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AUSTRALIAN PRIME MINISTERS’ KEVIN RUDD & JULIA GILLARD
(LETTERS TO)
CONTENT:
1) Prime Minister Kevin Rudd – Letter dated
2) Prime Minister Julia Gillard – Letter
dated
3) Prime Minister Julia Gillard – Letter
dated
Note: There was no return to the above
letters.
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Letter
to Prime Minister Rudd (Tuesday
Seán Kelly.
474 Galtymore Road,
Drimnagh,
www.statemurder.eu
(mirrored at)
www.seankellydublin.eu
(Dear Prime
Minister Rudd)
On 27 May 1990, in
Roermond, Holland, Australian citizens Nick Spanos and Stephan Melrose were
shot dead by an IRA unit who mistakenly believed them to be British military
personnel.
Spanos was with his
girlfriend Vicki Coss and Stephan Melrose with his wife Lyndal. The women, both
Australians, escaped injury.
At the time IRA personnel
operating on the continent will have been known of by identity and location to
the respective intelligence agencies. But for operational intelligence reasons,
in the promotion and protection of informers, they were allowed uninterdicted
movement and action – this under the overarching control of the chief player,
Britain’s Security Service.
By corollary, the
involved state agencies, which no notion of assumed privilege can
mitigate, were party to the culpable homicide of Spanos and Melrose, and others,
military and civilian, over a lengthy period of time.
My statement is
given to you in the name of justice. You will rightly question my claims. The
Australian Secret Intelligence Service, who are familiar with my background,
will surely have professional cognizance on the Roermond killings beyond my
ken.
Like their
fraternal counterparts, they are not known for volunteering unsavoury truths to
their in-house masters, less still for making them available to the outside
world.
Likewise they will
have understanding on two attempts to murder me by US and British intelligence
agencies, which in one instance was made possible by Australian facilitation.
In 1992 the then
member for Wills, Philip Cleary MP, kindly attempted to represent my case to
the Australian government. He got no return.
Though only
recently installed prime minister in a new Labor government, you have already
shown moral and political courage in your actions. It is because of this, and
in hope, I now seek to impose on you.
I ask that you
would put my claims to test and in the confident expectation of them being
found credible, you will do your duty and inform the Spanos and Melrose
families, who are entitled to the truth.
For my modest part,
I struggle at this end of the world to do my duty, as I have done for 25 years
without support and against the most difficult odds. If you come to know that I
have been honourable in your back garden, you might feel disposed to
reciprocate?
I ask that you
would consider this in the name of God.
The enclosed cd of
the above extensively researched web site provides background to matters that
overtook me.
It contains
reference and allusion to events within and without the compass of my case
which can be interpreted and vouchsafed by your two main national intelligence
agencies ASIS & ASIO. It includes a named Australian citizen known to them.
A name I was of
necessity obliged to use.
A reading of the
web site will prove that it not only makes claims, it offers proofs. I add that
the cd has been burned on my non Internet connected computer and can be used
with confidence.
Perhaps you will
see fit to respond.
(Yours sincerely)
Mr. Kevin Rudd.
Prime Minister,
Parliament of
Australia,
House of
Representatives,
Canberra,
ACT 2600,
Australia.
[Note: Original web
addresses replaced by the above.]
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Registered postage receipt – Prime Minister
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Letter
To Prime Minister Gillard (Tuesday 29 June 2010)
Seán Kelly.
474 Galtymore Road,
Drimnagh,
www.statemurder.eu
(mirrored at)
www.seankellydublin.eu
(Dear Prime Minister
Gillard)
On 27 May 1990, in
Roermond, Holland, Australian citizens Nick Spanos and Stephan Melrose were
shot dead by an IRA unit who mistakenly believed them to be British military
personnel.
Spanos was with his
girlfriend Vicki Coss and Stephan Melrose with his wife Lyndal. The women, both
Australian, escaped injury.
At the time IRA
personnel operating on the continent will have been known of by identity and
location to the respective intelligence agencies. But for operational
intelligence reasons, in the promotion and protection of informers, they were
allowed uninterdicted movement and action – this under the overarching control
of the chief player, Britain’s Security Service.
By corollary, the
involved state agencies, which no notion of assumed privilege can
mitigate, were party to the culpable homicide of Spanos and Melrose, and
others, military and civilian, over a lengthy period of time.
My statement is
given to you in the name of justice. You will rightly question my claims. The
Australian Secret Intelligence Service, who are familiar with my background,
will surely have professional cognizance on the Roermond killings beyond my
ken.
Like their
fraternal counterparts, they are not known for volunteering unsavoury truths to
their in-house masters, less still for making them available to the outside
world.
Likewise, the same
agency will have understanding on two attempts to murder me by US and British
intelligence agencies, which was in one instance made possible by Australian facilitation.
In 1992, the then
member for Wills, Philip Cleary MP, kindly attempted to represent my case to
the Australian government. He got no return.
Though only
recently installed prime minister in a new Labor Government, you have already
shown moral and political courage in your actions. It is because of this, and
in hope, I now seek to impose on you. I ask that you would put my claims to
test and in the confident expectation of them being found credible, you will do
your duty and inform the Spanos and Melrose families, who are entitled to the
truth.
For my part, I
struggle at this end of the world to do my duty, as I have done for more than
25 years without support and against the most difficult odds.
If you come to know
that I have been honourable in your back yard, you might feel disposed to
reciprocate. I ask that you would consider this in the name of God.
The enclosed cd of
the above extensively researched web site provides background to matters that
overtook me.
It contains
reference and allusion to events within and without the compass of my case
which can be interpreted and vouchsafed by your two main national intelligence
agencies ASIS & ASIO. It includes a named Australian citizen known to them.
A name I was of
necessity obliged to use.
A reading of the
web site will prove that it not only makes claims, it offers proofs. I add that
the cd has been burned on my non Internet connected computer and can be used
with confidence.
Perhaps you will
see fit to respond.
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The above is a repeat
of a letter was forwarded to your predecessor, Kevin Rudd, on Tuesday 06.05.08.
He did not do his duty. A pity, had he done so, he might not now be the
ex-prime minister.
Maybe he remembered
Gough Whitlam and decided to play it safe. History is better to those who have
the courage to chase their words.
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On a lighter note.
I read that you were born on 29 September 1961 and migrated, at age of four,
with parents and sister to Adelaide on the £10 Assisted Passage scheme,
arriving in Australia in 1966 on board the Sitmar Line vessel Fairsky. The
arithmetic implies you reached down under before end September 1966.
If memory serves me
well, the Fairsky departed from
You could have been
on that passage.
I was.
I took more than
one roll of film on the journey, photographing people I came to know and others
I scarcely knew, adults and children. The snaps are nothing special but events
like the crossing of the equator ceremony and ports of call were recorded.
On the latter, I’m
thinking of Suez and Aden.
Friends of mine,
the Reeve family (Ivy, Ron, Malcolm, Pam, Jane and Scott) from Birmingham
disembarked at Adelaide; they would take up residence at Modbury. Among others,
a Welsh family also disembarked there.
The latter are only
known of through an attractive young woman, the daughter of another Welsh
family, who accompanied them.
I was once familiar
with Glamorgan, having been based about twelve miles from Barry, a bit nearer
to the real Wales – the Valleys.
Enclosed is a snap
of the Fairsky in Aden port taken en-route to Australia in May 1966. If you too
were on that passage, it may be of sentimental value. Other photographs can be
made available, if of interest.
When in Australia I
became a member of the Liberal Party. Doesn’t it take all sorts…?
(Yours sincerely)
The Hon Julia
Gillard.
Prime Minister,
Parliament of
Australia,
House of
Representatives,
Canberra,
ACT 2600,
Australia.
[Note: Original web
addresses replaced by the above.]
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TV Fairsky in Aden, May 1966,
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Proof of receipt. (No
track and trace delivery indicated.) |
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Letter
To Prime Minister Gillard (Monday 8 November 2010)
Seán Kelly.
474 Galtymore Road,
Drimnagh,
www.statemurder.eu
(mirrored at)
www.seankellydublin.eu
(Dear Prime
Minister Gillard)
In June of this
year I wrote informing you of the avoidable deaths of Nick Spanos and Stephan
Melrose, Australian citizens, in Roermond, Holland on 27 May 1990. The young
men were solicitors: a profession you are familiar with. They were shot by an
IRA unit who mistakenly believed them to be British troops from nearby German
bases.
In my original
letter, I claimed: “At the time IRA personnel operating on the continent will
have been known of by identity and location to the respective intelligence
agencies. But for operational intelligence reasons, in the promotion and
protection of informers, they were allowed uninterdicted movement and action.
This under the overarching control of the chief player, Britain’s Security
Service.
“By corollary, the
involved agencies, which no notion of assumed privilege can mitigate,
were party to the culpable homicide of Spanos, Melrose, and others, military
and civilian, over a lengthy period of time…”
Knowing the
protocols that pertain in matters of national intelligence, it was not a
surprise that you did not acknowledge receipt of my missive.
While aware of the
protocols obtaining, I do not observe them. Murder is murder whatever the
imprimatur. Does the duty that reposes upon the head of the humble citizen not
like repose on the head of those who are by the process of election called upon
to lead?
Are the duties of
the high and mighty really subordinate to unwritten laws?
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Since my letter of June
last, an Australian television company, Channel 7, did an exposition of the
Roermond shootings cited above.
It neither posed or
answered the “hard questions” on the deaths; more an exercise in film making
stunts than investigative journalism.
The film succeeded,
in my view, in adding to the grievous abuse already heaped on the Spanos and
Melrose families.
Moreover, it failed
in its primary objective.
My web site
forwarded in June, has been updated – namely in State Murder 1, Section 8. The
update [which in the main refers to the shooting dead of an IRA team in
Gibraltar by the SAS in March 1988], also offers further measured expansion of
IRA activities on the continent at that general time.
The above web
address refers.
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In my June letter,
a photograph was enclosed of the Sitmar Line vessel Fairsky berthed in Aden in
May 1966.
It was one of many
photographs taken by me en-route to Australia. Other photographs of the
Australian bound voyage were processed in recent months by Camera Exchange in Sth
Gt George’s Street, Dublin.
Given the lapse of
forty years, they deserve a compliment for the fine quality of printing work
done.
I lend that praise
because more photographs are enclosed. Two (of three like photographs – one is
retained) are of a young girl who I think took a shine to me. Maybe it was
because of my (then) red hair!
Recently a
Melbourne domiciled Australian who has looked at the snaps (M1 35 & M1 36),
is confident they are of you. Not knowing if you were on that sailing, I take a
more cautious view, believing that they may be of you.
Both were taken
well past Suez as the Fairsky steamed towards
Further photographs
are enclosed. G1 & G2 show farewell parties bidding slán to the Fairsky as it
slips its umbilical hold to terra firma UK. Bon voyage and farewell in one
encapsulation.
Mixed emotions for
many.
Photographs 2G 18
to 2G 21 show various stages of the crossing of the equator ceremony. 2G 18
includes a bevy of children in a prime viewing position. Is that my young
friend standing among them?
Notice the
white-belted lady in swimsuit awaiting her faith at the hands of dubious
looking “doctors” and “nurses”, she too was from Wales.
Photograph 2G 35 is
of Jane Reeve, whose family took up residence in Modbury in South Australia.
Jane was a good girl – she didn’t feed her “teddy” to the fishes…
The latter
photograph was taken as the vessel was nearing Fremantle.
On the final day of
approach to Australia, a tangible silence descended on the ship. For many of
its complement, most especially those with family responsibilities, a great
unknown far from [the old] home lay ahead.
Minds dwelling on
the uncertain and filled with apprehension, spoke without words.
The month long
party was over.
The photographs may
have a sentimental value to you and your parents.
(Yours sincerely)
The Hon Julia
Gillard MP.
Prime Minister of
Australia,
PO Box 6022,
House of
Representatives,
Parliament House,
Canberra ACT 2600,
Australia.
[Note: Original web
addresses replaced by the above.]
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TV Fairsky photograph,
approaching Aden, May 1966. Believed Julia Gillard. M1 35 |
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TV Fairsky photograph,
approaching Aden, May 1966. Believed Julia Gillard. M1 36 |
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TV Fairsky photograph G1,
just before departure from Southampton, April 1966. |
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TV Fairsky photograph G2,
just before departure from Southampton, April 1966. |
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TV Fairsky photograph 2G
18, crossing the equator ceremony, May 1966. |
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TV Fairsky Photograph 2G
19, crossing the equator ceremony, May 1966. |
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TV Fairsky photograph 2G
20, crossing the equator ceremony, May 1966. |
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TV Fairsky photograph 2G
21, just after crossing the equator ceremony, May 1966. |
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TV Fairsky photograph 2G
35, May 1966, Jane Reeve. Approaching Australia. |
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Proof of receipt. (No track and trace
delivery indicated.) * When I realised the truth of, as I put it,
“[T]he avoidable deaths of Nick Spanos and Stephan Melrose in Roermond,
Holland,” I acted instinctively in bringing the reality to a wider audience. Something needed to be done so the fate
that befell them would not claim others. By making truth known to those in
power, in this instance to two Australian prime minister’s, I felt something
might be done. How innocent I was. Why is the amateur world I live in so
different from the professional world of politicians and others? Seán Kelly. PS. Malcolm Turnbull, if you have a real
interest in the pursuit of justice, you might let me know. Soon please – I am
an old man! Readers, would you consider contacting Mr.
Turnbull on my behalf? Greatly appreciated. Thanks. |
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