Nope, today we're gunna' wade boots 'n' all into another litany of rank corruptions and bullying and intimidation from our mates...(maaates-Ed)...at Mt Gambier City Council, and most particularly the disgraceful and cowardly conduct of Cr Josh Lynagh and CEO Mark McShane, mate...(maaate-Ed)...and again, regular availees will be well aware of the issues I'm about to cover, but it is as current today as the day/s the various incidents occurred because my mate Mighty Marky Mark McShenanigans has failed to respond to my official written complaints about the atrocious and cowardly conduct of his Council what he is apparently officially responsible for...(so who's responsible for holding him to account for his outrageous conduct?-Ed)...well apparently, he is...(now surely, and I'm just spit-ballin' it here, but isn't that a Conflict of Interest?-Ed)...and welcome to Local Government SA-style, what isn't a Conflict of Interest with these clowns?...(I'm sensing that that is one of your rhetorical questions, not actually requiring a response-Ed)...indeed Ed, unlike my official written complaints which do require an actual response...
So here's the original complaint about Cr Lynagh's outrageous conduct, to which I added the complaint about the extraordinary ambush outside the MGCC Full Meeting in September 2018, now a full year ago...due to Magistrate Ian White's reprehensibly vile mis-use of 'Restraining/Suppression Orders' I've had to 'censor' a certain person's name, sorry, but I'll deal with that in tomorrow's post, cheers...**
Dear Madam/Sir,
On Wednesday 8th
November 2017, Mount Gambier City Councillor Josh Lynagh posted a
series of derogatory comments about me and a blog I author, 'The
Mount Gambier Independent'. Cr Lynagh did not do this on his own
Facebook page, 'Limestone Coast Community News', nor on my blog;
rather, he chose to publicly make these comments on a third party's
Historical/Social/Family Memories style page, 'Growing Up In the
Mount'.
The original discussion
was about the history and/or future of the dilapidated but iconic Old
Mt Gambier Rail Station building, but Cr Lynagh deliberately moved
the debate to issues of my credibility and/or that of my blog,
'TMGI'. Cr Lynagh repeatedly denigrated me, and was failing to
address the many deceits in the position he was maintaining on behalf
of Mount Gambier City Council, when he suddenly introduced the issue
of 'Paedophile Corruption'.
Cr Lynagh is
complicitly aware of the 'Paedophile Corruption' issues that he has
raised in this grossly offensive manner; the abuse of junior primary
students at a Mt Gambier school. How is it appropriate for a serving
Councillor to go onto someone else's website, attack a private
citizen in a deeply politicised defence of MGCC, and then when he's
losing that debate, try and undermine the entire discussion by
bringing up 'Paedophile Corruption'?
Unable to let the
anaemic debate stand, and claiming to be concerned about my welfare
due to his own comments, Cr Lynagh had the original post and
therefore every comment on that post pulled from the site. Within
hours the next day, (Thursday, November 9th), Cr Lynagh
went back onto 'Growing Up in the Mount', and re-posted his own
version of events. His 'clarification' was heavily doctored,
explicitly omitting any wrongdoing on his part, and blatantly
ignoring many of the issues originally raised, especially the issue
of 'Paedophile Corruption'.
I note that Cr Lynagh
has not addressed on his page 'Limestone Coast Community News', 1)
any of the many public concerns about MGCC's failures and refusals to
renovate/refurbish the Old Station building, nor 2) has he commented
about me or my blog; it's all happened on 'GUITM'.
This was a purely
political attack aimed directly at me by deceiving Mount Gambier
Ratepayers regarding MGCC's irrefutable plans for massive
Retail/Commercial development on the Rail Lands site, but Cr Lynagh
repeatedly makes disingenuous statements about his alleged
'independent' comments. Cr Lynagh is a serial offender on this issue,
routinely claiming across multiple Facebook pages, that what he is
stating is a direct fact from MGCC, but then claims he is 'not acting
as a Councillor'. How is this appropriate?
Unfortunately, this is
just the latest in a long series of personal attacks on myself by
multiple offenders from MGCC, up to and including ******************* (sorry, NF), who has on numerous
occasions approached and harassed me at public meetings.
At MGCC's Full Monthly
Meeting, September 2017, Cr Frank Morello ambushed me in the foyer as
I was leaving, accusing me of calling him a paedophile, and
threatening 'defamation'. Please find attached my account of this
incident. This is standard operating procedure from MGCC; attack
people who question their conduct, and try to intimidate and bully
people with vacuous 'defamation' threats.
I formally request that
Cr Lynagh be appropriately sanctioned by the relevant authorities.
**...and here's the attached complaint referred to in the first letter, again I've had to 'censor' it...**
To Whom it May Concern,
On the evening of Tuesday 19th
September 2017, I attended Mt Gambier City Council's monthly Full
Meeting, at the MGCC Chambers.
As per usual, MGCC
ended the meeting with 'Exclusion of the Public' items, and as I left
I was accosted in the foyer area immediately outside the Chamber by
Councillor Frank Morello, already waiting outside due to an alleged
Conflict of Interest with the previous/last 'item'.
Councillor Morello
walked 'at' me and then in front of me and then started accusing me
of calling him a paedophile on my blog, The Mount Gambier
Independent, repeatedly stating that I have “defamed” him.
Cr Morello has clearly received some sort of 'legal advice' about
repeating allegations to try and make them true, that is, if he
accused me often enough it becomes some sort of reality.
As I repeatedly
explained to Cr Morello, I have not once called him a paedophile, nor
have I defamed him, rather I have accurately described his exact
behaviours, and if he thought he had any sort of 'defamation case',
then I'd no doubt be hearing from his lawyer, not being crudely
ambushed in this manner.
When I refused to react
to his repeated 'threats of defamation', Cr Morello then tauntingly
abused me, “You're not well Nick, you're not well”, twice
over. This is a direct and deeply offensive reference to my ongoing
and officially diagnosed Mental Health issues, issues of
Depression/Anxiety/Agrophobia as initially brought on by exactly this
sort of intimidation and public abuse, not least of all from multiple
MGCC Councillors including ***************** (sorry, NF).
For example, in April
2011 Cr Ian Von Stanke came to my home with a letter repeatedly
naming Council and threatening 'defamation' but this was dismissed by
CEOs Greg Muller and McShane; at the 2013/14 Budget meetings I was
routinely abused and twice ************** (sorry, NF) actually tried to
physically provoke an incident; multiple other minor clashes; and now
this extraordinary ambush.
Only minutes into this
ambush, MGCC Business Manager Nick Serle and Councillor Mark Lovett
came out into the foyer area, both glaring at me, and Cr Lovett came
and stood immediately in front of me, only feet away, arms crossed,
glaring furiously at me and nodding toward the stairs, telling me to
'just leave'. This was an intentional act of intimidation and implied
violence from a man who is 6'5” and 120kgs, minimum.
Less than a minute
later MGCC CEO Mark McShane also came out into the foyer and started
herding Mr Serle and Cr Lovett back into the Chamber, telling me to
leave. I was already half-way to the stairs anyway, when Mark McShane
stated “I'll see you at gym”.
This is not a casual
pleasantry between friends, it is an undisguised threat to make
trouble for me in that context, something that CEO McShane has
already started, three weeks ago approaching me at gym, walking 'at'
me with a broad grin, and then saying 'how are you going?'. Again,
this is not a friendly greeting, but an attempt to provoke some sort
of 'incident' that can then be used against me.
This 'attempted
provocation' has become standard fare from MGCC toward me, but what
happened Tuesday evening is totally unacceptable. I was deliberately
ambushed and then repeatedly threatened, both legally and physically,
and grossly abused/taunted, with MGCC's Councillors Morello and
Lovett, and CEO McShane, and Manager Nick Serle, all specifically
participating.
I believe that this
latest desperate attempt to generate some sort of 'incident' was
recorded by Mt Gambier City Council, and I formally request a copy.
As chronicled on my
blog TMGI, Mt Gambier City Council is defined by it's rank
corruption, and this is why they act this way toward me, constantly
harassing me and threatening 'defamation', etc. It explains but it
does not excuse their outrageous behaviour.
I formally request that
all involved be officially reprimanded for this extraordinary ambush
incident, an incident clearly planned before hand. Their gross
failure to generate the sort of incident they actually wanted, does
not distract from the fact that it happened at all. How is it
appropriate for a Council to attack an individual in this way?
Regardless of the
official response, I will be pursuing an appropriate outcome to this
disgraceful conduct because I have no choice, this is being done to
me.
Yours faithfully, 25th
September 2017
**...(good ol' Councillor Frank 'The Jellyfish That Grew A Spine And Roared Like A Mouse From It's Ivory Tower' Morello-Ed)...yeah, by crikey he's a big man when he's hiding behind 'Councillor Frank', but when I encounter him in the street he employs the tried and tested trick
of going translucent as the blood rushes into his boots...(I remember that particularly hilarious occasion when you went to Council to hand-deliver a letter for CEO McShane, mate, and he and Frank were out on the forecourt chatting, and you, grinning like a chipmunk on acid, loomed-up from the rear on Frank's port-bow, and McShenanigans saw ya' approach but Frank didn't until you were right there at his left elbow, and he deadset near shat himself-Ed)...indeed, truly hilarious, and in a context where Frank's abject fear stems from his self-awareness of his own reprehensible and complicit conduct re the St Martins Lutheran School Child Abuse Cover-up, and the resultant 'logic' that if he were my size, and I his, and that I had done to him as he has done to me, then right about there I'd be gettin' a well-deserved floggin' from a very angry father of an abused child...
(Sure, but what's even more hilarious to my mind, is that these clowns know full-well that you ain't like that, you are truly the classic 'gentle giant', and yet he's still openly terrified-Ed)...indeed Ed, it's the guilt of his own conduct that drives his fear, except of course when he's got the 'protection' of being a Councillor at Council meetings, etc, then he's full of piss-and-vinegar...(well he's full of something, right-up until he evacuates himself at the mere sight of you out in the real world-Ed)...indeed Ed, nicely put sir...(well I do think it's important to bring a degree of good humour to one's open abuse, or at least try to-Ed)...I absolutely concur, you witty confected literary device you...anyhoos, those letters went to the (then) Local Government Minister Geoff Brock, who responded thusly (below), the Local Government Association, who responded (below that), and the LGA Limestone Coast who never responded...**
**...and from the Local Government Association...**
Dear
Mr Fletcher
Thank
you for your email.
The LGA is a membership-based organisation, and does not play a regulatory or compliance role in relation to councils.
If
you wish to make a complaint against Councillor Lynagh under the code
of conduct for elected members, this should be directed to the City
of Mount Gambier. You can reach the council at email address:
city@mountgambier.sa.gov.au
Darren
...and that's the last I heard..(imagine my surprise-Ed)...as indeed I imagine everything you say and/or do, what with you being a confected literary device and all...(damn, I'm so life-like I keep forgetting that I'm not a real boy-Ed)...fair enough...and dear availees, please note CEO McShenanigans lies about the 'evidence' of li'l Joshy's efforts, and that he also doesn't make any statement at all about exercising his legislated responsibilities to investigate and act on my complaints, as stated by Minister Brock...(do you think anything will ever happen?-Ed)...nice one man...
Tomorrow: Those Reprehensibly Vile 'Suppression/Restraining Orders'
Because it's been such a long post, I am Nick Fletcher and this is my blog, cheers and laters...
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