meggilyweggily
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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/mick_hume/article2253547.ece
Nobody should blame Madeleine McCann’s parents for doing whatever they can to keep publicising their missing daughter’s case. But sympathy should not mean we have to support their latest demands for more child protection laws, based on the suspect US “Amber Alert” system.
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Let’s hope not. An Amber Alert system would likely do more harm than good, reinforcing society’s overblown anxieties about child safety.
Clearly this person knows very little about the Amber Alert system; for instance, he doesn't mention the criteria for an Amber alert, and acts like there's an Amber every time a child disappears anywhere under any circumstances. And of course he ignores the many children who were found safe because of an Amber.
Nobody should blame Madeleine McCann’s parents for doing whatever they can to keep publicising their missing daughter’s case. But sympathy should not mean we have to support their latest demands for more child protection laws, based on the suspect US “Amber Alert” system.
...
Let’s hope not. An Amber Alert system would likely do more harm than good, reinforcing society’s overblown anxieties about child safety.
Clearly this person knows very little about the Amber Alert system; for instance, he doesn't mention the criteria for an Amber alert, and acts like there's an Amber every time a child disappears anywhere under any circumstances. And of course he ignores the many children who were found safe because of an Amber.
