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Special Message to All Australian Federal Police in Austra… Special Message To All Australian Federal Police In Australia From The Desk Lloyd T Vance Timmy Waters Tim Jones Cathy Bell Mick James News Today Darwin NT Australia Dear Federal Australian Federal Police Police Officers all and sundry from Top of the Ladder to the bottom of the ladder. Question 1) What Was The Oath You Took After Training? Wait don’t answer Question 2) Looking from the Ladder what ever job you were trained in? Wait don’t answer Question 3) What lies do you tell your wife & kids when you return home after work for the day? Wait don’t answer 1 ****** Next Does One Little Aussie Have to Book a Plane Fair Ride down to Canberra, when arrive go to your Offices, at the desk ask to ring on the phone to the AFP Kitchen ? Lets Do It Ring, Ring, Ring, Ring to the AFP Kitchen, Hello Head Chief 1 Little Aussie here , Please send me up 100 Big, Big, Ham Bones I need them fast thanks Head Chief many thanks. When Ham Bones Arrive say thanks Waiter Tom, ask for date with Waiter Tom tonight meet here ok, Tom Agrees (Back To Story) OK So All People of the World Listen to this, this will make your Head spin, we all know we have corruption in our countries agreed. But Just sharing information? Remember just sharing information here in Australia the real facts happening behind the scenes here in Australia. ***** Thinking better to shake hands with Chicago Mafia then this lot who are suppose to fight Law and Order in Australia Australian Federal Police in Australia. 2 With That said everybody knows around the World we have Australian Federal Police suppose to do above, now read this, come on people of the World, also my fellow Australians this is the real picture of what is happening in Australia. Just sit back and read: - Protecting paedophiles the judicial way. Justice Ken Taylor and the Attorney General Greg Smith. Two weeks ago acting NSW District Court judge Ken Taylor issued a suppression order to stop the naming of a convicted paedophile. Justice Taylor’s actions need investigating. The problem is that the NSW attorney general Greg Smith who has ultimate oversight for NSW judicial officers is himself embroiled is what looks like himself covering up for known paedophile Father Finian Egan. 3 Father Finian Egan has not been convicted of being a paedophile but the church says he is, so that is good enough for me, add that to Greg Smith’s extremely perverted and suspect behaviour and Father Egan has to be guilty. (Click here to read more on Father Egan ) But we will start off with Justice Ken Taylor and his paedophile protecting judgement. A decision he has since overturned after some media attention for some unknown reason. Justice Ken Taylor Two weeks ago Justice Taylor issued a suppression order so the name of a convicted paedophile could not be named. It was reported in a story in the SMH titled “Victim’s horror at abuser anonymity” which says THE victim of a convicted paedophile says she is ”disgusted and horrified” that her abuser’s name has been suppressed by a court.” ”It’s disgusting that his identity can be protected but the intimate details of what happened to me are not protected and free for anyone to read about, and there’s no consideration of how that affects me,” she said. It goes on to say “A spokesman for the Attorney- General, Greg Smith, said his office had requested a transcript of the sentencing hearing.” (Click here to read the full story ) 4 What a joke, as if Greg Smith was going to do anything. He is busing covering up for Father Egan. “The case gained national headlines after Peter Versi was named by Melbourne radio host Darryn Hinch.” Then a couple of days ago Justice Ken Taylor overturned his own decision for no known reason. This is very strange. The only way I thought his judgement could be overturned is by an appeal court. He has decided to call the matter back into court and overturn his own judgement. To my knowledge this is unprecedented. (Click here to read more ) This leads one to surmise only two things 1. he has been influenced by the media or 2. someone has tapped him on the shoulder and told him he should overturn his own judgement. Either way there is a very serious question to be answered. I have looked for his judgement on the internet and have not been able to find it. But even if he has overturned the judgement that does not answer the first question and that is how he could hand down such a scandalous and disgraceful judgment in the first place. 5 And as you will see Father Egan has not been convicted of any court yet the media can still name him so why could we not name Peter Versi who had been convicted? It is beyond belief that Justice Taylor is that incompetent and if he is he should not be a judge. His whole actions need to be investigated in full. E.g. Who he knows or doesn’t know etc. Now to the man who is meant to have oversight for Justice Taylor’s actions. NSW Attorney General Greg Smith Mr Smith has been involved is dodgy conduct that has been mentioned on this site last year so his attempt to cover-up for a paedophile priest is of no surprise . In the post last year titled “What is the price of freedom? About $900,000 if you are bribing Commissioner Phillip Bradley at the NSW Crime Commission.” Greg Smith is mentioned for his role (when worked at the Director of Public Prosecutions office 2004) in dropping charges against James Kinch so the NSW Crime Commission could get its hands on a $900,000 bribe to let Kinch go. Kinch is now in a jail in Thailand awaiting extradition to Australia to face number of charges including the ones that Greg Smith dropped. 6 Now Mr Smith knows Father Egan on a personal basis and charges against Father Egan have been held up at the DPP, the same place that Greg Smith used to work, for some seven months. The ABC 7.30 Report did a story on this on the 4th of April. The full transcript is below. (As per “Fair Use Policy” usually I would only use a small part and put the link back to the site but because it is in the public interest I have copied the lot) Transcript CHRIS UHLMANN, PRESENTER: Here is a story about an Attorney-General and a priest. One of the most senior lawmakers in the country is tonight being accused of making derogatory comments about a woman who alleges that she was abused as a child by a priest. Until last year NSW Attorney-General Greg Smith had a long association with his one-time Catholic priest Finian Egan, even praising him in Parliament. That appears to have ended some time after police began investigating allegations from five people that Finian Egan had abused them as children. Now 7.30 has been shown evidence suggesting the Attorney-General made insulting comments about one of Finian Egan’s accusers, allegedly branding the child sex victim just after money from the church. Tim Palmer reports. ??? 7 There was nowhere that was safe for me. I wasn’t safe anywhere. The abuse started when I was in the later years of primary school. TIM PALMER, REPORTER: Father Finian Egan’s more than 50 years as a priest took him to at least half a dozen churches in and around Sydney. But the priest’s service in the Catholic Church came to an end when a number of women came forward to accuse him of abusing them when they were children. KELLIE-ANNE ROCHE (2010): I just tried to stop him from touching my breasts to show him that’s not where I want his hands … without saying anything, because he was – priests are one step down from God. TIM PALMER: Within weeks of 7.30 airing a series of stories in 2010 on Finian Egan, at least five people had gone to police and a widespread investigation was underway. But nearly two years later, the priest hasn’t been arrested or charged. NIKKI WELLS: The wait’s been absolutely horrendous. It’s been really traumatic. The statements with the police were finalised in 2010. We’ve been told that the case is currently on the DPP’s desk, but it’s been on the DPP’s desk for about seven months now. 8 They keep telling us they’re just waiting for a signature. So, to me, it’s beyond me how it could be so long. You know, the case has been investigated. It’s very clear the evidence is there from all of the witnesses. I don’t understand why he hasn’t been charged. TIM PALMER: Finian Egan has always maintained his innocence. As the case dragged on, questions were raised about the alleged sex offender’s long-time association with the man who’s now Attorney-General, Greg Smith. Mr Smith and Finian Egan go back some years, and when Greg Smith was elected to Parliament five years ago, he cited Finian Egan’s influence in his maiden speech to Parliament. GREG SMITH, NSW LIBERAL MP (2007): … Father Finian Egan charmed us with his Irish wit and his pastorally devotion to his flock. TIM PALMER: There are other connections to Greg Smith’s office.
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