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Posted: Mon Sep 24, 2007 7:26 am Post subject: The FBI and the McCans |
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Is the Madelin issue an attempt to introduce cross border cooperation and policing?
When a similar case occurred in the USA state wide policing was the result
as up until that point each state in the USA was responsible for its own policing.
The EU is made up of 27 nations. It is deeply unpopular. Using the loss of a child cross border cooperation and policing becomes accepted. How else does one explaing the massive propaganda initiatives of Madelin, the support of it by big business and its promotion by the corporate media...
The Lindbergh kidnap is a lesson for the McCanns - and the media
To read the diaries of Anne Morrow Lindbergh is to be taken to the
heart of parental anguish
Ian Jack
Saturday September 15, 2007
The Guardian
Madeleine McCann has been missing for 135 days; Charles Augustus
Lindbergh was missing for 72. This week readers of the Daily Express
were invited to respond to the question "Were Madeleine's parents
involved in her death?" by phoning or texting Yes or No (25p plus
network operator rates - and "death", note, not disappearance). For
the first time, the words "hyperactive" and "unruly" have been
connected to the vanished child. Some papers report that her soft toy,
Cuddle Cat, now in her mother's possession, is badly wanted by the
Portuguese police. Others report that what the police need to see more
of is Kate McCann's diary. Meanwhile Kate McCann and her husband,
Gerry McCann, doctors and fellow suspects, are prospecting for a new
public relations person, who may turn out to be a former editor of the
News of the World.
Article continues
A conventional view of the McCanns is that they are now being eaten by
the tiger they tried to ride; the media like to manipulate rather than
be manipulated, and the Portuguese police don't care to be mocked. But
if they had behaved differently, what then? They would do well to
study the Lindbergh case. Eight days after her 20-month-old son
vanished, Anne Morrow Lindbergh wrote in a private letter that there
had been little in the way of new developments: "With this lull the
papers, especially the tabs, bring out wild stories every hour and
none of them true, as you know ... "
Mrs Lindbergh last saw her son about 7.30 on the night of March 1
1932. She and her Scottish nurse, Betty Gow, made sure that he was
well tucked-up in his bed - he was recovering from a cold. They closed
the window shutters, save the pair that couldn't be closed because
they were warped. Colonel Charles Lindbergh, the great flyer, came
home to the house in Hopewell, New Jersey, soon after. The couple had
supper. At 10pm, Betty Gow went to check on the baby and discovered he
wasn't there. It became, in the words of HL Mencken, "the biggest
story since the Resurrection".
Whatever the McCanns achieved in publicity - the visit to the Pope,
the wristbands, the words of David Beckham and Gordon Brown - was both
prefigured and far exceeded by the Lindbergh baby. By midnight there
were road blocks all across the state; the next day 100,000 police and
volunteers were sweeping the countryside and 400 journalists had
gathered in the Lindberghs' garden. Aircraft circled to take pictures.
Presidents, prime ministers and the Prince of Wales extended their
hope and sympathy. Al Capone offered his help from jail. Such was
public vigilance that a car with New Jersey number plates was stopped
109 times on its way home from California.
"I think it is thrilling to have so many people moved by one thought,"
his mother wrote, but soon it became less thrilling, became exhausting
and confusing. By mid-April, the Lindberghs had received 38,000
letters, which Mrs Lindbergh divided by content: Dreams 12,000,
Sympathy 11,500, Suggestions 9,500, Cranks 5,000. Mrs Lindbergh wrote
in her diary: "I have a sustained feeling - like a high note on an
organ that has got stuck - inside me."
Her husband, unlike the McCanns, didn't seek this attention. He
already knew, as the McCanns may now do, how newspapers behaved. By
the courageous but essentially simple act of being the first pilot to
fly solo across the Atlantic he'd become the world's hero. The press
had made him famous but he despised its inaccuracies and inventions.
Now that he was in charge of the hunt for his son (the police were in
awe of him), newspapers began to feel that they were unfairly
rejected. Unhelpfully, always seeking stories, the tabloids published
ransom notes and details of Lindbergh's negotiations with the
underworld figures that he felt sure would lead him to the kidnappers.
He and his wife felt the publicity was risking their baby's life by
scaring his captors. "I think such papers are really criminal outside
of their inaccuracy," Mrs Lindbergh wrote. "The publicity makes it
almost impossible for them to get the baby to us."
Those were the days when parents of vanished or dead children were not
the prime suspects. The Depression had brought "kidnapping syndicates"
to American cities. Nobody, at least publicly, suspected the
Lindberghs had harmed their own child. In private, there were rumours.
Lindbergh was well-known to be an irritating practical joker and a
believer in "toughening up" his son; perhaps there had been an
accident. As to Mrs Lindbergh, it would be observed today that the
previous year she'd left her baby with her parents and servants while
she went flying with her husband - for several months, adventurously,
in the Arctic and Asia. Nothing was made of this then, or should be
made now: to read her diaries, eventually published in 1973, is to be
taken to the heart of parental anguish.
"January 30, 1933. Terrible night. 'Do you think about it much, Anne?'
All the time - it never stops - I never meet it. It happens every
night of my life. It did not happen and it happened. For I go over the
possibilities of it not happening - so close, so narrow they are. So
hard do I think about it that almost I make it unhappen ... and then
always, like a bell tolling, like a clock striking, inevitable: 'It
happened.' Then, at last, back to the only comfort - Death; we will
all have it. In a century, between him and me it will be nothing. And
then: He did not suffer, he did not know, a blow on the head. But I
want to know - to know what he suffered - I want to see it, to feel it
even."
Seven months earlier, on May 12 1932, a man got out of a truck four
miles from the Lindbergh's house and went to urinate among some trees.
There he discovered the body of Charles Augustus and a burlap sack.
Gnawed off or eaten away, presumably by animals, were the left leg
below the knee, both hands and most internal organs. The post-mortem
concluded that death had occurred two or three months before, the
result of a fractured skull. Until then, the Lindberghs had believed
that reckless newspapers and bungling police were damaging their
baby's chances of survival - may even have killed him. Now they faced
the stark probability that nothing they could have done would have
made any difference. Their baby had died that first night, either by
falling to the ground when his taker was balanced on the ladder to the
window with the warped shutters, or by a sharp blow with a hammer to
the head. In 1936, Bruno Richard Hauptmann, a German immigrant living
in the Bronx, was sent to the electric chair, refusing to confess.
The Lindbergh case sent a shudder through America, and led the
American-Japanese furniture designer, Isamu Noguchi, to invent his
Radio Nurse, now known to us as the baby monitor.
The Lindberghs went on to have five more children. Anne Morrow
Lindbergh, as her diary suggests, was a good writer and turned it into
a career. Too-bright optimism sickened her. Reading Virginia Woolf,
she wrote in her diary: "Excited by The Waves [but] I hate those
labored in-between descriptive passages of the sun's rays and birds
cheeping, etc. When I see those italics coming at me, I rage."
Who knows what Kate McCann's diary will be like? This week, watching
her assured exits and entrances on television, it was easy to imagine
that she contained Mrs Lindbergh's "sustained feeling - like a high
note on an organ that has got stuck"; a feeling sustained and quietly
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http://www.sott.net/articles/show/164073-Vile-fantasist-ties-to-sell-d ynamite-Madeleine-McCann-pics
Vile fantasist ties to sell 'dynamite' Madeleine McCann pics
James Millbank
The People
Sun, 17 Aug 2008 15:35 EDT
Maddie McCann's parents are "devastated and furious" over a cruel bid to cash in on their anguish.
Grasping Duarte Levy demanded £50,000 for photographs he claims implicate Kate and Gerry in their daughter's disappearance.
The 23-stone Frenchman said the "dynamite" pictures showed Kate had changed clothes suspiciously the night Maddie vanished.
Despicable Levy also made the ludicrous claim that the 24 photos he was peddling cast doubt on what Gerry and one of the couple's Tapas 7 pals told Portuguese police.
Levy, who said he had close links to the cops, bragged outrageously: "These photos are a bombshell and will force the Maddie case to be re-opened."
The People refused his offers to sell the pictures - and told the McCanns' spokesman Clarence Mitchell of Levy's preposterous claims.
Mr Mitchell branded Levy "a con man and fantastist".
He said: "Kate and Gerry are angry and upset that he is seeking to make money out of Madeleine - it is a disgrace.
"They are no longer suspects and he should not be trying to tarnish their reputation. We thank The People for exposing this man."
A People investigator met Levy in a Brussels hotel last week. Levy said: "I will sell the photos to the highest bidder. I got hold of them through my contacts."
Levy - who is in his 40s and claims to have homes in Spain, Belgium and London - said he had sold pictures and stories about Maddie for tens of thousands of pounds.
He said his new photos showed doctors Kate and Gerry, both 40, dining with their friends in Praia da Luz the night Maddie, then three, disappeared 15 months ago.
Levy claimed that Kate and one of the Tapas 7 changed their clothes.
He also alleged: "The photos were taken between about 8.10pm and 10.15pm and they show that the time lines made by Gerry McCann and another Tapas 7 friend are wrong.
They are dynamite." Levy cruelly scorned Kate and Gerry's belief that Maddie is still alive. He said: "I believe she died in that room during an accident and then her body was moved to a flat in the town where it was kept in a freezer."
The claim is categorically denied by the McCanns and police produced no evidence to support the theory. Levy said the pictures were taken by a Spanish tourist whose camera was later stolen.
He claimed a police source tipped him off after officers found the camera, which he then bought legally.
Levy also tried to convince The People that a well-known British legal firm offered him 600,000 euros (£512,800) for the photographs.
Bizarrely, he said he refused because the lawyers would not agree to his demand that the police should have copies of the pictures.
He also offered The People recordings he claimed to have of the McCanns' financial backer, double-glazing tycoon Brian Kennedy, in a private meeting with Portuguese police.
Mr Mitchell last night said he did not know if Kate changed her clothes and added: "If she did, so what?" He said: "It is no big deal that Mr Kennedy met the police.
"He is interested in all - aspects of the investigation. He is a very hands-on person."
A friend of the McCanns, of Rothley, Leics, said last night: "They have nothing to hide. It appears the Portuguese police are using Levy to leak negative material."
'Photos of couple are a bombshell...I will sell for highest offer' |
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