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Rumor Mill News Reading Room Forum DR. BEHIND PORT
ARTHUR GUN CONTROL NOW IN MARYLAND
www.shootersnews.addr.com/peetersprofile.htm
The DR. Behind Port Arthur Gun Control Now In Maryland …
Recent news reports from out of America's East Coast of a
"sniper" shooting unarmed people in Maryland and Virginia caused
me to take a second look at part of an article I'd written earlier in
2000, about a "star" of the gun control network, Doctor Rebecca
Peters, who coincidentally went to Baltimore as soon as her task
"down under" was done.
In Australia the "gun control" compact deployed
as a network of NGOs, but also they were strategically grafted into our
Administration in the Attorney General and Justice Departments. Duncan
Kerr (Labour) was the Minister responsible for the Department of Justice
who over saw the appointment of one Daryl Smeaton, charged with the
drafting of new gun laws, for the States and Territories to enact - as
early as November 1995.
The National Coalition for Gun Control (NCGC) was based in
Sydney, but had an important branch in Hobart, Tasmania, headed up there
by lawyer Roland Browne, while in Melbourne a "sister"
organisation, the Coalition for Gun Control (CGC) was run by John Bruce
Crook. Prior to 1996, Crook was involved in a defamation action in
Melbourne, and in that trial it was reported that none other than Daryl
Smeaton presented the Court with a supportive character reference for
Crook. 1
But it was in Sydney
where Rebecca Peters rose to prominence, arriving in 1981, 'with a
man she met travelling,' and apparently lived in Cairo prior to her
arrival. While Peters says "she decided" to settle Down Under
and become an "Australian citizen," I'm caused to remember those
famous words, 'In politics nothing happens by chance. If it happens, it
was meant to happen that way'. Apparently Rebecca was from a young age,
bent on saving the world.
Born in 1962, Peters grew up as a teenager in Costa Rica,
the second of six children in an American family. As her father worked for
the American Government there, 'half jokingly,' she suggested in an
interview in Australia he "probably worked for the CIA." At age
15 years while attending an "alternative school" in Costa Rica,
Peters was educated by itinerant "young hippies". It was during
this new-age education she became "obsessed with changing the
world."
In Sydney, Peters enrolled in a university in the faculty
of Engineering (possibly Macquarie), being just one of only two females in
the course, but in 1983 she dropped out. For a time Rebecca took a job as
a researcher and reporter with ABC Radio (known locally as the
"Gay-BC"), worked with Andrew Olle, but soon found the nature of
journalism, 'too disposable'.
In 1991 with a not-so-subtle agenda, Peters returned to
university, enrolled as a law student gaining her law degree, at the end
of which, she produced a thesis on 'tighter gun control'. This was the
"centrepiece" of an enormous folio of material she collected and
wrote for her campaign to remove loop-holes in existing gun laws in
Australia. She promoted herself as a 'multilingual middle-class lawyer'
who was fanatical about "gun control". 2
By `91 Peters was running the NCGC, rising fast to the
position of "chair", almost as quickly as the death rate climbed
with each incident of that new phenomenon to Australasia, the gun
massacre. Undoubtedly her success in this new global calling was to the
delight of her best friend the feminist activist Eva Cox and Peters'
mentor Charles Watson, Professor of Public Health at Wollongong
University, who admired her for her 'intellectual thoroughness.'
In a remarkably short time she quite brilliantly
bull-dozed aside the entire weak, (some treacherous), and fragmented
firearm owner, sporting shooters' groups, and almost surely was surprised
by her success with the shooting massacres producing a 'win-win
sound-bite' for the minds and meek support of the gullible Mums and Dads
of Australia. Dunblane massacre occurred on 13 March `96 and Port Arthur
followed 46 days later. Then all the pieces fell into place for Federal
Attorney General, Daryl Williams, to implement the gun-ban laws prepared
and ready in November of 1995 by Daryl Smeaton. Job done, it was off to
the "Big Apple" for Peters.
But a point to remember, while Rebecca Peters was
"down-under", 6 shooting massacres occurred in Australia and New
Zealand resulting in 76 deaths and 53 wounded people. In "gun
control" here, Peters was no doubt - numro uno. Curiously though
since Peters left, the shooting massacres have ceased! None in the last
six years. And private firearms still abound…
In New York, Rebecca Peters hit the pavement 'running' and
is immediately associated with Desmond Riley of the Coalition to Stop Gun
Violence - part of the NAACP crowd involved in 'crafting a gun control
strategy' for "curing gun ownership" - their words.
Shortly it was announced that Peters was awarded (if you
believe their own news releases - or if logic is your guide, rewarded may
be the more appropriate word) - with a Senior Fellowship in March 1997 by
the Soros Foundation's Open Institute funded Johns Hopkins Center for Gun
Policy and Research in Merryland. So the good citizens there should
perhaps keep her Australasian achievements in mind.
In making application for her fellowship, Rebecca had to
'submit a budget' for her envisioned work … forgive me from chuckling.
Can you imagine her difficult task here? Think of a big digit add lots of
zeros and voila … a budget!
You may wish to drop a line to the Doctor so here is her
working address: The Center on Crime, Community and Culture, 400 West 59th
Street, New York, NY10019. Or perhaps you may wish to forward a
congratulatory e-mail to < rpeters@sorosny.org
>. Rebecca's doctorate included a stipend incidentally of US$32,500
p.a., plus various expenses covered in her 'budgeted' expenses, the lot
bankrolled by the tax-exempt Soros Foundation.
Her citizenry disarmament program is far flung, and
includes Australia, New Zealand, the sub-continent, South America, Great
Britain and Europe: she's a true-blue "globalist". First on the
list after jetting out of Australia though, was her close involvement in
organisation of the 'Million Mom March' and in reports of this event, her
trademark outlandish unsubstantiated claims regarding crimes, firearms and
related deaths appeared on cue. Easily destroyed later by reputable
writers, but once the lie is said, truth inevitably is the casualty.
Before leaving Australia though, her name was noted alongside that of her
NCGC Hobart colleague (now chair of NCGC), Roland Browne on a University
Paper entitled, Australia's New Gun Control Philosophy: Public Health is
Paramount. 3
But I find it remarkable, that even although in Australia
she'd been granted citizenship, Peters' American roots were emphasised.
Now in America, Dr Peters is always reported as being 'an Australian gun
control expert' … a weird twist don't you think.
In America, the Million Mom March staged on Monday 15 May
1996, on the Mall in Washington, was in Australia lauded 'a raging
success'. But even with wall-to-wall major media publicity, numbers were
in fact a long way short of the hoped-for million. Hillary and Bill
Clinton were of course on tap for the regulation photo-shoot, not
surprising really. As it was reported that the rally was 'conceived by
Donna Dees-Thomases', supposedly just a concerned 'New Jersey housewife'.
However it was reported that in fact Dees-Thomases was a 'high-powered CBS
publicist who at one point worked for CBS anchor Dan Rather'. Even of more
interest in this same report was the claim that the lady 'is the
sister-in-law of Susan Thomases', who was lawyer, political advisor and
confidant of Hillary Clinton, the then First Lady. 4
For Rebecca Peters, her 1996 schedule was quite hectic. It
was crunch year and on 13 March at Dunblane Primary School in Scotland,
43-year-old Thomas Hamilton, shot dead 16, wounded 13 and then shot
himself. Fifteen of the sixteen dead, and ten of the thirteen wounded were
all children. Energetically publicised by their chums in the Media,
Dunblane was in the scheme of disarmament, the precursor to Port Arthur
massacre in Tasmania, Australia. At Port Arthur on 28 April 1996, 35
people died and 20 were wounded in the first convoluted terrorist shooting
massacre in this nation. In the massacre, the murder of Nanette Mikac and
her two daughters was said by the CNN's John Raedler in the EMA papers to
be the classic ‘win-win’ sound bite. Raedler scurried down to Tasmania
from Sydney to capture that ‘win-win’ sound bite. I'm caused then to
wonder how would uncivilized people evaluate Dunblane?
However, in relation to both massacres it should be
remembered it was Rebecca Peters' colleague, Roland Browne, now chair of
NCGC, who predicted a shooting massacre in Tasmania in November of 1995,
and quite remarkably again made a repeated prediction on the "A
Current Affair" TV show, straight after Scotland's Dunblane Massacre.
But then anti-gun proponents in Australia seem to have this remarkable
psychic skill. For in Tasmania's capitol city Hobart after a Special
Premier’s Conference in relation to Gun Control held in December of
1987, NSW's then Premier, Barry "No-gunsworth" Unsworth stated
bluntly:
"There will never be uniform gun laws in Australia until we see a
massacre in Tasmania."
Port Arthur massacre was the catalyst for subsequent
reciprocal visits across the globe by some of those closely involved with
victims of both shooting murders. But with Peters in America, in the,
Washington Mall, just 9 weeks after Dunblane massacre, three mothers;
Kareen Turner, Alison Crozier and Karen Scott, who each lost a daughter in
the Dunblane murders, featured in the Million Mom March. Now while we all
probably sympathise with their personal loss of young innocent children,
in Washington they marched along smiling and waving. I wonder who paid for
their return flight to America and similarly other flights to Australia,
and conversely the Port Arthur survivors to Dunblane? Dr Peters also flew
to Dunblane in August of 1996 … 'to deliver messages from Port Arthur
survivors' it was reported at the time.
The network of Peters' and her NGO's the global Gun
Control Network, are well funded and conveniently placed, as the synonym
suggest - outside of governmental restraints. I would be astonished if it
was proven her Australian network had not received a generous helping of
Institute hand-outs to disarm our good people in 1991- 1996. To example
the extent of these amassed fortunes, one such "funder", the
Joyce Foundation, was reported as granting between 1993 and 1997, some
$13.2 m, for distribution among 55 'gun control' organisations. John
Hopkins is bank-rolled to sustain disarmament battle by such "funders"
as the California Wellness Foundation (CWF), Gerorge Soros' Open Society
Institute and the Public Welfare Foundation, just three of the
well-endowed tax-exempt funders supporting the global gun-grabbers. George
Soros’ Open Society Institute funds gun control networks on a national
scale across America, but indeed globally, in 33 countries. One should be
surprised if Australia didn't figure high on this list. Open Society also
gave the Violence Policy Center $1.2 million in 1997 to expand its
anti-gun efforts. 5
Like Joyce, CWF treats gun violence as a public health
problem that requires government regulation just as Peters did in
Australia. Sadly every good citizen Peters disarms effectively produces
one more potential victim of criminal misdeeds, a point obviously not
overlooked by her. As it was observed by the then leader of the Australian
Democrats, Cheryl Kernot, that Peters always went out of her way to keep a
discreet distance from victims of gun crime, as she was 'sensitive to the
emotional implication.' 6 I wonder if disarmed potential victims ever
crossed her mind while accepting her Human Rights award from Dame Roma
Mitchell? As I mentioned Peters went to John Hopkins University in
Baltimore, Maryland, and first to their Violence Policy Center.
Interestingly, my investigations show Rebecca's doctorate is somewhat
tainted, as if such principals would matter to Dr Rebecca.
Back in August of 1987, John Hopkins University was
heavily involved in promoting food irradiation, even although the process
was banned by the West German Government in 1958, and the American FDA in
1968. But not to be deterred John Hopkins organised a forum to promote
publicly a 'balanced view' with 20 guest speakers. However the seminar had
to abandoned, when speaker number 20 exposed the other 19 speakers not
only heavily biased to promote this disposal system for nuclear waste as
"safe" with all of them involved heavily in the nuclear
industry.
It should come as no surprise to learn that John Hopkins
in 1986, received funding of a reported $317m American "defence
dollars"! What level of "Arms and Military" funding does
John Hopkins receive today that in any way assists the works of Dr Peters
and her 'arms-grabbing' cadre? 7
Now returning to the scene in New South Wales for a
moment. Before Rebecca Peters flew out to her allotted 'battle ground' in
America, she had one important task to complete here. The Parliaments of
Australia are legislatures with limited powers. They are not supreme. The
right to keep and bear arms and use them is a right beyond the powers of
Parliament. Six hundred years ago people didn't trust government, and it
would appear nothing has changed. So armed Government willing to use force
- legitimised by Doctor Peters and her network - are in truth, hell-bent
on closing that "loop-hole" in gun laws which are basic
individual freedoms that with "clubs" they are intent on
closing! This single fact assured that there would inevitably be a legal
challenge mounted by some section of our citizenry that would surely win
in the courts.
So in New South Wales, as the Government proclaimed
"gun buy-back," began to effect the citizens a previously formed
Concerned Citizens Association in the Hunter Valley, sought legal opinion
as to how best to mount a case against government to have this iniquitous
"law" quashed.
The global "gun control" network had no
intention of suffering such a set back. Its network tentacles obviously
penetrated the very fabric of society at many different levels. Peters and
company certainly had a very effective "grape vine" network.
The legal advice was no sooner prepared and delivered to
the client Association, than word was received by the Association's
executive that Peters - remember in her own estimation a "middle
class" lawyer, a very junior solicitor - had already been given an
audience before the autocratic NSW Bar Association, a quite extraordinary
accomplishment in itself.
I have learned that it was directly as a result of Rebecca
Peters addressing that eminent group of staid gentlemen which caused them
to immediately pass a motion which effectively bound them, that
should a legal challenge be launched against the 1996 gun law changes in
Australia, the Bar Association would mount a strong campaign to defeat
such a legal challenge and apparently "free legal services" were
promised to aid in defeating any such challenge, which is perhaps
why in the courts of Australia, survivors of the Port Arthur massacre
seeking redress have a devil's own job in getting their case to Court.
When Port Arthur and its "fruit" are considered
alongside what has occurred especially in Canada what is building - fast -
just south of the border should cause all Americans a deal of concern. In
Canada a not-so-discreet Canadian Liberal Party Senator, Sharon Carstairs
let the cat out of the bag some time back with her witnessed as pointing
out before the Community Legal Education Association, that the new gun law
is the lynchpin in her party's plan to "socially re-engineer
Canada". 8
Her revelation prompted journalist Lorne Gunter of the
Edmonton Journal, to write, "The Liberals believe [the draconian gun
law] would re-engineer Canada, and especially male gun owners, making its
citizens more docile." Continuing he wrote, "When lawmakers
trample centuries-old liberties without an overwhelming social good, in
return … then respect for the law dies and the rule of law along with
it." 9
Summary: Is it too hard to look at history? Not so long ago the
Tavistock guru's Aldous Huxley and Timothy Leary under the wing of Capitol
International Airways (CIA), created the first "somatotomic serial
killer" Charles Manson. Hence the spate of earlier school yard
shootings in America, and this latest sniper program prompts me to quote
the following for your consideration:
"In a quite almost invisible way … OSS-CIA assessment methods
transformed our basic notions about human nature. Thirteen million youths
were screened, selected, trained in complex skills, behaviour-modified
…by means of psychological techniques. … In the future both war and
peace were to be based on our knowledge of the brain. Intelligence became
the key to survival in the future. Psychology became the new science of
human engineering." end quote. 10
This morning's latest "breaking news" of the
huge bomb detonated in the Bali township of Kuta resulting in upwards of
184 killed and 'hundreds' more wounded reminds me of the above article.
Official reports here are suspect to say the least. After the Port Arthur
Massacre, how can any Australian trust our present crop of politicians.
For in the scheme of gun control delivered by politicians, I must remind
you: there is no trigger guard or safety-catch on politicians.
But of one point I can be certain; Dr Peters has not
deserted her latest field of operations, Baltimore and the District of
Columbia, and the gun control network is not going away either. So, in
these uncertain times it is Okay to be unarmed, but if you love freedom
with a passion … should you be so reckless as to allow yourself to be
disarmed?
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