Mind That Child!

For heaven's sake won't somebody please think of the children, please! It's been a while since my last post as I , like most of you, have been engaged in the hunt for Maddie, which MUST take priority over everything in our lives. Fears are now escalating since the recent sightings of the poor child in Greece. You wonder if only Elvis has had more false sightings for all the good it does anyone. It's clear that this campaign to reunite this blonde , white, middle class, christian aspiring girl to her painfully dedicated parents hasn't gone FAR enough. The banner ads, the avatars, the websites, visits to the pope, the FA cup final, the planned charity single and the projection on the moon are all very well but will it raise awareness to inspire a crook to go 'fair cop, guv!' Indeed, will anything? Perhaps a reward should go to the abductors. That seems to be the only way we might get a breakthrough and it seems no less cynical than the alternatives we've seen over last couple of months.

No, it's clear. We're not pretending to care enough? We're not releasing enough balloons! Has anyone contacted the UN? And what the hell are the witchunters on the Sky News Forums doing about it? Don't they realise that it's the sacred duty of the stupid and misguided to continually post how concerned and caring they are and marry it with the brutality and suspicion they give to anyone who 'may' be a suspect? If we want to raise awareness, and it's very well, appearing to 'mean well' but what about the hundreds of missing kids every week, who don't have or get access to the media, that don't have the same opportunities? 'Maddie' is not a mere symbol of all the missing kids and 'every parents worst nightmare'. She's become yet another example of media hype, moral panic and the drive to sell more copy, the cynical trophy of the newsworthy girl with well to do parents with looks to match. She encapsulates the cosy, perfect idea of the nuclear family, which is more heightened than that of the kids from the streets, the black kids, those from broken homes and council estates and all the other poor sods who get abducted, murdered and god knows what every day. I'm not suggesting they deserve out sympathy any more or any less but you probably don't need a 'blogger' like me to say that there should be balance, and yeah, it's shit that there isn't, but for fuck's sake, those of you, who haven't realised the other agendas going on are the ones to wake up, instead of posting your fucking banners to show what a great human being you are. In fact why not fill every single web page of all the banners of all the missing people of the world who undoubtedly have parents no matter what age they are? But hey, I guess I'm not saying anything that you haven't already read or thought about anyway.