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� No forensic evidence of Bryant's physical presence at the Broad Arrow was ever established. Because Bryant's face was plastered throughout Australia, all eyewitness identification was contaminated. Why didn't Avery pursue the discrepancies in the descriptions of clothing Bryant was reported to have worn at different stages during the carnage?
� In direct violation of the Australian constitution, Prime Minister John Howard suggested that a Coronial Inquest was not required, and called for the immediate demolition of the Broad Arrow Cafe. Although the survivors clamoured for more information, Howard used the pretext that more information would be too painful for them to bear.
Originally posted by Die Trying
Im sorry for all the posts but im really getting into this. The more i read into it the more its all sounding like something is really wrong.
Originally posted by surtees
Originally posted by Die Trying
Im sorry for all the posts but im really getting into this. The more i read into it the more its all sounding like something is really wrong.
you need to get into it more....your are way off base on this matter,never believe the media,it certainly got your attention didn't it....the media hype about this story.we may never know the truth,but i certainly know how martin byrants mind works...how you ask,my brother in law went to school with him,i see you say or some one saying no laser sight,hip shots,etc etc,he shot randomly with a semi and full automatic weapon,there is only one policeman (at that time based on the tasman peninsula) it would have taken hime 15-20 mins to get to the scene,the next closest police station is the eastern shore branch (bellerive unit) which is 30-40 mins further away.now that my friend is ample time to do as you will with a semi and fully automatic weapon,not ALLhead shots .he also had other plans,he was sussing out other major shopping places and places of tourism,he is also ,or he WAS under suspicion of other things as well.he hated the world and wanted pay back....the little demons in his head finally took over
Originally posted by surtees
i certainly know how martin byrants mind works...how you ask,my brother in law went to school with him,i see you say or some one saying no laser sight,hip shots,etc etc,he shot randomly with a semi and full automatic weapon,there is only one policeman (at that time based on the tasman peninsula) it would have taken hime 15-20 mins to get to the scene,the next closest police station is the eastern shore branch (bellerive unit) which is 30-40 mins further away.now that my friend is ample time to do as you will with a semi and fully automatic weapon,not ALLhead shots .he also had other plans,he was sussing out other major shopping places and places of tourism,he is also ,or he WAS under suspicion of other things as well.he hated the world and wanted pay back....the little demons in his head finally took over
Originally posted by Bastet
Understatement is obviously your forte, deafence#, regarding tghe aussie gov't not being what it's cracked up to be. A very intersting read was the Principality of Camside, I wonder how the UK case is going, but I hold little hope for any change there.
And it'll take a lot to convince me that Martin Bryant was guilty of being anything else than a patsy. Maybe some expert marksmen will come forward & convince me otherwise.
Originally posted by mad scientist
I don't think he did it, but on the other hand I don't think the government would have orchestrated it either. For the life of me I can't work out who might have been responsible. Any thoughts Bastet ?
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One of the strangest co-incidences about the Port Arthur incident is the fact the Tasmanian authorities had at their disposal a special refrigerated morgue truck capable of carrying 22 bodies. ( A picture of this truck is below ).
Why this is strange derives from 4 facts. The State of Tasmania had prior to the incident on average 6 murders per year - and they did not all occur on the same day, place or time - that works out to one murder every 2 months - so why would such a truck be needed ? No other State in Australia had one like it. These facts are compounded by the fact the truck was acquired and specially built shortly before ( June 1995 ) the Port Arthur massacre and sold 2 years later ( see fax copy of advertisement offering for sale below ) .
The Coroner in his initial report ( see copy below ) mentions this morgue truck and says how timely it was having one like this available calling it a "highly prized possession".
Was it built especially for the massacre to control access to the bodies from the Broad Arrow Cafe ? .
Why was this truck, acquired at great expense, sold ? Had its use been fulfilled and they knew it would never be needed again ?
Also isn't it a strange co-incidence the number of dead in the Broad Arrow Cafe closely matches the capacity of this morgue truck ?
And why did Tasmanian Police usher away media reporters from this truck on the day ?
Update 8th May 2001 - The latest info reported to this site on this morgue truck is the owner was unable to sell it and 6 weeks ago the mortuary box on the back was removed and put on a Mercedes Army truck - then both vehicles disappeared. That was just after the details of this morgue truck were publically disclosed by the investigator at a public meeting in Queensland. What was an Army truck doing with it ? And isn't the timing of its disappearance strange - trying to hide something ? Is there an Army connection to what happened at Port Arthur ?
Update 31 Dec 2001 - We have had it positively confirmed the morgue truck was constructed around June 1995 - just in time to be up and running and not attract immediate suspicion prior to the massacre.