Radical revolutionaries, maniacal Marines, sexual shenanigans, dodgy dealings, horny hippies, Hare Krishnas and High Court judges: this is the stranger-than-fiction story of American military deserter Douglas Beane. From the violence of Vietnam in the Seventies to beach life in Brunswick Heads in the Eighties, Doug’s case rattled the echelons of power in Washington and Canberra while proving beyond any reasonable doubt that the man himself was one of the world’s most accomplished lovers — if one of its most lacklustre fighters.
extradite him in the Australian High Court.
Hi Michael thank you for the story on Doug Beane , i was a friend of Doug i met Doug late 2003 and the last time I seen Doug was in the Boarding house Brunswick Street Newfarm Brisbane when I left the accommodation about 2005 on inquiry the following year i was told he’d left there and I’d asked a barman at the Queenslander pub at Roma Street Transit centre where Doug occasionally drank he’d heard Doug had moved to Gatton i think ? Doug had told a few stories of his life in the Army etc also his time living on communal Krishna? Etc certainly an interesting character 🤔 have wondered for years about him now you have given me some answers, very sad I’ll never meet him again 😢