Recognising A Request To Re-visit The Rail Lands Retail Agenda

Not least of all because it's what I promised in the last post, and apparently I do need to explain it all a l'íl bit better...in that context, I'd just like to quickly acknowledge availees whom have already waded through much of this RLRA stuff, whilst plowing through some 800 posts now, since this 'ere blog began in January 2013...been a bit slack lately, and I do tend to dwell/waffle/digress/forget/re-iterate repeatedly, etc, etc, but 800 posts in 3 years is not bad going and is still a pretty reasonable effort I reckon, all things considered, what with SAPol (police) raiding my home back in May 2014 leading to 20 charges/counts of 'talking about stuff', etc...have I shown you my burgeoning collection of defamation threats?...lots of threats but no actual action...apart from the aforementioned 20 charges of course...anyhoos...

Hello to the USofA, Ukraine, Portugal, Mexico, Nigeria, and Algeria, and to y'all else, cheers...and because I spent so much of the last post cracking-wise I'll just get cracking straight into a more factual stacking of the actual actionings of Mt Gambier City Council re the Rail Lands Retail Agenda...the RLRA, it's fairly complicated and is going to be several posts, but the realities are fundamentally obvious...

1)  the Rail Lands Retail Agenda is the catch-all name I have given to Mt Gambier City Council's ongoing plans for a massive Retail/Commercial expansion of the Lakes Plaza, and the deceits frequently visited on Ratepayers by Council as It/they continued, indeed continue, to pursue this agenda...I have not imagined this agenda, nor have I created it and/or conjured it and/or or manipulated some convenient truths whilst ignoring other facts, etc, etc, all I've done is point at it all, say 'what the shreck's goin' on there then? that looks a bit crook mate', and then just given it a specific name...the RLRA is fundamentally irrefutable as proven by a swathe of Council's own documents, and many of these have already been posted here-in this 'ere blog, some repeatedly...in this massively ironic context, Council's own documents irrefutably prove that their statements are deceits...out of chronological order but to irrefutably prove the RLRA, again, here is the design as presented by Council on February 29th 2006, being one of three almost identical large developments...

Not a great photocopy of a photocopy, but the original 30 page document from which this has come was presented by Council CEO Greg Muller at the public meeting on 27th February 2006...30 very costly pages of architecturally designed massive Retail/Commercial development, as presented by Council, as being Council's agenda for the site...when I put my hand-up and asked about a 'Parklands' design, Mr Muller just glared at me from the stage, full-on filthy glarey angry starey, it was hilarious, and when he recovered his composure, politely stated that there was no interest in such a plan...this drew a not-so polite chorus of disagreement from the small crowd who clearly very much were interested in that!...

This page clearly shows 1) the massive expansion planned for South of the current Plaza, and 2) the reasoning as presented, namely, dot-point (3);
      "Reduces risk of competing centres being developed at the city fringes."

At this juncture, having stated that the RLRA is irrefutable and not open to discussion, I must acknowledge the multiple discussions I've participated in/been subjected to re claims/allegations/theories that the fundamental motivation behind this shenanigans on the Rail Lands site, is to ultimately ensure that Rail Transport never returns to Mt Gambier, an agenda driven/controlled by those whom stand to profit from moving freight, etc, via other means, eg, trucks...I acknowledge this as both 1) a sound and logical premise and 2) a continual theme/claim as presented to me, but ultimately I, 3) simply wouldn't know, and 4) find it fundamentally irrelevant for the purposes of the RLRA debate...an equally strong argument can and has been made to me that vested interests re the Lakes Plaza have been driving the RLRA for their own personal gains...whatevs, the RLRA ain't nuthin' but a Thang, a very real Thang... 

Thusly proven, the RLRA immediately broadens into multiple discussions about how Council has corruptly pursued this agenda, eg, refusing to allow anything to be established on that site that might compromise this agenda, eg, refusing to put the Lady Nelson Bus Terminal there in the most obvious, most central location, in a renovated Old Rail Station, and so it's stuck out in the middle of bloody nowhere on Jubilee Hwy instead, etc, etc...the Old Station itself is clearly right in the way of the RLRA, and Council's deeply and wholly deceitful conduct re this building is in itself a whole post if not several, and segues directly into the discussion about 'Pop-ups Propaganda' as Council tries to mask their genuine motivations and those resultant deceits and machinations re this iconic old building...

But just to prove they're not complete idiots, Council had/have the nouse/smarts/whatevs to include the Old Rail Station as part of these February 2006 plans and in any other plans presented, eg, the November 2011 $10million Parklands Concept Plan launch, because Council knew/know that flagging the imminent demolition of the iconic, classic building would immediately generate unwanted and very negative attention as people rallied to save it...much simpler, safer, and less disruptive to just disingenuously include the doomed building in any drafts/plans and bulldoze it laters as required, preferrably late at night...think I'm joking?...

Alone, Council's own inactions and associated rank deceits re that building, should see the lot of them sacked and dragged before a public Inquiry...Mt Gambier City Council has spent over $5m on the Rail Lands site thus far, and what should have been the first project, renovating the Old Station, isn't even on the horizon...hilariously, works re 'renovating the Station' were moved by Council (in late 2014/early 2015) into the suddenly appearing 'Stage 4', a 'Stage' which hadn't previously existed until suddenly raised at a Council meeting, and which now appears to have disappeared with equal ferocity, that is without a whimper let alone a bang...dare I claim it, a disappearance/withdrawal directly linked to this 'ere blog and the thorough kickin' that 'Stage 4' received here-in...

Council continues to steadfastly refuse/block any development in/re the Old Station, flat-out lying about their plans/actions for the building, and now trying to hide this critical part of the broader RLRA agenda and these associated deceits, hide it all behind these farcical 'Pop-ups'...more on this tomorrow...getting way ahead of myself, so let's back it up a l'íl bit...    

2)  back in late 2004/early 2005 the Labor state government 'gifted' the large, central Rail Lands site to the MGCC, as covered by this full-page statement from Council's 2004/2005 Year Book thingy...it very clearly defines the issues of 'the Deed', and 'the Easement', and Council's therefore Ratepayers responsibilities re replacement costs for any 'removed infrastructure', etc...this one document, from Council's own publication, proves irrefutably the raft of rank lies that Council have repeatedly rammed-down the throats of those very Ratepayers whom have unavoidably been lumbered with multiple financial burdens because of Council's deeply corrupted and deceitful behaviour re this project/site, eg, 1) the costs of 'infrastructure replacement', 2) repayment of the $2million borrowed as part of the ludicrous 2013/14 Budget, 3) costs hidden in other parts/departments of the Council Budget, eg, the multiple drainage re-workings of the Bay Rd/Eastern end, re-workings delicately hacked through $200,000 of rolled turf, and work done not by the contractors who originally plowed-up/rooted-up the site, but by Council teams of tractors, trucks, truckie-trailers, and costing mucho mucho deniro no doubt...

It is an irrefutable reality that Council has, over many years, repeatedly stated that delays in any works on the site were due to confusion about and/or unresolved issues with 'the Deed', and/or 'the Easement', and/or replacement of infrastructure 'Contamination', etc, constantly rotating from one issue, through the others, back to the first, etc, etc, over and over, round and round, literally dozens of times across nearly a decade, and not infrequently on the front page of The Border Watch, and every single time it was a lie...and every single time Council knew it was being deceitful...please also note the time-frame of 'public consultation' starting in July 2005...having proved these two fundamental realities re the Rail Lands Retail Agenda, and just to break it up a bit, keep it fresh, keep it happenin', I'm just going to randomly jump to... 

In recent years I've tried to follow and learn a bit about American politics, but it's still a bit of a dog's breakfast to me, and even the 'experts' tend to contradict each other and/or say that it's largely unintelligible to them as well...but I do know one thing, I know a bully when I see one, and right now on my líl telly I'm lookin' at a vain, arrogant, flat-wicket bully, trying with some success to dress-up his privileged arrogance as some sort of qualification for preferred governance...and you know who I'm talkin' about...elsewhere, just last night I was trying to follow some stuff about the Iowa Caucuses, being explained in a relatively basic way, and whilst I reckon I got the jist of it, don't expect some witty essay about it anywhere near this 'ere blog...(I never do-Ed)...oh, you're back...(I never left-Ed)...just you've been very quiet, thought you might still be sulking after the last post and all that stuff about you being not a real person but actually a "confected literary device"...(I know exactly what I am, it's not me that you need to explain yourself to-Ed)...fair enough, and because I have been asked about this too, again...

There's No Ed In There:...'cos I swear, there is no such person as 'Ed'...(ya' cut me deep, Nick, ya' cut me deep-Ed)...indeed, I also write all of your stuff, deliver your lines, and clean-up behind you, because you my friend, don't exist...(in reality-Ed)...in reality...whilst I do often adapt stuff from conversations with others, and/or address others opinions/views/allegations/whatevs, when it comes to churning-out this 'ere blog, it's just l'íl ol' me, just me...the term 'confected literary device' is a self-mocking description of what's happening with the use of 'Ed', because 'he' is a frothy delight of no genuine substance...(a bit like that fairy-floss stuff, only I rot your mind, not your teeth-Ed)...exactly...I stumbled into using 'Ed' in some early posts...(I feel so used-Ed)...and 'he' has proven very effective in the roles assigned 'him', intelligently tabling contrasting opinions, being accountably questioning, wittily setting-up jokes, etc...(well that's more like it-Ed)...

I genuinely appreciate the genuine praise I've received for 'Ed'...several people have asked 'who is?', have been shocked that it's just me, and have commented on the 'cleverness' and the execution of the idea and the writing, etc...cheers, but honestly, 'Ed' originally happened by accident...I also truly embrace how difficult it is to write this 'ere blog just at the moment, because, as bizarre as it sounds, I've just had the best year since the St Martins Lutheran School Child Abuse Cover-up first erupted in June 2002, but for every high there will be a low, and some days all it's done is really highlight for me how bad I've been for so many years...and those right there are some very long days indeed...cheers too for the other support for my efforts re the blog in general...

Tomorrow: Why The Adelaide Oval Is Such A Sick Joke

And of course I re-refer to the use of 'Pop-up Propaganda' at both the Rail Lands and the Adelaide Oval, 'PuP' being the costly shenanigans organised and run at these 'venues' in vain attempts to justify their 're-development' ...upon reflection, I'm going to set-up 'side blogs' committed to single issues, and a perfect case study is the RLRA and it's many manifestations...gunna' have to get some help with that, but it will help reduce the need for this constant re-explanation across many posts...and having said that, I may have to do both because the RLRA and it's devastating impact continue to play-out...so we may not get to the Oval tomorrow after all...sorry...

I am Nick Fletcher and this is my blog...cheers and laters... 

Cop A Proper Gander Of The Pop-up Propaganda

**and an apology...actually wrote this post yesterday, but didn't like it much...changed stuff but still not happy, feel I haven't explained myself properly...will continue this discussion immediately in next post...cheers** 

Hello y'all and welcome to the blog and today we're all goin' back to the Rail Lands right here in sunny Mt Gambier...(hold on, hold on, what does it mean?-Ed)...what does what mean?...(what does the title mean?...I think I get it, just not sure-Ed)..well I'm just getting there, in that it's about the Rail Lands and having a proper look at the long, lustrous list of the lies and deceits and manipulations and mis-informations, etc, visited on the stout yeomen and/or yeowomen of Ye Olde Mt Gambier by that batch of batty Burgers we call Mt Gambier City Council, and most specifically, re these 'Pop-ups' on the Rail Lands, and how it all relates to the Rail Lands Retail Agenda...yep...in fact, that there pretty much explains it all, so's there's that post done...(mate, now I'm just more confused!-Ed)...sorted, I'm off for an early Oz Day holiday...(hang on, slow down, I've got a coupla' questions-Ed)...alright, look, hear this, let me clarify...

As defined beyond debate in numerous previous posts, the Rail Lands Retail Agenda is the plan that MGCC have been pursuing since 2004/05 when they were first 'gifted' the Rail Lands by the Labor State government...(we've been through all this stuff before mate-Ed)...I know, just said that, just quickly reviewing...the RLRA is about MGCC's plans for building a massive expansion of the Lakes Plaza right across the Rail Lands site, and involves key issues/decisions, including 1) removing the iconic Old Rail Station, 2) moving the allegedly requisite Rail Easement corridor out of the way of this expansion, 3) building a massive, industrial strength Catchment Pond for the rain run-off from the vast roof area of said expansion, 4) keeping a large area at the Bay Rd/Eastern end relatively clear for future carpark, and 5) steadfastly refusing/denying any 'permanent' occupation/usage of the site...the RLRA has always been and remains the sole agenda of Mt Gambier City Council re the Rail Lands...that's what's been happening, and now to the now...

From The Cop:...'cop' has several meanings, from the most obvious, as in police officer, easy, through to the second which refers broadly to taking account for, or the third, being the subject/victim of...(I thought you said that you were goin' to clear things up a bit?-Ed)...wait for it will you, where 2) and 3) are used as slang for, 2) situations where a dirty perp...(like your good self?-Ed)...if that's what works for ya'...when someone accused of a particular transgression admits/confesses/whatevs, they are said to 'cop to it', eg, 'look guvna', I'll cop to the break and enters, but I ain't no murderer'...and with 3) it's about a generally unwelcome imposition, eg, 'she copped a massive speeding fine', or 'he copped a pie in the face'...this can be extended to the often vengeful, often vindictive victory cry of "cop that!", eg, when some clown 'cops' the pie in the face you just threw...

(Well congratulations, 3 paragraphs in and thus far you've managed to almost explain the first word, sort of...this is gunna' take a while, isn't it?-Ed)...settle down, I'm actually using 'cop' in the fourth sense...(of course you are-Ed)...where it's more of a direction/request/order/whatevs which means to avail oneself of info and/or to have that info presented to you, similar to "cop that", but meaning effectively to 'look at', to 'consider'...(wow, English is such a vast and undulating beastie-Ed)...indeed...anyhoos, here in this post's title, I'm saying 'check this stuff out', in a manner that is literally emphatically slapping it down on the table in front of y'all...(such a small word too, 'cop'-Ed)...indeed...the next bit is easy, because it leads straight-on from that, where 'gander' means 'to look' or 'have a look'...so "Cop A Proper Gander" means 'here, have a good bloody look at this nonsense!'...(now that actually makes sense, why couldn't you just say that?-Ed)...umm, 'cos it doesn't rhyme with 'propaganda'?...(fair enough-Ed)...

Pop-ups:...are rather self-explanatory, and purely 'cos it's the only actual example thus far, the recent 'Pop-up Bar' soiree held at the Rail Lands site is the example I'll use...it was set-up that day and packed away again laters...(and therefore could have been done anywhere in Mt Gambier-Ed)...indeed...(and Vansittart Park/Oval is the most obvious better choice-Ed)...absolutely...(with proper toilets, a decent playground, etc, etc-Ed)...look, I agree, but we're getting ahead of ourselves...and of course 'Propaganda' is exactly what it suggests, a version/narrative of events/issues driven by a specific agenda and largely unhindered by fact or genuine reality...(so what you're saying is, 'here's the proof of what's happening on the Rail Lands re Council's genuine motivations/actions-Ed)...the RLRA...(the RLRA, and how these 'Pop-ups' are being utilised in a propaganda campaign to try and justify/disguise Council's conduct-Ed)...exactly... 

(So you're saying that Council's using this 'Pop-ups Propaganda' to prop-up their Rail Lands Retail Agenda-Ed)...couldn't have said it better myself...(mate, we've been through this, 'cos, given that I'm not an actual person but rather a confected literary device utilised to relatively good effect as an instrument for presenting dissenting opinion, inferring conversation, and/or as a foil for setting-up jokes, etc, etc, that means that if I say it you have already said it because I'm you-Ed)...shhh, you'll break the illusion, destroy the magic...(oh strewth-Ed)...imagine all the millions of poor availees out there...(here we go-Ed)...huddled 'round the warming, welcoming glow of their computer/laptop/phone/device/whatevs, hanging on every golden morsel of witty wisdom...(oh gourd-Ed)...or some inspired snippet of wonderously whimsical delight...(I think I can taste some sick-Ed)...and along comes some loose-cannon confected literary device, outs itself as such, and thusly shatters all those availees long-held and dear beliefs that Ed is the one whom keeps this shambolic blogging headed in a vaguely sane direction!...might as well tell the kiddies that Santa isn't real!...(Santa's what??!!-Ed)...never mind, nothing...

Pop-up Propaganda Props-up Rail Lands Retail Agenda:...deadset, sometimes I do make myself laugh when I type-stumble into the middle of lines like that...(even better, 'Cop A Proper Gander At How The Pop-up Propaganda Props Up The Rail Lands Retail Agenda-Ed)...oh my gourd, it's perfect, we've created the perfect sentence...(we?-Ed)...well yeah, I helped...(umm, that's not what I meant...what did we just discuss?-Ed)...Santa?...(no, we discussed my position as a "confected literary device"?-Ed)...we? don't you mean 'I'?...hang-on, don't I mean 'I'?...oh dear, I appear to be stuck in my own Dead Joke Zone Perpetual Loop...(we're stuck?-Ed)...don't start that with me!...(I didn't, you did!-Ed)...is this still funny?...(what do you mean "still"!?-Ed)............moving on?...(probably best-Ed)...        

I will acknowledge with pride, just like a true 'Strayan does, the coupla' times in my rapidly retreating youth that I drunkenly wretched on myself whilst staggeringly hammered, etc, etc, 'cos I ain't no saint...(whom is?-Ed)...but as an adult whom gives a damn about their community/country/species...(damn it!-Ed)...indeed, but as a damn-givin' adult, I have many concerns about the role that alcohol plays in our society, concerns that are frequently voiced in the media by professional others re health, violence, particularly domestic violence, etc, and I really don't see how a 'Pop-up Bar' can be appropriately promoted as a "family event", as this was...not specifically having a go at the proprietors involved, and perhaps I am being a bit precious, but what signals are we immersing our kids in if we drag them along to a "family event" that's almost exclusively about alcohol, indeed is being called "a bar"?...

But re the shiny lights and wavy colours and sparkly shenanigans of these 'Pop-ups', be they markets, karoake, or 'Pop-up Bar' as recently staged on the Rail Lands, whatevs, and re the Adelaide Oval and it's taxpayer funded-concerts with free public transport, etc, and the shiny lights on that ludicrous new $40million footbridge right next to that other bridge right there that's been there for centuries, etc...(do you mean the $40m footbridge to the Adelaide Oval as built across an artificial lake created/maintained by a weir just downstream? that bridge?-Ed)...yep, that's the one...I know we've been here before, but does anything quantify better the insane avarice of Adelaide than that $40m bridge across that fake pond?...these baubles are the sort of things that are part of the propaganda that attempts to justify these 'developments'...  

Things the Rail Lands and the Adelaide Oval have in common...1) nothing that occurs at either site justifies the fraudulent nepotism and/or rank deceits and/or fiscal fall-out and/or self-serving agendas of those decision makers who have bought-brought us this crap...and 2), they are both crap developments, or did I mention that already?...("bought-brought"?-Ed)...'provided by purchasing', 'bring by buying', yeah?...these 2 have in common an agenda of self-promotion and self-interest that have motivated the 'developments', and there is nothing that has happened, that will happen, that can happen at either site that justifies the gross extravagance achieved at such extraordinary cost...

Whatta' SACA Crap: is the 'new' Adelaide Oval...(whoa, whoa, you can't go knockin' the greatest thing since sliced bread-Ed)...unless of course it's to carefully explain the things that make it so crap...(oh well fair enough then, off you go-Ed)...ta', namely 1) the issues of 'bread and circuses governing', and of course 2) the gross financial disaster for the state of South Australia re that decision to re-develop the oval and the financing there-of by the (South East) Forestry Sale, etc...3) the nearly $100million bribe that the SA Cricket Association accepted from the Rann/Weatherill Labor government re SACA 'approving' that re-development...and finally 4) what a crap piece of plasticky crap that stupid shreckin' stadium is...crap...(wow-Ed)...this clearly needs it's own post or three as well...just have to wait...

Tomorrow:   COPGOT Prop Agenda Propaganda 

(Wind Turbines?-Ed)...bingo Ed, well done, and not just these ludicrous Turbines, but the ongoing propaganda re Renewables and this constant dialogue where-in facts of cost, be they financial/environmental/social/whatevs, those costs of manufacture, production, output, availability, etc, etc, are carefully edited and censored in favour of promoting the Renewables Agenda...(the ABC Radio have been absolutely resolute in maintaining their Lefty bleedin' heart propaganda-riddled agenda of reportage in support of these issues-Ed)...indeed they have...(and that reminds me, your Life Membership badge of the Whingin' Lefty Bleedin' Hearts Assoc of Australia has just arrived by mail-Ed)...indeed, and it is absolutely incumbent of any real hippy to dissect and address these gross manipulations and misappropriations of genuine issues as such, because the issues of energy production re pollution and climate change, etc, are all very real, and so too then must be the solutions...it's completely irresponsible and fundamentally unacceptable to just ignore great swathes of the debate because it disagrees with what you believe/want... 


Fell Off My Chair Laughing:...when an ABC Radio interview recently exposed me to Professor (sorry, missed it) from (sorry),  but I reckon somewhere here in South Oz because he gushingly referred to Premier Jay 'The Shiny Man' Weatherill as both "our Premier"...(nuthin' to laugh about there!-Ed)...well indeed, but then the Prof proffered that re Renewables, Ray Jay was "visionary"...(you mean as in dead-set tripping off 'is nut out of 'is mind, seeing colours and giant talkin' chipmunks and the like?-Ed)...no, wish I was, at least that would be genuinely funny, as contrasted by the sycophantically sickening slurry slopping from this frothing Prof...(ouch-Ed)...who not only completely ignored our reliance on Victorian supplied, coal-fired electricity, etc, but said that re 'Intermittent Renewables' like Turbines and Solar, well apparently it's all going to be terrific due to batteries...that might be available in maybe 10 years...nothing about the here and now re the extraordinary cost of electricity in SA, and how that directly affects business as much as the citizenry, or the failures of the current distribution system, eg, having to be 'shut-down' in peak demand times, eg, high Summer, etc, etc, and how much of this can be slated directly to this Renewables obsession, etc, etc...oooh it makes me mad...more tomorrow...


I am Nick Fletcher...(who is by all accounts a large, angry hippy-Ed)...and this 'ere is my blog...cheers and laters...

**PS...not Turbines tomorrow sorry, more Rail Lands and Adelaide Oval...cheers**

It's All About Context, I Said

***I don't know what to say...(apologies?-Ed)...well yes, apologies for another delay in re-booting this 'ere blog, TMGI, and I will cop for 1 maybe 2 of those lost days, but I've had some "interesting" technology issues that have seen me locked-out of my own stuff, couldn't access emails for nearly a week, did most of this post yesterday then couldn't get back in to finish and post/publish, etc...have made multiple treks to techs and/or Telstra for as to sort it all out, not least of all because once I did get back into my emails, Telstra were telling me that my email account had been "suspended" to 'protect' me, and that I should check/run my security stuff, etc, which I repeatedly did and all of which told me everything was fine, just fine...(just fine?...well that all does sound a bit odd-Ed)...and you and I are not the only ones who think that Ed...

Anyhoos, long story short...had to change all my accounts, etc, and get some new tech, etc, and fortunately the fiscal fall-out was relatively minor, and my emails appear to be ok, etc, etc...so's here goes something hopefully, back to The Mount Gambier Independent...(hurrah!-Ed)...*** 

Howdy Ukraine, Thailand, Romania, and Portugal, welcome one and y'all to TMGI...still struggling obviously with doing a daily-ish post but still pushing-on in that direction...also still want to nail-down some of the fundamental realities of what's going on with my bizarre Court case...(yeah, I was goin' to ask where we were going with the whole 'context' thingy, but when it comes to these 20 charges/counts-there-of/whatevs, it is literally all about The Context-Ed)...indeed, there's so much 'Contexture' in the air it's almost tactile...(does tactile Contexture create tension so thick one can cut it with a knife?-Ed)...it does now Ed, it does now...'Contexture so thick you could cut it with a knife'...nice...  

Context One:...is the 13+ years of conflict and abuse and rank pro-paedophile corruption myself and a handful of other parents have been subjected to by a corrupt State and it's wholly corrupt Authorities...this 'ere blog is Context One - Chapter And Verse, in that here-in I've proven beyond discussion the  fundamental realities of the St Martins Lutheran School Child Abuse Cover-up, and the roles played by SAPol (police), the Lutherans, the Teachers Registration Board, the Crown Solicitor, the Director Public Prosecutions, a phalanx of morally-diseased lawyers, at least 2 Labor Premiers and an entirely pro-paedophile corrupt State Parliament, a raft of corrupt local politicians, etc, etc, etc...

It is fundamentally stupid, irretrievably foolish for anyone to try and stare-down the looming mountain of realities re the St Martins Cover-up and the ongoing conflict with corrupt Authorities, etc, etc....(well indeed, this entire exercise in the Courts is a political witch-hunt fundamentally motivated by this rank pro-paedophile corruption-Ed)...absolutely...(it's nothing but attempted pay-back and outright harassment in an ongoing manifestation of the rank corruption evidenced by the St Martins Cover-up...it's a bloody disgrace!-Ed)...I appreciate your support mate...(attempted payback via a massively dodgy piece of rancidly Fascist legislation!-Ed)...indeed, indeed, and in this climate of almost monsoonal Contexture, it would be ludicrously self-defeating to consider that I've got any hope of a fair go re these bizarre charges...(I'd suggest that not being invited to your own Court case, let alone actually even charged, those 2 right there's more than enough to cause even an optimistic person to be concerned-Ed)...absolutely...but we digress...  

As per previous coupla' posts, SAPol very politely-ish raided my home on May 8th 2015, after first visiting the day before, May 7th...(and it was 2014-Ed)...sorry?...(it was May 2014 that 2 SAPol Anti-Corruption detectives came to your home re this whole blogging charges stuff-Ed)...oh my gourd, of course, you're right, just seems more recent...(yeah, and it was first in Court in February last year, 2015-Ed)...yeah, when I wasn't actually even Summonsed to my own hearing...(that's the one-Ed)...which the Court record itself is currently trying to fudge-over...(dude! I saw that! sweet baby cheeses! and you were actually feeling a bit sorry for the Magistrate who had been handed this complete legal Shambles-a-thon-Ed)...indeed, but I thought I heard the Magistrate say something like that, 'first came before me in March 2015' during my phone attendance for the hearing held in Adelaide on December 10th 2015...(strewth!-Ed)...

Sorry, we're getting out of sync already, back it up a coupla' dozen steps, back to when I was raided on May 8th 2014...(correct-Ed)...and SAPol seized my laptop as evidence and/or for analysis...immediately prior to this 'raid', down at Mt Gambier Police Station, in what I understand to be an 'official interview room'...(although you were repeatedly told that nothing was being recorded, either there or at your home an hour laters-Ed)...indeed...but at the MGPS the detectives showed me a computer screen of 'legislation', pointed at it and said "you've done this", quote/unquote, but then were unable to explain what that actually meant, what I'd specifically done re blogging, etc, etc...

Again, due to the unfathomably undefined and yet bizarrely powerful nature of the Banana Lord* re the Club GoGo Bananas Act*, I've been very loosely advised by both those detectives and my Legal Eagles that I "probably/maybe/possibly" shouldn't specifically identify either the Authority, it's head honcho, or even the charges, because any and/or all of these 'identifyings' may be yet further breaches of the bizarre CGGB Act...(but the Magistrate put this stuff on the public record when he read read out the charges, well the first one anyway, read it out in open Court in May 2015, including the full name of the CGGB Act, which identifies the CGGB by name, so it's all been discussed, who it's about, etc, in open Court with journos from both the Local ABC Radio and The Border Watch newspaper present, other lawyers, and a bunch of randoms-Ed)...ok, thankyou, yes, I was getting to that...   (*pseudonyms)

So's here again availees, the specific piece of legislation re which I'm being persecuted sorry I mean prosecuted...(mate! no you don't, we were just sayin' that this whole prosecution is persecution-Ed)...well no, ok, fair enough, in that context, that's exactly what it is, you're right...in fact, re Context One, I can't think of a better way of describing what's happening here, this prosecution is pro-paedophile political persecution...(may I just say, ouch!-Ed)...indeed you may, and I may just say again, this prosecution is pro-paedophile political persecution...for fairly obvious reasons, I continue to err on the side of caution, cautious of even such vague 'advice', and so won't write-out the entirety of what the Magistrate said in open Court in May 2015, just the specific wording that I'm being charged with;
           On the ** day of *** of **** at Mt Gambier or other places published or caused to be
            published information tending to suggest that a particular person is, has been, may be, or may
            have been subject of a complaint, report, assessment or referral under this Act and that might
            enable a person who had made a complaint or report under this Act to be identified or located.
            Section ** (a) and (b) of the **** Act, ****.
            This is a summary offence.

So's that there, minus the specific dates/details as read out in Court in 2015, is what the detectives gave me a print-out copy of at MGPS but could not explain in 2014...they left my home, with my laptop, stating "expect to be charged", but from there-on-in I've had to, via Leagles of course, pursue a reluctant Police Prosecutions and Banana Lord for basic information and documents, etc...at my first Leagles appointment, I asked if they were even allowed to talk to me re the Act, which precipitated 2 Leagles letters to the Banana Lord, requesting mucho info, and most specifically direction on the issue of 'can Mr Fletcher talk to a lawyer?'...the second letter drew this response, on official Club GoGo Bananas letterhead and signed by the Banana Lord, dated 28th July 2014;
                             Authorisation pursuant to section ** of the **** Act ****
        In accordance with section ** of the **** Act **** (**** Act), I authorise Mr Nick Fletcher
        or a legal practitioner acting for Mr Nick Fletcher to publish, or cause to be published, information
        the publication of which is otherwise prohibited by section ** of the **** Act, to such persons as
        is necessary for the purposes of advising or assisting Mr Fletcher in relation to the current
        investigation and/or prosecution of Mr Fletcher in relation to an alleged breach of section ** of the
        **** Act, or to a person listed below:
               .  A member of Mr Fletcher's family;
               .  A friend of Mr Fletcher's; or
               .  A medical practitioner who is providing care to Mr Fletcher.
  
This "Authorisation" confirms 1) that I needed written permission to speak with even my lawyer, even though 2) I haven't yet actually been charged with anything...(wow-Ed)...and even then 3) the Banana Lord has had a red-hot go at some carefully worded tiptoeing around these realities...that was July 2014, and the last communication my Leagles received from SAPol Prosecutions...(or anyone involved-Ed)...indeed...the last from anyone was from SAPol on August 12th 2014, stating thusly ;
          "I will advise if and when charges are to be laid, or a determination that charges will not be laid."

 
Next thing I actually hear is via a phone call on February 4th 2015, when I'm informed that I'm in The Border Watch, reported as having failed to attend my Court hearing of the day before!...(stop...please...can't...breathe...too much...hilarity-Ed)...yes, alright alright, it's not funny because, as stated on the Summons I did eventually receive, I could have been convicted in my absence and a Warrant issued for my arrest...(well yes sorry, there's absolutely nothing funny about that in the moment, you're right, it is very, very concerning...but, given that neither did happen, it's actually quite hilarious because these farcically obvious failures immediately reinforce/quantify exactly what you've said re your concerns about getting a fair go from these rankly corrupt Authorities-Ed)...ok, sure, when you put it in that context I concede there is a certain wry humour to be wrung from this dung-heap of dysfunction...

I still haven't received any explanation as to why/how the Anti-Corruption detectives from Adelaide had no trouble finding me in May 2014, yet whoevs from SAPol couldn't find me to charge me and/or Summons me to my own hearing...(wow...honestly though, I'd have thought that Authorities, having invested the vast amount of time, the bizarrely vast amount of time and effort they've committed to gettin' li'l ol' you, for all of the time they've been 'gathering evidence' and gettin' their case against you prepared, etc, etc, that they'd be falling over themselves to persecute/prosecute you right and not give you ammo for this 'ere blog-Ed)...indeed, but apart from that, given how important this precedent case is re this massively powerful Act, you'd have thought that that might motivate a little more professionalism from the prosecution...

So there you have Context One...I know we've been through it all before, but this is what I've had goin' on for a whole year already, and we're literally back to square one, back here in Mt Gambier, with gourd knows how much more nonsense to come...so's...

Tomorrow: Just More Stuff

Apologies again for these delays and slight repetition, but re my Court stuff, this is just the beginning (above) with so much more to come...the bottom-line is as evidenced, that relative to the Club GoGo Bananas Act, we're dealing with/subjected to an Authority who's power is so total, so far-reaching that a person who hasn't actually been charged with anything, for merely speaking about things that are allegedly all perfectly fine, that person needs written permission to be able to speak with their lawyer, family, friends, or a doctor...(and then you weren't charged or even Summonsed, not informed/notified in any way what-so-ever before it did eventually wind-up in Court on 3rd February 2015-Ed)...my turn, wow...

I am Nick Fletcher and this 'ere is my life as much as this 'ere is my blog...cheers and laters... 

Where Are The Men In This Town?

Hello Canada, India, Taiwan, and Germany, and welcome y'all to The Mt Gambier Independent...regular availees will be aware that for a goodly while now, I've been really just grinding along with this 'ere blog, stuck halfway between 1) the unrelenting guilt that often passes for motivation, and 2) chucking the lot in and resigning to the apparent reality that no-one in Mt Gambier really seems to give a damn about the children in this town...(yeah, where are the men in this town? where are the fine upstanding citizens and the elected Members of Parliaments and Councils and the like? where are the men protecting the children? and where's the shreckin' media? surely they can't all be corruptly pro-paedophile?-Ed)...that's an excellent and valid question that makes an irrefutable statement...

Surely there are some men in this town who aren't abusing the children and/or profitting from said abuses...someone...somewhere...anyone?...(phew, welcome to your happy place, ay?-Ed)...indeed, and tell me that that question isn't warranted, where are the men?...(dude! settle, I absolutely agree that that is a very valid question that in so many ways bluntly imposes itself upon the situation, not a question that's politely waiting to be 'asked'-Ed)...how is it that everyone in this town knows about the St Martins Cover-up, and have either chosen to get complicitly involved and profit from it, eg, former Mayor and current Mt Gambier City Councillor Steve Perryman, former Member for Mt Gambier Rory McEwen, etc, etc, or have just refused to get involved at all, often with that same agenda of profitting...(wow, way to make friends and influence people-Ed)...forget that, every adult in this town, and most particularly the men, should hang their heads in unqualified shame...(yeah, fair enough-Ed)...

Someone recently noted that my concerted efforts to engage more positively with and/or be part of the human race were reaping results as evidenced by how my attitude and temperament had 'improved' markedly across the last year...(strewth, you wouldn't know it from those opening paragraphs-Ed)...well quite...and quite ironically, the measure this person cited? well apparently, I don't talk about the St Martins Child Abuse Cover-up anywhere near as much as I was only 12 months ago...as genuinely supportive as this statement was in it's intent and content, and as genuinely appreciative as I was that someone even gave a damn enough to notice...(let alone be positively supportive-Ed)...well indeed...for all the things about this that were just terrific, I soon managed to drag it back to a sense of failed responsibility on my behalf that St Martins Cover-up has happened at all, indeed, continues on a daily basis...

And from that supportive comment it was a quick trip, stumble, and heavy fall into old patterns of guilt and self-critique and depression where-in I felt very selfish that I was 'neglecting' the St Martins Cover-up issue as I sought to right the wreck of an empty vessel that is me...it took me weeks to get back to Square One, namely, that no-one has fought harder and no-one has paid a greater price when it comes to the St Martins Cover-up...and I say that with absolutely genuine respect for those other handful of parents whom fought so hard for so long and themselves often paid a terrible price for it...

(I thought you said you'd moved forward to a place where you didn't feel guilty about this stuff? we've been over this stuff a few times recently-Ed)..well, in context, yes we have been through some of the many issues re the guilt stuff, eg, I've very much distanced myself from 'feeling guilty' re being on the Disability Support Pension and a Housing Trust (Housing SA) tenant, and don't feel at all guilty about when and where this 'ere blog happens...and I'm not too proud to admit that I take a certain degree of pride in the notoriety that I now apparently personally represent to many people, given that I am "notorious" for telling truths about deeply confronting realities...(is this the stuff about being 'the Holy Grail of Poisoned Chalices or just a mug?'-Ed)...ai, that's the one...

So I'm just gunna' have to harden the shreck-up and get on with it, and there's nuthin' else for it but to force myself to a daily post, 5 days a week, and treat this 'ere blog as though it were my job...and it's a job that needs doing whether I like it or not...(and there are those whom agree, those whom believe that it is a job that must be done, and, for what it's worth, that it's a job you do quite well actually-Ed)...yeah, cheers to y'all for that feedback, it certainly hasn't hurt in my continued commitment to churnin' out yard after very hard yard of blog...and in that context, and because I have lost track of what I'm up to here-in this 'ere blog, I intend to re-boot with basic issues for the next however-many posts as necessary...and please excuse the laboured attempts at humour as I push myself to meet this self-imposed contract...

Irony Rich Diet:...as I chow gown on how hilarious it is that for all my faults and failings, it's my lack of willpower that will not be denied...(now that is quite funny-Ed)...well quite, but it's nowhere near as hilarious as that which triggered my very recent decision to remain in Mt Gambier for the foreseeable future...(oh, that is a surprise, 'cos I know that you've really struggled with even wanting to be anywhere near this place, and struggled for some years now-Ed)...I'd say 4, going on 5, even put my hand up for 6...(and what hilarious trigger's gunna' make you stay then?-Ed)...the fact that the Court in it's infinite wisdom has returned to Mt Gambier my bizarre case re 20 charges/counts of 'Talking About Stuff'...(sweet baby cheeses! so you have to be here?-Ed)...yep...(and rather than considering this a crippling and claustrophobic confinement, you're taking what could be a massively imposing disaster and turning it to your own best advantage?-Ed)...yeah, beautiful isn't it...

And what's even better is that it's not a taunt of the Court or a sarcastic barb or facetious shard or whatevs, 'cos it ain't nuthin' but The Thang...(extraordinary!-Ed)...yeah, I know, dunno' what happened there either, but there you go, it just did...I was fussin' away about a whole raft of stuff around many different issues, when whiirrrr clunk!, it just up and happened...(wow-Ed)...yep, it all seemed to just re-sort itself and fall into a literal line where one decision soundly foundationed the next...(kinda' like dominos falling?-Ed)...exactly! only in reverse, the dominos were standing-up, not falling over...(nice-Ed)...I ain't taken credit for nuthin' of it because it just seemed to suddenly happen by itself, and that's why I can celebrate the ironic hilarity seeping from it's every pore, because it's not about sarcasm or facetiousness or being a smug git or whatevs...(it ain't about nuthin' but The Thang-Ed)...absolutely...            

I have irrefutably proven that a class of 7 year old kids have been abused at St Martins Lutheran School back in 2002, and equally proven that the Lutherans, SAPol (police), both Labor Premiers Mike Rann and Jay Weatherill, a rankly corrupt Liberal Party, multiple local politicians, etc, etc, are all deeply complicit in helping cover-up those abuses...it's not open to debate, kids were abused and the State has covered it up...and now I find myself being prosecuted by these same rankly corrupt Authorities...   

Following directly on from the last post, there were a coupla' gaps and I'd just like to pare it back to the fundamentals before moving forward on other issues...so here are the fundamental quotes/facts that highlight the broader points of my current Court case;
1)  as evidenced on this 'ere blog, I and other families have been involved in a 13 year conflict with an openly pro-paedophile State, it's wholly corrupt Labor government, it's equally corrupt and pathetically ineffectual Liberal 'Opposition', it's corrupt police force, it's corrupt Crown Solicitor, etc, etc, etc...at every turn public and elected officials have acted to deny the abuses and/or subsequent St Martins Cover-up, routinely attacking and betraying parents, etc, etc;
2)  now these same corrupt Authorities are pursuing a pathetically transparent political witch-hunt against me, utilising a bizarrely powerful yet fundamentally undefinable piece of Fascist legislation;
3)  and in pursuit of this Witch-Hunt Agenda, 2 SAPol (police) Anti-Corruption detectives from Adelaide raided my home on May 8th 2014, now 20 months ago, seizing my (borrowed) laptop as potential evidence, and repeatedly stating "expect to be charged"...(ah yeah, that's not actually your laptop, is it?-Ed)...no it isn't...(expect to ever see it again?-Ed)...nope, not really...(charming-Ed)...quite...

Again, at this point (May 2014) I had been told "you've done this" re section ** of the **** Act of **, but the detectives were unable to state what exactly it was I'd done, nor when I would actually be charged, etc...again, I have been loosely advised that I 'probably shouldn't' specifically identify either the legislation involved or the Authority that administers that Act, because that identifying in itself may possibly be a further breach...(wow-Ed)...I attended the South East Community Legal Service (May 2014), and it was these sort of bizarre potentialities and attached confusions that led to a series of letters/emails between SECLS and authorities...following my questions/observations about the reach/implications of the **** Act of **, and whether or not I was even allowed to speak with a lawyer, SECLS was forced to write to the Banana Lord* seeking clarification on this point and a broad range of other issues...(and had to write twice-Ed)...indeed...         *(Club GoGo Bananas and the Banana Lord are pseudonyms I've chosen for the Authority
            involved and it's head honcho re the **** Act of **) 

Tomorrow:  More Stuff About This 

Because even a basic explanation/coverage of my Trial tribulations is so deeply convoluted and indefinably complex, I'll continue with this stuff about my Court case tomorrow, and then move onto a Rail Lands reprise, etc, etc, and try to catch-up with some of the many notes I've scribbled down here-abouts over recent months, etc, etc...again, I can only ask that availees bear with me as I get things back on track re this 'ere blog, but I can absolutely guarantee y'all that that's exactly what's happening...(get in my son-Ed)...

I am Nick Fletcher and this is my blog...cheers and laters...

Fun Da' Mental Way With Realities

Hello Luxembourg, Malaysia, the UK, and the USofA, and welcome y'all to the second post for 2016, and a post that is as much review as new news given the recent progressions in the procession of regressions that has become my Judicial judgementing...(he's talking about his Court case re the 20 counts/charges re the **** Act of (**), which we've effectively been forced to pseudonym as the Banana Lord, who is of course head honcho of Club GoGo Bananas-Ed)...indeed Ed, and thanks for not identifying specifically the legislation/Authority that I'm being charged under because apparently me/us actually identifying said legislation/Authority might "possibly" be a further breach...(yeah no, I'm well aware of the blizzard of 'possiblies', 'maybes', and my personal favourite, 'dunno's', that has surrounded your attempts to get advice re this extraordinarily powerful yet unaccountable legislation and this bizarre Court case-Ed)...indeed...

I now officially have no legal representation, having been officially cut loose by the South East Community Legal Service...(now come on big fella', don't say it like that, they've been very helpful and respectful-Ed)...yeah, fair enough...(you've said it yourself, imagine if you'd written to the Banana Lord asking stuff like 'can Mr Fletcher speak to a lawyer, because the Act seems to say he can't?'...imagine how you could have been ridiculed for even asking that question, but when presented dangling beneath Legal Eagle letterhead, it's a whole different context-Ed)...and I do love a bit of context...(don't you though, with a nice serve of The Crunch-Ed)...the Crunch? what do you know of The Crunch? you've never even been to The Crunch...(and then this joke trails-off into a re-run of the hilarious 'The Crunch' dialogues from the Nanageddon episode of The Mighty Boosh, BBC TV-Ed)...yeah sorry, we digress, but damn that whole 'The Crunch' thing is brilliant, check it out if you haven't already...(and of course that episode introduces us to, errr-Ed)...(Tony-TH)...(Tony-Ed)...(nnnHarrison-TH)...(Tony Harrison there-Ed)...moving on...  

(And you know that SECLS simply don't have the funding and/or staff to run this case, because 1) they barely have enough funding now to do anything much, and recently very nearly lost most of that, and 2) because of the vast and untested nature of this legislation, the Constitutional implications, etc, etc, this case needs a team of lawyers, barristers, and assorted legal staffers working across several years, and it'll literally cost $millions-Ed)...well this is where I start to get unhappy about this latest correspondence, because it seems to forget most if not all of that...it was SECLS who advised/were involved in my case being moved to Adelaide, not least of all so that I could access the above mentioned flock of Leagles that SECLS identified as necessary going forward...(well yes, I take your point that they seem to be now contradicting their own advice-Ed)...indeed...

But SECLS isn't just contradicting their own previous advise and conduct, but the fundamental realities of what they know to be happening re this legislation and my case...and most concerningly, doing all this off the back of that rancidly corrupt 'legal advice' prepared by the super-dodgy lawyer that JusticeNet SA forced me to use...(is that the lawyer who refused to talk to you, only responding under sufferage via brief, error-riddled emails, and who refused to sign the 'solicitor/client agreement' that JusticeNet SA told you you must negotiate with said half-wit lawyer before representation could/would commence, etc, etc?-Ed)...yeah, yeah, all that stuff...this rancidly corrupt clown has unilaterally produced a deliberately flagrantly erroneous document purporting to be 'legal advice' for me re my case, but which is in reality a definitively corrupt document clearly prepared on behalf of the Prosecution...(yeah, fair point, but perhaps the poor dear's just a bit overwhelmed by the enormity of all this bollockness and just got a bit confused-Ed)...seriously Ed?...(no, I was being massively facetious, sorry-Ed)...I should think so...

Yes, it's quite the li'l saga isn't it, so's best we do a very brief review thusly;
   1)  on 7th May 2014, 2 Adelaide-based SAPol Anti-Corruption detectives attended my home here in Mt Gambier, re the Unnameable Act, and after my brief visit to Mt Gambier Police Station on the 8th May 2014, they returned with me and raided my home, seizing my laptop, repeatedly telling me "expect to be charged", quote/unquote...relatively quite polite but a raid/seizure none the less, and the way they said "you've done this" and "expect", etc, I did expect to be charged very soon, certainly within weeks... 
   2)  I immediately sought legal advice via the South East Community Legal Service, and after I pointed it out, they had to write to the Banana Lord asking if they were allowed to even talk to me, even though I hadn't actually been charged with anything...(wow-Ed)... 

Just on that point alone, and here it is again, the Irrefutable Reality that re the ****Act of (**) someone who hasn't actually been charged with anything needs written permission from the Banana Lord to speak with 1) a lawyer, 2) their family, and 3) a medical practitioner...this "Authorisation", provided in response to 2 written requests by SECLS for that and other info, is in-and-of-itself proof of the reality that such an  "Authorisation" is a real and requisite document for someone who hasn't even been charged, because merely talking about Club GoGo Bananas and/or the Banana Lord is a prosecutable offense...(strewth, it's just so bizarrely Fascist-Ed)...that's exactly what it is...and again, I can only ask that availees accept this is about a genuine document...(well all the Leagles involved have copies, don't they? as does the Court and Prosecution?-Ed)...well quite...(having said that, I think I might just choose to believe you actually, given the choices-Ed)...yes, it's rather telling really that in a paragraph of such lofty company 'tis I who emerges the most likely to be believable...(well quite-Ed)...

   3)  after several early email responses, the last I heard from SAPol Prosecutions was in August 2014 when they emailed SECLS that I would be notified "when and if" I was to be charged;
   4)  on February 4th 2015 I was told during a private phone conversation that I was in the local The Border Watch newspaper, being reported as having missed my Court hearing of the day before...this phone conversation was the first I knew of the hearing/case because I had not even been charged by SAPol let alone Summonsed to the hearing...(wow, again-Ed)...      

Self-Obvious Realities:...(don't really need to be discussed-Ed)...yes ok thankyou...Some Irrefutable Truths...(better-Ed)...gee whiz ta'...what we can deduce from this 'ere last paragraph is that there has been an extensive effort applied by SAPol, an effort that starts at least some time well before May 2014...(because 2 ACB detectives don't just arrive at one's home?-Ed)...well exactly...and it's another irrefutable reality that SAPol have expended a great deal of energy gathering 'evidence', eg, a bunch of Affidavits...and I'm being deliberately vague because it's another piece of 'possibly shouldn't' advice re discussing what I know specifically about the length and breadth of this extraordinary SAPol campaign against me...(well it must be terribly hard for Leagles to 'advise' you about stuff that they've never encountered before-Ed)...absolutely, and not their fault they don't know, because nobody does, eg, I went to my local Member of State Parliament, the Liberal's Troy Bell, and he has stated that he can't even get a legal opinion from his own Liberal Leagles because of the untested/precedent nature of this attempted prosecution...  

And onto the next SOR, that despite this ludicrous waste of policey-person-power and exasperated over-effort by SAPol, they couldn't quite manage to actually find me to charge me and/or Summons me to my own hearing...(shazzam!-Ed)...oh it's alright for you to laugh, I could have been arrested...(sorry, fair enough, I forgot that the Summons itself carries that li'l bit of info-Ed)...absolutely, I could have been convicted in my absence and an Arrest Warrant issued...and I'm yet to get anything even vaguely resembling some sort of explanation for this fundamentally gross failure to Summons me, let alone an apology...(it's almost like SAPol Prosecutions didn't want you at your own hearing-Ed)...almost...and I'm still waiting for someone to show me where and when I was actually charged, too...(super-wow, it's absolutely ludicrous-Ed)...

And now it's been a full year in Court and we're back at square 1, back in Mt Gambier, where I have no choice but to represent myself because I was refused any Legal Aid funding, which then directly forced me to deal with the 'pro bono option' that SECLS organised, namely JusticeNet SA, whom it appears have done their level best to royally screw me over...(you don't like it when people threaten you, do you?-Ed)...no, I tend to viciously lash-out with fact-laden slashings about their pro-paedophile corruption and the like...(like when the Crown Solicitor Office threatened to go you for Criminal Defamation if you didn't shut-up about their rank pro-paedophile corruption re the Teachers Registration Board/CSO exoneration/protection of "text-book grooming paedophile" Glyn Dorling-Ed)...that's nearly 10 years ago now, Ed, lots of threats but no action, and now these same clowns can't even prosecute this ludicrously corrupt legislation...

Just A Quick Tidy-up:...of a recent point about my conduct, etc, specifically re the Xmas Toy Run and the involvement of my good mate Rory McEwen, and Rory's annual Yuletide sanctimony on the ABC Local Radio re what great work Rory does for the kiddies, etc, etc, etc...forgot to mention that on the day of the Toy Run, having just done some shopping, I was leaving the supermarket carpark as the bikes were arriving, but I didn't stop and confront Rory...(as much as he deserves it-Ed)...oh and he gets it mate, he gets it whenever I see him, but just not at this thingy, completely wrong place, wrong time...personally though, I found it hugely positive that I wasn't at all struggling with that decision to not stop and share some choice truths with Rory, in a context where I have constantly erred on the side of caution because of the very sensitive nature of the issue, but have then usually struggled with that decision...(strewth, you are some sort of unit, aren't you?-Ed)...apparently... 

(And what is that 'sensitive issue'?-Ed)...the structured, gross abuse of a class of 7 year old kids by teacher Glyn Dorling at St Martins Lutheran School in 2002 (and previous years), and the orchestrated cover-up of those abuses, a cover-up that Rory is intimately complicit in and has been run directly from the Premier's office and the top of SAPol (police), both of whom are either 1) at the very least complicit with the Lutherans, or 2) controlled by them...(I'd suggest it's irrelevant because South Australia is so wholly Pro-Paedophile Corrupt that the result would be the same anyway, Cover-up-Ed)...and I suppose 'complicit' explains the Federal Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Abuse refusing to look at St Martins, and indeed not even mentioning the Lutherans at all in 3 years of operation?...(yeah, complicit/corrupt/controlled, whatevs-Ed)...

(*and just got another 'IP conflict notification' about another computer using this address at the same time I am...haven't had one of those for a while...(don't SAPol still have your laptop?-Ed)...apparently...(wonder if that's whoevs settin' there with your laptop doin' some monitoring of and/or interferring with this 'ere blog?-Ed)...whatevs)

Tomorrow: More Shizzle Rainin' Down

RIP: ...just on the news, the Thin White Duke, David Bowie...personally, I don't know about changing much about the Tall Streak A' Freak that I am (but have never embraced the way Mr Bowie did his Inner Unit), but I do fully intend to continue with doin' that which I am apparently quite good at, via this 'ere blog, namely, "puttin' out the fire with gasoline" (Cat People)...(and Stevie Wright died last week-Ed)...yeah, sad news also, and Ginger Baker of Cream late last year...and many others recently...(we're losing a generation, man-Ed)...

I am Nick Fletcher and this is my blog....cheers and laters...

When The Giving A Damn Breaks

**sat down yesterday to do this post and just couldn't get my head together for the quite literal heart-ache of the day's news...for all the suffering and death in the world, it remains the random and relatively small things that really tip me off my beam, I guess because that's what I can directly identify with...there have been numerous times in recent weeks that I've wept through reports about the young girl who's parents took her repeatedly to hospital after she had a heavy fall, but who died from an undiagnosed injury...and a man died this weekend at a local amateur motorcycle event...and yesterday it was a young man, hospitalised a few days ago after a cowardly punch from behind, who has died after his parents had to decide to switch-off his life support...and then a father has killed himself and his 2 infant sons by driving-off a jetty...

I mean no offense in so briefly mentioning these terrible things, I just don't know what to say, there's nothing I can do...by mid-afternoon I had nothing but hurt in my head, anger in my heart...or was it the other way 'round?...whatevs...either and/or both, had nuthin' nice to say about anything or anyone...I've also had some news in my own realm which I won't be discussing, a coupla' things about shizzle that's goin' on in people's lives and that it's simply not my place to discuss, etc, but that makes me feel that perhaps I'm not the biggest dickhead on the planet, indeed, far from it...(yeah, doesn't say a lot about others does it, when comparing yourself to other's actions helps you shelve your own volumes of No-Self-Esteem Issues and discard the wardrobe of Self-loathing as clothing, and ditch all that other Hierarchies of Self-realisation mallarchy, and simply think of yourself as a half-way decent person-Ed)...well quite...

It's what I find fundamentally ironic about my life, it's the 'giving a damn' that comes at such a cost and yet is it's own reward...and some days it does break me and I ain't too proud to admit that, indeed, I may well be proud to say it...and hence the further irony that my self-doubt shizzle causes me to question repeatedly everything I say and do and therefore builds a fundamentally sound foundation cemented together by stout truths...  

But I digress...hello Portugal, Russia, Aotearoa (New Zealand), and Poland, welcome one and y'all to The Mount Gambier Independent for 2016...just very quickly...(yeah sure-Ed)...next few posts I'll run over a coupla' points from the last few posts again 'cos I ain't happy with what's been missed or poorly explained...also, need to do some random catch-up stuff because I've had my li'l holiday now, and now I need to do something a li'l more responsible and organised, namely this 'ere blog...the happy medium lies between the rabid obsession of the first 18 months, and the self-forced faux absence of the last 6 months...(and good luck with that-Ed)...cheers...

Briggsy And The Bro':...is my new Buddy-cop Sitcom absolutely chockers with unbelievably hilarious plot lines amid evil machinations of corruption and deceit, and as is the idiom, based on real-life events/incidents/whatevs...'Briggsy' is the slick ladies man, and 'Bro'' is his boof-headed offsider...their shenanigans are very exactly based on the actions/conduct/careers/cock-ups of real-time knuckleheads Jamie Briggs and his Liberal colleague Mal Brough...(I love those guys! they are just hilarious-Ed)...I know, right?!...my child suggested, Briggsy and the Bro'fish...(classic-Ed)...sure, whatevs, but I've already started on the pilot, check it out...   

Episode 1- The Low Blow...in which our heroes go undercover as a Liberal Frontbenchers, but Briggsy hurts his leg whilst drunkenly kneeing PM Tony Abbott right in the groin at, ironically, a taxpayer funded knees-up wake in the departing Tony's soon-to-be not office anymore, not now that it's shiny new PM Malcolm Turnbull's office...and if I may, as dear Chairman Mal said to his alleged inspiration, his supposed muse, his dearest Tony, as he kicked Tones' sorry sack right outta' there, "mate, there's ya' shreckin' bike, there's the shreckin' door, get on it, go through it, get over it!"...(sob! why don't people write me poetry like that? sob-Ed)...come on big fella...(anyway, sob, 'knee in the groin'? are you sure?-Ed)...yeah, fairly sure, something about 'hurt his knee getting Tony in the tackle'...(um, I think it was 'in a tackle', not 'in the tackle'...he injured his knee whilst tackling Tony...'a' not 'the'...no groins involved-Ed)...well except for the 2 tools doin' it...(taboomtish yeahhhh!-Ed)...

And I haven't even written in The Bro's parts yet...The Bro tries to put the slipper into his evil arch nemesis The Speaker who possesses a talismanic tome called Hisdiary in which lie all the Unknown Truths, eg, what taxi The Speaker did and/or didn't catch...(fascinating-Ed)..and straight into the Dead Joke Zone with a brief explanation that Mal Brough is in all sorts (of trouble) for attempting to access the diary of the then Speaker of Federal Parliament, a Mr Peter Slipper...heaps about all of this on the Interweb if you can be bothered...and Briggsy 1) did hurt himself tackling outgoing PM Tones at that famous party where the marble table got clobbered as well, and then 2) last week was outed for kissing a junior diplomat...both men 'quietly' quit their Ministries between Christmas and New Years...(hilarious-Ed)...indeed, and more on this tomorrow...
  
Just A Terrible Pun:...that someone has surely used somewhere, sometime and that I've somehow missed, but here goes, just in case they haven't, with Malcolm Turnbull as PM does that mean we currently have a definitively Mal Administration?...(oh dear yes, that's not great is it?-Ed)...just in case...

Slam Addressed By Dutton:...leaves the Immigration Minister Peter Dutton feeling a little sheepish...(ough, sweet baby cheeses, that's appalling-Ed)...ta'...Dutto' appears to be trying to turn Briggsy and The Bro into some sort of triple act, possibly a pale imitation of The Three Stooges...anyhoos, in the script he texted me, Dutto' outlines his character's hilarious faux pas and the resultant high farce that results, when he 'accidentally' sends a derogatory text about someone to the person who is the subject of derision...(well that's hilarious, but hardly believable-Ed)...and back into the Dead Joke Zone with the observation that this is actually exactly what Captain Knucklehead did...(no?!-Ed)...yep, used his opposable digits like any ape of breeding does, and texted Briggsy, slamming a female journo as a "mad f****** witch" 'cos she'd bagged-out Briggsy for his Honkers nightclub shenanigans with a colleague...only CK didn't send it to Briggsy, no...(nooo?! he didn't?!-Ed)...yes he did...(he sent it to the journo herself?-Ed)...exactly...(noooo?! wow-Ed)...absolutely, what a classic...


And it's the joke that just keeps on giving because Dutto's slam about the journo was addressed/texted to her by Dutto' mate...(maaate-Ed)...and Dutto's slam was addressing the original slam that she gave Briggsy...(he slammed her slam-Ed)...spot on...(why do I feel a Suzie Quatro song coming-on?...and hang-on, you're just getting a text from the Lutherans...and there's another from Rory McEwen...oo, and one from Jay Weatherill...and from John Rau...and Steve Perryman...3 texts from the Mahers...and Billy DeGaris....and SAPol, Mt Gambier City Council, the Crown Solicitor, the Education Dept, they're just streaming in-Ed)...aren't I the popular one...(and they're all saying the same thing, "Nick Fletcher is a mad prick"-Ed)...what can I say, my public service loves me...(and here's one from Nick Xenophon-Ed)...oh come on Ed, let's keep it believable, everyone knows that good ol' Nick is avoiding me, refusing to return emails, phonecalls, etc, because of the ongoing pro-paedophile corruption of the St Martins Lutheran School Child Abuse Cover-up...(yeah sorry, I got a bit carried away there-Ed)...it happens to the best of us...      

"He's A Creep":...was the most telling thing I've heard about cricketer Chris Gayle's wonderful on-camera/off-field  performance piece last night...(performance piece?-Ed)...yeah, his definitive study of an arrogant git doing an impersonation of a complete dickhead behaving like a sleazy shreckin' tool...(Bukowski?-Ed)...no thanks, I'm trying to give it up...anyhoos, perhaps it's just the way I heard/saw this reported, but I note that it was a female journo I first heard say that Chris mate...(maaate-Ed)...has a very unpleasant habit of propositioning female journo's, including herself...(charming-Ed)...not really...(no, no, I was being sarcastic...I'll try again...charming!-Ed)...sorry mate, missed that inflection, just a little bit angry with men in general today, and that's obviously not a comfortable place, what with me bein' one and everything, and it's throwin' my game off...(nah, I hear ya' brother-Ed)...

Short post today and another tomorrow and so-on and so-forth, and this 'ere blog will continue to continue as best I can manage...don't know how to explain the irony of the past year, being one of the most stressful and unpleasant on many occasions, yet undoubtedly the best in many ways and in a long time...pardon the familiarity, but I will gently expect that availees quietly accept that I have been working very, very hard this year past and have made some significant 'gains', in many ways and on many things, but in all of them I've been coming off a very, very low base and there's still so, so much more work to be done...(and fair enough-Ed)...and of course, ladies and gentlemen, please thank if you will Ed, not an actual person but a confected literary device...(I blame you-Ed)...join the queue...

Tomorrow: More Fundamental Realities

I am Nick Fletcher and this is my blog...cheers and laters...(is that all today?-Ed)...

Oh Alright, A Joke:...I'm doing a movie about the original development and recent hacking of that most charming Interweb site, Ashley Madison...(is that the one where 'married' people register to hook-up and have affairs?-Ed)...yeah that's the one...(charming!-Ed)...indeed, they were hacked and the clients info posted on the Interweb...(hilarious-Ed)...indeed.........(and the movie's name?-Ed)...oh yes, sorry, Cheaty Cheaty Bang Bang...(you had me at 'laters'-Ed)...

Apologies - Post Later Today - Cheers