Silverstone goes "overboard" with surveillance

Silverstone's dark "War on Terror"

The Sunday Times this week revealed that Julian Grill his wife Lesley and visitors to their Mount Street home have been continally filmed by CCC voyeurs. This surveillance and gross invasion of privacy would have continued during the tragic death of their granddaughter last year - and continues today.

Not only is Mike "Children Overboard" Silverstone and the voyeurs down at the CCC bugging Julian Grill's house including their bedroom, we have now learned that Silverstone has also hidden cameras monitoring all movements to and from the Grill's house.

One miniature camera was discovered by an SEC worker last year and immediately shifted by the CCC goons.

The Desert Rat has been told the camera was low enough to see up a woman's skirt, if her hem is above the knee. That must have amused and titillated the spooks in the nearby van. Were any of these images circulated?

There is a strong probability that there are other cameras in the house - perhaps a toilet camera in case someone has a penchant for reading on the loo.

Mike Silverstone is very desperate to find something on Julian Grill to justify his massive waste of taxpayers money and probably illegal warrants.

Silverstone and his goons from Dad's Army, as well, have intercepted all Grill's home phone calls, mobile phones calls, faxes, email and bugged all the rooms in his house, including the bedroom.

To get warrants for this snooping Silverstone had to convince a judge that he had strong evidence that Grill had committed an offence which could incur a 7 year prison term. To date they don't seem to have any evidence that Grill has broken any law. The CCC has resorted to selectively airing salacious bits of conversations to severely damage or destroy Grill's public reputation.

No wonder Silverstone did not want to have the Parliamentary Inspector Malcolm McCusker QC look at the warrant applications. The Desert Rat believes the CCC has dishonestly obtained the warrants and someone should eventually go to gaol for this unnecessary and appalling breach of privacy and civil liberties.

In our Anglo Australian legal system, a strong principle of justice should be that the state must never use these types of powers unless they involve serious crime such as murder or major organised crime AND that they have strong evidence an offence has been committed. They certainly should not be used for CCC fishing expeditions.

Silverstone's grandiose pursuit of high profile politicians does not fit either of these two basic requirements. Silverstone seems to want to run the show like Dick Cheney who said after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon that "the USA was going to go over to the dark side".

It is clear to the Desert Rat that the CCC has been operating "on the dark side" of the law for most of its existence and like Chaney - Rumsfeld - Wolfowitz and fellow travellers, the CCC cabal will reap their bitter harvest.

It is becoming more probable as time goes by that the shady CCC operatives will end up in disgrace and in gaol.