Police's Pugnaciously Persistent Perpetual Pro-Paedophile Political Persecution Of Nick Fletcher

Howdy dear availees in Estonia, Singapore, Philippines, and United Arab Emirates, and especially in Ukraine at the moment...no offense to y'all dear availees in Russia, but when I see a huge country deliberately trying to pick a fight with a relatively tiny country, I'm gunna' have enormous empathy for the 'underdog' in that scrap...(what, because your conflict with SAPol (police), the South Australian Parliament, the SA Courts, the Crown Solicitor, the Lutherans, etc, etc, et al, places you firmly in the 'underdog' kennel?-Ed)...well exactly...and whilst I ain't the only parent who's been subjected to the Institutionalised Pro-Paedophile Corruption that defines SA, by crikey, I've been an absolute stand-out in my conduct and in the rankly corrupt response...(well how many other families have a foot-high pile of 'Defamation Threats' from the Lutherans and/or their lawyers, the CSO, lawyer Bill DeGaris, the Education Dept, etc, etc, relentless threats over 12-15 years?-Ed)...well quite, look at the totes bizarre and transparently corrupt shizzle from the CSO and Bill DeGaris back in April 2018, as covered on this 'ere blog... 

Anyhoos, I'll let this copy of the letter I emailed to SAPol early yesterday, Thursday 29th November 2018, do the blogging for me today...(hey, it's exactly a year since the rankly corrupt Magistrate Ian White was semi-screeching abuse at you in Court, and subpoenaing your doctor, and overturning your Medical Certificate and concluding your "bizarre trial" in your absence, etc, etc, all as part of your 'third trial' for the heinous crime of telling absolute truths on this 'ere blog, where-in the crime he's then 'Convicted' you of is in fact 'Blogging'-Ed)...hey yeah, a whole year since that absolutely corrupt bollocks, and now 7 months since the equally bizarre 3 Verdict/Judgement Hearings of February 28th, March 9th, and April 20th 2018...(my how time drags when you're having fun-Ed)...can't stop laughing mate, if only it weren't so shreckingly corruptly serious...(well indeed-Ed)...so here's the letter...oh, and just to re-iterate for the record, I have SAPol's permission to blog about this, so long as I don't use names, hence the multiple deletions...anyhoos, see y'all afters dear availees...***

To the Senior Officer

Mt Gambier Police Station

Bay Rd

Mt Gambier SA 5290

Email: SAPOLEnquiries@police.sa.gov.au

Re: File No: MCMTG-15-72

     SAPol v Fletcher

and

     FIO File No: MCPAR-18-4847

     FIO File No: MCPAR-18-4848

     FIO File No: MCPAR-18-4849

Dear Madam/Sir,

                      On Friday 2^nd November 2018 two of your officers, one being Senior Constable (***officer's name removed***), attended my home to inform me that I have allegedly breached one of the above Final Intervention Orders.

This alleged breach involves the partial possible identification of a person by writing something on my blog, The Mount Gambier Independent.

I was videotaped by the other officer for nearly 10 minutes on my doorstep, during which I repeatedly explained that whilst I didn't blame the 2 officers present, this entire issue stemmed from and was directly related to the cover-up of the abuse of my 7 year old child and dozens of other grade 2 children at St Martins Lutheran School in 2002.

We discussed the role that SAPol, and particularly officers from Mt Gambier Police Station have played in the ongoing St Martins Lutheran School Child Abuse Cover-up, and how that has directly led to the “bizarre trial” (The Border Watch) of MCMTG-15-72.

We also discussed the likelihood that SAPol were using my laptop to access and alter my blog, the laptop seized during the SAPol Anti-Corruption Branch raid of my home on 8^th May 2014 and still currently in the possession of SAPol.

At one point the second officer stopped videotaping, but our 'discussion' continued for several more minutes, and ultimately I was not 'charged' but was told that I would “receive a Court Summons in about 2 months”.

Sen Const (***) also stated that I was entitled to a copy of that videotaped interview and that I could contact him about that “in a couple of weeks” because he was going to be on night shift and then had a week off, and then the officers left.

Then on Monday 26^th November 2018 Officer (***) attended my home again, leaving a calling card, to which I immediately responded, and he informed me that he was 'supposed to do a DNA swab' on 2^nd November 2018, and asked if he could immediately come to my home to deliver a 'direction to attend Mt Gambier Police Station'.

I waited outside and shortly there-after Sen Const (***) and a different officer attended, and I spoke to them out in the street, and during this conversation/interview Sen Const (***) made a series of incorrect statements about the supposed necessity for the proposed Simple Identity Procedures, being fingerprinting and a mouth-swab DNA test.

I repeatedly questioned the relevance and/or necessity for a DNA swab relative to the alleged breach of the FIO by 'writing on my blog', and Sen Const (***) repeatedly stated that he “had to” because it, the alleged breach, was “a serious offence”.

Sen Const (***) repeated that he “should have done this” on 2^nd November 2018, further indicating/stating that it was requisite to the alleged offense, and also insisted that I attend Mt Gambier Police Station at 1630hrs on Friday to undergo the 2 Simple Identity Procedures.

Sen Const (***) was very insistent about conducting the SIPs at 1630hrs this Friday, repeatedly stating that he 'had to get it done' in a specific time frame, and when I asked for more time to get legal advice about the relevance and/or necessity for these SIPs, he refused, further insisting that it must be at 1630hrs Friday 30^th November.

He also stated that if I wanted a copy of the videotaped interview of 2^nd November 2018 I would need to do a formal Freedom Of Information request and pay a fee, etc, but that it wasn't really necessary because I would get a copy when I was 'charged'.

This appeared to contradict his statement of 2^nd November 2018 that I contact him for a copy of that videotape, and further confirmed that I have not actually been 'charged' with anything yet

Sen Const (***) then filled-out the remainder of a partially pre-prepared Police Officer's Directions To Undergo A Forensic Procedure form, stating that I needed to be provided a copy, which he didn't have, and that he would return later with my copy, and when I returned later that afternoon, a 'copy' was in my letterbox.

I have now received some interim legal advice and that advice indicates that most if not all of what Sen Const (***) stated is not correct.

Firstly, they expressed concern and confusion about the videotaped interview, an interview conducted without me having any legal representation present, and the undefined nature of my being 'charged' with a breach but not actually 'charged'.

My legal advice immediately mimicked my questions about the relevance of these proposed SIPs to the alleged breach of writing on a blog, directing me to the Criminal Law (Forensic Procedures) Act 2007 which itself states that it is;

      “An Act to provide for carrying out forensic procedures to obtain evidence relevant

       to the investigation of criminal offenses...”

My advice is exactly as I put it to Sen Const (***), how is a DNA test and fingerprinting in any way relevant to investigating whether or not I have written something on electronic media?

In this context, I am advised that SIPs are completely irrelevant and serve absolutely no purpose in establishing guilt or otherwise relative to the alleged breach.

Furthermore, I am advised that it is absolutely incorrect for Sen Const (***) to state that he “had to” conduct these proposed SIPs because the alleged breach is considered to be a “serious offence”, because in Division Two – Suspects procedures, 14 – Suspects procedures, point 2, the Act clearly states that;

      “A forensic procedure may be carried out on a person under this Division if...”

I am advised that Simple Identity Procedures are a discretionary measure, not a requisite as repeatedly stated by Sen Const (***), and that this is indicated/proven by use of the term “may” rather than “must”.

I am advised that SAPol “may” decide to conduct SIPs where they are considered “relevant” to an investigation, but that SIPs are not obligatory as stated by Sen Const (***).

It is also my understanding that, relative to the discretionary nature of these SIPs, that they have to be 'ordered' by a 'senior officer'.

I am further advised that there is apparently no 'prescribed time limit' on when any proposed SIPs should be conducted, further contradicting Sen Const (***)'s repeated insistence that I must attend Mt Gambier Police Station this Friday 30^th November 2018 because he “has to get it done” within an unidentified time frame.

Given that this very brief legal advice has immediately identified these multiple glaring contradictions, errors, and misdirections by SAPol, I request that you, the 'senior officer' immediately provide me the relevant information, namely;

1. who was the SAPol officer who ordered that these completely irrelevant and unnecessary SIPs be conducted?
2. in what context are these SIPs considered “relevant” to the alleged breach of 'blogging'?
3. why was I told that these SIPs /must be done', when that is not true?
4. why has Sen Const (***) made multiple erroneous/false statements?

As you are no doubt aware, as part of SAPol's investigation related to MCMTG-15-72, I was the sole subject of the ICAC/SAPol 'Operation Baritone', starting on an unspecified date in “mid-February 2014”, and despite my questions in Court, I am not aware of a conclusion date, leaving open the possibility that 'Operation Baritone' is ongoing.

Is this the case, is 'Operation Baritone' still in place? If it has/was concluded, please provide me that information, date, etc.

Given my extensive history of abuse, intimidation, harassment and deceit at the hands of SAPol, I view with extreme concern what appears to be yet another round of groundless and potentially unlawful harassment and intimidation, supported as it is with multiple false statements.

As you are aware, my conflict with SAPol stems directly from the specific role that SAPol have played in the St Martins Lutheran School Child Abuse Cover-up, eg, failing/refusing to even interview let alone charge “textbook grooming paedophile” teacher Glyn Dorling, then repeatedly attacking and blaming us parents for that failure/refusal, etc.

It has also been put to me that it is a 'standard trick' of SAPol to arrest people late on a Friday afternoon, thus denying them any chance of getting a Court hearing before the Monday, and thus allowing SAPol to 'lock people up for the weekend'.

Given my definable conflict with SAPol, Sen Const (***)'s un-nerving insistence that these SIPs must be conducted late on a Friday afternoon cause me great concern that this is exactly what SAPol intends to do, force me to attend Mt Gambier Police Station, then spring some bogus 'charge' on me, eg, try to instigate a situation where-in I can be 'arrested' for 'resisting', and then lock me up.

Given my conflict with SAPol re the St Martins Lutheran School Child Abuse Cover-up, I already have grave concerns for my safety in any contacts with SAPol, and I am deeply concerned about being 'ordered' to attend Mt Gambier Police Station, particularly at the time 'ordered', and particularly when this 'order' has been justified with a series of clearly false statements from SAPol.

I repeat, given the entirely irrelevant and unnecessary nature of these SIPs, as justified by multiple apparently deliberate falsehoods from SAPol, I consider this to be yet another round of outright harassment and intimidation from SAPol, yet further retribution for my continued attempts to bring the St Martins Lutheran School Child Abuse Cover-up to an appropriate conclusion.

I note with concern that this 'process' appears to exactly mimic the extraordinary conduct of SAPol re MCMTG-15-72, where-in I was raided on 7^th-8^th May 2018* and allegedly 'reported', etc, but then was not formally charged despite my lawyer writing to SAPol Prosecutions (July-August 2014), and then my “bizarre trial” suddenly began 6 months later (February 2015) without me being 'charged' or even Summonsed, where-in I found out about the trial the day after it began, and then only third-hand via a phone call where-in someone asked me about The Border Watch article stating that I had failed to attend.                    (*error in original - 7th-8th May 2014, not 2018)

Despite my repeated requests, SAPol have never explained that failure to 'charge' or Summons me.

As I have been advised, I will immediately be attempting to get Judicial intervention in this transparently inappropriate misuse of these Simple Identity Procedures.

This definably flawed SIP process has caused huge stress for myself and my family, and I personally believe that that is exactly what it is about, harassment and abuse and intimidation.

Given the identified falsehoods/errors in the process thus far, I request that you as 'senior officer' immediately withdraw the falsely justified Police Officer's Direction To Undergo A Forensic Procedure, particularly pending the outcome of the Judicial review.

This letter has been emailed to you at 0830hrs on Thursday 29^th November 2018, and I request that you respond immediately to notify me that you have acted to cancel or postpone the Police Officer's Direction pending that Judicial review, and that I am therefore not 'ordered'/required to attend tomorrow to undergo those potentially 'unlawful' procedures.

Yours, Nick Fletcher

***...and there you go, that was emailed to the above address at the time indicted...(well that pretty much covers it, sure, and did you get any response?-Ed)...indeed I did, at 1745hrs yesterday...(uh oh-Ed)...that's what I thought when I was roused from my nap and saw the paddy-wagon out in the street...it was Sen Const (***) with yet another different officer, with a video camera in his hand...(and exactly how arrested are you then?-Ed)...I'm not, Sen Const (***) said that he'd read my letter and that he/they were here to inform me that 'SAPol doesn't arrest people on Fridays to goal them for the weekend'...(riiight, sure-Ed)...and further informed me that the 'Officer's Direction' thingy had now been changed to next Thursday morning, 6th December 2018...

I put it to Sen Const (***) that "I trusted you", and that literally everything he had told me had proven to be incorrect, and I put it to his partner, "don't video me"...(did they?-Ed)...dunno', whatevs, as far as I'm concerned, they're just trying to get me to react and/or say something they can use against me, and that this continues to be about harassment and intimidation...(well, cops at your house 4 times in 4 days, it does start to look rather suss, even if 3 of those were in one day-Ed)...and as Sen Const (***) stated yesterday, "your neighbour's having a bit of a sticky-beak"...

Sen Const (***) advised me to contact the Legal Services Commission, and I told him I already had, amongst other 'advisors', which was where I had learned the above info about the 'Evidence Act' and the issues of 'Relevance' and 'Discretionary vs Obligatory', etc...(and hang on, weren't you told, as identified above, that there was a critical time frame in which this 'Forensic Testing' had to be done, hence it had to be Friday?-Ed)...yep...(and now it's been moved to Thursday next week?-Ed)...sure, and I've also been told by SAPOl that there's no 'Appeal' to a 'Officer's Direction', but there apparently is, potentially via the Supreme Court...(but we don't have a Supreme Court Registry in Mt Gambier, and how can you afford that anyway?-Ed)...2 excellent points Ed, and yet again the LSC stated to me 'it's a pity we don't have an office in Mt Gambier because it would be a lot easier for us and better for you if we could just sit down and look at the documents, discuss it together, etc'...it ain't the first time they've said that to me over the journey, and a clear indication that Mt Gambier residents have their 'Legal Rights' grossly compromised by a gross lack of fundamental services...

And here is a fundamental reality, even once you get past the unpleasant truth that if you ain't got money you ain't got a hope in the SA Court system, that having money buys you a far superior, a far more 'Just Legal Experience', the broader reality on multiple fronts, is that Mt Gambier/South East residents get a massively inferior 'Legal Experience' because of the lack of basic legal services...we have one 'Community Legal Service' lawyer for the entire South East, and no LSC office...(yeah, you said, no LSC office?-Ed)...nope...(but there's one in Pt Augusta-Ed)...bully for them...(and even one just down the road aways from that in Whyalla-Ed)...yep...(but the nearest one to Mt Gambier is, hang on, just checkin' the LSC website...what?! it's 410kms away in Mount Barker, effectively a Southern suburb of Adelaide!-Ed)...yep...(but isn't Mt Gambier SA's largest regional centre, servicing the South East region of 100's of square kms and 60,000-80,000 people?-Ed)...apparently...(and we get one 'CLS' lawyer and not even a LSC office?-Ed)...yep...(that's bloody outrageous, does local Member, Independent Troy Bell know this?-Ed)...well if he doesn't he's gunna', real soon like...

Anyhoos, Sen Const (***)  read-out and then handed to me the new 'Officer's Direction' but ultimately failed to answer any of the questions posed in the above letter, repeatedly referring me to a LSC info sheet he'd also handed me...they were leaving when I said to him, 'I apologise if I'm wrong about these errors/deceits, but everything you've told me has proven to be incorrect'...(are you alluding to the possibility that he does think he's telling the truth in a context where he's being sent to do other's dirty work, and is highly likely being deceived and manipulated by those who send him?-Ed)...exactly, and that's entirely for him and his colleagues to ascertain and deal with, because the experience for me is one of absolute harassment and intimidation, regardless of who does it and how and why...   

Tomorrow: More SA ICAC Farce

Just heard a hilarious report about the impending Australia vs India cricket Test at Adelaide Oval, and the inconvenience of coinciding rail line maintenance, which reportedly will be addressed thusly, "...substitute buses will be running between Australia and India..."...(no wonder they can't afford the tram line extensions-Ed)...well quite...

I am Nick Fletcher and this is my blog, cheers and laters...oh, and PS, one more time, I have asked if I'm allowed to 'blog' about these SAPol interactions, and I was told 'yes, just don't use my/our names'...

PPS:...make that 5 times in 5 days...(again?-Ed)...yep, wrote this early today, then at noon today 2 completely different officers bangin' on my door, and they've got a letter for me from Supt Moyle, senior officer for Mt Gambier...(so it's all sorted then?-Ed)...well, not quite, I'll let Supt Moyle explain with the second line of his letter...
     "I intend to only respond in regard to the direction you were given to attend the Mount
      Gambier Police Station to undergo a simple identity forensic procedure."
...(wow, not a word about your specific repeated referrals/accusations about SAPol's intimately complicit role in the St Martins Lutheran School Child Abuse Cover-up-Ed)...you almost sound surprised, mate...anyhoos, more about this laters, so until then, again, cheers and laters...

Brian Houston We Have A Problem: Another Government Sanctioned Paedophilia Cover-up

Howdy dear availees and welcome to and apologies for a coupla' short 'cut-n'-paste' posts utilising work largely taken from other sources...(why apologise? haven't we done that before to save copying vast swathes of script, just cut-n'-paste and then refer to that stuff?-Ed)...well sure, we frequently really have no choice, particularly when addressing/commenting about stuff from other media sources, correcting errant reportage, etc...(well that was my next point, and what better example than the rancidly biased and openly pro-paedophile reportage of/against you in The Border Watch and by the rankly corrupt ABC South East Radio, particularly regarding your "bizarre trial"?-Ed)...well indeed, a perfect example, and I still find it absolutely hilarious when I hear the ABC's sanctimonious, self-satisfied self-promotion, "your most trusted source of news...without bias or agenda"...

I remind dear availees that the ABC South East were a SAPol (police) Prosecutions witness against me in my rankly corrupt "bizarre trial", and submitted/provided a rankly corrupt Affidavit for SAPol, an Affidavit that was so provably false/problematic that I used it to argue for and then receive from Magistrate Teresa Anderson a Court Summons for info from the ABC...(and that in response, the rankly corrupt ABC's lawyers first argued that there was no such entity as 'ABC South East'-Ed)...which is why they were answering that Summons from their offices in Ultimo, Sydney, New South Wales...(indeed, and then in August 2016, in Court, refused to provide a single document, not even the supposed 'Don't Come Near The ABC Again' letter that their own Affidavit alleged had been sent to you in January 2014 after an 'incident' also alleged in their Affidavit-Ed)...indeed they did refuse thusly, refused to provide that alleged letter or any evidence of the alleged 'incident', instead repeatedly using the terms/arguments that the Summons was "too oppressive", and "fishing for information", and "too difficult"...

(Wow, and Magistrate Anderson let that shizzle fly?-Ed)...well obviously I was deeply disappointed that the rankly corrupt ABC's lawyers were allowed to get away with that absolute nonsense, but I'm not sure that Her Honour was given any choice, and ultimately it certainly laid the groundwork for the maelstrom to come...(you mean that it contributed to Her Honour directing you to prepare and present your case for "Malicious Prosecution", as HH identified and 'Ordered' in October 2016?-Ed)...exactly, because HH saw how the ABC and ICAC (Independent Commission Against Corruption) and SAPol responded to those three Court Summons I'd successfully argued for...and furthermore, that refusal/failure by ABC lawyers then went on to effectively help prove my "Malicious Prosecution" submission which was literally littered with a litany of emails and/or letters to/from the ABC, and the multiple examples in those emails/letters of the rankly corrupt previous attempts to 'ban' me from accessing the ABC...(you mean all that stuff where the rancidly pro-paedophile corrupt politician Rory McEwen repeatedly avoided official complaint processes by going and having a coffee and a chat with his mates at ABC South East, repeatedly trying to get you banned?-Ed)...well that was certainly part of it, sure...(and the stuff to/from ABC Adelaide's head-honcho Sandra Winter-Dewhirst-Ed)...yeah, her too, all that stuff and then some... 

And like we've said before here on TMGI, if you ever want to hear sanctimonious smug self-satisfied arrogance, talk to an ABC lawyer from Ultimo, Sydney...what a pack a' pompous bottom-feeders...(and of course, having read your "Malicious Prosecution" submission and that swathe of ABC emails/letters, etc, Her Honour Anderson unceremoniously bailed from your November 2016 Trial, first thing on Day Two, and the 'Trial' collapsed in chaos-Ed)...precisely, and that's the "maelstrom" I was referring to...the rankly corrupt ABC's Affidavit and their sickly-smug lawyer's bilious bleating about my/HH's Summons being "too oppressive", etc, and those lawyer's refusal/failure to cough-up a single document, etc, all that was the beat of the butterfly's wing that ultimately triggered the monsoonal maelstrom caused by my "Malicious Prosecution" submission...(a monsoonal down-pouring of deeply unpleasant realities that had HH furiously bailing-Ed)...well I'd have put it as being more of an 'apologetic' rather than 'furious' bailing, but it's still a perfect metaphor, absolutely...my submission spectacularly torpedoed the good ship 'SS Malicious Prosecution', and down she went with the Presiding Officer (Her Honour) furiously/apologetically bailing...(if it wasn't so deadly serious, that would be an absolutely hilarious summation of that extraordinary situation-Ed)...well quite...     

But anyhoos, we digress, sort of, so here 'tis some stuff that I wholly agree with and quite literally could not have written/stated better myself...this next bit has been directly cut-n'-pasted from the Independent Australia website...(and good on them!-Ed)...absolutely, in a week where I have felt fundamentally drained and sans energy, I find it genuinely uplifting to read something that is saying the exact truth in the exact manner it needs to be said...(and for it to not have to be you writing it in the first instance-Ed)...well quite, that is sortta' the point I'm making...I know I ain't completely Robinson Crusoe when it comes to this 'mentality' or 'activism', for lack of a better word, but it's nice to read others having an intelligent gouge at the realities...(indeed, it happens far too rarely, and certainly is lacking in 'mainstream media'-Ed)...absolutely, everyone involved is far too interested in protecting their own mates/vested interests, and that's why outspoken peeps like us are openly targeted by rankly corrupt organisations like the ABC...so here 'tís...***

Why is Scott Morrison protecting Hillsong Pastor Brian Houston?

Jennifer Wilson 21 November 2018, 3:30pm 13

PoliticsCrimeReligionChildren

Prime Minister Scott Morrison (right) and his mentor, Pentecostal Hillsong Church Leader Brian Houston (Screenshots via YouTube)

The PM remains mute as his mentor, Pentecostal Pastor Brian Houston, is investigated for covering up child sexual abuse but demands Muslim leaders take responsibility for their communities' criminal behaviour, writes Dr Jennifer Wilson.
IN HIS MAIDEN SPEECH, current Prime Minister Scott Morrison referred to evangelical Christian and Hillsong Church leader, Brian Houston, as his “mentor.”
The Prime Minister thanked Houston for his support and encouragement.
While Morrison no longer attends Hillsong he does attend Horizon, another Pentecostal church that along with Hillsong is affiliated with Australian Christian Churches — the Australian branch of the Assemblies of God.
In 2015, Brian Houston was censured by the Child Abuse Royal Commission for failing to report his father, Frank Houston, to police for the alleged sexual abuse of children in his church.
On Monday, three years after this censure, NSW Police confirmed that Brian Houston is being investigated by them after complaints that he failed to report his father’s crimes, instead, concealing them and urging church officials to refrain from publicly revealing the allegations in the interests of the institution’s reputation.

In May 2018, Catholic Archbishop Philip Wilson was found guilty in a NSW court of concealing child sexual abuse.
Abuse survivor Peter Gogarty said after the verdict:

"I think this will now open the doors for other jurisdictions to start looking at trying to prosecute people who deliberately looked after their institution and, literally, threw children to the wolves."

It appears that Prime Ministerial mentor Brian Houston and the Hillsong Church may have “deliberately looked after their institution” and “thrown children to the wolves”. The current police inquiry will pursue this possibility.

'Morrison went so far as to claim that in his own religious community, his Pastor would know if members were behaving offensively and criminally.'

There has been no comment on this situation from Scott Morrison.
Morrison’s lack of comment would not be as significant were it not for the fact that immediately after the most recent attack on citizens going about their daily business in Bourke Street, Melbourne, the Prime Minister called on the Muslim community, in particular, spiritual leaders. He called on them to take responsibility for their community members and identify those among them likely to behave in ways that threaten others. Morrison went so far as to claim that in his own religious community, his Pastor would know if members were behaving offensively and criminally.

This claim is astoundingly false. Morrison and his Pastor must have been aware for some time of Frank Houston’s alleged crimes against children, and Brian Houston’s efforts to conceal those crimes. The longevity, number and extent of crimes against children in Christian communities far exceed crimes perpetrated by offenders from Muslim communities against citizens in public spaces. Yet Morrison makes no such demands for responsibility and accountability from his faith group.
In holding Muslim imams more responsible than he holds Christian pastors and priests, Morrison is engaging in a profoundly dishonest and deliberately misleading act that crudely privileges Christianity over Islam. The truly horrific failings of his own faith leaders are ignored, in favour of the political advantages he believes are to be gained from demonising the Muslim community.
Further, not only is Morrison silent on the more general failure of Christian communities to confront child sexual abuse, it is his mentor that he is protecting. That kind of protection is very close to home — far too close to home for a prime minister.
We have seen, repeatedly, the failure of Christian communities of all persuasions to act on the horrific abuse of thousands upon thousands of children in their care. I have never heard Prime Minister Scott Morrison call for Christian leaders to monitor the behaviour of any members or employees in an effort to prevent the molestation and rape of children. If there was ever a topic on which a prime minister should voice an opinion, it is the horrific epidemic of child sexual abuse perpetrated by Christian churches, including his own. And yet, nothing.

Questions must now be asked of the Prime Minister:

• Why are you protecting your mentor, Brian Houston?
• Why are you demanding a level of accountability from the Muslim community that you blatantly do not require from your own faith group?
• Why have you gone on the public record declaring Pentecostal pastors would recognise and act upon dangerous behaviours within your community when your own religious mentor stands accused of concealing the sexual abuse of children?

It is alarming that in a secular state, the Prime Minister holds his religion up to the community as a false and misleading example of excellence, and as a tool of condemnation of other religions. Scott Morrison’s faith has no place in the affairs of our state. He has no mandate to provoke religious unrest.
Nobody likes a liar but a religious liar is, quite rightly, more despised than most.
Why, Prime Minister, are you protecting Brian Houston?

***...and it's all there isn't it...Scummo (Scott Morrison) is resolutely silent on the suffering that Brian and his father are responsible for, and the cover-up of those abuses, etc, and on the broader issues of Institutionalised Child Abuse in 'Christian' organisations...and not just silent, but in a context where our glassy-eyed god-botherer of a PM is bigottedly screeching about other religious leaders keeping their shreckin' flocks in order...(and why has it taken more than 3 years for the cops to start investigating what the Royal Commission should have sorted-out in the first instance?-Ed)...another 2 great points Ed, and 2 further clear indicators of the facts that 1) the Royal Commission is a vacuous and deeply cynical manipulation to try and make people think everything's sorted now and we can all move on, etc, and 2) that it's absolutely business as usual with the Institutionalised Pro-Paedophile control of Parliament, etc...(and why aren't mainstream media all over this Scummo hypocrisy like stink on a monkey?-Ed)...yet another great point, and yet further indication of the complicit role that mainstream media plays, and not least of all in perpetuating the Pro-Paedophile attitudes and controls we still endure...

I remind dear availees that the Federal Child Abuse Royal Commission rejected the extensive and document-supported submissions from several families re the St Martins Lutheran School Child Abuse Cover-up and flatly refused to look at the St Martins Cover-up at all, and then failed to ask the Lutherans a single official question, barely even mentioning the Lutheran Church in the FCARC Final Report...(and certainly not in a context that even suggested a single issue of abuse in a Lutheran school/church-Ed)...absolutely, and that the Australian mainstream media is so mind-numbingly incompetent or so fundamentally complicitly pro-paedophile corrupt, that only one media organisation in the entire country can see that massively pro-paedophile corrupt conduct by the FCARC's support/protection of the Lutheran Church...(and that's us here at TMGI!-Ed)...damn straight it is Ed, it's shreckin-well us, no-one else...apparently/supposedly no-one else in li'l ol' Oz can see that the FCARC has completely omitted and thusly protected the massively powerful and rancidly pro-paedophile corrupt Lutheran Church...it's self-evidently self-defining absolute bollocks, the FCARC knows exactly what it's done and the 'media' is deliberately and complicitly ignoring it...

And I'll say it again just in case I haven't made myself clear thus far, I do not apologise for having nothing other than the deepest contempt and absolute loathing for 'Organised Religion'...there is no greater blight on the past, potential, and future of Humanity than the self-interested Institutionalised Control defined by 'Religion', structures of control almost wholly motivated by desire to control women , in many instances, clearly controlled by Pro-Paedophile Attitudes and allow unfettered sexual access to children...in fully supporting what is said in this article, I am not supporting one 'Religion' over any other...

I have said it before and I repeat, May Hell Exist That These People May Go There To Rot...

Tomorrow: OMG, WTF, I LOL At ICAC, Again

The wholly corrupt Chapman/ICAC pantomime rolls relentlessly on, with My Bestie And Also In His Spare Time ICAC Comm Bruce Lander 'savagely' tongue-lashing Labor's Tom Koutsontonis at a Parliamentary Committee hearing...(but I thought you said that Bruce, mate, had corruptly protected Tom, mate, over the rancidly corrupt Gilman Land Sale debasco?...mate-Ed)...absolutely, exactly what I've said about exactly what happened...it's exactly what Bruce, mate, does, protect the corrupt in this sickly Pro-Peadophile Corrupt state we call home, and what I currently ain't allowed to leave due to my rancidly Pro-Paedophile 'Conviction' courtesy of the rankly corrupt and "reprehensibly vile" Magistrate Ian White...(I'm confused-Ed)...well that farcical tongue-lashing was a piece of pathetic pantomime for public consumption, get it?...(ummm-Ed)...where-in Bruce, mate, was trying to quite falsely show the poor long-suffering public that he is fiercely independent and he's the boss and he's gunna' tell them politician types all about it, etc...(as opposed to the reality that he's a rankly corrupt toadying stooge wholly involved on protecting and perpetuating the rank corruption that defines SA?-Ed)...precisely...  

And again apologies that I've endured another week of listlessness and inactivity where-in I've managed to achieve little more than feeding and laundry...(and gym-Ed)...oh yeah, best thing I've done for my physical and mental health, yay for gym...but apart from that, I'm fairly drained by the realisation that, due to the Institutionalised Pro-Paedophile Corruption that defines South Australia, I'm not likely to get any sort of response, let alone a responsible response, from Attorney General Vicki Chapman, the Chief Magistrate, the Courts Administration Authority, Dept of Corrections, etc, etc, et al, and therefore my attempt to even re-lodge my Appeal Application re my rancidly corrupt 'Conviction' and the definably corrupt conduct of Magistrate White, etc, and/or get an appropriate response as to why my Agoraphobia diagnosis is apparently irrelevant, etc, etc, etc, all of that remains and is likely to remain 'unanswered'...(and then you'll get the cops on ya' doorstep again telling ya' ya've done this and/or haven't done that, etc, etc, etc-Ed)...well quite...

And again, I don't specifically blame the various office staff/officers that get sent to do this stuff, it's the Ministers and heads of departments, etc, who are responsible...

Anyhoos, onwards and hopefully upwards, blah blah blah, but one thing for sure, I am Nick Fletcher and this 'ere is my blog...thanking y'all for ya' patronage, cheers and laters...      

 

More Of The Vickie Chapman ICAC Circuitous Circus

Here we shreckin' go...howdy y'all in Ukraine, the USofA, India, and Mexico, and right here in the jolly ol' South East of SA...as covered back in September 2018, the debasco (debacle tail-ends a fiasco) has just kicked-off again with South Australian Liberal Attorney General Vicki Chapman and her apparent supposed breach of the exact same section of the SA Independent Commission Against Corruption Act what I done be 'Convicted' of back in February-April 2018 by the rankly corrupt Magistrate Ian White...and as per usual, if y'all have some sort of problem with me describing Magistrate White as "rankly corrupt", please just to be availing ya'selves of any of the many posts on this 'ere blog specific to his outrageous and reprehensibly vile conduct of/in my trial...(you mean the stuff about issuing those "reprehensibly vile" 'Suppression/Restraining Orders'?-Ed)...yep, all that stuff...(and his definable collusion with the serial-lying SAPol Prosecutions?-Ed)...yeah...(and refusing you presenting your "Malicious Prosecution' submission before then stating that 'there is no St Martins Lutheran School Child Abuse Cover-up'?-Ed)...yes, yes, and yes...

So here's a chunk-a-stuff stright from The Advertiser, but not before we'all go for a wee traipse back in time to early 2005 and the extraordinary circus that was the ousting of Peter Lewis, the then Speaker of the SA House of Assembly, and as was hounded-out of that position by the SA Parliament, Labor Government and Liberal Opposition in absolutely resolute partnership, and all for attempting to expose the rank Pro-Paedophile Corruption of the SA Parliament...(woooweeeeooooweewoooo-Ed)...why are you wobbling-about and making that weird noise?...(because it's the thing you do when going back back back back...woooeeeoooo...try it-Ed)...woooweeeoooo...(ok, excellent, and now do the wobbling-Ed)....weewoooo...(see, there you go, back back back back-Ed)...and picture if you will a Large Bald Angry Hippy about to re-enter the SA Parliament building from the side courtyard, and in the company of a 'Child Protection Volunteer' working with Peter Lewis, and a LBAH who is slightly vagued-out due to the Radiotherapy he'd had earlier that day...(it's almost as if I'm there-Ed)...anyhoos, the pair approach the door, the CPV to the left, LBAH to the right, and a small, rat-faced individual rushes at them from the right, coming from the small laneway out to North Tce...

As stated many times previous, I've literally never raised my hand to another person in my entire life, but on this occasion I thought that the CPV was about to be assaulted, again, and was aware that just trying to grab this person probably wouldn't stop them as they were already right there next to me, so in the moment I decided to body-check them, hip and shoulder style, hard, and right into the wall...fortunately for him, this person pulled-up just short of me and started mouthing-off at the CPV, "I'm gunna' find out who you are and expose you", etc, etc...(what an angry li'l rat-faced man-Ed)...indeed, and as it turns out, it was our mate Nigel Hunt from The Advertiser threatening to do exactly what The Advertiser frequently does, attack the messenger...(didn't they print an article in January 2005 on behalf of the Lutherans, completely refuting any and all allegations about the St Martins Cover-up?-Ed)...indeed they did...(and then refuse to print any sort of article presenting families' views?-Ed)...that be they, yes...anyhoos, on that day in the courtyard, Parliament House very nearly ended-up with a Nigel Hunt shaped alcove slammed into it...(do you think he realises how close he came to being a permanent fixture?-Ed)...dunno', whatevs...

(And back to the present and didn't our mate Nigel also bob-up in the recent TV series, Adelaide: City of Evil?-Ed)...ah yes, he surely did...(and didn't you say that his appearance was a farcical continuation of the relentless denial of realities around The Family Murders?-Ed)...well that program did the traditional 'Address The Realities Only To Allow Dismissing Them' routine, and our man Nigel was right there amongst it...everybody who grew-up in Adelaide has known/knows that a group of people known as 'The Family' were/are responsible for the rape/torture murders of young men in Adelaide, as covered in City of Evil, where-in Nigel straight-out stated that 'it's not true'...(wow-Ed)...indeed, not exactly sure why we needed to have that series/program at all...(other than for absolute stooge Nigel Hunt to come on there and say 'no such thing as The Family'-Ed)...well quite, that's pretty much what it looked like...anyhoos, believe what you will, to my experience, Nigel Hunt is a li'l Pro-Paedophile stooge like so many before and/or around him, particularly at The Advertiser...(has The Advertiser reported any aspect of your "bizarre trial" on the exact legislation that is covered in these attached articles?-Ed)...nope, not a single word...

So, whilst I'd rather not give him any exposure at all, here's what our mate Nigel has to say about the re-emergence of the now ongoing fiasco with the SA Attorney General Vickie Chapman clearly breaching the exact same piece of ludicrously Fascist legislation that I have been 'Convicted' of back in February-April 2018, after a 39 month "bizarre trial", etc, etc...(is that the truly farcical and totally undefinable ICAC Act 2012 Section 56 (a) and/or (b)?-Ed)...yes, that's it...again, rather than quote stuff, I've just pasted across the full articles...***         

Nigel Hunt, Exclusive, The Advertiser

November 14, 2018 10:31pm

Subscriber only

• Labor turns up ICAC heat on Attorney-General Vickie Chapman
• Labor says legal advice shows Chapman broke ICAC secrecy rules
• Your right to know: Both major parties open to end ICAC gag order

Anti-Corruption detectives are conducting a probe into whether Attorney-General Vickie Chapman has breached the strict secrecy provisions of the ICAC Act.

The Advertiser can reveal detectives have launched a preliminary assessment of the matter and are currently examining the available evidence.
Once that assessment has been finalised a decision on whether or not a full investigation is warranted will be made by senior officers.

A source said the assessment was expected to be concluded “in coming weeks”.

Investigators were in the process of examining a public statement made by Ms Chapman concerning an ICAC investigation involving Renewal SA executives, a response from Independent Commissioner Against Corruption Bruce Lander QC and legal opinions commissioned by both the Government and Opposition concerning the possible breach of the ICAC Act.

Anti-Corruption detectives are conducting a probe into whether Attorney-General Vickie Chapman has breached the strict secrecy provisions of the ICAC Act.

Police Commissioner Grant Stevens on Wednesday night declined to comment on the matter.

Confirmation of the unprecedented police activity will place further pressure on Ms Chapman, who came under intense questioning from the Opposition in state Parliament on Tuesday over the controversy.

Ms Chapman, who was on Wednesday sworn in as Acting Premier, declined to comment on the development, but said she stood by previous statements she had made on the matter.

Opposition legal affairs spokesman Kyam Maher on Wednesday night said “this is now an extraordinary set of circumstances”.

“A probe of this nature clearly compromises the ability of the state’s first law officer to do her job,’’ he said.

In the days after the controversy erupted the Opposition called for Ms Chapman to stand down while police conducted a full investigation into the matter.

The controversy is likely to come under further scrutiny next Tuesday when Mr Lander appears before Parliament’s Crime and Public Integrity Committee.

The police assessment is examining the actions of Ms Chapman on September 27 when she revealed details of an ICAC investigation involving executives from Renewal SA.

Under the strict provisions of the ICAC Act, the fact Mr Lander is conducting an investigation cannot be revealed, unless he issues an exemption authorising such a publication.

The penalty for breaching that provision of the ICAC Act is a $30,000 fine.

The day after Ms Chapman’s statement, Mr Lander recounted details surrounding his dealings with Ms Chapman prior to her statement.

Opposition legal affairs spokesman Kyam Maher.

Independent Commissioner Against Corruption Bruce Lander, QC.

“Yesterday afternoon I received a request to speak to the Attorney-General by telephone,’’ he said in response to media questions.

“My recollection of the subsequent conversation is that any statement made by the Attorney would not include reference to the ICAC and that the Attorney would say publicly that neither she nor the Government could comment.

“I told her that I would not be making a statement. After I became aware of the Attorney’s statement I requested my chief executive to communicate with the Attorney’s office in relation to my recollection of the conversation.

“I was not intending to make a statement but in light of the Attorney’s statement I was of the view that I should state my position and authorise the publication of the Attorney’s public statement.’’

Early last month, the Opposition commissioned retired Federal Court judge Raymond Finkelstein QC to provide a legal opinion on whether or not Ms Chapman had breached the ICAC Act.

His legal opinion found that under the Act, Mr Lander cannot give retrospective exemption from the secrecy laws it contains.

“It is clear that the Commissioner cannot retrospectively authorise a disclosure of information which suggests a person is being investigated,’’ his opinion states.

“The plain language of the provisions indicates that it is limited to the grant of prior authorisation of a disclosure or publication.

“Importantly, it is difficult to see what purpose would be served by construing the power to be retrospective.

“If the disclosure has caused harm, either to an individual or to the conduct of an investigation, that harm would not be undone by a retrospective authorisation.”

Ms Chapman has refused to release Crown law advice she has commissioned, which she said had found she had not breached the Act.

“I have read that advice, I have considered it, I have accepted it and I am satisfied that there has been no breach of the Act or offence against it,” she told Parliament last month.

***...and then there's this bit below from a coupla' days later...there's also been a heap of stuff in The Advertiser paper-printed version, as referenced below in 'blue'...(so these two articles are from their on-line thingy?-Ed)...yes, and I'll copy and print some of the paper-printed stuff as well, soon...*** 

Attorney-General Vickie Chapman vows to overhaul ICAC secrecy laws, rejects claims she broke the law

Adam Langenberg, Political reporter, The Advertiser

November 16, 2018 8:59pm

• OPINION: Political realities unravel ICAC’s invisibility cloak
• Police assessing if Attorney-General breached ICAC provisions
• EDITORIAL: Act now to fix oppressive secrecy laws
• OPINION: Labor forgets its track record as it goes after Chapman

Clunky secrecy laws surrounding the workings of ICAC will be overhauled next year as Attorney-General Vickie Chapman continues to reject claims she has broken the law.

Ms Chapman said the ICAC Act was outdated and vowed the Government would review it once legislation allowing ICAC Commissioner Bruce Lander to hold public maladministration and misconduct hearings had passed.

The Advertiser this week revealed police were carrying out a preliminary assessment of evidence to determine whether Ms Chapman had breached this Act, before deciding on whether to pursue a full investigation.

Ms Chapman has previously said the Government was “not opposed” to amending the Act but told The Advertiser on Friday she agreed with media criticism of the laws.

Attorney-General Vickie Chapman continues to reject claims she has broken the law, as she vowed to overhaul secrecy laws surrounding the workings of ICAC.

“I agree and I think the community agrees that there’s a long list of things that need to be reviewed,” she said.
Ms Chapman continued to refuse to reveal the discussions she had with Mr Lander before releasing a statement on September 27 linking ICAC with the absence of two Renewal SA executives, saying she would not “breach confidentiality”.

The mysterious absence of the two executives also was revealed by The Advertiser.

Mr Lander later that day issued a statement allowing media to publish Ms Chapman’s comments.
But Labor subsequently asked police to investigate whether she had broken the law by not obtaining his permission in advance.
Ms Chapman said she would co-operate with any police inquiries but maintained her legal advice said there was no breach.
She also denied there was “any inconsistency” between her recollection of the phone conversation and Mr Lander’s. Mr Lander later released a statement saying his recollection of the conversation with Ms Chapman was that she would not reference ICAC.
Ms Chapman said she’d made her position “absolutely clear”. “(Labor) keep asking the same questions and we keep giving the same answers,” she said.
Labor justice spokesman Kyam Maher said the Opposition would look at any ICAC Act overhaul but the Attorney-General had to comply with the law.
Ms Chapman has resisted Opposition calls to stand down while the probe is under way and has refused to canvass whether a finding of a breach would make her position untenable.

***...I do note where it says here that 'Labour referred to SAPol (police)' but it was my understanding that any such investigation would be at the direction of My Bestie And Also In His Spare Time ICAC Commissioner Bruce Lander...this 'Labor referral' opens the possibility that it was someone other than Bruce Lander who instigated my "bizarre trial"...(didn't you ascertain who it was who 'reported' you during your "bizarre trial"?-Ed)...well in that context, sure, it did appear to be Bruce Lander, but remember that SAPol, ICAC, and the ABC refused to provide vast amounts of 'evidence', including who it was 'complained/reported' me, so whilst that remains my belief, I'm technically unable to state exactly who it was...(just like a real trial-Ed)...not really... 

Tomorrow: More Of That "Bizarre Trial"

Just gunna' post this and get on with my day and dealing with the ongoing non-answering of my multiple letters/emails to AG Vickie Chapman as I attempt to lodge a proper 'Appeal Application Process Thingy', still stalled due to the AG's and/or Chief Magistrate's refusal to provide me recordings/transcripts of my own "bizarre trial"...(and/or the unanswered letters to the Dept of Corrections about why they won't accept your Disability Support Pension stuff and are trying to force you into a situation they know is "unsafe" for you-Ed)...indeed, and my current correspondence with the Courts Administration Authority as I try to access the 'evidence' supposedly tabled in Court to justify my reprehensibly vile 'Suppression/Restraining Orders'...(and your attempts to re-establish a Mental Health Plan as directed by Corrections-Ed)...yeah, all that too...(heard any more about your supposed 'breach' of those reprehensibly vile 'Orders'?-Ed)...not yet, but the cops who came to my home 2 weeks ago did say it could be a coupla' months...(ya' know, one could be forgiven for thinking that all of these people/officials/authorities are finding it a lot easier to just ignore you rather than untangle their own web of conflicting accounts and outright corruption-Ed)...indeed, albeit there are those just caught-up in the bureaucratic fall-out zone as the corruption rains down on them from their superiors/bosses, one could very well be forgiven for thinking exactly that...

I am Nick Fletcher and this is my blog and it looks like I have another terrific week ahead...(is it just me, or is it that every time you say 'hang on, that's not right', everything seems to go to heck-in-a-hand-basket?-Ed)...again, one could very well be forgiven for thinking exactly that...(and is it because you're such a Machiavellian genius, or just that the whole thing, the entire "Malicious Prosecution" is so farcically convoluted and fundamentally corrupt that it constantly trips itself up?-Ed)...well I'd love to take all of the credit, and as proud as I am of what I have achieved in pushing back against this perpetual avalanche of Pro-Paedophile Corruption that defines South Australia, it is mostly your second point, and every time someone gets held to account or even just questioned, the glaringly corrupt realities rear-up in their face and it gets just way too difficult...

Anyhoos, like I said, I am Nick Fletcher and this 'ere is my blog and cheers y'all dear availees and laters... 

Donald Trump Plays Around With His Small White Balls

Golf people, we're talking about golf, get ya' minds outta' the gutter, sheez...(well maybe a gap between the 'A' and the 'round' might help-Ed)...sure, but the point being he was playing golf when John McCain's funeral was held earlier this year...(it's a bit like putting an extra gap into a 'Royal Family' title-Ed)...how so?...(well they become the Duke and Duchess of Sus sex-Ed)...mmm, big fan of the Royals aren't cha'?...(not particularly-Ed)...yes, well, I'm sure you have your reasons...anyhoos, it's a big TMGI howdy to 'Unknown Region', Brazil, India, Sweden, United Arab Emirates, and a big shout-out especially to Poland, czes'c' and witam...(whaaa?-Ed)...well the Googles reckon that that's how you say 'howdy' and 'welcome' in Polish...(well I'll be cholernie-Ed)...indeed...and of course howdy to y'all else out there...(speaking of 'out there', how are you going you Big Loose Unit?-Ed)...just super, thanks for asking...anyhoos, now that we're done with the pleasantries, let's get stuck into that serial-lying, pontificating, orange buffoon known in some circles as the President of the United States of America...(the poster boy for everything that's wrong with White privilege in the USofA-Ed)...well indeed, for privilege in general, but indeed his bare-faced Rascism warrants the inclusion of 'White' in that summation...

A few months back, 25th August 2018, John McCain passed away after stopping treatment for Cancer, and it led to a flurry of repeats of the extraordinarily abusive comments by that gibbering moron Donald Trump, serial liar, bragging sexual-assaulter, and rancid rascist...(Donald Trump, "with the body of a roll-top desk and the mind of a duck"?-Ed)...what have you got against ducks, Ed?...(nothing, they're delicious-Ed)...riiight, anyhoos, if for some reason y'all haven't already been subjected to l'il Donnie's vile denigration about John McCain's years as a Vietnamese prisoner of war, just Google it...whatever you think of the USofA and it's conduct in Vietnam, the fact remains that John McCain was shot-down over Hanoi, beaten and tortured, etc, and even refused early release because of his commitment to his comrades and his country...global politics aside, his conduct as an individual was extraordinary and an absolute credit to his country...and then there's Donald Trump...

And I quote, "He was a war hero because he was captured. I like people who weren't captured"...(ooo, strewth, where is itttt, come on, aghhh, LANGUAGE WARNING-Ed)...damn straight, Language Warning, because you Donald Trump, are an absolute fucking arsehole not fit to wipe the dirt from John McCain's boots, you rancid sack-a-crap...come to Mt Gambier and say that shizzle to my face, and on behalf of my ancestors, I will bitch-slap you clean into next week...I have literally never raised my hand to another human being, but in your case, I'm more than prepared to make an exception, and to wear the appropriate consequences...you are a fucking disgrace and an embarrassment to your country...

I genuinely never wish actual harm to anyone, been through that stuff before on this 'ere blog, eg, I don't want the rancidly corrupt Pro-Paedophile politician Rory McEwen to do anything other than rot for decades in gaol where he belongs, etc, etc, but I think it's more than appropriate to point-out that in the week that absolute legend Aretha Franklin and 'hero' John McCain both died, Donald Trump didn't...(ouch-Ed)...nah, fuck 'im, what an absolute arsehole...

(Oops, Language Warning, sorry-Ed)...nah, that's all the swearing for this post...End Language Warning... cheers Ed and apologies dear availees, but if I take issue with rancidly corrupt Pro-Paedophile politicians like Rory McEwen, Mike Rann, Jay Weatherill, Rob Kerin, Peter Gandolfi, Tony Pasin, Julie Bishop, Julia Gillard...(and the Mt Gambier City Councillor you're supposedly not allowed to name because of those rancidly Pro-Paedophile 'Suppression/Restraining Orders' as handed-down by the rankly Pro-Paedophile corrupt Magistrate Ian White-Ed)...yeah, both of them, Rob Lucas, Vicki Chapman, etc, etc, etc, et al, if I have nothing but abject contempt for these alleged people, then I despise and loathe that fat sack-a-crap called Donald Trump...

Given my family history of involvement in global conflicts, it is absolutely a personal slight to me and my kin when that leering orange idiot makes such abusive statements about a prisoner of war, any prisoner...(even the USofA's own prisoners in Guantanemo Bay and elsewhere?-Ed)...if they are genuine prisoners of war, certainly, to many people the USofA were/are the 'terrorists' in Vietnam, Iraq, etc, eg, in Vietnam it's known as 'The American War' and that followed The French War, etc...(well that's a huge discussion about a range of issues that we here at TMGI are simply not qualified to engage in-Ed)...absolutely, which is why we are acknowledging these 'positions' but not stating as fact what is right or wrong...(fair enough-Ed)...but there is no doubting the vileness and cowardice of Donald Trump as evidenced by his denigration of 'The Last American Hero'...(and no offence to those currently serving-Ed)...indeed, and it could be rightly argued that hopefully there never is any need for Another American Hero...(or for any hero of any persuasion-Ed)...indeed, may we live in a world that doesn't need heroes...

And that's where Donald Trump is particularly offensive and derogatory toward his own 'military'...(except when it suits him to ramp-up the gross Nationalism stuff-Ed)...well quite, and it's all about Free Speech until someone quietly Takes A Knee in a deeply respectful protest against exactly the sort of Rascism that defines Donald, then Free Speech is traitorous...(and when you disagree with him you're Fake News, or an appalling person and you get your press pass cancelled, etc, but he's all-over Fox News who are appallingly biased to the point of deceitful, but when it's pro-Trump deceit, that's just terrific-Ed)...absolutely, and on and on it goes, including the latest extraordinary doctored footage of a female staffer trying to grab a microphone from a journalist, and Trump spokesperson Sarah Huckerby deliberately misrepresenting that incident as the journo 'inappropriately touching the young woman'...(whilst Huckerby's also defending the latest hissy-fit of serial groper Donald Trump-Ed)...truly, is there anything more depressing than watching a woman lie about the supposed assault of another woman, whilst speaking for a man who assaults women...(it is very, very sad-Ed)...

Operation Fretful Parrot:...is how we at TMGI choose to belittle and denounce Donald Trump's blatantly Rascist and Nationalistic manipulation of the Refugee Caravan currently somewhere in Southern Mexico, 'Operation Faithful Patriot'...no better example of the rancid deceits that Donald is prepared to commit in sewing and cementing the Divides of Discontent that got him elected in the first place...deploying thousands of USofA troops to 'defend the border' from a rag-tag group of mostly women and children who won't actually get there for weeks...(if at all-Ed)...indeed, and that deployment and associated Nationalistic pulpit thumping was all in the name of ramping-up fear and loathing to bolster his chances in the USofA Mid Term elections...(there's clearly no amount of damage that he isn't willing to foist upon his own nation so long as it works for him politically-Ed)...absolutely, rancidly deceitful Nationalism used against his own nation...(and what the shreck is a 'Faithful Patriot'? it's like saying 'Betraying Traitor', only stupider-Ed)...hyperbolic Nationalism needs not reason or rationale, it is just what it is...

Just for the record, my great-grandfather landed with the New Zealanders at Gallipoli, Turkey, was wounded and evacuated, and went on to serve on the Western Front...my great-grandfather is/was a Gallipoli ANZAC...his son, my grandfather, Pops, was a RAF Group Captain, who flew Hurricanes/Spitfires in the Battle of France then just prior to the Battle of Britain, was briefly withdrawn from service as one of only a handful of critically important test pilots, then went on to run airfields in the Pacific Theatre with/for the Americans, whilst also flying combat missions, etc, and was awarded the Distinguished Service Order (DSO) and the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for his service...he was/is one of New Zealand's most decorated and famous fighter pilots...at any time, he could have been shot-down and ended-up as a POW with either the Nazis or the Japanese...

My other grandfather was a teenage Scottish immigrant (to Australia) who a few short years laterended-up back in the trenches of Tobruk with the AIF, a 'Rat of Tobruk', and fought in various European campaigns, nearly all of them 'withdrawals', and then in New Guinea, etc...his larrikin nature saw him repeatedly promoted to Corporal as his comrades were killed-off, but then also repeatedly busted back to Private because of his 'un-military conduct' of insubordination, a brief AWOL, etc...(errr, "AWOL"?-Ed)...'Absent Without Leave', for going on a drunken bender with a coupla' mates, then spent a coupla' weeks in Gladstone Gaol, South Australia...his best mate was killed first night in Tobruk when they landed in the dark and accidentally went through their own poorly defined front line and straight out into no-man's land...his mate, the squad leader, was shot through the head at close range and Pops and the rest fought all night just to get back into their lines...they got back alive but then spent 2 more days fighting back to that spot to retrieve his mate's body...

Graphic Content Warning:...when they got to his body, my grandfather grabbed him by the ankles to drag him back, but the body had decomposed and both feet 'came-away' in his hands...they then rolled the body into a blanket, and it was eventually repatriated to his family in Adelaide...that family wrote to my grandfather thanking him for 'returning' their son, and my father bears his name...that's what real war is and that's what real people endure and achieve and remember...and then there's Donald Trump, what a bloody disgrace...when it suits him it's rancid Nationalism, and when it doesn't, it's open denigration of one of the USofA's genuine 'heroes'...given they both served in multiple theatres/campaigns, either of my grandfathers could have been a Prisoner of War with either the Nazis or Japanese...particularly Papa, who, as a pilot, could easily have found himself in near-identical circumstances to John McCain...

And I have had the extraordinary privilege of looking into the eyes of these gentle men on the very few occasions that either ever spoke of their journeys through war, and I have seen the realities dwelling within, for they never once spoke in terms of glory or triumph, never once gloated or denigrated their 'enemies', they only ever spoke in terms of empathy and tragedy and enormous loss, the loss of good men, on both sides...and so in my darkest and most fearful moments I look at what it is I oppose and why I am in the 'trouble' I am in, and for the all the chronic fuck-ups I may be as a deeply flawed human being, I hold my head-up with pride that maybe, just maybe, if I go this way for a dozen life-times, then just maybe I might be some small part the sort of 'heroes' my grandfather's are...and then there's Donald Trump...vale John McCain...but it doesn't end there...     

Because in Oz we are escalating the rancid manipulations of Nationalism and of Remembrance Day and ANZAC Day, etc, and nothing more indicative than the near $500million we're about to spend on a massive expansion of the Canberra War Memorial so that pontificating politicians have somewhere pretty to pompously ponce-about self-promoting with poppies in their lapels...(and aren't we spending $100m+ on some memorial if France?-Ed)...ah yeah, of course, and constantly dragging schoolkids into it, etc, etc, but what are we spending on actually helping veterans and their families?...(look at what SA Rann/Weatherill Labor did in closing the specifically designated Daw Pk Repatriation Hospital, yet they would always go to services, etc, whack-in a poppy, and then harp-on about the importance of veterans, etc-Ed)...well precisely, and do we teach the kiddies the truth about ANZAC and Gallipoli, how we were sent as minions of Empire to invade a sovereign nation, Turkey, because the English hierarchy 1) had their eyes on the land and the oil, etc, and 2) used the ANZACs as cannon fodder who would distract the Turks from other parts of the Dardenelles where English troops could then land more safely...do we teach the kiddies that?...(do we teach the kiddies that the British Royal family are all German and have been since the late 1800s?-Ed)...I'm sure we do, every time we report what hat Meaghan's wearing with her super-stylish frock...    

And if y'all are getting some sense of my rampant displeasure at the mindless Socio-manipulation of the recent Harry and Meaghan Show Down Under, spare a thought as I do for the young man himself...wouldn't want to be in his shoes for quids...not the least bit interested in Meaghan or Kate or Kate's sister with the hot arse, apparently, or which Windsor is marrying what Commoner, etc, etc, but this is a young man who lost his mother at a very young age, in terrible circumstances, amid a swirl of rumours and conspiracy theories and slavering eulogising that continues even today...for all the things I see wrong with the 'Royal Family', there is still a place for quiet humanity and empathy...

A Joke In Very Poor Taste:...because I found it ironically hilarious that the 'un-authorised biography of Princess Diana (Spencer) and the story of her death', etc, that book was reportedly "not sanctioned" by 'the Queen' (Diana's mother-in-law Queen Elizabeth)...(why is that ironically hilarious?-Ed)...because whilst the book about Diana's death wasn't sanctioned by the Queen, there are plenty of people who reckon that the 'killing' was...(are you referring to the conspiracy/rumour/theory/reports that Diana's death was not an accident but actually a 'killing' as ordered/sanctioned by the Royal family?-Ed)...indeed, reports/conspiracies that revolve around Diana's apparent impending plans to remarry and/or supposed pregnancy, etc, etc...(yeah, sure, but some say it was a 'hit' on her beau Dodi Fayed, possibly related to his father's business dealings-Ed)...well quite, a litany of rumour, innuendo, and conspiracy, but the bottom-line was that 2 young men, William and Harry, lost their mother, and I wouldn't wish that on anyone...

And so it is that, despite my intense dislike of this loathsome spotted reptile, I don't want to see some idiot literally taking pot-shots at Donald Trump, but I do want to see him impeached and disgraced and humiliated, humiliated and belittled much the way he does to others from the privileged position of the Ivory Tower of his father's wealth...like I said, send him to Mt Gambier to face a few simple truths across the table from a Large Angry Hippy, in a context where he can't threaten me with lawyers or ban me or sack me, etc...(indeed, set him down in any situation where he can't just hide behind abuse and threats, and he's fundamentally screwed, because he's just a blustering buffoon-Ed)...and unfortunately many others are emboldened by his brazen bigotry and selfishness and pride-in-ignorance, etc, and you don't have to look much further than the Mt Gambier City Councillor who I'm not allowed to identify because of those rancidly corrupt 'Suppression/Restraining Orders', someone who I have personally witnessed repeatedly berate and denigrate Disabled People, using the justification that "I'm sick of Political Correctness"...nasty, angry, vile li'l person...(yeah, but I think that person is just like that anyway, doesn't need any encouragement-Ed)...yeah, fair point...  

Tomorrow: More "Bizarre Trial" Stuff 

Where-in I am supposedly 'allowed/entitled to' a copy of the evidence that was tabled in Court relative to those disgraceful 'Suppression/Restraining Orders', that is, the 'evidence' used to apply for and justify those vile 'Orders'...(but I thought you said there wasn't any evidence, not any tabled/presented in Court, none even discussed, indeed, none actually exists because you've never done anything to warrant any sort of 'Restraining Order'-Ed)...exactly correct Ed, not a single SAPol (police) report or any sort of incident, well certainly not anything initiated by me...(are you referring to the lie-riddled Affidavit that the ABC submitted against you, that deceitfully and deliberately grossly misrepresents your last 'visit' to the ABC where-in you were the one abused and threatened?-Ed)...for example...(the Affidavit that you proved to Magistrate Teresa Anderson was so erroneous/problematic that Her Honour granted your request for associated info and issued a Court Summons to the ABC, that Affidavit?-Ed)...that's the one...(and what about MGCC's Full Meeting September 2017 when 2 Councillors and 2 MGCC employees abused and threatened you in the foyer?-Ed)...well I'd say attempted to abuse and threaten me because it all went a bit wrong for them, but sure, that was only one of many similar incidents...(and wasn't Councillor Who Must Not Be Named, aren't they a serial offender?-Ed)...yep, rude, abusive, corrupt, ugly li'l human being who has repeatedly bailed me up and tried to 'start something', albeit without success...

Oh, and in case I haven't mentioned it, where the rankly corrupt Magistrate Ian White has changed the ludicrously inept and farcically error-riddled SAPol Prosecution's 'Charge Sheet', on behalf of his mates at SAPol, where he's changed those 'Charges' from being supposed breaches of the rancidly Fascist ICAC Act 2012 Section 56 (a) and/or (b), to simply Section 56 (a)...(no (b)?-Ed)...no (b), just (a), where-in (b) is 'identifying a complainant'...by doing that, my mate Magistrate White has taken all of those '(b)s' and made them non-existent, not least of all the extraordinary 'Count' of me apparently identifying myself as the complainant, which is the sole 'Count' of 'Count 18'...(hang on, are you suggesting that he's changed the Charge Sheet so that that 'Charge' doesn't exist relative to your case, but has then 'Convicted' you of that 'Charge' anyway?-Ed)...spot on, and not suggesting, stating as fact that I have officially been 'Convicted' of a 'Charge' that doesn't officially exist...(it just gets better and better, yeah?-Ed)...can't stop laughing...    

And some more stuff about this ludicrous Community Centre that isn't just a pool but also a creche and a cafe and a gym and a convention centre and a band venue for the youths and ghee whiz, golly, it's just everything to everyone, apparently...and Mt Gambier City Council is spending ludicrous amounts of Ratepayer's dollars on flash coloured banners draped-about town, and info stalls being staffed by Council's $200,000 per annum 'Managers', and this vacuously manipulative and extraordinarily expensive 'Postal Vote', etc, etc, etc...  

I am Nick Fletcher and despite what some may think this 'ere blog is The Harsh Reality that trumps the Fake News...(and it's yours-Ed)...sorry?...(and it's yours, it's your blog-Ed)...oh yeah yeah, this here blog is my blog...cheers and laters...

Indoor Pool Is Yet Another Mt Gambier City Council Lie

Howdy y'all in the Seychelles, Uganda, Costa Rica, and Aotearoa (New Zealand), and 'Unknown Region', welcome one and y'all to TMGI...today's post is self-evidently about the latest self-serving deceit from the rancidly corrupt Mt Gambier City Council; this Indoor Pool palaver is an absolute lie, just another absolute lie from MGCC, an absolute lie ahead of and motivated by the looming November 2018 Local Government Elections...(I thought you said that it was a Tony Pasin (Member for Barker) inspired exercise in Threat-Bribe Pork-Barrelling?-Ed)...well yes, there is that to it, sure, but in this context he's effectively back in his old position as a MGC Councillor acting as part of and in absolute collusion with MGCC...(which explains why he's kept saying "we" when discussing this deceitful manipulation-Ed)...well exactly, more than just a 'Freudian slip', it's the reality, dodgy mates lookin' to help each other with Ratepayers caught in the middle and payin' for it all...

Back on Friday 3rd August 2018, MGCC Mayor Andrew Lee was yet again on the South East ABC Radio, spuriously spewing absolute lies about how he/MGCC act solely for the benefit of Ratepayers and won't proceed without widespread public support via extensive Public Consultation...(ahahahhaaahaaa, nice one man-Ed)...no, I'm serious, he actually said 'Council is all about serving Ratepayers'...(well that's just an abject lie, MGCC is a Mates Club that operates for the financial benefit of it's Members and their families and/or friends!-Ed)...indeed...(MGCC is a Nepotistic Rort looking for somewhere to happen!-Ed)...well quite...(MGCC is a perpetual pouring of Ratepayer's monies into the pockets of Councillors and/or their mates!-Ed)...yeah, you've made ya' point, and nobody's disagreeing with you, not least of all because it's fundamentally provable given the openly corrupt conduct of issues like the Boundary Adjustments, the Main Corner, the Old Hospital Demolition, the farcical Rail Lands Development...(the lights around the Blue Lake-Ed)...yeah, the Paving Frenzy, etc, etc, and now this Indoor Pool Farce...

I remind availees that my rancidly corrupt Pro-Paedophile Political Persecution is the result of me 'speaking about' South Australia's ICAC (Independent Commission Against Corruption) and it's supposed 'investigation' of multiple corruption issues with MGCC...(ah, you mean the farcical faux-investigation comprised of 1) a 30 minute chat with you in a Mt Gambier cafe, in clear earshot of 6-7 other patrons, and with nothing written down or even recorded, and 2) a similar chat held with MGCC CEO Mark McShane in a hallway of the Adelaide Convention Centre, that 'investigation'?-Ed)...yep, that's the one, and as I proved in my rancidly corrupt "Malicious Prosecution" Trial, that right there, a chat if a cafe, that's how ICAC investigates multiple definable corruption issues within a Council...(not least of all regarding the rancid Nepotism and Insider Trading at the heart of the Mt Gambier Old Hospital Demolition, corruption defined in MGCC's own Minutes and as previously provided to the Ombudsman/ICAC?-Ed)...yep again, MGCC Minutes that ICAC acknowledged they were in possession of during that 'cafe chat'...

I was at that meeting and personally witnessed the brazen corruption, as supported by the entire Council, and that's why I went to the Ombudsman and (then) Member for Mt Gambier Don Pegler ...I was also at the MGCC Full Meeting over 2 years ago when they formally voted to not pursue the issue of an Indoor Pool...check for ya'selves any of MGCC's farcical litany of 'plans' for Mt Gambier...(you mean nonsensical jargon-laden tripe like the City Vision Planning Framework 2017-37 or the City Economic Blueprint 2017-37, shizzle like that?-Ed)...exactly, go where you will, do what you can, you'll find ne'ery a mention of an Indoor Pool in those official plans...this Indoor Centre carry-on is straight-out manipulation and deceit, 1) from a Council desperate to be seen to actually be doing something ahead of this weeks Local Government Elections, and 2) for Member for Barker Tony Pasin to use to self-congratulate and self-promote all the way to the next federal election...

And with this Indoor Pool lie, I can only apologise to all those genuine citizens who do genuinely believe that they are part of something genuine that is actually going to improve Mt Gambier...as per usual, as per standard operational procedure, it is an old manipulation to get genuine people involved in a project/issue, and then push them out in front as the genuine face of that project/issue, but to have complicit stooges cast in controlling/critical roles...(like people like rankly corrupt lawyer Bill DeGaris hiding in plain sight behind the Stand Like Stone Foundation?-Ed)...yep, exactly like that Ed, yeah sure he's a corruptly crooked betrayer who acts in the most vile ways to protect paedophiles, but gee whiz, look at his great works with SLSF...(whatta' guy-Ed)...indeed, gidday Billy mate, a perfect example...(I note that a few people, not least of all Mayoral aspirant Mr Mark Jones, has called-out this Indoor Pool Community Consultation Group as being a carefully manipulated construct of MGCC, put together by Council with people Council wants to tell Council what Council wants to hear-Ed)...couldn't have put it better myself, and as per usual, MGCC will have peppered that mix with a handful of genuine people who are otherwise irrelevant...     

So initially it was gunna' cost something like $12m-$15m...(that was when it was discussed years back by MGCC as "too expensive", the cost being their fundamental reason for dumping it-Ed)...that's exactly correct Ed, but now their suddenly talking about $40m...(seriously?! $40m?! and where the shreck are they gunna' get that?-Ed)...well originally it was discussed in terms of 'dollar for dollar' to match a 'government grant', with MGCC stumping-up $10m and trying to get $10m from the Sow Strayn government, with the Federal government to hopefully cough-up the remaining $20m...now Tony Pasin has declared that the Feds will provide $15m, but only, and let me emphasise this, only if everyone in Mt Gambier votes for this specific project...

And there has been quite extensive discussion/criticism about how much MGCC managed to mis-manage the appallingly expensive Library and Main Corner Projects, both of which blew-out by more than 100%, both started at approx $5million and both went well past $10m...(and which MGCC CEO Mark McShane quite deliberately misrepresented on ABC Radio as being 'a $5m government grant for the Main Corner'-Ed)...indeed, it was a combined $5m of grants for both, and it was put to me that the Main Corner went past $12m, including costs hidden in MGCC departments under 'general expenses' and not directly charged to that project...(does that include the $345,000 that former CEO Greg Muller misappropriated/defrauded/stole?-Ed)...I certainly hope so...and then there's the Rail Lands debasco (debacle meets fiasco)...back in November 2011 and with enormous pomp and an actual ceremony/media release at the Helpmann Theatre, etc, Council spruiked their $10m Parklands Concept Plan, and it's now 7 years and $10m+ later and what do we have?...(gourd knows?-Ed)...no, we know, no Sound Shell, No Covered Plaza, no renovated Iconic Old Rail Station, and the entire site's still an unusable tundra with appalling drainage and almost no facilities...(yay-Ed)...

And now aspiring Councillors Ben Hood and Max Bruin have had a The Border Watch article (page 5, 4th October 2018) to canvas 'their ideas' for renovating the Old Station as a Visitor Info Centre and central bus terminus, and putting angled parking for caravans, campers, etc, and a covered walkway, possibly moving the Lady Nelson replica, etc, all in a 'central location that will attract business and builds on Council's "success stories" of the Rail Lands and Rail Trail'...(but don't they say that "The Rail is a huge open space and an absolute wind tunnel" and a "dead space", where "the rundown railway station building is just sitting there", etc?-Ed)...yeah, but it's also a huge "success", don't cha' know...(and hang on, isn't all that stuff what you and others were asking for aways back in February 2006 at those Rail Lands public meetings?-Ed)...spot on, more than 12 shreckin' years ago, it's exactly what people asked for and MGCC flatly refused to do, particularly the bus terminus stuff...(and now this is an exciting new plan from these 2 Chamber of Commerce stooges?-Ed)...and presented by TBW in a context where it promotes these 2, where TBW should be questioning and slamming MGCC for their rank failures/deceits re the Rail Lands Retail Agenda...as described, it's an unused, unusable wind tunnel with no shelter...we'll cover this in a full RLRA post...   

And The Main Corner is a similar costly disaster...(I remember you attending those 5 community meetings after it was built as they tried to come-up with ideas for it's use-Ed)...indeed, where a grand total of 2 dozen people attended, if you count me at every meeting...spend $12m+, hand the $2m+ Commercial Function Facility to Councillor Mutton's son, and then hold meetings to decide what to do with the rest...this is MGCC's history of construction projects, well over $20m for 2 projects that were meant to cost $10 (Library and Main Corner), and more than $10m on the unusable and grossly incomplete Rail Lands, and now they want to get their grubby and clearly incompetent mits on $40m...(well "incompetent" if you believe that it's purely atrocious management and abysmal planning ability, etc, and not as many believe it to be, deliberate 'incompetence' that then 'justifies' overspending and/or repeatedly re-spending Ratepayer's money with Councillor's mates/family/stooges-Ed)...an excellent point Ed, and I would suggest that it's a fair bit of what you're saying, deliberately orchestrated 'incompetence' that profits Councillor's mates/families/stooges...  

Now they want to build a $40m Indoor pool that's also apparently gunna' be an Art Exhibitions and/or Convention Centre, etc...(but isn't that what MGCC did with the $12m+ Main Corner?-Ed)...sorry?...(well didn't MGCC put a $1m+ Commercial Kitchen into the Main Corner Debasco several years ago?-Ed)...well indeed they did Ed...(and wasn't the whole 'Project' thing meant to create a Convention Centre-style Function Facility?-Ed)...exactly...(which they then handed free-of-charge to MGC Councillor Des Mutton's son, Lachlan-Ed)...yep, that's what I was saying...(and then to Sam Rothall via a secret Mates Only tender process and secret vote at Council?-Ed)...hmmm, yes, it just doesn't matter how many times I hear that, it just doesn't get any less corrupt...(and who's actually running it now?-Ed)...dunno', Council won't say, it's apparently 'Commercial Confidentiality'...(so it's still the Rothalls or it's another Councillor's family member or mate?-Ed)...I'd bet your money on it mate...but we digress, again, sort of, because this Convention Centre thingy is a very large part of the proposed project...

Also a major part of this project is the local Pioneers basketball team, but even then they only get 800-900 people to games, so why the need for a 2000 seat stadium?...(well isn't there discussion of a local state League netball team?-Ed)...yeah, 'discussion of' but not an actual, there is no such team...(and haven't the Pioneers just got the very unceremonious ass from the Victorian league we/they were part of, and therefore there is effectively no Pioneers just right now?-Ed)...well indeed Ed, I care nought for basketball, but it's a fair kick in the baskets for Mt Gambier and the team itself, meaning it's quite unfair, and it really rips the justification rug out from under the Convention Stadium Pool thingy...
  

And then comes the 'Official Announcement' which just happens to be at the Chamber of Commerce soiree at The Barn, where Tony Pasin joyfully declared that if Mt Gambier Ratepayers vote for this specific project, than the Federal government will chip-in $15m...(hang on, hang on, I've got a coupla' questions-Ed)...thought you might...(but haven't Council and Tony both been bleating about how everyone in Mt Gambier has wanted an Indoor Pool since like forever?-Ed)...as indeed 'everyone' in Mt Gambier knows, yes and yes, it has been a long-desired project, but that was more about an 'All Year Pool', not specifically an Indoor Pool, and certainly not a Convention Centre...(then why did we need a Public Petition and now the very costly Postal Vote of 19,000 Ratepayers?-Ed)...well, it's about trying to force/justify the massive expenditure by giving Council and Tony some arbitrary number to refer to, and justifying the inclusion of the Convention Centre...(and what odds that there's some connection between Council and/or Tony and the company being paid a small fortune to do that voluntary Postal Vote?-Ed)...very, very good odds I'd reckon...and your second question?...

Here Comes The Crunch:...(yeah, wasn't it meant to be $20m from the Feds?-Ed)...yep...(and $10m from the South Australian government, to be matched by MGCC with $10m from gourd knows where?-Ed)...yes, yes, and gourd knows yes...(so with the Feds $15m contribution, albeit not even secured yet, with that falling $5m short of what was originally being discussed/required, where is the remainder $5m coming from now?-Ed)...you and your damn mathsing, mathsness, number crunching, I don't have a specific answer for that, other than apparently we are to 'hope' that the SA gov will come to the party with that extra $5m, or maybe meet us halfway, or we're gunna' just get lumped with that extra $5m...(on top of the $10m we already don't have?-Ed)...errr, yeah....(oh, it's all coming together nicely then-Ed)...not really...(no no, I was being sarcastic-Ed)...oh right, my bad...and don't forget that we don't even have that Federal $15m yet either...oh, and Tony knew about that 'grant' on the Tuesday, but waited to fortuitously drop that announcement at the Chamber of Commerce soiree on the Friday night...(for maximum mutual self-gratification-Ed)...indeed...

And here's where Tony Pasin's impassioned Bribe Threat about the Postal Vote comes in...(errr, "Bribe Threat"?-Ed)...yeah, either y'all vote 'Yay' for this specific project, or you don't get the money...(not at all?-Ed)...not one red cent, we must vote for the Convention Centre with Pool Project attached or no dineros pour vous, amigo....(ah, Mexican-French gibberish, my favourite-Ed)...ok ok, 'no dollars for you my friend'...(so MGCC doesn't have a $15m grant as is frequently reported?-Ed)...nope...(they have a statement from Tony Pasin that we'll probably get that money?-Ed)...but we have to vote 'Yes' for it, yeah...(and so therefore it's a 'Bribe' to get people to vote 'Yay'-Ed)...yep...(backed-up with the 'Threat' that if y'all don't vote yes, you ain't gettin' squat-Ed)...exactly...(well my friend, that is indeed as you describe, an absolute Bribe Threat-Ed)...and all rammed home with copious quantities of guilt-laden manipulation about how if you don't get behind this project and vote 'Yes', etc, then you aren't a good citizen who cares about Mt Gambier the way Tony does...(mmm, I love being manipulated and denigrated and Bribe Threatened all in the one snide hypocrisy-Ed)...you and me both mate, you and me both...

And MGCC Mark McShane chimed in with his li'l bit about this...(well hurrah!-Ed)...and he reckons that the Postal Vote will be decided by whoevs actually responds to this voluntary/non-compulsory ballot...(where non-compulsory Local Government elections manage a staggering 35-40% response in an exceptionally good scenario?-Ed)...exactly, normally around 32-33% state-wide...and as my mate Mighty Mark McShenanigans states, if 30% of Ratepayers respond then it'll be 51% of that lot that decides the outcome...(in a 'scenario' where Council already knows, as repeatedly stated, that people want this Indoor Pool, they're gunna' spend squillions to find out what they already know, just so they can use that arbitrary number to either 1) justify the whole project and it's expense, or 2) justify non-action by blaming Ratepayers for 'our' decision-Ed)...exactly...(in a context where non-return of the Postal Vote clearly indicates a 'No Vote'-Ed)...absolutely...(because if people don't even respond, if they're not even motivated and enthused and supportive enough to respond, then clearly they don't want this-Ed)...bingo!...(but Council is just gunna' ignore that 60-70% with this deeply manipulative vote process-Ed)...or blame them if it doesn't get-up...(but it will likely get-up because Council will have organised themselves so that vote says 'Yes', and they only need approx 15% of Ratepayers to achieve that-Ed)...well quite...

And that right there's exactly all there is to this farcically deceitful manipulation, this calamitous Convention Centre construct...it's all about self-involved political self-promotion, built on smoke and mirrors, and then clumsily blown right-up Ratepayer's fundamental responsibility for the construction and running costs...(well that's the other thing isn't it, the $1.4m-$1.7m annual running costs, where in the shreck is that gunna' come from?-Ed)...well Council reckons that they'll have that saved by the time that it's finally built, say 4 years from now...(tell ya' what I will say, and that's 'bollocks', absolute bollocks-Ed)...well said sir...(only last year Council discarded 2 Councillor positions with the sole justification that they needed to save that paltry stipend, a grand total of less than $40,000 in allowances-Ed)...well quite, it's about saving money, not at all about reducing the numbers to maintain absolute control easier and ram-through decisions with only 3-4 votes, etc...and even if it is about saving the money, then that entirely compromises this notion that MGCC can somehow manage the costs of this Convention Centre on top of everything else...(and in a context where they still haven't finished the Rail Lands; no covered plaza, no Sound Shell, etc-Ed)...and again you're spot on mate... 

Bottomline, the rancidly corrupt Mt Gambier City Council have been paying architects (Adelaide architects with a local connection Design Inc) and has already spent a fortune on design plans, and organising a committee, etc, and this hugely expensive Postal Vote, but they haven't got any funding yet, and it won't get built for 4 years, and who the shreck is gunna' pay for all this...(future generations of Mt Gambier Ratepayers?-Ed)...exactly, literally generations...and all washed down with a big steaming serve of Bribe Threat Guilt...(mmm, yummy-Ed)...

Tomorrow: More Bizarre Court Stuff And/Or Indoor Pool Stuff And/Or Rail Lands Stuff

(Ooo, what's that smell, smells like something's gone off-Ed)...that sir, is the stench of Spoilt For Choice...(nice one man-Ed)...with a healthy side-serve of me going right off about it...(another nice one-Ed)...indeed, so many rancidly corrupt topics and only one Large Angry Hippy...

I am Nick Fletcher and I am said Large Angry Hippy, and this here, this is my blog...cheers and laters...