CLEARING, CLEAR THE CLUTTER, WHEN IN DOUBT THROW IT OUT.

Trial will destroy Pitcairn: missionaryFrom correspondents in AucklandSeptember 24, 2004
A LEADING member of the US-based Seventh Day Adventist Church called today for the immediate adjournment of a series of sex trials on the remote British Pacific colony of Pitcairn Island.The trials, in which seven men face 96 separate charges under Britain's Sexual Offences Act, start Monday on Pitcairn, a 50-strong community founded in 1790 by Fletcher Christian, leader of the infamous Mutiny on HMS Bounty.
The Seventh Day Adventist Church has been the majority faith on the island since 1890 and its Pacific Union College in San Francisco hosts a Pitcairn Island Study Centre headed by former missionary Herbert Ford.
"There has been so much irregularity, so much seeming pre-agreement toward a given conclusion, so much that smacks of possible illegality demonstrated in documented form, that any trial conducted before these very serious matters are carefully studied and resolved would be a gross miscarriage of justice," Mr Ford said in a statement today.
He said British police officers who investigated the alleged crimes had acted improperly and that Britain's Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) had refused to study alternatives to the trials.

"The Pitcairn trial as presently being pursued, in addition to the possible incarcerating of individuals, has the potential to destroy an entire indigenous people group and in written form (the FCO) has said it doesn't matter if that happens," Mr Ford said.
"Already the United Kingdom's open-to-the-entire-world, dogged pursuit of a traditional destroying courtroom trial has wreaked irreparable harm to the fragile fabric of Pitcairn society."
Pitcairn Island Chief Justice Charles Blackie and two other judges, Jane Lovell-Smith and Russell Johnson - all New Zealand District Court or lower court judges - arrived this week on Pitcairn, a rocky, forest-clad five-square kilometre island 2160km south-east of Tahiti.
The seven accused face a variety of allegations stemming from a complaint laid in 1999 by a Pitcairn woman.
Pitcairn was uninhabited until Christian's mutiny on April 28, 1789, against Captain William Bligh, who was set adrift.
Eight mutineers along with six Tahitian men, 12 Tahitian women and a small girl then searched the South Seas for a haven, reaching uninhabited Pitcairn on January 15, 1790, where they remained undiscovered until 1808.
The Seventh Day Adventist Church was founded in New Hampshire, USA, in 1844. Its beliefs are similar to the Methodist and Baptist faiths.
The church claims around 14 million members worldwide with around 100,000 in the South Pacific.

YEAH YOU KNOW MY HEART BLEEDS FOR THE POOR PRICKS! ITS JUST NOT FAIR THAT BECAUSE OF THESE WOMEN REPORTING RAPE, VIOLENCE AND ASSAULT AGAINST THEM , GENOCIDE WILL BE COMMITTED........WHAT A TRAVESTY.
THE LEGAL SYSTEM SHOULD LOCK THESE WOMEN AWAY THAT HAVE REPORTED RAPE ETC.........THEY HAVE COMMITTED THE CRIME OF GENOCIDE.
WHAT A LOAD OF *BOLLOCKS*.........I HOPE THIS ENCOURAGES MORE WOMEN TO COME FORWARD AND REPORT................GET RID OF THESE FUCKERS FOR GOOD.