Should the McCanns go back to Portugal to look for Madeleine?

[Angelo222]

We have explored this question in another thread to some extent but I suggest it is too important to not have its own thread.

I have seen posters make all sorts of excuses why the McCanns should not go back to Portugal ranging from fear of reprisals to financial hardship through to their inability to speak Portuguese.  My answer to those arguments is that they are merely excuses.  There is no reason whatsoever why one or both of them cannot spend time in Portugal and even Spain looking for their daughter.  They won't find her in Rothley or Rome!!

They were given money by the public to help in the search for Madeleine, money which has already paid for fraudster investigators and funded libel actions against newspapers.  How much has even been used to search for Madeleine properly?

My suggestion is that they get off their backsides and start looking for her properly.  Tour the countries, elicit the help of the local press and population, get a reward out there and get on with it!!

[registrar]

Is Madeleine still in Portugal then Angelo? How long do you suggest they do this for? Should they  perhaps do a year in Portugal, a year in Spain, a year in Morocco, a year in Germany, etc until they find her?  Or how about using specialist detectives who are trained to find missing people?   

K&G employed the idiots of Metodo 3

Their coffers would have provided for proper investigators like Pinkerton's

What that this tell you?

[Mrs. B]

Strange, Pinkerton's don't seem to claim they are specialists in finding abducted children, in fact, it's hard to find any PIs who do.

[registrar]

What a waste of bandwidth. There is nothing an individual search can accomplish.

you have lost your spark haven't you debunker?

[registrar]

Strange, Pinkerton's don't seem to claim they are specialists in finding abducted children, in fact, it's hard to find any PIs who do.

Strange you favour Metodo 3

but maybe not

[Angelo222]

What a waste of bandwidth. There is nothing an individual search can accomplish.

you have lost your spark haven't you debunker?

A very defeatist attitude by Debunker.  Could the McCanns be similarly demotivated?

[Mrs. B]

LOL Is anyone suggesting that the McCann hired the PIs because they KNEW they weren't any good?

Basically, nobody can present any evidence of any wrongdoing relating the fund or anything else for that matter, so we end up with this constant whining about what they SHOULD have done differently.

[Angelo222]

Is Madeleine still in Portugal then Angelo? How long do you suggest they do this for? Should they  perhaps do a year in Portugal, a year in Spain, a year in Morocco, a year in Germany, etc until they find her?  Or how about using specialist detectives who are trained to find missing people?   

You can be dam sure of one thing Martha and that is that she is more likely to be in Portugal than in Rothley or even England for that matter.  The time they should spend out in Portugal is not the issue, the issue is that they should be there looking for her.  How Gerry can go to work as normal every day is unfathomable when his daughter is out there somewhere and needs his help.  If it was my child I would be doing everything possible to find her but then my name isn't Gerry McCann clinical specialist.

In a nutshell, many people find their total lack of empathy for their stolen child to be morally reprehensible.  End off!!

[Carana]

I have a slightly different suggestion, Angelo.

Imagine that you're Gerry McCann at 22:10 in a foreign country and have just discovered that your child has disappeared, seemingly abducted.

Why not lead us through what you would have done differently from then on?

[Angelo222]

LOL Is anyone suggesting that the McCann hired the PIs because they KNEW they weren't any good?

Basically, nobody can present any evidence of any wrongdoing relating the fund or anything else for that matter, so we end up with this constant whining about what they SHOULD have done differently.

I wouldn't have thought so but they have had poor advisers that's for sure.   

[Mrs. B]

LOL Is anyone suggesting that the McCann hired the PIs because they KNEW they weren't any good?

Basically, nobody can present any evidence of any wrongdoing relating the fund or anything else for that matter, so we end up with this constant whining about what they SHOULD have done differently.

I wouldn't have thought so but they have had poor advisers that's for sure.   

At that point I do agree with you, however, as far as Halligen is concerned, a lot of people, including large corporations, got taken in by that crook, not only the McCann.

[Mrs. B]

I have a slightly different suggestion, Angelo.

Imagine that you're Gerry McCann at 22:10 in a foreign country and have just discovered that your child has disappeared, seemingly abducted.

Why not lead us through what you would have done differently from then on?

Yes, that's an interesting proposition.

[Angelo222]

You've lost the plot Angelo. Seriously.

Not at all, I am not an apologist for the McCanns like you appear to be.  I mentioned yesterday that the Needhams and the Fitzpatricks are to be applauded for their tireless search for their child which in the end proved fruitless.  At least they got out there and did something.  What have the McCanns done???

[Angelo222]

I have a slightly different suggestion, Angelo.

Imagine that you're Gerry McCann at 22:10 in a foreign country and have just discovered that your child has disappeared, seemingly abducted.

Why not lead us through what you would have done differently from then on?

I have no gripe with what they did immediately on finding her gone but I do with what they did immediately after the arguido status was lifted.  The perception is that they scuttled off home like scared rats.  Harsh but true.

[Carana]

I have a slightly different suggestion, Angelo.

Imagine that you're Gerry McCann at 22:10 in a foreign country and have just discovered that your child has disappeared, seemingly abducted.

Why not lead us through what you would have done differently from then on?

I have no gripe with what they did immediately on finding her gone but I do with what they did immediately after the arguido status was lifted.  The perception is that they scuttled off home like scared rats.  Harsh but true.

Ok... so at which point do you think they went off track?

NB: They went back home way before arguido status was lifted.