Funny, so "many" people write such nasty things about me in Bali. People who hide behind pseudonyms, people who have committed crime after crime, really typical expatriates in Bali in fact. Unfortunately Bali is a pedophile blackspot (source: UNCHR) riddled with crime and corruption yet somehow they (actually a small band of foreign hate mongers) are all saviors and I am the devil; Mark Austin Bali!
So I have taken the time out of my valuable family and real life away from the Internet to put some facts together about me, nasty Mark Austin of Bali! You can read my early Balinese history here, before the corrupt Bali police and certain criminal elements in Bali decided to act against me unlawfully and illegally. And before the little expatriate rat pack decided to jump on the bandwagon and have a go at me for sticking up for my legal rights while bringing the plight of the Balinese to travelers' attention. If you ever doubt just how corrupt and nasty the police are in Indonesia, your should visit the Transparency International web site and you will see the Indonesian government, legislative, police and judiciary rank as the most corrupt in the world.
Even after the police of Bali started acting like the mafia they really are against me, I still supported Bali; such as providing 2002 terrorist bomb victims' families with free accommodation plus donating money to the desperate families of hotel staff sent home without pay in a country with no social welfare system. Even to this day I run, through my UK company, a charitable reservations site for Bali & Thailand called Travel Ethos where 100% of the direct fees earned from hotels and villas go to local children's charities in Bali and Thailand, not like other reservation sites owners who line only their own pockets. Isn't it ironic therefore that there are heartless foreign crooks including pedophiles in Bali, all feigning respectability, calling me a bad guy? Me, nasty Mark Austin of Bali!
If you read any of their pathetic text written against me; take a look at who writes it and where. The few that actually disclose their real name; take a look on the Internet and see what others have to say about them. Those that use pseudonyms on forums and blogs where you do not have to disclose your real identity are likely to be the very same people playing the quantity not quality game and even if they are different individuals, their words are clearly those of cowards. They clutch at straws trying to find something, anything unsavory about me and even accuse me of selling prescription drugs illegally; what a joke! Read about the truth here: Balinese Expatriate Facts.
Regarding the corrupt mafia Balinese police, you can read in detail what happened to me here: Nasty Bali, but I would like to summarize some key facts here;
1) The Balinese police have conducted a number of unlawful investigations against me and once unlawfully seized my passport (until the British Embassy intervened to get it back). The police have made regular death threats against me.
2) My aggrieved competitor, Jack Daniels of Bali Discovery Tours, paid the Balinese police $3000 to place my name on Interpol's regional watch list as a suspected insurgent even though the only official investigation into me was for libel (against him, what a joke) which does not qualify me for a watch order under Interpol's strict criteria. After a formal complaint, Interpol removed that watch order although I get threats from Bali that there will be more watch orders to come as they are determined to get me. Some expats say I am making the Interpol thing up. Although I can not put all of the evidence I have on this site for obvious reasons, please see Balinese / Indonesian Interpol.
3) The data from that watch order including my home address in Phuket where we lived at the time and my movements were passed to Jack Daniels of Bali Discovery Tours (he does not like me because I caught him committing fraud and other illegal acts such as tax evasion and personally working in Bali illegally without a visa) who then paid for Thai gangsters to try and kill me (these are all recorded / documented facts). I tried to resolve matters with Jack Daniels (not the other way around as he says) but he would not have it. I tried to resolve the matter in a US court with him, a US citizen, but he evaded service and claimed US courts did not have jurisdiction over him. Unfortunately my US lawyer screwed up and filed a court petition two days past the deadline and I lost the right to me Daniels face-to-face in a real court, not some kangaroo Indonesian court (see Transparency International's reports) on technical grounds; I got my legal costs back and Daniels did not but that was no consolation to me or getting matters properly resolved for everyone's benefit.
4) My problems in bringing the corrupt Balinese police and Daniels to justice are ongoing as although Indonesia has acceded to the International Convention on Human Rights it has never adjudicated a single case of the thousands of complaints submitted and has refused to sign the all important First Protocol which would allow these cases to be heard outside Indonesia. Indonesia has according to Human Rights Watch (just see what they have to say about cases such as "Munir") one the very worst records for human rights in the world. My own government's policy is not to interfere with domestic matters in another country, even when they are illegal and against one of their own subjects.
5) The Balinese police keep trying to get me outside their jurisdiction, the latest thing is they are trying to get the Balinese legislators to classify me as a terrorist because of my web site Nasty Bali on the basis it terrorizes people (no, really, I am not kidding you, read this). Of course, if I had published anything unlawful outside Indonesia, the Indonesian authorities could and would easily be able to get it removed from the Internet and even file a criminal complaint against me, or sue me. If they really believed my web site causes unrest in Bali, it would be yet another simple matter for their regulatory body to prevent people in Indonesia from accessing it. The reason therefore the Balinese police do what they do instead is what I have to say is 100% lawful / legal but because it describes how bad they are, they really do not like it; you know, thieves hate being called thieves and all that.
6) Recently details of my passport (the one that the Balinese police unlawfully seized) were published on the Internet by two aggrieved nasty expats in Bali; Roy Thompson a widely reported narcotics dealer in Ubud and Bert Vierstra a reported pedophile in Lovina. The only place the passport copy could have come from is the Balinese police as the passport they seized at the time was a brand new replacement and got accidentally destroyed in the washing machine shortly after I got it back from them; it was the copy of this same passport which got published by these Bali expats on the world wide web.
7) These nasty expatriates and the even nastier Balinese police are trying to this day to find out my true (present) home address. They have even been on eBay trying to find it that way; fortunately I had the foresight to use my lawyer's office address here. They also will do anything it seems to get a more up to date and better quality photograph of me as the one they have is a not very good copy of a copy of an old passport photo.
Just look around and you will see what I say is factual. So why do these bitter, classless foreign "oiks" laugh at the fact someone made a serious attempt to murder me? And why too do these same foreigners in Bali want to defame me? Because they are not happy that I stick up for my legal rights and publish the truth, which just happens to conflict with their wholly selfish interests. Remember, a lot of what I have published and been attacked for has been my sticking up for the Balinese who get defrauded at work by their employers. I am sure any level headed person will agree Bali's expats publishing my photograph, wanting a current original plus my current address in Portugal is at the very least weird and in bad taste, especially given the murder attempt against me, most likely attempts to help put my life at risk again.
Footnote: The Balinese people are generally really nice and peaceful but get abused something rotten by Jakarta and the foreigners that plague the island. Not all foreign expats in Bali are bad, I know a few that are nice, even great people that support the Balinese; but too many are not, beware.
Regards
Mark Austin
HRH King Nasty of Bali
Friday, August 31, 2007
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