Hi there IS MISE...

I believe it was your daughter who you said was a member of the AFP ? It would be very interesting indeed to hear a little of what types of crime and issues, they involve themselves in ? Nothing classified of course, mainly their mandate, and training matters would be good ?

Many thanks IS MISE.

o sung wu,

This might be useful to you,
http://www.securitychallenges.org.au/ArticlePDFs/vol3no3McFarlane.pdf

Good evening to you ONTHEBEACH...

Thank you very much indeed for that link you provided on the roles and responsibilities of the Australian Federal Police. It's quite interesting that you hear so little from them and their functions. Other than some brilliant arrests involving 'squillions' of Dollars of seized drugs, for an example.

Your link virtually covered all the major queries I had, concerning their activities. There's no doubt at all they're an effective law enforcement body, despite the contemptuous and derisive remarks made about them, by Mr Andrew RULE, of Melbourne's Herald Sun newspaper.

Again, thank you ONTHEBEACH, I certainly value your input tremendously so ! As well as all the others who were kind enough to make a contribution.

o sung wu,

I have come across them in residential accommodation in Canberra when helping with some residential management training for APS civilian staff. They are highly professional, as are the specially trained State police.

While fools in the media might scoff at them to entertain at schoolgirl 'hate and oppose authority' level, there would be very few respectable, law-abiding citizens who would ever seriously believe that trash journalism.

People can be naive to the point of appearing clueless concerning the risks quietly controlled by the AFP and their State counterparts. They are educated, intelligent, fit and dedicated men and women too. No slouches there in any of those respects.

A Secret Court Making Secret Laws? That's No Democracy
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130707/23005323729/secret-court-making-secret-laws-thats-no-democracy.shtml

Over the weekend, the NY Times put out a powerful piece discussing how FISC has basically become a shadow Supreme Court, doling out all sorts of important rulings in total secrecy. It rules on cases where it only hears one side, and where there are no appeals, no guarantee that the full story is presented, and involves a bunch of judges who tend to have law enforcement backgrounds before being appointed to the court. In the end, you have a secret court issuing secret rulings by ex-law enforcement officials, allowing their former colleagues ever greater power to spy on everyone.
http://www.thesleuthjournal.com/nsas-fake-war-terror/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyUiXgtHR8E http://sabbah.biz/mt/archives/2014/02/17/israeli-watergate-scandal-facts-palestinian-water/ http://www.nzherald.co.nz/opinion/news/article.cfm?c_id=466&objectid=11207443

MORE DETail/media watch
http://www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/transcripts/s3951415.htm

So why all the fuss?

And why do 34 police—some of them armed—think it’s a good idea to raid a TV network?

Well, many people feel—with support from the law—that Schapelle’s a criminal who should not get a cent.

And the government agrees. edited

Before Corby’s release, the Prime Minister, Tony Abbott,..had also made it clear he disapproved..of her profiting from the tale:

" Patrick Condren:…should she benefit financially
from her time.in jail there?

Tony Abbott: Well that’s a good question..and I guess the old principle is crime..should not pay.

— Radio 4BC, Mornings with Patrick Condren,..6th February, 2014"

And Treasurer Joe Hockey had also weighed in, enthusiastically supporting Seven’s David Koch after the network star suggested Seven should not pay Corby for an interview.

" Well done @kochie_online ! It sends all the wrong messages on drugs for a convicted trafficker to be paid for her story.

— Twitter @JoeHockey, 11th February, 2014"

But was such heavy-handed action against the media really justified?
EDIT

The aim of a Literary Proceeds Order—as this confiscation is called — is to stop criminals benefiting from their notoriety.

But they’re hardly ever used, even though laws have existed in most of the states and the commonwealth for a decade or more.

Chopper Read, perhaps Australia’s most notorious criminal, never had his money confiscated, despite profiting from several books in which he bragged about the mayhem he’d caused.

And it seems only two people have fallen foul of the laws.

One is David Hicks ... Who was pursued by the Gillard government— unsuccessfully and at great expense —over his book Guantanamo: My Journey.

And the other is our Schapelle.

Back in 2007 the Queensland Supreme Court ordered her to hand over the money she’d received for Schapelle Corby: My Story.

edit

Well, despite those police raids, it’s not a criminal act for Seven to pay her money,..or for Schapelle to receive it...It’s just a civil matter.

So all options are still open.

But the big question now is whether the interview will happen at all.