Wednesday, September 12, 2007
Madeleine McCann revisited.....
Some of you know that I have been following this case fairly closely since May 3 when little Madeleine disappeared. My family is from Portugal, my daughter has the same name and is roughly the same age...and resembles her a bit. Amazing really how many little girls look like her....but I digress.
I don't really know what to think.
When the McCanns were first identified as suspects I completely poo-pooed it as a cover up by the inept Portuguese police. I will say that no matter what comes of this, my opinion on the Portuguese police will not change: they are STUPID beyond belief and have bungled much of this case. Again i digress. I originally wouldn't even consider the possibility that Maddie's parents were involved somehow. It still makes no real sense to me and seems utterly illogical.
*IF*...and its a big *IF* what they say is true, then:
*Madeleine McCann would have had to have been killed....by accident likely by her seemingly stable and loving parents.
*Her parents would have had to hide her body and whatever evidence successfully and incredulously to me...CALMLY.
*Act calmly and jovially at dinner.....in order to stage an abduction.
*Stand by and allow an innocent party like Robert Murat to be raked over the coals
*Launch a world wide campaign to further defraud millions of people and take advantage of their generosity (including me).
*Manage to hide her body AND move it without notice despite the multitude of media hounds on them practically 24/7 AND hide/dispose of the body in complete secrecy. <----this is the most unlikely point of them all for me.
Frankly.....I tend to believe in the "good" of the general public...so I am having a really difficult time swallowing this pill. It really seems implausible. Not impossible...but implausible. I don't know what to believe. *IF* its true that they found bodily fluids that THE BRITISH specialists can confirm....then shit..i don't know what to believe. Its compelling i will admit.
I don't really know which i prefer to believe:
1. ...that there are pedophile rings who stalk children and snatch them from their beds at night....and further subject them to horrific acts. A scenario that represents every mothers "boogie-man" and irrationally threatens my own children in my nightmares and makes me feel vulnerable.
OR
2. ...to have seemingly ordinary and apparently wonderful (albeit negligent) parents have the calculating, cold hearted capacity to pull this off. A scenario that does not threaten my children irrationally but threatens to unravel my naive trust and hope in the goodness of humanity....that threatens the most basic sanctity that mothers (and fathers) would die before letting harm befall their children.
....shit man. I want to go back to believing in Santa because this is just too unbearable to process.I choose to be idealistic.
I will continue to pray with ~ALL~ of my heart and soul for the children of this world.....and I will pray that Madeleine McCann is alive and living well and living with a childless couple who stole her to fill the void in their hearts.
**photos were pilfered from some rag newspaper site somewhere***
