Friday 3 January 2014

CMOMM Ullapool thread how to turn an unsavoury news topic into a Madeleine Topic

I have mentioned this completely unrelated thread to anything Maddie previously.  It was an extremely popular thread about how a teacher with an indecent image of children and a bestialty image came to be struck off.  It’s the way of the world these cases get reported regularly in the Press.  What’s interesting is how it became a Madeleine McCann thread.  The first few replies tut! tut! This sorry state of affairs before the Master manipulator Tony Bennett introduces this on Friday 8th of November.

There is a potentially sinister connection between the conviction of Martin Ingrams, History Teacher at Ullapool High School, and Philomena McCann, sister of Dr Gerald McCann, who teaches 'Modern Studies' there. The potentially sinister connection is not the fact that she teaches there, after all, there can be no 'guilt by association' just be being a teacher at the same school. The sinister aspect relates to the involvement of her husband, Tony Rickwood, in the deviant sexual fetish of publishing 'quicksand fetish photos'. To the uninitiated, this involves producing photos, or 'art', of women sinking in quicksand or swamps.
Rickwood has posted some of his work on this site: http://scopertonosol.deviantart.com/ - where his username is 'auroraman'. Not surprisingly he keeps his real name off that forum. Moreover, his obsession with the quicksand fetish has been passed to DCI Andy Redwood of Operation Grange. A group has been working on this now for some months, but details have now been published on Twitter, as these tweets reveal:

Now, all of a sudden we have the connection to a McCann.  Philomena's husband has a fetish about women drowning in quicksand and he posts some of his illustrations on a deviant art website.  The idea here is to implicate Gerry McCann as being no better than his brother-in law, though he has no blood ties to the individual.  We are encouraged to believe the tacit approval of his sister into Rickwood’s very unsavoury though not illegal pursuits.  Oh Dear!! While Bennett continues to ladle on the facts in a further post, students of the disappearance, such as member Daisy, vow to examine and study Tony’s revelations still further. And this is only the first page of the thread.

You went to Ullapool once didn't you?
you must be related to Gerry McCann you Pervert!!


Bennett later gives us entirely irrelevant material relating to Rickwood on page 2, namely he has a job on a salmon farm, he’s a birdwatcher (Twitcher variety)  and he’s interested in the Aurora Borealis.  Thank you Tony, the explanation for the mystery becomes clearer by the second.  There now follows another round of tut! Tutting together with a few scattergun remarks from assorted members.

On page 3, inevitably the Gaspars are introduced into the thread (suspicions of paedophilia made known to the police by friends of the Paynes over a conversation between David Payne and Gerry McCann) together with the empty CATS file (please look it up if you are interested) and Eddie & Keela sniffer dog alerts in the apartment.  Ullapool seems a long way away now thanks to Tony Bennett. Any vestigaes of what this thread is about go up in a puff of smoke with this post by SmokeAndMirrors, a CMOMM nominated researcher for the Forum on November the 9th..

‘I have no doubt whatsoever in my mind, that newspaper editors, SY, PJ, various criminal psychologists and so on, are aware of MUCH MORE about this case and the people involved (even those involved by association) than these unsavoury "co-incidences' that keep cropping up, they have tools of detection beyond those we can access, and it has long been my view, and indeed hope, that the drawn out and prolonged nature of the investigation is to ensure that the whole rancid lot can be scooped up and disposed of.

Whilst we all long for some sort of conclusion to this case so that an innocent child may receive justice, I would not wish it to be in any way expedited at the expense of allowing a single one of these sordid characters to evade justice.

We have long gone past the possibility of co-incidence with all these grotesque anomalies, this is becoming something depraved beyond our worst nightmares.’

Rickwood and the teacher now provide 2 school based perverts according to PeterMac, another reaseacher for CMOMM.

The subject matter drifts back to Ullapool for a short while reaching a crescendo with this Tony Bennett post

‘More from Tony Rickwood a.k.a. 'Auroraman' a.k.a. 'scopertonosol' - writing as 'scopertonosol' on the 'Deviant Art' website (under pic of naked lady in quicksand):

"I've always wanted to do a sort of tribute to Enrique Romero who did, among others, the amazing AXA comic strip. A formative scene for me was when the heroine is led into quicksand by a jealous rival and left to sink to her doom. Now ordinarily I'm not for doing nude artwork, but since it is in the spirit of the original comic series, I am making this one exception. It's not the best render, but I hope that it comes across OK".  

It seems he has a number of fans of his work on the site, for example:

PM2K: "I loved that AXA scene - pity there were no really good scans of it available - and this really is a great tribute".

pete1672: "Can only echo PM2K's statement, this is excellent".

It’s only page 3 I’m hoping by now I have made my point about discussion groups. There is another 33 pages of this drivel, touching on subjects such as the Ullapool school trip to Turkey,  Philomena McCann’s personal, and entirely understandable involvement being brought under the spotlight (she is employed by them for crissakes) in a most insidious way, Kate McCann’s book, paedophilia being treated leniently by the courts, and adobe photo-shopping images.  A shining light of integrity briefly appears with this post from ProffessrPPlum on 10th November.

At the risk of being unpopular, I worry that some people have gone a bit overboard trying to make mud stick to this guy. I know there are people who believe the 'last' photos are faked (particularly the pool picture) and latch on to anyone in the McCann's immediately family who can do clever things with photoShop.

I've got a lot of experience working on images (including faking images which is great fun as my avatar shows) and I am confident that while the pool photo may have been taken on some other date, it certainly hasn't been photoshopped. I've made this point to folks with a lot less experience than me on a couple of threads in this forum but many want it to be true so much that they ignore my advice and go looking for the photoshop wizard in the McCann family to back up their conspiracy theory.

As to whether creating pictures of women in quicksand is anything more than an unpleasant (but essentially harmless) middle-aged fetish or fantasy, who know? At worst, it suggests to me the kind of low-level misogyny you find everywhere online in Facebook, YouTube, discussion forums, Twitter and so on - but that doesn't make him a pervert or a dangerous individual.

For your information, 'Deviant Art' is one of the oldest and - in internet terms - most respected creative websites for showcasing all kinds of digital 'artwork'. To go off on one about it being perverted and obscene reveals a lack of understanding of that community. Deviant Art is just a cross-section of the internet; it represents everything and stands for nothing in particular. Of course there are some pictures there that make you uncomfortable but that's a matter of preference, a subjective judgment.

The eagerness with which people have pounced on this man in the quest to find some kind of paedophile angle (the Holy Grail of the McCann case?) does this forum's credibility no favours IMO.’

This leads us into another old chestnut of ‘The last photo’ being doctored.

Sorry, but I've just lost the will to live!! I am leaving this blog entry right now.


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