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OUR SWEET LITTLE MADDY... (But also Rhys and Diana)... ((A bit rambling, but there you go))
Someone on radio suggested that, now Madeleine's parents seem to be implicated, they "should be tested with a lie detector... On live television".
We've collectively prayed and cried for Madeline, so that gives us the rights to having a piece of her. We bought our right for furhter participation with it. And now that the parents might have done it, we want this to be either proven or disproven in public.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/guest_contributors/article2402693.ece
Those who know me would not be surprised to see I agree with this article...
Years ago, when all those "silent marches after unnecessary violence" started, I already posed the idea that a lot of people treat these as a cozy day out. Mom makes the samwiches, children in the back of the car, dad puts on a singalong CD - Hop to the march, perhaps afterwards ice cream!...
This weekend we saw a movie where this phenomenon was satirized. In "Nothing Sacred" a movie from 1937, a young girl, claiming to be dying from radiation poisoning through her work in a factory, is being taken under the wing of a newspaperman, and soon the whole of New York is involved with the "terrible plight of this brave young girl". The girl, Hazel, is spotted out during a boxing match and gets a 10 seconds of silence aubade, schoolchildren are thronged up in her bedroom to sing for her, a Day of Mourning is already in the planning... Then the newspaper man finds out she's lying, and that he's in big, big trouble.
Nothing has changed since then, I guess. Wasn't the whole (American) nation in tears when the son of Charles Lindbergh (famous pilot) was kidnapped? And when Patty Hearst disappeared? And what the audience response when she eventually turned up, having 'kidnapped' herself, in need of money?...
Wouldn't it be sad to be a young couple now, having your child disappeared, and realize that there's no tears left for you, since they've all gone to Our Maddy?...
Bah, bah, piffle and bile!
Someone on radio suggested that, now Madeleine's parents seem to be implicated, they "should be tested with a lie detector... On live television".
We've collectively prayed and cried for Madeline, so that gives us the rights to having a piece of her. We bought our right for furhter participation with it. And now that the parents might have done it, we want this to be either proven or disproven in public.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/guest_contributors/article2402693.ece
Those who know me would not be surprised to see I agree with this article...
Years ago, when all those "silent marches after unnecessary violence" started, I already posed the idea that a lot of people treat these as a cozy day out. Mom makes the samwiches, children in the back of the car, dad puts on a singalong CD - Hop to the march, perhaps afterwards ice cream!...
This weekend we saw a movie where this phenomenon was satirized. In "Nothing Sacred" a movie from 1937, a young girl, claiming to be dying from radiation poisoning through her work in a factory, is being taken under the wing of a newspaperman, and soon the whole of New York is involved with the "terrible plight of this brave young girl". The girl, Hazel, is spotted out during a boxing match and gets a 10 seconds of silence aubade, schoolchildren are thronged up in her bedroom to sing for her, a Day of Mourning is already in the planning... Then the newspaper man finds out she's lying, and that he's in big, big trouble.
Nothing has changed since then, I guess. Wasn't the whole (American) nation in tears when the son of Charles Lindbergh (famous pilot) was kidnapped? And when Patty Hearst disappeared? And what the audience response when she eventually turned up, having 'kidnapped' herself, in need of money?...
Wouldn't it be sad to be a young couple now, having your child disappeared, and realize that there's no tears left for you, since they've all gone to Our Maddy?...
Bah, bah, piffle and bile!