by a Grandmother in Australia
[Editor’s Note: One of the Protective grandparents I have been hearing from, wrote this letter to me yesterday. I then asked her permission to publish it. She said Yes. As each week goes by, the stories I receive get worse and worse. I could never have imagined, even a few months ago, how the system has become so repugnant — all in plain sight, within the hallowed walls of power.]
Dear Dee [McLachlan],
I just read Mary [Maxwell]’s 4 February Gumshoe News article. I feel physically sick. This is my story. I am scared.
I am one of 50 people out of 24.6 million Australians currently being monitored and investigated by the new “Fixated Persons Investigation unit” – the FPIU. They took more than two hours to download the contents of my phone onto a disk for the Justice’s pleasure, thereby enabling police and the judge to closely monitor me.
I now have a sticker in my passport SECURITY DO NOT REMOVE 15/11/18.
They miss the point — if courts were primarily committed to upholding The Rule of Law, there would be no need for the Vexatious Litigant provision.
I read in The Australian Magazine, on 2 February, that in Canberra, ACT, an “obscene miscarriage of justice” (not nearly as bad as my daughter’s case) was overturned. There, the domestic violence victim who was wrongly sentenced to imprisonment was released from jail — after police found inconsistencies in the alleged crimes and that these were all ‘unfounded.’
On 17 January, the real offender was sentenced to a two-year non-parole period. (I can only wonder why the victim or his parents hadn’t got ‘flagged’ by the Fixated Persons Act as a “vexatious litigant”!)
Apparently I am a person who harbours unusually intense fixations on public figures – such as the judge who wrote into judgment that I am the perpetrator of “incest” rather than the real offender, who is the father.
Supposedly I constantly harass politicians and other public figures … who always slam the door on my face, “because,” like my daughter, I must be a seriously mentally ill individual in need of “care.”
A new unit of the Police Force has been created which ostensibly aims at me as a “lone wolf-terrorist.” They will be closely monitoring me forever, until I die, which probably won’t be much longer, because I am slowly dying of a broken heart.
They can even access my medical records. They can hold me in jail for up to 14 days — without having to inform my family. (This will be the next step.) The unit is about neutralising fixated people like me, before my issues escalate into violence.
And then halfway through the November police search of me, they want to know if “I plan on kidnapping my grandchild?” who was kidnapped by the Judge eighteen months beforehand, to be ordered into the Child Exploitation Industry, for the benefit of the real child abuser.
Per the Sunday Courier Mail of 3 February, 2019, the government and the opposition are beefing up lucrative bounties for people like me to encourage us to blow the whistle and divulge white-collar crimes. [Opposition Leader] Bill Shorten said “corporate fraud is stealing.” I am saying “fraud upon the family court is child stealing.”
Shorten also said “Don’t let these crooks get away with it. It is time these corporate criminals are stopped from being above the law.” However, officers of the court don’t fit into this corporate criminal category, because they are apparently so above the law they are ‘untouchable.’
The Royal Commission [into Banks] has seen corporate criminals resigning in droves. But I am a querulous (vexatious) person, and if I continue to whistle blow about fraud upon the family court, including all officers of the court and the judge, then I would “bring disruption to the family court organisation in which I seek my vision of justice.”
[Editor’s note: May I repeat that? A protective grandmother will “bring disruption to the family court organization” because she seeks her “vision of justice.”]
My “vision of justice” is to have my grandchild taken back from her outrageously-arranged illegal guardianship and rescued and returned to her mother and her entire maternal family who are being wickedly eradicated from her life.
But my vision is untenable, hence my grandchild is ordered to stay in the child exploitation industry, for the next 12 years until she is eighteen.
Mary, at Gumshoe, is telling me not to be scared to make noise. I have made lots of noise up until now; all I get is “doors slammed in my face.” Mary is right: AUSTRALIA IS BECOMING A POLICE STATE, due process doesn’t exist, and neither does overturning injustice like they did in the aforementioned Australian Capital Territory case in January, 2019.
As for being paid to whistle-blow, the family court and its criminal judges will never be stopped from corporate child-stealing fraud, because they are untouchable, and because they have “Fixed me” by entering me into the “Fixated Persons act” as a vexatious litigant……
The only way to get this ‘psychopathic family court’ fixed is to have a bigger psychopath, Parliament, come down on it. The Governor-General needs to call two Houses of Parliament together. Then, “out go the orders, out go the judgments, and out goes the judge.”
Editor’s note: That is a wonderful thought — “out go the orders.” Families restored.
But I don’t know how to do that. And yes, I am more scared for my little grandchild and my daughter than I am for me — where the thought of living with an abomination of justice for the next 12 years is just too much to bear.
Please tell me what to do next. GumshoeNews.com keeps me sane. Knowing you are on my side helps me a lot. Thank you so very much.
Comment by Mary W Maxwell
The fault lies with state parliaments for passing a Fixated Persons Act. I think every state now has one, and other countries do, too; China has a worse one.
This law is not valid within our English law tradition, as it punishes a person based on “anticipated” crime. Our laws about an accused person’s rights are well set out, staring eight centuries ago with the Magna Charta of 1215AD.
See NSW Barrister Terry Shulze’s 2018 article on this at Gumshoe, entitled “Review of Australian Law and Its Decline.” The healthy situation would be for the courts to overturn invalid laws/
The current trick – as in the above grandmother’s case – is to say that the fixated person is not accused – thus does not come under the protection of those rights.
Rather, the pretense is, that she is a danger to society. She “might” do something harmful. So government should prevent that — by taking away all her freedom and dignity.
How did this new law come about? Perhaps like the 2005 anti-terrorist laws in Australia, it came about by collusion of our government with other governments. In other words, Australia was a sucker. (In 2005, a UN ‘law’ had instructed member states to initiate such laws!)
Try to envision the Powerful, or the minions of the Powerful, sitting around a table. The first one says: “People in free countries are a pain. They mean to thwart our takeover. Their rights are protected by law.”
The second one says “No worries — change the law.” The first one says ‘Difficult — some of their legislators won’t permit.” The second one says “Get rid of those legislators.”
The first ones says “We do that all the time, maybe we should step it up. However, even if they pass a bad law there’s another stumbling block. The High Court can throw it out.”
The second one says “Don’t you know how to corrupt the judges?” — Etc.
Anyway, Gumshoe can’t fulfill the Grandmother’s request to “tell me what to do next.” The grandmother has done much as she could and is now physically retrained from more. Her further approaches to any court are blocked.
Even if she even now sends a request to court, the court could contact the FPIU — fixated persons investigation unit – can you imagine — thereby allowing police to escort her to “Broadmoor.” (Does anyone recall how the Soviet Union used psychiatry to imprison protestors?)
So the entity that needs to help her is Society. Every Australian should feel personally, selfishly, interested — as living a police state is not going to be any fun.
The staff of Gumshoe staff is mainly two people. We are not capable of overturning the Fixated Persons Act.
Dee has spent an amazing amount of time, behind the scenes, contacting all levels of government to get help for a few Protective parents. None have yet obliged. Dee says she is developing PTSD from the shock of all this. I believe it is known as vicarious trauma.
“The power of one” just doesn’t cut the mustard when you have many legislators living in a trance, and when you have good judges unwilling to speak out about the bad judges. Has anyone yet heard a good judge, or a law professor, speak out?
I’m telling you – you have to act. The yellow vests in Paris are demanding a specific thing – to hold referenda for all important decisions. An Australian equivalent would be a demand for something specific – the narrower the better, I think.
One method – you’d need it in every state – would be to have a People’s Board of Inspection for any case that has come into the FPIU. “We the People do not need legislative permission to set up a private board of that type.” The ‘grandmother’ could then describe her situation to that board (as she has to Gumshoe).
Note: Dee knows of violence being committed right this minute on a person who has brought her case to “the court of Gumshoe.”
Granted, infiltrators will join the Boards of Inspection. You’ll just have to put up with that. Mathematically it’s unavoidable. But at least the name “Board of Inspection” would let the public know that there is counteraction available to the outrageous FPIU.
The mission of the board? To hold officials accountable for what they do. The board would have to look at a case, and invite “the other side” — who presumably wouldn’t show up anyway – and then render an opinion as to whether it considers that person, e,g., Grandma, a danger.
Sure, the police department has assigned “experts” to its FPIU. But the citizens’ Board has a different kind of expert – namely the kind that is aware of why such a law has suddenly come into existence.
The board members will also stay alert to the existence of a Child Exploitation Industry.
Thank you, Grandma, for that new phrase.
Note: Diane DeVere has reported that there is already an Aboriginal group, called “Strong Grandmothers,” that looks at cases of children about to be sent to Guardianship and recommends caring relatives to do the job.
Who can disparage a group of strong grandparents? No one.
Dee McLachlan Adds:
In the above letter to me, the author wrote:
“Apparently I am a person who harbours unusually intense fixations on public figures – such as the judge who wrote into judgment that I am the perpetrator of ‘incest’ rather than the real offender, who is the father.”
As I understand it (but I haven’t seen the documents), the judge allowed “police verbals” to make out that the grandmother was the abuser – via false documents.
As a result the said grandmother who was called a paedophile in court was pulled out at the airport, upon returning to Australia, searched as a security risk to Australian Society, and asked if plans were being made by her to kidnap her grandchild, she hasn’t seen or spoken too in almost two years since the child was legally kidnapped for the child exploitation industry. How could a person not be interested in such a judgment and such a judge?
Don’t forget Dr Russell Pridgeon, who is soon to face court for “child stealing” despite his many approaches to police and ministers to get help regarding a pedophile, or Andrew McIntyre’s and Rachel Vaughan’s endless efforts to call police’s attention to their murderous father.
If we let this sort of thing happen we will all lose our minds – which is probably the intended goal!
Message to the jerks who are doing this:
Do you remember hula hoops? Do you remember spiked hairdo’s?
They passed on, didn’t they? And your little employment in the Evil business is also going to go out of style. Better get some retraining for a different career.
Lemme tell you. Some things never go out of style. A mother’s attachment to her sons is not going to diminish. Even if she wanted to get rid of it she couldn’t.
As the “Fixated Persons Act” isn’t listed here:
https://www.legislation.gov.au/Search/fixated%20persons%20act
or here:
http://classic.austlii.edu.au/databases.html
there doesn’t appear to be any such thing.
Vexatious Proceedings Act 2008
This SMH report might get the curious digging to a ‘Fuller’ extent!!. (:-} So sorry!
https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/up-to-50-wouldbe-extremists-assessed-by-new-police-fixated-persons-unit-20170426-gvsldb.html
some ‘fixilated’ persons listed here.
http://www.supremecourt.justice.nsw.gov.au/Pages/SCO2_practiceprocedure/SCO2_vexatiousproceedings.aspx#Istherearegisterofvexatiouslitigantsandtheordersthatapplytothem?
Berry your comments are dead wrong! Sorry.
20 Feb 2018: From The Top of the Hill: “Fixated Persons Law- Asphyxiate The Fixated”
Two States NSW and Qld have secretly passed legislation regarding “Fixated Individuals”. Combined law enforcement-health unit will focus on those who are marginalised but not on the counter terrorism radar, working under the guise that they are protecting government officials and people from terrorism with these measures.
These laws are being used to ‘shut people up’ who speak out or make complaints about corruption, where government and corporations are concerned. There is an article written on the Sydney Criminal Lawyers website. The opening paragraph says it all.
“A new unit of the NSW police force has been created which is ostensibly aimed at combatting “lone wolf terrorism” by closely monitoring “fixated persons” focusing on mental illness and lone wolf attacks”
Freedom of information, opinion and expression doesn’t exist in Australia.
Google Queensland’s Police’s Orwellian “fixated Persons Unit” which is a secretive branch of the Qld Police that has “Big Brothers Shadow Looming Over It” writes Gold Coast Lawyer, Chris Nyst. It is staffed by police and Qld Forensic mental health service, designed to identify people thought to “fixate” on Government officials and other public identities
Melbourne- ABC News criticised Victorians “Fixated Peoples Act” and anti-terrorist centre of being loopy and illogical…..
So Berry there’s plenty of ‘Fixated Persons Law to Asphyxiate the fixated’
I have heard an account.
My sincere sympathies are with the distraught grandmother and all like her that are actually or potentially in a similar bind.
Much and all as it may be considered Gumshoe Political Correctness to get into a flap bemoaning the way things are and coming down with a case of PTSD hoping for a “legal” solution to a claimed “legal” problem; such is not only ineffectual it is counter – productive as it only reinforces the desperation of the afflicted and the smug confidence of the villains because they hold all the aces and they have the deck stacked with lackeys.
It’s not a “legal” problem; it’s a moral problem; the “law” and its instruments are to be subject to the nature and purpose of civil law. That means that it is perfectly morally legitimate to oppose and repudiate a civil law that is in conflict with the moral law. However, it is one thing to cite moral law but it is another altogether to have the means to oppose blatant abuse or imposition of the civil laws for nefarious purposes.
Look, it’s much too hard for this grandmother and her sympathetic family to tackle this monster on her own. What is needed is the cooperative support and action planning of like people and other sympathisers. In this IT age we don’t have to live in the same town and attend “meetings” that are pretty intimidating and costly in terms of travel and time. No, the written word via email gives everyone the opportunity to consider and reply in their own good time. Obviously not the preferred platform of demagogues and con artists.
No, I cannot create such an organisation myself and invite members to “my” gang. Such a thing must be inaugurated by the people involved such that they own and control their mission and method, and most importantly, they have the capacity to refuse or cancel membership to hostile, or megalomaniac, infiltrators. Ultimately, it’s a moral issue but I bet that there are ordinary people “out there” (few lawyers or politicians, mind you) who would rally to defend most basic issues of culture and morality if it didn’t involve noisy street parades.
Olddavid. No political correctness re gumshoe. Just fact. Also 23 cases of “removal” into guardianship in one court on one day. The scale is startling. The stories affecting. The urgency is constant. People are already working in groups. The story unfolding. It is all problematic: legal, moral, logistical, political, media, exposure, and much more. No gag orders would mean immediate exposure of 1000s of cases.
Does that include several of my comments that were/are effectively blocked “awaiting moderation”?
[quote McLachlan] No gag orders would mean immediate exposure of 1000s of cases.[/quote]
“Exposure” to whom by whom? Which part(s) of the secretocracy do you suppose would spontaneously self-destruct or evaporate?
I suggest that it would only cause them a bit more bother because the self-censorship of the victims (by court order) might be less reliable.”No gag orders” isn’t going to happen anyway. I still maintain that concerted action by interested parties is the only way to go.
Rampaging “Yellow Vests” are a set up for infiltration, and false flag blame to invite Gov’t action including to call in the armed forces to protect the blardy Gov’t from the citizens.
Even about 30 years ago I had some friends fairly high up in the RAAF and SAS who both said that the bulk of their training was not about repelling invaders but was preoccupied with “domestic insurgencies”.
We’ve got to play it cunning and we’ve got to play it hard. You need close handy and reliable mates for that… not ratbag rabble-rousers.
I pay for this site David… If you want to post unnecessary acerbic comments — I am not paying for your privilege to do so. I am happy to hit a time out button.
Orrite. I’ll not bother you any more.
I don’t mind conflicting views being aired. Or disagreement with me.
Could some of you stand as Independents on this issue and let the Australian electorate give you a political mandate?
Berry,
Best try a search at duckduckgo on the subject before pronouncements.(:-
Oops. I agree with Berry. If its not on austlii.edu.au it is probably not a genuine law. And the newspaper quote says “legislation was secretly passed.” Hello! There’s no such thing as secret legislation — how could there be?
So I apologiize if I got it wrong. Can’t research it at the moment. It would be great of I am wrong. Yipee!
I hope you’re right MM. We await for the unfolding of this saga
RETRACTION CITY
Dear Readers,
As you know, I am in the habit of quoting the law directly, but I did not take the time to look up the wording of the (alleged) “Fixated Persons Act.” Having been told by a friend that there was such an Act, I merely chased down the “corresponding” police unit. NSW Police Commissioner Fuller has been interviewed by the Guardian in an article entitled “NSW police establish ‘fixated persons’ unit to help counter lone wolf terror attacks”.
That article says: “There will be 17 detectives tasked to the unit. Fuller said that NSW Health would also make experts available to provide assistance.” I wouldn’t think Fuller could take such action without there being parliamentary say-so. But our commenter Berry pointed out that no such legislation is found at austlii.edu.au. That website is a valid compendium of Australia’s laws, and indeed no Fixated Persons Act appears there. So I believe my allegation was incorrect.
This does not affect the grandmother’s story above. She was caught by the Fixated Investigations Unit. So I have asked Gumshoe Editor Dee to change the title of today’s article to say “Fixated Persons Unit” instead of Fixated Persons Act.”
I’ve also asked Dee to pull the article I wrote a few days ago comparing the provisions of the legislation for vexatious litigants (it’s in the Family Law Act) with fixated persons.
(Ah, goody, I just phoned Dee and she agrees with me, so I guess we can go down in history as saying “We decided to pull it.”)
I will write to Commissioner Fuller and ask what is the legal basis for holding someone as a suspected fixated person, and will report back to you.
Again, my apologies, and thanks to Berry for the correction. Now if only someone would discover that the US does not really have a Homeland Security Act….
Ned says there’s a article in the Daily Telegraph this morning about a Fixated person. Can’t find anything on the net so far.
Ref: page 8 of The Sunday Telegraph (Sydney) 10th Feb 2019.
‘PRISON POSTED VILE LETTERS’.
An arsonist whose fire killed a woman has been charged over a campaign of letters sent to celebrities and politicians that prison hospital officials refused to stop.
Servving 17 (?) years originally from Iran wants to return…
On Tuesday (last) the NSW ‘fixated persons unit’ (police) charged Dezfouli with 16 offences …..
Including making a bomb threat.
He is to appear in Waverley (local) Court on Feb 13. (This Wensday)
Seems that he is accused of recently sending the white powder to the Premier’s building that caused a shutdown.
There is more in report.
In WA a prosecution must “identify the written law and the provision of it that creates the offence”
REF: CRIMINAL PROCEDURE ACT 2004 – SCHEDULE 1, 5(1) (b)
I’m not au fait with the requirements in any other State but I can’t imagine that there’d be any significant difference. As the above “news” report doesn’t divulge any such details it should be taken with a grain of salt; as you are no doubt aware, such papers are notorious for spewing out garbled shit
The overarching point is that the erosion of fundamental freedoms/rights is invariably rolled out in a certain format: soften everyone up by getting bureaucrats and other government agents to pretend that they’re upholding some law or other, throw in some Polie & Po bluster, buoy it up with a bit of MSM scare-mongering. All pretty predictable really.
Thank you Berry. You seem to be talking about a prosecution — but so far the goss is that the Po can grab you for a while (maybe commit you to the loony bin, I am not sure) but being a fixated person is not itself a crime, so it would not come to prosecution.
If you hadn’t caught my error I would now be adding to the misinformation that Parliament passed a law re fixated — but they didn’t.
Recall Dee’s discovery of the Bella Vista incident. Federal Parliament got away with passing harsher laws based on a false media/Po story about a sailor being roughed up by 2 Middle Eastern looking men. (I mean they wouldn’t be Nordic types would they.)
Berry,
Really! Just turn up up in Waverly court on Wednesday and tell the magistrate that the 16 charges are garbled shit.
If you cannot make it, submit a letter.
Best of luck.
I might duck up there myself and sit at the back and watch.
Ned, you wrote:
“On Tuesday (last) the NSW ‘fixated persons unit’ (police) charged Dezfouli with 16 offences …..
Including making a bomb threat.
He is to appear in Waverley (local) Court on Feb 13. (This Wednesday).”
So what? They can accuse him of a bomb threat which has been on the books for yonks. They can accuse him of rape. Whatever. That is not the crime of being a fixated person.
And where did I claim or infer that he committed or was charged with such a nonexistent offence?
Would readers please scroll up a few to 11.11 to read what I simply reported from the Tele report. I am simply trying to assist as ‘The Messenger’.
I do not appreciate being shot.
So far as I’m concerned, the real value of the anon Grandmother’s account is that E V E R Y B O D Y needs to know how to handle impertinent/leading questions such as “are you planning to kidnap your grandchild?”
OK I’ll be the guinea pig here, Berry. My answer would be “No, sir.”
How’d I do? (Seriously I want to know)
That would obviously be the most natural response but a crooked question doesn’t deserve a straight answer, in fact accommodating an illegitimate inquisitor in any way would simply validate the respective attack. Something along the lines of “Is that what you’ve decided?” would probably take the wind out of his/her sails. It doesn’t take much to cramp the style of the average government lackey, it’s really just a matter of practising alertness.
Okee dokee.
What a grandmother, a protective parent amazing woman right there.
This is a reply to Ned above, from the messenger-shooter.
Ned, when I first realized my mistake – and I still don’t know for sure that it was a mistake, I googled for “fixated persons act” and saw Mary Maxwell being quoted all over the place. That is why I am hammering away that Mick Fuller’s FPIU is nit based on law.
Just now I googled again and did not get many Mary Maxwell’s but I got this item from cirnow.com.au. They purport to tell you how to approach a government official in non-humble manner. Inter alia:
“The Post Code is a military form of identification. You can box the post code to show it is outside the norm – some do, some don’t.
“Always finish your correspondence on the right hand side, never on the left. This is called the ‘dominant side.’
“When an official writes as part of a corporation or organization they are not acting as a human being. You can recognize this because they use ALL CAPS as a way to dehumanize themselves and you. By doing this, they are trying to deny any personal responsibility for their actions. Therefore always use standard English writing starting a sentence with a capital letter followed by lower case. ALL CAPS are only used for the dead.”
WHEN YOUR TIME COMES YOUR TIME COMES, I GUESS.