More on the Port Arthur
massacre
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Deception at Port Arthur" should be available at:-
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Mrs Wendy Scurr, nurse, tour guide and Ambulance Officer
who is mentioned below was a witness at the scene> I have spoken to her
personally and she is adamant that the man she saw was not Martin Bryant.
Are there Australians in secretive organisations here who
like their overseas counterparts would commit such an atrocity in order to
satisfy whoever controls our government and wants the disarmament of the
people?
Why have they refused to hold a coronial enquiry?
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PEOPLE FOR A CORONIAL INQUIRY
You probably believe that Martin Bryant, acting alone, carried
out the Port Arthur massacre on Sunday 28th April 1996. If so, can you
reconcile the following facts with the official story?
1. On the Sunday morning, two hours before the murders, ten of
the senior managers of Port Arthur were taken to safety many miles away up the
east coast, for a two day seminar with a vague agenda and no visiting
speakers. Was the timing of this trip a mere
coincidence?
2. Also just before the shootings the
only two policemen in the region were called away on a wild goose chase.
They were sent to the Coal Mine at Salt Water River, to
investigate a heroin drug stash which turned out to be soap powder.
This was too far for them to get to the Broad Arrow Cafe in time to be of any
use. Had a policeman remained at Dunalley he would have closed the swing
bridge to prevent the killer(s) from escaping from the peninsula. Did Bryant,
IQ 66, organise this decoy?
3. Big Mortuary Truck. Before the massacre, a
specially-built 22 person capacity mortuary truck was built. It
attracted some derision at the time, but its effective use at Port Arthur was
unquestioned. After the massacre it was advertised, unsuccessfully, for sale
via the internet, then converted for another purpose. Without the foresight
of Port Arthur, why build it? When it had proven its worth, why get rid of it?
Another coincidence?
4. Martin Bryant has never been properly
identified as the gunman. A young woman who ate her lunch near the
gunman just before 1.30 said he had a freckled face. Graham Collyer, the
wounded ex-soldier, who had the best opportunity to observe the killer, said
he had a pock-marked or acned face. Neither description
fits Bryant who has a beautifully smooth complexion.
Graham Collyer says that it was not Bryant who shot him
in the neck.
5. Illegal Photo. On 30th April the Hobart Mercury printed an old photo of
Martin Bryant on the front page. This was illegal because at that stage some
of the witnesses had not yet been asked to identify the killer, and the photo
would have become fixed in the minds of the witnesses. When one witness was
asked to describe the clothing worn by the gunman, she described the clothing
on the old photo instead of what the gunman had worn.
The Mercury newspaper was not prosecuted for breaking the law. Mrs
Wendy Scurr, nurse, tour guide and Ambulance Officer, rang the police at 1.32
pm to report the shooting. She and other medics then cared for the injured and
the dead without any police protection for six and a half hours. Who ordered
the armed police to stop at Tarana, where they had a barbecue? The police who
arrived by boats were a stone's throw away from the main crime scene, the
cafe, and they too failed to come in to see what was going on. Was this meant
to increase the trauma of the survivors?
7. Three more shots were fired at Port Arthur at 6.30pm while Bryant was at
Seascape. Who fired those shots?
8. Same Question - Different Answer. At a recent Forensics Seminar in
Queensland where the Tasmanian Police forensic gun inspector, Gerard Dutton,
gave a lecture, the first question came from Mr Ian McNiven. He asked if there
was any empirical evidence to link Martin Bryant to the Broad Arrow Cafe.
Sargent Dutton immediately closed the 15 minute question
time and would not reply. When McNiven managed to say "I have here
Graham Collyer's police statement...", Sgt Dutton
threatened him with arrest and called for security agents to escort McNiven
out of the building. When Dutton was asked the same question in America
by a Doctor at a seminar, he replied truthfully - "There is no empirical
evidence to link Bryant to the cafe".
9. Yet a police video tape exists which proves that the
police had an excellent opportunity to get DNA samples and finger prints of
the gunman. The video briefly shows the blue sports bag on a cafe
table. The gunman had carried his 3 rifles in this bag and left it right next
to his drinking glass, his Solo soft drink can, knife, fork, plate, video
cameras, etc. Why did the police fail to take DNA
samples and finger prints?
10. According to the official story, Bryant first killed David and
Sally Martin at Seascape Cottage in the morning, and then went on to Port
Arthur. Yet two policemen have reported seeing a naked woman with black hair,
screaming and running from one building to another at Seascape well into the
afternoon. If Sally Martin was dead, who was this woman?
11. Proof of other gunmen in Seascape Cottage. While Bryant was calmly
talking to police by telephone in the cottage during the 'siege' and the
conversation was recorded, someone else fired an SKK
rifle 20 times. In the transcript the gunfire is recorded as 'coughs'
but an electronic analysis of one of the 'coughs' shows that it was an SKK
shot.
12. Two More Very Handy Seminars. On the Sunday morning, some 25 specialist
doctors (Royal Australian College of Surgeons) from all over Australia had
attended a training course in Hobart, and their last lecture was on Terrorist
Attack and Gunshot Wounds. They stayed on to take care of the wounded victims.
13. Also, more than 700 reporters from 17 nations came to a seminar in Hobart.
They were asked to arrive during the week-end as the seminar was due to begin
early on Monday morning. How handy to have 700
scribblers churning out their anti-gun and disarmament propaganda to the whole
world!
14. "There will never be uniform Gun Laws in Australia until we see a
massacre somewhere in Tasmania", said Barry Unsworth, NSW Premier, December,
1987 at a conference in Hobart. Prophecy or Planning?
15. "If we don't get it right this time (gun laws) next time there is a
massacre, and there will be, then they'll take all our guns off us", said the
deputy prime minister, Tim Fischer in May 1996. Who is
the "THEY" who would order the removal of our guns? Did Fischer let
slip that gun confiscation has been ordered by someone other than our own
leaders?
16. No Respect for the Law. Our laws demand that a
Coronial Inquiry must take place
(a) when foreign nationals are killed
(b) when anyone dies in a fire.
John Howard acted illegally when he ordered the Coronial
Inquiry to be abandoned.