What The Hell Is Wrong With Portugal's Hierarchy?

That is a brilliant piece of writing Rosiepops...........Tony - I hope someone can give the answers because it puzzles me too that Amaral can get away with so much! Is the government of Portugal not ashamed?

May, I realised when I read this on Tony's blog that people would be very interested in it and they perhaps may like to make a comment or two.

One thing I would truly like to know, is what the real people of Portugal actually think when they look upon the antics and dirty deals and the huge debts of Goncalo Amaral. When they see what this person has been convicted of and when they see the court trials he has yet to face, they must know now, or at least be beginning to realise that really, their "fallen hero" Goncalo Amaral, is really no hero at all, he is a thug and a convicted liar. Don't they feel anger and betrayal?

When they look at Goncalo Amaral and the shameful way he has exploited a missing child and the way he has lied to cover up her disappearance and they look at the way he has been living, ie buying designer clothes for him and his family, living off the best of foods, running around in a top of the range Jaguar motor car worth around £60.000 BEFORE Portuguese taxes (taxes that lay unpaid as Amaral has not paid his tax bill), holding big lavish parties, with copious amounts of fireworks to celebrate his 50th birthday. When the ordinary decent Portuguese folk see and read about Amaral smoking his large finest cigars and sitting around drinking alcohol all day in his favourite bars speaking loudly to anyone who will listen to him, making himself out to be some kind of big shot, when all he really is, is a convicted liar, thug and torturer, don't the Portuguese people get angry?

Do they not realise that he (Amaral) doesn't care about them? He is no hero, all he is,is exactly what he is, he scoffs and quaffs and avoids paying his taxes and is allowed to get away with it, while the people he tries to fool (the ordinary Portuguese people) go to work, pay their taxes, abide by the law.

Also another anomaly, Goncalo Amaral has avoided paying his dues, his taxes, he has contributed NOTHING but lies, deceit and a foul reputation to Portugal, and now because of his own folly, his own making, his mouth and money making and his libel and his defaming innocent people, he finds himself in a serious position, his assets frozen (his UNPAID TAX assets), he now wants the ordinary people of Portugal to pay for his defense? He wants the Portuguese people to foot the costly legal bill in an action against two people he has defamed, hounded and persecuted, an action anyone with one functioning brain cell knows that he (Amaral) has not got a hope in hell's chance of winning, because he is guilty of libel and defamation, he is guilty of failing a little girl he was charged to find,he has harmed and frustrated the search for that child and he has done all of this with the deliberate spreading of lies, smears, character assassinations, in short, he (Amaral) is guilty of disinformation. He has done all of these things, he is guilty and everyone knows it, so not only has he paid NOTHING into Portuguese society, he now wants the good tax paying public of Portugal to pay for his futile defense? Beggars belief really doesn't it? And this is NOT the first time he has done something like this is it? Think about poor little Joana Cipriano and her poor mother Leonor Cipriano!

The vast majority of Portuguese are no different to us, they get up in the morning they go to work, many do jobs as a means to end, for their families, they struggle to pay their bills, they struggle with every day life and it has been particularly bad this past 2 years with the global recession biting everyone. Then they are forced to see this self serving, sanctimonious liar, thick headed intellectually zero Goncalo Amaral, lying to them on their TVs, their papers, their radios etc and more, he is living the high life off of money he has forced Madeleine McCann to earn for him, while they struggle and the Portuguese government does nothing to stop him.

I wonder if they get angry? I know I would!

The judge that presided over the court that found ex police chief Goncalo Amaral guilty would have done Portugal and her people a great service if he had, had the guts and the temerity to make an example out of him and send him to prison for 3 years.

Amaral was a recently retired police chief and he was found guilty of lying, perjury and concealing evidence of a torture, these are so serious for any individual, but a police chief? An example should have been made and this man imprisoned, not let out and allowed to carry on with his vendetta against two innocent parents, who Amaral knows fully well are innocent and not to mention his money making out of a child, that I suspect, he (Amaral) knows far more about who took her and where she is now, than he lets on.

It was a disgrace that he was allowed out, free to carry on his reign of terror and fear.

Hi Rosiepops
I too wonder what the average Portuguese citizen thinks about Amaral not paying his taxes for all these years and still striding around in designer suits! We all have taxes to pay, I liken it to the scandal over here with MPs claiming for allowances that truly were not theirs to claim! The average British citizen denigrates them, these MPs (of all persuasions) have brought Westminster into disrepute and now none of us trusts them. We are free to have our say and hopefully justice will be done (but I will not hold my breath). I hope the Portuguese citizens who are finding it hard to make ends meet, look with fresh eyes at Sr Amaral and judges him. JM campaigns for free speech but only if she and her ilk are in CONTROL of that free speech. Yes, it does smack of fascist times but let us hope and pray that these people are in a minority, not only in Portugal but worldwide.

I might add, that if JM truly holds Portugal dear to her heart, she should be campaigning for the outing of those who are corrupt within the police force. But then, hiding behind her free speech crusade she does Portugal no service, just her own until now, hidden agenda. She should be ashamed and the people of Portugal will one day recognise her for what she is.

Joana Morais doesn't campaign for Free Speech. She campaigns for lies and distortions and the leftovers of The Salazar Regime. One might wonder why she does it. But she must despise the little people who are far more worthy of her fund raising than Amaral will ever be.

Some people are even donating their pensions, which I seem to remember raised much fury when people donated to The Find Madeleine Fund.

Sabot wrote:Joana Morais doesn't campaign for Free Speech. She campaigns for lies and distortions and the leftovers of The Salazar Regime. One might wonder why she does it. But she must despise the little people who are far more worthy of her fund raising than Amaral will ever be.

Some people are even donating their pensions, which I seem to remember raised much fury when people donated to The Find Madeleine Fund.

How can Amaral live with himself, knowingly accepting people's pensions? It is an absolute disgrace, already the winds of Karma have blown against him, if he does not pack this in goodness knows what is in store for him and his followers, the man is corrupt for goodness sakes. Why is Joana Morais at the forefront of persuading people to donate their pensions to this fat greedy corrupt bone idle man? Who is collecting this money? Who is accounting for it? Who is to say that Joana Morais is not operating one huge scam? It would not be the first scam that the stupid woman has got herself involved with, one only has to look at her involvement and how she was had over by Duarte Levy to realise this.

Joana Morais is every bit as stupid and foolish and silly as Debbie Butler and just as Debbie Butler is ruing the day she ignored people's advice and got herself mixed up with Tony Bennett, so Joana Morais will rue the day she ever got herself involved with money and a corrupt ex police chief, who is already serving an 18 month suspended prison sentence! There is still masses to be revealed about Goncalo Amaral, all will come to light eventually, either Morais knows about this and is in complete denial, or she is involved, either way when the , she is going to be completely covered in it, just by way of association with Amaral and Heaven knows what all those people will think, who will feel they have been tricked out of their money.

If Joana Morais was just a fraction of how clever she thinks she is, she would steer well clear of the corrupt bully, liar and proven torturer, Goncalo Amaral.

Well over 2 years ago when I posted on the Daily Express blogs, I made a prediction that had *some* of the Portuguese posters chomping at the bit to tear my head off, I predicted that Goncalo Amaral would be sacked from the Madeleine investigation and that he would fall spectacularly from grace and sooner or later Portugal would be rocked with a scandal far bigger than Casa Pia, the first two of those predictions have come true and the third is now beginning to come true and it is only a matter of time.

Joana Morais you are a silly, foolish woman, you should have learned your lesson with Duart Levy, but it seems you have a thing about big, fat, sweaty ignorant, arrogant, corrupt fantasist liars, your silly attempts to raise money for Goncalo Amaral prove this, you silly, silly stupid idiot, wake up fool before it is too late for you.

Well said Rosie, but the silly, stupid arrogant woman will not take your advice, soon it will be too late. They will all soon be behind bars if there is any justice

[quote="May"]Well said Rosie, but the silly, stupid arrogant woman will not take your advice, soon it will be too late. They will all soon be behind bars if there is any justice [/
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God, how many Christmas Dinners are we going to have to find.? I'm not sure I can afford this on my pension.

Yoghurt, anyone?

Make that a fat free one for Amaral!

Rosiepops wrote:Make that a fat free one for Amaral!

He's not getting a whole one. I've got to eat as well, you know.

Or eat first!

Rosiepops wrote:Just don't share the same spoon!

Oh Yuck. That has put me off Yoghurt forever, especially the ones with bits in.
He can have it all, but it will have to last him for two days.

Sabot wrote:

Rosiepops wrote:Just don't share the same spoon!

Oh Yuck. That has put me off Yoghurt forever, especially the ones with bits in.
He can have it all, but it will have to last him for two days.

At least he has shaved his mustache off, so the bits can't get caught in that! Anyway Sabot, I doubt he would be interested in the yoghurt (unless it was alcohol flavoured).

I don't think he is going to get much choice where he is going.

Funny how it's all gone full circle. People in glass houses, and such.

Amaral behind bars would be like an extra Christmas present for me.

May wrote:Amaral behind bars would be like an extra Christmas present for me.

Let's all write to Santa!

I think that is one new year wish that is odds on to come true!