5 July 2005

email to riotact's EDITOR

5 July 2005 | johnboy

Well the following was submitted as a story but I’ve taken it over in order to provide the relevant extra material, and to save other problems.

Sir,

I am writing to demand that you remove the defamatory article regarding Justin James Trevitt and that you refrain from publishing any further material in relation to myself. The Supreme Court has ruled that the Director of Public Prosecutions decline proceeding further in the prosecution of Justin James Trevitt due to NO EVIDENCE. (NOTICE DECLINING TO PROCEED FURTHER IN A PROSECUTION by the Director of Public Prosecutions, dated 7th of June 2005: reference: S2004 894).

Failure to remove said material or allow publication of any further commentary on this matter will result in defamation action.

ARTICLE BEING:

Drugs hidden in wooden block
by johnboy on Thursday, June 17 @ 10:45:15 EST

My word! What was all that about eh? Well the original story is here. I believe the court judgment is this one.

Justin also emailled us with much the same demand only with the following addition:

Your article has damaged my life quite considerably for the last year since my profession involves the internet. I really can’t stress the importance of it’s immediate attention.

Well I’d like to thank Justin for drawing our attention to another case of the boys in blue playing fast and loose with warrants.

Sadly though Justin I consider my comment to be both fair and true and have no intention of expurgating our record. That the charge was thrown out (which I offer my congratulations on) does not alter the fact that you were charged.

It’s been a couple of months since we had a defo threat but in my opinion yours is the funniest we’ve ever seen.

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LurkerGal6:15 pm 07 Jul 05

Someone’s been auto-googling!

bonfire11:11 am 07 Jul 05

nik you are prob right. too many govt priorities, too few police, the thin blue line gets pretty stretched at times.

Nik_the_Pig10:35 am 07 Jul 05

Funny how we always get the most comments on stories that turn into slanging matches, often not even related to the story at hand.

Anyway, back to the story at hand – from reading the court ruling that was one poorly written warrant. I can’t comment on how Mr Trivett came to have those items in his car but there is not doubt in my mind that the case was rightly dropped. I don’t always like the fact that there is so much pedantic little bits of paperwork to obtain and present evidence legally but it’s the best system we have and considering it’s our (the police’s) job to work within that system you would hope that we would be able to get it right.

I wonder if inexperience or fatigue had anything to do with the officers who produced that warrant leaving out those few important lines?

Kerces7:19 pm 06 Jul 05

You don’t need to prove public interest in a defense of truth in all jursdictions (mainly only in the ones where there were convict origins). However, you do need to prove truth of all imputations, not just that the facts are true.
K

bonfire5:22 pm 06 Jul 05

your article has damaged his life ?

So getting pulled over, cops finding inadmissable date rape drugs, going to court etc was just minor in comparison.

power of the blog/press!

ssanta1:38 pm 06 Jul 05

How about an axis where the most stupid of evil tends to congregate (this is of course referring to P.Carr, not this fine site naturally)?

Maelinar1:29 pm 06 Jul 05

Is there any way we can turn this story into an Axis of Evil at all ?

Not even just a teensey little bit ?

redneck_ninja1:05 pm 06 Jul 05

So if he wants your article off the web, how come the ABC still has their thing about him online?…even though truth is a defence, it also needs to be in the public interest. However, if its a fair and accurate report of whats been heard in court, and also since you said he was let off, then I don’t see what the big deal is. He’s probably just pissed off when he did a google search for his name and found this website.

Absent Diane12:43 pm 06 Jul 05

My allies are my allies allies, whose enemies are the allies of my enemies allied enemies

Maelinar12:16 pm 06 Jul 05

Patcarr; On the other hand, the proximity of an army causes prices to go up; and high prices cause the people’s substance to be drained away.

What that means is if you get too many allies, you may have problems keeping them all together. (Just some logistical advice).

It’s also a bit of a spin on the fact that you may also find problems keeping them all focussed on the same agenda.

If you want to quote any other military history or militaristic quotations I have worked over the Command and Conquer side of the lake for a number of years and can discuss Sun Tzu with you all day.

I prefer more modern quotes though, such as ‘I love the smell of napalm in the morning, you know, the gasoline smell, it smells like – victory’

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