Dr Amaral's Defence Funds

costello wrote:The fund seems to be picking up speed again, excellent news. There is a comment from a Tony Bennett (2 mins ago)?

Russian Doll wrote: Thanks, I have seen that now, but as TB's main place for posting is CMOMM, why is no ref to this there on the topics related to GA and the fund?

btw by out of the blue I meant suddenly posting here after not doing so for some time, unless I read the stats wrong, sorry if so.

Freedom wrote:Let's end this now please.

There's no reason for the letter to be mentioned over on CMoMM.

Mimi wrote:To RD  

Mimi wrote:

PeterMac wrote:And she did make a point of telling the entire world that she had a problem with screwing Gerry - Front page of the Sun !

How unbelievable this whole thing actually IS, when you stand back and watch what this pair have done, to Madeleine, to themselves, to PdL, to their friends, to all the people who were paid to help, to the Press, to Justice, to Leveson, to international relations, to Freedom of speech, and to so many other peripheral things.

They have screwed up so much.

So true - about standing back I mean.  I get too bogged down in the detail of this case. I suppose we all do, including SY.   If one stands right back and takes a bird`s eye view, it`s blinkin` amazing what they`ve got away with and how the public have been fooled.  It`s ridiculous.

TB listed recently all the involvements of the security and other specialist services brought in pronto and when one sees them listed like that, rather than piecemeal, it shouts "big government cover-up".

ETA - I suppose it was a sure winner to dupe the general public  :-

Victims - photogenic too
Aggressive husband
Poor me wife
Loss of a child (which every person in the world dreads)
Professional couple - even better - doctors
Church goers
Do gooders for charity
They make love, rather than screw
Supportive family
Nasty foreigners who had the audacity to suspect the obvious

dogs don't lie wrote:I liked this one...

Kate and Gerry,you damaged the lives of my children when they were small as they thought someone was going to get into their bedroom windows as their catholic school told them your jack-a-nory story and asked them to pray. We had sleepless nights for years and a security routine to check doors and windows before sleep. Their anxiety and distress caused by your lies. I donated £5 back then to the school fund for you as at the time I thought you were genuine human beings. I cuddled and calmed them as I believed the fiction too. I would like to withdraw that money and give to a truth teller. The truth will be told. You cannot hide behind pity statements by calling people trolls and haters. People are waking up and realising your story is full of holes and had the real story broke back then, my children would not have been scared or scarred by your lies.

dogs don't lie wrote:Woohooo! That ones very emotional and shows how it affected other small children.

Posted by portugalpress on May 15, 2015
Top British cop vows “Maddie hunt must continue” while “troll noise” reaches fever pitch

In the UK today, Metropolitan Police chief Sir Brian Hogan Howe has confirmed the multi-million pound investigation into the disappearance of Madeleine McCann from an Algarve holiday resort eight years ago must continue - no matter what his union, or indeed anyone else thinks.
Talking to Tom Pettifor of the Daily Mirror, Sir Brian “reacted angrily to concerns raised by the Police Federation about the millions devoted to the case”.
“It’s not for them to decide which investigation we carry out. It’s my decision,” he told the Mirror. “This investigation is funded by the government and the only thing that will decide whether or not it continues are the chances of success in finding that girl.”
John Tully, chairman of the Met’s police federation, showed in March that rank-and-file police think otherwise. He declared there were “rumblings of discontent” over the manpower and money ploughed into the Madeleine investigation and that it was “time to refocus” and channel resources into “keeping London safe”.
But as Sir Brian insists that the Met must continue with the hunt that has purportedly cost over £10 million so far, Britons denounced as “trolls” are channelling money hand-over-fist to the cause of the former Portuguese policeman sued by missing Madeleine’s parents for the message in his book the Truth of the Lie.

Gonçalo Amaral has announced that he is appealing against the decision that leaves him owing a whopping €600,000 in combined damages and interest payments - but it is no secret that the case has left him financially hamstrung. Thus the rallying of support, both here and in the UK is a life-raft.
Coordinated by a group of friends who have sole use of the money for legal defence costs only, it has quite literally kept him going.
“The best proof … is that he has come this far,” one of the fund ‘managers’ told us today. “He wouldn’t have otherwise.”
With the “gofundme” appeal started by Leanne Bulch, a young single mother from Birmingham, getting donations from an average of 70 people a day - and nudging ever-closer to its £25,000 target - Amaral has spoken to Visão magazine about the case that “destroyed his career, his family and his health”, saying “my life is gone. I am only alive due to my heart”.

He reveals not only that he will be counter-suing the McCann parents, their “group of friends” and “other people and entities” “in good time” but that, as far as he is concerned, the couple “practised a crime” and were “primarily responsible for their daughter’s disappearance” by leaving their children alone “for more than five nights”.

It is an extraordinary interview published in full on the “Projecto Justiça Gonçalo Amaral” website set up by one of the friends who has fought tirelessly since 2009 for Amaral’s right to freedom of expression.
She told us how she is buoyed now by the “incredible response” coming every day from British people who have been described by the UK’s Sun newspaper as “sick trolls”.
The Resident has been following the fund and, as we suggested last week, the comments appearing on it do not seem to fit the profile of trolls in any way at all.
Indeed one was so poignant it has spurred Amaral supporters to send it to over 50 British newspapers and media professionals to highlight how strong feelings in the UK are about this eternal “mystery”.

Penned by a donor who gave her name as Paula Seddon, it ran as follows: “Kate and Gerry, you damaged the lives of my children when they were small as they thought someone was going to get into their bedroom windows as their catholic school told them your jack-a-nory story and asked them to pray. We had sleepless nights for years and a security routine to check doors and windows before sleep. Their anxiety and distress caused by your lies. I donated £5 back then to the school fund for you as at the time I thought you were genuine human beings. I cuddled and calmed them as I believed the fiction too. I would like to withdraw that money and give to a truth teller. The truth will be told. You cannot hide behind pity statements by calling people trolls and haters. People are waking up and realising your story is full of holes and had the real story broke back then, my children would not have been scared or scarred by your lies.”

But the day after the message was sent, the UK press ran only with the story that insists the search for missing Madeleine must continue.
Meantime, Amaral’s interview with Visão is being copied, tweeted and sent around the world.
As he tells journalist Alexandra Ferreira, he wrote the book that the McCann couple took him to court over as a “way to reply to the humiliation and the offences” that he has been “targeted with”.
“Deep down that was it. They say we are incompetent, they say we are a third world police force, drunkards, fat, lazy, etc., and the PJ police does not set out to defend us. Therefore I turned to writing, reporting the investigation that had been carried out, so people could draw their own conclusions.”
Asked what remains “unexplained in this case”, he said: “I don’t answer that question. Faced with what was said by the couple after the verdict was known, that they feel stronger, I just feel like saying that only vampires become stronger with their victims’ blood. Like Zeca Afonso sang: ‘They eat everything…’”

natasha.donn@algarveresident.com

- See more at: http://portugalresident.com/top-british-cop-vows-“maddie-hunt-must-continue”-while-“troll-noise”-reaches-fever-pitch#sthash.Z5ZllfQw.dpuf

He reveals not only that he will be counter-suing the McCann parents, their “group of friends” and “other people and entities” “in good time

caricature wrote:

He reveals not only that he will be counter-suing the McCann parents, their “group of friends” and “other people and entities” “in good time

Trouble is,where will the funds come from to be able to launch such litigation.