Brits already forking out en-masse for Maddie cop libel appeal

sammyc wrote:Great to see it has gone past £15,000 and many are donating £12 for Madeleine on her birthday.  Has anybody emailed/tweeted/FB'd the MSM with the gofundme/pjga link and if so what reaction have they got?  Oh, and Kate and Gerry, Clarrie, Brunty, that tosser from the Mirror, Cameron, Op Grange, Cankles, Tapas Crew, etc etc.

HelenMeg wrote:
In 2008, News International compensated Kate McCann to the tune of £125k for publishing her diaries because this reportedly caused her to feel "mentally raped". Yet, in 2011, she sold the £500k serialisation rights to 'madeleine' (a book written for her children, so we were told, and based on her famous diaries) to the very same news group she accused of 'violating' her... and not only did she reveal details of her and Gerry's sex life but she also included a grossly offensive description of the abuse she imagined Maddie endured at the hands of a paedophile (The Sun had to replace her precise words with something more acceptable). In 2012 the McCanns appeared at the Leveson Inquiry to reiterate how terribly violated they felt. However, in response to a question about Leveson, Lord Bell, Chairman of the PR company Bell Pottinger, said "And I'm really not interested in what the McCanns think, because the McCanns paid me £500,000 in fees to keep them on the front page of every single newspaper for a year, which we did'. And they talk about "trolls"? Everything about this story has been nothing but dishonesty and manipulation from the beginning.

HelenMeg wrote:2 recent comments from the fundraising site....very very encouraging -

Des - The term *Troll* was once reserved for those who resorted to using threatening or extreme language on social media, now it's used to describe anyone who disagrees with the mainstream media & their friends. And, unfortunately, we're lumbered with a media that bows to the rich & powerful, regardless of the truth, whilst preying on soft targets, like the Portuguese detective, who cannot afford libel lawyers. The truth is, if you have influential allies & enough money to hire half a dozen top-notch lawyers, you can quite literally get away with anything in the UK. No wonder there's so many cover-ups involving children.

Blaize - Its a disgrace that the majority of the British public do NOT know the hidden truths about this case, truths that the British main stream media don't bother telling us.... why

This fund is a fantastic effort because it is joining up more people who perhaps dont frequent forums such as this - collectively - the more we can network in these people the better

aiyoyo wrote:

Snipped from article upthread

Meantime, the instigator of the British appeal fund raising money for Amaral’s appeal tells us she has been approached by a number of UK newspapers, but none of them are keen to write about her effort until it reaches the €25,000 target.

I am not comfortable with that. 

Why approached her in the first place if they weren't ready to write about it ?
Why should the reached target make a different to what they are going to write?
There is a sinister connotation to it.

PeterMac wrote:The McCanns are wholesale CHILD ABUSERS
from the donation site

P* * *  S* * * *
2 hours ago
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.

Doug D wrote:Bit of a rumpus on twitter where DaSteelman & Rothley Pillowcase were accused of not contributing to Amarals fund and they said they had.
 
LB unwisely got drawn in & said they were not on the list of contributors which was taken to mean that she was divulging info. about the ‘anonymous’ donors, which she may or may not have been, but was clearly wrong if that was the case.
 
Cristobell waded in as well, but it looks a bit ‘handbags at dawn’ and was certainly being blown up by the TM supporters as much as possible.
 
Looks to have been resolved anyway, certainly from the RP side as he is again promoting the fund.
 
Just for the record, I donated anonymously, but will put my name to it next time as I would like to be formally classed as a ‘troll’, which seems to have taken on a completely new meaning over the last week or so!

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…’”

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jeanmonroe wrote:I 'wonder' if the Missing People 'charity' was one of the charities 'badgering' pensioner Olive Cooke for 'requests' for 'donations' before her death, yesterday?

She had 27 direct debits for 'charities'.

Some for £50 a month.

Was 'Missing People', one of them?

The 27 'charities' are going to be 'named', (DD's) apparently.

sallypelt wrote:WOW!!!! Someone just donated £1,000 to the fund