The family of jailed pilot Dan Duggan has decided to appeal the decision to extradite him to the Federal Court on legal grounds. What’s the scam?
The scam is denying Dan Duggan’s basic rights, setting a dangerous precedent to please our US masters. Attorney General Michelle Rowland applied a law retroactively when deciding on his extradition to the United States for crimes they say he committed there, but weren’t crimes here.
The US Department of Justice has indicted Dan Duggan under four charges, related to training he provided to Chinese civilian test pilots in South Africa in 2012 in a 1960s-era ex-military plane. Charges that Duggan has always denied. He has been held in a high-security prison in Australia for three and a half years.
Craig Isherwood, National Secretary of the Australian Citizens Party – strong advocates for Duggan – told MWM, “To be extradited for a crime that a foreign country alleges you have committed, that alleged crime must also be a crime in Australia.”
This is the normal principle applied in extradition cases. In addition, the crime should be legal in both countries involved at the time it was committed. In this case, the laws that would have made the alleged crimes unlawful in Australia were
passed six years after Duggan allegedly did what he says he didn’t do.
Duggan’s actions were not only legal in Australia at the time, but Australia’s Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA), licensed Dan Duggan to provide the exact training he did in 2012 in South Africa.
According to Ishwerwood, “…to please Donald Trump, the Albanese government is handing over an Australian citizen who complied with all Australian laws, and they are applying a 2018 law retrospectively to do it.”
Prioritising war mongering ally over Australian citizen. Dan Duggan to be extradited
Kim Wingerei is a businessman turned writer and commentator. He is passionate about free speech, human rights, democracy and the politics of change. Originally from Norway, Kim has lived in Australia for 30 years. Author of ‘Why Democracy is Broken – A Blueprint for Change’.