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Waiting for the Next Hero, Preferably in South Australia

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John von Doussa, the Man from Snowy River, Chris Kourakis

by Mary W Maxwell, LLB

Societies rejoice in their heroes. Sometimes they are fictional heroes – Aeneas in Virgil’s epic comes to mind. Sometimes they are in popular verse – The Man from Snowy River. There are also heroes in our private lives — perhaps a grandmother who stood up to a bully, or a neighbor who took a big risk to prevent damage to the group.

I am putting out a call here for someone to do something about the situation of judicial corruption. Ages ago, I read that the judges of Colombia’s high court, who had every legal power to deal with a terrible crime, did not do so. I was so naïve that I did not even understand that with a rotten government in place they couldn’t act nobly.

Or could they? Well, yes, they could. It just might mean they would be killed. Or their wife would be given a dose of lupus or whatever. Personally, I consider it the judge’s duty to take the risk if he/she in a position of great responsibility. This should be stated openly up front; those who know they would not brave it should not accept the position.

In a recent article I broached the subject of suspicious deaths in South Australia. Some years back I wrote a list of 20 persons in South Australia who I think were bumped off even though no one mentions it. I handed the list to a law professor – who shall not be named here – and he said, to my amazement – “I am ashamed to be alive.”

What he meant was that if those 20 people got killed for being good, he wished his name was on the list.

I identified some of the noble deceased in past publications. For example, in my book Prosecution for Treason, I opine that SA’s federal senators Jeannie Ferris and Janine Haynes, were murdered by disease. I have said that two of my mentors in International Relations, Hedley Bull, at age 54, and John Vincent, at age 47, were dispatched to God because they spoke the truth. John’s cancer came upon him so fast that he died within days of being diagnosed.

“No One on the Bench Can Be Trusted Today”

At GumshoeNews we seem to specialize in tragedies of the courtroom. (Martin Bryant and Jahar Tsarnaev are faves). There are always plenty of “reasons” given as to why the judges “have to” do the wrong thing.

Hello? What? No they don’t have to do the wrong thing. Trust me, any one of them can do right. As well they should. But having become aware of many bad judges today, our faith in justice has evaporated. As we enter the courtroom, we expect the worst.

We not only expect that a judge may use her power to flatly hand out an unfair ruling, we even have the expectation nowadays that the whole procedure may be carried out in complete disregard for “due process of law.” This really is a stunning change from two generations ago.

One of you big boys or girls has got to be the one that restores normalcy. S’il vous plait. Preferably a judge. Next best, a prosecutor or some bigwig in the legal profession. It can’t be a member of parliament or the media. Only an insider can fess up to what is happening and inspire others to throw it overboard.

I Nominate Chief Justice Chris Kourakis

Who could serve in this capacity in South Australia? I think John von Doussa, former head of the state’s Human Rights thingie is very “eligible.” By the way, I suspect that the death of Von Doussa’s beautiful son, a doctor, was punishment for Dad’s departure from the instructions of his bosses (whoever they may be). John has his act together, morally.

But an even better choice might be Chris Kourakis, former head of the Law Society, and since 2012, our chief justice. He has an “issue” that I think could help him do the job.

What is that issue? It is that – as everyone knows but as no one dares discuss – a citizen uploaded to the Internet an “affidavit” accusing Kourakis of a violent sex crime.

Someone sent it to Gumshoe asking if we would publish it. Surely not. It is only hearsay — the signer of the “affidavit” could only pass second-hand information; he was not an eyewitness. And personally I would be very reluctant to injure the standing of a chief justice.

Mind you, if the chief justice were doing judicially corrupt things I would not spare him. Anyway, my personal feelings are irrelevant. The point is that, as I hinted, his “sin” can work in our favor.

Let’s be sensible and recognize that everyone has sins. Often this makes the person blackmailable. We definitely don’t want our leaders blackmailed. That is how, say, J Edgar Hoover got, say, Lyndon Johnson to do what the mafia wanted.

Mafia?

Human society is prone to give rise to mafias. As soon as a few men can band together, take a deep breath, and vow to eschew the moral rules of their culture or religion, the path is open for them to conquer those who do feel moral restraint. It’s just a matter of logic – those willing to hurt others will win resources.

As everyone knows, mafias have two codes. One is the code of silence – omerta. You keep all “family business” to yourself. The other code is loyalty. You treat “the family” like family. This makes numbers important. Citizens, who are aware of mafiosa in their midst will not dare fight back as they don’t know how many back-ups their attacker has.

In Chinese society, they say, it is enough for any three men to band into a Triad. Perhaps a few triads then band together and soon enough become a formidable force to a whole city.

They should not do so. Whatever they gain, they pay the price of their lost humanity. And they will eventually run society to the ground. And as individuals they won’t have the normal lifespan. It’s stupid really.

I believe this behavior is confined to the male members of the species. Lately I have been watching The Godfather movie on Youtube. It struck me that for all ranks of the mafia, except possibly the very top, the main biological trait that is showing through is obedience.

We are all innately inclined to obey. Kids, even babies, respond to a disapproving tone of voice from the parent. It is painful for them to hear that tone or get that dirty look. Emotional relief is had by obeying, and greater pleasure can come from being admired for one’s obedience.

The men in the mafia know that the rules are so tight that a slight disobedience means possible defeat for the group’s project. Same is true for the military in war. I believe men have a capacity for following the leader. It feels good to follow the leader. I doubt that females evolved that same capacity.

Deep State

The new name for the cabal, or our hidden bosses, is “deep state.” I don’t approve of it as it lays no blame at any individual’s feet. It also sounds as though this entity, the Deep State, is somehow equal to the real state. “Maybe it’s an OK thing.”

No, it is not OK. And it’s not just another decision maker for society in the way legitimate government is. It’s distinctly illegitimate. It has a mission to harm people even if only for the purpose of its own survival.

Once it gets exposed as a doer of harm (Internet, anyone?), it faces a new challenge. It must win a large percentage of members of the legitimate government over to its “cause.” Naturally that is hard to do by a sales pitch about the goodness of the plan, the plan having no real goodness. So instead they must rely on recruiting via threats and bribery.

They can also use the available carrot of “belonging.” It’s nice to be invited into a group that has a number of at-first-glance attractive members. And it feels good to start talking the private language of the in-crowd. Even to practice omerta is emotionally rewarding as it is tied to belongingness – family.

Back to Chris Kourakis

Kourakis was born in 1958. His parents immigrated from Greece, probably on the 10-pound-passage scheme. He has nine siblings. I would have no way of knowing if he suffered any abuse in childhood (I do know of members of parliament who did – that is probably why they were brought into power.)

I like Chief Justice Kourakis and wish he would get around to doing the right thing.

Here is an anecdote that I’ve recounted before. In April 2017 I was invited to a symposium on Aboriginal Rights at my university, Adelaide. During the meeting – which many students attended – a female law teacher said “Mr X (I forget who it was ) won’t be prosecuted since he is in government.”

I got into a very agitated state and said “This is a law school, you can’t say that.” I mean, sure, everybody says it at home – it’s simply the truth, a government person is “protected” from the law. Maybe my reaction was foolish but I thought “Hey we can’t teach this to the kids as if it were acceptable.”

In the elevator after the meeting, it was just me and the chief justice. I said “I guess I lost my cool in there.” He said “But you were right.” I felt like whacking him with my handbag (for not supporting me during the seminar). But later I came to feel affection for him. At least he said it! Chris Kourakis, in effect, said “We should not protect government from the law.”

The reason I mentioned his alleged crime above is to point out that he has now been outed. He does not have to cower in fear (like the rest of ’em), worrying that the day of reckoning is coming. In short he is no longer blackmailable. He is a free man. Yay!

We all worry too much about whether we will pass the test of society’s approval. How about we drop that for now and concentrate instead on preserving humanity while we still can.

Here is a bit of Banjo Paterson that gets me every time:

“There was movement at the station, for the word had got around, that the colt from Old Regret had got away

[blah, blah long story]

“And down by Kosciusko, where the pine-clad ridges raise Their torn and rugged battlements on high, Where the air is clear as crystal, and the white stars fairly blaze At midnight in the cold and frosty sky, And where around the Overflow the reed-beds sweep and sway To the breezes, and the rolling plains are wide, The Man from Snowy River is a household word today, And the stockmen tell the story of his ride.”

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  2. “No One on the Bench Can Be Trusted Today” – It makes the whole process of assembling a case a ridiculous participation in a farce. If you have a case against the government, you’ve got much better odds of winning the lotto.

  3. There is world-wide corruption with the insidious BAR system and with the corporations who masquerade as “government.” Just look at the US insanely corrupt system which is nothing more than a vast criminal enterprise. https://www.google.com/search?q=the+US+is+a+vast+criminal+enterprise&client=firefox-b-d&channel=trow&ei=K0FKXbTUJMOv9QPAkqr4Aw&start=10&sa=N&ved=0ahUKEwj0la7H5O_jAhXDV30KHUCJCj8Q8NMDCIsB&biw=1286&bih=775

    The same goes for Australia. http://corpau.blogspot.com/
    You have to throw the freemasons out for a start. They are in the police, military and courts.

    What is happening with Rod Culleton’s team win in the Privy Council in the UK that makes the seditious and High Treason Australia’s Act that should be null and void?

  4. Australians are not renowned for demonstrating steadfastly and coherently against their own government ever since the Vietnam protests. The great majority are not in tune, or educated or vigilant against the tyranny of government and how Australia has been in lockstep with the Fascist US Empire, the military industrial complex and the evil Israeli lobby.

    In fact the government of Australia is little more democratic than the government of the USSR. Our main advantage is that the bureaucracy is not yet military and if enough Australians knew the situation we would still have the power to change. To begin that change let us first replace the common definition of what constitutes a democracy with something more specific.

    https://www.biblebelievers.org.au/d&ta01.htm#AUTHOR'S%20PROLOGUE

    The three imperatives of democracy are:

    public authority over political decisions;
    national control the money supply;
    national affairs free of external instruction.

    Our present Constitution does provide for these but we, the people, are not told. Has ANY political party EVER campaigned for ANY of them?

    NEVER! They have suppressed the first to sell us out on the second and third. What can we do?

    A third cause of frustration is a common attachment to either capitalism or communism that prevents many people from accepting what should be patiently obvious, that these ideologies work as a nut-cracker toward the goal of destroying our present culture and setting up enslavement on behalf of a world-wide Super Mafia type of organization.

    Read this chapter to understand what is really going on in Australia with the Australia Act
    https://www.biblebelievers.org.au/d&ta02.htm#THE TRAGEDY OF POLITICAL PARTY GOV

    • The Govt showed its true colours when they abandoned the white australia policy. No one could speak against it, the government absolutely did not want to tolerate any real discussion on this issue, and it still doesn’t.

      • The so-called government is not a representative democratic government. They are a massive criminal enterprise not representing the electorate but representing the corporations.

        Australia is a Oligarchy with Corporatism and Plutocracy

        Oligarchs bane of the republic
        https://www.theage.com.au/national/oligarchs-bane-of-the-republic-20021219-gduyc7.html
        No symbol of our nation’s cohesion hangs in our children’s classrooms. Education departments, and presumably politicians, parents and students, do not consider our sovereign Queen Elizabeth II or her representative, the Governor-General Peter Hollingworth, to be appropriate icons of 21st-century Australia.

        Missing from the 1999 referendum about a minimalist republic were issues of citizenship, democracy, participation, diversity and culture. It’s time we discussed radical ideas that might go to make up a maximalist republic, such as election for all federal and state government public boards.

        The Reverse Robin Hood: Tax ‘Reform’ In The Age Of Oligarchy
        https://newmatilda.com/2016/02/22/rob-the-poor-pay-the-rich-tax-reform-in-the-age-of-oligarchy/

        Liam McLoughlin is ‘calling bullsh *t’ on sustained government efforts to increase the gap between rich and poor.

        I do not believe we are living in a democracy anymore. We are living in a plutocracy in Australia. That is, government by the wealthy in the interests of the wealthy.

        • The Revolving door must be slammed closed!
          Is the Morrison Government corrupt?
          https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/is-the-morrison-government-corrupt,12412

          The heart of darkness?
          There is a blackness at the heart of this Coalition Government that shows a complete lack of empathy, a disregard for the norms of good governance and a willingness to spread resentment and fear to grasp any remote prospect of retaining power at the next election.

          Since the start of this year, we’ve seen many examples of this unfolding of Government ministers and backbenchers willing to lie openly to our faces and then to erupt with snarling hubris when questioned about their porkies. The cover-ups, obfuscations, denials and secondary lies have piled up to such a precarious height that removing even one rotten plank is likely to bring the whole edifice of government tumbling down.Former Greens Leader Christine Milne.

          Australian oligarchs move to manage the angry mob
          https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2017/03/australian-oligarchs-move-to-manage-their-angry-mob/
          In truth it started long ago as the revolving door between policymakers and corporate titans began to spin in the late nineties. Combined with ever increasing market concentration and the big privatisation push, this stoked a trend towards Australian oligarchy over appropriate separation of markets and regulators. It was most apparent in banking, infrastructure and mining.

          Plutocrats and Pitchforks
          https://theaimn.com/plutocrats-pitchforks/
          The Reagan trickle-down effect is back with a vengeance and is now the hallmark of the present Australian government despite a plethora of information, data, and recent history to demonstrate its failure. They still expect business to lead a national recovery with investment in goods and services.

  6. No Court should ever be regarded as anything more than an opportunity to call down fire.
    And no reprobate Orders should ever be accommodated in any way.
    I seriously can’t see any other means of curbing gross injustices

    • It’s good to acknowledge worthy social contributors but there really is only one Saviour and the most important thing to remember is that EVERYBODY has the power to effect change – or otherwise

  7. Off-topic. From Massachusetts criminal law:

    “Section 9. Whoever plays, sings or renders the ”Star Spangled Banner” in any public place, theatre, motion picture hall, restaurant or cafe, or at any public entertainment, other than as a whole and separate composition or number, without embellishment or addition in the way of national or other melodies,
    or whoever plays, sings or renders the ”Star Spangled Banner”, or any part thereof, as dance music, as an exit march or as a part of a medley of any kind, shall be punished by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars.”

    I like it!

  10. Here here! That is one of many! They are called the unsung heroes/heroines as the media and press ignore them despite their more than colossal task of uncovering and exposing evil.

    Eph 5:11 Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them.

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