User talk:Blissyu2
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Organising material
I know very little about the Port Arthur Massacre myself, but I've just restructured your work on that page in the hope that it will help you assemble the evidence. I agree with you that factual and well referenced is a good pattern to stick to. Some conjecture is acceptable where it is logical and clearly marked as such. Gradual laying out of the evidence (possibly over a range of pages) is a good first step. Robin (talk) 15:57, 13 May 2015 (IST)
- Thanks Robin. Yeah it is a bit hard to know where to start with it. With there being the most comprehensive suppression order in Australian history in place, there is a lot of evidence that simply isn't available for legal reasons, so it is a bit hard to know whether I should be referring to that stuff or just sticking to guessing. The suppression order only lasts for 30 years though, so come 2026 you will be seeing a lot of it released. Blissyu2 (talk) 01:21, 16 May 2015 (IST)
Suppression of evidence
That's noteworthy in itself. A valuable parallel with JFK assassination, 7 July 2005 London bombings, Russian apartment bombings... Robin (talk) 05:50, 16 May 2015 (IST)
- It's hardly the only one to have suppression of evidence in it. Soon after this, there was an event known as the Bodies in the Barrel murders, where people were killed so as to get their welfare cheques, including some of the original murderers being killed by some of the later murderers! That one had major suppression orders about large sections of the evidence, but, as far as I know, there is absolutely no conspiracy theory about it. I have certainly never heard of one. So having a suppression order does not equal a conspiracy theory.
- If I recall, the rationale for the suppression orders being so enormous was because of the claimed motive for the Port Arthur massacre, which was that Martin Bryant wanted publicity. To deal with that desire for publicity, there was an outright ban on all publications about any of it without having explicit permission from a judge over it. There have been about 10 books written about it, but, as you may guess, they all push the official line. There is no book that has ever been published about it that in any way disputes the official story. The reason is simple: you can go to jail if you publish anything without their permission.
- There is, however, a fair degree of freedom with what can be put on the internet about this. You can't put it in a printed newspaper, but you can put it on the internet.
