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'Jihad Jack' walks free

Seeded on Fri Aug 18, 2006 7:07 PM EDT
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The Federal Government's "war on terrorism" has suffered an embarrassing setback after Joseph Thomas, dubbed Jihad Jack, walked free after an appeal court quashed his conviction.

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Gideon Polya

Irma - important seed. Fellow Melbourne resident (Melburnian) Jack Thomas was clearly unwise but what had happened to him was appalling: prosecutions under restrospective legislation; US agents' threat to castrate him and rape his wife; threat of torture in a US-linked Pakistan jail; prosecution despite evidence obtained under duress without legal counsel in a US-linked Pakistan jail; sustained hounding. Expert legal commentators say that now the laws will be changed to "get around" this legal set-back for the Australian Government and its politicized politicized public servants.

Jack Thomas unwisely but understandably accepted money FROM Taliban or whoever (a significant part of the US- and CIA-linked Pakistan ISI Intelligence and Military are Taliban) and a passport alteration just to "get out of there".

But what is going to happen the Australian Wheat Board (AWB) officials who illegally GAVE money (US $250 million) to Saddam Hussein in the illegal US$250 million Australian wheat sales kick-backs funding of the Saddam Hussein régime and post-invasion insurgency – corruptly two-timing US and Canadian farmers, robbing the UN Oil-for-Food funds, depriving and killing up to 21,000 Iraqi infants, funding Saddam Hussein, funding the post-invasion insurgency (according to staunchly pro-US Australian Opposition Leader Kim Beazley) and betraying American, Australian and Coalition soldiers in the field (see: http://mwcnews.net/content/view/6390/26/ )?

The same Government who prosecuted Jack Thomas steadfastly looked the other way over the illegal AWB funding of Saddam Hussein despite several dozen warning e-mails and cables. What will happen to the politicians and public servants involved in the AWB scam?

Of course the Jack Thomas case illustrates the extraordinary, Nazi-style diminution of human and civil rights in Australia as a result of dishonest suborning of Australian public life by Mainstream media- and politicians-beholden US-Israeli State Terrorism (USIST) and racist Zionist "terror hysteria".

Thus about 4 Australians have been murdered by "terrorists" within Australia in 30 years - 2 garbage collectors and a policeman (in the 1978 Sydney Hilton bombing that a surviving policeman alleges may have been due to Australian Intelligence) and a Security Guard in Melbourne (by a Right to Life fanatic). However 25,000 Australian citizens in Lebanon were shelled and bombed by US-Israeli State Terrorism (USIST) for a month - real terror - with the full support of the Racist Australian Government and the cowardly Labor Opposition i.e. Lebanese Australians have been essentially regarded as "second class citizens" (like Jews in Nazi Germany) - only the Australian Greens and the Australian Democrats demanded a Ceasefire.

About 2,000 Australians (50,000 Americas, 3,000 Candians, 1,200 British, 1,200 Scots) have died since 2001 from opiate drug-related causes linked to the US restoration of the Taliban-destroyed Afghan opium industry (now, under US-UK-Australian-NATO administration about 90% of world market share) (see: http://mwcnews.net/content/view/1858/26/1/1/ , http://www.countercurrents.org/us-polya281005.htm ). Will Bush, Blair, Dr Rice (Dr Death) or the Australian and NATO politicians responsible be prosecuted for the biggest Western opiate pushing since the end of the British Raj?

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