“BLOODY MINDEDNESS IN QUEENSLAND” – or “How to keep the press and environmental scientists happy.”

Image –

Spy camera capture – preparations for an invitation only, Q-Gov garden party/press conference. Smith’s ™ Crisps, Palm’s ™ Condiments and straws - out of camera.

Queensland has always known how to give the public the best angle on what their wayward and completely corrupt government is up to behind the public’s back.

Sometimes it can be a real chore trying to explain how a drug crazed cop might keep tazering a bloke until he was black in the face and stone, cold dead.

When this sort of thing happens our government calls in the press for a conference.

Government, on these occasions, pulls out all the stops to ensure – to absolutely ensure the press are completely au-fait with the situation and satisfied beyond doubt that the government has done no wrong.

In this regard an old, tried and true process first established by the illustrious Bjelke Joh Petersen is brought into play.

He called it “Feeding the chooks”, gave them a line of guff along with mucho really good food but nothing more alcoholic than orange juice (back then booze and smokes were cheap but good, really tasty, food was almost non-existent).

These days the reverse applies, what with wowser governments and absolutely zealot NGO lobbyists – when the press absolutely have to believe (like when their jobs depend on it) what government says – then they definitely need a good drink.

Where was I? – Right. The above image was taken just before the police minister was explaining to the press how a dead person kept on being tazered until smoke was coming out of his ears..

Now, admittedly the constable might have gotten away with his excuse of ‘bad training/he hadn’t read the manual’ – except for the fact that he’d flattened the batteries in the third tazer he’d borrowed off his colleagues before he ran out of hormones and puff.

Indeed, it is times like these the press conference and the government trough pumped full of ‘rare single malt’ moonshine whisky comes into play.

Well, other than that there’s not a lot left to say about that subject.

Everyone knows that Q-Gov is corrupt and the press is compromised beyond recall.

But now, dear reader, you know the extent of the collusion.

Imagine what it looks like in the cold light of dawn – that trough lined with the supine, twitching bodies of once proud, incorruptible journalists fighting the fog and trying to remember what was said – what THEY’D said the evening before.

As for the environmental scientists – they’re happy with their lentils and cold bean soup.

They care less about the compromised journos killing themselves living a lie.

No doubt they’ll pretend that the coal seam gas fiasco in Queensland won’t destroy our best agricultural land for all time while they pray that Gillard will prevail with her tax on nothingness as stupid and potentially as destructive as Dutch tulip futures and the South Seas Bubble.

For other uses of tazers in Queensland, see - http://calligulashorse.blogspot.com/2011/03/another-coup-in-australia-andor-dowager.html#comments



“STOP VOTING FOR THE BRAINLESS BASTARDS BEFORE THEY KILL YOU FOR YOUR OWN GOOD” – or “Mandatory Poisoning”

Image –

“Always treat a small, unimportant area that is usually out-of-sight before washing the entire surface.”

Arthur was only using tap water and couldn’t find any instructions on the hose nozzle.

He decided to give the tail a good hose down before climbing up to do the wings.

He’d just gone forward to give the hubcaps and oleos a squirt when he heard a funny sizzling noise behind him.

“Shoot”, says Arthur I’m glad I didn’t wash the Hardly Drivable first!”

As I write this the temperature is 37 degrees C.

I’ve just taken a sip of cool tap water, gagged, and thrown the rest of the glassful out the door.

Oh it looks good, sparkling clear most of the time but tastes vile.

Today, the chlorine concentration is so high that you can smell a running tap five metres away AND a sip of the corrosive stuff burns the back of your throat.

Maybe its payback following the grand council amalgamation in Qld

My little town always used to have beautiful water unlike the coastal township next door.

Their water was so bad that it might as well have been pumped directly out of the Pacific Ocean directly above one of their sewage outlets.

Their petty, conniving politics was as bad as their water.

Then following Beattie’s ‘undemocratic council amalgamation without referendum’ and the forced conjunction of that shire with my city they’ve completely shagged the administration, politics and costs structure of the entire regional council as something closer to urine than water flows erratically through our pipes.

Naturally, along with the reduction of services and disappearance of quality with what little remains of traditional services – those few remaining services cost a fecking fortune.

And infinitely more importantly why the hell should we be paying a fecking fortune for something killing us en masse.

As the man says here – he’s straight arrow enough to believe in water treatment with chlorine in the correct concentration – repeat, chlorine in the correct concentration.

Further reading -

http://www.fluoridealert.org/

http://www.choice.com.au/reviews-and-tests/food-and-health/food-and-drink/beverages/water-filters-do-you-need-one/page/contaminants%20and%20additives.aspx

http://www.enotalone.com/article/6986.html

“ANOTHER COUP IN AUSTRALIA” and/or “The Dowager Prime Minister?”

Image – Long years in office wearing the regalia of premiership and look what happens to poor old Joh.

All explained below.

The scars caused by the GOGB 1^st class are not evident but the terrible strain of wearing the chain of office is there for all to see.

Notice the concentrated stare (or as concentrated as could be possible, given the circumstances) leftwards opposing the awful rictus of his jaw to the right caused by the chain of office. Stuck with wearing the modern electronic equivalent of what caused this is it any wonder why laborite premiers act so right wing?

We must be prescient -

This was going to be a short article about the last coup d’ etat in Canberra.

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coup_d'%C3%A9tat – definition, coup d’etat – for your convenience)

Inspiration for the original article followed the usual snowjob about the subject on ABC radio yesterday evening.

STOP PRESS –

But since then certain political elements in God’s own country have decided to stage their own pre-emptive mini-putsch. (It’s about mediocrity – Qld has mini-roundabouts, mini-cyclones and even a mini-unicameral parliament)

As most Queenslanders are aware ‘what passes for governance’ in Queensland has matched Paul Kruger’s Transvaal too closely for comfort.

About the only difference is that we somehow accidentally sacked our old fuhrer, Johannes Bjelke Petersen, before he managed to declare war on the rest of the country.

But things have “moved on” since his day –

(the incumbent premier of queensland is automatically vested with the ‘Grand Order of the Golden Blinkers, 1^st class’ and is consequently required to wear it/ them in office.

Unfortunately the GOGB 1^st class IS in fact a pair of bronzed, gold plated horse blinkers robbing the wearer of any ability to see sideways, backwards, up or down whatsoever.

Other significant items in the PoQ’s*regalia include what is allegedly a ‘chain of office’ but is in fact what is known in the equine industry as a ‘curb bit’.

It is said by those in the know that a qld premier in full fig is a sight to behold and that this is the reason why all government decisions are made ‘in camera’ or in the middle if the night.

It may be apocryphal that Mr Bjelke Petersen’s tendency to run off at the mouth with a startled expression on his face was in result of his gleefully dispensing with the burden of the regalia of premiership for press conferences and the like.

With the approach of the electronic age a way was found to miniaturise the official regalia.

Contact lenses replaced the GOGB 1^st class and a small electronic device based on the police tazer is taped to the premier’s chest under clothing.

For this reason the PoQ is these days bound to wear the modern miniaturized regalia 24 hours a day, seven days a week – in some ways like poor Julian Assange and his electronic manacle.

To avoid the embarrassment of being tazered in front of the public she has arranged a series of catch-phrases and mottos such as “moving forward, let’s not look back –  we’ll put that behind us, shall we - no, I haven’t seen that - I can’t say any more on this subject and – that’s before the courts; I shan’t comment”.

Some claim to have seen an occasional glimmer in the premier’s eyes recently Mistakenly interpreted as emotion it is actually the Pavlov reaction to the slight buzz caused by the electronic curb bit being activated by the premier’s ‘minder’.)

Well there you have it reader; an exclusive, a scoop, an expose’ of the real reason why the CEO of the Qld apparatchiks never speaks sense when asked a direct question.

Given this situation anyone wanting to be premier would either be a complete masochist, have rocks in the head – or both.

Yet we have Mr. Campbell Newman evidently dissatisfied with merely being Lord Mayor of Brisbane coming out of the closet and like the Japs at Pearl Harbour staging what he hopes is a pre-emptive strike for the job.

It appears not to matter that –

• He’s still mayor of Brizvegas
• He hasn’t yet gained pre-selection –
• Nor has he stood for election –
• Nor gained a seat –
• Nor sought the confidence of his peers in politics –
• Nor gained their approval by ballot

But a person could go on for quite a while listing the negatives of the scenario

Let’s look at the positives.

Mr. Newman has proven once and for all that public office is NOT for the community rather for and about the individual super-ego of anyone, by whatever means expedient, being able to claw their way into public office.

Term, tenure, trust, decency, confidence simply don’t matter.

Some would see their chance to be Lord mayor as touching the glittering prize.

It appears that Mr. Newman has picked up Brisbane like a toe rag, used, then discarded it.

Yet all he does, according to his own lights, is stretch ever so slightly what Madame Gillard and her co-conspirators pulled off a few months ago.

Do as thou will’t -

·         An it harm none, do what thou wilt

·         An it harm none, do as thou wilt

·         That it harm none, do as thou wilt

·         Do what you will, so long as it harms none

- is a message completely beyond the comprehension of either Newman or Gillard.

All of which brings us back to the ex-prime minister who, in the same way as the late Queen Mother, holds more affection among the populace than does the incumbant.

The once Queen had to become the Dowager Queen.

Kevin Rudd was made to stand aside by way of a coup. The Queen Mother and Empress of India CHOSE to stand aside.

When choice is lacking, overruling custom and precedent we have a coup.

Nonetheless we have a Dowager Prime Minister, of sorts, despite the coup, in Mr. Kevin Rudd.

* curb bit - http://www.frontrangefrenzy.com/horsecare/curb-and-snaffle-bits.html

“THE GENIE IN THE BOTTLE” – or who’s gonna get to uncork the Colonel?

Image –

“Don’t startle ‘im Joe – it’s almost full”

With the greatest respect for the memory of a great artist – Bill Mauldin – who, were he alive today, would see yet another generation of soldiers fighting over valuable resources for scurrilous, venal, reasons at the flimsiest of excuses.

We’re idiots at Calligula’s Horse.

We sometimes contribute comment to other weblogs.

Often, hours of work results in someone telling us that we know diddly squat about the subject – that our poor effort is incomprehensible/ indecipherable – that we’re paranoid conspiracy theorists – or just plain old-fashioned trolls.

So while having yet another editorial meeting at our new, flood-proof, workplace (six sets of water-wings installed in the first aid cabinet) Django was leafing through some folios of political cartoons.

“Here it is” he exclaimed “I’ve been looking for this one. All this hate going on in Libya and the need for an illustration for the article.”

“But what has that to do with Libya?” – asks A NON FARMER.

“Yeah, been smokin’ dried banana leaves again, have ya?” – Arthur enquires helpfully.

“No blockhead; it’s the same old game, only with a new twist” – replies Django.

“Look at this cartoon. A couple of American troops trying to figure out how to capture something they want. If they startle the enemy he drops what they want.

They have the power to kill the German soldier if they need to but they’ll probably lose the booze.”

Arthur shrugs dismissively – “So what?”

A red faced Django glowers at Arthur – “We pay you an allowance ‘cos you make a good cup of tea, Arthur – the other reason is that if we can get an idea into your head and publish it on the strength of that there is no excuse – no bloody excuse at all for some dolt out there in cyberspace to say he doesn’t understand what’s been published – okay?”

NnnnnnnnnnHhhhhh !?”

“Arthur, just keep your cool and pretend those two seppo grunts in the cartoon are in modern Libya. The German is really a Libyan soldier loyal to the colonel and the bottle in his hand is full of Libyan oil – in fact the bottle holds ALL the Libyan oil.”

“Couldn’t it’d all spill out !” – bawls Arthur.

“Jeeesus wept Arthur – it’s a POLITICAL cartoon – an abstract graphical concept. The bottle is something the Yankees want. Bill Mauldin probably intended it to mean that when he first drafted it.  Two against one from a situation of surprise represents the US against Germany then. The bottle represents what the US want from the German nation. The problem is that the German nation might decide to smash the bottle in order to deny the US that resource – or even worse – there might BE something in that bottle that, if frightened too much, the German nation could use against the US and allies.”

“Ooohh, like what Gaddafi’s likely to do then in Libya when he gets too pissed off.” – contributes Arthur.

“Yessss Arthur” – as Django collapses in frustration, sobbing over the table.

Transcript of comment, Calligula to John Passant - http://enpassant.com.au/?p=9688#comments

“A few weeks back I wrote –

“If anyone bothers to parse my words they’ll come to understand I do not want to see North Africa once again a playground for armour, nor any other play of the last cards of another collapsing empire squandering millions of lives.”.

Yet it has happened.

I am half way through reading “The Boer War” by Thomas Pakenham.

It ain’t your schoolboy history despite featuring Baden Powell.

Amazing parallels.

Empire in decline – resources – strategic location – a need to foment disunity amongst a stratified populace – and a desire to wage opportunistic war – a few amoral characters placed well enough to bend history to their whim.

Gaddafi now, like Kruger then, a central player about to be run out in this innings of the ‘Grand Game’.

Nothing ever bloody well changes, does it?

Paul Kruger in Africa acting like some Gaddafi/Bjelke Petersen composite – a balancing act playing one major power off against the other – meanwhile treating the majority of his populace like serfs in his satrapy corrupted beyond recall.

Oh yes – Kruger’s Transvaal – operationally, somewhat like Libya and attitudinally, very much – too much like Queensland, Australia.

Joe Chamberlain pretends to want moderation while his Viceroy Alfred Milner (the model for John Buchan’s protagonist for evil, “The Thirty Nine Steps”), in collusion with what we’d call ‘capitalist resources interests’, schemes for war.

Does British public opinion demand war?

No.

The reverse in fact. An apathetic public have to be driven toward an opinion by the press.

As in Queensland, the chooks (Joh’s name for the press) have to be fed in order to tell the public what they need to think.

One or two rash actions and the odd error of judgement on Kruger/Gaddafi’s part and – Bingo, war.

Any of this sound familiar?

The worldwide yearly budget of British Army intelligence in 1898 was a piddling 20,000 pounds and the War office didn’t even have a casebook of operational scenarios for war in South Africa. There were months of thrashing about before British soldiers were properly mobilized – similar to the build up before Gulf Wars 1 and 11.

So come on John –

Tell me how it could be this one outstandingly remarkable difference between Kruger’s treatment and Gaddafi’s – that the no fly zone was declared only a few hours ago and already he’s being stonked comprehensively?

Only an idiot would reject the obvious – that decisions have been made, funds/ resources/ manpower allotted and deployed months ago and dedicated to Gaddafi’s fall.

But meanwhile the neighbouring states of Egypt and Tunisia needed to be neutralized before the master stroke.

Gee, they’re getting bloody good at this sort of thing.”

Further reading -

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Pakenham_(historian)

http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/2990902 

“THEY TELL YOU WHAT TO THINK, WHEN TO THINK IT, AND WHY”

IMAGE – Emma ran away in stark terror when she saw this pikkie. She hates guns despite never having met one. Poor Emmie’s employer exempts her from handling Tasmanian stories ‘cos ‘Gunn’s’ is mentioned so often. Yep; Emmie works in an ABC newsroom despite her abysmal spelling.

For those interested, the rifles top to bottom – cal.303 Lithgow (oh yes, LITHGOW) carbine – Cal.303 RIC pattern carbine – cal.303 SMLE heavy barrel range rifle – cal.7.7mm Schmidt Rubin (one of the few that’s never been used as a cricket bat & has original owner’s namecard under the buttplate)

The decision was made some time last night (Australian time)17 March, for a ‘no fly zone’ over Libya.

Once that had been decided, Australian opinion has to be bent toward being on the side of the OzGov approved ‘good guys’.

And the best way of mustering that opinion is to convince Australians that ‘good Libyans’, revolting Libyans, are ecstatic about military intervention and in consequence countless thousands of them are letting rip with a feu de joie.

That must have been the justification for the sound recording of a 50 cal browning machine gun being fired into a berm (or some target not far from the firing point) accompanying Peter Cave’s radio news report this morning. (most shots fired into the air don’t produce a target impact signature a fraction of a second later)

An isolated incident?

Of course the ABC is notorious for getting sound effects and details wrong but any old sound bite will do when the cash strapped and technically challenged ABC want to get a story out.

Their recent documentary attempt about the St Patrick’s Battalion, Irish soldiers fighting for Mexico in 1848, had for sound effects the whiplash report of modern high velocity rifles rather than the authentic hollow thump of musketry of the era.

So what, who cares – it’s only a docco. Everyone’s entitled to a few technical mistakes.

Fair enough. Maybe they didn’t have soundtrack of musketry in their files; or maybe ‘Emma, the studio gofer’ hates guns so simply chose the nastiest gunfire tape she could find in the 30 seconds it took her to become terminally offended with the task.

Or is it that a gender lopsided, politically correct, ABC no longer employs anyone possessed of any breadth of life skills or technical knowledge?

Nitpicking; but that is the point -

The ABC still pretends to be a government entity with some sort of code of ethical practice which a reasonable person could expect to relate to accuracy in content.

Their task is to educate, inform and keep society au-fait with danger.

All of which is a duty of care increasingly being abused through omission or misinformation.

Is it at all important for the media to do their best to ensure technical accuracy in news reporting and documentary production?

Put it this way –

Q - Did anyone who was of the military, of a shooting club or knowledgeable of firearms fall victim to whatever happened at Port Arthur?

A – No.

Q - Why?

A – Firstly, probably because they wouldn’t be impressed with the sort of tawdry masquerade of faux troops popping off reproduction muskets at that tourist trap.

They’d avoid the overpriced dump to save money for target practice - but had they been there the significant difference between the dull report of a blank firing musket and the distinctive crack of a modern high velocity rifle would have immediately put them on their guard the second they heard it.

The lemming syndrome –

Hollywood does it so well. There’s that same old take of a disaster crowd scene yet again.

They all stand stock-still – or mill about shrieking until, at the whim of the director, they all rush off directly towards the maximum danger.

Yet this is exactly what so often happens in real life situations involving crowds and unexpected events.

Just like at Port Arthur.

A conspiracy theorist might easily contrive a scenario whereby the mainstream media are colluding with movie makers to keep the masses misinformed about risky situations.

Risk management; educate the public -

So doesn’t the ABC and their mates in the media have a moral duty to report everything technically accurately, whenever possible, right down to the background noises a person might hear if caught up in a dangerous situation?

We’ve had some bad weather in Oz. lately -

The ABC have been commendably good about advising the public to avoid crossing flooded roads and the like.

In that regard they seem to be able to call upon information and advice from a wide range of expertise.

The problem with the ABC’s approach is that it marches in step with the ‘lowest common denominator’ line taken by authority.

The other side of the coin –

Stay there – don’t move – if you move, you’ll be punished. This is the message declaimed by authority and willingly disseminated by the news media and the movie industry.

In so many ways we have been denied or lost contact with the cues that once offered we humans ‘situational awareness’.

In any given scenario a person cannot exercise appropriate risk management procedures if they are neither attitudinally situationally aware nor aware of inherent risk.

Please read -

http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/queensland/dalby-grazier-gary-briggs-steps-up-fight-after-being-fined-during-floods/comments-e6freoof-1226014347749

http://calligulashorse.blogspot.com/2011/01/we-are-masters-and-were-here-to-protect.html#comments

Which gives the above cynical conspiracy theorist the opportunity to say –

“Well of course, my boy; it’s all a conspiracy doncha know. One stupid, punitive, past government once gave little boys uniforms, sharp knives and enough knowledge of fieldcraft for them to grow up to be good little soldiers. This stupid, punitive, government wants ‘em all to grow up to be useless bloody sheep – then forces ‘em to stay that way all their lives.”

Some more reading -

http://www.despatch.cth.com.au/Misc/martinbryant/Pam06.htm

http://www.shooting.com.au/forum/index.php?/topic/796-port-arthur-consipracy-what-do-you-think/page__st__70

http://www.whale.to/b/viallspam.html

http://members.iimetro.com.au/~hubbca/pam2.htm



“WE WERE WRONG – THE USofA DOES CONDONE MURDER”

Image – Sometimes nation states have to act in ways not readily understood by the ‘common man’. Sometimes violence is necessary and sometimes ‘masterful inactivity’. Kevin Rudd mightn’t want Julian Assange assassinated but does want a ‘no-fly zone’ over Libya. What Kev thinks about Raymond Davis getting away with murder or schoolboys being punished for defending themselves is most probably also diametrically opposed to what Julia wants.

But never mind – the Australian public service are innovative and always have the answer.

This one was simple – just lose the ‘keys of state’ and divert everyone with an emu parade.

With regard to - http://calligulashorse.blogspot.com/2011/03/why-do-australians-seem-to-get-locked.html - and the fate of Mr. Raymond Davis –

It appears that some arrangement has been made to secure his release –

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/mar/16/cia-pakistan

It appears that some of the mainstream press can arrive at similar conclusions as do we; the thick skulled team at Calligula’s Horse.

In the previous article we blew it by suggesting Mr. Davis might become the ‘fall guy’ of the Great Game – tit for tat, a sop for those mistreated in that imperialist game.

That was by way of assuming even the USofA, in this day and age, couldn’t or wouldn’t stoop to buying Mr. Davis out of that much trouble.

But we were wrong.

They did stoop and almost as low as that day many years ago when they pretended that they had no clue that a Japanese fleet was heading toward Pearl Harbour.

The Australian twist –

The PM, as chief politician of what someone on the Guardian blog called a “poodle state”, has just returned from a tour of obeisance in the USofA.

More watery eyes and quavering voice – or was she just ‘poodle-faking’ in reverse?

What was she being briefed about?

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/blood-money-frees-cias-man-raymond-davis-in-pakistan/story-e6frg6so-1226022895834

Who knows – but it’s a fair guess that at least one part would be about how to treat the likes of Julian Assange and anyone else Australian who causes any bother to the USofA.

A prime symptom of the psychopath is their inability to perceive when they are causing harm.

http://www.softpanorama.org/Social/Toxic_managers/psychopath_in_the_corner_office.shtml

When Australian schoolchildren are forced to defend themselves they are punished –

http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/national/bullied-boy-at-chifley-college-dunheved-campus-suspended-after-fighting-back/story-e6freooo-1226021940542

http://www.knoxmoms.com/data/assets/boards/knoxmoms/showthread.php?s=6f91e26c28c42fd845d16bdafdb8e479&p=93364#post93364

http://annamariacom.blogspot.com/2011/03/bullied-sydney-schoolboy-fights-back.html

Okay then;  who or what do we have running the world?

• The USofA apparently condones extreme force undertaken with prejudice under the pretence of ‘diplomatic immunity’
• The USofA pays blood money (or arranges for blood money to be paid) in order to buy the freedom of one of its mercenaries
• In other words the USofA affords diplomatic status to mercenaries
• Australia is a formal ally of the USofA
• Australians have been incarcerated and threatened with assassination by elements of the USofA machinery of state
• Australians have no charter of rights –
• And therefore have no right to defend themselves against violence nor protect themselves against detriment
• An Australian schoolboy being subject to escalating physical violence electing to defend himself with reasonable force is punished for defending himself
• Every day in Australian courts Australian citizens are being punished for being in the circumstance of having to defend themselves

At the risk of upsetting any Australian reading this I’ll ask these questions –

Why do Australians keep their thumbs in their bums and their minds in neutral when it comes to the matter of their lack of rights?

Why can’t Australians see that we can only defend rights in other countries if we have rights at home?

Why can’t Australians understand that if the underdog is to be defended that the underdog must have a lawful right to defend themselves?

There are some conspiracy theories around the ridges.

They range from lizards in rubber masks to ghostlike beings from the hollow earth running our politics.

At Calligula’s Horse we’re not too sure about any of them but one thing for sure is that someone has lost the keys.

“WHY DO AUSTRALIANS SEEM TO GET LOCKED UP OVERSEAS” – or - A tale of three Aussie ockers.

Australia pretends to be a democracy.

She pretends to be a Common-wealth but without common wealth except for the elite.

The populace believe we have a constitution – but most have never read it and would find it an imposition if they were asked to.

Most believe they are somehow protected at Common Law (British Law) by way of the principle of separation of powers vested under that constitution.

There is some strange belief that this can be maintained by an ‘independent judiciary’ which, paradoxically, is appointed by politicians.

Australia has no charter of rights.

Australians don’t seem to worry that they have no constitutional or statutory rights.

Australian state and federal legislatures have been busy the last several decades supplanting Common Law with Civil Code (statutory) procedures but without providing adequate statutes or implementing procedural correctness satisfactorily applicable within Civil Code juridictions.

But once again the man in the street (who’s used to Kangaroo courts anyway) never bothers to strain his brain trying to work out how his only recourse to justice (Common Law) is incrementally, systematically being denied him.

Governments tend to employ stacks of lawyers.

Our lawyers know what is happening in Australia as do lawyers employed by other nation states.

When foreign powers decide to initiate legal proceedings against Australian citizens on their soil a prime consideration in preparing a brief would be the lack of an Australian charter of rights.

Hence David Hicks could be locked up for years in Gitmo Bay since, after all, he wasn’t LEGALLY a human being according to Australian law.

In fact, a PET CHOOK has more rights under Australian law than does it’s owner.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hicks

In case anyone is in doubt of this they might read the account of Mr. Hick’s treatment during his detention and the furore that resulted when he claimed British citizenship.

A reasonable person could readily assume that Australian citizenship has less merit than some others – leastways  for Mr. Hicks during John Howard’s watch.

But the days roll on, regimes change and people expect a change for the better.

Along comes the lad from Townsville; another bit of a scallywag.

No-one could deny that a high profile bloke about to be nominated for the Nobel Peace prize should have read his official Swedish bonking manual before even considering chasing skirt in Sweden.

But Julian has been dumped in a British cooler and while being threatened with assassination from the good old USofA has been subject to a series of ultra vires attempts at his extradition without his being charged with an offence.

As for his treatment back home in Oz.– well, not even Howard would have been as publicly detrimental to Julian’s right to justice at Civil Code (see above) as Gillard’s condemnation.

Then there is the matter of Mr. Ross Dunkley, another expatriate Australian with media interests overseas.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/media/publisher-detained-in-burma-swaps-cell-for-prison-hospital/story-e6frg996-1226018978125

At least in Ross’ situation he has some support from the mainstream press.

Yet this cuts no ice for the simple reason he has nothing much in the way of rights as a citizen of Australia.

Three Aussies mug enough to seek their destinies overseas.

Have they actually harmed anyone?

By harmed I mean like this –

http://www.topsecretwriters.com/2011/03/us-operative-raymond-davis-to-be-given-diplomatic-immunity/

Mr. Raymond Davis executes two Pakistani citizens and the USofA proceeds to move heaven and earth to spring him from the Pakistani caboose.

The old, jaded, ‘reasonable person’ could really get his knickers in a knot attempting to reason why the seppos would want to rescue a hired killer caught red-handed from the justice he evidently deserves.

It surely cannot be to preserve ‘national security’ ‘cos he blew the show out his arse by initiating a firefight in the middle of a city with enough espionage material in his car to cook the CIA goose five times over.

It cannot be for reasons of American justice – not after the way the victims of Gitmo have been treated.

So perhaps Mr. Davis was set up by his own nation in order to establish a fait accompli?

Maybe they want to claim that their own boys are prepared to sacrifice all in their eternal fight for freedom, democracy and the American way against the hairy barbarian.

But the American way no longer provides freedom and democracy.

Mr. David Hicks knows that from bitter experience and Mr. Julian Assange has ably demonstrated what Dave knows to the world.

So this reasonable person doesn’t need any conspiracy theories to see that the good ol’ USofA just might ‘expend’ one of their own citizens as a pawn in the ‘Great Game’.

If  Raymond Davis is found guilty of double murder in Pakistan, denied natural justice then executed – then Julian Assange’s life won’t be worth a brass razoo.

If the USofA declares a policy of tit for tat and our political masters keep crawling to them the way Madame Gillard has so ably demonstrated recently then we’ll all be available for exfiltration at their whim.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jurisprudence

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jurisprudence

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_code