Videos from Lutonistan

What on earth is going on in Luton? This past week we've had the vile abuse of troops returning from Iraq. I found this video from 2008 and just had one of those "what the fuck," moments. What on earth is this horrendous rabble about?



Then, there's this one where it appears that naked men are writhing around in some kind of ludicrous display of hysteria.



So, now I return to the goings-on this week in Lutonistan when those soldiers, who were given the freedom of the city some time ago for their service, were subjected to abuse as they marched through the streets. It seems that the protest was not very welcome to most of those who had turned out to watch the march. Well done those people of Luton, who took action and demonstrated quite clearly that this vile behaviour was insulting and totally unacceptable.

On International Women's Day Fear of death stalks Pakistani women in Swat

Extracts from AFP article on the women of Swat under Sharia law.

AFP March 7th 2009

Nearly 100 years after the annual day was created to mark the struggle for equal rights for half the world's population, most women in Swat look blank and go silent when asked about gender rights and discrimination.

Last month, the Pakistan government signed a widely criticised agreement with a pro-Taliban cleric to enforce sharia law in exchange for a ceasefire in a region where most locals say the Taliban have become the masters.

Militants have destroyed 191 schools in the valley, 122 of them for girls, leaving 62,000 pupils with nowhere to study, local officials say.

Huma Batool -- not her real name -- is a 42-year-old mother of two who dices with death to teach girls at a private school in the region's main town Mingora.

"We have to veil ourselves and wear shuttlecock burqas. We are not safe even at home. We fear the Taliban all the time. Life is becoming worse and worse for women in Swat," she told AFP by telephone.

Educated and financially self-sufficient, she cannot even pop to the shops without a male relative, leaving her frequently couped up at home for hours, waiting for a suitable escort to become available.

"You cannot imagine how I manage to get to school, practically every day I think about leaving the job and sitting at home."

I will try not to whinge when I have to scrape frost off my car and the heavy morning traffic means that I take 45 minutes to drive 20 miles to the school I work at. This woman, who bravely runs a school for girls has to wait for a male relative to escort her before she leaves her home.

From Atlas Shrugs the brilliantly informative blog by Pamela Geller, I am picking out just a few of Pamela's posts in support of women.

In the UK, a gym class at a private school for girls has been forced to close because Muslim parents have complained about there being boy members. Now, I know that boys can be a real nuisance. Research is said to show that boys demand more attention, but there were only 35 boys included in the 250 members. It seems to me that those Muslim parents should be looking closer to home when thinking about boys in that class.

In my experience as a teacher with over 30 years experience, the boys who are, generally, the biggest pain in the bum are the Muslim boys. In Muslim households, boys tend to be treated much better than their sisters, who are often expected to wait on them like servants. I once came across a five year-old Muslim boy, lying on a couch, with a baby's bottle in his mouth, while his younger sister fetched his shoes for him. He lay there like a fat maggot, sucking baby formula from a bottle that almost disappeared into his fat chops. Yuk! Muslim parents, teach your boys to respect girls and women and then you might see that there really is no harm in a few boys doing gymnastics together with girls.

Daily Mail

Colin Perry, who runs the Shirley Gymnastics Club, said he was saddened by the decision which he said compromised the school's commitment to multiculturalism because of fears of offending a minority.

He is now desperately searching for a new home for the club's 250 members - including 36 boys - which had held mixed-sex classes at the junior school site of Old Palace School, in Croydon, South London, since January last year.

Aqsa Parvez

A young woman living in Canada, who was killed by her father, aided by her own brother, because she wanted to live a life of freedom, like the rest of her classmates. She was buried in a grave marked only by a number and Atlas Shrugs has steadfastly campaigned for a headstone to mark the life of this young woman.

In spite of opposition from Aqsa's family, who seem more concerned about their so-called "honour," in Islamic terms than that Aqsa's own father murdered her, there will be a memorial for Aqsa.

Aqsa Memorial

Hallelujah! Deepest thanks and gratitude to Atlas reader and Fire Chief, Town of Pelham, Scott McLeod, a wonderful man who contacted one of his Municipal Councilors regarding an Aqsa memorial. Councilor Sharon Cook presented a motion to offer an area in the Pelham Peace Park for a suitable Memorial. Sharon Cook, you are a righteous woman!

Yesterday Scott wrote, (To Pamela Geller)

".....on Monday, this week the council of the Town of Pelham passed a resolution to install a memorial to Aqsa Parvez in Peace Park in Fonthill (Smaller community within the Town) We expect to be ready some time later in the year and it likely will be placed in one of the areas where people rest during the day. As indicated before, I will send photo's of the general area where we propose to locate the memorial. I have requested the Clerk of the Town create a copy of the resolution and approval in PDF, which I will then forward to you."

“She wanted to live her life the way she wanted to, not the way her parents wanted her to,” classmate Krista Garbhet said.
“She just wanted to be herself, honestly she just wanted to show her beauty, and not be pushed around by her parents telling her what she has to be like, what she has to do. Nobody would want to do that.”

Over the fall of 2007, Aqsa Parvez shuttled between friends’ houses and youth shelters. She was afraid to go home. Her father, Muhammad, was enraged because she refused to obey his rules. He swore he would kill her.

On the morning of December 10, Aqsa huddled in a Missis­sauga bus shelter with another Grade 11 student, a girl she had been staying with for the past couple of days. They had plenty of time to make it to their first class at Apple­wood Heights Secondary School. As they waited, Aqsa’s 26-year-old brother Waqas, a tow-truck driver, showed up at the bus stop. He said that she should come home and get a fresh change of clothes if she was going to be staying elsewhere. Aqsa hesitated, then got into his car.

Less than an hour later, Muhammad Parvez phoned 911 and told the dispatcher that he had killed his daughter. Within minutes, police and paramedics arrived at 5363 Longhorn Trail, a winding suburban street near Eglinton and Hurontario, and found Aqsa unconscious in her bedroom. The 16-year-old wasn’t breathing. The para­medics started CPR, found a faint pulse, and rushed her to Credit Valley Hospital, 10 minutes west. A few hours later, she was transferred to SickKids and put on life support. She died just after 10 that evening. The official cause was “neck compression”—strangulation. (more here)

Atlas also highlights the story of Ameneh Bahrami, who was blinded in an acid attack by a spurned suitor.

(For seriously disturbing photos, visit Atlas Shrugs)

"Madrid, Spain (CNN)- An Iranian woman living in Spain is welcoming a Tehran court ruling that awards her eye-for-an-eye justice against a suitor who blinded her.

In a Spanish radio interview, she says her aim isn't revenge -- it's to make sure her suffering isn't repeated.

Ameneh Bahrami was blinded and disfigured in 2004 when a man she had spurned threw acid on her. Late last year, an Iranian court reportedly ruled that Islamic justice calls for the attacker to be blinded with acid, too.

But the victim says she is entitled to blind Majid Movahedi in only one eye, because under Iranian law "each man is worth two women."

She also says he would be blinded by having several drops of acid put into one eye, whereas she had acid splashed all over her face and other parts of her body.

She says she's waiting for a letter from the court telling her to go back to Iran for the punishment to be carried out.

Bahrami tells CNN she first crossed paths with her attacker Movahedi in 2002, when they attended the same university. She was a 24-year-old electronics student. He was 19. She never noticed him until they shared a class. He sat next to her one day and brushed up against her. Bahrami says she knew it wasn't an accident.

"I moved away from him," she said, "but he brushed up against me again." When Bahrami stood up in class and screamed for him to stop, Movahedi just looked at her in stunned silence. Bahrami said that over the next two years, Movahedi kept harassing her and making threats, even as he asked her to marry him.

Then one day she was leaving work and he snuck up behind her. When she turned around he threw acid on her face."

Stop abuse of chimps: University of Louisiana research centre abuses chimps.

Chimpanzees are an endangered species, but the New Iberia Research Centre at the University of Louisiana, Lafayette, has 300 of these animals, which they use for invasive research, mostly for pharmaceutical companies. The Humane Society of America made an undercover video of treatment of the chimpanzees at this research centre. As a result of this undercover investigation, the Great Ape Protection Act has just been reintroduced in Congress.



Humane Society US

"A nine-month-long undercover investigation by The HSUS has exposed the mistreatment of nearly 300 chimpanzees and other primates at the New Iberia Research Center (NIRC) in Louisiana. These chimps, living lives of deprivation and misery, are among the more than 1,000 chimps languishing in laboratories across the United States. Chimps, our closet genetic relative, are complex, social, and long-lived creatures. Many chimps currently warehoused in research facilities have lived for decades behind bars. Especially heartbreaking are stories of the 26 elder chimps at NIRC, who were taken from their mothers in the wild.

The Great Ape Protection Act (H.R. 1326) has just been re-introduced in Congress. This legislation aims to end invasive research on the chimpanzees remaining in laboratories, retire the approximately 500 federally-owned chimpanzees to permanent sanctuary (including the elder chimps at NIRC), and make the recent decision by the National Center for Research Resources (part of the National Institutes of Health) to stop funding the breeding of federally-owned chimpanzees permanent."

Dr Orly Taitz may be on the home straight, helped by Obama himself!

Dr Taitz has filed a Pre-Litigation letter to Attorney General Holder, with plaintiffs who would appear to have "standing" to file suit against Barack Obama for disclosure of his documents relating to his eligibility to be POTUS.

"Attorney General, Eric H. Holder Jr.

U.S. Department of Justice

950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW

Washington, DC 20530-0001 USA

March 1, 2009

Honorable Attorney General Holder

Re: Request a Special Assistant for the United States to relate Quo Warranto on Barack Hussein Obama, II to Test His Title to President before the Supreme Court

Relators, Major General Carroll Childers, Ret; Lt. Col Dr. David Earl-Graef; Navy and Police officer Mr. Clinton Grimes; Lt. Scott Easterling, currently serving in Iraq; Major James Cannon, US Marine Corps, Ret; New Hampshire State Representative Mr. Timothy Comerford; Tennessee State Representative Mr. Frank Nicely, State of Alabama 2008 electoral college elector Mr. Robert Cusanelli bring information for Quo Warranto on Barack Hussein Obama, II, testing his title to President per attached relation. Relators include:

Robert Cusanelli, Elector for 7th District, State of Alabama, in the 2008 Electoral College;

Frank Nicely, State Representative of Tennessee in his official capacity;

Timothy Comerford, State Representative of New Hampshire in his official capacity;

Major General Carroll Childers, 29th Infantry Div VA retired, lifetime subject to recall; Numerous decorations

1st Lt. Scott R. Easterling OD LG US Army on active duty in Iraq;

Clint Grimes, Sergeant Long Beach Police Officer & CDR/0-5 US Navy (Active Reserve). Numerous decorations, including two National defense medals, two Navy commendation medals

Dr. David Earl-Graef, Lieutenant Colonel Air Force MC, Military Surgeon- Active Reserve. Numerous decorations including Air Force outstanding unit with valor.

James Cannon Major US Marine Corps, Ret, lifetime subject to recall. Numerous awards, including Bronze Star with combat V and two Purple Hearts

Relator’s oath of office grants standing. Relators are affected by actions of Respondent Obama and the outcome of this Quo Warranto, and thus have interest above citizens.

Information on Quo Warranto against a Federal Officer is normally related to the Attorney General to raise on behalf of the United States in U.S. District court of the District of Columbia per DC Code 16-3502. However, the Attorney General defends the office of President and is appointed by the President. For the Attorney General to bring Quo Warranto on the President raises an intrinsic conflict of interest. USAM 3-2.170 Historically, a Special Prosecutor or Independent Counsel was appointed to eliminate such conflicts of interest, e.g., Attorney General Elliot Richardson appointed Archibald Cox as the Watergate Special Prosecutor over issues touching on President Nixon.

This information on Quo Warranto includes action between the United States ex rel. and the State of Hawaii over original birth records of Barack H. Obama II being withheld per Hawaii’s privacy laws. Hawaii’s action obstructs the constitutional duties of election officers to validate or evaluate President Election Obama qualifications to become President under U.S. CONST. art II - 1 and Amend. XX – 3.

As President Elect, Respondent Obama failed to submit prima facie evidence of his qualifications before January 20, 2009. Election officers failed to challenge, validate or evaluate his qualifications. Relators submit that as President Elect, Respondent Obama failed qualify per U.S. CONST. Amend. XX – 3.

Such negligence and misprision threaten to nullify these essential safeguards. Thus Relators request this Quo Warranto be related to the Supreme Court under its original jurisdiction.

Enclosed is a summary motion for leave to file Quo Warranto on Barack Hussein Obama II aka Barry Soetoro, with the Supreme Court. The list of Questions Presented is attached. A full brief supporting this motion is in preparation.

1) Relators respectfully pray that the Attorney General recuse himself over bringing this Quo Warranto for the United States on Barack H. Obama II, by reason of intrinsic conflict of interest.

2) Relators pray the Attorney General appoint a Special Assistant (prosecutor) of Archibald Cox’s reputation and expertise, to relate this Quo Warranto to the Supreme Court per 28 USC 543.

3) Relators request that their attorney, Orly Taitz, ESQ DDS, assist in relating this Quo Warranto, being recognized at bar before the Supreme Court.

4) Relators further request the assistance of Patrick Fitzgerald, United States Attorney General for the Northern District of Illinois, as having familiarity with issues involving Barack H. Obama II while Senator from Illinois and as President Elect.

5) Relators request guidance from the Attorney General, within one week of receipt of this information, regarding his decision on whether to appoint such a Special Assistant.

With respect, in absence of such guidance, Relators will proceed to request leave from the Supreme Court to relate information for this Quo Warranto on Mr. Obama to test his title.

Yours Sincerely,

Orly Taitz, ESQ

Attorney for Relators

Encl. Motion to Supreme Court for leave to relate Quo Warranto on Barack Hussein Obama II, testing his title to the Federal office of President."

http://defendourfreedoms.us/

When Philip Berg filed suit against Barack Obama last year, demanding that Obama produce his birth certificate and prove his eligibility to be president of the United States, the suit was dismissed for Berg's "lack of standing," to bring such an action. Dozens of other suits have been filed, none of which seems to have progressed very far, either for lack of standing or bureaucratic stalling. Dr Taitz now has 101 plaintiffs, 9 of whom are serving military people, 3 in Iraq, and some on active recall.

If officers of the military, active or on active recall, whose lives can be affected by the president's decisions as Commander in Chief do not have standing, then who does? Who has the right to challenge the person sitting in the White House as president? In my opinion, Barack Obama should show respect for the citizens of his country and just produce the documents which are being requested.

Anyway, folks, a very interesting post on the Lame Cherry blog yesterday. It appears that Barack Obama and his unworthy crew may not have the foresight to see how a certain action may have repercussions for the president. In releasing memos written by George Bush, Obama seems to have opened the way for Dr Orly Taitz's lawsuit since Obama has waived presidential executive privilege. I will post the Lame Cherry article as it stands, rather than try to paraphrase it. Well worth a careful read!

Lame Cherry blogspot

"I highly doubt the lawyers taking up the Obama eligibility cases have noticed that Barack Obama has just laid their golden goose egg in the most inept decision of his administration led by his Justice Department in Eric Holder.

What I mean by this is today in a malevolent, low grade prick move, of leftist origins, Barack Obama released a ton of Bush White House memos concerning executive policy decisions.
Executive privilege is something all Presidents guard with their last breaths, because all executives have something to hide as being President is a dirty job. This is the reason all Presidents in protecting their own future butts with both hands do not ever release past Presidential workings.

Barack Obama though has done just that in a mean spirited, liberal, cutting off your nose to spite your own face. Obama and the goons "think" they are setting a political fire to once again deflect heat from them and instead focus it on George W. Bush to feed him as meat to the liberal press as a continuing Davide Letterman hate object.
The problem in this which I doubt anyone has noticed is Barack Obama by doing this, releasing personal memos, executive discussions and decisions, has opened up his entire political entree in everything he has done since he decided to be President as that is Executive which has legal precedent concerning Richard Nixon in the Committee to Re Elect the President.

See by Birdie Obama doing what he did, now all the smear and quip pro quo which the Obama camp engaged in against John Edwards where the press was fed information to go after Edwards instead of Obama's sexcapades is open to freedom of information.
This means Lawrence Sinclair has legal right to all of Barack Obama notes, files and memos concerning him and anything Obama, his staff or "outsiders" contracted to engage in, for the courts to pour through and find.
This means that Barack Obama's birth certificate, passport, college records, writings from college and all personal information are now subject to access to courts as he was waived the executive and personal privilege right by releasing Bush documents.

Barack Obama is an idiot and I would personally like to thank him for his and his people's political suicide binge they are intent upon for themselves.

As Obama has executive problems in court actions he is now engaged in, this brings this all into the White House in past history which was protected under the law, such as passports and college records. Every last detail is now subject to subpoena and Freedom of Information Act.
The only records the Citizen nor courts can get their hands on are National Security issues, and, there is no way Lawrence Sinclair, Obama's passport, John Edwards or just what Joe Biden did o secure his choice of jobs with Obama is covered.
There are now no confidential conversations nor memos as Obama has waved this for George Bush 43 when Obama leaked to the press confidential conversations and now with the release of Presidential documents.

So Orly Taitz and company, the balls are bouncing in your court. There are legal precedents from Richard Nixon being hounded to now Barack Obama handing the entire game to those seeking to find the Truth on Birdie Obama.

Thanks Birdie, but I still doubt these chickens have figured out the egg you just laid.

agtG Posted by Lame Cherry at 4:49 PM "

From sea to shining sea: the new American tea party

Rick Santelli, former trader and financial executive is the one who started the ball rolling, or the tea bag brewing, for tea parties to be held all over the United States. When Obama spokesman, Robert Gibbs, suggested giving Santelli a "cup of decaf," Santelli responded that he'd rather have a cup of tea and the tea party idea was born.

Daily Telegraph UK blog

"An on-air editor for CNBC and former trader and financial executive, Santelli's recent live broadcast - self-described as a rant - from the floor of the Chicago Board of Trade gave voice to populist rage about Obama's economic policies and electrified conservatives. His suggestion there should be a modern-day version of the Boston Tea Party has inspired conservatives to hold protest tea parties across America today and instantaneously propelled him to national prominence.

Santelli on Obama: "This is America! How many of you people want to pay for your neighbors' mortgage that has an extra bathroom and can't pay their bills? ... President Obama, are you listening?" Obama's spokesman Robert Gibbs on Santelli: "I feel assured that Mr. Santelli doesn't know what he's talking about... I'd be happy to buy him a cup of coffee - decaf."

Tea parties already held:

Washington, DC

Feb. 27
12-2 pm: White House (VENUE CHANGE)

Los Angeles, CA

Feb.27

9:00am - 10:00am: Santa Monica Pier
Contact: Moxie - moxie@moxie.nu
Facebook

Atlanta, GA

Feb. 27
12-1 pm: Washington St., side of the Georgia State Capitol
Contact: mmealling@masten-space.com

Cleveland, OH

Feb. 27
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EST: 1 Public Square, Cleveland, OH 44113
Website

St. Louis, MO

Feb. 27
11:00am-12:00pm - The Steps of Arch
Wharf Street, St. Louis, MO
Contact: bill@hennessysview.com
Facebook

Springfield, MO

Feb. 27
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm: Lake Springfield Park, Springfield, MO
Contact: thedangerousone@live.com
Info

Houston, TX

Feb. 27
11:00am - 2:00pm
Where: Fondren Green at Discovery Green Park, in front of Amphitheatre.
Houston, TX
Contact: fcravens1@peoplepc.com

Fort Worth, TX

Feb. 27
3:00pm-7:00pm: The Cowtown Bar & Grill on 7108 Camp Bowie Blvd Fort Worth, TX 76116
Contact: (817) 570-7910
Website

San Diego, CA

Feb. 27
9:00 am - 10:00 am
San Diego Bay - just north of the Star of India, San Diego, CA
Contact: 619-606-0337
Organizer: Dawn Wildman of the Neighborhood Republican Club
Info

Jackson, MI

Feb. 27
11:00am-1:30pm: Where: Capital Building steps in Jackson
Starts with a meet and greet for an hour.

Seattle, WA

12:15 pm - 1:15 pm: Westlake Park, 410 Pine St. by the big arch.
Organizer: Keli Carendar
WHAT TO BRING: We are having a real tea party during lunch, so bring your lunch, a seat, a blanket; bring a cup of tea (or coffee, sshhh we won’t tell), a hat, an umbrella, your sense of fun and patriotism. Most importantly, bring a box of tea bags. We will provide you with Little Liberty Tea Wrappers printed with messages to President Obama that you can sign. We will then collect all of the tea bags and send them on to Washington D.C. Also, if you can bring a pen and maybe a stapler…that would help.
More info

Fort Meyers Beach, FL

Feb. 27

11:30am-1:00pm: Bowditch Point Park, 50 Estero Blvd., Fort Myers Beach, FL
Contact: katraky@gmail.com
Info

Wichita, KS

Feb. 27
11:30 pm - 12:30 pm: Farm Credit Bank Building, 245 N. Waco, Wichita, KS
Contact: renaissancelady46@yahoo.com
Info

Kansas City, MO

Feb. 28
One mile walk to Senator Claire McCaskill’s office.
10:00am: J.C. Nichols Fountain, 47th and J.C. Nichols Parkway
Email: KansasCityTeaParty@yahoo.com

Many more planned. For info:

http://newamericanteaparty.com/?page_id=78

DCTea Party: Joe the Plumber



St Louis Tea Party

Dr Alan Keyes: Stop Obama or US will cease to exist.

Dr Alan Keyes gained his PhD in Government Affairs from Harvard University and is an acknowledged expert on the US Constitution. Listen to what he says about Barack Obama's birth certificate and his eligibility to be president of the United States.



Dr. Orly Taitz is the principal attorney behind the Keyes lawsuit and founder of Defend Our Freedoms Foundation. Dr. Taitz was born in the Former Soviet Union.

http://defendourfreedoms.us/

The most recent person to join Dr Taitz's action against Barack Obama is a military officer, serving in Iraq. Details on Orly's site. Here is an extract from the officer's letter:

"To Any and All Interested Parties,

As an active-duty Officer in the United States Army, I have grave concerns about the constitutional eligibilty of Barack Hussein Obama to hold the Office of President of The United States. He has absolutely refused to provide to the American public his original birth certificate, as well as other documents which may prove or disprove his eligibility. In fact, he has fought every attempt made by concerned citizens in their effort to force him to do so.

Until Mr. Obama releases a "vault copy" of his original birth certificate for public review, I will consider him neither my Commander in Chief nor my President, but rather, a usurper to the Office - an impostor.

My conviction is such that I am compelled to join Dr. Orly Taitz's lawsuit, as a plaintiff, against Mr. Obama. As a citizen, it pains me to do this, but as an Offficer, my sworn oath to support and defend our Constitution requires this action."

Dr Ron Polarik, speaking about the forensic investigation of the certificate for Barack Obama which was presented on the internet. This is the only certificate to have been produced.



And the wonderful Dr David Manning of the Atlah (formerly Harlem) ministry.

What Islam is not.

My thanks go to Dr Alan Clifford of Norwich Reformed Church for bringing this video to my attention.

From Seattle to Denver to Mesa Arizona. Another protest today against the "Porkulus" spending plan.

It seems that there is a rising tide of protest against president Obama's Stimulus Plan. Today, Obama will visit Mesa Arizona and be met with protesters. All is not well in Obama La-La Land what with all the lawsuits currently being filed about his eligibility and Stephen Pidgeon's National Grand Jury Declaration

"Pursuant to First Amendment (The right of the people peaceably to assemble), the Ninth Amendment (The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people), and the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution for the United States of America (The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people), this National Grand Jury is convened by natural born citizens of the fifty several states and of the United States of America, seating 50 jurors pursuant to the duties, powers, responsibilities, qualifications as established hereunder for the following purposes:

• To examine all aspects of the federal government by initiating its own investigations.
• To serve as ombudsmen for the citizens of the country in respect to constitutional rights. and privileges established under the organic documents of the United States of America, as properly amended from time to time.
• To conduct criminal investigations of members of the federal government, and, if the evidence is sufficient, issue criminal indictments."

Then there's Larry Sinclair's book, "Barack Obama & Larry Sinclair: Cocaine, Sex, Lies & Murder." Larry took delivery of the first few hundred copies of the first edition this week, for signing, numbering and sending out. The book will be available to the general public in book stores from March 1st.

I don't know what has happened to Larry's site this morning. There seems to be a blank white page where the articles were. Has Larry's site been hacked? He's certainly had a great many threats, both about the book and about the site.

Watch the news video here of the protest in Seattle:

http://www.kirotv.com/video/18727718/index.html

Denver Anti-Stimulus Rally and Pig Roast.





Bruce Jacobs of KFYI on the planned "Mock Demonstration," for the Obama visit to Mesa, Arizona. Information about the protest, gathering area etc, can be found on the KFYI web site

Barack Obama: "I'll make our government open and transparent."

Transcript of the video:

(Please watch this video with reference to the video I posted on Friday February 13th, of John Boehner talking about members of Congress having 12 hours, from midnight, to read through 1100 pages of the "Stimulus Bill," before voting on it.)

Barack Obama "Public Will Have 5 Days To Look At Every Bill That Lands On My Desk"

Obama said:

"I'll also be instituting an absolute ???? (can't make out the word) so that no registered lobbyist of this ???? (and again!) can curry favour with members of my administration based on how much they can spend on a fancy dinner.

I'll make our government open and transparent so that anyone can ensure that our business is the people's business.

Just as Louis Brandeis once said, "Sunlight is the greatest disinfectant," and as president I'm gonna make it impossible for Congressmen or lobbyists to slip pork barrel projects (*) or corporate welfare into laws when no one's looking because when I'm president, meetings where laws are written will be more open to the public: no more secrecy. That's a committment I make to you as president.

No more secrecy.

And when there's a bill that ends up on my desk as president, you the public will have five days to look online and find out what's in it before I sign it so that you know what your government's doing.

When there are meetings between lobbyists and a government agency, we'll put as many as po...as many of those meetings as possible online for every American to watch.

When there's a tax bill being debated in Congress, you will know the names of the corporations that would benefit and how much money they would get and we will put every corporate tax break and every pork barrel project online for every American to see and you can decide whther your representative's actually representing you."

The Stimulus Bill broke 7 Obama promises.

1. Make government open and transparent.

2. Make it "impossible" for Congressmen to slip in pork barrel projects.

3. Meetings where laws are written will be more open to the public. (Even Congressional Republicans shut out.)

4. No more secrecy.

5. Public will have 5 days to look at a bill.

6. You’ll know what’s in it.

7. We will put every pork barrel project online.

(*) Pork barrel projects:Typically, "pork" involves funding for government programs whose economic or service benefits are concentrated in a particular area but whose costs are spread among all taxpayers. Public works projects, certain national defense spending projects, and agricultural subsidies are the most commonly cited examples.

Trillion Dollar Spending Bill - 1100 pages that no one gets the time to read!

Fitna by Geert Wilders

I have read and heard people saying that Wilders has taken sentences out of context from the Qur'An. I have checked what are thought to be accurate translations by well-respected Islamic scholars and the wording of the texts quoted by Wilders is perfect. However, I am willing to be convinced. So, if someone can show me in what way these are taken out of context, ie., what the original intention was, if different, AND they can show me texts from the Qur'An which are comparable to Jesus teachings from The Sermon on The Mount, eg., "Love your neighbour," and "Love your enemy," then I may reconsider my opinion about the Qur'An being a book of hatred towards Jews and Christians.

Maybe someone could show me a quote from the Qur'An that expresses a similar sentiment to 1st Corinthians 13: "Faith, hope and Love, and the greatest of these is love." Note: this is not just referring to love for your fellow Jews or your fellow Christians. The love here is not qualified. So, is there such a text? Faith, hope and love for ALL of your fellow humans, totally unqualified as believers in Allah, just everyone? Please show me.

Fitna Part 1



Fitna Part 2

Glen Beck presents.....

The Obama National Anthem.



Star Parker on Obama's birth certificate.



And here is Mr Obama not saluting the Star Spangled Banner unlike everyone else on the platform.

The McCanns spent only 13% of the Madeleine fund in searching for their daughter.

3/02/09: http://sosmaddie.dhblogs.be/

The "Madeleine," Fund received nearly 3 million Euros from private donors, but the accounts do not explain where all the money has gone and do not even mention payments on the McCanns' mortgage or mobile phones.

See the original Madeleine Fund accounts (in English) on the SOS Madeleine McCann web site.

The fund, "Leaving No Stone Unturned Limited," created by Kate and Gerry McCann, nine days after Madeleine's disappearance from the apartment in Praia da Luz, received, up to March 2008, nearly three million Euros in donations, but only 13.3% of the money has been squandered, the couple say, in the investigations to find their daughter.

The Madeleine Fund accounts from May 2007 to March 2008 were only disclosed after TVI touched on a few aspects of the use to which the McCanns put the money, in the programme "As Tardes da Julia."

According to the document, to which we have had access, the fund created to finance the search for Madeleine received, up to March 2008, a total of 2,819,403 Euros, of which scarcely 1,222,699 Euros (43.37%) has been spent, most of it for running expenses. The fund now shows a balance of 1,596,733 Euros (56.63%)

Curiously, the McCanns squandered 122,856 Euros (4.36%) on posters and ads, but the document does not specify where exactly these publicity materials were distributed, which leaves a few commentators puzzled, because the various poster and "outdoors," ads distribution campaigns announced by the British media for Portugal and Spain never happened, even in Morocco, the country where the investigators hired by the couple claimed that Maddie was to be found. The only posters distributed were those that Kate and Gerry took during their visit and which they gave to the children who were gathered for the occasion.

Another curious fact is that in the fund accounts there is no mention either of the amounts the couple used to make two payments on the mortgage taken out on the purchase of their house, paid with donated money, as was confirmed to the press by Clarence Mitchell, former head of Tony Blair's government's Media Monitoring Unit and spokesman for the McCanns.

The accounts state that the couple spent 224,529 Euros (7.96%) on public relations and media monitoring, expenses that do not include - if we take account of their own statements - Clarence Mitchell's salary, but which reveal a constant concern with what is going to be said in the media, not forgetting the internet where the couple's lawyers have threatened some of those who do not believe in the theory of Maddie's abduction.

Since May 2007, the internet has been a constant concern for the McCanns, which could possibly explain the amount wasted on the creation and maintenance of the internet pages for the fund and the online shop, where you can buy t-shirts, bracelets and other items related to the little girl: according to the outgoings now made public, the site cost 55,606 Euros (1.97%) in eleven months of activity.

The Madeleine Fund is not a charity, but it is rich, very rich.

While Madeleine's body is not found, the Madeleine fund, "Leaving No Stone Unturned Limited," has its future assured - as long as its legal purpose is to continue to look for Maddie - and financial health that many companies envy, particularly in times of crisis: after 11 months of work, the fund shows a current balance of 1,596,733 Euros, being 56.63% of receipts.

Contrary to what was thought initially, the fund created by the McCanns on May 12th 2007 - scarcely 9 days after Madeleine had disappeared - is not a charity which, according to a former spokesperson for the couple, is explained by the fact that the couple do not wish to be bound by the strict conditions of management imposed by the commission that oversees this type of business, the "Charity Commission," where they would be obliged to scrupulously respect the objectives of the fund and to fully disclose outgoings and receipts.

Being a private fund, the Madeleine Fund is regulated by the same department as small and medium-sized businesses (Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform - BERR) and as such, after the first year of activity, it is only obliged to submit a summary of accounts.

Duarte Levy (London)

If the elections were today, Amaral would be elected president.

SOS Madeleine McCann 3/02/09

The Maddie case led to Amaral's being dropped as a candidate.

If the Portuguese local elections were today, "Gonçalo Amaral would win with 53% of the vote," defeating the current socialist Mayor of the town of Olhão (Algarve). This is what the leader of the Algarve region's Social-Democrats, Mendes Bota, says, quoting a poll commissioned by his party. (PSD)

The former coordinator of the Department of Criminal Investigation (DIC) for the Portimão PJ had been approached by the local party leaders to become their candidate for the post of Mayor of Olhão, a town where the socialists have not lost since the carnation revolution in 1974.

In spite of the excellent results for Gonçalo Amaral in the poll by the Institute for Market Research and Public Opinion, commissioned by the Algarve PSD, the Social-Democrat Party's National Policy Committee ruled out the candidate without giving, "any reason for rejecting the nominated candidate, as the party's regional leader confirmed.

According to the poll commissioned by the Algarve PSD, conducted between January 22nd and 23rd, the former coordinator of the investigation into Madeleine McCann's disappearance would have overtaken the current Mayor, Francisco Amaral (PS), in the polls, obtaining a "comfortable victory" for the PSD which they would never otherwise obtain.

It was Manuela Ferreira Leite, the PSD's national president who was the foremost opponent of Gonçalo Amaral's candidacy, rejecting the "promiscuity between politics and the law," a justification that convinced neither the activists nor the regional officers, who stated that they were "saddened," by the decision.

According to the National PSD's decision, Gonçalo Amaral will not be the party's candidate, and any possibility to support him from a list of independents would also have been ruled out.

British influence ruled out Gonçalo Amaral.

""It was Mendes Bota himself who said that Dr Amaral was an excellent candidate and that, for the first time, the PSD would win the elections," a Social-Democrat activist in Olhão stated after the announcement that the ex-coordinator of the PJ would not be the PSD candidate for Mayor of the town, adding, "it's an unbelievable decision. I want to know why. It's the least they can do."

In spite of the justification put forward by the party's national leader, there are those who suggest other explanations, notably the right of the British to vote in the local elections: "they (the English) have the right to vote in the locals, and they were not going to vote for the PSD anywhere if Gonçalo Amaral was our candidate in Olhão," an activist stated.

Gerry McCann's recent meeting, during his visit to Portugal, with a member of the PSD's national committee and the party's national leader's frequent visits to London, is not going to calm things down, even raising questions in the media.

According to a local party official, it is effectively "external factors," which dictated the dropping of the candidacy for Amaral, "who has an enviable cv," but the orders from Lisbon are quite specific: Gonçalo Amaralwill not be the PSD's candidate in any town in the country.

Duarte Levy

SOS Madeleine McCann: Metodo 3 under investigation in a case of embezzlement and money laundering.

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2/02/09

Metodo 3, the Catalan detective agency hired by Kate and Gerry McCann to look for their daughter Madeleine, is today cited in a large scale investigation launched by the Spanish authorities involving six ministers of the Generalitat of Catalonia.(*)

According to a memo from the prosecutor's office, in recent years, the Catalan government, has allegedly commissioned and paid for a significant number of reports that seem to have no purpose or interest, quoting by way of an example, "the socio-economic enquiry on hazelnut farming," commissioned to the Metodo 3 detective agency for the modest sum of 30,000 Euros.

According to the prosecutor's office in charge of the investigation, we will be looking at a case of embezzlement and money laundering.

The Spanish authorities' investigation follows accusations by the "clean hands," collective and targets a case of embezzlement and money laundering, as confirmed by the prosecutor's office.

Metodo 3: after Maddie, the search for hazelnuts.

It was the Agriculture adviser, the socialist, Joaquim Llena, who commissioned from Francisco Marco - director of Metodo 3 - a "socio-economic enquiry into hazelnut farming," costing 30,000 Euros.

According to a spokesperson for the prosecutor's office, "only the name of the agency linked to such an investigation, drove the investigators to wonder about the real purpose envisioned by the adviser's commission."

According to a source close to the investigation, the report presented by Metodo 3 about the Tarragona region, the region in Spain that produces most hazelnuts, was allegedly copied word for word from the internet, information elsewhere confirmed by "El Confidencial," which states that Metodo 3 allegedly copied word for word a report previously published by the region's official newspaper on its internet site.

In Spain, Metodo 3 has already been linked to other scandals linked to the world of politics and finance and, recently, has been investigated for its work in the investigation into Madeleine McCann's disappearance where one of Francisco Marco's close associates, António Jimenez, has been accused of having taken several British journalists to meet witnesses, who were paid in advance to say that they had seen the little British girl in Morocco. Metodo 3's associate, head of the Maddie investigation was, thereafter, arrested in a case of trafficking and theft of cocaine.

According to sources linked to the legitimate Metodo 3, several detectives in its service have called into question Francisco Marco's competence in the Madeleine McCann investigation, accusing him of having destroyed the agency's credibility, notably after having set up a disastrous communication strategy.

According to the prosecutor's office, the embezzlement and money laundering could involve huge amounts of public money.

Duarte Levy & A. Finkelstein

2/02/09

(* The Generalitat de Catalunya ("Government of Catalonia") is the institution under which the Spanish Autonomous Community of Catalonia is politically organised. It consists of the Parliament, the President of the Generalitat and the Executive Council or Government of Catalonia.)

SOS Madeleine McCann: McCann - Charm Offensive.

SOS Madeleine McCann 1/02/09

"New year, New Life."

In Portugal, as the start of each new calendar year is marked, the Portuguese, the eternal sardine munchers - as they were described by a few xenophobic British commentators - have the habit of using, along with best wishes, a typical expression: "New year, new life," which in French can be translated as "nouvelle anneé, nouvelle vie (*)" An expression the McCanns probably learned from their Portuguese lawyers, not forgetting their Social Democrat friends.

Meanwhile, the recent visit to Portugal by Madeleine McCann's father is the epitome of an new kind of charm offensive which has allowed the couple to open "hostilities": after being in agreement with their seven British friends not to participate in the reconstruction of the events and actions of the night of May 3rd, the couple have allegedly found the willingness to cooperate with the Portuguese authorities, stating that they are convinced that there are still things that could be done in the investigation into their daughter's disappearance.

Reassuring the Portuguese media that there would be no legal action against them, while in London he was succeeding, once again, in making a British daily back down - forcing another "contribution," to the Madeleine fund - Gerry McCann announced, in preparation for Kate's next visit, that it was the first of many visits.

Arriving at Faro airport on January 13th, Gerry McCann stayed on Portuguese territory for twenty-two hours in order to meet, according to his spokesman, the couple's lawyer and the British Ambassador to Lisbon.

A "surprise" visit, announced in advance by several British and Portuguese media, who say that the year 2009, in terms of communication and image, would bring a few surprises.

Action - Reaction.

Amongst the new resolutions adopted by the McCanns, always very aware of what is being said on the internet (blogs and forums) and in the media, we find the motto "action - reaction", evidenced in the recent "disclosure" of accounts for the fund created after the disappearance of Madeleine's body.

After the use of money from the Madeleine fund to pay Kate and Gerry McCann's expenses, without any direct connection to the hunt for Maddie, was touched upon by a Portuguese television channel (TVI), number one in the ratings, the couple's advisers reacted immediately, producing a summary of the accounts which explain nothing about the real use of the money. Some might even say that this reaction was designed to "pull the rug from under" foreign journalists, because, in the United Kingdom few still have the opportunity to doubt or to question the couple's good intentions, as can be deduced from the few articles published about the accounts.

In the United Kingdom, in spite of the restrictions imposed by the editors-in-chief and the huge sums paid without any kind of legal proceedings, some still happen to be writing about the McCanns.

According to a British tabloid, after 21 months "of agony" Kate McCann is allegedly "obsessed with the search for her daughter," spending three hours a day reading documents in the hope that they could answer the question: "where has our Madeleine gone?"

The very title of the article sets the tone: "Inside the mind of Kate McCann". The journalist doesn't explain how he managed such a feat (getting into such a "tortured" mind), but it is certain that the PJ would be interested to learn the technique which might lead them to find out the answers to the questions that Kate McCann refused to answer, notably this one: what did Kate McCann do on the afternoon and evening of May 3rd 2007.

According to this article - an integral part of the McCanns' new marketing campaign in the British press - Kate spends a significant amount of her time reading the thousands of pages of the 17 volumes of the investigation into her daughter's disappearance, the same documents which a few days ago, her husband and the couple's spokesman, said were still in the process of being translated, but "where there was no evidence."

Again, according to this tabloid, after Madeleine's disappearance, Kate McCann left her job as a general practitioner and while "the twins Sean and Amélie enjoy playing with their friends at nursery," she devotes her time to "digging up clues that would lead her to her daughter."

The article recounts a few more details of that surprising "visit", without, however, providing answers to the investigators' questions....we wonder what that journalist has been doing "inside the mind of kate McCann." It is probably for lack of response that the tabloid changed the title of the article.

Three months away from the second anniversary of Madeleine McCann's disappearance, the McCanns' new public charm campaign has well and truly started and other similar articles are to be expected from the British press.

Duarte Levy.

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Marcos Aragão Correia: the return

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Léonor Cipriano's lawyer, Marcos Aragão Correia, has seen the suspension imposed by the Bar Association lifted, but he must still face a disciplinary process for his actions in the Madeleine McCann case, but also in the context of the trial of the five PJ inspectors.

True to himself, the layer who also calls himself a medium, now accuses the presiding judge of the court in Faro, Henrique Pavão, of having a "dangerous liaison," with Me António Cabrita, Gonçalo Amaral's defence lawyer.

Marcos Aragão Correia's accusations were made after his expulsion from the courtroom, following his suspension by the Conduct Committee of the Madère Bar Association. A complaint against the judge was lodged with the Senior Committee of Magistrates.

Marcos and the Maddie case.

On May 6th 2007, (3 days after Madeleine's disappearance) Marcos Aragão Correia stated that so-called sources in the underworld told him that Madeleine MCann had been raped and killed and that her body had been thrown into a "dark lake." Under pressure to identify his alleged sources, he ended up changing his version of the story and said he was a spiritualist, medium: after having participated in a spiritualists' meeting on the night of May 5th, the lawyer claims that he had a vision of a four year-old child "abducted, raped, killed and the her body thrown into a lake or a dam."

In October 2007, he claimed that he had sent a recorded letter from the island of Madiera to Rothley, addressed to the McCanns, apparently containing details, clues and crucial evidence in the case. He also claims that he informed the PJ in Funchal (Madiera)

In the same month, he announced that the famous letter never reached the hands of the McCanns, in spite of the fact that someone allegedly signed for its receipt.

In November 2007, he decided to take legal action against the Portuguese postal system, the CTT, accusing them of not having correctly delivered the letter to the McCanns. According to the lawyer, an officer of the postal services allegedly wrongfully signed the receipt for the letter, but his legal action was considered unfounded and he was sentenced to pay court costs, being a sum of 100 Euros.

In statements to the press, Marcos claims that he only wrote to the McCanns giving them the information, in the absence of a response on the part of the PJ to to information he claimed to have furnished in Madiera.

In December 2007, the liaison between the lawyer and the private detectives becomes obvious. It is then that he is going to become more insistent about his version regarding the presence of Maddie's body in the waters of the Arade Dam where he is going to pay British divers to probe the depths.

Presented in the British media as a Good Samaritan, the lawyer stated that he paid the 1250 Euros daily expenses for the divers from the Dive Time Society of Lagos, with money from Metodo 3.

If the Good Samaritan doesn't have a sense of the ridiculous, he has, however, the concept of the value of the media and he finds ways to alert the British and Portuguese media so that they are present at key moments in the searches: first of all he brings from the water, an ordinary piece of rope which he is going to use to put across the image of a child tied up. After this are black plastic bags containing animal bones, but of which he is going to put across the message that it could be the bones of a child's hand. Finally, after the intervention of the PJ, he will admit that it was really the bones of cats.

He goes as far as stating that he is 99% certain that Madeleine's body will be found in the dam.

In spite of the intervention of the Portuguese authorities confirming that they really did come from a litter of kittens, the meagre findings of Marcos Aragão Correia - at least this is what he stated to the press - will be sent to Barcelona where Metodo 3 had specialists ready to carry out examinations. The results were never disclosed because, as it became obvious, there was nothing to say, confirming once again that the lawyer's only objective was to feed doubt about the official investigation.

Today, Marcos Aragão continues his work. He has become lawyer for Léonor Cipriano, even if his main objective remains the former coordinator of the investigation into the death and disappearance of Madeleine McCann: Goncalo Amaral.

SOS Madeleine McCann: 24/01/09

Christina Hinderer is now back home.

Christina Hinderer - endangered runaway

Christina, who disappeared from her home in Texas last year, was found on January 9th and I am pleased to report that she is now back home in Texas.

Christina disappeared on October 7th last year and was located in Long Island, New York, thanks to the hard work of her mother in publicising Christina's disappearance via the internet and hiring her own detective.

My very best wishes to Christina and her family while Christina settles back into the family home and for the family to work together towards peace and understanding.

God bless you Christina's mum, who never gave up looking for your daughter.

Paulo Sargento: "Public opinion has been manipulated in the Maddie case" Updated 23/01/09

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21/01/09

(Updated: exclusive interview with Duarte Levy. Video available on the SOS Madeleine McCann web site. Images by Joana Morais.)

"It is most natural for people whose child has disappeared, to prefer to have around them the police and people who, technically, are going to help them find her and not to go looking, to give an example, for a priest, and immediately after that, an image consultant. It's a simple question...This preoccupation (of the McCanns) leads us to think of something fundamental: in addition to the possible disappearance, there were other incidental concerns and those have grown in importance (in relation to the possible disappearance)"

DL: In relation to the McCann case, what parallels can be drawn between these two cases? Two little girls who disappeared and parents who claim to be innocent.

PS: Categorically, we have two or three questions...the first is unequivocal. Two little girls disappear, don't reappear, no body is found.

Second question: in both cases, from the outset, they claim, let's say, the theory of kidnap. Such as in the case of Léonor Cipriano, such as in the case of Madeleine McCann. Well...and this kidnap is still claimed by the parents. So, the theory of kidnap has been given out by the parents from the start. There is, nevertheless, a huge difference. It is that in relation to the Léonor Cipriano case, the case of little Joana, the transition from innocence to suspicion is rapid.

Rapidly, in one or two weeks, Léonor Cipriano ceased being an innocent mother for whom the whole world felt sad during the previous two weeks, notably in television programmes, where the mother cried, presented the little girl's portrait and gave out this fact, that theory that the little girl had allegedly been taken by a paedophile or someone like that, but who, thereafter, began to be suspected, investigated and then imprisoned, while in the McCann case, that shift, let's say, of assertion of guilt was generally made much later.

And from a sociological point of view, there is, in criminological terms, a clash of social levels because Léonor Cipriano is a poor woman without, let's say, political protection, nobody, because she is a simple unknown from the Algarve region, who had already, in a way...she had a charge linked in a way, to the courts, because she was on file by the Commission for Minors as being a bad mother, etc etc, and rapidly the system is inverted. In comparison to the McCanns!! Because they are of a higher social class, foreigners with protection, by all accounts, at a higher political level. And this transition took longer. But that also means one thing.

The time has come that the truth cannot be hidden forever, however overdue, things are starting to take shape. But here, the question of social level also makes us rethink all the criteria of justice, in the sense that we can think that there are two kinds of justice, according to the social class the person fits into.

DL: With regards to public opinion in the two cases, to the extent that the reaction of public opinion, notably in Portugal, was different from one case to the other, and nowadays how can we explain, for example, that there were no appearances in Joana's case, but there were very emotional appearances in Madeleine McCann's case?

PS: That question is a very interesting one. That question leads us to think that public opinion is more sensitive, has been more sensitive also in the case, in the fact that it is foreign citizens, who are away from their home country, and we Portuguese, this question we have...this hospitality of being a friendly people, who like to be welcoming, with great social skill, this is....we very much like to help and do what needs to be done.In the first instance, that was one of the questions that helped others to make this case a media event. Because there was interest for other reasons, and these were more secret concerns, which won't be easy to explain, which time will tell, which the investigation will explain. One basic reason is that the people joined in en masse. The people made Madeleine a kind of adopted daughter of Portugal which is an interesting thing. And from that perspective, this helped to create, almost a kind of popular search patrol. A kind of popular search militia which to a certain extent could have helped on the one hand, to confuse the police, and on the other hand to find other leads first. So, that is one of the questions.

With regard to the appearances, I always make the comparison with the Roswell case in the USA. The USA, 40 years after Roswell, has continued with almost daily appearances of UFOs and it is all the films that are made, the great sagas with aliens, by Stephen Spielberg and with the war of the worlds. However, there is something Plato said...a very simple thing about myths. Myths are something that attract a scam, a fabulous story, a lie, but it is astonishing how it also explains reality when reason escapes us.

And here, it is the same thing. As long as these appearances are kept up, this myth, the Maddie myth then, if it was the Middle ages, Maddie would have already been beatified and sanctified. Nowadays, she isn't. Because of this fact, fortunately, it is not a problem in our time. But the myth, the appearance, or rather, Maddie's appearances are similar to appearances of UFOs, maintaining....we know that she is no longer alive, but we maintain this theory in our imagination, we know that it doesn't exist, we have good evidence that extraterrestrial life doesn't exist, at least in the extremes, of the kind like Orson Wells wanted to show in the war, when he simulated the invasion by green Martians.

There might be another possibility, but we always have the mistrust that it perhaps exists. Now another curious myth is that there remains and this is a polarisation of human thought, which persists in fact, to preserve the mistake, which is, the appearances which were more negative, more consequential, which were those in Morocco, those were the ones which, for a long time, were the most credible for a certain mass media. People swore on these appearances when we were of the opposite opinion. If I have had three negative appearances, I must immediately think that it's personal, it's about the people, the population is more susceptible, is more open to suggestion and so, there are going to be more things where they don't exist, but that curiously serves, putting this in quotations marks, "to feed," the press and maintain the theory of kidnap going around with no basis whatsoever. So, if there are appearances, it is because, yes, people put this aside and continue to believe that effectively it is a kidnap.

DL: In cases of kidnap which have been proven, where sometimes the body is not found, we always talk of grieving. The necessity for parents to find the body to grieve. In Madeleine McCann's case, to what extent does public opinion need to grieve in this case?

PS: There is a need, and that, it's a fundamental question even for, let's say, closing the case. As long as we do not know truly what happened, there is still a remnant of mistrust. Grieving helps us to compensate for a loss. That means, if we want a quick definition of grief, it is: how I succeed in filling a gap?

How do I succeed at least, in making up for the often devastating effects, from the emotional point of view that this loss has caused? And as a general rule, there must be markers. It is no coincidence that we have cemeteries. We, purely and simply, could mourn, allowing bodies to decompose naturally as nature intends and nothing more.

But no. We have symbols. Symbols which are going to help us be sure that he is there, that this happened, that it is over, and this symbol allows us a transition from the one who was real, who existed, for a memory that is another kind of reality which is proven. And as long as that doesn't happen, as long as there isn't concrete proof, the ambivalence continues and thus the appearances, because as long as we don't know that she is dead, it is possible that she is alive.

So, and it is those, I say, who have a certain interest in a certain press and in a certain type of movement of information around this case who maintain the appearances, at strategic times and circumstances, as a form of information to avoid the grief. That is to say...if we were to think about another case, the Castelo de Paiva case, where, as we all know, 4/5 years ago, a bus with many people fell...an outing...fell...where many people died where the bodies didn't reappear.

We understand that people from the families of the bodies that did not reappear had the greatest difficulty in closing that chapter of their lives. From a sociological point of view, we are going to have great difficulty in closing this event, the Maddie chapter, as long as we don't know what truly happened, as long as we don't have, let's say, the obvious proof. As long as we succeed in giving a nocravo e na ferradura *, this phenomenon will, for that reason, not end. Never....It is as if we may never again be at peace, never be at peace with Maddie as long as we effectively don't know, black on white: the little girl is dead. That's what happened and it's over. She will always be in limbo between truth and lie. She will always be a kind of phantom who is going to haunt Portugal and England and the relationship between the two nations.

* I don't know what this means! Sorry! It looks idiomatic to me. So, maybe if there is a Portuguese speaker here, we can be offered a translation. Thank you!

DL: But....and concerning the couple? Concerning Kate and Gerry McCann, from the known images, from the couple's attitude, can we conclude that they have already grieved?

PS: No, no, I wouldn't come to that conclusion. I would conclude otherwise. All of us alive, all living human beings, have pacts. Things happen, more or less terrible, according to our value system and to the relative severity around the events and the way in which we live intensely and the way we make pacts. What is common here, to both, in the circumstances of couples, for example, who have lost a child, in one way or another, and here we are not discussing the problem of whether there is or is not responsibility, for the obvious fact that they have lost their child.

It is basically...this is described in psychological research, having break-ups. Marital break-ups happen sometimes after these events occur. And Why? Simply because we mustn't think that two people grieve for a shared situation at the same time. This is a key point in perceiving the phenomenon. As luck would have it, one of them will do it before the other. And the one who does it before the other, at a given moment stops having a fixation; for example, with the death or loss of a child, starts to have a so-called normal life. Starts to smile again, starts to go out again, starts to go out to dinner again, starts to....well, life is for living! Because he has reached a resolution, he has already repaired the devastating emotional effects and the other has not! And here, the conflict begins.

Who will be like, "how can you want to go out to dinner when it's hardly two years since our child died?" So, there, those who work from a clinical point of view, with families, perceive this clearly. But this happened a year and a few months ago, in the Maddie McCann case, and there is no visible crisis between the couple. That doesn't mean that it will always be like that, but there would have to be some kind of sign. The only sign we keep seeing is one of a superficial nature, which tallies with the image, naturally they have image advisers, which is elsewhere a social marker of great harmony, for example: from the way in which Gerry writes in his blog, now at least after having started to write again...it's like: "Kate and I are too busy to do that..." which means, trying to always give the idea of normalcy, of someone who is getting on with this search, united with the same goal. But united in the same goal and at the same time they say that they haven't succeeded, let's say, in finding yet. This is something they also lack for grieving about the situation.

And in these circumstances it seems to me that it is nothing to do with having or not having grieved, but above all there is a pact between the two of them on that question, at least from an emotional point of view from what we can see, because they are very formal, and let's say, present, from the point of view of public debate and social behaviour, pointers that suggest making this type of pact, in a ?????? (prélineaire?) and advised strategy to maintain the fact of this endless search, yet from a contradictory point of view.

Why contradictory? Because they are interested in keeping the case in the spotlight, they have been very silent. We can also recognise the idea "well, we have been silent because we are looking for leads....etc..." But these changes, let's say of opinion, people need to know this too, because this case, Madeleine McCann , has ceased to be one which only interests the couple, this interests the whole world, because we can't offer support and subsequently the willingness. So, I would say that it's not about grieving, they have or have not done it, but I find that that's not the problem we should be addressing, but to what extent a kind of pact, formed by strategic circumstances from a social point of view: how long is this going to last?

As long as they can stand the pressure? What is also very strange is how, I don't know if they have psychiatric or psychological or psycho therapeutic support or not, and people have different levels of resistance to stress, but for those who are not... who were not public figures, who were used to the stress of being permanently before the cameras, they were obviously, from an emotional point of view, very good. Strangely good, I would say.

DL: Going back to the Madeleine McCann case, videos that were made a while back by Paulo Sargento....what is the idea behind these videos? I am talking about, for example, in the video where we see the route taken by a car leaving the Ocean Club.

PS: OK. So, in that video where not just one but three alternative routes are drawn, what we were looking to show at that time was a car allegedly leaving from outside the back bedroom window, let's say, of the apartment where theMcCann couple were staying. The car leaving by the road that goes behind the Ocean Club to the church, or by the road that runs in front of the Ocean Club to the church, taking around 27/28 seconds to travel this route at a speed of 50km/h. This would be the maximum speed permitted in a residential area. So, that was the calculation made. In one of these routes, the car would have two advantages in taking the route. Let's say that there is someone taking the little girl in a car, alive or dead, whatever, to the point from which they can go off on another tack, notably by sea or wherever.

This route takes 26 seconds and if it's along the ring road, let's say, on the right of the Ocean Club where it doesn't pass very close to the door, that route is practically straight. It is a route with no obstacles. There are few people because it is disused land. I don't know if it still is, but at that time there was disused land of around two hectares which was off-limits to the public because of works. So, there weren't a lot of people present and so this would be a route that a car would travel in under 30 seconds to get to the church, and let's imagine that there were was a third person, an accomplice could take the little girl and take her to another place from that point.

Then there is another route that takes, perhaps a second less, but there are more turns, there are usually more people around there. It is above all a question: it goes past the door of the Ocean Club. Let's imagine that it is someone known to the group of 9, who is taking this route with the little girl, he would be noticed by many. Whatever the route, that shows one thing. It shows the possibility that in less than 5 minutes, someone could leave the table at the Ocean Club, having taken the little girl in a car, go as far as the church, come back and in 5 minutes be chatting with his friends. That's a clear demonstration.

DL: So far, we know that there were gaps in the information. We know more or less the amount of time that was available to the couple, to certain of their friends for being away from dinner at Ocean Club and in the first news that appeared, a space of time of 12 minutes was mentioned. 12 minutes then, would be enough time to get a body out of an apartment?

PS: Half that time would be more than enough, comfortably enough.

DL: In relation to the Madeleine McCann case, those Identikit portraits that appeared one after the other, up to what point can credibility be given either to the witnesses who created the Identikit pictures or the Identikit pictures themselves, because there are big differences between them?

PS: Yes, they are different. I find those Identikit portraits a complete deception and there are mistakes at all levels, the first of which is with the photo. The Identikit portrait is a product, let's say, created as a general rule by an artist or a police technician from a witness statement. So, the first question we have to ask ourselves is if the witness statement is credible. In two situations the witness statement was from a lady called Jane Tanner, who belonged to the Tapas group, didn't she? And this lady, as can be checked, in the questionable things she produced for the police, there are modifications. That is more than enough reason for us to be cautious.

When we look at the Identikit picture, then the sketch by the police artist is the result of an attempt to transform the result of a creation, let's say, questionable, from a person who is constantly in the process of modifying her witness statement. To give an example of that, in the first sketch, we have something like having seen a man carrying something in his arms, something that looked like a child wrapped in a blanket. And in the second it was Maddie who was in the arms of that person so that in the Identikit picture we see a drawing of a little girl being carried in the arms, in a very strange way, because no human being carries carries like that...thus, it is simply in very special circumstances unless she was obviously dead but I don't see anybody out in the street with a dead child, showing her to the public.

Yet, this is deception.

What astonishes me is that an experienced artist, for example a forensic police officer, can make such a basic mistake as that and about the details, the proportions, of a three year-old child. The proportion she confers on the person carrying her, is badly reproduced in the sense that the legs are purely and simply too long in comparison with anthropometric guidelines, which I repeat, a forensic artist has an obligation to know and to work in that way. This is the reason that it's totally misleading.

But there is another very interesting question. It is that this picture is definitely produced with pyjamas, which were only presented in public, the image of those pyjamas...after Jane Tanner had produced the first story. In the second, she modified them. So, a first Identikit portrait agreeing with the witness statement. Then this is according to the technical skills which a forensic artist must have in her training and clearly she cannot make basic errors like that. And then an Identikit picture nearly always claims to identify what is most identifiable about human beings and we know that we are more identifiable. Babies look at a special part of our bodies, our face, the triangle of eyes, nose, mouth and every person having seen another person, instinctively where does she look? It's the face.

And if someone saw somebody and he suspects this somebody of taking that little girl, it is somewhat astonishing how he notices the classic shoes, the beige trousers, the browncoat , the beige shirt, the qualities of the colours so difficult to see at night and also is also attentive to details and retains them for a long time and he has no idea about the face.
Well, that's not an Identikit portrait.

In finishing and most important from my point of view, and what effectively reflects the willingness to maintain the theory of kidnap at all costs, through gross errors like those which I have just been talking about and I say again; good, but look. It's a portrait created by a forensic artist with FBI training. But what do we have here? The clear imposition of an authoritative argument in favour of the authority of the argument. If the argument is good it doesn't matter whether it's made by the FBI or made by whoever else, or all the institutions known to be competent, who have 100% competent people. So, this is an absolutely extraordinary error and it is on that basis that we are trying to show that video, purely and simply to say that this Identikit portrait is a deception and further, the third to appear, a sketch of a bearded person and, as has very often been said jokingly, very like the ex-Beatle, the shy George Harrison. It was produced not by the witness Jane Tanner as we are led to believe, but by an English citizen, British, who was not in Praia da Luz at the time when the little girl disappeared, but it was around a month after she saw a man with those characteristics and it was based on those characteristics after a few discussions, she had said that it was someone who looked Mediterranean, who reproduced this third Identikit portrait.

Which means....it's too much of a coincidence that the guy stays there, after having kidnapped, nearly a month and that this lady should see the same guy. Now, this was good for a detective agency working for theMcCanns, finding in Altura in the Algarve, near Vila Real de Sao Antonio, a guy who also had a beard, with quite long hair, who by chance, also had a brown shirt and who was there in Altura, which is half-way, for example, between Praia da Luz and Huelva where had also been, at the same time, as if that wasn't enough, a little girl had been abducted at the time, when it was discovered she had been abducted and murdered by a paedophile.

Only at that time, that wasn't known and probably this set up a guy, which is clearly demonstrated, by facial comparison using anthropometric reconstruction, let's say, the facial proportions, which have nothing to do with the Identikit portrait, and who, in addition is a citizen who has mental health problems.

That was useful for maintaining, for a while, an Identikit portrait which was itself a misleading portrait and constructed, I would hazard and I would say, artificially, because purely and simply the arch of the eyebrows and the lower part of the face don't coincide in proportion and we are in the process of creating an ambiguous type of human being, because the upper part is typically masculine as far as the eyebrow characteristics while over accentuating the features....his cranial prominences were more distinct and he looked nasty. When we would like to, for example.....even in the cinema when we want to cast an actor to play a criminal, we are not going to cast an actor with delicate features. A more rough and ready type is cast. That Neanderthal eyebrow prominence creates fear, doesn't it?

This upper part is like that, but this lower part is more like the citizen, for example more Anglo-Saxon, while the upper part looks like a North African. But, whether what we have here is a hybrid kind of person, what we need to know is if this is another incompetence by the artist or if it is something more dangerous than that, a forgery to create an ancestral criminal stereotype.

DL: One last question, perhaps, concerning the campaign that was created around the case. From a psychological point of view to what extent can we consider the use of Cuddle Cat, the walks by the sea, their going to church, to what extent can we explain that in terms of manipulating the public?

PS: I believe that.... the actions themselves are evidence of manipulating public opinion because normally when a child disappears, with the loss of a child, we should look at the more common human behaviour, which doesn't mean that being more common, there aren't other people who behave differently without their becoming suspects or whatever and being accused. But the most natural is that people whose child has disappeared, a loved one, whoever it may be, prefer to be surrounded by the police and people who help them technically to find and don't as, for example, on the first night, a priest was sought and soon afterward an image consultant.





(To be continued as I carry on translating this lengthy piece!)





Entrevue exclusive par Duarte Levy. Image par Joana Morais. 2008/2009 ©Tous droits réservés.

Video of Paulo Sargento's interview is available on the SOS Madeleine McCann web site.

http://sosmaddie.dhblogs.be/