Hunted and hounded for the last five years, Julian Moti, QC, Australian citizen, former Attorney General of the Solomon Islands is now broken but a free man. In the aftermath, it left the Australian claim to being a model democracy in tatters and the Australian Federal Police (AFP), Australia’s law enforcement agency, as one that cannot and must not be trusted for its impartiality. It is a deeply worrying revelation in the Pacific that has also brought the Australian mainstream media into focus on its claim of being independent, impartial and a great protector and defender of people’s rights. It’s eloquence in highlighting this case was matched with a deafening silence or voices that were clearly inaudible or incoherent."
So opens Rajendra Prasad's truth-is-stranger-than-fiction account of Julian Moti and the Australian authorities. When the saga finally ends Justice Mullins, in her thirty page judgment, claimed “The conduct of the AFP ...is an affront to the public conscience." She stopped just short of accusing the AFP of bribing witnesses for political ends in connivance with the Australian Government.
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I have followed the Julian Moti Saga over the past many months in all its disgusting twists and turns. The taste left in the mouth has much in common with the comment made by Justice Mullins: "The conduct of the AFP....is an affront to the public conscience". But then the AFP has been in this place before, has it not? At times it appears a cross between a quasi-Gestapo organisation and a bumbling idiot with eyes too close together! Remember the Indian Doctor in Queensland whom they implicated in the fire-bombing of Glasgow Airport? And now they are to be sued for compensation? Fiji has had its own share of dealings with the Australian Federal Police. They have not shown up too well by any measure of attainment. The rights and best interests of Fijians were not served by a close connection imposed upon us by corrupt and racist politicians serving their own agenda and using the AFP as a vehicle. What a mistaken turn that proved to be: conflicting interests served NO ONE'S LONG TERM best interest. He who pays the piper calls the tune. This Piper was paid by too many taxpayers and in the end showed his back to us by running away in the ensuing fray. If that is not a show of 'connivance for political ends' what is? Does the Australian Government know what a 'public conscience' is? And how may a Commissioner of Police serve TWO MASTERS?
What Australia and its agents did in this case should open the eyes of Pacific leaders. If they don't, they should forever forget their sovereignty.
To expand their hegemony over Pacific island countries, the Australian government working through their proxies in the NGOs they fund and their foreign agents, demonize and eliminate any intelligent person in an influential positions of power/authority who will undermine their agenda throughout the Pacific island countries.
It's time for Pacific leaders to wake up and reassess their relationship with Australia and New Zealand. The faster they get them out of the Pacific Island Forum, the better for the Pacific.
I feel sorry for Australian citizens who have come to love the Pacific islands and have created businesses and made it their home for genuine reasons. Their very own government is working to undermine great friendships through this kind of hegemony.
Once Fiji proves itself able to live and prosper without these so-called friendly nations, the rest of the Pacific better follow suit.
Fiji is pulling through in spite of all the difficulties its facing. If proven successful, the Pacific Island people needs to learn a lesson fast.
The reason why Australia is working against Bainimarama's leadership has nothing to do with democracy or the rule of law. Their opposition has to do with the fact that Bainimarama is a stumbling block to their hidden agendas not only in Fiji but the rest of the Pacific island countries.
Totally agree wwith " the max", it's about time the Pacific is. nations open their eyes and see reality! A pity though! Aust & NZ have never appreciated the warm friendship of the pacific, all they have done is have a bully attitude towards us.Lets look at it from a hypothetic angle " say that Aust & NZ disappear under the sea tomorrow, will the Pacific nation not survive"????? .....just a thot!
While the Australian go about the Pacific expanding their hegemony, back in Aussie its white population are killing Indians and framing others as terrorists.
Nitin Garg was killed a few days ago after being attacked for the second time. http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/vigil-marks-stab-victi-nitin-gargs-death/story-e6frf7jo-1225816097337
Dr Mohammed Haneef was framed as a terrorist and then the Australian government tried to suppress the frame-up documents. You can read it here: http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/jul2008/hane-j07.shtml
Who knows how many other cases have been suppressed?
What does this say about Australia now?
What is happening are no mere accidents or isolated incidents. There are enablers in the Australian Police Force and up there in the hierarchy of governments that make this situations happen.
This is Australia now. Just following the footsteps of their masters in the US and UK.
Another person of Indian origin got torched in Melbourne. The AFP are still saying it is not race related.
You can read it here: http://www.fijilive.com/news/2010/01/10/22870.Fijilive
At this point IMO, the cartoon in that Delhi newspaper depicting the Australian Federal Police as KKK cannot be far off from the truth.
Back on our shore here in Fiji, these sort of race-based violence is exactly what Bainimarama is trying to eliminate in the clean-up campaign. He is starting off on the right note by removing all forms of institutionalized racism from the government systems and so forth for the very reasons that they are enabling racial violence and racism since they are written as laws under the 1997 constitution.
Because racism is institutionalized in the 1997 constitution, corrupt politicians and Fijian elites use race as a campaign tool to create fear amongst ordinary Fijians during election time.
It amazes me that blogs that anti-government blogs such as Raw Fiji News and other are encouraging ordinary Fijians to use violence to revolt against the Fiji military when all the military is doing is nipping the one core problem in Fiji right in the bud.
This has led me to believe that these anti-government blogsites are merely a medium created by foreign agents of the Australian and New Zealand government to manipulate the minds of the people of Fiji.
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