THE HANDSTAND

DECEMBER 2005

This amazing letter just came in; even if the Port Arthur massacre means nothing to you this letter is so extraordinary - just take a look:

Australian Government forced all citizens to turn in their guns after the Port Arthur massacre. Here is some background on the Port Arthur massacre:

NO INQUIRY

             It has been suggested that a full inquiry into the Port Arthur massacre has taken place. This is not true. There was not even a Coronial, there should have been one. A Coronial Inquiry is
required
(a) When foreign nationals are killed

(b) When there are deaths by fire

             Thus there was at least a double reason to hold a Coronial   Inquiry. So why was the law broken to prohibit the inquiry?


MARTIN BRYANT - GENIUS

           If one accepts the official Tasmanian Police and DPP line Martin Bryant can only be regarded as a GENIUS - displaying the skill and cunning of a criminal mastermind unparalleled in world history.

           Martin Bryant had such intelligence information and timed things so well as to wait until a whole series of things were in place just before, on, or slightly after the 28th April.

1. He got the Tasmanian authorities to have a 22-body morgue truck available for his handiwork.

2. He organised for senior Port Arthur staff to go away on a Work Seminar so they wouldn't get hurt.

3. He managed to get Royal Hobart Hospital to have their Emergency Plan in place two days before the massacre so things would run smoothly.

4. He managed to get Hobart Hospital to have a Trauma Seminar timed to end   at the exact moment he started shooting so they could patch up all the wounded quickly.

5. He arranged for helicopter pilots - usually unavailable - to be available that Sunday.

6. He managed to kill the Martins of Seascape with a firearm when he was at a service station 57 kilometres away.

7. He decoyed the local police to be at the opposite end of the peninsula at the exact moment the shooting began.

8. He managed to fool staff at the Historic Site into believing he arrived at 1.15pm when in fact he was there at 12.45pm.

9. He managed not to look like himself - as if wearing a woman's wig -   when being filmed in the car park by tourists.

10. He wore a face mask making his face look pockmarked when shooting in   the cafe.

11. He arranged for a suspect black van to appear outside the Broad Arrow Cafe afterwards so people wouldn't think it was him who did it.

12. He managed to get Sally Martin to run around Seascape naked that afternoon and make it appear she had been killed that morning.

13. He managed to shoot a rifle from upstairs at Seascape when he was downstairs talking to police on the phone.

14. He had infrared night vision eyes.

15. He managed to shoot from two Seascape buildings at once during the night of the siege.

16. He managed to stay in a heavily burning building shooting and yelling at police and get severe burns only on his back.

17. He managed to have the world press to have a convention in Hobart on the 30th April so there were plenty of reporters on hand so he would get   better than usual media coverage.

18. He managed to make it appear ASIO was behind the incident.

19. He managed to make it appear Tasmania Police had fabricated and tampered with evidence.

20. He managed to get the Tasmanian DPP lie to the Court about his activities.

21. He arranged for the media nationwide to display his photo to witnesses to influence them; and to print false stories about him and get Channel Nine To fabricate a video - all while in custody.

22. He fired two shots at 6.30pm at Port Arthur while he was under siege
by police at Seascape.

23. If you believe the official version, his marksmanship was fantastic - twenty head shots, from the right hip, in 90 seconds! There are only about 100 shooters that good (better than Olympians) in the world. They are the SPOOKS who work for various governments.

THE CONFESSION

He managed to get himself convicted of murder and get life. He confessed after being held in solitary confinement for at least ten times the maximum allowable as punishment in war under the Geneva Convention. The deal was that he got a TV set in his room. After that much solitary men
  go mad or confess to anything. Bryant was mentally retarded.

WAS THERE A TRIAL

           There was no trial. Just torture (28 days sensory deprivation which is illegal) and the confession. There is enough material for investigators to believe he is innocent.

MARTY WAS THE DUMMY CHOSEN TO TAKE THE RAP

          When you add up all these things and a lot more not listed above, it is impossible for a reasonable person to come to the conclusion Bryant was behind this incident - that it was him doing the shooting and that others weren't involved and that a setup and cover-up hasn't occurred.

           Those who were prepared to leave him to burn to death in Seascape saw Martin Bryant as expendable.

WITNESSES SPEAK OUT

           Wendy Scurr, the lady who called the police while under fire has toured Australia pleading for a trial for Bryant. She held the phone out the window so the police could better hear the shot to be convinced that there was a massacre going on.

WITNESSES GAGGED

          Scores of other witnesses can't understand why the media reports differ greatly from what they saw and heard. The eye witnesses can't understand why their testimony recorded by police was not used. Even the police can see that the bulk of evidence points to others.

  UNFIT TO EVEN PLEAD

           Bryant is so retarded he might know what guilty means but he   would not have a clue as to the implications of a guilty plea. There are   grounds for a trial, a first trial with evidence presented to a jury.

CATCH 22 - SO NO APPEAL

           Appeal is impossible now because even a QC can't get access to  Bryant because the prison officers say he doesn't want visitors. Even Bryant's mother can't get to see him. We only have the prison officers'  word that he doesn't want visitors. From all other skullduggery - why
should they be believed?

EVIDENCE DESTROYED

           All evidence of the shooting was removed from the building to make it a sacred site. This is a standard procedure when the government does a sting. Remember Waco, Oklahoma, Twin Towers 9-11 etc.

PLEASE DO SOMETHING

           Send this everywhere. Give it to police, politicians, media etc. Some will squirm - too gutless to think for themselves. We might light a spark of integrity in some and perhaps get the boy a trial...

Lodge an official complaint that there is a Federal crime being committed.
Lodge an official complaint with the Tasmanian police that government officials are party to a conspiracy to frame Bryant. Request a full investigation by the Crime and Misconduct Commission into the BRIBING of the states with promises of diesel subsidies and THREATS to cut state funding It is a crime to offer inducements or threats to influence representative in how to vote. I have a letter signed by a Tasmanian Senator saying they were blackmailed into passing Howard's gun laws.
This I have passed on to the AFP. They are party to a conspiracy because, even with irrefutable evidence that the states were blackmailed tthey would not press charges. They must press charges. Then it is up to the courts to decide guilt or innocence

  When politicians appoint police you can expect corrupt police and bent screws.

Send this everywhere so all recipients can sent it everywhere - until justice is done.

Tony Pitt

PORT ARTHUR MASSACRE
SUDDENLY ONE SUNDAY
Sunday April 28, 1996

Once the site of one of Australia's most brutal penal settlements, Port Arthur had become the premiere tourist attraction in Tasmania.  By 1.00 pm, over five hundred visitors were at the site, enjoying the many attractions that the area had to offer.

By 1.30 pm the pace at the 'Broad Arrow' café had slowed after the busy lunchtime period but at least sixty people still remained, finishing meals or browsing through the gift shop.  No one seems to recall seeing the young man with long blond hair enter the café and order a meal, but they do remember his comment when he sat down on the front balcony area to eat his lunch.  "There's a lot of wasps about today," he said to no one in particular and began to eat his meal.  A few minutes later, he made another remark about the lack of Japanese tourists.

He made no further comments as he finished his meal and picked up his bags and went back into the café.  Moving towards the back of the room, he lifted a long, blue sports bag onto a vacant table and placed a video camera beside it.  For several minutes he stood staring at a group of diners at an adjoining table before turning his attention to an Asian couple that were sitting near him.  Before anyone had realized what was happening, he unzipped the larger bag and produced an AR15 semi-automatic rifle and shot the Asian man, Moh Yee Ng, in the neck, killing him instantly.  Swinging the rifle from the hip he pointed it towards Soo Leng Chung, the man's companion, and shot her through the head.  Turning his attention back to the first group he lifted the rifle to his shoulder and fired a shot at Mick Sargent, grazing his scalp and knocking him to the floor.  Before Mick could shout a warning, the gunman fired a fourth shot that hit Mick's girlfriend in the back of the head.  In a matter of seconds, the young man had claimed three victims.

The fusillade continued as the gunman selected new targets, the acrid smell of gun smoke hanging in the air as his helpless victims dodged for cover.  One man at the front of the room who bravely stood to shout a belated warning, died when a bullet tore through his neck.  Husbands were killed as they tried to protect their wives and families, one man receiving massive head injuries when a bullet that had passed through a previous victim hit him.  Some were killed instantly but many others lay bleeding from their wounds. 

Walking towards the front entrance of the café, the gunman fired methodically, shooting left and right as the terrified crowd scrambled for cover.  Fifteen seconds later, a total of twenty people lay dead with fifteen more wounded, many of them seriously.  Leaving the Broad Arrow, the gunman walked out into the parking lot where over a hundred people were milling about in confusion.  Many, hearing the shots, had started walking in the general direction of the café in the mistaken belief that a re-enactment was in progress.  Others, who had been close enough to observe the carnage, ran for cover, screaming warnings to anyone they came in contact with.

Seeing the crowd gathered in the car park, the gunman opened fire.  Several tourists fell as the rest, finally aware of what was happening, screamed and ran.  Walking towards a tour bus parked nearby, the gunman shot the driver and three passengers.  As the latest fusillade echoed across the parking lot, several tourists who were waiting to board the bus crawled under it for safety but the gunman saw them and calmly squatted down and shot them before walking back to his car, a yellow Volvo 244GL sedan with a surfboard strapped to the roof.

The gunman then drove three hundred yards down the road, to where a young woman and her two children were walking beside the road.  Pulling to a stop, he fired two quick shots killing the woman and the child she was carrying.  When the older child ran away to take refuge behind a tree, the gunman followed her and killed her with one shot.  Returning to his vehicle, the gunman then drove a further two hundred yards towards the entrance gate where a gold coloured BMW was parked.  Three shots were fired in rapid succession and the car's three male occupants lay dead.  After dragging the bodies from the car, the gunman transferred his firearms into the BMW and drove away.

A short distance up the road he saw a couple sitting in a white Toyota and stopped beside them.  The female driver froze as the man approached holding a gun and ordered her male companion to get out of the car.  The man obeyed, pleading with the gunman not to shoot, but the gunman ignored him and instead, ordered the man to climb into the open trunk of the BMW. The gunman then slammed the lid and returned to the front of the car and fired two shots through the driver's window killing the young woman instantly.  With the man still locked in the trunk, the gunman sped away towards a local guesthouse called the Seascape Cottage where the final chapter of the deadly saga would eventually unfold.

As he drove towards the entrance to Seascape Cottage, the gunman saw another vehicle approaching and opened fire, but his bullets missed their target.  Turning his attention to the next vehicle, a four-wheel-drive jeep driven by a holidaying couple from Melbourne, the young man fired two shots, one of which tore into the bonnet, the other smashing the windscreen.  A second volley of shots ripped through the side windows showering the occupants with glass and hitting the female driver in the forearm.  Realizing the driver was hit; the male passenger leaned over and attempted to drive the vehicle to safety but was unable to do so as the throttle cable had been severed by one of the bullets.

Seconds later, a Ford sedan with two married couples on board, drove towards the cottage and were hit by a hail of bullets that penetrated the windshield, wounding the driver.  Bleeding profusely from his wounds, the driver of the Ford continued on to where the jeep was parked and managed to rescue the occupants before speeding away to the Fox and Hounds, another guesthouse further down the road.  Another vehicle, approaching along the Arthur Highway, saw the man standing on the road with a gun and rapidly changed direction.

After the Ford drove away, the gunman walked back to the BMW and drove down the entrance road and parked in front of the cottage.  He then removed his guns from the car before releasing the man from the trunk.  After taking him inside the house and handcuffing him to a stair rail, the gunman returned to the BMW, poured petrol over it and set it alight.

The lone gunman was believed to be Martin Bryant, a twenty-eight-year-old resident of New Town, a suburb of Hobart.  Bryant was described as being tall with long blond hair and pale skin, almost albino in appearance and "a little slow."  Another piece of information that filtered through caused greater concern.  In addition to the AR15 and FN semi-automatic rifles that Bryant was known to be carrying, he had access to several more firearms that belonged to David and Sally Martin, the owners of Seascape Cottage.(DEATHS BY FIRE OCCURRED SUBSEQUENTLY)
By Patrick Bellamy  
www.crimelibrary.com Court TV's Crime Library.

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