Mental Sudoku.
However, if I'm not mistaken, you have yet to offer any explanation for Brian Kennedy's withdrawal of financial support.
You are correct, I have not offered an opinion or explanation on Brian Kennedy, and there are many many other things I have not committed to as well, mainly because I haven't been over here discussing this case with all of you for 2 years. My main concern is always the victim(s) and their families, and subsequently, justice for the victim(s). I'll read up on it and come back to it later, however I think the only way to know for sure is to hear what Mr. Kennedy has to say about it.
See, here's the thing: All the facts and evidence I see point to something other than an actual abduction. The evidence from that night, the actions and contradictions of the McCanns and their friends, the very, very disturbing comments and actions of the Mccanns after the fact (Kate saying "I sleep fine!' and when asked if she wanted to say anything to Madeleine, "She knows we love her," etc, etc.
And when I can't make sense of something I go as deep as I can go...to the finite...and try to work my way back from there. Madeline was alive and staying in the apt with her parents and siblings. Her parents were at dinner with friends, and Madeline went missing during that time. Three children were left "sleeping" by the parents and only two were found alive in the apt after a period of time. Whether someone came in or she found a way out, the child was still missing. No one found her wandering outside and returned her to her parents, or the hotel management, therefore a child, taken by someone other than her caregiver at the time, either from inside or outside the apt. I don't know what it is called in Portugal, but as you well know, here we call that kidnapping and/or abduction. I have spoken with many parents who have said "I wonder what made me say that" when referencing a press conference or interview. None of those parents were guilty of harming their child. Grief and shock are not reliable measures of a person's true nature. It is the hardest time, when a child is missing, to keep the parents focused in a discussion. In their mind, they are feeling guilt at not protecting their child as a parent, and I am sure the McCanns went through a lot of that as do other parents of missing kids. Doesn't mean they did something overtly to harm them, they just didn't protect them as parents should. They will suffer from that for a long time whether they are guilty of harming her or not.
I know you have trouble with the timeline of the witnesses. What if they all checked their watches to see what the current time was and found that among all the couples that there was a 5 minute variance. Wouldn't that put everyone's timeline off? I can look at my watch right now, and compare it to all the clocks in my house, and they won't all be the same. Wouldn't a 5 minute difference make a big difference in the stores related by the group members who had dinner?
As for other separate line items. May we discuss them one at a time? I will have a lot of reading and catching up to do before I can say I am well versed on what ahs been said.
I found with the E. Smart case, that things are seldom as they appear. Tom Smart said the words "It was a beautiful thing" in a national interview and was chastised for saying that because the general public thought he was commenting on the abduction, and therefore thought he had something to do with her kidnapping, or at least knew more than he should. In actuality, he was running on 36 hours of no sleep and was a few seconds slower than the interviewer in responding to a question about how many searchers showed up. Makes sense in that context.
To me, Kate saying "I sleep fine" means she sleeps without guilt because she didn't harm her child.
None of it makes sense with an abduction. It all does make sense with an accidental death and two parents thinking they might lose their other children (as my administrator at work says, "Perception is reality" when you deal with parents and children) and taking desperate measures to keep those children.
I agree with your administrator, a person's perception is their reality period, whether it has to do with children or not. You can go one step further by saying their reality is based on their frame-of-reference. Now, where does their frame-of-reference come from? Usually, it comes from their life experiences.
I actually hope to be convinced I'm wrong. I see enough consequences everyday from bad parents, mediocre parents, and the desperate ones. I know most parents are trying their best--which is why I can't let the McCanns off for their decisions, but I can understand why they made them.
I hope you are wrong too, because that would mean there is a chance that Madeline might be alive...somewhere...with someone. Unfortunately in this day and age, we all live in a world which contains too much crime, and especially too many crimes against children. It wasn't like this 30 years ago. Our children were safer outside playing, walking to the store, walking home from school...today they aren't safe there and they are not even safe in their own homes.
So, back to the point: Why did Brian Kennedy stop paying for Clarence Mitchell? And what does this mean for the McCanns?
I don't mean this to be a glib answer, but Kennedy would have to be the one to give that answer. Has anyone heard him comment on the subject? I will read what I can find about the earlier offers to support the investigation financially, and perhaps we can return to the question at a later point in time.
