Monday 23rd of December 2024
Home » Blogs » Richard Tonkin's blog

Doctor Who - The 666 Story

The massive, horned Beast The episodes of Doctor Who that were screened on the weekends surrounding 6/6/06 concern the freeing of an ancient Beast from beyond the dawn of time.

The story, currently being broadcast in Australia, must have made many more people aware of the possible symbolism of the date than if it had been broadcast at another time. To achieve this would have required a considerable timespan of forward planning, and you have to wonder whether the writers and producers were simply timing for dramatic effenct and publicity or whether they may have been attempting to alert the populace to vigiliance of possible psychological manipulation of events emenating from that point in time.

I have to confess that I watched them fairly soon after they were broadcast. I won't say any more... it'll spoil the ending.

Anyway, while you're enjoying the conclusion to the two-parter on Saturday night, have a think about what I'm saying really.

PS Lovely bit of serendipity that the ABC is concluding the story two days before September 11.

Doctor Witch...

From the New York Times

C.I.A. Detainees Sent to Guantánamo

By DAVID STOUT
Published: September 6, 2006
WASHINGTON, Sept. 6 – President Bush [http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/06/washington/06cnd-bush.html?ei=5094&en=a70a45bf4eea0934&hp=&ex=1157601600&partner=homepage&pagewanted=all|said today] that 14 suspected terrorists held in secret locations by the C.I.A., including some who were deeply involved in the Sept. 11 attacks and other notorious assaults on Americans, have been transferred to the Guantánamo Bay naval base in Cuba to stand trial.
Mr. Bush said in a speech at the White House that he welcomed the transfers as a way to provide a measure of justice for relatives of the nearly 3,000 people who died in the attacks five years ago next Monday. “They should have to wait no longer,” he said.
The president also urged Congress to approve legislation that would authorize the use of military commissions to try the Guantánamo detainees. The legislation he is proposing is aimed at addressing a Supreme Court ruling in June that tribunals set up by the Bush administration could not be used because Congress had not approved them...
----------------------------
Gus: One can see the "management" of the "justice" news front... These felons (if they are) have been in the custody of the CIA for yonks and now, when president Shorty-Dubya is fighting to retain control of the senate at the next elections, he releases the information... Sure it shows he's been lying for a while, but it must have been "for the security of the homeland"... Like goebbels used to lie to the German people for the same reason.
Codswallop! It's all about lynching anyone, just for one's own glorified stupidity to show one "cares" about the victims of 9/11 — as if having destroyed Iraq, a process that has killed more than 100,000 people in their honour (vengeance) was not enough damage.

the "theatre" of justice .....

spot on Gus ....

The "theatre" of justice is also open in Melbourne.

today's Crikey editorial .....

'The inequality of Australian justice was on full display in Melbourne yesterday.

On one side of William Street, in a witness box inside the Supreme Court, a wealthy, handsomely-suited, prosperous-looking 50-year-old businessman was into his third day of refusing to answer questions about, among other things, his illicit share dealings. On the other side of the street, in the dock inside the County Court, a remorseful 21-year-old Aboriginal burglar with a history of drug addiction and 75 previous convictions was being sentenced to four years' jail after pleading guilty to 25 counts of theft and burglary.

Steve Vizard squirmed but, advised by a legal team that included two of Australia's most expensive QCs, he managed to avoid giving evidence that could expose him to prosecution for perjury or for trading shares while on the board of Australia's biggest company, Telstra - offences for which he was tapped over the knuckles by ASIC, fined $390,000 and disqualified from being a company director for ten years.

In the courtroom over the road, Peter Clarke also squirmed. "I'm very, very sorry for the pain I have caused in committing these crimes," he told the judge - crimes which included aggravated burglary and stealing six laptop computers from the Toorak mansion of Steve Vizard.

As Steve Vizard could affirm, if he was prepared to answer, Australian justice is still the best that money can buy.'