Collateral damage

@PeterMac wrote:M3
Halligen
ALPHAIG
Cowley,
Edgar
JATYK - luckily !

@Portia wrote:Seeing Jim Gamble of fond remembrance named in another post, I suddenly remembered CEOP (RIP)

Do you find it as unsettling as I do, to note how many people a/o companies a/o institutions went down the skids in connection with, or after becoming involved with, the Maddie case? Is might make a nice diversion/exercise, to draw up a list (no, NO, I do not get paid to do this)

For starters:

1. Madeleine Beth McCann;
2. Anthony Bennett (only temporary, I haste to add! Dear Tony, I'm quite sure of that!)
3. The 3 Arguidos;
4. Ironside;
5. Lord Levison;
6. News of the World;
7. Gordon Brown;
8. Rebecca Brooks;
9. That world famous sure fire proof forensic research centre (UK)
10. CEOP;

This, in just three minutes. Tennis, anyone?

@Ayniia wrote:Gonçalo Amaral

@Portia wrote:

@Ayniia wrote:Gonçalo Amaral

No. Not him. He managed to keep his integrity.

There is no doubt that in the rucus envelopping the case, he'll come up the moral victor.

You see, for an honourable man, there is just one singel path to travel.
And to deviate from that path for whatever cause, is to selfdestruct.

May I quote The Path less travelled (by ??, fill me in, you know who I mean, poem says it all)

For the downhill path is steep,
and there is no turning back

@Portia wrote:

@Ayniia wrote:Gonçalo Amaral

No. Not him. He managed to keep his integrity.

There is no doubt that in the rucus envelopping the case, he'll come up the moral victor.

You see, for an honourable man, there is just one singel path to travel.
And to deviate from that path for whatever cause, is to selfdestruct.

May I quote The Path less travelled (by ??, fill me in, you know who I mean, poem says it all)

For the downhill path is steep,and there is no turning back

@Ayniia wrote:

@Portia wrote:

@Ayniia wrote:Gonçalo Amaral

No. Not him. He managed to keep his integrity.

There is no doubt that in the rucus envelopping the case, he'll come up the moral victor.

You see, for an honourable man, there is just one singel path to travel.
And to deviate from that path for whatever cause, is to selfdestruct.

May I quote The Path less travelled (by ??, fill me in, you know who I mean, poem says it all)

For the downhill path is steep,
and there is no turning back

Oh ok thank you my bad, didn't understood the topic then. He has surely an impeccable reputation here in Portugal, most people (myself included ) see him as a hero, as a good cop.
As my lawyer aunt said to me the other day: anyone with a brain understands what happened in this case.
And I'm not sorry if anyone's offended by this statement.

@Portia wrote:Christobell, almost, just almost! In fact (I too forgot!):

Amor Mundi

By Christina Rossetti


“Oh where are you going with your love-locks flowing
On the west wind blowing along this valley track?”
“The downhill path is easy, come with me an it please ye,
We shall escape the uphill by never turning back.”


So they two went together in glowing August weather,
The honey-breathing heather lay to their left and right;
And dear she was to dote on, her swift feet seemed to float on
The air like soft twin pigeons too sportive to alight.


“Oh what is that in heaven where gray cloud-flakes are seven,
Where blackest clouds hang riven just at the rainy skirt?”
“Oh that’s a meteor sent us, a message dumb, portentous,
An undeciphered solemn signal of help or hurt.”


“Oh what is that glides quickly where velvet flowers grow thickly,
Their scent comes rich and sickly?”—“A scaled and hooded worm.”
“Oh what’s that in the hollow, so pale I quake to follow?”
“Oh that’s a thin dead body which waits the eternal term.”


“Turn again, O my sweetest,—turn again, false and fleetest:
This beaten way thou beatest I fear is hell’s own track.”
“Nay, too steep for hill-mounting; nay, too late for cost-counting:
This downhill path is easy, but there’s no turning back.”

Thanks a lot for your effort anyway! Robert Frost is a world on his own. As is Robert Hardy, which I like best.

But perusing the poem itself just now, for the first time in decades: how apt, how horribly apt!

@aiyoyo wrote:
Blimey, is the nest of vipers GONE! I didn't know that.
Given up on their own conviction he

@Cristobell wrote:Agree with Petermac on JATYK2, its as if you are entering Hades. They are more extreme than radical jihadists, I believe one dirty creature infiltrated a private fb group that I belong to. Fortunately she was quickly ousted. If I ever waver in my beliefs on this case, I consider the very sinister actions of those who support the McCanns, and the words of the McCanns themselves. We have seen their vengeance in action and wonder why innocent parents would behave in such a way?

@Peneda Geres wrote:

@Cristobell wrote:Agree with Petermac on JATYK2, its as if you are entering Hades. They are more extreme than radical jihadists, I believe one dirty creature infiltrated a private fb group that I belong to. Fortunately she was quickly ousted. If I ever waver in my beliefs on this case, I consider the very sinister actions of those who support the McCanns, and the words of the McCanns themselves. We have seen their vengeance in action and wonder why innocent parents would behave in such a way?

And who have they taken their vengeance out on? The very same people who have been searching and looking for justice for their daughter.

@Peneda Geres wrote:

@Cristobell wrote:Agree with Petermac on JATYK2, its as if you are entering Hades. They are more extreme than radical jihadists, I believe one dirty creature infiltrated a private fb group that I belong to. Fortunately she was quickly ousted. If I ever waver in my beliefs on this case, I consider the very sinister actions of those who support the McCanns, and the words of the McCanns themselves. We have seen their vengeance in action and wonder why innocent parents would behave in such a way?

And who have they taken their vengeance out on? The very same people who have been searching and looking for justice for their daughter.

@aquila wrote:Adding to the list

The Forensic Science Lab - Birmingham UK. Hitherto world renowned.

@PeterMac wrote:

@Peneda Geres wrote:

@Cristobell wrote:Agree with Petermac on JATYK2, its as if you are entering Hades. They are more extreme than radical jihadists, I believe one dirty creature infiltrated a private fb group that I belong to. Fortunately she was quickly ousted. If I ever waver in my beliefs on this case, I consider the very sinister actions of those who support the McCanns, and the words of the McCanns themselves. We have seen their vengeance in action and wonder why innocent parents would behave in such a way?

And who have they taken their vengeance out on? The very same people who have been searching and looking for justice for their daughter.

And as has been said elsewhere, it is entirely unclear why the McCanns do not publicly dissociate themselves from sites like that.
But then they used evidence obtained by the commission of a serious crime to send Mr Bennett to prison, so perhaps we should not be surprised that they support, by implication (important word as we all know !) , hatred, vilification, abuse, stalking and open threats against others.
If that is the intellectual and cultural level of their main friends and supporters I think they have problems.

@Portia wrote:

@aquila wrote:Adding to the list

The Forensic Science Lab - Birmingham UK. Hitherto world renowned.

The final destination and research facility where they purportedly sent the alleged suitcase with the imaginary curtain and the jeans & fleece jacket suggested to belong to Flip Flop Tanner someone unknown?

I do hope someone in that joint remembered to archive all their findings; isn't there a statute of limitations on how long you MUST keep things like that? Here on the Cotinent that would be aroud 5-7 years, or more.

Oh, and I seem to remember some one of the Tapasniks washing a curtain. Not THAT curtain, surely?