Multi-offending paedophile gets passport

Is this fucked up or what? Jack Thomas, a perfectly normal guy who has not been convicted of a crime, is subject to a control order, and this subhuman piece of dirt is free to travel the world and sexually abuse children. How is it that he isn't in jail? Who presents the bigger danger to the community, people like Jack Thomas and David Hicks, or a convicted paedophile with 40 convictions?

Guess which sort the media gets most frothy-mouthed over?

The Howard Government has dropped plans to appeal against a court ruling to hand back the confiscated passport of a notorious pedophile whom federal police suspect of abusing children in Asia last year and who they believe will reoffend as soon as he leaves Australia.

Convicted pedophile and one-time prison escapee Paul Thompson, 57, successfully challenged a decision by Foreign Minister Alexander Downer to ban him from leaving Australia after he breached reporting convictions last year and secretly travelled to Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand.

Australian Federal Police told the Administrative Appeals Tribunal they suspected Thompson - who has more than 40 sex-related convictions spanning three decades, mostly involving young boys - would reoffend in Asia if granted a passport.

Federal police last week interviewed teachers from the school in Thailand. Agents are also understood to be in Bali where Thompson coached youths at a cricket club between 1999 and 2004 after escaping from a West Australian jail in 1991.

After his escape, he was convicted and imprisoned in 1996 for molesting a boy in Darwin but then released, despite being wanted over his escape in Western Australia, where he was serving time for preying on boys, aged between seven and 10, in Perth's public parks.