Little Mark Dreyfus Obeys America

Posted on 25 July, 2023 by C.L.

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Mak Siccar says:

25 July, 2023 at 5:35 pm

In the Oz.

Former top gun pilot Daniel Duggan fights ‘political extradition’ to United States

By REMY VARGA
NSW REPORTER

12:22PM JULY 25, 2023

Former top gun pilot Daniel Duggan’s lawyers say there is a political character to the charges against their client and will present expert evidence on deteriorating relations between theUnited States and China.

Lawyers for the 54-year-old Australian citizen are fighting his extradition to the United States to face charges over the alleged training of Chinese fighter pilots.

Duggan’s supporters gathered on the steps of Sydney’s Downing Centre on Tuesday ahead of the hearing, brandishing a banner emblazoned with the Orange father’s face that said “Free Dan Duggan”.

Inside court Mr Duggan’s lawyer, top silk Bret Walker SC, said he was unable to discuss in open court all of the material given to the Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security, which is investigating alleged misconduct by the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation.

Lawyers for Mr Duggan are seeking to halt the extradition until the IGS investigation has completed.

Mt Walker said the alleged offending and conduct after the offending involved co-operation with security agencies that may “give a political character to the offence in question.”

“Your honour should not proceed on the basis that is confined to conduct in Australia,” Mr Walker said, before clarifying the conduct was “in the interest of Australia”.

The court heard that the deterioration in the diplomatic relationship between China and the US since the alleged conduct would form part of the case, with Mr Walker saying he would “gather experts on those matters”.

Saffrine Duggan with her kids as they sing the song Danny Boy as an ode to her husband outside the Downing Court. Picture: NCA Newswire/Gaye Gerard

Mr Walker said his submissions would ask whether “a political character can be given after all the circumstances of the commission of offence have happened”.

Magistrate Daniel Reiss said the relevance of material handed to IGS may be relevant as to whether the charges against Mr Duggan were political and noted such offences were a rarity.

“It‘s a door that’s not sought very often to be opened and walked through,” he said.

Mr Duggan was arrested by the Australian Federal Police at the request of US authorities in Orange in NSW in October last year and has spent the majority of his time in solitary confinement.

The 54-year-old has denied allegations he received 12 payments of more than $116,000 from a Chinese-based business which was responsible for acquiring military training, equipment and technical data for China’s government and military, for “personal development training”.

The offences are alleged to have occurred before Mr Duggan became an Australian citizen in late 2012 and his legal team have previously said the charges are not crimes in Australia.

Mr Duggan has further accused the US of trying to turn him into a “political example” amid deteriorating international relations with China.

The hearing will resume at 2pm.
Lee says:

25 July, 2023 at 6:17 pm

The 54-year-old has denied allegations he received 12 payments of more than $116,000 from a Chinese-based business which was responsible for acquiring military training, equipment and technical data for China’s government and military, for “personal development training”.

On that basis Joe and Hunter should be serving life sentences for their dealings with China (and Ukraine).

The U.S. “justice” system, or more particularly the DoJ, is rotten to the core, to paraphrase Mark Steyn.
NFA says:

25 July, 2023 at 6:36 pm

The U.S. “justice” system, or more particularly the DoJ, is rotten to the core, to paraphrase Mark Steyn.

The Australian “AG” and Department could do with some clean up as well!
NFA says:

25 July, 2023 at 6:36 pm

Thank you for this C.L.
Tel says:

25 July, 2023 at 6:37 pm

Indeed, Duggan should put forward the very lenient treatment of hunter Biden as a precedent … demonstrating that the DOJ themselves do not consider payments from China to be significant. I mean, no one is above the law, that’s what they love saying … therefore what Hunter did cannot be considered wrong when anyone else does the same.
Lee says:

25 July, 2023 at 7:01 pm

I was reading somewhere the suggestion or claim that what Duggan allegedly did was not actually illegal at the time, but is now deemed illegal retrospectively by the DoJ.

I dunno, I am no lawyer, and unfortunately I don’t recall where I read the article.
and says:

25 July, 2023 at 7:13 pm

Cometh the hour, cometh the Greypus.
Lee says:

25 July, 2023 at 7:17 pm

Once upon a time the left would have been outraged by this sort of behaviour by the Australian government, toadying to the America DoJ.

Probably they still would be if Duggan was a “person of colour” who had entered the country illegally.
and says:

25 July, 2023 at 7:22 pm

Little Mark Dreyfus Obeys America

A very accommodating fellow is Dark Greypus.
Brattny asked him for $2.5m.
Greypus responded, “What a wonderful idea, Brattny.”
and says:

25 July, 2023 at 7:25 pm

Probably they still would be if Duggan was a “person of colour” and transwoman lespian who had entered the country illegally.
C.L. says:

25 July, 2023 at 7:30 pm

Not one Liberal has asked a single question about this destruction of a family at the behest of a criminal American ‘justice’ department.

You thought the Liberals were all about family men, military veterans, the rule of law, Australian sovereignty and free enterprise? LOL.

David Shoebridge is the only parliamentarian who has consistently weighed in.
and says:

25 July, 2023 at 7:39 pm

You thought the Liberals were all about family men, military veterans, the rule of law, Australian sovereignty and free enterprise? LOL.

They usually are but don’t you know that there’s a vaping “crisis” – a “CRISIS” – that needs attention.
C.L. says:

25 July, 2023 at 7:41 pm

I should say, attempted destruction of a family…
calli says:

25 July, 2023 at 9:44 pm

There was a time when Labor hated America and actively demonstrated against them. Any one pro was a “running dog”.

How times change.
C.L. says:

25 July, 2023 at 9:59 pm

I can see why Duggan quit America for his wife, Saffrine.
Looking after six traumatised children, putting food on the table, fighting the US and Australian governments.

What a woman.

Follow her on X:

https://twitter.com/FreeDanDuggan
Ed Case says:

26 July, 2023 at 7:11 pm

The ABC has a good article on Mr. Duggan.

Strangely enough, some assert that the ABC ought to be shut down ASAP?
Pat Mac says:

26 July, 2023 at 9:15 pm

Testing.
Thx for the link.
Pat