Plea to release Biggs rejected by ruling-class

UK: Home Secretary Charles Clarke has rejected a plea by Great Train Robber Ronnie Biggs to be released from prison on compassionate grounds.

The ailing 76-year-old has been informed his bid to leave HMP Belmarsh high security jail in south east London on the grounds of his persistent poor health has been turned down because his illness is not deemed terminal. [?]

In a letter to the former fugitive, the National Offender Management Service said Mr Clarke had decided Mr Biggs is not "severely incapacitated so as to satisfy the criteria for compassionate release". [Un-Satisfied Ruling Class?]

The prisoner was told that: "Whilst noting your frailty and the slow deterioration in your condition, (Mr Clarke) is not persuaded that your condition merits the truly exceptional step of releasing you early on compassionate grounds." [Looking at the above photo?]

Biggs, who has recently suffered minor strokes and heart attacks and contracted MRSA, was originally jailed for 30 years for his part in the infamous raid on a Glasgow to London mail train on August 8 1963, when a 15-strong gang made off with £2.6 million in used bank notes.

He escaped from Wandsworth prison in a furniture van after just 15 months and later lived a life of exile in Brazil.

Biggs was detained when he voluntarily returned to the UK in 2001.

Medical reports prepared for the appeal said Biggs often needs a tube to assist in his feeding and has difficulties speaking.

However, doctors said he can walk short distances and is being adequately cared for within the prison system. [Rubbish! In other words, the ruling-class don't have any mercy!]

By Loyd Wells posted 31 October 05

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After serving imprisonment continually since February of 1956, because of his age 74, he suffers from high blood pressure, angina, has survived a mild stroke and two major strokes in the past few years, leading to mobility problems on gradients and he continues to have irregular heart problems.

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The 75-year-old, who has suffered several strokes and minor heart attacks and can no longer speak, is currently held at Belmarsh, a category A prison, where he receives 24-hour nursing care.

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He Did Time, So He's Unfit to Do Hair

US: As someone who has done time himself, Marc La Cloche is happy for Martha Stewart.

She has managed to turn life in federal prison into a nifty career move. Her company's stock is soaring, and she has plans for not one but two television shows. It almost makes you wonder why the Enron types are fighting so hard to stay out of jail.

Brava Martha, Mr. La Cloche says. He only wishes that New York State would let him put his own prison experience to decent use. "I wish her the best," he said of Ms. Stewart. "But I think the best is going to come anyway because she's financially sound. She has avenues that one coming from my situation won't have."

That's for sure. The avenues open to Mr. La Cloche, 39 and living in the Bronx, might best be described with Joseph Heller's memorable phrase Catch-22.

Mr. La Cloche served 11 years in New York prisons for first-degree robbery. While behind bars, he turned his life around. He learned a trade, barbering.. He even had the image of a barber's clippers and comb tattooed on his right arm.

In 2000, as he prepared to be freed, he applied for a required state license. He was denied it. But that decision was reversed when reviewed by a hearing officer. For a while after his release, Mr. La Cloche worked in a Midtown barber shop.

That job did not last long.

New York's secretary of state, who has jurisdiction in these matters, appealed the granting of the license and won. Mr. La Cloche's "criminal history," an administrative law judge ruled, "indicates a lack of good moral character and trustworthiness required for licensure."

In plain language, the fact that Mr. La Cloche had been in prison proved that he was unworthy for the trade that the state itself taught him in prison.

Where is Joseph Heller when we need him? That pretty much summed up the feelings of Justice Herman Cahn of State Supreme Court in Manhattan. Two years ago, he ordered the authorities to give Mr. La Cloche another look. They have every right to expect would-be barbers to prove their "good moral character," Justice Cahn said. But Mr. La Cloche never got the chance. His criminal record alone did him in, and that was unfair, the judge said.

So the case went back to an administrative judge. The result was the same, though. Once again, Mr. La Cloche was found to lack the moral character to cut hair for a living. This time, the reason given was his "minimization" of the nature of his crime.

It is tempting to note that Ms. Stewart also minimizes her crime; she insists on her innocence. But she gets a television show or two. Mr. La Cloche has his clippers yanked.

He is now on public assistance, he says, and receives disability payments for a bad hip. Apparently, state officials believe that New Yorkers are better served having a former convict on welfare rather than in a career. One of his plans were he to get a license, Mr. La Cloche said, would be to team with "a bunch of barbers" to cut the hair of young people living in state institutions.

"What I really want is to have this contact with these kids so I can hopefully get to them and change their life around," he said. "I was raised in these institutions. But this barber license is really holding me up."

A spokesman for the secretary of state says the agency's position has not changed. In turn, Mr. La Cloche continues to pursue his license in the state courts, aided by Michele Davila, a lawyer with Neighborhood Defenders Service of Harlem.

HIS case is hardly isolated, said JoAnne Page, executive director of the Fortune Society, a group in Manhattan that helps former inmates. They keep running into "so many barriers to employment," she said.

"The question is how long do you hold that albatross around a person's neck," Ms. Page said. "We're seeing a tightening of the neck because it's so easy now to check records. We're also seeing - some of it is post-9/11 - a greater rigidity about giving people that second chance to rebuild."

It is one thing to prevent, say, a child molester from driving a school bus, she said. But to keep a convicted robber from cutting hair? The authorities, she pointed out, trusted Mr. La Cloche enough to wield sharp instruments in a maximum-security prison.

Of course, Mr. La Cloche can always look on the bright side. Unable as he is to ply his trade, he will have more time now to catch Martha Stewart on television.

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Police warlords are set to take over Sydney's suburbs because police are not being supervised properly.

Jailed man's conviction to be reviewed
The New South Wales Court of Criminal Appeal will today review the conviction of a man, after claims in the Police Integrity Commission (PIC) last year that police planted weapons and faked suspects' confessions.

Who is bad?
Super Rat? M5? M11? K8? N2? So I trust that some people who, with the photos and guns guessed that a jury would quickly establish a case against a profiled person whom, you just had a picture and a history of. Common knowledge? The government knew their victims would take the blame. Not just chess in court, 'moving around the pieces', but 'putting false evidence, or not enough evidence before the jury."

2,500, crooked detectives? Or a corrupt Government?
The Wood Royal Commission into police corruption. Where did the police learn their trade skills? Led by example perhaps?

How to become corruption resistant in NSW
Don't trust those who cannot prove themselves with the little amounts of trust you give them. Just because they have a letter of perceived trust doesn't mean they can be trusted.

This is not how you eat 'antisocial behaviour'
Process corruption, perjury, planting of evidence, verbals, fabricated confessions, denial of suspects rights, a solicitor to induce confessions, tampering with electronic recording equipment, framing. Generally green lighting crime, and I say Murder, including the kids who overdosed on heroin. No doubt.

Black Knight - Long way to go home
In line with the current climate of police corruption and the demise of the reform unit set up by Wood, these facts ought to have been a good reason to leave Moroney out of the package as Commissioner.

Bob down and sniff my arse
These are serious invasions of privacy and draconian laws? Where are our democratic soldiers, the lawyers and the barristers who need to take on the government in the courts? Are they plastic? Or to busy feathering their nests? Or have they been cleverly purchased by this black government. Drug test police and politicians, and have the tests independently accessed.

Come in spinner? Or Come in sinner?
"You don't have, in my view very vigilant processes. I suppose it's akin to the problem of corruption within the police," he told the ABC radio. " People say there's corruption with the police (but) do you get the police to investigate problems within their own ranks?

Deeds
I am disturbed by Governments 'actions' in relation to shuffling the police service. Clive Small seconded into Parliament like a cocky in a perch. A breach of the fundamental Separation of Powers Doctrine does not in my view allow the thought of intervening, planning, or shuffling to stack the deck of our police service. The one that suppose to be autonomous according to Lord Denning. Where the Parliamentary Secretary can ask the commissioner of police to 'report' then sack him if he is not satisfied with such report.

Truth
Who is telling the truth? Well I guess Dr. Ed. Chadbourne or Mr. Peter Ryan may have the answer to that. Dr. Chadbourne sacked by Peter Ryan and more specifically in my view because he elected deputy commissioners Dave Madden and Andrew Scipione as the best men in the service in relation to his qualifications to make a recommendation in his capacity as human resources.That is if you believe that a Dr. can be corrupted.

Honesty
What is happening between the Police Service and politics is quite extraordinary at the moment. If stand over tactics don't work tell half the truth honestly and follow the example of sheep. Another word for it is sleaze, yeah. Another word for it is workplace harassment. Another word for it is bribing a Police Officer. Another word for it is misleading Parliament.

Tele Tales
Most people I know don't buy the Daily Telegraph. Why? Because of the lies and propaganda purported by them.

2,500, crooked detectives? Or a corrupt Government?
The Wood Royal Commission into police corruption. Where did the police learn their trade skills? Led by example perhaps?
 
Lord Denning
Interesting how a member of the Police Board Mr. Tim Priest would hold grave fears for his safety from dangerous senior police but fails to name them or have them sacked. Rather Priest resigns as if he had no powers. Could that mean what he was saying is that the Governments are also corrupt?

Corrosive
Clive Small is Bob Carr's choice for the new Police Commissioner. It could only be the case considering his, Small's special appointment into Parliament House. Small who suffers from the little person syndrome is the ideal bend over boy who gets shuffled through his corrupt actions. Rolling the legal system for him after the fact, just like his predecessor Roger the dodger Rogerson.

Black Nexus
The Separation of Powers Doctrine is nowcontaminated witharangeofcolours, now leaving us with a black shirt on a once blue bridge that crossed that thin blue line. The 'Amery and Woodham show'.

Same boat
The Premier, Bob Carr, relies on a militia. A gang of bikies and our Police Service, to show all of us he is no murderer. He should be taken to the task along with his partners in crime like Clive Small to account for those people who like my self have been maliciously assaulted and who have complained, without any service and those who cannot speak for themselves who were murdered, like Terry Falconer. Terry murdered in custody.

Good Cop
Why have our democratic institutions broken down? It's not just the criminal justice system. The Anti-Corruption Network webmaster@anti-corruption-network.org exposes the same issues. A group of white-collar workers who say they have suffered as follows:

Dangerous
I refer to the Daily Telegraph article 22 March 2002 under the heading Priest quits advisory job.

Partners in crime - history!
Roger Rogerson, the old hero, who never faced a result in the Lanfranchi, or Huckstepp murders, was let off in my opinion when the New South Wales Government rolled the legal system (deciding what evidence to give the police prosecutor) to have the jury believe the illusion they (the Government wanted to create).Similarly, Peter Ryan facing the Police Integrity Commission for questions about his involvement in the demise of the dysfunctional reform unit. Chess in the court (rolling the legal system).

Police Chronology 1994-2001
View events in the NSW Police Force since the Wood Royal Commission began in 1994. 1994 May Justice James Wood is appointed Commissioner of the Royal Commission into the NSW Police Service ('WRC').

Man framed for Stuttle murder to appeal

Bundaberg's Burnett River traffic bridge was the only witness to this crime?

Lawyers for the man convicted of murdering British backpacker Caroline Stuttle in Bundaberg in south-east Queensland have lodged an appeal against his conviction.

Ian Douglas Previte, 32, was given a life sentence last month after he was found guilty of forcing the 19-year-old off a traffic bridge in April 2002.

Legal Aid lodged the appeal against the conviction for robbery and murder on behalf of Previte.

It is expected to be heard before the Court of Appeal in Brisbane.

EDITORIAL:

How much weight should be given on the evidence of prison authorities and prison informers who assist police, to obtain alleged evidence in unscrupulous ways, to secure a conviction once a person has been sent to prison pending a hearing to determine their guilt? ZIP!

How much weight should be given on the evidence of the Bridge? DNA? Fingerprints?

Was there any "prime" evidence on the bridge connecting Douglas Previte or just circumstantial evidence that the police cleverly fabricated?

What about general stereotypical smears like he must be guilty because police say he's a known drug addict.

People perceive that drug addicts are desperate and therefore guilty of a crime if they happened to be in the area.

But Previte if he were a drug addict certainly would not be on his own. Does that mean that know drug addicts are more likely to be accused of desperate acts of violence because of their habit? Or because they're in the wrong place at the wrong time?

I will leave that up to the appeal judges although if that was left up to the jury in the original trial! ZZZZ they were on the nod or they just weren't given all of the facts or information they may have required for them to make and informed judgement.

Did Ms Stuttle jump?

Of course her family brought over for the trial may think that someone else murdered her opposed to the possibility she may have also committed suicide. But did the Stuttle's get the chance to even think about the possibility before being urged on by the Australian authorities and the corporate media that she had been murdered?

It was reported that finding the murderer would open the door to getting the tourists confidents back again?

But simply blaming a person, any person, opposed to proving it "beyond any reasonable doubt" is simply not good enough considering it will cost the accused if found guilty their life!

So let's not be too hasty now to please the tourist industry they can get over the smear on Australian tourism for the sake of the conviction of perhaps another innocent person in this country!

Corporate media had its hands in it as well. If you're accused of a backpacker murder you don't get any support but in fact the opposite. Sensationally dragged down into the dirt because those dogs have their hands in tourism. Makes it very difficult to beat murder when the odds are all stacked against you!

By Just Us 11 November 04

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Douglas Previte set-up for Stuttle murder
Australia: A 32-year-old man has been jailed for life for murdering British backpacker Caroline Stuttle in Bundaberg in south-east Queensland on alleged evidence possibly trumped up while he was in prison?

Tourist Industry Crime and Trial By Media Coincidences

MILAT WAS FRAMED FOR TOURISM $$$$$ AND THE WINNER IS? NOT IVAN MILAT! The murders were headlines overseas. The State government's public relations machine swung into action. An unprecedented $500,000 reward was offered for the heads of the perpetrators. (Commonsense says there was more than one assailant). Head of the International Olympic Committee, Juan Samaranch, was questioning whether Australia was a safe place to visit.

Ivan Milat loses conviction appeal
Ivan Milat today lost an application in the High Court to appeal against his 1996 conviction for murdering seven backpackers. The 59-year-old had sought special leave to appeal the murder convictions and one count of detaining a person for advantage without legal representation, which includes Legal Aid.

Day set aside for Falconio forensic evidence
More than a day has been set aside in the case of the man accused of murdering British backpacker Peter Falconio to hear evidence from a Northern Territory forensic scientist. Yesterday the Darwin Magistrates Court heard from mechanics and friends of the defendant Bradley John Murdoch.

Mr Bradley Murdoch to go on trial next year!
The alleged man is not the alleged Falconio killer in my book. He's alleged to have committed a crime but the Faloconio mystery remains a secret to be unlocked by time itself and more interestingly may never be unlocked at all.

Falconio magistrate closes court
THE hearing into the murder of British tourist Peter Falconio has been closed to the public. Magistrate Alasdair McGregor has closed the court for part of the testimony of Mr Falconio's girlfriend Joanne Lees.

Ch/9 News? Or Ch/9's Department of Public Prosecutions?
Bradley Murdoch committal, lawyer calls for fair hearing
The lawyer of the man accused of murdering British backpacker Peter Falconio has spoken to the media in Darwin.

Peter Beattie nominated as Australian of the year: Howard
Bradley Murdoch the man alleged to have murdered English tourist Peter Falconio who has been acquitted of rape and abduction charges in the South Australian District Court.

Tourist dollar drives set-up for crime
The man alleged to have murdered English tourist Peter Falconio has been acquitted of rape and abduction charges in the South Australian District Court. Bradley John Murdoch, 45, was charged with two counts of rape, two counts of false imprisonment and two counts of indecent assault after an alleged incident in South Australia's Riverland in August last year.

Supreme Court rejects Nine appeal
CHANNEL Nine lost a Supreme Court appeal today to have a suppression order on details of the case of missing backpacker Peter Falconio lifted. The Full Bench of the NT Supreme Court today ruled Magistrate Alasdair McGregor had the power to make the order banning from publication some details of the case.

Falconio magistrate closes court
THE hearing into the murder of British tourist Peter Falconio has been closed to the public. Magistrate Alasdair McGregor has closed the court for part of the testimony of Mr Falconio's girlfriend Joanne Lees.

Innocent until proven guilty? Not in Australia's outback!
There is no way that Bradley John Murdoch can get a fair trial in the Northern Territory. The entire jury pool is already contaminated, the general public have accepted the verdict of the Northern Territory News and the NT Police State has turned on the cone of silence. Maybe some of the reporters might want to ask Director of Public Prosecutions Rex Wilde QC just how he is going to secure a conviction when a body has not been found. Surely the NT bureaucracy learnt from the Lindy Chamberlain case that it is not a good idea to jail someone for murder when you haven't got a body. Maybe they have the same people working on the case. The NT Police forensic team certainly do.

Taken "A Dingo Took My Baby!"
They were the words that Lindy Chamberlain had screamed out into the blackness of the cold night in a camping ground close to Ayers Rock, Central Australia, on the night of August 17, when she discovered that her nearly ten-week-old baby, Azaria had been taken by a dingo.

Man Says He Shot Dingo That Snatched Baby SYDNEY, Australia (July 5) - A distraught mother's scream 24 years ago that a dingo snatched her baby from a camp site near Ayers Rock in the Australian Outback ignited one of Australia's most enduring mysteries. An elderly man's claim that he retrieved the infant's bloodied body from the jaws of the wild dog has revived the case and - if true - could finally lead to the discovery of Azaria Chamberlain's body.

Australia to see the light on tourism
A total of $120 million has been earmarked for the campaign's international marketing, which tops up the Australian Tourist Commission's annual budget of $90 million. The inbound and domestic tourism industry contributes $70 billion to the economy and employs 500,000.

Ten reports $76.9 million profit
The Ten television network has reported a full-year profit of $76.9 million. Even if it were down by half on the previous year they're still greedy self-interested people who care little about the real damage done, not just in Australia but the world. That profit is obviously on top of wages and expenses yet they're still greedy enough to turn the news upside down to suit the Howard government's investment in advertising.

DPP moves to freeze guard's interview money

Karen Brown (left) has been charged with murder.

The New South Wales Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) has moved to freeze the money paid to a Sydney security guard for media interviews about a fatal shooting in the city's south-west last week.

Karen Brown is to face court next month charged with the murder of a man who allegedly attacked and robbed her at Moorebank.

DPP Nicholas Cowdery QC says an application has been made to the Supreme Court to seize any payments to the guard.

"In this case, a serious offence has been charged against Ms Brown," he said.

"Information has been obtained from the police and the grounds appeared to exist for a restraining order against certain property."

He says the Supreme Court has granted the confiscation order under the Proceeds of Crime Act and the public trustee will take control of the money.

"This is property which falls into the definition of tainted property because it has come about as a result of the commission of the offence and so it is still caught by the Act, whatever the timing of the actual laying of the charge," he said.

By Starsky and Hutch 4 August 04

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DPP concerned over security guard interviews
The New South Wales Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), Nicholas Cowdery QC, has expressed concern over the media's involvement in the case of a security guard who will be charged with murder.

DPP concerned over security guard interviews

The New South Wales Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), Nicholas Cowdery QC, has expressed concern over the media's involvement in the case of a security guard who will be charged with murder.

Karen Brown allegedly shot and killed a man who attacked and robbed her near a hotel in Moorebank, in south-western Sydney, last Monday.

Yesterday police ordered Ms Brown to report for a formal interview but she failed to appear.

The 41-year-old spoke to the Seven Network and a newspaper over the weekend for a fee, despite telling police she was too unwell to speak to them.

Mr Cowdery says the media's involvement in such cases has the potential to interfere in the justice process.

"It is a very serious issue and something that we need to be addressing very carefully and we need to be assessing, I think very carefully, also the position of police in relation to the media when these kinds of issues arise," he said.

"There have been some very disturbing events over recent times that have put the spotlight on the conduct of police, the conduct of the media and their relationship with the criminal justice process."

The Seven Network has defended interviewing Ms Brown.

Seven's news director Peter Meakin has rejected claims that the interview interfered in the justice process.

"When we did the deal she had not been charged with anything. She was an innocent person in fact and by presumption," he said.

"If people genuinely believe the jury system is so fragile that someone seeing a television interview six months before a case comes to court is going to somehow prejudice their judgement, then it's time we ban the jury system."

By Starsky and Hutch 2 August 04

THE DOG: When 7 did the deal Karen was too sick to be charged she said? Ban Channel Seven!

Three jailed for robbing jewellery shop! To fund Bali bombings?

Three men who robbed an Indonesian gold shop to help fund last year's Bali bombings have been sentenced to lengthy jail terms.

Separate Indonesian courts have found Abdul Rauf, Andi Hidayat and Junaedi guilty of conducting last year's heist, along with two other accomplices.

The judges agreed with prosecutors, who said that they had worked under the orders of key Bali bombing suspect, Imam Samudra.

[But not the CIA or the Coalition of the Killing! Because the second Bali bomb blast was a military hardware mini nuke!]

U.S. Move to Resume Training Indonesian Military Draws Concern

by Jim Lobe July 15 2003

WASHINGTON Reports that the Bush administration will release funds, train Indonesian military officers, despite a recent vote by a key Senate committee that calls for training to be suspended until the army's responsibility for the killing of two U.S. teachers is clarified have drawn strong expressions of concern by human rights groups here.

A Pentagon spokesman said Monday he could not confirm that a decision has in fact been made, but non-government organizations (NGOs) that monitor Indonesia said they understand that senior Defense officials, including Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, a former U.S. ambassador to Indonesia, have decided to go ahead.

Wolfowitz has long argued that U.S. military re-engagement with the Indonesian military (TNI) should be an urgent priority in the U.S.-led war on terrorism, [resource wars in the Middle East], and that it can help improve the armed forces' human rights performance, [false flag operations], a contention with which human rights groups and many Indonesia analysts strongly disagree.

"For over three decades, the U.S. and Indonesian militaries were extremely close and we saw no move to reform," said Ed McWilliams, a former State Department officer who served as political counselor in the U.S. Embassy in Jakarta from 1996 to 1999. That year military relations were suspended after TNI-organized militias went on a rampage in East Timor.

Hidayat and Junaedi received 15-year sentences, while Rauf was sentenced to 16 years in jail. The verdict in Samudra's case is expected on Wednesday.

US Deputy Sheriff dismisses Indonesian comment that US king of terrorists

Deputy Sheriff to the US Prime Minister John Howard says he does not agree with comments by the Indonesian Vice-President Hamzah Haz that the real terrorist is the United States for attacking Iraq.

By Propa Ganda 9 September 03

SNAGGLEPUSS: Heavens to Murgatroid! Sounds like? PR stunt for Samudra? A game of football? Chess? Could it be "I tell the stories around here"? Or here we go round the mulberry Bush? What about camouflage? Or illusion? Diversion even? Exit stage left!

Updated Links 2009:

Cleric blames CIA for Bali bombing An Indonesian Islamic cleric said the 2002 attack which killed more than 200 people, including 88 Australians, was the work of the CIA. Abu Bakar Bashir says the US intelligence agency had fired a nuclear missile at the Bali tourist strip.

Protest Bali bombers' executions - priest The attack was a conspiracy between "America, Australia and the Jews" and the three convicted bombers - Amrozi, Imam Samudra and Ali Ghufron - had been framed: Abu Bakar Bashir.

Fool me twice 1-20 -Official release (BALI BOMBINGS/ETimor) Exposing the Australian government's lies about the East Timor massacres, the cover-up of the Bali bombings (including '93 WTC attack) and subsequent anti-terror legislation forced through parliament.

The Truth About Bali Bombings Part 1 REMIX Part One + Two: Que Bono. Who Benefited? The Bali Bombings were a direct US-Israeli response to the growing Peace marches and Anti War Movement in Australia that was ballooning at an alarming rate after 9-11 and after Bush announced he was waging illegal invasions. It also very quickly secured Indonesia's and Australia's subservience to the US and cemented involvement in the US led War on Terror, and subsequent illegal invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan.

Part TWO: Who really Benefited from the Bali Bombings?

PART THREE: The Investigation(s) Or lack thereof The Primary man at the centre of the Bali investigations got warned off the scent by US Ambassador to Indonesia..

Part 4: The Truth About Bali Bombings Eye witness Testimony and memorial dedication..

Australia's Terrorism Wake Up Call [164] The horrific bombings of the Sari Club and Paddy's Bar in Bali, on October 12, 2002, considerably strengthened the hand of the CoW in pursuing the War on Terror. Here was an opportunity to harden the hearts of the Australian and US public against Islamic fundamentalists. It was also a chance for the Indonesian government to justify harsh measures in the war against terrorists and secessionists, such at those in the province of Aceh.

Nuclear Demolition Munitions - An Evil Madness Continues [172]
The design and construction of nuclear munitions does not qualify as 'science' or 'technology'. It is insanity. Daniel Quinn has shown that the absolute need to conquer and exterminate all possible rivals, the need to 'conquer' the land, and to bend nature to the rule of man, all derive from core taker thinking. Takers always fear attack because their own philosophy is one of growing rich and powerful through attacks, whether military or economic.

Community backs candidate wife's Bali claims
Cate Molloy says she holds sitting Liberal MPs accountable for the Bali bombings. Federal Labor Party candidate Ivan Molloy says he supports the sentiments of his wife, a Queensland state politician, who blames the Liberal Party for the 2002 Bali bombings.

Doom gloom and 'Boom' Downer shakes the room?
"Optimism is better and so is 'constructive feedback' because using constructive feedback means that the negatives also have a role in the construction of a nation. In short we have all the time in world to solve problems properly and that is what our leaders should be focusing on when they decide to inform all Australians. Hey what's the rush?" He said.

Hypocrisy not Democracy? No Blood for Oil!
Howard has refused to back down on the threat of war despite hundreds of thousands of Australians rallying against it. The question is why?

Red paper classes Australia as terrorist suspects
Australia's old foreign policy red paper says Australians have become targets because their own government is being run by war criminals that are complicit in state terror, torture, murder, occupation and genocide.

Australia backs CIA Reichstag, Downer's propaganda
The Foreign Affairs Minister says the latest message from Osama bin Laden is worrying. [Just plain rubbish!]

UK Reid, Blair and the reichstag London threat!
The nature of the [alleged] terrorist threat to London is on the scale of the [USA false flag] September 11 attacks in the United States, the chairman of Britain's governing Labour Party said.

Bin Laden calls? CIA blind man's bluff!
A [US propaganda, fear-mongering] taped message purportedly from Osama bin Laden has warned Arab nations against supporting a war against Iraq but has branded Saddam Hussein an infidel.

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Infidels! God is great!:Abu Bakar Bashir
[Patsy for the CIA, false flag, call to arms, Bali Bombings, to bolster support and to quell dissent for the Coalition of the Killing's resource wars in the Middle East.]

GI, CIA, TNI, MI6, MOSSAD, AFP, ASIO, Howard, divided: Australian experts GI, CIA, TNI, MI6, MOSSAD, AFP, ASIO, has descended into a disparate collection of cells working at cross-purposes, with deep divisions on strategy and no clear leader except to say the Indonesian Military could be involved, senior Australian counter-propaganda police believe.

False flag Bali bombings: An eye for an eye or blind toothless people?
Terrorists ALLEGED by the Daily Terror, 7 August 03, have claimed responsibility for the Jakarta bombing and are alleged to have sent a chilling warning that they will kill more Westerners if Bali bomber Amrozi is sentenced to death today.

Evidence emerges of proposed Four Corners base in Bali
Parody: More evidence has emerged that the ABC terrorist network believed to have been behind the propaganda in Australia has tried to set up a long-term base in Bali.

Australian Terror cell here long before Bali
The Australian terrorist Captain Cook infiltrated Australia years before the Bali bombings in which 202 people perished. Aboriginal people attempted to remember Captain Cook not as a founding father but as a harbinger of dispossession and death, a sign of white amnesia. Another anniversary year-used to mark two hundred years since Cook had journeyed along the east coast of Australia and, for some people, discovered a continent.

NSW police confirm don't use the phone to talk about terrorism!
The New South Wales Police Service has confirmed it is using phone taps and other forms of electronic surveillance to monitor suspected terrorist activity [ ? To monitor potential scapegoats for the Coalition of the Killing's illegal and degrading resource wars in the Middle East.]

Australia: Terrorising you in secret
Suspected terrorists [scapegoats and patsies for the Coalition of the Killing's resource wars in the Middle East] will be tried in secret under new laws to be introduced by the Federal Government.

NSW Police Force may get 'special powers'
Civil libertarians are questioning the need for further anti-terrorism laws, which will be announced in the New South Wales Parliament on Tuesday.

Evidence that Howard was complicit in CIA, false flag, call to arms, Bali bombings War criminal John Howard was complicit in the call to arms - false flag operation - Bali bombings - instigated by the CIA - and the Coalition of the Killing - to bolster support - and quell dissent for their illegal and degrading resource wars in the Middle East.

War criminal Howard high-jacks HRCA to 'legitimise killing'
The Human Rights Council of Australia (HRCA) says it fears Prime Minister John Howard's comments in support of the execution of [CIA operative] Osama bin Laden show his eagerness to overturn three decades of national opposition to the death penalty.

State terror units caused the terror!
The level of suspicion and surveillance created by the [US false flag operation and call to arms] Bali bombings, created by [ the Coalition of the Killing and Australian's complicity to go to war on Iraq] means that all Australian's suffer the loss of their human rights, civil rights and their democratic rights, as well as those Australian's who lost their life in Bali.

Al-Qa'ida or poor people without hope?
Anyone contemplating war without a UN sanction is nothing more than a common criminal and not acting in accordance with the law. Isn't Richardson the head of ASIO? A law enforcement agency? Al-Qa'ida is a Coalition of the Killing demon made up by the CIA. These people are just scapegoats, patsies, and peasants."

Red paper classes Australia as terrorist suspects
Australia's old foreign policy red paper says Australians have become targets because their own government is being run by war criminals that are complicit in state terror, torture, murder, occupation and genocide.

Australia backs CIA Reichstag, Downer's propaganda
The Foreign Affairs Minister says the latest message from Osama bin Laden is worrying. [Just plain rubbish!]

UK Reid, Blair and the reichstag London threat!
The nature of the [alleged] terrorist threat to London is on the scale of the [USA false flag] September 11 attacks in the United States, the chairman of Britain's governing Labour Party said.

Bin Laden calls? CIA blind man's bluff!
A [US propaganda, fear-mongering] taped message purportedly from Osama bin Laden has warned Arab nations against supporting a war against Iraq but has branded Saddam Hussein an infidel.

Middle Eastern: Specific Legislation
"If there is a target person the police would have powers in relation to that type of person," Mr Costa said. Asked what he meant by "type of person", Mr Costa said: "The example that's been given is if there's a description of somebody, an identikit photograph released by Interpol or other agencies ... these powers may well be exercised on that type of person."

Howard defends terror alert
Prime Minister John Howard says the Federal Government would not have issued a terror alert if it had not come from a credible source. (America?) Speaking for the first time since the Government revealed the warning, Mr Howard says he wants people to be more careful, but not to stop living. [As long as they don't go dancing in Bali? And sure we'll all be depressed for as long as John Howard and Bob Carr say so.]

Carr backs Fed Govt's terror alert
New South Wales Premier Bob Carr has defended the Federal Government's decision to issue a warning to Australians about a possible terrorist attack in Australia.

NSW Police Force may get 'special powers'
Civil libertarians are questioning the need for further anti-terrorism laws, which will be announced in the New South Wales Parliament on Tuesday.

When Johnny comes marching home again: 'hoorah hoorah'
Posted on the Resistance web page Bronwyn Powell, an organiser of the youth-led mobilisation told Green Left weekly that "in the face of attacks on civil liberties, it is unfortunate that some union officials have felt they need to submit. It could set a negative precedent for upholding the hard-won right to demonstrate in the street."

Give peace a chance
PIERS AKERMAN DT 28 Nov 02: JUSTICE John Dowd should be removed from the bench. His crime? Stupidity. In a breath-taking display of hand-wringing sanctimonious morality, Dowd has condemned the State and Federal Governments' anti-terrorism measures, claiming they erode rights and give encouragement to oppressive regimes.

The scavengers of terror
The NSW Government is to introduce increased police powers bill. Legislation giving New South Wales police special powers to deal with an emergency terrorist situation [emergency scapegoat situation] will be introduced into the New South Wales Parliament today.