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Article #160Re: BOOKS SEIZED - YET ANOTHER SPAM
From: David Allenberg
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 1996 00:00
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 1996 00:00
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BE WARNED this is just another spam. The e-mail address is from an anonymous re-mailer. DO NOT SEND MONEY OR GET CAUGHT UP IN THIS NET ABUSE. BANNED <australians-against-corruption@vicnet.net.au> wrote in article <56p7hv$t79@news.mel.aone.net.au>... > THIS IS NOT SPAM > > > -- > 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 $20 per book, post free at above address. (Currency must be > in either Australian or US dollars). > > THE HOSER FILES details government and Police corruption in Australia. > The things documented here (in Australia) also go on in places like the > USA and UK and this book should be read be all concerned people who want > to know what is really going on. In spite of illegal seizure of copies > of The Hoser Files, a forced media ban on any reports o do with THE HOSER > FILES and a series of illegal heavily armed raids on the author and his > house (along with theft all key documents, etc), THE HOSER FILES has been > selling by the thousand. This in part resulted from the author having > copies of all key files, etc stored in hiding elsewhere. > This book has 322 pages and photos of key crooked officials, is based on > covertly made tapes, transcripts, etc, and is rivetting reading. > > For further details: see the "Australians Against Corruption site on the > internet - > > http://www.kew.starway.net.au/~adder/ > > >
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 112213,ace4a1d27d7167ff X-Google-Attributes: gid112213,public X-Google-Thread: 10df0c,ace4a1d27d7167ff X-Google-Attributes: gid10df0c,public X-Google-Thread: 1062c1,ace4a1d27d7167ff X-Google-Attributes: gid1062c1,public From: "David Allenberg" <qualitas@tassie.net.au> Subject: Re: BOOKS SEIZED - YET ANOTHER SPAM Date: 1996/11/18 Message-ID: <01bbd53c$eee28fc0$88f3868b@anne> X-Deja-AN: 197195012 references: <56p7hv$t79@news.mel.aone.net.au> organization: QualiTas newsgroups: aus.pets,aus.politics,aus.net.news