Assasination politics 3,Terra Australis
mattd
mattd at useoz.com
Fri Oct 26 08:57:06 PDT 2001
Professor fights like a cornered rat...AP trial 3?...can this be the end of
RICO.
Previously unpublished
by macedon ranges gaurdian 11:11pm Fri Oct 26 '01
A dead tree story that has just been collated.Relevance is the seizing by
police of citizens laptop and holding for nearly 5 months without charges
presented.
M1 PROTESTER GIVEN BAIL-BUT OTHER POLICE INTERESTED
A Kyneton man involved in the recent M1 protest in melb.has been accused of
promoting what is
reffered to as 'assasination politics',and is said to have come to the
notice of the United States
Secret Service and the Australian Federal Police.
Assasination politics,according to the police,is the practice of nominating
a person for
assasination,inviting the general public to contribute money to a bank
account and funding
the assasination with the proceeds.
Police charged Matthew Stephen Taylor last Friday over the vandelism of a
McDonalds fast food outlet
during the anti-globalisation protest on may 1.
Charges are also pending against Taylor in relation to his alleged Internet
activities.
On Monday Taylor,46 of Baynton st,Kyneton applied for bail at Kyneton
Magistrates Court.Taylor faced
two counts of criminal damage and three counts of acting in a manner
prejudicial to the good
order of a police jail.
As Taylor was led into court,he protested his innocence and described
Bendigo remand where he
had spent the weekend as a 'hell hole'Inside the court he adressed
Magistrate William Gibb as
"Your Highness"
He told Mr Gibb he disagreed with his position on drugs and compared it
with the 1930s prohibition
on alcohol.He was reffering to the previous defendant who appeared on drug
related charges.
Taylor was supported in court by his father,Ken Taylor,a Mount Macedon poet
who was recently
awarded the Kenneth Slessor Prize for poetry at the New South Wales
Premiers Awards.
Prosecutor,Senior Constable Martin Holland said Taylors application for
bail was not opposed
but he asked Mr Gibb to impose six conditions.
The first condition was "not to post threatening text on the internet
toward any person whether
located in Australia or elsewhere in the world"
Sen.Const Holland said Taylor had made threats on the internet and a
computor from Taylors
Kyneton adress had been seized and conveyed to Melbourne for examination.
Sen.Cons.Holland defended the wording of the first condition by saying it
was not a blanket
ban on all internet useage.
The second condition prohibited Taylor from participating in assasination
politicsThe third condition was not to engage any other person in the first
two things.
The remaining conditions included a prohibition on Taylor participating in
Melbourne
demonstrations.
Sen.Const.Holland said police had been watching Taylors activities on the
website
www.indymedia.org with some interest.He said anyone could download
information onto the
site.He said Taylor was known on the site as the 'nutty proffessor'and had
posted a
message on the site to chief commissioner of victoria Police,Christine
Nixon.Sen.Const.
Holland said the message stated that "...should you persist with this folly
one of your
number will be selected for retirement,i.e.execution."
The prosecution called Senior Constable Nicholas Conte who said he had
investigated video
and photographic footage from the May 1 protest,including video footage of
Taylor in an
interview with Herald Sun journalist Peter Mickleburough.In it
Sen.Conts.Conte said Taylor
reffered to himself as "Robin Banks."He said the name was on the indymedia
website and was
traced back to Taylors adress by the computor Crime Unit.
He explained the concept of assasination politics to the court and said he
believed it
originated in the United States where a man named Bell is currently under
sentence in
relation to it.He said based on comments Taylor had made on the internet he
believed the
defendant was advertising and trying to gain support for assasination
politics.
"He doesnt make any qualms about that."Sen.Const.Conte said.
Asked by Mr Gibb what the reality of all this was,Sen.Const.Conte replied
that he could not
gauge the reality,he could only look at the probability.
Under cross-examination from defense solicitor,Mr Cameron
Ford,Sen.Const.Conte conceded
he did not know if assasination politics had ever resulted in an
assasination or attempted
assasination.He said the investigation was continuing,with the Computor
Crime Squad yet to
look at the content of Taylor's computor files.
Sen.Const.Holland said Taylors activities had attracted the attention of
the US Secret Service
and Australian Federal police.
Mr Gibb said he did not doubt it,but expressed reservations about the
conditions proposed for
Taylor's bail.
"It just seems to be a nonsense.Im being asked to impose all these
conditions that bare no
relevance to the charges,"he said.
Mr Ford said the internet was something Taylor lives on and spends a great
deal of time on.
"He would agree to not post threatening text on the internet,but that was
as far as he was
prepared to go,"he said.
Mr Gibb released Taylor on bail with the condition that he not post
threatening text on the
internet and continue to reside at his adress in Baynton
street,Kyneton.Taylor was bailed to
appear before the Melbourne Magistrates Court on August 16.
update...
A recent article by keith suter in the age suggested that money could be
offered for osama bin laden,dead or alive.(It already is for information by
the US and private bounties are being raised.
Tail of article...
In short, does the US have an
exit strategy?
Here is an alternative grand strategy that Bush could have adopted.
Assuming that bin Laden were guilty, then the US could have said, first,
that it would not attack Afghanistan because it had suffered enough from the
Soviet invasion, civil war, drought and now the Taliban (about a quarter of
the world's refugees are Afghans). On the contrary, the US would now help to
rebuild the country with massive amounts of foreign aid.
And second, the US could have offered a massive reward (say $US500 million -
the equivalent of the cost of half a B-1 bomber) for bin Laden dead or
alive. That sum of money would attract groups like the Russian mafia to work
with Afghans to do the operation. Indeed, with that sum of money some of the
Taliban might find the reward very attractive themselves.
Dr Keith Suter is senior fellow with Global Business Network Australia
I put this here because I want to warn keith, who is based in sydney that I
may need to subpoena him soon.
Nearly 5 months ago police took my laptop and said that I was advocating
'assasination politics'where money is offered to have people killed.I was
working as an entertainment journalist at the time.I recently applied to
have the laptop returned.The police recently stated that they are still
examining the computer.I believe in the equality of all beneath the rule of
law.
matt aka proffr1 at nospamfuckmicrosoft.com
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