Reminder: the crucial “Foundation Lie”
The delayed Huelva stunt. Gerry McCann has made a miraculous recovery
1. On August 2, KM writes, the McCanns were due to drive
to Huelva to hold one of their “campaign” stunts, this time being filmed
erecting Madeleine posters by a media pack.
2. The previous day, however, and following dog searches,
the police had been granted search warrants to examine their apartment and car
and seize any relevant evidence. KM says
she was informed that the police were coming early on the morning of August 2 –
but only vaguely by hearsay from GM. (!)
2. Accordingly the pair had to abandon the trip but decided to
deceive the journalists, and therefore
the public, as to the real reason. They invented
an illness which would prevent Gerry McCann from making the journey.
3. The next day GM repeated the deception, this time to a
much wider audience, the unmediated public, in his so-called “blog”.
All this is described in the couple's own words. It should be noted, however, that even in her belated "truth-telling" – and on the same page
that she admitted lying - KM is still not telling the full truth or anything
like it.
In particular she carefully conceals the knowledge of when each found out a search warrant existed – that morning, with the PJ call to Gerry, which meant that her Madeleine story of vagueness and innocent bemusement as to the reasons for the "visit" was as false as GM's blog-and- Edinburgh claims of bemusement about "rumours"? Or when the PJ arrived and waved the warrant at them, thus making it certain that they were under investigation?
Either way, of course, from then to the end of time any statements, or pretence, by the couple that they were not under investigation - suspects - from August 2 onwards are certainly untrue. That is what makes the GM blog, with its utterly dishonest insouciance about their position, such a tatty and sordid piece of deception.
Urgh!
Day 93, August 4, "The most recent searches by the police have attracted a lot of renewed media interest with satellite trucks arriving...94, I note there was a lot of coverage of Kate's interview in the Sunday newspapers today. I managed to read one of them and certainly seemed to sum up very well how we are feeling and coping without Madeleine...95, We are pleased that the investigation remains so active
and we are cooperating fully with the Portuguese and British police, as we have
done since day 1…97, At our meeting with the Portuguese police today we
reaffirmed that we have to believe Madeleine is alive until there is concrete
evidence to the contrary..."
99,"If the current police activity does uncover new
evidence that Madeleine has been seriously harmed we should be the first to
know…100, There was a statement from the Portuguese police today regarding the
recent activity in the investigation
and media speculation. They confirmed
that there are new leads and that we
are not suspects in Madeleines disappearance … 102, waiting, like everyone
else, for the next development in the police investigation…106, Obviously we are
desperate for a breakthrough in the investigation…"109, [the day he engaged a criminal defence lawyer!], "We keep in regular touch
with both the Portuguese and British police but there has been no major news in
the last couple of days...110, We were also asked about what is being written
about the investigation and pointed out how much of this is pure speculation."
And
the wonderful 113, template for the future, "...pooled telephone
interview for the press to talk about the media coverage of the campaign to
find Madeleine in advance of my interview at the Edinburgh International TV
festival…"
So the lies pour out, day after day, like a gushing tap. As they've done ever since.
Why Did They Do It?
Clearly the pair considered it of supreme importance that
the English-language media must not find out about the search warrant. So
vital was it that KM uses the phrase that “we just didn’t seem to have a
choice” but to lie, even though she says they “had never lied about anything” -
an unusual claim from anyone.
But what exactly made it so important, so dangerous to them,
that they had to take the risk of
lying?
She won’t tell us. Or she can’t. Instead, in a pattern you will find at other crucial points, such as the "shall I confess?" section of Madeleine, she once again
turns to windy rhetoric: “Can you imagine what would have happened if we’d announced
to the journalists heading for Huelva that the police were coming to do some
forensic work in our villa?”
Well no, we at the Bureau, at least, can’t. It
would certainly have made huge headlines and blown open the truth world-wide about
the true course of the investigation. But why should that matter so critically? How, exactly, did it threaten them? They
knew they were innocent and in the book, KM wrote about the raid, after they’d been turned over, “We were even quite pleased
this was happening, that something was happening which might help find
Madeleine.” Uh?
What we want to know is what Kate McCann thought would
happen that gave them no choice but to lie and deceive even though they were bound, eventually, to be found out. And she won’t tell us.
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Which one of them was lying?
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Complete Exposure
We saw last week that the Foundation Lie swept outwards like a scythe, slashing away the cover in the GM blog, exposing his fibs and calling into serious doubt the reliability of other entries, and then whistling through the Edinburgh charade to expose the lies about the "nothing happening for six weeks" period.
You might think that would be the extent of the damage but the harmful range of Kate McCann’s
desperate “admission” appears almost infinite in space and time, right up to today. What do we make now of the Team McCann House of Commons performance?
Roll-Up, Roll-Up - It's the Mothers of Democracy!
Has there ever been an institution that hasn't been degraded and besmirched, all dignity removed, by involvement with the couple? The BBC? The Press Complaints Commission? The judiciary? The bar? The mother of parliaments itself? The list is almost endless and reaches the Vatican.
In 2009 Gerry McCann had "no option" but to repeat his story rather than clash with his own Edinburgh evidence, when he and the Team gave their House of Commons media committee evidence. It was a richly comic, as well as an utterly squalid, event. Still, the professor actually began
with a truthful statement!
Mr McCann: Thank
you. I am Gerald McCann, the father of Madeleine.
Chairman: Ho, ho, ho, that's a good one.
No, we made the chairman's bit up. But that was the tone of this farcical and horribly undignified scene, a Mad Hatter's tea party on acid, complete with the presence of a skeletal and offensively bald Tony Bennett,
looking like he’d been winched out of a grave into the seat behind Gerry McCann to make the latter’s neck itch. And no theatre-of-the-absurd farce is complete without the sepulchral Clarence Mitchell, seen below holding his hand up in a vain attempt to stop his porkies tumbling out of his mouth. The tone of the occasion is well illustrated by:
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Mr Evans: [pompously]
Are you suggesting that some of the stuff that we read in the newspapers was
fuelled by alcohol?
Mitchell: [for it is he] Blah, blah [backtracks] blah-blah. Blah, blah, blah.
Amid the bedlam, Mr McCann, perhaps the most single-minded person in the UK, and by no means someone to trip with, keeps his eye on the ball. His testimony can be summed up here.
Chairman: Your impression was that the newspapers
wanted to go on reporting stories about Madeleine's disappearance and, if there
were no new facts to report, they started to resort to making up things?
Mr McCann: I
totally agree with that.
Note the disintegrating corpse propped into position by unknown persons behind a hunched Professor McCann. It must not be mistaken for Dr McCann's conscience.
Another two years saw Gerry McCann bring the latest performance of the well-loved Edinburgh Tale to the Leveson inquiry. It is November 2011 and the show is threatening to outlast Agatha Christie's Mousetrap for long and rewarding runs. But what can he do? It's too late to change the story now so off he goes, GM repeating yet again, straight-faced, that while the media
had been supportive - yes, yes, we know - and helpful for a while - yes, yes, get on with it - as real developments in the case dried
up and there was nothing to report (from early July onwards) - yes, tell us! - so the media made everything up – meaning no police raid on the apartment, as described by KM, no
seizure of their car, no screaming confrontation with the police on august 6/8,
no direct accusations from the PJ they’d
lied about May 3, and thus no need to engage a lawyer. No, no, none of that had
happened.
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Which one is lying?
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Extracts - all italics are ours. You will be amazed at the new revelations Dr. McCann brought to the tribunal - like these.
GM: We decided we
had to stay in Portugal to be close to Madeleine, to be close to the
investigation, and certainly didn't feel capable of leaving at that point, so
it did surprise us that there was so much
ongoing interest when there really
wasn't very much happening.[after mid-June.]
The Bureau says: No! Really?
Counsel: The
next section of your statement deals with accuracy of reporting and you point
out that after a period of time, there was little new news to report.
GM: Yes.
The Bureau says: Never!
Counsel: The date
you give for the shift of the emphasis of the media reporting is about June
2007, is it…Or perhaps a bit later than that?
GM: Yeah….
Counsel: At this
point we are in the late summer,
obviously, or early autumn of 2007.
If I can move you forward to
paragraph 39 of your statement.
You're making the point that the
story in terms of objective fact is
beginning to run dry and reporters now are thrashing around for something
new.
Back in the real world, under the avuncular gaze of a doting Judge Leveson, KM sat beside her husband saying little, as she had done, we remember, on arguido day. No conflicting stories there. In 2018 the performances go on. Isn't show business wonderful?
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