The truth of the matter is simply cultural differences. As a Brit, we pride ourselves, on keeping the stiff upper lip and fight tooth and nail to get to the truth and our goals. The McCanns have a daughter missing. The McCanns, through contacts and consular help set up a worldwide campaign to find their daughter and used certain anniversaries to promote a new appeal.
The McCanns have used social media. Something that is a valuable tool in the 21st century to get appeals spread far and wide. And they have used it to its full effect in hope that Madeleine will be found. The McCanns have used the media to get the word out about their appeals. The media in all earnest, used the McCanns to sell papers, but instead of shying away from media, the McCanns know that the media is the only hope they have of getting their appeals printed in papers, not just in the United Kingdom but worldwide.
The McCanns put themselves on the front line and even though the press published stories that were totally false they still need the media to get the message home that Madeleine is missing.
If Amaral thinks it highly suspicious then he is totally mistaken. One thing the McCanns have shown is that the media can help you and in a way the McCanns have set a precedent on how to use social media on appeals for missing people.
A policeman may in his mind think the chances of finding a missing child, after 6 years alive, are pretty slim. But in his heart he prays and hopes his fears are unfounded. One thing they do NOT do is flaunt themselves on TV, write books that clearly state the child is dead.
And before people jump up and down saying Amaral has never said that Madeleine McCann is definitely dead, he has. The foreward in his book clearly states it.
Goncalo Amaral's actions in my opinion, has caused harm to the search. The anti McCanns, who hero-worship this ex-detective, are clear examples of how they believe everything he says and totally ignore the words of DCI Andy Redwood who states that Madeleine could be alive.
The McCann's course of action has nothing to do with being Brits but with a primal defense mechanism. When in danger freeze or fight forward. They chose to fight and are now paying for their idiocy.
Their choices were never made in order to find their daughter but to defend themselves, otherwise they would have listened to those that knew better than them. They were so afraid that they attempted to destroy any chance of their daughter being found. One can only wonder why.
In my opinion they fought back because there is some guilt feeling about the disappearance of the child.
What originated that guilt I do not know.
But their aggressiveness, their continuous need to be acknowledged by the Media, their desperation to find a scapegoat to attack, their constant work towards maintaining an image of victimized persons, when the true victim is systematically forgotten, is very telling.
If Madeleine's disappearance had not occurred in another country, I'm sure they would have been forensically scrutinized by now. But, and here you are right - some Brits are xenophobic disguised in proud - it's inadmissible for the British empowerment to accept the interference of another country, even when a child's life is at stake.
Like them you prefer to use a scapegoat instead of looking at the facts.
