by Mary W Maxwell, LLB
Gumshoe articles are between 500 and 2000 words. Each is about one subject only, as we like to make a definitive presentation where possible. This article, however, deals in miscellany. We aim to catch up on previously-covered subjects for which there is now a bit more available.
Sue Neill-Fraser
Mrs Neill-Fraser has been in Risdon Prison for 8 years for supposedly throwing her husband, Dr Bob Chapell off a yacht. His body was never found. He was a radiation physicist at Hobert Hospital.
Sue’s was the first case that the late Vanessa Goodwin put forth, as Attorney General of Tasmania, under the law of “fresh and compelling evidence” — a law that Goodwin herself had introduced.
The catch-up news here is that Andrew Urban has written a sympathetic book, and two other books will be out soon.
At wrongfulconvictionsreport.org we learn that:
“Following the September 2018 publication of Andrew L. Urban’s critical Murder by the Prosecution (Wilkinson Publishing), Colin McLaren’s Southern Justice (Hachette) will land in bookshops on January 29, 2019, and Robin Bowles’ Death on the Derwent (Scribe) will follow mid February.”
Channel 7 is also going to do a 7-part series. That suggests to me that the fix is in – I mean the judges may already have decided to rule in favor of prisoner Sue.
I should also mention in this catch-up that while reading about Vanessa Goodwin, I learned that she said an Attorney General could use a “petition of mercy” to reopen a case.
Would someone kindly pursue that for Marti Bryant? The current attorney general is Matthew Groom, son of Ray Groom a major figure in the Port Arthur story. Maybe he’d like to do a deal with Dad. You never know, in this world of ours.
Contempt of Family Court
Gumshoe recently published my article on contempt of court, I then found that I had omitted specific parts of the Family Law Act that explain which type of contempt is specifically legislated for in Family Law matters. Here ‘tis (the bolding is mine):
FAMILY LAW ACT 1975 – SECT 112APContempt
(1) … this section applies to a contempt of a court that: (a) does not constitute a contravention of an order under this Act; or (b) constitutes a contravention of an order under this Act and involves a flagrant challenge to the authority of the court.
(1A) This section does not apply to a contempt that constitutes a contravention of a maintenance order if the order has been complied with before the matter of the contravention comes before the court.
(2) In spite of any other law, a court having jurisdiction under this Act may punish a person for contempt of that court….
(4) Where a natural person [i.e., not a corporation] is in contempt, the court may punish the contempt by committal to prison or fine or both.
(5) Where a corporation is in contempt, the court may punish the contempt by sequestration or fine or both.
(6) The court may make an order for:
(a) punishment on terms;
(b) suspension of punishment; or
(c) the giving of security for good behaviour.
(7) Where a person is committed to prison for a term for contempt, the court may order the person’s discharge before the expiry of that term.
(I will also go back and pin that as an Update to my Contempt article.)
Jahar Tsarnaev’s Appeal
The so-called Defense Team has now submitted their appeal brief to the First Circuit in Boston. The Prosecution must reply by July, 2019. The Defense brief does not mention innocence. However my amicus brief does.
There are now other amici approved for the appeal, but they do not talk about innocence. They point to errors ofprocedure, especially the fact that the trial was held in Boston where “he could not get a fair trial.”
I don’t agree that it was location that prevented Jahar from getting a fair trial. (He got a fair trial n Watertown Library, didn’t he?) Jahar would’ve had a fair trial originally if any private attorney was willing to defend him in the normal manner, by cross-examining dubious witnesses.
This “public defender” business has got to stop!
Meanwhile no reply from my February, 2017 petition for a Writ of Error Coram Nobis sent to The General Court of Massachusetts i(that is the name of the Legislature), which was a follow-up on my petition to the original trial court.
I also did not get an acknowledgement from the coroner, known in Massachusetts as the Medical Examiner, regarding my request for an Inquest into the death of Tamerlan Tsarneav. He didn’t die in no Laurel St shoot-out.
Todashev of Orlando, Florida
As often mentioned by Gumshoe’s part-Seppo writer, moi, the United States civil rights agitation of the 1960s brought about some amazing legislation, including 18 USC 242 and 42 USC 1983. These laws allow you, ven encourage you to sue the cops if you have been brutalized or indeed to sue anyone who deprives you of constitutional rights.
Ibtagim Todashev was murdered in his home by the FBI. (Andrew MAcgregor has said in a Gumshoe article that it was really James Yaconne that pulled the trigger but we have no evidence of it). His death led to a civil rights filing:
Michael Schneider wrote, on May 24, 2017 at Boston.com:
“The lawsuit was filed Monday in federal court in Orlando by the estate of Ibragim Todashev and Todashev’s parents against two Massachusetts state troopers, an FBI agent and an Orlando police officer who was working under the FBI’s supervision. Todashev’s estate is being represented by an official with the Council of American-Islamic Relations Florida.”
I have now heard that the lawsuit for wrongful death of Ibragim Todashev, was dismissed by the Court.
Maxwell v Trump
My appeal at the First Circuit, regarding my war-powers case, was denied in September, 2018. No reason given. I am asking the US Supreme Court for an extension on “seeking cert.”
The more important case, similar to mine, is that of US Army Captain Nathan Smith. He, too, said the US involvement in war is unconstitutional without specific authorization from Congress. As a serving officer in Kuwait he had standing to sue, but the DC Circuit Court played “sleeping dog” until Smith was out of the army and then declared the case moot.
Allow me to say that using tactics like that is a major disgrace and those justices ought to get it in the nequi for contempt of court.
Obituaries
We mourned several deaths in 2018, including those of Wendy Scurr and Vanessa Goodwin, but lately I heard about other deaths that had occurred prior to 2018. Here are three:
Rev Max Stackhouse
Max was professor of Theology at Princeton Theological Seminary and before that at Andover Newton. He was my friend and influenced me on “public theology” – the name of one of his many books. In a 1991 article at Christian Century, co-authored by Dennis McCann, Stackhouse said:
Public theology after the collapse of communism, they wrote, “must develop a social ethic for the emerging world in which democracy, human rights, and a mixed economy are acknowledged as universal necessities.” They also wrote of how one could serve in “a holy vocation” in the marketplace. “If public theology can help us overcome our contempt for corporations as mere money machines, then Christians can begin to articulate what we expect of these institutions.”
Rodney Stich
Rodney was an outstanding whistleblower. His many books (which I have given to libraries, futilely) point up government corruption. Free downloads at defraudingamerica.com. Rodney felt that he was a failure but I heartily disagree.
Captain Stich was a pilot in WWII and a member of the FAA, Federal Aviation Authority later. He pushed the concept of “misprision,” a great word – it is a crime not to report a crime. This is a common law crime, reminiscent of Blackstone, which is IN FULL GLORY IN OZ TODAY.
I mean it’s still on the books.
Hopping over just now to a Gumshoe article of April 29, 2018 entitled “Misprision Can Get You into Prison,” I note that Berry and I had the following exchange in Comments:
Berry: Important to remember that you’re dealing with a “governance” that hasn’t been authorised by the Crown, hence trading names such as “City of Stirling”, “Baycorp Pty Ltd” , “Borderforce”, “Centrelink”, etc, etc, etc
Mary: Berry, oh Berry, yoo-hoo, what is “the Crown”?
Berry: As there’s been no declaration of independence in Aus, the control system is wholly reliant on bluff.
Mary: Whose bluff – ours or “theirs”? I may be wrong, Berry, but I think their perch is in big danger. I would not want to be sitting in it….
Berry: Bluff is, of course, the ultimate warfare tool. So those who haven’t got a handle on the Old Testament or Machiavell’s “The Prince” or are otherwise incapable of grasping the power of Belief………..
Professor Alfred Rubin
Rubin was the author of Ethics and Authority in International Affairs (1997). He holds the same position I do, which I that international law does not really exist as it has no enforcer.
Rubin taught for 30 years at Tufts School of Law and Diplomacy. His student Duncan Hollis wrote the following, in Opinio Juris:
“In what was a trademark for his contrarian demeanor, Professor Rubin started off our first class with a simple, but powerful, challenge — insisting that there is no such thing as human rights. An Australian classmate took the bait, and responded that they must exist, to which Professor Rubin pushed back, asking if human rights existed as law or morality. That generated a fairly intense discussion on what law “is”, who should decide the law’s contents and by what processes. Fifty minutes later, I [Duncan Hollis] was hooked. LAW 200 became my favorite class…”
Something about Clouds
We have in the past given space to the talents of Cherri Bonney as the niece of an aviatrix, and an aviatrix herself (not to mention being the recipient of some reverse-aviatory attention if you know what I mean) and also as a licensed herbalist, and as the composer of an important and remarkably to-the-point song about Martin Bryant entitled “Wish I Knew How To Be Free.”
For this past New Year’s Eve, when Cherri performed at a Yacht Club in Perth, I asked her to send me the program, which she did, but we had the usual protective parent crisis going on (these crises never stop, you know, although we are planning to stop them dead in their tracks). Thus my little celebration of Cherri did not happen timely.
Here it is, untimely.
Please listen here to Miss Sexy sing The Clouds Will Soon Roll By. It sounds like she is harmonizing with herself. Yes, she is. The wonders of modern technology, what God hath wrought type thing. Her band is called Nchant.
Gumshoe’s got everything! Listen to it here.
Note: “The Clouds Will Soon Roll By” was first recorded by Ambrose and His Orchestra with Elsie Carlisle in 1932.
And here is another cath-up (in regard to the families of deceased kids suing Alex Jones):
“A Superior Court judge ruled Friday that Alex Jones must turn over some financial and marketing documents related to his Infowars empire to the parents of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims who are suing him for calling the 2012 massacre at the school a hoax.
“Among the documents to which Judge Barbara Bellis granted the families access are business and marketing plans for Infowars, contracts between Infowars and organizations such as Facebook and Twitter, and all communications and/or documents, including letters, memos, emails, text messages, instant messenger logs, regarding Sandy Hook, crisis actors, shooter Adam Lanza and mass shootings.”
My beady little mind has also raced ahead to think why this lawsuit happened. I consider Jones an insider, so he would not have made a mistake about the deaths (which in my best estimate did occur). Thus maybe the entire go-round is to prove that “people like him who run conspiracy websites should be ignored by the public.”
“………some conspiracy ‘sites’ should be ignored by the public”
Agreed; ignore msm, ABC. (faine and Co) SBS and our shock jokes.
Indeed, ignore our present lot of politicians.
Only go to trusted alternative news sites for news and thoughtful articles and opinions.
Ignore google, others like duckduckgo do not respond with a visit followed by incessant advertisements for products and services previosly researched.
Send all the bastards broke, blackball all msm advertised goods and services and sell the ABC and SBS.
We are the 99.9%.
Stuff the official official government controlled conspiracy sites.
Jones an insider — not so sure. He did a little rant years ago — then quickly corrected himself. I get your point about a law suit set up… but this is much bigger than that.
I think it suits the ‘powers that be’ that good people think he may be an insider. They would like Jones to be 1) a non-person / banned from all platforms (when he had this large patriot following) and his anti-deep state stance, and 2) it is perfect for NWO agenda if he is considered a traitor (insider) by the other more honest alt-news. Divide and conquer… etc
It means that they have succeeded in REMOVING his mainstream persona — AND making him a suspicious person by honest investigators.
One has to ask:
why would they try remove all his methods of earnings money and receiving payments? This is 100X worse than the censorship in the Apartheid regime. (I wonder how he’s funding is going now?)
why would Amazon and Bezos try discredit him in their magazine for selling alternative top range health supplements/products — when Bezos owns Whole Foods. Amazon is the #1 alt-supplement world seller, and Whole food #2.
Hypocrisy on a grand scale.
How many hours does Jones broadcast a day 2 hours??? If I spoke for 2 hours live, a day I wonder what I would be accused of?
When i listen to Jones at times, he certainly does not sound like he is working for ‘the powers that be”. So what is controlled opposition? Do you know when you are being controlled?
Is G5 (who was on the inside) feeding us info? Yes. Are we publishing controlled opposition stuff — or the writings of a whistleblower? I consider this with every article we publish.
One has to look at what and how they dealt with Jones.
Was it an example — to prove that that they are capable of crushing VOICES OF DISSENT — and anyone that questions the crimes of these people. So “used” Jones — with consent? Don’t think so. Jones and others are pointing to the crimes of these people — and they are fighting for their lives.
I have now heard several YouTubers that have been “wiped” / ERADICATED / BLOTTED OUT.
After years of effort they have built up an audience, e.g., of 100,000 subscribers — with hard work — and in many cases — honest effort, only to wake up with it GONE. No audience, no voice, no income, no job…
Imagine getting bulldozers and going to a business and overnight just flattening a factory.
You arrive — and your life’s work is gone.
WELCOME TO THE WORLD OF GOOGLE AND FACEBOOK.
Danke, Dee. I thought you gave us a full article about Amazon Stores but I can’t find it. However, here is a link to Greg Buck’s talk on cannibalizing:
https://gumshoenews.com/2018/06/18/the-hollowing-out-and-cannibalization-of-economies/
I agree Dee. Alex Jones, although a “loud mouth” talks a lot of sense at times. It is he, who first started the public furore about 9/11. It is he, who brought up the fact that Sandy Hook was a false flag, which it definitely was. There is evidence from many people, too many to all be giving false information, and some of it photographic. The fact that the school had been closed for several years before the event, is positive proof that the event was a con. Would a father who had lost a son in the so called terrorist attack have been smiling just prior to going on camera to talk about the fatal event? Would a schools’ inspector have given interviews stating that the school had been closed years before, because of asbestos contamination?
Mal, I agree that SH was a FF, in the sense that someone in power (e.g., FBI) does an atrocity and gets away with it. The “flag” is then falsely pinned on a patsy. Thus I assume Adam Lanza was not the SH shooter. Just like Bryant or Tsarnaev or the Algerian brothers re Charlie Hebdo — and maybe dozens of other cases
I think Hamilton was not the shooter at Dunblane, so it was a false flag (in that limited sense, without any nation — e.g. Afghanistan — copping the blame).
But I haven’t seen anything to persuade me that the SH shooting did not take place. SH is only 3 hours drive from where I am now. I would go and talk to peeps, but can’t get away from other stuff I am working on.
I think your riposte to the Suspicious Packages in Melbourne yesterday is definitive. 29 pieces of mail cannot arrive simultaneously, even at one destination, never mind 3. Hence it is a false flag. Ergo, the Shepparton man is wearing that flag.
Probably no white powder was sent, just as no 18 people were killed in that limousine recently (which Dee wrote about). We need a different name for those scenarios — perhaps “Whole Cloth False Flags,” WCFF or something. (But the limo accident is Whole Cloth, and yet no one was blamed so it can’t qualify as a WCFF.)
God, I’m sick of this. Maybe they keep testing the waters to see how many people they can still fool. But when I chat with taxi drivers and hairdressers in the US I find that although they are silent — they aren’t bitching on the Internet — they do not believe the official story.
Anyone whose business was hit during the Melbourne “crisis” yesterday can bring a civil action against the government for economic loss based on a cooked-up dislocation of traffic.
Go on, somebody, do it. Do humanity a favor.
Mal, Adelaide singer Eric Bogle, best known for “And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda” wrote a song for the Sandy Hook children. It is called Roll Call:
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https://soundcloud.com/undercovermusic/roll-call-eric-bogle-with-john
There’s got to be some sort of strategy for something to classify as a false flag , e. g. Pearl Harbour.
As any Sandy Hook -type scenario always fires up the pro civilian-gun-ownership lobbyists just as much if not more than the anti mob it could hardly be civilian disarmament.
One certainty: Adam Lanza was not IT. He had no history of violence and the story didn’t add up in any other respect
At 4.40, “the media elongated Adam Lanza’s face him to make him look more grotesque.”
This is great, he was running for governor of Nevada. Does anyone remember Ms O’Connell who also ran for gov of NV maybe 2006 or so but disappeared after she said she was the dominatrix for W. ?
Here’s another catch-up. from Senator Rand Paul, who I hope will run for president in 2020, if we are still having elections then:
“In December, the Senate made history when it voted 56-41 to pass S.J. Res. 54, a bipartisan bill I supported to stop U.S. involvement in the war in Yemen. This marked the first time since the Vietnam War that the Senate voted to prevent a president from involving the U.S. in a war!
“While the U.S. House refused to take up our legislation, our victory in the Senate builds a strong foundation for the future, and I will continue to speak out for action.”
A question to ponder Dee “Do you know when you are being controlled?”
https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/australian-recruits-have-dwindled-to-virtually-zero-scientology-struggles-in-nsw-20190112-p50qzy.html
NOT OFF-TOPIC BECAUSE NOTHING CAN BE OFF-TOPIC WHEN THERE WAS NEVER A TOPIC IN THE FIRST PLACE
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“international law does not really exist as it has no enforcer.” Mary, I have to respectfully disagree. There is a distinction between there being no enforcer and there being no enforcement. There are multiple vehicles for settling international disputes, including tribunals, Courts, and arbitration arrangements between the parties.
International law has fallen into some disrepute in some quarters because it has been used as a vehicle by western powers to subjugate others. The “rules based international order” so frequently quoted by our politicians, in practice meant, “our rules, our order.”
There has also been selectivity in who is prosecuted in the ICC. A list of African dictators is prominent, but war criminals like Bush, Blair and Howard have escaped scot free. The US does not even recognise the jurisdiction of the ICC and has a history of ignoring rulings of the ICJ that it does not like; eg the Nicaragua case. The Nuremberg and Tokyo trials after WW2 set some good precedents, and those precedents still exist.
But the failure to prosecute war criminals of the western variety is not a reason to throw the baby out with the proverbial bathwater. I am regularly engaged in international arbitration and that is only possible because there exists a framework, within international law, to do so.