Rendering an Australian citizen to the corrupt regime of Donald Trump

The Albanian Government wants to hand over Australian citizen Dan Duggan to the corrupt authoritarian regime of Donald Trump. Michael Pascoe I wonder at what point we officially give up our national self-respect?

“It is clear that under this administration, federal officials cannot be trusted to tell the truth,” SMH’s Michael Koziol reported from Washington on Friday. an article It details examples of federal officials who repeatedly lied before the slaying of Renee Wood in Minneapolis.

He was stating the obvious, or at least the obvious, to anyone paying any attention to the rapid decline of the United States, but it needs to be stated.

The US Government is run by serial and blatant liars.

It’s reasonable to doubt whether the president even knows the difference between right and wrong anymore. In quick succession, Trump, the Vice President, and the Secretary of Homeland Security blatantly lied about the murder of Renee Wood, defying anyone to believe their eyes given the abundance of video evidence.

From Minneapolis’ own side peer The story of a police officer who killed Australian Justine Ruszczyk in 2017, Ms. Wood’s death was at least manslaughter, but Vice President J.D. Vance declared that the attacker was “protected by absolute immunity.”

FBI and courts compromised

The investigation was taken over by the FBI and “politically weaponized”, damaging its credibility. The FBI’s investigations into scores of people shot by its agents over the past three decades have found each and every one justified.

The US Department of Justice, on the other hand, has been hopelessly compromised and corrupted by the Trump administration and is now used as an arm of the Trump mob. While the president has pardoned various criminals who know how to deal with the family, the Justice Department has taken senseless actions against those Trump sees as his enemies.

The US Supreme Court itself has been stacked by Republicans. Numerous major law firms have made “agreements” with Trump, donating approximately A$1.5 billion in free legal services to MAGA causes, abandoning the legal principles that lawyers are required to have. As The New York Times summarized:

“Mr. Trump is going after law firms that hire lawyers he views as his political enemies, represent causes he opposes, or refuse to represent people because of their conservative and right-wing political beliefs. Some firms are also targeted for hiring practices that advance the principle of having a diverse workforce.”

There is also the international side of American lawlessness, Trump tells The New York Times said there was only one limit to his power on the global stage:

“My morals. My own mind.”

This is the United States, using the greatest military force the world has ever seen to kill defenseless survivors clinging to boat wreckage. A country that declares itself above international law.

No fog, no war. Hegseth’s war crimes put Australian soldiers at risk

One of this observer’s many frustrations is watching the way the media reports U.S. actions, such as oil tanker seizures, as if sanctions were merely mandating “sanctions” unilaterally concocted by the United States to enable coercion, and in this case outright piracy.

(It’s an old trick. Queen Elizabeth issued “letters of marque” giving pirates protection under English law to attack and plunder Spanish ships; never mind the bloodshed. Sir Frances Drake, John Hawkins, Walter Raleigh, they’re all pirates, just like the current US military.

As for the CIA, its director under Trump 1.0 and subsequent Secretary of State Mike Pompeo boasted:

“We lied, we cheated, we stole, we attended all the training courses.”

So, less than 600 words later, the legal system of the United States, that is, the “justice” system, is seriously compromised and seriously corrupt from top to bottom, especially when it comes to any element of politics or foreign policy.

Australian vassal state

But the Australian government, like a vassal state docilely doing as it is told, proceeds to subject an Australian to this system under the Trump administration’s indictment, without contesting or checking anything the US claims, and knowing that what the Australian is accused of is not against the law at the time.

Yes, I’m writing about Dan Duggan again because the appalling nature of our government’s betrayal of a citizen has become even more apparent with the events of the past week.

As I have previously written here, our Attorney General’s willingness to hand over an Australian citizen to a dysfunctional foreign power with a deeply suspect justice system has broken my trust in the Australian government.

A cry of joy. Where to go when trust in our state is lost?

Duggan has been held in solitary confinement there for more than three years, pending a final decision on his extradition. He was arrested in 2022 following a grand jury indictment in 2017 (Trump 1.0) for allegedly training Chinese military pilots in South Africa in 2011. Here’s the best summary of his case: Here From Sydney Criminal Lawyers.

“Duggan’s case further highlights the flawed extradition system that has led to local citizens being detained for years without charge or any locally tested evidence, where Australia appears to have conspired with the US to legally facilitate Dan’s extradition through the 2018 Criminal Code amendment, as the alleged offense is not a crime here.”

If China wanted the extradition of an Australian citizen without evidence on a politically tainted matter, we would laugh at the audacity. When the Trump gang demands this, the Australian government gives up.

Cowardly and cowardly.

I don’t know Duggan or his Australian wife and six children who are impoverished by the combined actions of the American and Australian Governments, and I don’t know if he’s a good man, but I know you won’t believe what the CIA says about this, and I know it’s wrong to expose a fellow Australian to a crooked administration in this way.

A self-respecting nation would not do this.