Derryn / Schapelle Proceeds of crime double standards ???

[colic2bullsgirlore]

Presumably the human headline gets paid for his blog or at least gleans income from the advertising

..... So will the AFP investigate ????

http://www.humanheadline.com.au/hinch-says/free-again

WAS GOING TO START this with the line ‘As I was saying before I was so rudely interrupted’ but it’s not original and I have used it when I have been gagged before.

But honestly, now several hours out of prison and a long way from Langi Kal Kal, I  feel  too drained  and too emotional to start with a joke.

Even if I think my $100,000 fine and consequential fifty days in jail with some of Australia’s worst rapist-murderers was a sick joke.

For now, some instant impressions and recollections. I’ll have more to say when I go through the meticulous daily diaries I kept.

The ones the Intel investigators showed so much interest in when searching my cell, and taking photographs yesterday.

Some of these points I aired on Sunrise and at the media conference outside the prison boundaries when freed, after two early morning head counts and a strip-search, this morning.

I spent my first two weeks in custody in solitary confinement under maximum security in the same prison, same floor (and only cells apart) as the man who was responsible for my being there.

The low-life piece of   human flotsam whose name I will never mention again in public or on this blog. A man I will call JMK – Jill Meagher’s Killer.

I got a taste of how he spends his day being let out for only an hour of exercise in a small ground floor yard surrounded by high brick walls and razor wire.

http://www.afp.gov.au/policing/proceeds-of-crime.aspx

The Proceeds of Crime Act 2002

The Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 (the Act) was passed on 11 October 2002 and came into operation on 1 January 2003.

The Act provides a scheme to trace, restrain and confiscate the proceeds of crime against Commonwealth law.

In some circumstances it can also be used to confiscate the proceeds of crime against foreign law or the proceeds of crime against State law (if those proceeds have been used in a way that contravenes Commonwealth law).

The Act also provides a scheme that allows confiscated funds to be given back to the Australian community in an endeavour to prevent and reduce the harmful effects of crime in Australia.

[lind9650]

What crime has Derryn Hinch commited by speaking the truth, and what millions of people are thinking?

There is something grossly wrong with our laws that protects criminals of such caliber as the ones Hinch talks about.

There is no comparison to Schapelle. Hinch was not arrested for smuggling drugs, but only for opening his mouth and publicly sying what most people think.

[freddie*rooster]

What about Chopper Read?

[ca04]

Hinch has fully served his time .

Corby is only out on parole and she has to do as instructed.

Also she has not been found guilty of any offence in Australia.

[cherry*135]

True. But is he profiting from his crime, if he is only receiving the same remuneration as before? Profiting from a crime as in the terms of the Profiting from Crime Act? Is what he publishes done in the public interest?

He hasn't done a paid interview with any media outlet.

[lakeland27]

no, he broke the law that protects potentially innocent people from being prosecuted .

[lind9650]

The whole scenario gives "Freedom of speach" another meaning.

[cherry*135]

ca - Corby will not be able to profit from her crime ( paid interviews, book deals etc) forever. Any Aust. convicted of a crime overseas is still subject to our Profiting from Crimes Act 2002.

How is Hinch profiting (specifically) from his crime under the Act?

[lakeland27]

 his initial crime was comitted doing his job, so it makes little difference where or how. its the action of thinking he is a higher authority than a legal system with hundreds of years of tradition. he has a remarkably high opinion of jimself if he thinks he ought not be subject to rule of law. lynchmobs are a little past their use by date.

[cherry*135]

That doesn't explain how ( what Section ) he would charged under the Profiting from Crimes Act.

[the_hawk*]

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@lakeland27 wrote:

if you break the law, you break the law. irrespective of if it is in the course of doing his so called job. the law is there for good reason.

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One who breaks an unjust law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for law.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

If the law is wrong then someone has to do something and Hinch does it while others stand back and watch.

and many laws are wrong and changed all the time when people stand up and fight