The 'Find Madeleine Campaign' Helpful or Harmful?

[Holly Goodhead]

You claimed the McCanns were undignified but I don’t see evidence of this.  What do you mean by undignified?  Ben Needham’s mum went off the rails after her son disappeared and had some unedifying moments in her life that could be described as undignified (not that I blame her at all), but what did thr McCanns ever do to deserve this criticism?

Well without wishing to sound rude we do tend to see what we want to see and hear what we want to hear. 

The whole thing of getting footballers to make appeals and a meeting with the Pope courtesy of the unacceptable face of capitalism's private jet etc, etc.  How could any of this assist? 
 

[Robittybob1]

Did they ever tell you that they were upset by you leaving them ?

I'm talking 40 odd years ago.  I can't remember that specifically, but the kids did have a tendency to very independent in the end.

You're making an assumption, not stating a fact. I have no idea if the conversation at the table took place or not. I know it wasn't mentioned by anyone until a year after the event.

You have very strange ideas about what is appropriate for a three year old child to be doing in my opinion; especially on a cold night in it's pyjamas. 

Well Kate might have thought it better that Madeleine knows where they are, and is told how to get there.  Rather than crying for hours in the apartment  disturbing the other tenants.

[Holly Goodhead]

OK you might be right, but "tweeddle dee and tweedle dum" were references to the first two GNR officers that turned up.  GNR not PJ.

Ok GNR then.  Have you no patience I'm a newbie! 

[Robittybob1]

Ok GNR then.  Have you no patience I'm a newbie! 

Just be grateful someone corrects you.  G-unit corrects me.  I like it TBH.

[Holly Goodhead]

Just be grateful someone corrects you.  G-unit corrects me.  I like it TBH.

Ok just so long as it doesn't involve you administering any corporal punishment.  I'm mindful of your tagline 

[Robittybob1]

Ok just so long as it doesn't involve you administering any corporal punishment.  I'm mindful of your tagline 

Hopefully that never applies to you.  [I should remove that tag line.  I've turned off seeing signatures.  They annoy me.]

[Vertigo Swirl]

Well without wishing to sound rude we do tend to see what we want to see and hear what we want to hear. 

The whole thing of getting footballers to make appeals and a meeting with the Pope courtesy of the unacceptable face of capitalism's private jet etc, etc.  How could any of this assist?

It made sure Madeleine became the most famous missing child there has ever been which may have led to her discovery or to more people coming forward with vital information.  How much publicity is too much in your view?  Did the McCanns force people in the public eye to support them?

[jassi]

I'm talking 40 odd years ago.  I can't remember that specifically, but the kids did have a tendency to very independent in the end.
Well Kate might have thought it better that Madeleine knows where they are, and is told how to get there.  Rather than crying for hours in the apartment  disturbing the other tenants.

Ah, but she wouldn't be crying for hours on end if they were being checked as claimed.

[Holly Goodhead]

It made sure Madeleine became the most famous missing child there has ever been which may have led to her discovery or to more people coming forward with vital information.  How much publicity is too much in your view?  Did the McCanns force people in the public eye to support them?

But there's almost always two sides to everything and in this case the unprecedented worldwide publicity might have scared off an abductor who might otherwise have released MM. 

The campaign also imo led to a scattergun approach with an ocean of red herrings rather than something fine tuned and focused. 


 

[jassi]

But there's almost always two sides to everything and in this case the unprecedented worldwide publicity might have scared off an abductor who might otherwise have released MM. 

The campaign also imo led to a scattergun approach with an ocean of red herrings rather than something fine tuned and focused.

I think the scattergun approach was deliberate as the PJ were focused - on them

[faithlilly]

I'm talking 40 odd years ago.  I can't remember that specifically, but the kids did have a tendency to very independent in the end.
Well Kate might have thought it better that Madeleine knows where they are, and is told how to get there.  Rather than crying for hours in the apartment  disturbing the other tenants.

Or perhaps the should have just stayed in and looked after their children like 99% of parents do ?

[Vertigo Swirl]

Or perhaps the should have just stayed in and looked after their children like 99% of parents do ?

But if they had just think of all those years of free entertainment you’d have been denied.

[faithlilly]

But if they had just think of all those years of free entertainment you’d have been denied.

I’d rather Madeleine was safe and well and living the normal life of a teenager.

[Robittybob1]

I’d rather Madeleine was safe and well and living the normal life of a teenager.

That still could happen if the Find Madeleine Campaign works in the end

[Miss Taken Identity]

But if they had just think of all those years of free entertainment you’d have been denied.

sayeth he who only comes here for the craic...

They turned it into a business- they were marketing their daughter ! They would never have had that kind of support had it been known a door was left unlocked so that their babysitter (3 year old MBM) could go fetch them if the twins woke up again? Who then wandered out and met with a horrible situation death or abduction/both even.

Hence the  she is alive and abductor grabbed her from her bed. More dramatic.

Oh and don't forget how they constantly told us she came to no harm. yeah Hmm