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"Myra Hindley 2!!!!!"

If you believe the tabloids, the release of Maxine Carr means any moment now you'll find yourself waking up with her "evil face" peering over you as she looks for kids to snatch and take to her gingerbread house.
The usual moral outcry from the Mail and Middle England over her release warranted front-page handwringing for a couple of days.
Why?
Well, the Mail points out that we're paying "thousands of pounds a day for her protection and anonymity", said in a tone that suggests such an evil woman shouldn't be allowed that.

Oh well hang on, what exactly did she do?
She provided an alibi for her boyfriend, who told her he was going to be "fitted up" for crimes, seeing as they had tried to do so previously.
So, misguidedly, she gave him an alibi. But as soon as she realised that he had murdered Holly Wells & Jessica Chapman, she changed her mind and told the police everything, saying in court that she didn't want to be "responsible or connected to that thing", pointing at Huntley.
She didn't kill anybody, she didn't assist or plan or help dispose of the bodies. She was miles away, unaware of what Ian Huntley did to those two girls.

But the press were looking for blood. Whilst on the one-hand talking about the terrible, terrible crimes and the pain and suffering of the parents - they also had a word-for-word computerised account each night on the news and diagrams (with explicit details) in the papers each day.
The Mail had a picture of Carr alongside Myra Hindley (who was a participant and willing accomplice to the murder of several children), and helped to whip up the idiot public into a murderfrenzy with the usual rent-a-mob banging on the van and screaming obscenities (with their confused kids being dragged along with them).

So if Carr does need 24/7 protection at such an expense, who's to blame for creating this furore over what is basically a naive, manipulated woman who certainly shouldn't have lied for Huntley - yet was no part of the murders.
Who's to blame?
That's right, the very same papers now tut-tutting and moralising that "we should foot the bill for her protection".
It makes no sense. To create outrage and fabricate a monster in order to sate the lust we have for morbid outrage, but then to piously turn around and say that she shouldn't be afforded protection?

Myra Hindley & Rosemary West were murderers, callous and brutal murderers of children.
As was Ian Huntley.
Maxine Carr is a stupid, trusting woman that made a mistake and promptly realised the gravity of the situation and co-operated 100% with the police.
But that seems to have skipped the attention of the papers, desperate to create bogeymen to frighten and outrage you.
So we get stories of benefit fraud to suggest that, whilst she may not have murdered 2 little girls, she's a pretty nasty person anyway to do that sort of thing - no little better than those scrounging darkies that sneak over the border and want to live in your bins and take your wages and make your kids worship a false-god and train them to crash planes into buildings.

C'mon people, don't fall victim to the idiot manipulation of the tabloid press.
Take a step back, ask yourself "Why is this story being presented this way?" and see through the infant-level games they play.

I really don't see how they can get away with inciting public violence in this way, it's only a matter of time before someone kills and blames it on them.

I don't feel I could add anything to what you said, goatboy.

Except that now I have a hunger for lynching newspaper editors.

there's some irony there, actually.

let's just face it, the majority of the country are highly suggestable simpletons, with a deep seated desire to violently oppose any fabricated villain, in order to temporarily expose themselves to the glimmer of hope that they might finally be contributing something worthwhile, and that their lives might not in fact, be completely pointless.

I am from Grimsby where maxine and ian were from. Nobody here wanted maxine to return here, well apart from the odd few.

I think one of the main reasons why people despise her so much is because when these murders were taking place she was in grimsby. Then huntley came back to Grimsby and informed maxine about the situation. Ian was seen opening his car boot and maxine then started crying and looked in a state. She then went back to soham and gave him an aliby. When she returned home he had cleaned the place from top to bottom, something that he would never usually do. Some may say she is just as guilty as what he is. Maxine seems so frail and easily led, no doubt scared out of her mind if he was threatening to do the same to her if she said anything. I am iin to minds about her but thats me. If she had returned to grimsby yeah her life would have been at risk but for her needing all this protection is beyond a joke. She wasnt the killer and she is not a danger to anyone.

I don't tend to follow news obsessively.. just find the details of what's going on, because the world interests me.. but I really can't see the logic in making her out to be such a cold-blooded bone chewing hag.

Maybe it was the pictures they use of her... "Ooh, she's not wearing makeup, bound to be a little odd in the head" or something.

What got me, is the police have advised her to wear body armour.. er.. so she'll just pop down to the nearest army surplus, then?

Goatboy wrote:
> It makes no sense. To create outrage and fabricate a monster in order
> to sate the lust we have for morbid outrage, but then to piously turn
> around and say that she shouldn't be afforded protection?

£££s.
That's the only way any of it makes sense.

Of course, I'm sure you knew that perfectly well, but I think it needed saying.


And I agree 100%


Actually, where I'm temping at the moment, I sit opposite a woman who, a few days ago, was flying into a seething rage about Carr being let out at all, let alone having expensive police protection.

She was actually talking about finding her and killing her.
(Not that she actually would, just that she felt like doing it).

And she wonders why Carr gets £1m in protection! :^D

Most of the office agreed with her about Carr, although didn't quite have the same rage, thankfully.

I thought about saying something.
I didn't want to defend Carr directly, as the whilwind of illegitimate hate may target me too (although I wouldn't normally care, I do have to work there!).
I thought about using socratic irony to clear me from actually saying anything in this 'evil monster's' defence, but we know what happened to socrates too.

Maybe if the issue comes up again I'll grow some nuts and say something, but I think you have to communicate with these people in large black font and inciteful language to influence their opinions at all...

"If you believe the tabloids"

Or just "The Mail". It makes me laugh.

Imagine that, a world where everyone has the same views, blinks in unison.

Indeed, and everyone seemed to hold the same view.

Which was quite scary.

Yeah, we've already got a thread going somewhere about how much the press manipulated her image. Stupid woman, but no murder be she.

Goatboy wrote:
> Stuff

I agree 100% with everything you said.... and I've been saying it myself.

That makes a change :p