwhelming feeling of fear and anxiety
•terror - a person who inspires fear or dread; "he was the terror of the neighborhood"
•terror - a very troublesome child
•terror - the use of extreme fear in order to coerce people (especially for political reasons); "he used terror to make them confess"
wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn

•terrorism - the calculated use of violence (or the threat of violence) against civilians in order to attain goals that are political or religious or ideological in nature; this is done through intimidation or coercion or instilling fear

Judge Mental wrote:
Football managers had to ask their hooligans to behave after Hillsborough. The McCanns should be doing the same.

But the difference was that hooligans were costing the clubs money. The McCanns may feel that overall this mob is probably making money, by publicity. Hence their silence. And the silence of Mitchell, and of the Tapas7 and of Carter-Ruck and of the Trustees. Not one will speak.

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PeterMac wrote:

Judge Mental wrote:
Football managers had to ask their hooligans to behave after Hillsborough. The McCanns should be doing the same.

But the difference was that hooligans were costing the clubs money. The McCanns may feel that overall this mob is probably making money, by publicity. Hence their silence. And the silence of Mitchell, and of the Tapas7 and of Carter-Ruck and of the Trustees. Not one will speak.

Once again, you make a damned good point, Petermac. It is simply outrageous to see the depths to which these people will sink to generate money. Yet they are seemingly allowing Halligen to get away with hundreds of thousands of pounds.

Judge Mental wrote:

PeterMac wrote:This is an act of desperation, but misjudged and mistimed.
Paradoxically, it might even cause some people to reflect on the undoubted child negligence aspects of the case.

Good point, Petermac. One was also contemplating as to whether one of the personalities within this person may now be a closet supporter of Madeleine McCann, yet still have a personal hatred of Tony Bennett, which is forcing them to continue presenting such great danger to Tony Bennett and his family and friends.

The police have the power and the technology to put a stop to this, and they should now be forced to act. What we are seeing here, is not at all dissimilar to the persecution of Salman Rushdie. Shame on Team McCann for not standing up and asking their more deranged fans to stop what they are doing.

Football managers had to ask their hooligans to behave after Hillsborough. The McCanns should be doing the same.

At first my thoughts on this were the point of these hoaxes were to discredit the reputation of the MF and Tony Bennett in particular. But, following the second hoax press release, im wondering also, if this may be the handywork of a closet Madeleine supporter who has a hatred for Tony Bennett. Anyone followig the link to the MF Website would see for themselves what they stand for and that the press releases were hoaxes. Would it be possible to find out who is behind them, could one of the pros be having doubts - the McCanns should be worried as it would appear they have a loose cannon in their midst.

Judge Mental wrote: It is simply outrageous to see the depths to which these people will sink to generate money. Yet they are seemingly allowing Halligen to get away with hundreds of thousands of pounds.

I wonder if Halligen really did get away with hundreds of thousands of pounds, or if his inactivity was simply evidence of his being used to move it around.
This is not a new theory, but one which the passage of time and the inaction by, and silence of, the McCanns' lawyers and their spokesperson make more plausible.

Just to re-cap, the principle theories were -
1 Halligen was used to move a lot of money from the "Fund" offshore, to the USA in particular, where it would be available for whoever was named on the account
2 Halligen was used to move a lot of money from the "Fund" back to one of the main sponsors of the McCanns (name known to all) who was fed up with constantly spending and receiving no publicity for his efforts. In that way he could even 'donate' it again, and be seen to be even more generous.

I hasten to point out that I have no evidence for either of those scenarios, but
1 the failure by the Trustees to do "due diligence' on Halligen before paying him an extraordinary amount of money up front and
2 the failure of the Trustees, including the McCanns, to sue for the return of the money and even possibly -
3 the failure or negligence of Mrs Justice Hogg, who is in law Madeleine's guardian, in failing to sue for the return of the money which was supposedly donated for Madeleine's ultimate good...
leave me strangely suspicious about the whole thing.

They all have Halligen in their hands. At the moment he is going nowhere, he may be interviewed by Fraud squad officers, and legal documents may be served on him. Once he is extradited they will all be able to say he is outside the jurisdiction, but for the moment their collective silence is deafening.

(Is there an emoticon for a smelly rat ?)

Muratfan aka Ian West again?