Confronting The Front Of Cons

Hello Ireland, Czech Republic, the USofA, and (the) Ukraine...you'll imagine my surprise that it's been a full week since the last post, but no-one's more surprised than I that I'm even here to do it today...no apologies for not wanting to blog, have sat down day after day for a week and just couldn't do it, just didn't want to do it, and it is just what it is...and not wanting to drag myself back into this stuff day after day is just a reasonably sane response to my own life...(heavy, man-Ed)...a life lived being so fundamentally confronted and subsequently underwhelmed by the community I live in, and most specifically the behaviour of it's so-called leaders, and the bare-faced hypocrisy of these professional con-men, the front of these cons...having said that, this 'ere post is the first of a series, a series made necessary by the sheer volume of cons and hypocrisy that has unfurled itself recently... 

No apologies that even this 'ere post is done somewhat under sufferage...(just get on with it-Ed)...because everyday I live with the glaring reality that these 'leaders' I'm dealing with are inevitably intimately involved with the St Martins Lutheran School Child Abuse Cover-up...and so it is, the struggle I have with just trying to be reasonably balanced when dealing with any issue, but particularly regarding Mt Gambier City Council, and most particularly former Mayor and current Councillor Steve Perryman...(in my dictionary, the Mt Gambier City Council have dragged 'lead' back-up the page, back across across the fine line between 'lead' and 'leach', as in 'suck the blood out of'...not a joke, literally...laterally literally...literally laterally literally-Ed)...are you quite finished?... 

Welcome y'all to what again looks like quite a long post, but several articles attached...first is from The Border Watch, Thursday 17th March, and the issue itself, The Rail Lands 'Artwork' as pictured, and discussion there-of as conducted on 'Social Media'...(was it on Cr Lynaghs' 'Limestone Coast News' Facebook page thingy?-Ed)...think so/dunno'/partly?/whatevs...then thirdly (sorry) is Mayor Lees' comments supposedly explaining that funding/expenditure (TBW Tuesday 22nd March 2016)...second letter (sorry) is Cr Perryman havin' 'is two-bobs worth the next day (TBW 23rd March 2016)...and finally Cr Morello has another good whinge (TBW 24th March 2016)...note that the original TBW story doesn't mention Cr Morello's attempted 'Motion'...(nor does Councils' Minutes from that meeting, doesn't even mention it-Ed)...

I'll skip the usual attempted humour, except of course to hilariously utilise my confected literary device 'Ed' to roundly berate myself for the rank hypocrisy of me calling someone else a hypocrite......uhhhh, Ed?...um, Ed!?...(no way mate...you're on your own with this one...and you've said it already-Ed)...fair enough...(and you know I wanted to do that joke-Ed)...sorry, well go on then...(nah, it's too late now-Ed)...come ooon...(no!...and I had a great spiel all about how 'everyone's a hypocrite and it takes one to know one but it takes 2 to know you'-Ed)...well there you go, you've got to do it anyway...(it's not the same-Ed)...I know, but let's do the post, yeah?...(alright-Ed)...ta'...(I'm still not happy-Ed)...I know... 

Perhaps It's Just For My Entertainment:...given I was the only one there*...(taboomtish-Ed)...but Tuesday evening 15th March 2016, Council put on a stellar show, the calibre of 50cent fireworks wheezily whizzing about in small circles on the floor...and that farcical performance has since played itself through via the local media...please read these The Border Watch articles attached below, and consider it all in a context where these clowns are absolutely as thick as thieves and particularly when it comes to the St Martins Lutheran School Child Abuse Cover-up (June 2002-current) and their collectively profitable and complicitous corruption around this and many other issues...  (*there was actually a second 'public' present)

And please note that I can say these things about 'corruption' as bluntly as that because of the raft of rank realities that would be exposed should any of these clowns actually follow through on their many and varied 'defamation' threats...why haven't the Lutherans/St Martins followed through on their multiple written threats?...(and beyond that, there are those who are so tainted that they try to not even acknowledge these things at all-Ed)...great point Ed, why isn't Mt Gambier City Council at least threatening me for my relentless and apparently salacious slanderings of this august body?...("raft of rank realities"?-Ed)...exactly, an absolute shipload of rank realities...(would a line of gondolas in Venice be a rank of rafts?-Ed)...this is no laughing matter Ed...(no probs, I don't think anybody's laughing at that joke mate-Ed)...but speaking of jokes...

Late in the meeting 15th March 2016, under Motions Without Notice but not recorded/mentioned on Councils' Agenda or subsequent Minutes, Cr Frank Morello, former Editor of The Border Watch  and husband to TBW alleged journalist Sandra...Frank who was given the very plum role of Helpmann Theatre Manager straight from that extraordinary stint as TBW Editor...(a stint stained irretrievably by the sickly stench of the St Martins Lutheran School Child Abuse Cover-up-Ed)...indeed, Councillor Frank 'The Jellyfish That Grew A Spine And Roared Like A Mouse From It's Ivory Tower' Morello reared-up out of his seat like some demonic blancmange, said something about wanting a Motion about a Code of Conduct issue, and then verbally launched himself at Cr Greco like a nerf exocet, giving young Christian a vicious tongue-lashing....(vicious lashing? it was like being caressed with a natural yoghurt*-Ed)...indeed...  (*credit- The Mighty Boosh BBC TV)

From my position directly behind Cr Morello, what I thought I saw and heard was him ask for some sort of official Council reprimand of Cr Greco via some sort of 'Motion' re the 'Code of Conduct'...Frank then made a series of intensely facetious and purile statements...(hey! hey! that's my shtick! I do the intensely purile stuff 'round here !-Ed)...I know! the gall of the man!...Frank had a massive hissy-fit from his li'l Ivory Tower about how Cr Greco must have been asleep at such-and-such meeting or was snoozing at so-and-so and can't remember Council invested in this-that-and-the-other, did whatevs about whatevs, etc, all of the things listed in his own letter (below)...then he suddenly withdrew his Motion and sat down...(I have not laughed so hard in so long-Ed)...well quite, and we weren't the only ones...(you can see why I thought it was a stageshow/performance piece starring the monologuing hilarity of Cr Steve Perryman, with side-splitting cameos from various other clowns-Ed)...nah, I can see how one might make that mistake...

So's Frank stood up, asked for a 'Motion', had his little vent at Cr Greco, then withdrew his 'Motion', then sat down, and then Stevo mate...(maaate-Ed)...stood-up to hold forth about how it was 'the lowest point in Councils' history' and himself 'Motion' some Code of Conduct training for Councillors...(wow, not unlike the extraordinary hypocrisy of Stevo making a big scene of being seen to excuse himself from the second Budget Special Meeting on Monday 21st March 2016, re a Conflict of Interest re Councils' funding of Stevos' self-appointed 'Tourism' group, see previous post-Ed)...indeed, it's exactly that hypocritical...

And as for this little tit-for-tat tete-a-tete in The Border Watch, it's a fundamentally faux-furore confected by strictly collusive co-conspirators, designed to create a false sense of independence within Council, and to distract from real issues of corruption and maladministration and deceits that define the entire Rail Lands Project...and for Cr Perryman to stand-up and hold forth about how he's "...sought only to defend the integrity of council and the chamber."...wow...(mmm, we're gunna' need more hypocrites-Ed)...what? more?...(well if I'm one hypocrite, and you're 2 more, that's 3, so we're gunna' need more 'cos three's clearly not enough to know Cr Perryman-Ed)...I'll get the phonebook...

Tomorrow: More Hypocrisy

(Orrr, not more!?-Ed)...sorry mate, we've literally just scratched the surface today...(I know, but still, don't you find it so depressing to see this sea of corruption? gourd knows I do! and angry too, ooo I'm angry, aren't you?-Ed)...I wish! angry would be an improvement at this point, it all just makes me sad...this is what I was saying last post, I almost miss being angry 'cos at least anger fuelled me to go forward, do this 'ere blog, etc, and sad is just sad and sad saps your energy...(passion swamped by depression is a glutinous quagmire from which it can be quite difficult to extract oneself-Ed)...indeed, it would appear to be the case...(and this 'ere blog becomes a confronting burden even given it's history as cathartic release-Ed)...indeed, from release to burden, nicely put Ed... 

Just stunned to see former Mt Gambier Mayor and current Councillor Steve Perryman posting on his own Facebook page (14th February 2016) a meme about 'we put down dogs that hurt children so why not put-down paedophiles'...(wow-Ed)...I know...this from one of the key players in the St Martins Lutheran School Child Abuse Cover-up, this from a man who has profitted profusely, indeed made his political career off the back of ignoring/protecting/supporting paedophilia...

And every time I think of Steve mate...(maaate-Ed)...I'm right there back on the stage of the Sir Helpmann Theatre at the March 2010 State Election Forum, with the last audience question of the night referring to St Martins, as asked by a parent involved, whilst my fellow candidate Stevo was muttering away in my left ear, "Is there a question in this (parents' name)?", but then Stevo failed to even address the issue, never leaving his chair, just sitting there, arms and legs tightly crossed, head bowed, staring down at the table...(as were the 3 other candidates, Don Pegler, Viv Maher, and Henk Bruins, all settin' there like zombie meat pretzels, staring at the table-Ed)...what an inspiring display of laudible leadership... 

For Steve Perryman to comment on what another persons' conduct has done to the integrity of Mt Gambier City Council...wow...

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

...(Just Farts Ache-Ed)...

(When ones' hemorrhoids are playing-up ahahahhaaahhhaah ahh%##***""{-Ed)...^{+%@! what the shreck?!! give me that keyboard@@~"<((*%...(ahahaaahahaaaha just farts ache ahahaa>|^$@-Ed)...##}]&^^*give me that!##@_]%...give...me...that's it mate! that's the last time, the first and last time I let you do the title to a post...(ahahahaaaa ahhh-Ed)...dear availees, I am so, so sorry for this brutish and purile hijacking of the otherwise pristine and cultured content of this 'ere blog...today's post was intended to be a quick showcase of my vague attempts at 'Art', namely some photos and maybe a bitta' poetry...(orrr come on, don't sell ya'self short, this 'ere blog's a bit of a work of Art-Ed)...mate, flattery will get you absolutely nowhere after that little opening effort...

I've been planning some of these 'Arty' posts for a while, but have fallen foul of my own recalcitrance re doing this 'ere blog only once a week, and it seems a bit silly and self-indulgency...but it's been a very long week, again, and I commented to some-one that whilst I've had pretty much the most full-on year of my life and achieved some extraordinary things, it's sort of like, having lived for so long in the Grey (Agoraphobia/depression) that my recent expeditions into the Light and the Colour (that vague sense of achievement/self esteem/happiness) have served only to remind me of how much I've lost to the Grey...(and then when you're back in the Grey, it's now even 'greyer' because you have a current reference point of Light and Colour-Ed)...well exactly...(and then one has moments regretting ever leaving the Grey because now one has seen the contrast/possibilities/optimism/whatevs, that from back in the Grey now seem so far away again-Ed)...Ed, it's like you're in my head mate...(well there, yes, and here on this page in this 'ere blog, for they truly are the only 2 places that I actually exist, what with me being a confected literary device and all, not an actual separate person-Ed)...well you're real to me Ed...(that's what concerns me-Ed)...

Coupla' people have said to me re my Grey/Colour/Light metaphor that they saw a drought-stricken farmer woman interviewed re her extraordinary struggles, and she made the same observations about her mental health, and consequently made a point of taking photos every day and  looking for/being aware of the colour in simple things, etc, I think the example was clothes pegs...so I'm going to do whatevs it takes to keep rolling forward with this 'ere blog, and today that's this stuff...my name is Nick Fletcher and I write this 'ere blog, just me, and ain't no-one else responsible for what I says, what I does, or whatevs I whatevs...(and I'm also here-Ed)...oh yeah, and there's Ed...and I'll continue to make an absolute effort to be as present and as correct and as accountable as possible, and make stupid hopefully mildly offensive jokes most likely at someone elses' expense...(and I'm also here-Ed)...indeed...anyhoos, let's get to it...but before you have ya' puddin' (the Art) you need to have some fibre, so here's the roughage as we cross to our Entertainment reporter, Ed...

TMGI Theatrical News:...(and former Mt Gambier City Mayor and current City Councillor Steve Perryman is a triumph with his hilarious one man show, the progressive performance piece, 'Have Ya' Heard This Hypocrisy?', now into it's second week and packing them in at the Helpmann Theatre...in a series of lengthy monologues of scything socio-political commentary, Cr Steve highlights the corruption and dysfunction of local government by having his character rail against the exact behaviours his character has executed/exhibited...this modern take on age-old themes of public corruption, self-importance, and self-aggrandisement had the public weeping..."laugh out loud funny" said one man...so there you go Nick, 'Have You Heard This Hypocrisy?' looks set for an extended run-Ed)...ummm, Ed, mate, that's ummm, that's not a show you've attended there, that's ya' standard Council meetings, not a hilarious comedic review...(what?!-Ed)...yeah, that's standard meetings of Mt Gambier City Council...(but, but, it's been going for weeks, it must be a show...and he couldn't possibly be saying those things in reality-Ed)...sit down mate...

When Cr Perryman twice got up last evening (Monday 21st March 2016) at Council's latest 'Budget Special Meeting' and made a big song-and-dance about his "Non-Pecuniary Conflict of Interest" re the $160,000 ($180,000?, possibly more) that Council has agreed to hand to Cr Perryman's self-appointed 'Tourism Taskforce', that wasn't a play, that right there's reality Mt Gambier City Council Style...(but?...but?...-Ed)...I know, I know, I wish it was a staged comedic tour-de-force, but at the first Budget meeting, when he was profusely holding forth about cuts to other Council Budget items/services like footpath maintenance and tree-lopping, cutting back on other stuff to make-up the shortfall created by this $160,000(?more) to his Tourism thingy, all that's reality, not a play...(but it's been running for weeks...and it's always him, the character Steve-Ed)...indeed, but that's just 3 Council meetings in 2 weeks, and Steve ain't no character and he sure as shreck never tires of his own voice...(not a show? wow-Ed)...indeed...

And the real humour in Stevo's little pantomime is most unfortunately derived from the fact that Steve mate...(maaate-Ed)...he's absolutely notorious for his multiple Conflict of Interest rorts, eg, the extraordinary, nepotistic corruption of the Main Corner leasing process, the Old Hospital Demolition, etc...(I thought that was just the character's back-story, I couldn't have imagined it were all real-Ed)...well I'm just tellin' it as I see it happen, and as the only 'public' person to attend these 3 meetings*...(3 meetings in a fortnight?-Ed)...yeah, Budget meeting on Wednesday 9th March 2016 then Council meeting last Tuesday 15th, then last evening a second Budget meeting...(strewth, no wonder you're so depressed-Ed)...indeed, I somewhat preferred it when it just made me angry, now it's just all so sad, so very, very sad...(hang on! you're the 'public' who said "laugh out loud funny" in my interview thingy-Ed)...mate! I was the only person there...(oh, fair enough-Ed)...and I didn't say that, in the moment, as Stevo's spewing these rank hypocrisies, that I don't laugh at these audacious attempts to reconstruct the realities that define who he is!...(and also fair enough...I still just can't believe it's not a show-Ed)...      
       (*sorry, there was one other person at the general meeting 15th March)           

I guarantee that I'll be teeing-off again real soon on this latest Budget process farce and the extraordinary conduct of Cr Steve Perryman...but now, out of the Grey and into the Art, sort of...

These first photos are sunrise Monday 19th January 2015, taken from Gladigau Rd near the Gun Club, looking East of course...not sure if that's a rainbow in the thin, low cloud or some sort of upper atmospheric 'ice halo' thingy...please remember that these are taken with an $80 phone so the quality ain't great 'cos it's difficult if not impossible to get the self-focus right, but still worth the effort of taking I reckon...cheers...

(Those are some freaky atmospherics right there...it's sort of Art I guess...and now that you've calmed down about that unpleasant business with the title, perhaps I could have a go at doing the intros for some of these photos-Ed)...orrr, I dunno'...(come on, how could it hurt?-Ed)...ok then, don't let me down...(you won't regret this-Ed)...I already am...

(The Blue Lake Shows It's Support For Marriage Equality-Ed):...you idiot...this is actually a rainbow coming out (no pun intended) of the Blue Lake, 18th July 2014... 

 (And This Street Supports Marriage Equality-Ed)...or it's a sunrise rainbow from May 2014...

(And These Trees Support Marriage Equality-Ed)...I think we've probably done that joke enough now...(but the real joke is that dude from Western Australia who has quit the Labor Party because they were going to make him vote to support, in his words, "homosexual marriage"-Ed)...you mean WA Senator Joe Bullock...(that's him-Ed)...indeed, commitment to his bigotry as so deftly defined by the deliberately derogatory language, saying "homosexual" instead of "equality"...(we won't miss you Joe-Ed)...indeed we won't...

And so there we go, hardly the best post ever on this 'ere blog, but onward and upward and all that...a few photos, a scathing diatribe about the rank corruption of Mt Gambier City Council, and a very amusing gouge at Mr Bullock that doubles as a re-affirmation of my personal support for Equality, full-stop...(not so keen on marriage?-Ed)...my opinion of marriage is irrelevant in a context where genuine 'Equality' makes anything else a peripheral irrelevance, including the issue of marriage...(because genuine 'Equality' automatically makes any quantifiers like 'marriage' redundant?-Ed)...indeed, because true 'Equality' should be a given where-in the individual gets to define for themselves what those 'Equalities' are...(and if they choose to get married, it's their problem?-Ed)...exactly...

 Tomorrow: Probably My Court Stuff, Probably

(You haven't corrected the title bit yet-Ed)...ah damn, it's too late now...(well you better tell them what the hilarious joke is I've made there-Ed)...ummm, sorry availees, the original and correct title for this post is/was Just For Arts Sake...(and I made it into 'Just Farts Ache'-Ed)...yeah yeah, we can all see what you did, hope you're proud...(and you are, as always, my inspiration, my muse-Ed)... 

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

Justice Just is What Justice Just Does

Howdy y'all in Argentina, the Netherlands, France, and Spain, and to y'all else...and no pretense today of good humour, no progression of digressions, here 'tis...

Can only say again the same stuff I have before about my life of relative comfort and privilege for being born a White man in this stolen land, Australia...equally relevant, my poverty-line existence as a Disability Support Pension recipient and Housing SA (Housing Trust) tenant...(yay-Ed)...well quite, it's the minimal support you get that's way, way better than none-at-all, but I continue to be concerned about those effectively 'below' me financially on NewStart Allowance (the Dole/Unemployment), Youth Allowance, other pensions, etc, in a context where the 'Privatisation of South Australia' is all-but done, and as inevitably happens, it would appear that the 'bottom' 1/4-1/3 of the population are being consigned to the scrapheap...(and double-yay, who got-up on the sunshiny side of the bed this morning?-Ed)...mate, the State's falling apart and their having months of shreckin' Festivals and Car Races and Whizz and Bang...(yeah, I know-Ed)...

You don't have to know much about the history of Rome to understand the fundamental principles of 'Bread and Circuses' governance as practised by the Roman Emporers...endless games in the Colosseum and slingin' supposedly 'free' bread to the 'mob' (the crowds) all to distract said mob from the unpleasant realities crowding-in from the unruly frontiers...and the worse it got financially/security-wise/whatevs, the bigger the Games, the more the carnage, and lotsa' 'free' bread...(I didn't know we were talking about the Rail Lands again today-Ed)...nice tangential reference to the furious flurry of forced fakery being jammed onto the Rail Lands as Mt Gambier City Council tries to justify/deny/ignore the multiple issues of Council's deceit, corruption, malfeasance, maladministration and incompetence re that site, but I was referring specifically to the blizzard of bollockry that goes on in Adelaide this time a' year...(all the same thing though isn't it?-Ed)...pretty much...but we digress...    

On Monday, 7th March 2016, in the Mt Gambier Magistrates Court, 450kms from our charming State capital Adelaide, the seat of Law and Order, my case had it's 13th hearing in as many months...the latest installment in this precedent prosecution of an extraordinarily powerful piece of legislation with defined Constitutional issues/implications was held in a closed Court room with no media or public allowed/present, and allegedly unrecorded by the Court and/or SAPol (police) Prosecutions, and without the defendant having any legal representation...(sorry what!? slow down...closed Court, no public/media, no official recording, you the defendant without legal representation, in the biggest legal case in South Australia's recent legal history, that's now been running since February 2015?-Ed)...yes, we're talking about the same case...(wow!-Ed)...yep, a large angry hippy was yet again forced to represent himself but was also refused recording anything...(you're not allowed to record either?-Ed)...nope...(but how are you meant to keep track of anything if nothing's being recorded?-Ed)...I think that's the point isn't it Ed?...

This massively important case is being rammed unaccountably through a closed Court as far from Adelaide as possible...hide it, bury it, ram it through with a complete disregard for propriety and appropriate procedure and completely ignoring the Constitutional herd of elephants stampeding up-and-down the room...(Justice be hanged but not before Nick Fletcher-Ed)...well quite...this is a farcical pro-paedophile political persecution, an act of absolute retribution for what I've covered on this 'ere blog...and consider please that I have no choice but to defend these ludicrous charges/counts because, Retribution Agenda aside, if I were to just roll-over and plead 'Guilty' then the rankly corrupt South Australian Parliament, Labor and Liberal alike, would have the precedent conviction they want/need to be able to shut-down any 'social media', particularly 'blogging' such as this 'ere...(but also with huge implications for mainstream journalists/media/whatevs-Ed)...indeed Ed... 

(Oo oo, tell 'em about the phone call on Friday before Court-Ed)...with SAPol prosecutions in Adelaide?...(yeah yeah, that's the one, hilarious-Ed)...you have a very odd sense of humour Ed, I must say...(just tell 'em!-Ed)...okey dokes, basically, at the hearing 2nd February 2016 I was ordered/directed by the Court to 1) self-represent on Constitutional Law, and 2) go back to the Pre-Trial Conference process...and even though they're meant to be part of the PTC, I was refused Discovery of documents and withdrawing/re-entering my previous plea of 'Not Guilty' made back in May 2015 after the South East Community Legal Service (here-in to be known as my Leagles, my Legal Eagles) had already been through this PTC process with SAPol Prosecutions who initially refused to budge on any of the 20 charges/counts, but then dropped one...(one?-Ed)...one...(of 20?-Ed)...yep...anyhoos, with this second round of PTC, when I read through the Court-provided but very poorly photo-copied PTC pamphlet, it said that I, being self-represented, I had to contact SAPol Prosecutions even prior to the PTC...so I did (Friday 4th March 2016)...

Ms Diamandi of SAPol Prosecutions, the young woman who was made to look so foolish by her own side when she was unceremoniously shoved-out into the firing line completely unprepared at the hearing 2nd February 2016 re this bizarrely shambolic prosecution, she was apparently unavailable, but called me back within about an hour...apparently we were meant to discuss the 'Document of Agreed Facts' where-in SAPol provides me a list of things that I have apparently done, and we are to negotiate what is 'agreed' and what I (the defendant) might choose to plead 'Guilty' to, etc, all with a view to greatly reducing the actual time in Court...(but you're not a lawyer, how are you meant to know what to agree to or not? from what I'm looking at, SAPol Prosecutions is effectively requiring you to 'agree' with what you are charged with, that is, effectively plead 'Guilty'-Ed)...and this is the problem I have as forced on me by the Court, I don't know what to agree to or not, or to ask for or not...(yeah yeah, but tell 'em about the call-Ed)...sure...

I declined to agree with anything beyond the fact that I write this 'ere blog, The Mount Gambier Independent...(and they know that already anyway because you put your name on the blog and on every post and that's why the 2 SAPol Anti-Corruption detectives from Adelaide knew where find you when they 'raided' your home back in May 2014-Ed)...indeed...so 'yes' TMGI is me/mine, and given that I was doing daily posts at that time, 'yes' I would have posted something on those dates...beyond that I declined to agree to anything and the discussion degenerated into stuff about how I'm not a lawyer, my not being charged/Summonsed, the Constitutional issues involved, etc, etc...yet again I was repeatedly arguing this wholly bizarre prosecution to a standstill, whilst Ms Diamandi stated that SAPol Prosecutions cannot/do not deal with Constitutional issues...and my apologies that I can't remember anything more specific than that, but I was suddenly and bemusedly distracted about 5 minutes in by a second voice on the phone, 'Hello Mr Fletcher, this is (head of SAPol Prosecutions) Andrew Paesch speaking'...(what? where'd he spring from then? I didn't know he was there-Ed)..neither did I Ed, neither did I...

Enter Stooge Right:...Mr Paesch's presence was news to me because when she rang me back Ms Diamandi didn't identify that there were any other people present and listening...(is that legal?-Ed)...maaate, we're talking about SAPol and the pro-paedophile political persecution that I'm being subjected to!...'is that legal?', really Ed...(yeah sorry, don't know why I was even surprised-Ed)...you're surprised because it's respectfully standard procedure to identify all persons present, not have a discussion with others secretly listening-in!...I'm also assuming there were others present, and that this call was recorded, and that the 'not available/return call' was about setting-up this little attempted ambush...(charming-Ed)...and that the same anonymous attendees were likely present but not identified for the 2 'Video links' of the hearings 02/02/2016 and 07/03/2016, 'links' required because SAPol Prosecutions are running their case from Adelaide...   

I asked Mr Paesch about his sudden appearance and he stated, 'I'm here to support my colleague'...(what? the same support he showed when he dumped her into the middle of this massive debasco (debacle/fiasco) back on 2nd February 2016?-Ed)...indeed Ed, support just like that...he continued to stonewall on the issues of when/if I was charged and why I wasn't Summonsed, 'you must have been charged because you're in Court'...(wow, isn't that the same hugely facetious response as from the Magistrate back in the hearing 2nd February 2016?-Ed)...literally verbatim, and I gave him the same brusque response that I gave then, with the added directive, 'don't play word games with me'...we went 'round and 'round with this stuff about the failure to charge and/or Summons me, and I incrementally herded him to a series of admissions that made one cumulative statement, namely, 'I asked someone at Mt Gambier to Summons you, but they couldn't find you'...(but the 2 detectives from Adelaide could find you alright-Ed)...indeed, as I reminded Mr Paesch...

When I reminded Mr Paesch of his email of 12th August 2014 that stated that I would be informed 'when and if' I was to be charged, he replied that that email was 'to (my) lawyer'...(and here's me thinking that we do the facetious stuff-Ed)...indeed Ed, but this is the sort of smart-arse attitude that I've been subjected to through-out this farcical prosecution, a clear indication that SAPol Prosecutions is in disarray re this case...I have asked for specific details about this alleged 'request and attempt' because I reckon it's an outright lie...beyond that, SAPol have all my contact details, home and mobile phones, email, and of course my home address...until otherwise conclusively proven, SAPol made no attempt what-so-ever to Summons me...and I'm still waiting for someone, anyone to respond to my repeated questions/assertions re not being charged, by providing me with an actual date that it happened...I've raised this point multiple times in Court, starting in March 2015, and still no-one has provided me that date...

At one point 04/03/2016, when discussing my lack of legal representation, Ms Diamandi asked if I'd 'heard of JusticeNet SA', and I stated that I'd tried that already and that it had been a disaster, etc, to which she stated 'perhaps they've had advice about the Constitutional issues being not relevant'...I immediately shut her down on this nonsense by identifying that SAPol is monitoring this 'ere blog and is therefore exactly aware of what has and hasn't happened re JusticeNet SA and Ralph Bonig because I've blogged about it!...(hang on, wasn't JusticeNet SA also discussed repeatedly at the hearing 2nd February 2016?-Ed)...indeed it was Ed...(and that as part of the extensive discussion about the Constitutional issues and/or alleged involvement of that rankly corrupt lawyer Ralph Bonig?-Ed)...yep...(a discussion you've described as being wholly about trying to get Ralph's super-dodgy alleged 'legal advice' onto the official record so that it can be used against you-Ed)...that's the one...JusticeNet SA was a central part of that debate in that hearing, and then on 04/03/2016 Ms Diamandi mentions it as though it were some new idea she's just thought of...what a joke...(and you felt sorry for her getting betrayed/set-up by her own side-Ed)...did, not so much anymore...    

Ultimately, Mr Paesch directed me to put in writing my various requests for information/Discovery/whatevs and the discussion ground to a halt, with virtually nothing properly resolved...however, 2 things were established, namely 1) that Mr Paesch claimed that he had requested that I be Summonsed, but that no-one could 'find' me, and 2) SAPol cannot handle the clearly defined Constitutional issues...furthermore, having been initially denied my request for Discovery, I have now been SAPol directed and then Court ordered to provide a written list of requested documents/recordings/whatevs...(well good luck with that-Ed)...

In Closing:...just listening to Sam Rothall on the ABC Local Radio re the Leukemia Foundation and what they raised at the latest Rail Lands 'Bread Circus' on Sunday 13th March 2016...and it's all about how they (LF) help support people travel to Adelaide, etc, and the head-shaving or colouring, etc, and that approx $8,000 was raised...(any mention of the cost of employing Ms Rothall to this unnecessary position, running the LF office here, etc?-Ed)...not that I heard...and as per previous post on this issue, I maintain that sick feeling in my gut that comes with my maintaining that this office/Ms Rothall's position is a cynical manipulation of a deeply emotive issue...

Tomorrow: Gidget Goes To Rome
 
(Gidget?-Ed)...did I say 'Gidget?', sorry, I meant the Federal Royal Commission Into Child Abuse...

Just In Closing:...this little gem from the Lutheran Church, as taken from their
            'Response to the Royal Commission Into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse  
                                   Constitutional Paper - Redress and civil litigation'

   "An underlying principle of this response is that the needs of victims must be paramount at all times."

...(with what I've seen of the Lutherans, they routinely take the 'nunder' outta' 'An underlying principle', but never more so than in that very sentence right there-Ed)...indeed, and then amply and equally apply both 'principle' and it's prestigious pal, 'Principal'...and I hope I'm being none too subtle here in what I'm so seethingly saying about the Lutherans and their Principals, and their collective 'principles'...(no I think you've said it right there, 'the Lutherans and their Principals, and their principles'-Ed)...you can almost feel the love...(I am definitely feeling something, but I'm not real sure it's 'love'-Ed)...well passion ain't always beautiful Ed...(fair enough-Ed)...

I am Nick Fletcher, Court-Appointed Constitutional Lawyer, and this is my blog...cheers and laters... 

Familiarity Breeds Contempt

Or so they say...and a high-dee-ho and welcome Bulgaria, Romania, Italy, and Aotearoa (New Zealand) to TMGI...bit of a cut-and-paste post today, but hey, what can I say, this shizzle (attached) looks very familiar, so a longish-looking post that's relatively short...but first, straight into it...

Last evening one attended Mt Gambier City Council's 'Special Budget Meeting...(sorry what?-Ed)...Council's 'Special Budget Meeting' for their 2015/2016 Budget...(last night?-Ed)...yep...(sorry, I was unaware that there was a meeting-Ed)...no need to apologise Ed, apparently no-one else knew about it either...(so how many people did attend?-Ed)...I already told you...(what? where?-Ed)...right there, "one"...("one"?-Ed)...one...(one person attended Council's Budget meeting?-Ed)...and we use 'person' in it's loosest possible definition...(indeed we do, you ManBear StuffPig you-Ed)...ohlll, stop it already you...(no, you stop-Ed)...no, you stop...(nooo, you stop-Ed)...why don't I both stop...(is that a reference to my existence as a 'confected literary device' used to create a sense of debate rather than diatribe, set-up jokes, etc, not an actual person?-Ed)...spot on...

(So how'd you know it was on, the meeting that is?-Ed)...just spotted a small article on page 6 of yesterday's The Border Watch, but there could have been some mention somewhere else, say, in TBW under 'Council business' or some such, dunno', can't find one and don't remember it being mentioned at Council's last meeting...might be on their website, whatevs, certainly isn't mentioned on their February meeting Agenda re meetings for March 2016...(whatevs indeed, it's a far cry from their 2013/14 Budget meetings debasco-Ed)...indeed it is...as covered in posts of the time (April-June 2013), those 5 meetings at the library were a metaphoric bloodbath for Council, as perpetually re-lived here on this 'ere blog...(it's almost like Council hasn't got the guts to leave it's little Ivory Tower and face the public, so concerned in fact they don't even want Joe Public at meetings held in the Council Chambers-Ed)...are you suggesting Ed, that Council is so fragile to the point of fractile that they need to hunker down in their bunker, in the warming embrace of their Special Place, where Large Angry Hippies are not free to let their opinions-let-alone voice roam?...

(And when they 'suspended normal procedures' to have their chat about the Budget, didn't that mean that you could have commented from the gallery because it wasn't a 'proper meeting' anymore?-Ed)...it certainly occurred to me in the moment, but whatevs, ne'ery an actual word passed these occasionally hissing lips...(by 'hissing', do you mean like in fury?-Ed)...no, not really, certainly pissed-off, but hardly furious, I just get a mad attack of the SADS...(SADS?-Ed)...Sudden And Debilitating Sadness Syndrome...(you made that up, that's never a real thing-Ed)...made-up the name, sure, but it's sure as heck a real thing...symptoms include Crash-and-Burn Intermittent Narcolepsy (CABIN), Frequently Attending Ruddy Council Meetings (FARCM), and a Distinct Inability To Stop Bloggin' (DITSB)...(hurrah!-Ed)...indeed, hurrah...(and doesn't Agoraphobia result in CABIN Fever?-Ed)..sorry, is that a terrible joke about Agoraphobics' inability to leave the house, etc, often resulting in a type of 'Cabin Fever' which is usually associated with people isolated due to bad weather, etc?...(but many a true word spoken in jest-Ed)...fair enough...  

And I swear I must have this wrong, because I also swear that last night I saw Council talk about 'revenue deficits' in terms of $180,000 being equivalent to a 1% rise in rates, in a context where Council also agreed to hand Councillor Steve Perryman's self-appointed 'Tourism Working Party' $160,000...(wow-Ed)...and I swear I hope I'm wrong that discussion about Council stumping-up $90,000 for a Tourism Development Officer, was $90,000 as part of that unbelievable $160,000, because otherwise that'd be $250,000 that Council's handing to Stevo's li'l club of self-appointed luminaries...(but isn't former MGC Councillor Biddie (Tietz) Shearing already employed full-time as the Regional Development Australia Limestone Coast Tourism Development Officer?-Ed)...well apparently, but gourd knows what she's doin', nobody's heard a peep from her in ages...(whatevs, it's irrelevant what she's doing or not, point being, the RDALC already has a fully dedicated employee in that exact position-Ed)...fair enough...

Watch this space for Council or the self-appointed TWP employing one of their own family or 'vested interests' mates to the wholly un-neccesary and extremely costly $90,000 TDO position...this reeks of the standard Council corruption and nepotism re 'jobs for mates' as paid for by Ratepayers...unqualified apologies to those genuine employees involved, those just trying to do their jobs, etc, but Mt Gambier City Council is a vastly bloated bureaucracy furiously self-justifying with created and often ludicrously frivolous non-issues, and awash with relentless nepotism and corruption...(yay-Ed)...

And what really steamed me about the whole 'debate' was Steve mates's...(maaate's-Ed)...self-entitled, self-important ranting about how Council can cut footpath maintenance and tree management, etc, to fill the gap in their Budget, a rolling, rollicking, repetitive rant riddled with whinging about how 'PC everything is', a whinge that included having a pot-shot at people with disabilities and how there needs to be more personal responsibility, etc...(what a class act is our Stevo, mate-Ed)...maaate...     

A Brief Digression:...just listening to the Mt Gambier ABC Radio hugely praising themselves-up for their Facebook site and how they're the voice of the people, etc, etc...(what?! whatta' joke!-Ed)...indeed, what a farcical joke given what the ABC hides from it's listeners, eg, the St Martins Lutheran School Child Abuse Cover-up...and re comments left on Facebook, "we're not saying people can't have an opinion"...(unless of course you're Nick Fletcher-Ed)..and we am, aren't we Ed...(indeed, and then we're abused and mocked by ABC staff, banned off the air, censored out of Mayoral Election campaigns, viciously attacked in seriously problematic 'official ABC statements', and generally and wholly discriminated against-Ed)...well what do you expect when you're Nick Fletcher...  

And Then This Below:...obviously I ain't the only one who's been cutting-crook about this farcical ICAC 'investigation', previous on this 'ere blog I've already covered the rankly corrupted 'investigation' of Labor Minister Jennifer Rankine, a secret 2 year 'investigation' that just stopped for a full year, etc, etc, and then completely exonerated Ms Rankine, wife of Lower House Speaker and former Labor Attorney General, Michael Atkinson...(wow-Ed)...yeah, I know...exonerated her of doing exactly what she had done, which is what she was being investigated for...(wow again-Ed)...and then the farcically pointless Australian Press Council steps in to protect Ms Rankine as well...(didn't the APC just ignore/dismiss your complaints re the extraordinary conduct of The Border Watch during the 2010 State Election campaign?-Ed)...indeed, all covered in previous posts...

I urge availees to access the InDaily article and follow the link to the APC findings, findings that are self-evidently self-contradictory, eg, the pedantic nonsense dismissing the journo's claims that '2 Authorities investigated Minister Rankine', when the Findings clearly identify an initial investigation by the Ombudsman that allegedly cleared her, then involvement of both the Office of Public Integrity and the ICAC...(hold on, doesn't the Ombudsman and/or the OPI have to report corruption to the ICAC?-Ed)...indeed...(then how can the Ombudsman clear her but there be a related ICAC investigation?-Ed)...I, I, don't know, great question Ed...(and furthermore, if the Ombudsman cleared her why did it then go to the OPI and ICAC?-Ed)...another great question to which I have no answer...(and if the Ombudsman investigated and cleared her, and then the OPI and ICAC 're-investigated', doesn't that clearly qualify as '2 investigations'?-Ed)...stop it already, so many great questions, no answers...

I note 2 specific parts of this story, attached, as taken from the InDaily website the part about 1) the journalist being 'not a public servant and therefore not subject to ICAC legislation'...(that rings familiar-Ed)...doesn't it though...and 2) the journo didn't specifically identify anything, merely alluding to the ICAC investigation...whatevs, this story shows that a journo writing professionally for an actual paper, about something that's actually happened, can be the victim of ICAC legislation, legislation that by it's own definition applies specifically to public employees/elected officials/whatevs...bottom-line, here's proof of the massive problems with institutionalised corruption in South Australia, corruption that starts in the Labor Party, flourishes with the tacit but unwavering support of the equally corrupted Liberal Party, and as fully protected by the ICAC Act 2012......

Having been initially officially protected by the ICAC, the wholly incompetent former Minister Rankine then holds forth from behind Parliamentary Privilege about the exposure of that rank corruption, using her also protected and privileged position to hang-it on a journo who has just told the truth...(who the shreck is Jennifer Rankine to condemn this journo, she wouldn't know the truth if it reared-up and bit 'er!-Ed)...indeed Ed, from start to wherever it finishes, it's a corrupt farce from a farcically corrupt State...

The Independent Commission Against Corruption should have 'Being Appropriately Investigated And Resolved' as part of it's official title because that's what it was designed to do, that's how it's been set-up, and that's how it's operated thus far...the ICAC Act 2012 is purely about shutting-down any discussion about and/or exposure of the institutionalised corruption that has bankrupted this sad, sick State, and thusly protect the rankly corrupt, particularly the corruption evident in the Labor Party, and more broadly our charming State Parliament...

Tomorrow: My Latest Court Stuff

From the sublime to the ridiculous, my latest hearing on Monday 7th March 2016 re 19 charges of 'talking about stuff' was held in a 'closed Court' (no media, no public), here in Mt Gambier 450kms from Adelaide the seat of State Government and Law, and allegedly un-recorded, and I've been refused recording it myself, and with the defendant (me) without legal representation...(wow-Ed)...in the precedent prosecution of this hugely powerful legislation involved, that I 'probably' cannot/should not identify by name because that in itself may be a further breach...(wow, and may I say, strewth-Ed)...well quite, and that's just the jumping-off point Ed, from there it's a farcical free-fall through appropriate procedure and justice...

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

Laugh I Nearly

Hello Morocco, Poland, Canada, and Ukraine, and welcome y'all to The Mount Gambier Independent for the first day of Autumn 2016, Southern Hemisphere Style...(***apologies, actually now 3rd day of Autumn, still really struggling with stuff re just doing this 'ere blog, whilst other stuff is also happening, blah blah blah, existential crises, etc, etc...(why limit yourself to just a single crisis?-Ed)...well exactly...but no apologies for the vitriolic venting here-in 'cos it's been a very traumatic week, what with all this Royal Commission/George Pell shizzle, etc, yet more SA Child Abuse Royal Commission bollocks, etc, etc, and there's a lotta' blood in my rage-stream...all but finished this 'ere post 2 days ago and haven't been able to look at it since, but we digress***)...and of course in the North Spring has sprung...just a few quick and witty observations, well, maybe not quite observations so much as recounts, but by gourd they're hilarious...sortta' trawling over old grounds here a bit, but regular availees of this 'ere blog will appreciate that these are repeatedly 'revolving' issues repeatedly involving the same litany of vested interests villainy...(huzzah!-Ed)...  

A Picture Paints 1,000 Words:...or in this case leaves one rendered momentarily speechless with convulsive fits of laughter, 'cos just below, here's the photographic proof (The Border Watch 1st March 2016) re my first Tale of Hilarity, namely the shamefully painful experience of sitting through this high-farce at the February meeting of the Mt Gambier City Council...(I thought you'd said that any meeting conducted by the MGCC was a 'shamefully painful high-farce'?-Ed)...no, what I actually said was that any/every MGCC meeting is a diabolical debasco, a farcical festival of 1) gross fiscal mismanagement, 2) insidiously incestuous nepotism intimately entwined with, 3) a proliferation of perpetual Conflicts of Interests, all in all, 4) just ya' standard Ship A' Fools adrift and becalmed on a Raft of Rank Corruption...(ahhh yeah, that's right, that's what ya' said-Ed)...anyhoos...

I attended said MGCC meeting and was standin' in the foyer/reception bit just outside the Chamber(s) proper, gettin' my pens and paper, etc, ready...(is that the stuff about how you stand outside until the Mayor enters and the meeting therefore officially starts and no-one's allowed to speak?-Ed)...yep...('cos you've unwittingly outwitted yourself by realising that prior to Mayor Lee's triumphal entrance, the meeting hasn't officially started and therefore it's just a room with people in it?-Ed)...yeah...(and therefore there's nothing from stopping you saying a few choice words to a few choice heads?-Ed)...yeah yeah...(so's now you have to wait outside or you'll be talking heads?-Ed)...yeah yeah, you're hilarious...(well mate, I wouldn't stress about that few minutes 'cos your just showing-up there clearly pisses-off the vast majority of people in that room, causes distress enough for most, and I for one find that sublimely hilarious-Ed)...it is kinda' funny...and so to this last meeting...  

My mate...(maaate-Ed)...former Mayor now Councillor Steve Perryman, has again been making a point of coming-up right behind me or otherwise approaching me pre-meeting, and hailing me with deeply cynical but smiling salutations, in what is clearly a continuation of his preoccupation with trying to provoke me into some sort of response...(I don't understand, why does he bother?...he's been pulling this same sorry stunt for years now and each and every time it's literally back-fired right in 'is face, eg, when as fellow candidate he was mouthing-off in your ear during the 2010 Election Forum whilst a public question was being asked about the St Martins Lutheran School Child Abuse Cover-up, but then outed himself for the complicitly corrupt coward he is by failing to even get out of his seat and address it-Ed)...indeed, I was the only candidate who did address it...(or when he twice physically harassed you at Council's 2013/14 Budget public meetings, and instead himself ended-up looking like an idiot-Ed)...well look, it seems to make him happy...(and tell 'em what happened last meeting-Ed)...I'm gettin' there, I'm gettin' there...

Steve mate...(maaate-Ed)...was at the far-side of the Chamber(s), standing behind the Mayoral throne, chatting to Operations Manager Darryl Sexton, when he (Steve) subtly alerted the other Councillors, Council staff, etc, to my presence using a clearly predetermined, almost subliminal secret signal he's developed specifically for such occasions...("secret signal"? how'd you spot that then? do tell-Ed)...well, he hailed me at volume thusly, "Hello Nick" with accompanying melodramatic flourish/sweep/wave of the arm...(clever-Ed)...he seemed to think so...(and you were out in the next room/foyer bit?-Ed)...yep...(what's that, 30-35 feet away?-Ed)...orrr yeah, 40 feet I'd reckon, probably more...(so, say, 45ft away, in another room, and he semi-yell heralded your arrival? wow-Ed)...but it gets better...(I can't imagine how, yet somehow I knew that it would-Ed)...hurrah!...

Enter Stage Right one Mayor Lee, and so's I go into the Chamber(s) and there in the front row of the Public gallery bit, previously hidden from my view by the doorway itself, there's SAPol (police) Supt Trevor Twilley...(oh strewth-Ed)...and his offsider Sgt Stott (I think), and as I walked in they looked at me then dropped their eyes...(ooo, you big scary hippy-Ed)...I know right! even if they weren't cops, these people know that I'm no threat to anyone, yet they react like this!...(no physical threat, no threat other than what goes down with your politicking and/or down here on this 'ere blog-Ed)...good point Ed, it's simply another case of the looming realities I've come to personify rearing-up behind me...and I was forced to make my way behind them, pausing only to pick-up an Agenda from the seats just where they stood, and then moved past, accidentally bumping one of them in the back of the head as they sat...(these things happen-Ed)...indeed, and I moved a few seats down and sat...Mayor Lee then did his greetings to Council staff present, the media present, and then Supt Twilley and Sgt Stott by name, then 'mumble, mumble, something, "and the public gallery"...(so he didn't/couldn't say your name, again-Ed)...absolutely Ed, not quite as spectacular as "err, err, the gentleman behind", but still hilarious...

It's not that Mayor Lee doesn't know my name, nor is he somehow incapable of saying my name, he's either so psychologically disturbed by my presence that he's rendered verbally dysfunctional, or he's just clumsily following instructions to not identify my presence because then I'd be recorded...(on the Minutes, you'd be recorded on the Minutes as attending-Ed)..exactly, and we can't have that then now can we?...(wow, you are a bastard-Ed)...why thankyou sir...("following instructions"?-Ed)...yeah, I don't believe for a moment that he's come-up with that by himself, and it's been going-on as far back as I can remember...(so's Stevo, mate-Ed)...maaate...(he's all 'hi and smiley' when it's not being recorded, but when it comes to officially confronting you with your own attendance, it's all mumbles, stumbles and careful omissions-Ed)...laugh I nearly...      

As it turns out, Supt Twilley was there to receive this award...(why is the SAPol Superintendent getting a shreckin' award for doing their shreckin' job? why is this award-worthy?...and how screamingly hypocritical that any senior SAPol officer get any award for anything, least of all when it comes to respect for women/girls and their protection, etc, and most particularly in this town, Mt Gambier, the home of the St Martins Lutheran School Child Abuse Cover-up?-Ed)...my my Ed, what a coherent burst of venomous vitriole spat firmly in the face of this farcical pantomime...(I also find amusing the set-out of the article whereby the headline immediately apparent is 'Repeat offender returned to prison'-Ed)...indeed, should be 'offenders', plural...(nice-Ed)...and while we're all chucklin' already, immediately adjacent to this article I've stuck the front page article (TBW February 23rd 2016) re the most ludicrous piece of nonsense I've been availed with in quite some time... 
      

A Pincher Prints A Thousand Words:...under her by-line and therefore as actual stories in The Border Watch newspaper, but as were actually written by her husband as being official press releases for 2010 State Election candidate Don Pegler...(oh yeah, classic-Ed)...indeed, Sandra Morello is infamous for this crassly corrupt manipulation of the Mt Gambier electorate, a corruption she was busted for in the lead-up to the March 2010 State Election...(and when busted, didn't she then try to shift the focus off herself by writing some nonsense about how the ABC weren't giving you (as an Independent candidate) enough coverage/airtime?-Ed)...great call Ed, indeed she did, and tried to make it look like it was me that had complained, thus warranting/justifying a story that was otherwise a self-serving construct of distraction...(and didn't The Border Watch sack her for these outrageous indulgences that made them, TBW, look like crassly incompetent purveyors of completely corrupted commentary?-Ed)...that's right Ed, they didn't...  
Just Settin' The Scene:...where-in the recent former TBW Editor and now Mt Gambier City Councillor, Frank 'The Jellyfish That Grew A Spine And Roared Like A Mouse From Its' Ivory Tower' Morello, was writing press releases for Don Peglers' 2010 Election campaign, and The Border Watch was printing them verbatim under the byline of Franks' wife, Sandra Morello...(wow-Ed)...all involved knew exactly what was what, yet these 'press releases' were presented to the reader as actual news items...at the time I lodged official complaints with the entirely pointless Australian Press Council and the equally vacuous SA Electoral Commission, both of whom eventually dismissed my concerns...(well there's nothing like strict accountability-Ed)...nicely sarcasmed Ed...and when TBW/Sandra were busted publicly, they then produced said bizarre story re me and the ABC...and was Sandra sacked for making everyone involved look like idiots? no, of course not, because all involved knew and approved, she was instead briefly 'moved from the political rounds'...(well there's nothing like strict accountability, again-Ed)...indeed Ed, and a sarcasm that could well be a subtitle for this 'ere blog...

And now this ludicrous nonsense (below), where I've cropped-to-fit the main headline of 'Night of newspaper honours'...this is the purest confirmation of the conspiratorial manipulation of the entire Palliative Care issue as it recently played-out here in Mt Gambier, and as covered previous in this 'ere blog...the entire saga of $200,000 worth of Palliative Care Services being axed then restored was/is a nasty, cynical set-up where-in we witness the community/citizenry being treated yet again like an emotive punching-bag to be shoved from pillar-to-post by nasty, cynical little men...and they are predominantly men...the whole stunt was about generating faux-credibility for those politicians involved, the media, etc, using the community's own sense of genuine concern and generosity of spirit...(isn't that 'genuosity'?-Ed)...absolutely Ed, good call, using the community's own 'genuosity' against it, manipulating the 'genuosity' of the individual and the collective to create a false sense of hope, namely, 'oo, look what Mt Gambier can do as a community when we all get together, we can protect ourselves/make ourselves be heard in Adelaide, and The Border Watch is our strong voice, there for us, hooray'...(wow, you are a happy l'íl camper today-Ed)...no apologies for that...(none required-Ed)...

And this article/award basically identifies those included in that collusion, and this desperate attempt to try and regain some credibility...(can I just make the observation that 'protect ourselves/make ourselves heard in Adelaide' says a lot about how Adelaide is quite literally sucking the life out of the rest of SA-Ed)...another good point Ed, you're on fire...(where?! strewth!! put it out!!-Ed)...no no, it's just an expression, you're not actually on fire...(ok, right, had me worried there for a sec-Ed)...and I cannot imagine and I don't believe that anyone else believes that this rabidly arrogant Adelaide-centric Labor government 'changed it's mind because of Sandra Morello'...the whole debasco's a farcical, cynical joke...(and one that renders all other awards completely invalid-Ed)...spot on Ed, the rank corruption, collusion and nepotism evident in Sandra Morello receiving any award, let alone for 'Excellence in Journalism', renders all other related awards as fundamentally compromised/irrelevant, and is an abject insult to genuine journalists...(mate, I'm not a journalist and I'm insulted!-Ed)...well I think that's because this is self-evidently an insult to the collective intelligence...    

I refer to the statement that these awards "celebrated the professionalism of country newspapers", and ask that availees compare that to the reality of how The Border Watch has treated me...(amongst others-Ed)...well quite, and particularly how TBW has conducted themselves re the St Martins Lutheran School Child Abuse Cover-up...and as an aside, I understand Caitlin Kennedy has a photo on her Facebook thingy of her warmly embracing Sam Rothall (of The Main Corner/Leukemia Foundation infamy), and captioned with something about what a great woman Sam Rothall is...(wow, all mates together then?-Ed)...indeed, but we again digress...

Here, clearly definable in this article/issue, are the multi-party collusionings of the Palliative Care bastardry, a critical (pardon the pun) issue which is clearly being manipulated as a vehicle for the attempted but failed 'credibility resurrection' of The Border Watch...(amongst others mentioned-Ed)...indeed...I genuinely believe that TBW is critically important in so many respects, so many areas, is so important as a voice for South East SA, but it is a responsibility that TBW exercises when and if it chooses to, as literally dictated to it by the 'Vested Interests' concerned, not as morality and truth dictate/determine/demand...    

Well Fork A Duck:...to politely modify this common and indeed popular expression of surprise...(well I'd describe it as more of an 'exasperated expression of displeasure bordering on disgust' rather than simply 'surprise', hence the deleted/modified expletive part-Ed)...yeah, fair point, and in fact that does better quantify the 'comments' I've heard re this 'Fork and Cork' Festival, and indeed, nicely describes how I feel about the whole shenanigans...this event is yet another nice little Ratepayer-funded earner for the Main Corner operators...it ain't just my opinion, it's fact that everything/anything that happens in The Main Corner complex is paid for by Ratepayers...(and that's not specifically including the interest being paid on the hugely over-budget construction costs-Ed)...well indeed Ed, I was referring specifically to all of the basic daily running costs of the facility, eg, utilities, security, etc, but the ongoing impacts of the $5million (and then some) blow-out due to Council's gross mismanagement of the original project, that daily impost on Ratepayers' pockets must be included...

Then add on the support of Ratepayer's money so generously directly donated by Council...some people, myself included, are none-too-impressed at having to fund this thing then having to pay $25 to get into their own public park, only then to be charged $5 ($7) for a drink, pay for food, etc...I don't care what the cost issues are for stall-holders*, etc, because it's irrelevant in context re the mere cost of attending then even partially participating...charging $100 ($130?) for a 'lunch' held in the Main Corner, is Ratepayer's effectively 'paying' for a function that very few could actually afford to attend, even if they wanted to and/or could get in...and yet again I see the same names 'profitting/participating'...(is there any public transport on weekends in Mt Gambier?-Ed)...you know there isn't Ed, Council's got lottsa' dosh to sling at this sortta' stuff, but not one cent for a city bus...(so when you've 'corked' yourself sufficiently, it's a taxi fare home as well, and gettin' there too now that I think of it, no bus, etc-Ed)...it's only money...    

*And again, 1) there are many genuine and hard-working people involved in things like 'Fork and Cork' and regular availees will appreciate/understand that yet again these are not the heads I'm kickin'-at, I'm targetting the same ol' suspects at the tip of the pyramid...and 2) that whilst I do fully and openly if not quite happily own just exactly what a thoroughly cynical, contemptuous and fundamentally broken an old man I have become, and regardless of the issue/event, the realities of just exactly who pays, who profits, and why it's happening, etc, are irrefutably of interest to all Ratepayers/Taxpayers, and in that context I'm just the irate oracle...

Tomorrow: Court Stuff

Just listening to another gob-smackingly impotent ABC Radio interview with former Labor (SA) Environment and then Health Minister John Hill, a man largely responsible for the disastrous state of State Health as we currently experience it in South Australia...(yeah, but current Minister Jack Snelling is doing his damnedest to maintain the collapse-Ed)...sure, credit where credit's due, but John's the one who really set the rot in motion, particularly re 1) Country Health, and 2) the 'new' Royal Adelaide Hospital...(strewth! it's barely an interview, he's actually spruiking his book about politics! and just mentioned former Premier Mike Rann! srtrewth, turn it off-Ed)...fantastic, another ABC promo sans any actual journalism... 

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

(*and a closing apology and further thanks for the support re continuing this 'ere blog...I'm tryin', really I am...cheers*)