"Who is mystery blonde girl found in Greece gypsy camp?" Roma/Gypsies need a Hollywood PR Counselor, stat! Channel 4 News video is devastating reproach to many well-intentioned but naive people who just thought Roma were victims who had bad PR.; #childtrafficking

Channel Four News video: 19 OCTOBER 2013 -Greek plea over mystery girl found in Roma gypsy camp
http://www.channel4.com/news/roma-missing-girl-gypsy-madeleine-mccann-abduction

"Who is mystery blonde girl found in Greece gypsy camp?" Roma/Gypsies need a Hollywood PR Counselor, stat! Channel 4 News video is devastating reproach to many well-intentioned but naive people who just thought Roma were victims who had bad PR. No, in Sweden as in England, genuine facts and reality re Roma must trump holier-than-thou platitudes and good intentions/guilt; #MadeleineMcCann, #childtrafficking

I received this disturbing news on Saturday via my daily Snowmail from Channel Four News at 12:06 p.m.

With this news on Saturday, it appears to me that the year of all the naive pro-Roma stories written in Europe are about to come to a thud, esp. in the U.K. and in Sweden.

As I've previously mentioned to some of you via an email or two, this past summer, a week after Nationalsdagen, a sort of Swedish July 4th but without the military angle but with picnics, a nationally-televised TV show fusing Swedish traditions, music and the Royal family,



a college in the Stockholm area, for security reasons, ordered all of its students out of their dorms near a campus parking lot after Roma took it over with their vehicles and set about transforming it into a  place to live, and soon engaging in some unruly criminal behavior, to boot, which got the attention of everyone in the area.

TheLocal (Sweden)

Students forced out over traveller safety fears 
14 Jun 2013 18:26 CET
By Oliver Gee

http://www.thelocal.se/48504/20130614/

The reason that the college felt obliged to require the students to get out toute-de-suite was that the Police did NOT want to intervene right away and remove the new arrivals because, as we'd later learn months later, there were some complication.

Complications and secret efforts that very few people in Sweden knew, which is to say that about 99.99% of the country did not know anything until later this summer:

http://www.thelocal.se/50378/20130923/

http://www.aftonbladet.se/ledare/ledarkronika/karinpettersson/article17530426.ab

http://www.thelocal.se/50400/20130924/

http://www.thelocal.se/50532/20131001/

Plus,

a.) Sweden has what is, alternately, a charming/quaint/preposterous law that is treasured by many and lamented by some that allows people to use/camp/hike on unoccupied private land if it's not specifically prohibited, but with that comes certain responsibilities.

In this instance, and not for the first time you suspect, the Gypsies involved intentionally conflated and stretched the limits of what is permissible under Allemansrätten and the Police knew that if they tried anything, they'd cite their rights under Swedish law.

Clearly, a university parking lot is not one of those places envisioned by the law, which was/is geared towards allowing the public free access to nature, near private property on lakes, forests, etc.

(NOT asphalt and concrete and proximity to a 7/11, which are on every third or fourth corner in Stockholm for reasons I'll get into in a future blog post.)

Owing to the fact that it was summer break for most college students, so the parking lot  was obviously more empty than usual- and,

b.) Police were very concerned that in light of the riots in immigrant-intensive Husby this spring in the town NW of Stockholm, professional Leftist community activists-types and 

the area's legitimate political players would immediately criticize the Police for trying to remove them, as we'd expect to see happen here  in a similar case of trespassing.

So in essence, the Police wanted a green light first from these political players that they could proceed rather than simply walk into what they perhaps rightly perceived a no-win trap, and

subsequently find everyone criticizing them for just doing their job.

That's the part of Sweden and Swedish life that you never read about in the U.S. news media, and which consistently drives many people there -like my friends, par exemple- quite crazy, since some things in a society DON'T need a consensus, they simply need people prepared to do their job correctly and as professionally as possible, however difficult sometimes.

My friends and their neighbors want the same thing that people here in Broward County want in their interactions with and expectations of local and regional government, and especially the Police Department. 
They want PREDICTABILITY.
The same thing the individual police officer wants.

But politics and good intentions often gets in the way of that, just as it does in England as well.

The Telegraph YouTube Channel video: Truth about the Romanian beggars of Park Lane. Uploaded July 28, 2013. http://youtu.be/SNhhJh81GxE

By the way, here's one of the possible reasons why the Police in Skåne had a registry of Roma children in the first place: http://www.thelocal.se/50464/20130926/

So that when, oh, hypothetically, blonde-haired, green-eyed girls were found that are clearly not related to anyone they are traveling with, Police know to immediately put out an alert.

Or to quote the piece, "Channel 4 News has been told the story reflects

a common trend in Eastern Europe." 

Right, because sometimes, a list is composed NOT to keep track of who belongs in a group, but rather for who doesn't, no?

Exactly.

Yes, as always, context matters.

More in the The Daily Mail:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2468431/Police-probe-claims-Ben-Needham-spotted-gypsy-camp-Maria.html

Revisionism: Nearing 4th anniversary of Madeleine McCann's disappearance, Anorak pokes holes in Portuguese town's attempted airbrushing of blame

The Child Exploitation and Online Protection (CEOP) Centre -A Minute for Madeleine
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=979u-xbPHrQ

Above, Madeleine McCann, the-then three year-old Everton fan missing from Praia da Luz, Portugal now for four years.

This afternoon, Anorak has posted a scathingly tart rejoinder to the blind acceptance by many about what has been reported and broadcast thus far on this tragic story, particularly about the supposed depth of feeling by the people of the seaside Portuguese town from which this young girl disappeared. Of what, yes, 'it all means...'

It takes aim and fires!
In my opinion? Bulls-eye!
Bulls-eye times ten.

It's rightful target? This morning's story in The Sunday Telegraph, which had a teaser photo of Maddie at the bottom, just below the front page photo of Queen Elizabeth and former Prime Minister Tony Blair. Read the story so you'll better understand the spot-on criticism and analysis from Anorak:



Madeleine McCann: time to forget?
As the fourth anniversary of Madeleine McCann's disappearance approaches - and coincides with a new book written by her mother, Kate - Olga Craig returns to Praia da Luz to see how the Portuguese resort has put the incident behind it
By Olga Craig 7:00AM BST 24 Apr 2011
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/madeleinemccann/8469932/Madeleine-McCann-time-to-forget.html

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The Anorak piece quite correctly thinks that the whole tragic episode is being airbrushed out of memory and that it's not just the Portuguese doing the convenient forgetting -since they want to keep the European tourists coming back and spending their Euros- but even some British journalists who are abetting this deliberate attempt to make the public's concern and the resulting media attention, appear frothy, frivolous and misplaced.

There's little doubt that some but not all of the reporting was.
I've read that sort before and so have many of you, but in casting such a wide net, these latter reporters only show their own profound lack of perspective, sincerity and humanity.

Without getting into all the details or naming the guilty, to me, it sounds suspiciously similar to the smug patronizing attitude I heard in-person at nice places throughout Washington -and later read in print- by some liberal reporters and columnists about Chandra Levy's disappearance and murder.
Who said that it was, you see, oh dear, 'much ado about nothing.'

Yes, we were reassured, it was just another summer story in The Beltway that would soon disappear once Labor Day rolled-around and the big-time journalists returned from The Cape or Aspen or wherever the new in-spot was, as that story would then be squashed into nothingness by WaPo editors with a love for lengthy stories about the budget.

Yes, I was told, reporting on Chandra Levy was almost beneath some of them, a graduate of a top-tier school said, who surely imagines that they'll be running the Washington Post some day when right-thinking people are making the grave decision.

I kid you not, Washington is absolutely full to the gills with people like that.
It's not just the elected officials who have an extraordinary sense of grandeur about themselves and their future dates with destiny, it's the reporters.

Is there anything worse than journalists who are openly contemptuous of average people and their interests, lecturing everyone else in sight about what things "really" mean, from the vantage point of their f-ing high horse?
I think not.

In case you forgot or never read it here the first time, while she was not someone I personally knew, Chandra Levy used the same exact gym I did in downtown Washington.
I actually saw her from time-to-time, just as I saw lots of people there who, after awhile, became familiar faces of a sort, even if I didn't know their entire back-story.

Those ubiquitous fliers of her that you saw on the news stories so many hundreds of times were the very one I passed everyday on my way into the gym.
My two previous post on Chandra Levy are at the bottom of this post.

Here's the piece from Anorak that shoots and scores!

Anorak
Madeleine McCann: Fourth Anniversary Tour, With Robert Murat
Read this great post at:
http://www.anorak.co.uk/279312/madeleine-mccann/madeleine-mccann-fourth-anniversary-tour-with-robert-murat.html

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Sky News' updated links to videos, photos, articles and Life of Crime blog by Sky's crime correspondent Martin Brunt at http://news.sky.com/skynews/madeleine while those of The Sun are at http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/maddie/

The official site to find Madeleine McCann
http://www.findmadeleine.com/home.html


I don't get them in the mail in Hallandale Beach like I did for the 14 years I lived in the Northern Virginia suburbs of Washington, D.C., but a good reason why you should always look at ADVO's "Have you seen me?" fliers:



Because sometimes the kids seen on them do turn up. Above, Elizabeth Smart. I still remember the day that she was found alive, and quite unexpectedly, having kept the mailer above in a dresser drawer, knowing that I'd never run into her around D.C., finding myself crying the moment MSNBC broke the news that she'd been found ALIVE.


The Daily Mirror
Madeleine McCann search: JK Rowling helps Maddy's mum Kate write book on
by Greig Box-Turnbull, Daily Mirror
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2011/04/11/madeleine-mccann-search-jk-rowling-helps-maddy-s-mum-kate-write-book-on-115875-23052492/


February 13, 2011
As predicted here, McClatchy & Miami Herald never refer to illegal alien status of convicted killer of Chandra Levy in article. Shocker!
http://hallandalebeachblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/as-predicted-here-mcclatchy-miami.html

February 11, 2011
Killer convicted! Illegal immigrant from El Salvador sentenced to 60 years in prison by D.C. jury for 2001 murder of Chandra Levy
http://hallandalebeachblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/killer-convicted-illegal-immigrant-from.html