Re: Scenario Mill Stuff was RE: Let me see if I understand this....

The dramatic possibilities of this boggle the mind.

Of course, the officer under sentence is probably praying that the whole

thing gets quashed in court.

Glenn M Wilson wrote:

>Something for designing those colonial SF scenarios...
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>From: "Wilson, Glenn M." <WilsonG@nima.mil>
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>Subject: Let me see if I understand this....
>Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 08:54:21 -0500
>Message-ID: <2104F001CD90D51194160008C7866B7501157675@stlx01.nima.mil>
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>http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/asia-pacific/newsid_1886000/1886
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>Thursday, 21 March, 2002, 19:00 GMT 
>	       Aborigine demands right to
>	       spear officer
>						     
>	       Mr Bloomfield says the Aboriginal ceremony was defiled
>
>
>	       By Phil Mercer 
>	       BBC reporter in Sydney 
>
>
>
>	       An Aboriginal activist is seeking permission from
>	       Australia's High Court to spear a senior police officer
>	       to death because he desecrated a sacred fire. 
>
>	       It follows an incident last
>	       year, when the police filed
>	       a writ to the court,
>	       ordering a group of
>	       Aborigines engaged in a
>	       religious ceremony in the
>	       capital, Canberra, to
>	       extinguish their fire. 
>
>	       Indigenous campaigner
>	       Darren Bloomfield has
>	       claimed the senior officer
>	       in charge "has incurred
>	       the death penalty under
>	       Aboriginal law". 
>
>	       A police investigation into the incident at the
>	       Aborigines' so-called "tent embassy" on the lawns of
>	       the Old Parliament House is under way. 
>
>	       Confrontation 
>
>	       The confrontation between Australian Federal police
>	       and Aboriginal activists took place during a religious
>	       ceremony at the makeshift camp last July. 
>
>	       The tent embassy was established 30 years ago to
>	       highlight indigenous land claims and to further the
>	       campaign for a treaty to end discrimination with white
>	       Australia. 
>
>	       In a writ before the High Court, Darren Bloomfield, who
>	       describes himself as an Aboriginal "warrior", alleges
>	       Detective Superintendent Brian Hepworth "desecrated
>	       a fire ceremony for peace and justice" by demanding
>	       the flames be extinguished. 
>
>	       Mr Bloomfield said the Detective Superintendent
>	       should be charged and tried under what he called
>	       white law and then handed over to his people where he
>	       would face swift indigenous justice and be speared to
>	       death. 
>
>	       Determination 
>
>	       However extreme these demands are, Mr Bloomfield
>	       has insisted he is serious and intends to see justice
>	       done. 
>
>	       A police spokeswoman said the allegations against
>	       the officer were being investigated. 
>
>	       She said Mr Hepworth was a highly respected
>	       member of the Australian Federal Police force and had
>	       been for more than 30 years. 
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