The Beginning of the End of an Institution

We thought and still think that the "Maddie Affair" is a high-stake level game.  

It should then be played by intelligent people. Apparently it’s not.

We always thought that powerful people, who rose to be powerful, had, besides ambition and ruthlessness, the ability to surround themselves by smart and intelligent people both in their rise as in their maintenance of conquered status.

Last night we were proven wrong.

The Mockumentary 2 – The Two-Face, is nothing but full of air. We haven’t had time to fully digest this very hard to swallow pill, but we can say, without any hesitation that it is filled to the brim with exactly that, just pure hot air.

Its content has the unique quality of not having a single truthful reconstruction and that according to both White Hat and Black Hat versions alike.

We now have a Scotland Yard version.

It's the result of a secretive investigation after interviewing around 440 people and that will obviously remain conveniently secret.

If you notice Mock 2 doesn’t say anything.  And what it says, it doesn’t say.

For example, Redwood says that it bears the hallmarks of a pre-planned abduction but doesn’t say on what is that opinion based on.

We now have Tanner’s Bundleman with Maddie to be a caring father carrying his son (daughter?) from night crèche, but certainly drunk as he couldn’t find his way home, because only if he was lost and looking to find where his apartment was can explain him walking in the opposite direction of what would have been logical, taking into account the location of said crèche.

Redwood says this gentleman has been ruled out as an abductor but doesn’t say why he came to that conclusion.

Apparently the man has said that he believed that it was him that Jane saw but believing he is, is not exactly the same as saying he was. Because if he had said he was then he would have to tell us where his apartment was and why was he walking in the opposite direction as he was expected to be.

And if he believed so, why has it taken him, and his family, 4 to 6 years to come forward and testify? It isn’t said.

Then we have Two-Face from the Smith Sighting that Redwood says in explicit terms that it could be just an innocent sighting. So it's basically saying it could be and nothing more than that. 

And one never knows if Two-Face doesn't end up being crèche dad, or Tanner's "former-Bundleman-now-caring-father", walking the scenic route to the apartment he apparently didn't remember where it was.

Lastly we have the 4 sightings of Pimpleman.

- One we have proven to be false, TS’s in many posts; 

- Another by Carole Tranmer, Mrs Fenn’s niece, completely misrepresented in Mock 2, that we dealt with in our My Thanksgiving Turkey to ALL of You post

- Another of two men by the Jensen sisters that we spoke of in the 60 of Us post:

- And the last one, the laundryman sighting, or Mario Marreiro’s Improved Memory Syndrome that we spoke of in our "Clean Party Floor" Phenomenon post.

Strangely, or then again not, it isn’t said about any of the Pimpleman sightings shown in Mock 2 if the witnesses who reported them found any sort of resemblance about the Two-Face e-fits.

We’re supposing that they are among the 440 people interviewed as there are, comparing with Mock 1, some new sightings.

Two we know that are unmentioned. Derek Flack and JW’s. Has Kate lied when she speaks about them in her book? Or Emma Loach when she includes both in Mockumentary 1 – The Pimpleman ?

But, back to what matters, where are the hallmarks of a pre-planned abduction? Fail to see.

Then we have what we must call a really, really amazing theory, the kidnap by abduction. A burglar who seeing himself interrupted in his business by a 4 yr old, decides to take her instead of, for example, the digital camera that was on the table.

In a house that adults kept on supposedly entering every 15 minutes…

It all boils down to what was supposed to be a highly revealing documentary about the Maddie mystery that reveals, in fact, absolutely nothing.

It raises the possibility that Two-Face could be a person of interest and nothing else.

If anything it undermines the possibility of abduction by ruling out, inexplicably as we said, Tanner’s Bundleman as an abductor.

And that may have been the whole point of the documentary. Without Tanner’s Bundleman the probability of an abduction is significantly reduced, not to say nullified.

The abduction theory now resides solely in a sighting of a man carrying a child half a mile away that the prestigious Scotland Yard says may be completely innocent and unrelated.

Add to this the remarkable resemblance between Two-Face and Gerry McCann.

As we’ve said time and time again there are no coincidences in “Maddie’s world”. We have a missing girl, we have no abduction and we have a Gerry lookalike seen with a child in Rua da Escola Primária, half a mile away from apartment 5A.

Do you want us to join the dots?

We said at the beginning of the post that we thought and still think that this is a high-stake level game that should be played by intelligent people.

It isn’t. It is indeed a high-stake level game but the people playing it on Scotland Yard's part leave much to be desired.

First, let’s understand the intention behind Mock 2. For that all we need to know is its timings. When it was conceived, filmed and aired.

We’ve heard that it was filmed six-months ago.  That takes us back to April. Allow a month or so for its conception, or reason to conceive it, and its preparation.

That puts us in February/March timeframe.

What happened then? Mr Amaral said clearly to the McCanns that he would see them in court, that’s what happened.

If our counterparts were sufficiently intelligent we would be saying right now that it was a brilliant move but from what we saw last night they aren’t and what could have been a masterfully well played move, turned out to be a disastrous one.

They had their chance and blew it.

As the Portuguese say, “the best is good’s biggest enemy”. How many times have we in our lives spoiled something just because we wanted to make it just a little bit better when it was good enough the way it was?

In this case it was the attempt to isolate the McCanns and protect everyone else.

Revisit the Mock 2 and overlook all its ridiculousness.

See how it exempts completely David Payne who isn’t even mentioned.

How it exempts Jane Tanner by giving a perfectly innocent explanation to her sighting.

How it exempts the Ocean Club by supposedly confirming that the Tapas Dinners existed, and even showing a version of our beloved friend, the Big Round Table!

How it exempts any and all guests from any participation in the events.

It exempts everyone, except the McCanns. That’s why they were so gloomy in Lisbon.

But Mock 2 failed entirely its objectives, except one which was to draw worldwide attention on to the subject. 

And for some very stupid and illogical reason, has literally thrown Scotland Yard’s credibility out of the window.

It came up with a version, again quoting the Portuguese, which is “neither meat nor fish”. It’s simply… ludicrous.

No way back now.

Scotland Yard, by a humungous mistake of its own, has now forced itself hopelessly into the arms of whitewashing.

It’s on film and has been seen by millions worlwide that they, Scotland Yard, have concluded after INTENSIVE investigation that Tanner DID see something but that through brilliant work from elite detectives, it has a perfectly honest explanation, though we haven’t been given one.

It’s on film and has been seen by millions worlwide that they, Scotland Yard, have allowed and supported inexplicable discrepancies from what is documented in the PJ Files.

It’s on film and has been seen by millions worlwide that they, Scotland Yard, have allowed and supported inexplicable absences from what is documented in the PJ Files, like David Payne’s visit and what was signalled by the dogs.

Much the same way that what is on film and has been seen by millions worlwide cannot be changed (how much Scotland Yard will wish for that in the future) so the PJ Files cannot be rewritten.

Scotland Yard has compromised itself to a lie. 

And by doing that has proven one thing with Mock 2 and that is the UK, at its highest levels, is deeply and directly involved in the management of that undefinable thing we call the “Maddie Affair”.

What Scotland Yard has said, done and decided yesterday will have consequences. We even think irreparable ones.

Up to now only Portugal had suffered "officially" a humiliation from the "McCanns". Now it's official. It's official that the "McCanns" and Maddie's death have humiliated, publicly and worldwide, Britain.

Finally, we’re curious about the public reaction. Not about how they will react but if they will be allowed to react.

We’re not seeing any other country where Mock 2 could have happened but in Britain. And that’s a sad comment to make.

George Orwell was a genius. He was the one who said “All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others”, referring, may we remind you, to pigs among other animals.

What Orwell didn’t envision was that the “Big Brother technology” would be so widespread and not just in the hands of a few.

Those few are still in perfect denial. They still can't understand that they, the pigs, aren't that much different from the rest of us animals.