Just quickly acknowledging some 'Feedback' stuff...firstly, from an 'Unknown' in the 'Comments' section of this 'ere blog regarding our recent post about the SA Ombudsman Wayne Lines' farcical handling of former Mt Gambier Mayor Andrew Lee's business dealings...(is that the stuff where Andy, shortly after meeting with his soon-to-be Winery Partner whilst on a Ratepayer funded 'official Council trip' to China, bought into that Coonawarra winery?-Ed)...that's the one...(but didn't declare on his 'Official Register of Interests', either his purchase or the relevant income?-Ed)...correct again...(and when confronted with this, initially lied about never meeting the 'partner', then 'recalled that he had', then altered his ORoI', etc?-Ed)...yep, all true...(then Mt Gambier City Council held a very publicly publicised meeting in January 2017 about 'whether or not to refer the Mayor to ICAC' (Independent Commission Against Corruption), all that stuff?-Ed)...exactly all that stuff...(and then that wound-up back with Ombudsman Lines for some reason, where-in good ol' Lino laid down the law by officially stating that Andy had 'walked a fine ethical line', but then took exactly zero shreckin' action?-Ed)...yep, and here's the related 'Comment'...
I've
recently been made aware of this blog post. It might be worth noting
that Mr Lee
did register his interests appropriately and that is why it
wasn't mentioned. The advertiser
took a section of the register
as being the whole register. The Adv were informed of this and
offered
the full register but refused and carried on with the story regardless.
This is how the
media works. Big stories are more important than the
truth. on
(Well that person clearly is inferring specific knowledge of the situation, but it's immediately and obviously wrong, 'cos Mayor Lee stated at the time, by way of excuse for his failures to declare, 'I didn't think I needed to declare because that business was outside of this/my Council area'-Ed)...indeed he did Ed, indeed he did...(and thusly he did alter his ORoI after the fact of exposure-Ed)...spot on mate...(and I would further argue that, were the other assertions true about The Advertiser newspaper knowingly and therefore deliberately misreporting the 'facts', then Mayor Lee and possibly MGCC have a rock-solid case for Criminal Defamation-Ed)...furtherly well argued sir, I fully concur, indeed, that is a near-text-book definition of Criminal Defamation...(which then begs the question, why didn't that happen?-Ed)...well quite...I'd also like to point-out that I raised this issue during my 'Trial' 1st February 2017, about the open public discussion of referring to ICAC, etc, where-in that discussion/reporting and specifically the MGCC meeting were all direct 'breaches' of the exact Section 56 of the ICAC Act 2012 that I was being prosecuted for...(but that's all fine, unless you're Nick Fletcher-Ed)...exactly, you couldn't get a more fundamental example of the retributional and punitive intent of prosecuting me compared with what was actually happening in the broader context...
(And how did our mate Magistrate Ian White react when presented/confronted with this gross disparity of application of the farcically undefinable section 56 of the ICAC Act 2012?-Ed)...well exactly as he reacted when presented/confronted with any number of other unpleasant realities during my "bizarre trial" (The Border Watch)...(so he just ignored it then?-Ed)...yep, ignored it and plowed-on regardless...(the same as when you repeatedly caught-out SAPol Prosecutions lying, including when he identified it himself but ignored it anyway?-Ed)...yep, all that...(and when you proved that Labor Attorney General li'l Johnny Rau and ICAC Commissioner Bruce 'Brews Slander' Lander had changed the ICAC Act 2012 in late 2014 specifically to allow prosecuting you retrospectively?-Ed)...yeah...(and when he finally acknowledged that, admitted you'd been 'prosecuted under the wrong definition', but then said it was all "irrelevant", and 'Convicted' you anyway?-Ed)...indeed Ed, as covered/proven in a series of posts back in February-May 2018, and I invite dear availees who haven't read that stuff to go have a look...but we slightly digress...
Journalism Is Not A Crime:...is the catch-phrase being used in the wake of the extraordinary raids conducted by the Australian Federal Police on the home of journalist Annika Smethurst (4th June 2019), and then the Australian Broadcasting Corporation the following day (5th June 2019)...(and there were also reports of AFP warnings/threats made to other media-Ed)...well quite, and unless you've been living under a rock...(on the dark side of the Moon-Ed)...indeed, unless you've been completely isolated from the global news cycle, y'all will already be aware of these raids...(well they were reported across the planet, usually in the most critical context-Ed)...absolutely, and for good reason, because this is Fascism, there is simply no other word for it...this is the Liberal government using the AFP to attack, threaten, harass and intimidate the media and 'Whistleblowers'...(but our illustrious leader Prime Minister Scott 'Scummo' Morrison has smirkingly stated that these raids were 1) nothing to do with the LNP government, and 2) actually a good thing because he loved 'to see our laws being upheld'-Ed)...yes, I saw that interview, very conveniently conducted from overseas, and that sickeningly smug smirk said everything I needed to know about the veracity of that statement of denial...
Language Warning...there was that good ol' trademark Scummo Smirk, when he's saying whatevs, telling whatevs bare-faced lie, whilst he's actually thinking 1) how clever am I, and 2) 'fuck you you moronic plebs'...End Language Warning...(yes, it is a particularly unpleasant 'Happy Clapper Smirk' he's got goin'-on there-Ed)...well certainly, there is undoubtedly that over-arching 'Sanctimonious God-Botherer' aspect to his serial smirkingness, but whatever his justification/rationale/motivation, it's just a leering, sneering, sickening display of self-infatuation and abject contempt for the electorate...(yep, there's something fundamentally 'un-trustable' about someone who smirks like that, but when it's your PM doing it, and it's in this deeply concerning context, the whole thing goes beyond mere trust and in to the realm of frightening-Ed)...and that's the whole point mate, that's exactly what this is about, scaring the sweet baby cheeses outta' journos and more specifically their sources...(well you can hardly blame them, can ya'? I mean, what 'Whistleblower' is going to go to a journo with sensitive info when it's possible even probable that that journo will then get raided, the 'Whistleblower' thusly exposed, and then both of them likely charged, not least of all via a 'secret hearing'-Ed)...and that is the absolute political intent of these raids, scare everybody into submission and silence...
(And of course then there's the remarkable timing of those raids-Ed)...well that's what I was saying about how Scummo was conveniently overseas when the raids happened...(well I was referring to the lengthy delays between those related stories and the raids, given that the Smethurst story about the deeply concerning changes to 'Federal Surveillance Powers' was first published in April 2018, and the ABC story about 'Unlawful Killings By Australian Soldiers In Afghanistan' aired in July 2017-Ed)...fair enough...(and the timing of those raids, both within 24hrs, for stories aired 12 and 24 months previous, it's a farcical joke for the AFP to claim that they're "unrelated"-Ed)...well quite, and nobody of a semi-functional disposition believes that absolute shizzle, these raids were clearly coordinated for maximum effect, it's a transparently obvious collusion between the LNP/Scummo and the AFP...(and raids conducted early in the week, therefore early in the news cycle and therefore given wide coverage for days-Ed)...good point...(where-as, it was 2 days later, late on the Friday afternoon before the long weekend, that the AFP very quietly announced they were dumping their 'investigation' into Peter 'Spud' Dutton's (the LNP's) statements about the Manus Island Medevac Bill, statements made in the Parliament and directly quoting 'leaked National Security documents'-Ed)...gourd you're good mate, that is absolutely spot on...
Long after the facts, the AFP raids the ABC and journo mid-week for maximum media exposure, then after only a few weeks of alleged action, dumps the farcically fake investigation into Spuddo/the LNP late on the Friday to avoid that exact same public/media scrutiny...(and dumped it with the ludicrous justification 'we won't ever be able to find out who leaked that'-Ed)...bollocks! hows about asking Spuddo mate? hows about asking him where he got that 'leaked' info?...(well quite-Ed)...and hows about the farcical 'AFP leaks' 1) to Michaelia Cash's office and then 2) from there to the media, that saw a swarm of journo's camped outside the Australian Worker's Union's offices waiting for the AFP to rock-up...(and that was allegedly about trying to 'seize' documents from 6-7 years previous-Ed)...no, that was transparently about the optics of the AFP raiding a Union, and how that reflected on then Labor leader Bill Shorten...and then there's the ongoing 'Watergate' stuff with fake water buybacks, where's the AFP on that fraud...
It's an absolute joke to try and argue that these June 2019 raids are 1) independent of Government, 2) unrelated, 3) appropriate, and/or 4) not a deliberate attack on Free Speech...(yeah, but that didn't stop Scummo tryin' to get that pudgy pig airborne-Ed)...no it didn't, he put on his bestest smirking smock and sneeringly swung that sorry swine 'round his head, all the whilst smugly singing, 'see the li'l piggy fly, weeeee'...(nor did it stop the Acting AFP Commissioner Neil Gaughan trying to make that self-same assertion that these raids were fully independent of any government influence-Ed)...and he was just as believable as Scummo...(so not at all then-Ed)...precisely...and we add to this Political Police Action, the current 'Charges' against Richard Boyle, facing 161 years gaol for exposing rank corruption in the Australian Tax Office, and the prosecution of Witness K and his lawyer Bernard Collaery relating to Australia (namely, former Liberal Alexander Downer) bugging the East Timor Parliament, etc, etc...(and what about those 'Twitterers' and/or bloggers who have been under attack, eg, Ronni Salt for exposing the rancid corruption of Angus Taylor (Libs) and Barnaby Joyce (Nats) and the Murray/Darling Water Buybacks Scandal known as 'Watergate'-Ed)...yep, and li'l ol' us here at TMGI...
And this is where I am the story...(well, as others have put it to you-Ed)...indeed they have, but it's a truth that sits very comfortably with me...(albeit in a context where the situation itself, and the rancid Pro-Paedophile Corruption that has motivated/generated it, are both deeply disturbing-Ed)...exactly, but I ain't just the story, I'm the 'Whistleblower', and the 'Activist', and the legislator, and the journo, and the media, and the lawyer...(strewth! no wonder you're so knackered-Ed)...well quite...
A very brief synopsis;
1) after attending years of Mt Gambier City Council Full Meetings, and personally witnessing the relentless litany of bare-faced corruption, the Nepotism, the Insider Trading, the Conflict of Interests, etc, etc, in August/September 2013, I witnessed multiple issues of Insider Trading, etc, with the Old Hospital Demolition, and duly reported that...(and several other issues, eg, the gross corruption with the Main Corner Project, the missing money, the rank Nepotism of giving it to Councillor Des Mutton's son, etc-Ed)...yep, all that and more, I appropriately reported that stuff to then Member for Mt Gambier Don Pegler and to the Ombudsman...
2) I deliberately tried to avoid the rankly corrupt ICAC, but legislation dictates that Members and the Ombudsman, etc, have to forward any such reports to ICAC...
3) Starting October 2013, ICAC started their 'investigation' into MGCC, concluding January 2014...
4) In October 2013 I was interviewed by 2 ICAC 'investigators', a 30-40 minute interview conducted at Metro Cafe, in clear earshot of other patrons, with nothing written down or recorded...
5) In Court, I proved that the entire alleged ICAC 'investigation' of multiple Corruption issues with an entire Council (MGCC), that investigation consisted of a) the cafe chat with me, and b) a very brief chat with MGCC CEO Mark McShane, held in a corridor of the Adelaide Convention Centre, again with nothing written down or recorded...(wow-Ed)...the evidence presented in Court by ICAC (Nov 2017) totalled half a page of hand-written notes...
6) In January 2014 I received notification of ICAC's decision to take "no action" and started blogging/posting about this farcical ICAC pseudo-investigation...
From my initial reports and through-out the pseudo-investigation I was constantly 'advised' that Scetion 56 of the ICAC Act 2012 disallowed any discussion that may "tend to suggest" that someone was and/or might likely be subject to an ICAC investigation, and/or who it was had reported them, etc, etc...I constantly challenged this farcically undefinable piece of legislation for making literally any discussion of literally anything 'illegal' because it 'might possibly end-up in ICAC sometime'...I repeatedly put these concerns in writing to ICAC, etc...in this context, the 'advise' I was receiving was actually thinly-veiled threats...(as indeed is the legislation itself, an open threat to try and stop people reporting Corruption and particularly from going to the media, etc-Ed)...or for blogging about it themselves...(exactly-Ed)...
7) On Wednesday May 7th 2014, approx 1430hrs, two Adelaide-based SAPol Anti Corruption Branch detectives came to my home, initially citing issues with my blog, then including ICAC, but refusing to discuss exactly what...we arranged to meet at Mt Gambier Police Station at 0900hrs the next morning...
8) I attended MGPS (0900hrs 8th May 2014) and was taken to an 'interview room', shown a piece of ICAC legislation on a computer screen, and told, "you've done this"...I asked 'what does that mean?', and was told, "don't know, we're just here to collect evidence on behalf of the DPP (Director of Public Prosecutions)...I was then told they intended to exercise a 'Search Warrant' on my home...all this happened without me having any legal representation present...
9) SAPol ACB used their open-ended 'Search Warrant' to raid my home, refusing to give me a copy, etc, and then siezed my laptop as 'evidence', photographed a coupla' documents, and then they left...I was not charged or anything else...
10) I went to the South East Community Legal Service, who twice wrote to ICAC Comm Lander asking for an explanation of the bizarre Section 56 ICAC Act 2012 (May-July 2014)...Comm Lander initially refused any responsibility, but then provided an official 'Authorisation' allowing me to speak to a lawyer, my family and/or friends, and a doctor...
I note that ICAC legislation was changed in September-November 2014 specifically in response to those SECLS letters, as we've shown on this 'ere blog, including the Hansard, etc, but equally concerning, it was again 'Amended' in 2016 to include the specific question/issue about 'being allowed to talk to a lawyer', changes that confirmed my initial question to my Legal Eagles at SECLS about whether or not they were even allowed to talk to me, a question raised by SECLS in those letters...these changes in 2016 confirm that the ICAC Act 2012 effectively criminalised even just speaking to a lawyer...(wow-Ed)...
11) SECLS also wrote to SAPol Prosecutions (July 2014), and their response (August 2014) stated 'when and if Mr Fletcher is charged', confirming that as of August 2014 I had not been charged...
12) I then heard nothing until February 2015 when I was informed, via an unrelated private phone call, that I had missed my trial date, as reported that morning in The Border Watch...my 'Trial' had been started without me being 'Charged' or even Summonsed...
Rather than go into a lengthy re-visit of the entire process, all of this stuff above is covered in much greater detail through-out this 'ere blog, as is the extraordinary conduct of my "bizarre trial"...just a coupla' critical points relevant to this post, namely, when reading SAPol documents eventually provided in Court (April 2015) I discovered that I was (still am?) the sole subject of 'Operation Baritone', but in Court was unable to prove whether it was an ICAC or SAPol 'Operation', or both, and SAPol's evidence was that it had somehow just 'appeared' at an unspecified date mid-February 2014...my 'Trial' was moved to Adelaide mid-2015 for 'Constitutional Law Issues', but then moved back again, 're-starting' in February 2016 with a new Magistrate...jumping from there to when my actual 'Trial' actually started in November 2016, and I proved "Malicious Prosecution" to that Magistrate, and that 'Trial' collapsed in disarray on the second morning...
Somehow that didn't count, and a new Magistrate, Ian White, was appointed and he immediately dismissed the "Malicious Prosecution", officially announcing there was no St Martins Lutheran School Child Abuse Cover-up, etc...the 'Trial' re-commenced March 2017, and after multiple further delays whilst he and/or SAPol had 'health issues', my 'Trial' eventually re-re-commenced in November 2017...after 2 days of his unhinged abuse I got a Medical Certificate which he dismissed, completing my 'Trial' in my absence...(bizarre, corrupt, farcical, words just don't do it justice-Ed)...nice pun dude, but it was quite the rancidly corrupt display from Magistrate White, concluded in February-April 2018 via a series of truly bizarre video-link hearings where-in I was 'Convicted' and initially fined $540,000, and a series of Politically Motivated 'Intervention Orders' issued against me without one word of explanation/justification...again dear availee, if y'all ain't fully acquainted with this bizarre sequence of events, please to be reading the posts from that time...
In summary, ICAC and SAPol and the DPP and/or the Courts and/or the Parliament, spent over 4 years investigating and prosecuting/persecuting me, not least of all via my very own ICAC/SAPol 'Operation Baritone', and including SAPol ACB raiding my home...then they actually changed ICAC legislation in late 2014 so as to allow prosecuting me, followed by more than 3 years of "bizarre trial', involving dozens of adjournments, 3 different Magistrates, during which I proved "Malicious Prosecution", only to have that ignored, etc, culminating in Magistrate White's bigotted and biased abuse of November/December 2017, and farcical conduct of Feb-April 2018...(and all of that for telling the truth about an ICAC pseudo-investigation of MGCC-Ed)...well, it was more about persecuting me and punishing me for this 'ere blog in it's entirety, as I proved with the "Malicious Prosecution" stuff, but sure, the ICAC stuff was the 'justification' proffered in pursuing the actual motivation, the Retribution Agenda...(fair enough-Ed)...
Compare this to how the Ombudsman/ICAC has acted regarding actual Corruption, eg, the farcical Mayor Lee exoneration...(and that MGCC pseudo-investigation-Ed)...well sure, and then there's the Pt Pirie Councillor Johnson, the bizarre goings-on at Robe Council...(that latest stuff with Grant District Mayor Richard Sage-Ed)...exactly, on and on it goes, all stuff we've covered recently...relentless and vastly costly "Malicious Prosecution" of a private citizen for telling the truth, vs, sweet bugger all...and despite the enormous personal cost to me, mentally, physically and financially, I have clearly defined and fought and fought and fought against this Institutionalised Corruption...and now we have these AFP 'raids'...(I can see how you would be fully justified in engaging in a bit of the ol' 'I Told You So'-Ed)...well that's not gunna' help, but it is fair to say that what everyone's bleating about now, I've been subjected to all of this and then some for more than 5 years now, upto and including receiving a bizarrely corrupt 'Criminal Conviction' for telling the truth...
Tomorrow: The Farcical, Fraudulent, Fantabulous Aquatic Recreation Centre
(Well hurrah, the FFFARC, at last-Ed)...yeah, yeah, your cynical response is somewhat justified given the repeated but unfulfilled promises to deliver this post, but the story constantly overtakes itself so a few delays aren't exactly critical...(and it's already happening regardless, it's already a done deal, albeit a dirty, deceitful deal mired in lies and manipulation-Ed)...well quite, but it is a MGCC project so what else would you expect?...(fair point-Ed)...
And again, 15 months after the event, I am still stuck trying to 'Appeal' my 'Convictions' from my "bizarre trial", and I haven't quite given-up...(because you don't really have a choice-Ed)...indeed, but then again, where am I supposed to go with it when I've been effectively refused my own transcripts and the Liberal Attorney-General Vicki Chapman won't even acknowledge let alone answer my multiple emails to her, etc, etc?...(sorry mate, can't help ya' with that, it's certainly a problematic conundrum at the very least, when the people you're going to to try and seek appropriate action regarding your wholly fraudulent 'Conviction', when those people are equally complicit-Ed)...exactly...
I am Nick Fletcher and this 'ere is my blog...(and I'm Ed, and I'm a confected literary device used to try and engage in intelligent discourse rather than belligerent lecturing-Ed)...and to set-up jokes and stuff too...(orrr yeah, all that stuff too, but the point being, I'm not actually a person, just a 'style' of writing-Ed)...and what style you have mate, couldn't do it without you...(cheers mate-Ed)...cheers ya'self big fella', and to y'all dear availees, cheers and laters...
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