'The English Gag' An Introduction.

From morearses blog.


The following text is the translation of the Preface to Gonçalo Amaral's new book, "The English Gag". Titled "Locard's Truth", the preface is authored by Francisco Moita Flores, a former Polícia Judiciária inspector, now the Mayor of Santarém, and a renowned criminologist and author.


Locard’s Truth

I read this outcry for freedom by Gonçalo Amaral at a time when the country wallows, and when I say the country, I say the politicians, some characters within the judiciary system supplying the pyrotechnical material for the fireworks that the media launch every day around the ‘Face Oculta’ process [major corruption scandal presently being investigated in Portugal]. And it is the greatest example of hypocrisy. Exactly the same newspapers, the same columnists, who in the name of respect for the parents’ «pain», in the name of respect for arguidos with no other coercion measure, practically imposed the end of any newscast about Maddie, they are exactly the same that, forgetting today what they had said yesterday, flog personalities from the areas of politics or economy with suspicions, half truths and hearsay, based on wiretaps that nobody knows, savagely destroying the character and honour of their targets.

Two weights and two measures. And now, after reading this painful, nostalgic, and yet brave book, following a temporary injunction against ‘Maddie – The Truth of the Lie’, accepted by a Portuguese court, I understand even better what I always understood: the McCann couple’s strategy, since the first day of their media folklore, never had any other purpose: to discredit the Portuguese Justice, the Portuguese Police, and, fundamentally, Gonçalo Amaral, the man who knew the most, and still does, about what they did. And what they didn’t.

Gonçalo Amaral is not a fictional character. He is the boldness of truth. He is the challenge of truth. Even if he doesn’t fully know it. He knows what nobody else does, about Maddie’s hidden destiny. And it’s no use to try to conceal the sun with a sieve, which seems to be the child’s parents’ only obsession, because like Sherlock Holmes invariably replied to his unavoidable friend Dr. Watson, the method of deduction, applied to facts, as long as they are seen in connection, becomes elementary, even for the most stupid living beings, that if action A produced result B, if result B is coherent with consequence C, then A is related to C. It is elementary! Aristotle formulated this reasoning in the shape of syllogisms, Edmond Locard, the father of modern criminal investigation, recovered it to become the instrument of all investigation police forces worldwide, and the results are there.

Even CSI, written under the shape of future fiction, evokes Locard. He is the true God of criminal investigation. Without exception. Be it for the Portuguese PJ, the FBI, the Scotland Yard. There is only one exception. It applies to all criminal cases except to the disappearance of Maddie. The exception. The divine exception which protects the parents to continue the farce. Since the beginning of the investigation. None of what has been explained by the hired «detectives», none of what is related to the reconstitution of facts, more or less proved, none of what is advanced by the «spin’s», hired journalists, protective political chains, manages to resist the implacable evidential logic of Edmond Locard. The instrument which Gonçalo Amaral used. Nothing escapes it. Neither the «moral» indignation, nor the silly piety, nor faith, nor propaganda, or any injunction, manages to trample over what life produces, as such, and Locard never ceased to be right. Just like Gonçalo Amaral. Just like all professional policemen who know, who are competent, who master the techniques of criminal investigation.

Gonçalo Amaral lives in the artlessness of the very best policemen. He believes that working so uninterestedly, in such an selfless way, where only the solution of the enigma matters, he didn’t pay attention to the dark manoeuvres, he didn’t realise that behind every column that was written against him, behind every indignant comment or editorial, behind every report that was serving the McCanns’ sieve, a current of sinister associations and complicities was organising itself, which had nothing to do with the material truth, or the investigation into the mysterious disappearance. The ingenuity of those who love their job and deliver themselves to their profession in an unconditional way.

Gonçalo Amaral never realised that nothing was done, apart from him and his team, to solve the case. On the contrary. Everything was done, from propaganda to commissioned detectives, to screw up his case. Nothing else mattered.

And one just has to look at the results. After all the silences, after all the interviews, after all the «reputed» detectives, after millions of euros, after the Pope’s blessing, and his negation, after so many words, squeezed to the last drop, that what has been advanced since the day that the process ended was zero. ZERO! That is to say, everything was done to shut up Gonçalo Amaral. Nothing was done to discover the truth. And the abduction theory, now the injunction, just like all the other pieces of this farce, had only one goal, just one: to tell the world that the little girl’s parents are saints and that the bad guy, the really bad guy, in this story is the policeman.

But Locard is right. Here and anywhere else in the world. And therefore, just like Galileo, Gonçalo Amaral is right. Even if it takes years (in Galileo’s case it took centuries) to demonstrate that he is right. Despite all mystifications, all insinuations, all calumnies, all injunctions, the truth, the only truth, that remains to be discovered is the time at which everything happened and the destiny that befell the pitiful child.

There is no inquisition, no censorship, no rhetoric, no ridiculous staging of shamelessly moralist and lying statements, no falsehoods, no little pieties that can violate Locard. The most cruel of all investigators. The one to whom the entire world owes the discovery of the method that became indifferent to witness statement or confession. The Truth is there, even if others persist, and sanction it, as a Lie. The world of material truth, taken from laboratories, pulled from Aristotle’s syllogisms, reconstructed with the methods of scientific police, has no pity for tears and no mercy for staging. Not even official censorship can silence what is built by life, the material testimonies, no matter how small, tear down the most staged and plentiful weeping.

It is certain that the process did not reach absolute conclusions. It is true. The formalism of the process imposes itself to the substance of evidence. But do not try to deceive yet another truth. Because it did not reach its end, but it went a long way. In another country, maybe it would have been enough for a condemnatory decision. Not here. There are no condemned. All are innocent. In the shape of law. Although those who carry out criminal investigations know that not a single law can change the entropy of life. Which is, after all, its greatest wealth which the poverty of norm never succeeds in capturing.

Who gave Moita Flores the right to criticize someone he were never been introduced? What or who gave him the right to say about things he were never inside of it? Who or what gave him the right to criticize those who are doing what Amaral should have done instead of gain fame and fortune at the expenses of innocents, who he betrayed, at the expenses of an innocent child, he also betrayed. The only one who has a strategy, media folkore, is Amaral, whose only concern is to try to conceal the sun with a sieve which is the main purpose of Amaral. We know what is the real obsession of Amaral, and it is not what you Moita Flores says or thinks about Amaral. Your´re so mistaken about Amaral, Moita Flores. You are watching too much CSI, that you Moita cannot separate fiction from reality. Moita Flores, show more respect for those who are doing what Amaral should have done, instead of gain fame and fortune using a disgusting way. So Moita Flores, with all do respect, go back to your city hall and stay there, and stop once and for all to criticize, to show disrespect for someone you do not know.

You are watching too much CSI, that you Moita cannot separate fiction from reality. Moita Flores, show more respect for those who are doing what Amaral should have done, instead of gain fame and fortune using a disgusting way. So Moita Flores, with all do respect, go back to your city hall and stay there, and stop once and for all to criticize, to show disrespect for someone you do not know.

BRAVO PEDRO!

I couldn't believe he referenced a Television SHOW! A fake show! Most of the stuff they do on there isn't possible and isn't real!

he didn’t pay attention to the dark manoeuvres, he didn’t realise that behind every column that was written against him, behind every indignant comment or editorial, behind every report that was serving the McCanns’ sieve, a current of sinister associations and complicities was organising itself,

Partly true, Amaral thought he could do as he pleased and it never occurred to him that anyone would oppose him. So he probably wasnt ready for the push back by the McCanns, as they hired help to try to find their daughter.

Had he not leaked all the bizarre and libellous things he did to the press (IMO he is behind most of the leaks, either personally or by condoning the actions of others) in an attempt to discredit the McCanns and hide the fact that his investigation was going no where, then there would have been no need for the McCanns to make any comments at all.

However, to believe that there was some vast conspiracy against Amaral is just a joke, the sign of a seriously deluded mind, of someone in denial of their own actions.

The title of the book should be

"ITS NOT MY FAULT".

Subtitled.

" I couldn't find Madeleine Mccann because a vast conspiracy of world governments, police organisations, religious organisations, bloggers and Team McCann stopped me from finding out the truth about Madeleine. I know she was not abducted and that her parents were behind her disappearance, and also everything else that has gone wrong in my life over the past 10 years"

Wanker.

Quote ......... 'He knows what nobody else does, about Maddie’s hidden destiny.'

Too right he does, he bloody well engineered it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Renowned criminologist? Renowned comentator, don't remember any 'big' crime he was able to crack down. Perhaps there were none on his time...

Author? Criminal author, but not that renowned, there are much much better known portuguese criminal authors than him (some use english pseudonyms'

Exactly the same newspapers, the same columnists, who in the name of respect for the parents’ «pain», in the name of respect for arguidos with no other coercion measure, practically imposed the end of any newscast about Maddie, they are exactly the same that, forgetting today what they had said yesterday, flog personalities from the areas of politics or economy with suspicions, half truths and hearsay, based on wiretaps that nobody knows, savagely destroying the character and honour of their targets.

TOTAL LIE. The papers, I would say the media, as TVI is included and JM as well, that 'flog personalities' are exactly the same that support Amaral, this gentleman is a finished liar.

And hopefully the author of faked PJ documents incriminating people, namely the Prime Minister, will be known and will probably be very close the others (or may be the same) who made the same thing in other high profile cases (including Madeleine in the first days?)

He proves, by his easily identifiable lies, that there is a political agenda behind these media and JM. As I and we have said all along.

I couldn't believe he referenced a Television SHOW! A fake show! Most of the stuff they do on there isn't possible and isn't real!

Except for IMMEDIATELY cordonning off the crime scene! Except for IMMEDIATELY aplying proper investigative rules! May be the rest is fictional, but THIS is a very educacional, and both Amaral and Moita Flores seem do not have watched. Perhaps they were systematically late for watching the beginning of the episode...

What or who gave him the right to say about things he were never inside of it?

Sorry Pedro, he was not inside it, but he had inside information. Remember, it was Moita Flores who coordinated the leaks in Casa Pia process (where he wasn't officially involved either) and passed it to Felícia Cabrita, who wisely distributed the bits and pieces around the different media. Felícia Cabrita had the very same 'task' in Madeleine's case. Who was pulling hers strings?

I wonder why such information was given to him, when he has not / had not no connection with this case.

Was it also moita flores who says one of the tapas 9 sneaked off in order to hide Madeleine's body.

He is the boldness of truth. He is the challenge of truth.

My derriere!

Pedro Silva wrote:I wonder why such information was given to him, when he has not / had not no connection with this case.

Pedro, this is of concern, and is one of my biggest concerns regards to the fat pig. Amaral never saw the case through to the end, there was still 9 months worth of investigative work after he was dismissed. To the best of my knowledge although some files have been released there is a good number that hasn't, so he cannot be quoting from the full files.

maria wrote:

What or who gave him the right to say about things he were never inside of it?

Sorry Pedro, he was not inside it, but he had inside information. Remember, it was Moita Flores who coordinated the leaks in Casa Pia process (where he wasn't officially involved either) and passed it to Felícia Cabrita, who wisely distributed the bits and pieces around the different media. Felícia Cabrita had the very same 'task' in Madeleine's case. Who was pulling hers strings?

There's been leaks in the Cipriano case also. Do you know if Cabrita reported on that investigation also? Did Moita Flores comment on that case too?

There's been several names that keep up appearing, over and over again. Is it really a coincidence?

Of course Moita Flores comments on Cipriano case!!! On the strongest terms, he and Anjos, the president of PJ union, very recently unleashed the vilest attack on Leonor (and Marcos, indirectly) on SIC morning talk show. And they repeat over and over again that the murder, the dismembering, etc was done at home after a scene of incest was discovered by Joana: it was proved in court, they keep repeating.

About Cabrita, I don't know, she might be busy then in Lisbon with other business.