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  1. 28th April 2006, 03:27 PM #1
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    Port Arthur 10 years on

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    I cannot believe it is 10 years ago that the tragic events occurred at Port Arthur, seems like only yesterday. I suppose it is one of the events which like, Sept 11 and the Kennedy assassination (I was too young), you will always remember where you were when they occurred.

    We were fortunate enough to be in Tassie earlier in the year and visited Port Arthur -- definitely leaves you with a tingle...

    Our thoughts are with the family and friends of the 35 people killed their ten years ago.


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    would love to know what REALLY happened at that point in time...

    i do feel immensely sorry for the victims and families but too many things simply dont add up from my point of view.
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    The question is, which comspiracy theory to believe.

    I agree it doesn't add up completely, but those who think that bryant didn't kill people that day at all are delusional.

    It was a very sad place before that day 10 years ago, not that is has a few more ghosts it's even more so. I went on the ghost tour before the massicre, I don't think that I could today.

    It's something that you really can't explain untill you've been there yourself.
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    Inc -- some of the sites dedicated to the various conspiracy theories go along way to discrediting the broader debate in relation to gun control.

    I am with Phoenix, Bryant was no 'patsy' and to think the 'government' was somehow involved is really unrealisitc.

    Phoenix -- we went on the Ghost Tour earlier in the year and it was interesting. Extremely well done.

    Something is just not right about that mental asylum next to the soliatry confinement prison 8O
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    Something is not right about a lot of places there. I once bought a little book on ghost stories there, and some are pretty chilling.

    On an interesting note, the front of my parents house is exactly the same as the hotell at port authur, kinda spooky by itself 8O
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    Originally posted by Noddy


    Something is just not right about that mental asylum next to the soliatry confinement prison 8O

    we went through in '97,,,
    glad to see that feeling has hung around--- 8O .

    while we didnt go on the ghost tour,, we did take the ferry ride around the bay,,

    THAT island was scarey from 100yards away... 8O
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    We actually visited Port Authur only 6 weeks before hand. It was a really strange feeling seeing all that had happened where we had been only a few weeks before. 8O
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    Like Captain Rightfoot I was there a week earlier when I was on my Honeymoon with the missus.

    Very sobering thought that we could have been there at this fateful time.

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    Originally posted by Noddy
    Inc -- some of the sites dedicated to the various conspiracy theories go along way to discrediting the broader debate in relation to gun control.

    I am with Phoenix, Bryant was no 'patsy' and to think the 'government' was somehow involved is really unrealisitc.
    oh i agree bryant was involved, but a delusional man on a rampage using the weapons he used, aint doing to bad when he can exceed by big numbers what trained specialists testified and demonstrated they could not accomplish using the same weapons ...some of the 4 corners background info is extremely chilling...and still remains unanswered... no conspiracy, plain documented facts...
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    Originally posted by incisor

    oh i agree bryant was involved, but a delusional man on a rampage using the weapons he used, aint doing to bad when he can exceed by big numbers what trained specialists testified and demonstrated they could not accomplish using the same weapons ...some of the 4 corners background info is extremely chilling...and still remains unanswered... no conspiracy, plain documented facts...
    I did not see the program, but reading between the lines here, was there another trigger out there?

    For mine, why did the police not shoot him! others have been shot for less. (ie failing to put down a knife at 3 or 4 metres distance from an officer).

    Gun control? Just the event to galvanise public opinion!

    Too many questions, not enough answers.

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