Why have the McCanns never taken part in an actual organised search for Madeleine?

[carlymichelle]

why wouldnt parents go looking for their  lost  frightned  3 year old?? this isnt normal

[Lace]

Why do you find my suggestion that they start a proper search in and around Praia da Luz funny Anne?   A search process always begins at the last place the child was seen.  There are loads of places around the village where a child could have been concealed.

Searching involves many disciplines, it is not as Eleanor suggests all to do with a spade.  Her facetious comment just underlines the frivolity and contempt with which McCann supporters still hold this suggestion.  Remarkable really for people who claim that Mr Amaral hindered the search when all along the McCanns couldn't even be bothered getting off their backsides and personally doing some searching.

Praia da Luz was searched,  hundreds of people searched,  the police searched with dogs with helicopters.  Why do you think the McCann's going out there searching is going to be helpful?

You seem to forget that the McCann's were with the police the days following Madeleine's disappearance.   

Why is it just the McCann's who are accused of not searching for their child the days following a disappearance?

Who in their right mind would want the parents searching days after their child went missing?

Ben Needhams parents have been mentioned.    Let me remind everyone that Mrs.  Needham was following up leads of sightings,   looking for a live Ben not a corpse.   

[slartibartfast]

UNBELIEVABLE

Kate says they are working really hard trying to get Madeleine back but not by physically searching?

Maybe it is part of the "God Complex" that seems to affect some doctors? Perhaps they felt more comfortable sending out their "staff" to do the searching.

[Lace]

why wouldnt parents go looking for their  lost  frightned  3 year old?? this isnt normal

They did,  they searched the area where Madeleine would have gone.      How cruel of you to suggest they didn't bother.

[Lace]

Maybe it is part of the "God Complex" that seems to affect some doctors? Perhaps they felt more comfortable sending out their "staff" to do the searching.

Don't be so utterly ridiculous.

They searched the area where a three year old could have wandered.     

[stephen25000]

UNBELIEVABLE

Kate says they are working really hard trying to get Madeleine back but not by physically searching?

That John is precisely the point. Not only UNBELIEVABLE, also it was inexcusable.

[slartibartfast]

Don't be so utterly ridiculous.

They searched the area where a three year old could have wandered.   

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2105605/3-year-old-wanders-mile-snowcovered-road-middle-night-bad-dream.html

So they search around 3.5 square miles in the hour they searched.

[John]

It it had been my child I would have been out there every waking daylight hour and to heck with the police and reporters.  Not the McCanns though?      Very odd indeed?      >@@(*&)

[Lace]

It it had been my child I would have been out there every waking daylight hour and to heck with the police and reporters.  Not the McCanns though?      Very odd indeed?      >@@(*&)

So you would have told the police to go away when they wanted to question you then?    I very much doubt it.

The thing is it has never happened to us,  and though we would really like to think we would search and search even the area's that had already been searched,    in reality,   we would have to go through the procedure of police questioning,    police station visits etc etc.

[stephen25000]

A parents natural reflex would be to search.

Contacting the police likewise, right from the start, not after a delay, after writing your timelines.

Neither prostrating yourself like mad mullahs in front of the local constabulary.

[Lace]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2105605/3-year-old-wanders-mile-snowcovered-road-middle-night-bad-dream.html

So they search around 3.5 square miles in the hour they searched.

The whole area was searched,  by the public by the police.

[Lace]

A parents natural reflex would be to search.

Contacting the police likewise, right from the start, not after a delay, after writing your timelines.

Neither prostrating yourself like mad mullahs in front of the local constabulary.

What are you talking about Stephen?     You haven't read the Police files have you?

They found Madeleine missing,   they searched,   then they waited for the police,    THEN they wrote the timelines,   got it?

As for the 'mad mullahs'    are you referring to the McCann's praying in the bedroom?   You show such a lack of empathy it is unbelievable.

[Benice]

Where would I like them to search? 8-)(--)

Well hmmm  let's see... Praia da Luz and surrounds for starters and moving out slowly.

I bet Ben Needham's mum could show them how to do it and on a shoestring budget too.

Yes -  and I can just imagine the comments if they were going back to PdL at every opportunity.

For instance:-
 
Why are they searching Pdl when they know the biggest search ever in the history of Portugal has been carried out there. 

It's an insult to the locals and everyone else who searched.

It's just an excuse to have lots of free holidays.

What a disgusting waste of fund money.

Why are they leaving the twins so often - they're neglecting them.

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And on and on it would go - cos one thing is for certain - nothing they ever do or will ever do is right in some people's eyes. IMO.

Damned if they do and damned if they don't.

The advice from the experts in order to give a missing chld the best possible chance of being found is to keep the child's profile as high as possible in the public's mind for as long as possible.  That is what the McCanns have done and it is what Ben Needham's mum does too.

In America at one time they used to put missing children's piccies on milk cartons - so that millions of people would see them every day. 

[Lace]

Yes -  and I can just imagine the comments if they were going back to PdL at every opportunity.

For instance:-
 
Why are they searching Pdl when they know the biggest search ever in the history of Portugal has been carried out there. 

It's an insult to the locals and everyone else who searched.

It's just an excuse to have lots of free holidays.

What a disgusting waste of fund money.

Why are they leaving the twins so often - they're neglecting them.

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And on and on it would go - cos one thing is for certain - nothing they ever do or will ever do is right in some people's eyes. IMO.

Damned if they do and damned if they don't.

The advice from the experts in order to give a missing chld the best possible chance of being found is to keep the child's profile as high as possible in the public's mind for as long as possible.  That is what the McCanns have done and it is what Ben Needham's mum does too.

In America at one time they used to put missing children's piccies on milk cartons - so that millions of people would see them every day.

      

[stephen25000]

We also had the promise of not leaving PORTUGAL without MADELEINE.