tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8393578624305189946.post4633356060379690083..comments2023-10-25T08:52:58.428+01:00Comments on Only In America: An Open Letter to Operation GrangeHimselfhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11666097098083216833noreply@blogger.comBlogger31125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8393578624305189946.post-70475030965369361482016-04-27T09:21:11.347+01:002016-04-27T09:21:11.347+01:00M 26.4 @22:39
And here ('Taking Stock', 9...M 26.4 @22:39<br /><br />And here ('Taking Stock', 9.12.14)http://onlyinamericablogging.blogspot.com/search/label/Martin%20Roberts?updated-max=2015-06-27T20:06:00%2B01:00&max-results=20&start=8&by-date=false:<br /><br />DCI Redwood (4.7.2013): “Well, as we have worked carefully over the last sort of two years, through that review process, we have now processed some 30,000 documents”.<br /><br />DCI Redwood (three months later, 4.10.2103): “The total number of documents we have to go through is 39,148, of we have processed 21,614 so far”.<br />Martin Robertsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8393578624305189946.post-71009733501335243142016-04-27T08:34:23.547+01:002016-04-27T08:34:23.547+01:00M 26.4 @22:39
The analogy is here: (All the Premi...M 26.4 @22:39<br /><br />The analogy is here: (All the Premier's Men, 29.4.14 at http://www.mccannfiles.com/id479.html).Martin Robertsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8393578624305189946.post-63804117302540208252016-04-27T08:25:46.539+01:002016-04-27T08:25:46.539+01:00M 26.4 @21:39
Denise Thomson I aee. Pity she didn...M 26.4 @21:39<br /><br />Denise Thomson I aee. Pity she didn't adopt that attitude when considering the 'rubbish' surrounding the pyjama photos!<br /><br />Any word yet from Luis Forra, Denise?Martin Robertsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8393578624305189946.post-51619784025442819252016-04-26T22:39:32.435+01:002016-04-26T22:39:32.435+01:00http://joana-morais.blogspot.nl/2016/04/met-comiss...http://joana-morais.blogspot.nl/2016/04/met-comissioner-madeleine-mccann.html<br /><br /><i>Nick Ferrari - It takes thirty officers?!<br /><br />Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe - Well, err, yep, but just bear in mind what happened there, so you got thousands of pages, I went in to one of our police stations back in 2011 and there was a whole room full of documents that this inquiry had produced, you know, from the hundreds of witnesses statements, to all every card they checked out, from all, you know, these inquiries for those who don't get involved in them don't realize just what they generate, huge amounts of material, and of course, these all have to be translated.</i><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8393578624305189946.post-38369790059425010592016-04-26T21:39:21.636+01:002016-04-26T21:39:21.636+01:00The wish is father to the thought.
http://bit.ly/...The wish is father to the thought.<br /><br />http://bit.ly/1VAHgpw<br /><br />A quote from the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes.<br /><br />Mx<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8393578624305189946.post-67309364070491377852016-04-26T16:18:29.972+01:002016-04-26T16:18:29.972+01:00Weeps tears of despair.Weeps tears of despair.Himselfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11666097098083216833noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8393578624305189946.post-15602522836260365742016-04-26T16:02:27.056+01:002016-04-26T16:02:27.056+01:00Himself @13:26
You've just won your bet re #M...Himself @13:26<br /><br />You've just won your bet re #McCann:<br /><br />The Suppressionals @1matthewwright1 · 10m10 minutes ago <br /><br />The Suppressionals Retweeted JillyCL<br /><br />only the NOT SUSPECTS left now #mccann <br /><br />Martin Robertsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8393578624305189946.post-91687326587043903052016-04-26T14:37:02.693+01:002016-04-26T14:37:02.693+01:00Himself @13:36
I bet it's not the subject of ...Himself @13:36<br /><br />I bet it's not the subject of Blacksmith's next blog!Martin Robertsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8393578624305189946.post-91269293442759285602016-04-26T13:26:28.710+01:002016-04-26T13:26:28.710+01:00M R
For all its faults, at least the members of C...M R<br /><br />For all its faults, at least the members of CMoMM are under no illusions as to the role of Grange. I know if I go on twitter now, there will still be those who interpret "one lead" as meaning the McCanns.<br /><br />I'll guarantee it.<br /><br />How sad is that? Himselfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11666097098083216833noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8393578624305189946.post-90251709723716177232016-04-26T10:25:00.558+01:002016-04-26T10:25:00.558+01:00Looks like we've been right all along!
http:/...Looks like we've been right all along!<br /><br />http://jillhavern.forumotion.net/t12700-bbc-radio-4-10am-news-just-announce-uk-police-to-close-madeleine-investigation-soon-if-no-new-evidence-emergesMartin Robertsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8393578624305189946.post-60951848191131643542016-04-14T10:45:47.206+01:002016-04-14T10:45:47.206+01:00Lesly Finn @06:59
"What might ROB been busy ...Lesly Finn @06:59<br /><br />"What might ROB been busy with?"<br /><br />I don't know Lesly, but on the face of it ROB was the only one who could not or would not get the day off work to fetch his 30 pieces of silver (neither MO nor DP left it to their partners to do so - and mother came too).<br /><br />More significantly, the duo told a story in unison concerning the Tapas Block booking and the reason behind it. They were the only ones to do so. JT was also keen to emphasize that ROB could not have been responsible for the booking (made by a tall thin male in the company of a young girl on Sunday morning) whilst everyone else cast their vote in favour of RO doing so on the Monday night - a hint that Tanner and O'Brien knew something about the situation in PdL before the rest of the group. Martin Robertsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8393578624305189946.post-58426738669686678102016-04-14T06:59:33.246+01:002016-04-14T06:59:33.246+01:00What might ROB been busy with? Not convinced it wa...What might ROB been busy with? Not convinced it was his smallest child, who had been lugged to the beach and the Paraiso tea party earlier on. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8393578624305189946.post-76896093909434622162016-04-13T17:12:43.427+01:002016-04-13T17:12:43.427+01:00Himself @15:48
Not 'arf.
But, since they all...Himself @15:48<br /><br />Not 'arf.<br /><br />But, since they all crossed the Rubicon together, I was thinking more along the lines of the stoic looks on the faces of five, versus the impression given by the one on the end that she is dreading the call to the headteacher's office.<br /><br />From more recent readings of their respective utterances, I sense that The Tanner/O'Brien axis is possibly the one closest the bunker (as in bomb shelter, not golf), whereas all this time the emphasis has been largely on DP. Martin Robertsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8393578624305189946.post-18516060700271920432016-04-13T15:48:39.400+01:002016-04-13T15:48:39.400+01:00M R 15:08
I wouldn't have given it much thoug...M R 15:08<br /><br /><i>I wouldn't have given it much thought before now, but isn't Jane Tanner's particularly anxious expression . . .</i><br /><br />And so might you be if you had crossed the Rubicon with the same finality as Tanner and her cohorts.<br /><br />Starting: <i>These were my thoughts at the time, having watched the Tapas Seven outside the High Court.</i><br /><br />http://goodqualitywristbands.blogspot.com/2010/01/kate-liar-tapas-liars-shurely-shome.html<br /><br />But silly of me really, such observations only apply in a:<br /><br />https://twitter.com/TeddyShepherd/status/708594604187193344<br /><br />Ain't that so Mr Chicken?<br /><br />https://twitter.com/TeddyShepherd/status/695991041372069888<br /><br />Yes quite. Himselfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11666097098083216833noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8393578624305189946.post-81200254806480986662016-04-13T15:08:04.527+01:002016-04-13T15:08:04.527+01:00Himself @14:46
http://themccanngallery.blogspot.c...Himself @14:46<br /><br />http://themccanngallery.blogspot.com/2010/05/mccann-gallery-of-obscenities.html (four from bottom).<br /><br />I wouldn't have given it much thought before now, but isn't Jane Tanner's particularly anxious expression (lips AND hands), coupled with the singular absence of her partner, curious to say the least? Martin Robertsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8393578624305189946.post-52694077989996303202016-04-13T14:46:41.804+01:002016-04-13T14:46:41.804+01:00M R 13 April 2016 at 09:44
Prescience or just a b...M R 13 April 2016 at 09:44<br /><br />Prescience or just a bit of northern nous? The latter I think, but I thank you nonetheless for the compliment.<br /><br /><i>On the scale of 'appalling'</i> <br />http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_w-8JKaTohe4/S-H0t19v9KI/AAAAAAAAXDM/D9pI6_XOx3Y/s1600/madeleine_aged_oscene.jpg<br /><br />Indeed Sir, just one entry in the The McCann Gallery of Obscenities.<br />http://themccanngallery.blogspot.com/2010/05/mccann-gallery-of-obscenities.htmlHimselfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11666097098083216833noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8393578624305189946.post-31427373417310524112016-04-13T09:44:44.563+01:002016-04-13T09:44:44.563+01:00Himself 12.4 @18:59
A pound for your prescience! ...Himself 12.4 @18:59<br /><br />A pound for your prescience! (quite a few pounds actually)<br /><br />From <br /><br />http://goodqualitywristbands.blogspot.com/2010/05/as-society-we-need-to-know-how-that.html<br /><br /><br />"So easy to forget, perhaps the McCanns might issue a new aged progressed image of the dead girl. CEOP endorsed of course, it must be that, it wouldn't be legitimate otherwise; would it?"<br /><br />And two years later they duly obliged. Nay, they went one better, securing the artistic services of the Met (as recorded in another of your links)<br /><br />http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2135920/Madeleine-McCann-news-Hope-Scotland-Yard-detectives-review-case.html<br /><br />"Haunting images were released by police this week of Madeleine McCann as she might look today — a smiling, nine-year-old schoolgirl without a care in the world."<br /><br />On the scale of 'appalling' it's up there with TB's a.se-licking acquiescence to the invasion of Iraq, despite the enormous disparity in the number of lives squandered. Oh. Hang on. Wasn't he still PM come May 2007?<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Martin Robertsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8393578624305189946.post-16026758784206141462016-04-12T18:59:58.903+01:002016-04-12T18:59:58.903+01:00JNH @16:28
Although you are not dismissing a cove...JNH @16:28<br /><br />Although you are not dismissing a cover-up entirely, perhaps we can change the semantics a tad. Let us perhaps interpret the term whitewash as lack of political will to see this thing solved. It's much the same thing.<br /><br />But then I find it hard not to call a spade a spade, or whitewash if you will, when the Met actually issues an age progression graphic of Madeleine McCann. <br /><br />In the simple world that I inhabit, I need nothing other than this Met issued graphic to tell me all and everything I need to know about the legitimacy of Operation Grange. Not to mention the passing of five years without the slightest hint of a result.<br /><br />http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2135920/Madeleine-McCann-news-Hope-Scotland-Yard-detectives-review-case.html<br /><br />Couple that with this unforgivable photo on behalf of the Home Secretary and I rest my case.<br /><br />https://twitter.com/TeddyShepherd/status/706783381699346432<br /><br /><i>these will never be able to wash the blood from their hands, nor the memory or disgustingly abandoned consciences (where they exist) which their actions have proven, forever.</i><br /><br />Do you honestly think they give a toss?<br /><br />A little reading, the result of a search for 'whitewash.' <br /><br />As a Society, We Need to Know How That Occurred http://goodqualitywristbands.blogspot.com/2010/05/as-society-we-need-to-know-how-that.html<br /><br />Review By Uk Police. Nonsense Or The Thin End of Of a Proposed Whitewash? <br />http://themccanngallery.blogspot.com/2010/03/review-by-uk-police-nonsense-or-thin.html<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Himselfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11666097098083216833noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8393578624305189946.post-15594184653857731602016-04-12T17:32:01.135+01:002016-04-12T17:32:01.135+01:00JNH @16:28
Wise words.
An analogous situation sp...JNH @16:28<br /><br />Wise words.<br /><br />An analogous situation springs to mind:<br /><br />http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-politics-34748779Martin Robertsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8393578624305189946.post-15124218614927869162016-04-12T16:28:51.157+01:002016-04-12T16:28:51.157+01:00In my opinion, this is an excellent summary of the...In my opinion, this is an excellent summary of the manifest problems with OG (also quite fittingly known elsewhere as 'Opera ghost' - I'm sure AL Webber couldn't conceive of such an expensive farce as The Met have).<br /><br />However, my complete lack of faith in the operation presently still won't allow me to refer to it as a 'whitewash', essentially as it's not over. Certainly that time looks to be approaching, but will we even then be able to call it such, as we surely must ask, what will have been 'washed away', precisely? <br /><br />It's my view that the guilty will always be known, whether convicted in a criminal court, or not: <br /><br />Certainly anyone contributing to the material facts of what happened in PDL in 2007, along with the many so-called 'professionals' who've tainted themselves in any way with those responsible for the tragic child's demise since then :( (how plentiful these are, perhaps it's the money to be made!); these will never be able to wash the blood from their hands, nor the memory or disgustingly abandoned consciences (where they exist) which their actions have proven, forever. <br /><br />There will only ever be a whitewash, should that time come, according to the law of absolute brutes, who choose a life of oppression for their own betterment. JNHhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14650130018201702171noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8393578624305189946.post-64927549070557595272016-04-12T09:41:07.599+01:002016-04-12T09:41:07.599+01:00M @08:55
"Clarence Mitchell knows something ...M @08:55<br /><br />"Clarence Mitchell knows something we don't."<br /><br />I suspected as much.<br />Martin Robertsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8393578624305189946.post-73399421274922133632016-04-12T08:55:45.747+01:002016-04-12T08:55:45.747+01:00Martin R. 11.4 @16:33
KM (in 'madeleine')...Martin R. 11.4 @16:33<br /><br />KM (in 'madeleine'):<br /><br />“We heard from Clarence that evening [8 September 2007]. Before long Justine would be moving on to pursue her political career and we’d always hoped he would be able to return as our family spokesperson. The government, however, had other ideas. They forbade him from any further involvement with us because of our <i>arguido</i> status. Clarence was very upset, as were we. This was the first sign we had of doors starting to close on us because of this unwarranted stigma. We felt that our government had abandoned us. It hadn’t occurred to me that they wouldn’t protect us and I berated myself, once again, for my naivety. I knew the situation was bad but I still didn’t fully appreciate just how detrimental the recent turn of events would be to us and to Madeleine.”<br /><br />Clarence Mitchell knows something we don't. M<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8393578624305189946.post-25260970764979787072016-04-11T16:33:50.174+01:002016-04-11T16:33:50.174+01:00Himself @15:32
Meanwhile Clarence Mitchell had al...Himself @15:32<br /><br />Meanwhile Clarence Mitchell had already begun taking bids for next year's exclusives.<br /><br />Does he know something we don't?Martin Robertsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8393578624305189946.post-59969220919446636062016-04-11T15:12:30.027+01:002016-04-11T15:12:30.027+01:00http://www.inquisitr.com/2962552/madeleine-mccann-...http://www.inquisitr.com/2962552/madeleine-mccann-case-to-go-cold-in-less-than-a-year/Himselfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11666097098083216833noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8393578624305189946.post-72537701471620650192016-04-10T14:41:53.609+01:002016-04-10T14:41:53.609+01:00Thank you, but my faith in petitions is equalled o...Thank you, but my faith in petitions is equalled only by my faith in prayers.<br /><br />The end result being the same. Himselfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11666097098083216833noreply@blogger.com