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@gazlan wrote:
The propaganda machine seems to be in fine fettle.
Oh shut your beak you great big blouse or I’ll ride you xx :wink:
Bond Classic..
For the night that’s in it, Ireland’s eurovision winner in 1980..
“But there is another view of the world out there and other eyes to see it and that’s where this is goin’. It has done brought me to a place in my life I would not of thought I’d of come to. Somewhere out there is a true and living prophet of destruction and I don’t want to confront him. I know he’s real. I have seen his work. I walked in front of those eyes once. I won’t do it again.”
Always a huge fan of Cormac Mc Carthy, these words from the beginning of his novel No Country For Old Men never resonated as powerful for me as they did last night, as I watched Kate and Gerry McCann give a live interview on Irish TV.
Looking at Mrs McCann’s wasted figure – her haggard, pained face – her trembling, broken voice – all manifestations of a terrorised, heavy burdened soul, I did wonder how anyone could be so cruel as to ultimately judge these flawed, but devastated and decent people.
I think amidst the clamour, the circus, the frenzied blame game that modern media saturation shovels out, that the true tragedy of this case was lost. And I mean tragedy in it’s most fundamental state. Tragedy as the inevitable consequence of human frailty and error combining with the most diabolical set of outward circumstances.It makes one think, and think deeply on the very nature of “bad things”, and who or what brings about all the links in the chain to cause them, and just like Sheriff Bell in McCarthy’s novel, struggle to comprehend the enormity of evil in this world.
Therefore, although it is probably understandable to a degree to be absolute in condemnation, to almost scapegoat the horror, as some of the more.. erm “black and white” contributors have been here. It is (and I hope when souls are searched this is at least privately accepted) essentially wrong to demonise this couple.There is another quote, from a Christy Moore song.. “Only the very safe, can talk about wrong and right”.
We can all say our “should haves / could haves / would haves”, but we weren’t there. Nor are we there now, in that forever darkened place the McCann’s are.
I suggest we hold our children close and thank God for that.