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Voir Dire, Part 2: Judge Clare Demands Name Suppression!

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by Mary W Maxwell, LLB

Dear Reader, if you are following the child-trafficking business, please check this out. It’s about a judge asking for suppression of info on the Internet.  Looks to me like a major screw job and we ought to be doing something about it

The business of suppression of names has a rightful place. If someone rapes Angela Smyth-Jones, over age 18, and is on trial for it, Angela has a right to privacy.  After all, the description of the rape in open court could be pretty gory; it could harm her dignity forever. The court case can omit her name; just call her “the victim” or Ms X.

When the victim is a child, the standard way to handle it is by giving pseudonyms to the various players. In my May 12, 2023 article, at GumshoeNews.com, I showed the case of “Argyle v Thomas,” the mum and dad in a custody dispute.  That is not their real names at all, but it helps give privacy to their kid. The Australian court supplied the pseudonyms.

Today, Dee McLachlan reported that in a current case in Queensland (I think it is at a federal district court, not sure), the judge surprised everyone by saying that the name of the accused may not be mentioned, even though the case uses that real name (no pseudonyms!)  The accused is a grandmother — I will call her Gram — and her “crime” is that she harbored a little boy who was being physically and sexually abused by the dad.  Possibly that dad is her son.

The government, which has brought this case, had the chance earlier to arrange for a pseudonym, but did not do so.  They called the case “The King versus [Gram’s real name].” But once the court was in session this week, and jury selection completed, Judge Leanne Clare made this amazing announcement:

“HER HONOUR: Yes. All right. Any publication, I will repeat again as clearly as I can, that any publication of the names of Ms [the judge actually said the name] or Ms [another accused harborer] or their children, or any information that may make identification of those people possible, is to stop and any current publications that contain any of those details is to be removed from the Internet or in any other material for publication. Those people who persist in doing this are acting in breach of the law and this is my final notice to them that if it persists then there will be an investigation and the operation of law will take effect.”  Wow.

The Correct Procedure

Here is how it works in the United States. The government brings the criminal prosecution. (The District Attorney, the DA, typically does this; in Australia it would be the DPP, Director of Public Prosecutions.) The DA, before setting the case into concrete, would seek a court order to allow a switch of names from, say, Mario Fandangle, to “John Doe.” The court would routinely grant this, and from that point forward everyone would refer to the case of John Doe.

I don’t know how we would go about punishing someone who yelled “‘John Doe is really Mario Fandangle,” but I imagine it is an offense, on the books, and could be taken care of. Observe how Judge Clare has said “if it persists then there will be an investigation and the operation of law will take effect.”

Note: There may be many reasons why a person wants name suppression. In the US, there was a 2003 war-powers case (my specialite!) where the plaintiffs opposed the imminent US invasion of Iraq.  The case is Doe v Bush. Civil Action No. 03-10284.  Four soldiers each called themselves John Doe as they did not want to get in trouble with their bosses. I assume the Army was happy with that pseudonym — had the four guys given their real names, other soldiers may have flocked to them to oppose the war.

Is Judge Clare’s Demand Kosher?

I am not sure it is in within Judge Clare’s jurisdiction to make the names get suppressed after they were properly published.

In my GumshoeNews.com article of 7 May 2023, I presented what is in the judges’ bench book of New South Wales. Here is a quote:

“Section 6 of the Suppression Act requires a court deciding whether to make a suppression or non-publication order, to take into account that “a primary objective of the administration of justice is to safeguard the public interest in open justice…. Section 6 also reflects the legislative intention that orders under the Act should only be made in exceptional circumstances….”

Assume that Queensland’s bench book is similar to NSW’s. It does appear that a judge, during a case, can make a suppression order.  Let’s say a witness blurted out a trade secret or a national security secret.  It would be proper, in my opinion, for the judge to slam down that info from the public record — per Section 6’s approval of doing so “in exceptional circumstances.”

Because, as I said, the DPP had the chance to organize a suppression of Gram’s name a long time ago, I doubt that it is kosher for the judge to do it now. I am using the word kosher to mean “what people take as proper”. I avoid saying it is “legal,” as I have by now realized that person in power can always come up with an abstruse interpretation of a plan that makes it “legal.”

Kids’ Right to Privacy  versus the Accused’s Right to a Fair Trial

I am guessing that this new suppression order, of Gram’s name, was made for a malicious purpose. Gram has needs for publicity — such as for honest reporters to speak up for her.  The accusation that she harbored a child may be technically a crime, but she is no criminal. She had been awarded custody of the child. She is a loving person who has suffered hugely for taking the chance of breaking that law (re harboring) in favor of God’s law.

Gram should not be put on trial. (It’s a sick joke, based on the police’s “Operation Noetic” about which Dee McLachlan has written extensively). But now that Gram IS on trial, she has the full normal right to a fair trial.

Granted, her right may conflict with the kid’s right, but the fact is that her grandson’s name has already been aired; you can’t lock the stable after the horse has got away.  Common sense tells us that “protecting the child’s right to privacy” should not now be used as an excuse to disadvantage Gram.

The Auckland District Law Society has published an excellent article on suppression orders, at adls.org.nz, based on New Zealand’s Criminal Procedure Act 2011. I quote:

“Section 200 of the Act spells out other criteria judges must consider when deciding to suppress a defendant’s name, such as causing undue hardship to victims, casting suspicion on others … creating a real risk of prejudicing a fair trial and endangering someone’s safety…. [I]n some situations, name suppression is automatic, such as for victims and defendants in specific sexual cases (to protect the victim rather than the defendant).”

Note: Over the last few years, mainstream media in Oz has published the names of the children in Gram’s case and a related case, full knowing that that is a no-no.  You know they didn’t get punished.

Is There a Pastor in the House?

Pastor Paul Robert Burton is a generous and very intelligent human being who has given all his time to helping people. Like myself, Paul is mad keen to undo the currently very unjust modus operandi of the judiciary. Like myself, he delves into the unfair Family Court punishment of protective parents who need to keep their child safe from sexual abuse.

Do you remember Australia’s Royal Commission that ran from 2013 to 2017? Eight thousand adults gave testimony that they were sexually abuse as children, and for most it ruined their whole life.

I don’t know how Pastor Paul Robert Burton got connected to the mothers, but he is definitely helping them.  I don’t know his religious affiliation, if any.  The Merriam Webster Dictionary defines “pastor” as “a spiritual overseer, especially a minister or priest in charge of a Christian congregation.” I have hardly seen my Catholic Church dealing with the child trafficking problem, so maybe some laypeople have to fill in the gap.

Pastor Paul is a major threat to the child-traffickers, including the court personnel who run part of the show. (See my book Reunion: Judging the Family Court.) Not surprisingly, Judge Clare is at pains to shut him up.  I quote from the second day of Gram’s trial:

HER HONOUR: “I will not have this trial or justice jeopardized by behaviour and, Ms Reece, you’ve named Pastor Burton. I don’t know at this point whether he is responsible for some or all of this, but it is a disgrace for anyone to embark on such behaviour that might risk the course of justice [I’ll say!] and especially in such a serious matter [I’ll say]. And I cannot speak more firmly than that.”

I think Clare J is referring to a Facebook page to which people have sent their endorsement or added their personal history of legal difficulty. Her directive, quoted above is that “any current publications that contain any of those details is to be removed from the Internet or in any other material for publication…. or there will be an investigation.”

That sounds to me like intimidation.  Dr Russell Pridgeon, whose situation is like that of Gram, was “caught” in a 2018 investigation called Operation Noetic” in which he lost everything. Even now, four years later, when he is facing court, he has no access to his computer files. If they raid Pastor Paul’s home to collect his material, I am sure the motive is not to protect children but to protect the bigtime traffickers.

(I am writing this in New Hampshire at 3:15pm on Thursday May 25, 2023, and helicopters have just gone over my house. I don’t think it’s meant to intimidate me, but years ago the helicopters buzzed me, and two other Gumshoe writers, at 2:30am. Surely an intimidation.)

Conclusion

Houston, we have a problem. And since Gram’s trial is happening quickly, we need to face this problem quickly. My advice, for what it’s worth, is to obey the judge and douse any mention of Gram’s real name.  Those of us who know Gram’s case can see how this privacy issue is being misused, but the public will only hear that Pastor Paul is breaching privacy. I can picture Paul being escorted out of the gallery and media doing their well-known best to defame him.

What they did to Dr Russell Pridgeon (in a related case) is now recorded in Pridgeon’s book “Everybody Knows” which is fabulous. Please invest $12.50 for a copy, at Amazon.

Although I think Gram’s lawyer could call for a mistrial, based on this sudden requirement for people to button up their lips, I imagine Gram would dread more delay.

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52 COMMENTS

  1. Thanks for the photo, Dee. It’s a scream.

    Didn’t we have a similar donut affair a couple of years ago?

  2. The first of the two above exerts of transcript strongly indicates the granting of a request. What’s the exact context ?

        • I didn’t take it to have any significance. Maybe somebody said “Can we turn off the air conditioner?”

          (Berry, do you want OLD Gumshoers to address you as Berry as in days of old, or as Elspeth. It may take me a while to kick the habit.)

  3. “Let’s say a witness blurted out a trade secret or a national security secret. It would be proper, in my opinion, for the judge to slam down that info from the public record — per Section 6’s approval of doing so “in exceptional circumstances.””

    Why ?, so I blurt out the “thing” is not the thing you think, in fact its a eugenicist tool.

    One Health so I go a Chinese company ,i.e KFC is full of secret MSG, HEK293 and trans(hehe) fatty fats(as prescribed by local story time-yes I throw flares of a public type)).
    I believe the suppression started life as Guttenberg was queering pre peer outcome trail, and is the only temporary suppression I can bother with. Remember children are silenced even into adulthood with this deliberate overlord reach, unable to name guilty but untried names like those Parliamentary suppressed 28 pedo’s.

    We debated years ago(when that rapey AG was at the helm) how all the courts(my opinion) were headed in a Federal Circuit Family Law Court direction.
    Its a threat to our democracy(haha). Might is right and timing our key

  4. At the hearing this morning, Mr O’Dea asked to have a support person in court. The person named was Pastor Paul Burton as he has been assisting with the legal work for 5 years.

    But NO … Judge Clare rejected this out of hand — KNOWING that the audio report declared Mr O’Dea PROFOUNDLY DEAF.

    The prosecution has a team of people — paid by the tax payer — to manage their case.

    AGAINST

    Mr O’Dea — on his own — without any legal training — hampered and disadvantaged by poor IT skills during an e-trial — and is profoundly deaf.

    Do you think there is any contest.

    NOTHING COULD BE FURTHER FROM A FAIR TRIAL.

    It is impossible to gauge what may unfold, but this trial demonstrates the inclimation of Australian courts to operate as star chambers when child abuse is in question. SUPPRESSION AT ALL COSTS.

  5. Australia is a disgrace… you can’t even discuss excess deaths; FDA has been bought by pharma; and the names of political pedophiles have been sealed for what ? …75 years. Should the facts be known — it was said — the people of Australia would lose all faith in government and the country would be lost….

    • PROTOCOL No. 9

      Who is going to verify what is taught in the village schools? But what an envoy of the government or a king on his throne himself may say cannot but become immediately known to the whole State, for it will be spread abroad by the voice of the people.
      In order to annihilate the institutions of the GOYIM before it is time we have touched them with craft and delicacy, and have taken hold of the ends of the springs which move their mechanism. These springs lay in a strict but just sense of order; we have replaced them by the chaotic license of liberalism. We have got our hands into the administration of the law, into the conduct of elections, into the press, into liberty of the person, BUT PRINCIPALLY INTO EDUCATION AND TRAINING AS BEING THE CORNERSTONES OF A FREE EXISTENCE.

      CHRISTIAN YOUTH DESTROYED

      WE HAVE FOOLED, BEMUSED AND CORRUPTED THE YOUTH OF THE “GOYIM” BY REARING THEM IN PRINCIPLES AND THEORIES WHICH ARE KNOWN TO US TO BE FALSE ALTHOUGH IT IS THAT THEY HAVE BEEN INCULCATED.
      Above the existing laws without substantially altering them, and by merely twisting them into contradictions of interpretations, we have erected something grandiose in the way of results. These results found expression in the fact that the INTERPRETATIONS MASKED THE LAW: afterwards they entirely hid them from the eyes of the governments owing to the impossibility of making anything out of the tangled web of legislation.
      This is the origin of the theory of course of arbitration.
      You may say that the GOYIM will rise upon us, arms in hand, if they guess what is going on before the time comes; but in the West we have against this a manoeuvre of such appalling terror that the very stoutest hearts quail – the undergrounds, metropolitans, those subterranean corridors which, before the time comes, will be driven under all the capitals and from whence those capitals will be blown into the air with all their organizations and archives.

      • I consider the Protocols plausible, Crissy, but you know the big boaster could be wrong. And a lot of water has gone under the bridge since 1903.

        And you never step into the same river twice type thing.

          • We have in you an example of someone who is hoaxed gladly because they want to be hoaxed. It’s just pitiful. Everything else has a false flag on it but you don’t care to think any deeper, you just dream of running your own little gas chamber don’t you. You keep cutting and pasting the exact same things for years.

          • JB

            Your low life assertions are as from one trying to intimidate and stop me from speaking what I perceive as the truth – obviously, as you cannot produce a counter argument to the facts presented

            Truth cannot be changed, so it matters not if I cut and paste. What makes you think you are the superior judge of truth on this blog?

          • I have told you many times and I have told you again just above but your intent is to vilify, go and look up Priory of Sion, consider false flag attacks, consider misinformation, work out even where Khazaria is and the histories, stop pretending non-jews are not part of it, FFS how many times do you need to be told, you have a bible nailed to your head and all you want to do is spread hate, you’re absurd and you gross me out sometimes, and now you defend your cut & paste neverending advertising campaign. I am really holding back you know. Can you imagine if I didn’t ? I would get banned myself.

          • Here I’ll save you the trouble:

            “The jews are from esau and idumea
            PROTOCOLS NUMBER 99
            Bla bla bla
            It’s all the jews “

          • Whatever all. Where do I insert this comment?
            In the middle somewhere will do to tempt some mind widening for a change.
            So I will chuck in a Hindu concept to argue about as a change.
            I listened to Clif High tonight and had to go to wiki to understand what he was talking about.
            Funny, I thought of the appropriateness of a Hindu concept/beliefs being one of the four cycles we are experiencing now as exemplified in many comments and characters here at GS .
            Look up the period of Kari Yuga.
            Also listen to Clif High at beforeitsnews.con giving a short explanation where you all are
            Go for it, distract yourselves for a hour or so and give us a break, you might be all up the creek?

        • Why would anything need to be done on the sly? The plot for Jewish world domination is spelled out in plain sight throughout the old testament, the book of Isaiah being an obvious case in point.
          And in the words of the Kingpin Himself:

          “Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.”
          MATTHEW 5:17

          • Everyone who sheds the blood of the impious [non-Jews] is as acceptable to God as he who offers a sacrifice to God. Yalkut 245c

            Extermination of the Christians is a necessary sacrifice. Zohar, Shemoth

            “Today the Gentile Christians who claim of holy right have been led in the wrong path. We, of the Jewish Faith have tried for centuries to teach the Gentiles a Christ never existed, and that the story of the Virgin and of Christ is, and always has been, a fictitious lie. In the near future, when the Jewish people take over the rule of the United States, legally under our god, we will create a new education system, providing that our god is the only one to follow, and proving that the Christ story is a fake…Christianity will be abolished.” (M.A. Levy, Secretary of the World League of Liberal Jews, in a speech in Los Angeles, California, August, 1949

            Christian Book Burning

            Sanhedrin 90a. Those who read the New Testament (“uncanonical books,” see footnote #9) will have no portion in the world to come.
            .
            Shabbath 116a (p. 569). Jews must destroy the books of the Christians, i.e. the New Testament.
            .
            Dr. Israel Shahak reports that the Zionists burned hundreds of New Testament books in Occupied Palestine on March 23, 1980 (cf. “Jewish History, Jewish Religion,” Pluto Press, p. 21).

          • At 6.20 min “they(Hamas) are planning to build a sort of thick belt around Israel”:

            Well I dare say they’ll get there eventually:

            “And the word of the LORD came to me saying, “Son of man,set your face toward Gog of the land of Magog . . . After many days you will be summoned; in the latter years you will come into the land that is restored from the sword, whose inhabitants have been gathered from many nations to the mountains of Israel which had been a continual waste; but its people were brought out from the nations, and they are living securely, all of them. You will go up, you will come like a storm; you will be like a cloud covering the land, you and all your troops, and many peoples with you.”
            EZEKIEL. 38:1–2, 8–9

            But I can categorically bet that their triumph will be short-lived
            And that they’ll get a good deal more than what they bargained for:

            “When ye shall see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then know that the desolation thereof is nigh.
            Then let them which are in Judaea flee to the mountains; and let them which are in the midst of it depart out; and let not them that are in the countries enter thereinto.
            For these be the days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled.
            But woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck, in those days! for there shall be great distress in the land, and wrath upon this people.
            And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.
            And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring;
            Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.
            And then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory.
            AND THEN SHALL THEY SEE THE SON OF MAN COMING IN A CLOUD WITH POWER AND GREAT GLORY
            And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh.”
            LUKE 21: 20 – 28

  7. “It’s good to know where the journey ends…”

    (If anybody knows where the journey ends, please contact Gumshoe.)

  8. Internationl Covenant on Civil and Political Rights

    Article 24.1 Every child shall have, without any discrimination as to race, colour, sex, language, religion, national or social origin, property or birth, the right to such measures of protection as are required by his status as a minor, on the part of his family, society and the State.

    Ding!

    Article 15. 2. Nothing in this article shall prejudice the trial and punishment of any person for any act or omission which, at the time when it was committed, was criminal according to the general principles of law recognized by the community of nations.

    • Lots of people must have seen that but is it sinking in yet ? I don’t know.
      Suggested bumper sticker:
      IS THAT THE TRUTH OR DID YOU SEE IT ON TV FOR THE LAST 20 YEARS

  10. QUEENSLAND COURTS now arbitrarily CLOSE the court.

    In the Pridgeon and O’Dea case,supporters and others were prevented from being in the gallery (as Judge Clare has created an overflow court)

    But there is no link in the overflow court… so Judge Clare has CLOSED THE COURT — The question:

    DO WE HAVE AN OPEN JUSTICE SYSTEM? It seems not.

  12. Breaking news
    McGollum (WA) no gas left in the tank.
    Heading for warmer climes, perhaps passing through Geneva on his way.

  14. Archbishop Vigano

    “It is indispensable to put an end to the folly of gender theory, the corruption of children, the dissolution of family, the cancellation of Christian civilisation, and the enslavement of individuals. It is also necessary that whoever governs the State is not blackmailed by financial lobbies or more or less hidden power groups, punishing conflicts of interest that make the betrayal of peoples possible with severe laws.”

    “I repeat the elimination of the globalist subversive elite is essential if there is to be a peaceful coexistence between peoples.”

    “Pray that the Lord may raise up among you honest and courageous leaders who have the common good at heart, not the interest of conspirators.”

  16. We are in a spiritual war, and still don’t get it.
    When will Christians wake up? Realise Satan’s children are at war against we the people, crushing everyone opposing their beast system.

    The workers party is now the socialist communist globalist totalitarian bs. All races here are promoted over former Euro/Aussie stock. Now the beasts are intentionally poisoning and killing us, through bribery and blackmail of pedophiles in government, all slavemasons.

    Free (slave) trade has destroyed Oz, we have sunk into a depressed third world nation since 911. Now we are the great reset global gulag, enforced by deceivers to steal common wealth and property from all here. Exceptions being the connected.
    Honest home grown business crushed by Amazon Aldi Bunnings Coles and Woolies.

    Fact is, our overlords steal everything and rule with an iron fist, enforcing jackboots crushing all not with the plandemic.
    Communism makes bs promises of level playing fields, in real time a cover for banksters and their crooked possessed mates, using and abusing government to enslave all here.

    If we are happy owning nothing, realise the enemy own everything. How has this come to be, with speaking truth conspiracy theory? Now with nano-tech injected, powered by 5G, AI supercomputer beast at metaverse DC Gore Hill. This is the hell the satanists have enforced here for all slaves, formerly we the people.

    These perverts rape young children and drink their blood. They are the sex and slave traffickers of the world.
    The plandemic is mass murder by injection and a common wealth fleecing operation. Our government has devolved into a corporate fascist autocracy run by criminal psychopaths.

    Wish I had some positivity to type, but facts have delivered us here. Unless these bastards are replaced there is no hope for all children.

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