alexjones wrote:Martins mother was strong armed by martins lawyer to plead guilty. She told him if he did not plead guilty he would never see her again. So Martin pled guilty. She says this in her book.
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straightshooter wrote:alexjones wrote:Martins mother was strong armed by martins lawyer to plead guilty. She told him if he did not plead guilty he would never see her again. So Martin pled guilty. She says this in her book.
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I understand there was also another factor where Bryant, through an inheritance, was worth quite a lot of money.
Now with him in goal for life somebody would have to administer that asset for him.
fussy wrote:Well, the good news is, it's nearly 30 years, so the embargo will be up and soon all the evidence will be produced for us to see in the cold light of day.
Just kidding, they'll find an excuse not to release it.
Hey, "If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear", right? That's what they keep telling us.
womble wrote:I believe they’ve opted to seal it for another 75 years. Hence this new wave of suspicion. Whatever’s being kept secret likely to still have serious ramifications.
30 years also gives us a fair measure of how effective or ineffective the gun laws have been.
Overall I think a net win for our society but not without a high price. The most recent mass killing in the Sydney mall likely wouldn’t have happened if the first confrontation with the security guard had nullified it for example.
The most vulnerable members of our society are prohibited from protecting themselves from violent crime. That costs a lot of lives. Violent home invasions by armed gangs are commonplace. Simply because they can.
Countless women murdered in an ever escalating statistic by violent ex partners. Because they can.
It saddens me that this is Martins legacy. We should not have conceded him this out of fear. No doubt he finds it endlessly amusing.
Some things we got right. Namely safe storage. We don’t have children accidentally shooting themselves or each other on the scale seen in the states.
Overall the homicide rate has steadily declined so a net win but far from great.
24 mass shootings in Australia since 96. It’s a slight decline. But mass murders overall have not declined.
Thankfully no school shootings. And that would be unbearable.
Suicide rate has not decreased.
All very conflicting. Good and bad. Certainly not the magic solution we make it out to be. The simple truth remains unchallenged. Guns don’t kill people. People kill people. One could assert that our 30 year case study has proved it.
We have’nt prevented any of our home grown homicidal maniacs from achieving their goals, only by other means. Fires, vehicles, knives, mushrooms. Denying them access to a firearm didn’t stop them. Denying their victims the right to protect themselves ensured their high casualty rates in many cases. Probably not mushrooms though. That’s a tricky one to apply self defence. If a woman had a mushroom and was prepared to use it . And it’s a delicious meal. I think you’re screwed.
Oldbloke wrote:Public trustee usually just wastes money. All goes in fees and charges.
I'd bet it's now all gone.
alexjones wrote:People also think it is strange that 6 weeks after Port Arthur 15 SAS died in Townsville when the Blackhawks collided.
Some people think that one of the SAS did the shooting for a contract for some wealthy individuals.
bladeracer wrote:alexjones wrote:People also think it is strange that 6 weeks after Port Arthur 15 SAS died in Townsville when the Blackhawks collided.
Some people think that one of the SAS did the shooting for a contract for some wealthy individuals.
Even assuming one of the headshed in SAS was behind it all I can't imagine a way to orchestrate a pair of helicopters colliding on command, unless one of the pilots was happy to sacrifice himself, and a bunch of his mates for the coverup.
alexjones wrote:That's the thing with a conspiracy theory. You can link things together to form something bigger.
Nobody knows why one of the Blackhawks veered off course and its rotor hit the tail rotor of the other Blackhawk.
We only know it was a collision because that's what they tell us. We were not there to see what happened.
I believe this theory started because there is a photo of a bloke in army camo in a vehicle around Port Arthur hours after the shooting and it looks like one of the blokes who was killed in the crash.
alexjones wrote:People also think it is strange that 6 weeks after Port Arthur 15 SAS died in Townsville when the Blackhawks collided.
Some people think that one of the SAS did the shooting for a contract for some wealthy individuals.
Wapiti wrote:I don't believe any of it. I think that channel is whacko city.
Just like anything in the media, it's all narrative distorted. Bryant shot innocent people, simple, and we were punished by politicians who act however they see popular sentiment for their own benefit.
And personal fears.
on_one_wheel wrote:I had no idea that tin foil hats could restrict blood flow to the brain.
Are you people serious.
"The gubberment sent a crack team of commandos to PA for the assassination of innocent people so they could restrict semi automatic rifles"
What the f*** are you all smoking?
We have no rights to firearms, they can ban anything they like with a stroke of the pen.
on_one_wheel wrote:I had no idea that tin foil hats could restrict blood flow to the brain.
Are you people serious.
"The gubberment sent a crack team of commandos to PA for the assassination of innocent people so they could restrict semi automatic rifles"
What the f*** are you all smoking?
We have no rights to firearms, they can ban anything they like with a stroke of the pen.