Frank wrote on Jan 14
th, 2018 at 10:20am:
mozzaok wrote on Jan 13
th, 2018 at 10:37pm:
I agree with you on that count Frank, Whitlam did screw the pooch. His choice of ministers was in several cases, fatally flawed. (Cairns, Connor, Grassby, ring any bells?)
That does not change the facts surrounding the dismissal.
Even Whitlam himself chose to let it go, after the fact. He could either keep his mouth shut and go on to become a respected elder statesman, or incur the further involvement of foreign agents in his and his families life, so he chose the former.
I am aware that this sounds like insane conspiracy nut stuff, and I cannot prove that last bit at all, but the initial collusion between the CIA and the Libs is incontrovertibly true, so to me the second bit follows as a logical assumption, on my behalf. We know that US agents were active in Australia at the time.
We know Marshall Green was a CIA operative who helped organise coups against democratically elected governments in South Korea, Indonesia(that one was a beauty, it armed and trained the muslim extremists in indonesia that saw at least half a million people slaughtered) Chile, and finally AUSTRALIA.
That so few Australians know these facts is appalling.
Marshall Green and Garfield Barwick planned every stage, and had a complicit, paid off stooge already in place, in the shape of John Kerr, to implement their plan. He could not refuse,without having his prior dealings as a CIA stooge revealed by them. His guilt saw him destroy whatever reputation he had left by degenerating into a running joke as a non functional alcoholic, whilst still in office. Looking him in the eye a litlle less than a year after the dismissal, you saw a man who was truly "lost".
Pretty story- except you can't conspire to have a landslide election results.. The people of Australia dismissed Whitlam, resoundingly.
Frazer blocked supply. Whitlam could not govern. the GG can't force the opposition to allow supply. A government that can't govern because of parliamentary block on it must go to the people for a new mandate. The GG could do nothing else but to precipitate that by calling on the only power that can resolve parliamentary deadlocks like that.
You don't need the CIA or the Crown to tell you that much.
https://www.crikey.com.au/2015/11/25/rundle-proving-the-cia-backed-conspiracy-th...There is plenty of documentation of the CIA involvement in the dismissal, because you are unaware of facts, does not mean they cease to be, just that you are ignorant of them.
I have always held the view I shared here, because I used to listen to parliament daily, as I worked, and I became concerned when weeks before the Dismissal, a labor member asked just what Marshall green, a man reported as being involved with the overthrowing of the democratically elected governments of Allende, in Chile, and Sukarno, in Indonesia, was doing having secret meetings with Sir Garfield Barwick, former Liberal attorney general, and known lib power broker and planner.
His concern for what was being planned is therefore on record in Hansard for any who wish to look.
So the unbelievably biased media campaign which had been running all year, was now put into context, and the coup to be was already in motion.
There are many sources online to read from people at the time who were involved, if you really care, but I am almost certain you do not, and no amount of evidence would ever convince you otherwise.
Those seduced by the media campaign that ran against labor at the time, will never be able to admit they were duped by US power brokers whose only goal was to protect their secret services.