from Alex Stannard (Jan. 14, 2014)
HIDDEN FACTS: SOME EXAMPLES
The following represent a fraction of the many
discrepancies which are revealed by the cache of official documentation,
but which remain unreported by mainstream new organizations:
1. Schapelle Corby's boogie-board bag was the only one
not scanned at Sydney Airport: it was diverted past the scanner by
baggage staff. Customs Minister Ellison withheld this life critical
information, even when Schapelle Corby’s lawyer asked directly about
scanning. [Transit Report]
2. This information was also hidden from Parliament,
when direct questions were asked, and critically, it was withheld from
the Bali court. John Howard, and his long term colleague, Head of Sydney
Airport Corporation Ltd, Max Moore-Wilton, were also aware, but
remained silent. [Transit Report]
3. The AFP never investigated the reason for this
missing screening data, and AFP Commissioner Keelty, who was also
informed, never commented upon it. Keelty was also aware, via Operation
Mocha, that the same baggage handlers were simultaneously engaging in
other drug related activities. [Transit Report]
4. Schapelle Corby checked her bags in underweight, but
they were subsequently found to be 5kg overweight on the Qantas system
(which would have carried an excess charge of $175). This clearly
indicated the addition of a significant weight factor, after the bags
left her hands. [Transit Report]
5. Again, neither Schapelle Corby, nor the Bali court,
were ever provided with this critical information. [Supplementary
Report]
6. Two weeks before the verdict, AFP Commissioner Keelty
told the media that there was no evidence of airport drug syndicates
using innocent passengers, when this was clearly, demonstrably, and
utterly, false. The AFP had held the Kessing Reports for months, and it
withheld a host of other vital support evidence, which proved the long
term and systemic nature of such syndication at Sydney Airport. [Transit
Report]
7. The AFP and DFAT demonstrably evaded and frustrated
the forensic and DNA tests which Schapelle Corby begged for in court.
[Mutual Evasion Report]
8. The AFP told Parliament that it couldn't perform
marijuana pollen tests, when it had the capacity to do so, and indeed,
had originally offered to perform them for the INP. It also refused the
services of a forensics expert, who had volunteered to perform them.
[Mutual Evasion Report]
9. Ellison subsequently told a clearly false story about
marijuana testing, in a written letter to a constituent. [Mutual
Evasion Report]
10. DFAT did not invoke the MACMA treaty to obtain the
sample of marijuana (for DNA testing) which Schapelle Corby begged for,
when it could have done so within the provisions of the treaty itself.
[Mutual Evasion Report]
11. The AFP and Qantas provided wholly contradictory
stories about the missing CCTV footage, which Schapelle Corby pleaded
for. No footage was ever provided, from any airport, despite over 800
cameras being in situ. [Transit Report]
12. Foreign Minister Downer, and Prime Minister Howard,
publicly endorsed the original Bali trial, when they were well aware
that a multitude of legal and human rights abuses had been committed
throughout. [Bali Trial Report]
13. Ellison publicly endorsed the burning of the
physical evidence, whilst Schapelle Corby pleaded desperately for it to
be preserved and tested. [Mutual Evasion Report]
14. DFAT have, de facto, endorsed and suppressed the
ongoing and documented abuses of a mentally ill Australian citizen for
more than nine years. [Health Report]
15. ACLEI, when forced to examine the AFP's role in the
affair, was directly and demonstrably complicit with an AFP officer, in
producing a report which was an utter embarrassment to all parties. A
functionary, who was at the heart of the Howard regime when the AFP
abuses occurred, was allowed to rubber stamp ACLEI's complicit rubber
stamp. [Whitewash Report]
16. The government pressed and forced an Australian QC,
Mark Trowell, on to Schapelle Corby for her appeal. He then decimated
the appeal by attacking her defence team to the media. When he
subsequently admitted that he was working for the government, and not
for Schapelle Corby, the government refused to comment. The precise role
of Justice & Customs Minister Ellison in this affair, Trowell’s
long term friend, has never been explained. [Insider Report]
17. Downer and Howard publicly described a standard
flour hoax at the Indonesian embassy as a “murderous attack”, using a
“biological agent”, when there was no evidence whatsoever to suggest
that it wasn’t benign. Neither of them revealed that the note included
with the flour didn't refer to Schapelle Corby at all, and was written
in Bahasa, when they promptly blamed it on her supporters. [PowderGate
Report]
18. Ellison did not alert any of the parties necessary
to prevent the false, but support-wrecking, story from circulating
around the world. Yet, he was informed of the benign nature of the
flour, by email, at 6:35pm on the same day. [PowderGate Report]
19. The government seized Schapelle Corby's book
royalties under proceeds of crime legislation, whilst she was still in
legal process in Indonesia, sending a clear signal to Jakarta. It
further brought the judiciary into disrepute, by illegally extending its
jurisdiction outside Australian borders, and holding secret trials, at
which Schapelle Corby was not even represented. [Political Seizure
Report]
20. The government thus denied her the funds for a
further appeal, and for on-going medication, despite full knowledge of
the nature of the original trial, and of the vital primary evidence
which had been wilfully withheld. [Political Seizure Report]
21. Dozens of breaches of the Freedom of Information
Act, with respect to requests made on behalf of Schapelle Corby, have
been recorded. The AFP alone has spent in the region of $1 million in
frustrating efforts to obtain further evidential information. [FOI Abuse
Report]
22. The AFP suppressed a secret recording of two known
criminals discussing the collection of marijuana from Sydney Airport on
the same day that Schapelle Corby flew to Bali. [Candidate Sources
Report]
23. The Commonwealth Ombudsman has supported the
government with respect to every complaint ever lodged relating to
Schapelle Corby by members of the public. The same applies to the ACMA,
the OAIC, and every other quango presented to the public as a
‘watchdog’. [Quango Report]
24. . Serious media abuses, including direct criminal
matters, such as phone hacking and illegal recording, were submitted to
the Finkelstein media inquiry in 2011, but were excluded. Compelling
evidence of political interference with respect to the ABC, and of
subsequent editorial and reporting abuses, continues to be ignored.
[Media Reports]
25. The Attorney-General refused to accept a formal
Crime Report, including a 450 page evidential Addendum, which documented
serious breaches of the law by politicians and the AFP. [Crime Report].
