The fact that nobody has made a comment here today …
… means the subject matter, being the Somerton Man Case, is old and nearly dead news.
Check Pelling – nothing doing there.
Check Cramer – nothing doing there, though the old boy’s not convinced.
Check here – it’s all been written.
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The Somerton Man .. 
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Shit, that’s a bloody first ..
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I don’t think it’s all been written yet, but there are an abundance of writers wondering why they write at all when the vortex of SAPOL makes a black hole out in the universe seem like a little suck.
Were the crimes that went down so utterly fantastic, that no-one can in any blue shirted or white shirted office dare raise them?
Were they crimes against citizens?
Were they crimes against the State?
Were they crimes BY THE STATE?
Were they crimes against the Commonwealth?
Were they crimes BY THE COMMONWEALTH?
Were they crimes BY OVERSEAS AGENCIES?
It’s so frustrating to send information to places like ASD and others for assistance only to be told it ALL has to go back to Adelaide.
I’m sure Omar once said in the one of his novels “life’s a bitch, but KARMA has more patience”.
Maybe better IT (or AI) in the next generation will OUT what this generation hasn’t.
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We are minnows in this sea of corruption, Alan, only here to be swept up like bait fish, food for the sharks.
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Well, for what it is worth, I’ve sent another e-mail to Peter M, Premier of SA. Not that I think it’s worth anything, of course, I guess people are used to being fobbed off by politicians. Except, of course, when they want your vote and fall over backwards, Cynical? Who Me?
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Fill us in. What’s in your email ?
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Well, the reply for my previous e-mail was the usual standard reply-just a thank you, it will be noted, passed to someone etc. And, “The Premier appreciates you taking the time to write to him”.
In both my e-mails I had requested information on the state of play, so to speak.
Both replies exactly the same, so, I replied a couple of days ago to say:
“Wonderful, I just wish the Premier would instruct his minions to do something once and for all about this case and let Joe Public in the big secret”
“No, I don’t suppose that Peter will ever see this message, pity as he seems a nice guy”.
And, it’s 60 years today that the Beaumont children went missing, not that it matters to the SA government.
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Public servant fob off culture
Mali is just a public servant
I had my electorate candidate send me emails over and over again at my business persuading me to vote for him
When I spoke to him outside the polling place on election day and sought comment on certain issues that I had raised in emails he told me he doesn’t read his emails
So who the f was pretending to be him in his electorate office and sending me the emails
They are all shit
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Couple of months back I wrote to Sapol in hope that they might submit a suspect I’d been interested in who had an extensive criminal records, in hope that they might be interested in puting some effort into submitting fingerprint comparisons with those of SM. I got a quick response to the effect that my informatiin was being followed up ant that a nominated detective in cold case files was hot on the trail. I was to be contacted if anything came up, or desired further information. Nothing so far Clive but you might have better luck with the SA premier.
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They’re all full of shit
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Where’s Pamela Landy, she probably knows
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Breaking News from SA’s Attorney General: the Somerton Man has already been identified! Part 1
I had a random day off yesterday (Wed 28th of Jan) and popped past the local supermarket to get a few things midafternoon. On my way out the SA Deputy Premier and Attorney General, The Hon Kyam Maher MLC, was there campaigning with the local incumbent MP for the electorate; the SA election is fast approaching. I went over to say hello, grabbed a nice quality calico tote, exchanged a handshake with the DP and pleasantries with the MP (her right hand was in a splint – too much hand shaking in recent weeks?). I then addressed Mr Maher to see if it was OK to hit him up with a question. It could have been about anything, but he was more than happy to oblige… always smiling.
I asked him, as the State’s Attorney General, when we would be likely here the results from either Forensics SA or the State Coroner about the identify of the body exhumed from West Terrace cemetery – a man who had died on Somerton Beach back in November 1948. “The Somerton Man….” He replied with an even bigger smile. He said the identity had already been made public, “a professor from the University of Adelaide, who’s name I can’t recall, had done the genetic work and identified him. A man from Victoria who had split from his wife. It would be easy to find on the internet”. Seriously I was thinking? I wasn’t sure if he was referring to Prof Abbott or Prof Hanneberg and was about to ask for clarification, then he mentioned the Prof ended up marrying a woman whom the Prof thought was a relative of the Somerton Man… so he was definitely talking about Abbott.
He said the identity wasn’t that exciting after all the talk of spies stealing secrets from Woomera, and that he personally was hoping that the SM was an Eastern Bloc spy.
Mr Maher seemed to know some details about the case (he mentioned he was named after the poet Omar Khayyam who wrote the Rubaiyat) but did say the book of poems was thrown into a car parked out the front of the nurse’s house, and it matched the piece of paper found on SM with the words Tamam Shud that means ‘the end’.
More to follow…
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Breaking News from SA’s Attorney General: the Somerton Man has already been identified! Part 2
I asked if we would be seeing any findings from the Coroner’s Court to confirm the identity, as I semi-regularly look at the findings posted to the web and keening waiting for a confirmed identity, and he replied something along the lines that the identity was already known, so it wasn’t likely there was going to be any additional work done by the State Government of SA.
I think he wanted me to move on as there were plenty of other constituents there doing their shopping to meet and great, so he changed the subject and asked if I would be supporting the incumbent MP at the upcoming election, to which I said yes of course (that MP had actually door knocked our place before the last election and had a chat whereas the previous incumbent was a right FW who did not). I think he and the local MP thought I was some kind of kook. I can’t imagine what they would think of the other way more hard core SM internet commentors!!
I walked away thinking that didn’t seem right, hopped in my car and drove home.. I was a bit absent minded contemplating the fact that the State’s AG thought Prof Abbott’s work was scientifically sound that I made the rookie mistake of driving right past where they were standing! Not sure if Mr Maher or one of his staffers took my rego down to past onto SAPOL or not. Needless to say I didn’t get a visit last night or this morning from the higher authorities telling me to keep my mouth shut and stop asking questions or else. The coming days will tell.
Now half of you will blurt out “Cover up! Back then and still to this day…” while the other half will probably say “Hah!, told you so, it’s Carl Webb”.
You heard this first on Toms By Two and certainly not on the TS Blog Spot.
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Which electorate ?
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So; where the heck is Steph Herwood when you don’t need her? In times past she was sure to be right there in yer face, whether welcome or not. what a disgrace!
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