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EXTREMELY  IMPORTANT  ANNOUNCEMENT - AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT BANS BOOK.

SMUGGLED-2: Wildlife Trafficking, Crime and Corruption has now 
effectively been banned by the Australian Government. 

The book is an all new sequel to the controversial best-seller 
Smuggled-The Underground Trade in Australia's Wildlife by Raymond Hoser. 
 Smuggled-2 details the involvement of wildlife officials in Australia 
and elsewhere in the illegal trade in Australia's wildlife.  Furthermore 
Smuggled-2 shows how many of these officials are also involved in other 
criminal activities including the drug trade, arms dealings, and so on.  

Detailed in the book are repeated cases of high-level corruption in 
Australian Wildlife departments, Police forces, politicians, magistrates 
and Judges that includes, murders, bashings and other means to silence 
whistleblowers, including those within their own departments.  Phone 
tapping, burglaries, armed raids and other strong-arm tactics are so 
common as to be effectively routine.  

Smuggled-2 shows how wildlife bureaucrats are allowing Australia's 
reptiles, birds and other fauna to be raped and pillaged and how more and 
more species are being driven to the brink of extinction as a result of 
illegal activities, bureaucratic mismanagement, inertia and indifference. 
 Human rights abuses are also routine and will shock most reasonable 
people. The book exposes scandals that media units of these government 
departments have spent millions of taxpayer's dollars trying to cover up. 
 Furthermore the international community have up until now not been aware 
of these Australian Government violations of international law, human 
rights, etc. 

Smuggled-2 goes further with a coverage of the illegal wildlife trade in 
the United States and how corrupt and dishonest wildlife officials there 
are attacking the very people who are putting their lives on the line to 
conserve our dwindling species.

Already officials from the New South Wales National Parks and Wildlife 
Service (N.P.W.S.), Victoria Police and other government officials have 
applied unprecedented pressure to stop sales of this book.  Two major 
Australian book distributors have been intimidated by N.P.W.S. officials 
into not distributing the book to shops, while several newspapers and TV 
outlets have been effectively bludgeoned into not reporting some of the 
material within the book.  In spite of all this, advance publicity for 
the book resulted in over 1,000 prepublication sales.  Booksellers here 
are outraged at this illegal censorship going on, but are powerless to 
act.  Most remain silent however for fear of further threats and 
intimidation - threats that can and will be carried out if neccessary

Smuggled-2's predecessor had over 100 reviews - all were favourable. Two 
so-called reviews that were critical of Smuggled were later retracted 
after it was shown they contained false and defamatory statements and had 
been written on behalf of the N.P.W.S. in what turned out to be failed 
attempts to discredit the book. Smuggled-2 is mandatory reading for those 
concerned about organized crime or wildlife and wildlife keeping in 
Australia and the United States.

All persons should get hold of a copy of this book as a matter of 
urgency.  It lays out the facts as they are - no lies - no 
embellishments.  Smuggled-2's predecessor was praised by groups as 
diverse as the most extreme "Animal Rights Groups" to the most cut throat 
commercial wildlife traffickers.  This was because of the accuracy of the 
information within the book.  While critics of the book may not agree 
with some of the author's conclusions as to how best to conserve 
wildlife, all agree that Author Raymond Hoser has been meticulous and 
accurate in his detailing of what really happens in the international 
wildlife trade, particularly that which isn't legal.  

Smuggled-2 is 280 pages, printed on 80 gsm white paper, has over 100 
illustrations.  It is rivetting reading.

To get a copy of this book, download/copy this e-mail/document and then 
send off the order form below.

TO OBTAIN A COPY RING RAYMOND HOSER ON  +61 18-588-699  OR SEND THE ORDER 
FORM BELOW.

ORDER FORM:
Please send me....copies of Smuggled-2.
I have enclosed a cheque/money order for $......($24.95 a copy - post 
free).
Name.......................................
Address....................................Zip/Postcode..................
.Country..............................
Signed...................................Date............................
...
CHEQUES MADE PAYABLE TO: KOTABI Pty Ltd

Send to: PO Box 599, Doncaster, Victoria, 3108, Australia.
Further copies of Hoser's earlier best-seller Smuggled-The Underground 
Trade in Australia's Wildlife (limited numbers only) as well as "The 
Hoser Files - The Fight Against Entrenched official Corruption" can be 
obtained for $20 per book, post free at above address. (Currency must be 
in either Australian or US dollars).

THE HOSER FILES details government and Police corruption in Australia.  
The things documented here (in Australia) also go on in places like the 
USA and UK and this book should be read be all concerned people who want 
to know what is really going on.  In spite of illegal seizure of copies 
of The Hoser Files, a forced media ban on any reports o do with THE HOSER 
FILES and a series of illegal heavily armed raids on the author and his 
house (along with theft all key documents, etc), THE HOSER FILES has been 
selling by the thousand.  This in part resulted from the author having 
copies of all key files, etc stored in hiding elsewhere.
This book has 322 pages and photos of key crooked officials, is based on 
covertly made tapes, transcripts, etc, and is rivetting reading.

For further details: see the "Australians Against Corruption site on the 
internet -

http://www.kew.starway.net.au/~adder/
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Subject: BOOKS SEIZED
Date: 1996/11/18
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