Dear Mr. Mike Keelty/Australian Federal Police Commissioner : Melbourne Indymedia

I'm writing to you about a matter that has troubled me, that I believe warrants a criminal investigation, as a serious commonwealth offence may have been committed.

Over the past few weeks a number of prominent Australians including an unnamed former cabinet minister have made serious allegations about the Prime Minister Mr. John Howard, the Sydney radio commentator Mr. Alan Jones and the chairman of the Australian Broadcasting Authority Professor David Flint, they have alleged that around the time of the 2001 Federal election Mr. Alan Jones told the Prime Minister to reappoint Professor David Flint to chair the Australian Broadcasting Authority. It's also alleged that he told the Prime Minister that he would use his radio program to campaign against the government during the 2001' Federal election campaign if Mr. John Howard did not reappoint Professor Flint as chairperson of the Australian Broadcasting Authority.

Communication that has been tabled in the public arena between Mr. Jones and Professor Flint may have sparked off this chain of events. It's also alleged by an unnamed former government Cabinet Minister that the Prime Minister ordered the then Communications Minister Mr. Richard Alston to rewrite a cabinet submission to recommended that Professor Flint be reappointed to the A.B.A.

It's interesting to note that in 2001 Mr. Flint was reappointed as chairman of the Australian Broadcasting Authority, Mr. Jones threw his support behind the Prime Minister during the 2001 election campaign and the Coalition government and the Prime Minister were re-elected as a consequence of the number of Federal seats the Federal government was able to hold and win in Sydney.

I have stood as an Independent Victorian Senate candidate in the last six Federal elections (including the 2001 Federal election) I understand that under the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918 Part XXI ? Electoral offences 326 Bribery, that bribery is a criminal act.

326 Bribery

(1) A person shall not ask for, receive or obtain, or offer or agree to ask for, or receive or obtain, any property or benefit of any kind, whether for the same or any other person, or an understanding that:
(a) any vote of the first-mentioned person;
(b) any candidature of the first-mentioned person;
(c) any support of, or opposition to, a candidate, a group of candidates or political party by the first-mentioned person;
(d) the doing of any act or thing by the first-mentioned person the purpose of which is, or the effect of which is likely to be, to influence the preferences set out in the vote of any elector; or
(e) the order in which the names of candidates nominated for election to the Senate whose names are included in a group in accordance with section 168 appear on a ballot paper;
will, in any manner, be influenced or affected.

Penalty: $5,000 or imprisonment of 2 years, or both.

(2) A person shall not, in order to influence or affect:
(a) any vote of any other person;
(b) any candidature of another person; or
(c) any support of, or opposition to, a candidate, a group of candidates or a political party by another person;
(d) the doing of any act or thing by another person the purpose of the preference set out in the vote of any elector; or
(e) the order in which the names of candidates for election to the Senate whose names are included in a group in accordance with section 168 appear on a ballot paper;
give or confer, or promise or offer to give or confer, any property or benefit of any kind to that other person or to a third person.

Penalty: $5,000 or imprisonment for 2 years, or both.

(3) This section does not apply in relation to a declaration of public policy or a promise of public action.

I believe that the public allegations that have been made by a number of prominent Australians require a Federal Police Criminal investigation to establish if these allegations have any substance and whether enough evidence exists to recommend a prosecution under the Commonwealth Electoral Act.

This matter goes much further than the alleged behaviour of the three men involved. It strikes at the very heart of the electoral process and the integrity of the institutions that ensure that this process is above reproach. In order to uphold the integrity of the electoral process it's important that serious consideration be given by the Federal police into launching a criminal investigation into the allegations that have been made.

I understand that the Federal police in making a decision to reject or accept a matter for investigation, give regard to the nature of the alleged crime, the effect of the criminality involved and the resources required for the investigation.

Although significant Federal police resources may be required to conduct a criminal investigation into the allegations raised, the nature of the alleged crime destroys the community's belief in the fairness of the electoral process, a cornerstone of the constitutional arrangements that govern the relationship between Australian citizens and the institutions that make up the Commonwealth of Australia. I believe the serious nature of these allegations warrant a Federal Police criminal investigation.

Thank you for taking the time to address my concerns.

Yours sincerely,

Dr. Joseph TOSCANO / Spokesperson Anarchist Media Institute

cc: Mr. Peter Costello Federal Treasurer
cc: Mr. Mark Latham Leader Opposition
cc: Mr. Andrew Bartlett Leader Australian Democrats
cc: Senator Bob Brown Leader Australian Greens

You must be kidding?
by Taken from AAWR, By Dr. J. Toscano Wednesday May 19, 2004 at 05:59 PM

In this week's Anarchist Age Weekly Review is a letter that I sent to the Australian Federal Police Commissioner Mr. Mick Keelty last week. This letter asks him to launch a criminal investigation into allegations made by prominent Australians against the Prime Minister John Howard, the Sydney radio commentator Mr. Alan Jones and the chairman of the Australian Broadcasting Authority Professor David Flint. These allegations were made a month ago and interestingly no one has requested that a criminal investigation be launched into the matter.

The best the Labor Party can do is call for a parliamentary inquiry into the allegations. We're constantly told in this country that we're all equal before the law and that the rule of law is the foundation stone of Australian society. I'm sure that if the same allegations were made against any one of us, we'd be facing a criminal investigation. The Howard government has time and time again asked the Federal Police to launch criminal investigations against public servants who are suspected of leaking material into the public arena.

It says something about the society that we have become that it takes an anarchist to request the Federal Police to launch an investigation. It seems the fourth estate, the bureaucracy, the judiciary and the police seem to be unwilling or incapable of initiating investigations into allegations against members of the Federal government. It's both tragic and ironic that an anarchist organisation should lead the country in this matter.

We're either equal before the law or we're not, if we're not, it's about time this matter was brought to the public's attention. If you're as annoyed as I am about the hypocrisy and double standards that seem to govern life in this country, I encourage you to take up this matter with Federal politicians around the country. Ring them up, make an appointment, bring up the matter with them, ask them to forward your concerns to the Federal Police.

It's important that we realise that the only thing we need to fear is fear itself. As citizens we have rights. If we want to extend these rights, we need to exercise these rights to let those who wield power know they are our servants, not our masters.

I want Mick investigated for his overt assistance to the notorious Al Quida murder and standover merchants. Micks claims bolstered those of the bombers of the trains in Madrid. Search on Downer and Keelty and see for yourself - the man is a menace and possible terrorist. ASIO should be questioning him at weekly intervals while a five year gag order is placed on him as he is thouroughly investigated, vetted and gelded.

So a few bad 72 point matrix bad apples snuck in the radio business?

Is that worth a Royal Commission?

The Premier of Queensland faced similar wild accusations that spoiled his final days in office, lets not replay that nightmare please. I pray for your unclean soul.

Mick Keelty is a hairy palmed glove puppet for the FBI and a soapy wet sock for Alex Downer so when he doesn't lift a finger to investigate his little mate, John Howard we'll know that he is tool for the man of steel as well. Really I don't know why anyone would waste their breath talking to him - he doesn't fart without a superiors permission and to goons and dickheads like Mick almost everone is a superior.

Principles of the Nuremberg Tribunal, 1950

Principle Vl
The crimes hereinafter set out are punishable as crimes under; international law:

1. Crimes against peace:

1. Planning, preparation, initiation or waging of a war of aggression or a war in violation of international treaties, agreements or assurances;

2. Participation in a common plan or conspiracy for the accomplishment of any of the acts mentioned under (i).

2. War crimes:

Violations of the laws or customs of war which include, but are not limited to, murder, ill-treatment or deportation to slave-labor or for any other purpose of civilian population of or in occupied territory, murder or illtreatment of prisoners of war, of persons on the seas, killing of hostages, plunder of public or private property, wanton destruction of cities, towns, or villages, or devastation not justified by military necessity.

3. Crimes against humanity:

Murder, extermination, enslavement, deportation and other inhuman acts done against any civilian population, or persecutions on political, racial or religious grounds, when such acts are done or such persecutions are carried on in execution of or in connection with any crime against peace or any war crime.

Prim Minister..."The reality is that international terrorism has invested an enormous amount in breaking the will of the coalition in Iraq," he said. "Not only are organisations associated with al-Qaeda operating in Iraq but each and every turn of the Iraq struggle is interpreted by spokesmen for international terrorism as part of the ongoing campaign against the US and her allies."

Does he think we don't remember his recent slash at the Federal Police commissioner Mick Keelty for daring to suggest we were a greater terrorist target for invading Iraq? "It's my view that Iraq is really irrelevant to the intent and the purposes of al-Qaeda," he said then.

Howard even said we were on the side of the Iraqi people, when most Iraqis want the US out NOW! He's spun himself so tight to maintain unconditional support for all that President Bush and his team of incompetents and madmen have done and will do that he makes sense to no one.

From Margo Kingston today

The erosion of Howard's dominance of the national security debate is unlikely to be reversed by his major speech on Iraq last Wednesday. Howard embraced the Bush Administration's "neo-conservative" rationale for the invasion - regime change to redraw the political map of the Middle East - just as it is losing favour within the US.

Before the invasion, Howard said Saddam could stay in power if he got rid of his alleged weapons of mass destruction. Given that the weapons no longer existed, Howard now says the goal was to bring freedom and democracy to Iraq and defeat terrorism.

As recently as March 15, however, Howard said: "It is my view that Iraq is really irrelevant to the intent and the purposes of al-Qaeda." But last Wednesday he said that terrorists who take their inspiration from al-Qaeda "know that if democracy is installed in Iraq they have lost".

Even if democracy can be "installed" from outside, a "win" in the form of a pro-US government is unlikely to eventuate. Nevertheless, if Howard were really serious about a democratic outcome, he would send a lot more troops and police to help restore order so genuinely free elections can be held. He won't do this, even if a quick recruitment drive could produce enough volunteers in the spirit of World War I to "finish the job".

Instead, Australia's tiny contingent of troops will be withdrawn just as soon as the Americans can find a vaguely plausible excuse to cut and run.

Extract from Brian Toohey's column today.(ouch)

Toscano and Hoser point out breaches in the law by the ruling elite and are condemned.
This shows that there are different rules for different people.

Unfortunately, we live under the rule of people who have no integrity. The majority of our politicians do not honour the historical compact whereby the people have agreed to allow others to represent them in return for fair and honest treatment by their government. These people will be the death of society and what remains of democracy.