Shootings and Mass Shootings

[SummerLite]

Trans regrets.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1961159320743112972

An investigation into the psychiatric profession is called for the sinister creation of serial killers.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1961159049866846589

 

[Jones]

Australian news is being dominated by the story of two policemen being shot in Porepunkah in the Victorian high country at the moment.

Manhunt continues in Victoria for suspected identified gunman as two officers killed — as it happened

Local communities have been asked to stay indoors and follow police advice as the search for the gunman continues into the night.

www.abc.net.au

Apparently initial reports of the incident claim that police were serving a warrant on Freeman in regards to historic sex crimes, but later reports said that the warrant was for weapons charges.

The case seems to have certain similarities to the Ned Kelly story, including the location. Kelly's final shoot out with the police was in Glenrowan, about an hour away. While there hasn't been a final shootout yet in this case, it seems as though the stage is being set with Dezi Freeman allegedly being heavily armed and hiding out in the high country.

Some background on Dezi Freeman:

6 years ago, a story was run on A Current Affair about a neighbour dispute over noise. Dezi Freeman and his wife lodged complaints about the noise polution and aggressive behaviours of their neighbours. This story includes some personal views of the locals about Dezi and his wife that indicated that both he and his wife were held in positive regard in the community. Dezi is a photographer and his wife a music teacher. After failing to resolve the issue with the neighbours, they sold up and moved away from that property.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1960271225864786066

I don't know which story the second video footage belongs to. There are two different stories that could have produced that arrest. One is that Freeman and a group of locals were attempting to gain access to Mt Buffalo national park. The other is that Freeman and a group of locals were attempting a private prosecution of Dan Andrews over COVID lockdowns. Maybe they're the same issue, perhaps lockdown measures prevented them from accessing the national park. I'm not clear on that point yet.

A private prosecution can be undertaken in criminal cases if no action or support can be gained from police or state after victims submit their accusations.



Video blogger and commentator, Rukshan Fernando, has apparently received correspondence from a friend of Freemans.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1960312483874562335

His wife and children are apparently now with the police and there is no question that they were ever hostages.

One thing I haven't been able to confirm yet is that there was mention that the Porepunkah school, which went into lockdown during the incident, apparently had a lockdown drill in the weeks leading to the story unfolding.

Timing of the incident is also curious since there were large numbers of Australians on the streets of major cities protesting for Palestine last week and an Australia wide rally against immigration is to be held on the 31st of August.

Edited to add: Here's a link to Ned Kelly's Jerilderie Letter written in 1879.

Now into the 5th day of the man hunt for Freeman. Apparently up to 450 police officers are in the area both looking for him in the high country bush, manning roadblocks and manning an operation centre. He is known to be a competent bushman and there is some question around the idea that he may have had notice that the police were coming to arrest him. The police scouring the bush are apparently throwing flash bombs into caves and mine shafts in the area, one local saying that some mine adits are 200m deep and maintain a year round temperature of 20 degrees and that would give him protection from the icy weather and sleet that the area is experiencing. So far there have been no confirmed sighting either visually from the ground or through thermal/infrared viewers from helicopters.

Protestors are taking part in tomorrows Australia rallies and with 450 police out in the high country, it will be interesting to see how rallies will be policed. I wonder if they'll bring the military in as some are expecting violence to erupt at the Melbourne rally.

 

[Jones]

Now into the 9th day since Freeman allegedly fled into the bush after allegedly shooting 3 police officers. Now the military has been put on the case to help find him and the search area has been extended out to 5000 sq kms.

Sounds like there are plenty of inconsistencies and speculations about the case.

The Aussie Cossack did reel discussing FPO's (Firearm Prohibition Orders). Since he was subject to an FPO due to his outspoken and popular protest activity during Covid lockdowns, he was aware of the protocols surrounding them. It seems that Freeman was also subject to an FPO and one of the things that AC calls out is that if a member of the public has an FPO, according to protocols they are not supposed to be approached at their own home. Usually they are pulled over when traveling to the shops or something, I remember AC filming being pulled over and having his vehicle searched for firearms. So there's something fishy about 10 policeman attending Freemans home.

There has been some speculation that Freeman is already dead. A reason given for this being hidden is apparently that since protests were planned, it would have ignited fury during the protests if the public were aware that he'd been killed.

Police now think that Freeman is not operating alone and that he is getting assistance from friends to stay in hiding. They have apparently raided a number of other properties in an attempt to find him.