Is the maddie fund.... now a secret fund

[Angelo222]

With or without your little children in tow?  When would you have given up, or would you still be there now knocking on doors?

They would now be welcome in Portugal had they shown the slightest compassion for their missing child.

[Angelo222]

It's an utterly ridiculous notion.
I've asked before......if Madeleine's parents arrived in PDL should they knock on every door?
Clamber down the many wells?
Break into empy properties?

That is a flippant response.  There are many ways the parents of a missing child can inspire local people to help in the hunt and that doesn't require knocking on doors or looking down culverts.

[Vertigo Swirl]

They would now be welcome in Portugal had they shown the slightest compassion for their missing child.

This is an absurd statement and wrong on two levels.  1) The McCanns have absolute compassion for Madeleine and 2) most of Portugal believes they hid their child's body so why would they be welcome there?

[Angelo222]

And they have.

Most definitely not!!

[Vertigo Swirl]

That is a flippant response.  There are many ways the parents of a missing child can inspire local people to help in the hunt and that doesn't require knocking on doors or looking down culverts.

I thought the local people were inspired to look for Madeleine, but the McCanns would have been lambasted if they had expected the locals to keep on actively searching indefinitely.  They plastered PdL in posters but were ridiculed and despised for doing so.  They ensured Madeleine was barely off the front pages of the media in Portugl and the UK and were ridiculed and despised for doing so.   How would you have done it Angelo?  You'd still be in Portugal now, 11 years later presumably, but doing what exactly?

[kizzy]

John mentioned libel money, I responded, you jumped into the discussion between us.  Read back if you don't believe me.  Who do you donate money to on a regular basis, if anyone?

Thats none of your business VS

[Vertigo Swirl]

Thats none of your business VS

But how the Fund is managed and what they spend their money on is your business is it? 

[kizzy]

I've seen this claim before that the bucket in the foyer was placed there by one of the McCann family.
Is there a cite to show that this is true?

Is there a cite to prove that they didn't.

 I recall the mccanns put one in the OC foyer early days and the staff were upset because it put their tips box out of action.

[Carana]

From a bucket in a foyer placed by the mccanns - how did it turn out to a business...and why.


It is strange the speed - at which the company was set up.

According the the book madeleine, on Friday May 11th 2007 two men,neither of whom were named in the book

A paralegal and a barrister flew out to Portugal and had meetings with the mccanns 

that weekend (may 11,12,13) - these unnamed men, apparently suggested that the best way to proceed in the circumstances.... was to set up a limited company.

Why wasn't this just left as a charity - why did they want to take control of the money.

The company was incorporated on Tuesday May 15th and formally launched with much media hype on Wednesday May 16th.

What was the reason for the incredible hurry?

How did this help maddie.

How has the fund ever helped maddie

There are threads on the Fund dating back years ago... I don't understand what others don't understand why it COULDN'T have been a charity...

[Robittybob1]

money!

[Mr Gray]

money!

do you understand why it couldnt be a charity

[Erngath]

Is there a cite to prove that they didn't.

 I recall the mccanns put one in the OC foyer early days and the staff were upset because it put their tips box out of action.

What do you mean by I recall.....etc etc
Some evidence of this recall would be very welcome.

[Robittybob1]

do you understand why it couldnt be a charity

The focus was to find one person, to help one family.

[Miss Taken Identity]

This is an absurd statement and wrong on two levels.  1) The McCanns have absolute compassion for Madeleine and 2) most of Portugal believes they hid their child's body so why would they be welcome there?

Not absurd at all.
1. you do not know what happened to MBM . therefore you do not know if those parents feel compassion.
2. you do not know what the population of Portugal believe.

There could be many factors for many Portuguese withdrawing support to that family.

The best one being  crying wolf to the UK press not long after MBM was announced 'missing'abducted' by stating: the police were doing nothing and they were both left to look for their daughter by themselves?  shame on them after all the hours people put in searching.

They (along with a fan base) went on to slag off the police, the staff at MW, the neighbours, and insinuated the place wasn't safe for families and children. Now we even have them trying to take the whole of Portgual to ECHR!

It is everyones fault but theirs...

and 

[Erngath]

Is there a cite to prove that they didn't.

 I recall the mccanns put one in the OC foyer early days and the staff were upset because it put their tips box out of action.

You made the initital claim the the McCanns put the bucket in the foyer......not me.
I don't have to post a cite for the negative of your post.
It's up to you to prove your statement or withdraw your statement.
A cite please that the McCanns placed the bucket in the foyer.
If you can provide that cite, I will accept your proof.