Jim Malo: My Part In His Downfall

Howdy dear availees...being the literary scholars y'all are, y'all will have undoubtedly and immediately picked up the cunning literary reference/homage in the title...(errr, Moby Dick by Herman Melville?-Ed)...not quite, no...(ummm, oh, The Iliad by Homer?-Ed)...close, but still no prize...(ooo, something by Tolkien?-Ed)...nup...(Pet Cemetary by Stephen King?-Ed)...nn nnn...(ah, I've got it, To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee?-Ed)...nooo, not quite...(ah, of course, all the clues are there, Hitler: My Part In His Downfall by Spike Milligan-Ed)...Ed, you man of letters you, well done...and as indeed Mr Milligan's account of his military service in World War II is somewhat facetiously titled, so then too is this 'ere post...and a bit of a general Language Warning 'cos there's a coupla' rude bits here-in...

First cab off the rank, here's the link (below) to the FriendlyJordies post about our mate and alleged journalist, Jim Malo...now I know FJ can be a bit of an acquired taste, and this is quite a long piece, approx 24mins, but it's worth giving it a go...there's heaps of detailed and specific dissection of exactly how full a' crap the Oz Main Stream Media is, eg, how MSM openly lies about covering certain things whilst actually ignoring them, and/or flatly refuses to even acknowledge critical issues...(like the MSM have steadfastly ignored the massive dick-sucking elephant in the room that is very young male sex workers being brought into the Federal Parliament House to have sex with senior Liberal politicians in the Prayer Room-Ed)...yeah, and as identified by a leaked 'official inquiry', senior politicians up to and including the then Liberal Defense Minister Christopher Pyne...(and 'reported' at a time when senior Security officials were directly identifying these sorts of liaisons as being a huge security concern re potential blackmail of said politicians, etc-Ed)...yep, and on top of that, there's also the apparent 'official' cover-up of those incidents/liaisons...(and FJ has previously spelled it all out in excruciating detail, but the MSM has flatly refused to even touch it-Ed)...a truly bizarre but enlightening situation, made only more bizarrely enlightening when one considers that some of the original allegations were first aired on MSM...(wasn't it on The Project and/or similar?-Ed)...yeah, somethin' like that...

It almost seems like The Project/MSM(?) wanted to jump in when it was effectively 'scurrilous sensationalist rumour-mongering', but when the gritty reality hit the fan, they all ran for cover...now they all furiously ignore what's screaming into their collectively complicit faces...(and what very little I've seen of any coverage has been very 'unofficial', eg, on 'Social Media' and even then almost wholly about dismissing the issue as 'bad taste gossip' and/or denigrating those who have spoken-out-Ed)...ah yes, personal denigration and/or clumsily implied threats of 'Defamation', all amateurishly disguised as genuine outrage and/or 'better manners'...(and that's another MSM trick/excuse that FJ identifies, hiding behind bogus 'Defamation' excuses-Ed)...yeah, that's a beauty ain't it, 'ooo ooo we're scared of getting sued if we cover these easily defendable truths'...it's also common practise for the guilty to use that same 'Defamation' threat as an attack on those speaking-out...(and aren't we well familiar with that particular tactic, given the dozens of times you/we've been threatened with 'Defamation'-Ed)...indeed, and yet never once actually 'sued'...(always the bribe-maid, never the bribe-Ed)...I think you mean 'bride' don't you?...(I know what I mean, and I said exactly what I mean, namely, those whom threaten you know that you're too committed to be bribed, etc, so they skip that and go straight to the threats/intimidation/harassment-Ed)...fair call...anyhoos, please to be watching the FJ video first and we'll see y'all on the other side... 

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtuxkBmGlEQ&t=1141s

Now our new bestie Jim...(maaate-Ed)...in response to this FJ piece, Jim's posted a short Twitter thread about how he doesn't care what FJ and/or FJ readers think of him, Jim, and he doesn't get mad about it, etc, and how it seems odd that someone like FJ would 'punch-down at someone with a much smaller media platform' like him, Jim...(ahahaha, but it's ironically likely true that FJ does have a wider 'media appeal/platform' than Jim mate who works for the Peter Costello Channel9/Fairfax media empire-Ed)...yeah, but it does seem a bit odd/obtuse to work for the Costello group and then claim 'victim status', but there ya' go, that's Jim's take on things...and I'm sorry that I didn't screenshot those Tweets for a reason that will become obvious...(Jim deleted them all-Ed)...well yes thankyou, but I was going to build-up to that, you know, build the drama, drop a coupla' teasing hints...(but he's deleted them all-Ed)...but yes, Jim has deleted those tweets...

So here's my end of the Twitter exchange I had with my mate Jim and a coupla' others...(ummm, isn't former SA ICAC Commissioner Bruce 'Brews Slander' Lander gunna' be a wee bit jealous?-Ed)...how so?...(well you've previously and frequently referred to Bruce as, and I quote,"My Bestie And Also In His Spare Time ICAC Commissioner"-Ed)...nah fair call, but I have boundless affection in my heart for Bruce and his ilk, so there's plenty a' 'bestie' to go round...(actually, I think the doctor said you have "mounds of infection" and it most assuredly wasn't in ya' heart-Ed)...well, 'mounds of infection', 'boundless affection', we quibble over terms dear heart, but the intent and the outcomes are all the same...

Sosss, FJ put-up his/their post on Friday 21st October, and after watching it on the Saturday I've posted this in response to someone's dig at FJ about 'media/journalism'...

***FriendlyJordies does more actual 'media' in a single post than the almost entirely pro-LNP Oz MSM manage in a whole week. FJ's post about Malo & the pathetic MSM language used to 1) avoid stories their bosses ban & 2) denigrate other's opinions/journalism, it's spot on.***

Which itself received a mixed response ranging from 'yeah he's (FJ) great' to 'he's (FJ) just awful', etc, etc...and I've also gone to Jim's tweets and left this 'reply'/'quote tweet'...

***Mate, you work for Costello's Ch9 empire. How does a Facebook comedian/journo have a bigger 'platform'? I agree he probably does & it's 'cos despite his faults/failings, he does actual journalism, not the censored pro-LNP dross you're cadre spew-forth. Barilaro/Prayer Room/Dutton https://twitter.com/thejimmalo/sta***

Self-explanatory, and that last bit refers to 3 stories that FJ has covered but the MSM have failed/refused to acknowledge...(and only 3 of numerous really if you count the many FJ posts and/or issues involved-Ed)...fair enough, but those 3 specific things are more than enough to prove my point...then I did another 'reply'/'quote tweet' to someone else re FJ's actual 'journalism'...

***Have you seen FJ's investigative work re Barilaro? Prayer Room? Dutton? etc? Oz MSM refuse to run these stories. You're calling the cart the horse & vice versa. FJ far from perfect but compared to MSM FJ is absolutely journalism.*** 

And it sortta' petered-out right about there...(and/or we lost interest-Ed)...whatevs, but then early the next day, so now Saturday 22nd, so I notice that Jim had 'tweeted' directly to me "What is your job"...(what, no question mark? is it a statement?-Ed)...yeah, well, let's not be too 'grammar nazi' given we've also made spelling and/or grammatical errors on this 'ere blog and/or Twitter...but anyways, "What is your job", so I tweeted back...

***Read my Twitter bio then read my blog, The Mount Gambier Independent, you'll see what my 'job' is, including dealing with & holding to account a corrupted MSM. And I don't get paid to do it but I've surely paid for it eg a Criminal Conviction for blogging about corruption. https://twitter.com/thejimmalo/sta***

(Fabulous stuff, and what did Jim mate have to say about that?-Ed)...well nuthin' at first, then nuthin' for a while, and about 2 hours later I went to check, and this...

***Totes hilarious. This morn Jim Malo responded "What is your job" to my tweet (yest) defending FJ re JMs attack. JM has just now deleted original anti-FJ tweets & his poke at me. I dare you Jim, mate, read my blog and print some of that stuff regarding corruption in Sth Oz ICAC***

Well that's my own tweet, obviously, but it describes what happened...and then as a bit of an after thought I went to Jim's Twitter page, and, shazaam! it's all gone...(all of it?-Ed)...all of it... 

***Correction, unless I'm being blocked or something (no notification of such) Jim mate appears to have deleted his entire Twitter account, or at least all his previous tweets. Can anyone reading this please check for me & reply. Has Jim Malo nuked his own Twitter account?***

And someone did get back to me shortly there-after, cheers, to confirm that Jim (someone?) has completely cleared if not actually deleted Jim's Twitter page...

***He's deleted everything on his account. Big behaviour from someone who was gloating about how "not mad" he was yesterday.***

To which I responded...

***Thanks for that. Can't imagine it was just my tweets that did it, but the timing is very 'adjacent'. You're spot on, "big behaviour" for someone who 1) 'doesn't care what (we) think' & 2) has all the resources/backing of Costello's Ch9. Reckon maybe some-one told him to do it.***

And that there's about the end of it thus far...(what about the 'Comment' you left on the FJ story?-Ed)...oh yeah, yesterday (Sunday) I wrote a quick 'Comment', about this exchange...

***I left a tweet on Jim Malo's comments about FJ and he came back at me with "What is your job". I responded by directing him to my Twitter bio and blog, and only hours later he nuked his entire Twitter account, every comment gone. I'll begrudgingly concede it was probably due to his FJ stuff, but it's still fun to have been a part of it.***

So, in summary, I had a fairly hard go at Jim, next morning he had a snide go back at me, I politely eviscerated him with some powerful truth nuggets, and within, say, 2-3 hours his entire tweet history is, well, history...(strewth and crikey-Ed)...indeed...and as I've jokingly alluded to several times above, I don't really think that the sudden and complete demise of Jim's Twitter content is entirely about me, but I think it is fair enough to entertain the possibility that I played some small part in it...(and yes, fair enough, I mean, the timing is extraordinary, but it's highly likely that if you/we played any part at all it was likely as the proverbial 'one straw too many that finally rooted the camel's long-suffering back'-Ed)...most eloquently put Ed, that's exactly as I see it...can't imagine I was, in fact I know that I wasn't,  the only one gettin' stuck-in to Jim... 

But having said that, and meaning every word of it, I keep comin' back to that simple 4 words, "What is your job"...why did Jim feel it necessary to tweet me specifically?...(and then not respond to your reply-Ed)...sure...(and then his whole Twitterverse disappears into a black-hole of his own creation-Ed)...exactly...it's a rather odd feeling to have been right in that conversation/discussion and in that exact timeline/timing, but ultimately it could all be a mere co-incidence with bigger issues/players, eg, the FJ stuff...whatevs, like I said, it's fun to have been a part of it in real time...we're not gunna' go into that FJ post in more detail 'cos it perfectly explains itself, just, if y'all haven't already, watch it y'allselves, cheers...

Tomorrow: My ICAC Testimony Part II

Yes dear availees, back into the good ol' Wallowing Trough that is Institutionalised Corruption in South Australia, as most expertly self-defined by the rancidly corrupt SA ICAC...(yay-Ed)...and the farcical Parliamentary Inquiry into said ICAC... 

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

Pro-Paedophile Corrupt St Martins Lutheran School Congratulate Themselves

Howdy dear availees everywhere, but especially here in the good ol' South East SA, in sunny Mt Gambier...regular availees will be well aware of the very problematic relationship I have had with Mt Gambier, what with not being from here and all...(and what with bein' a kinda' large, kinda' rough-lookin', kinda' "brutally handsome" sortta' Man-Bear Stuff-Pig kinda' guy-Ed)...well it hasn't helped that I tend to 'stand-out in a crowd', no, that stuff has it's good days and it's not so good days, sure...(and in such a small, insular, and often retrograde and bigotted community where you've been repeatedly labelled/identified as "a bikie"-Ed)...which obviously I'm not...(but not least of all 'cos of the St Martins Lutheran School Child Abuse Cover-up (2002-present)-Ed)...yes, indeed, not least of all 'cos of the St Martins Cover-up...

Again, regular availees will be well aware of the St Martins Cover-up and what the Lutherans and their co-conspirators have done to myself and other families to cover-up the systemic, organised grooming and abuse of a class of 7 year-old grade 2 kids by "text-book grooming paedophile" teacher Glyn Dorling, aways back in 2002...(and of course the clear indicators that Dorling was abusing kids at St Martins from when he was first moved by the Lutherans to Mt Gambier in the late 1990s, moved from Adelaide after "an incident" at a Lutheran school there-Ed)...and as explained to us parents by senior Lutherans in 2002...(exactly-Ed)...meaning that when he was exposed/removed in June 2002, that wasn't really even the start of the St Martins Cover-up, but in reality, just a further chapter in the Lutherans - Glyn Dorling Cover-up...there is clear evidence that the Lutherans were protecting/moving Dorling from the late 1990s...(and wasn't he then moved to a Victorian school in 2003 or 04?-Ed)...well that's what Commissioner Mullighan alleged to us parents at a meeting in early 2005, yeah, that Dorling was teaching at a school in Victoria...

So I was confronted but hardly surprised to see the self-righteous St Martins Lutherans glowingly congratulating themselves this week for '40 years of St Martins'...(oh sweet baby cheeses!-Ed)...my thoughts exactly...'cos there beaming at me from the cover of the free Lifestyle 'infommercial-style newspaper' were a group of Lutheran alleged luminaries, the majority of whom were/are directly complicit in the St Martins Cover-up...and I don't usually wish ill of people, but I do genuinely hope that today's post brings to these people just a fraction of the trauma that they have brought into our children's lives and our lives as parents, by acting to ignore and/or protect Glyn Dorling...so allow me to introduce to you...

1) Shirley Crook - long-term St Martins teacher (now retired?) and junior school teaching colleague of Dorling back in 1990s-2002...knew of his behaviours/conduct but remained silent...

2) Robyn Teakle - now Deputy Principal and Head of Junior School - in June/July 2002 stated that she, as a junior school teacher, had several times seen Dorling in his classroom with an erection, but then recanted and allegedly refused to co-operate with 'Authorities', and was promptly promoted...

3) Eloise Beveridge - formerly Mrs Brigden-Anderson and St Martins Deputy Principal in 2002...currently Principal at Trinity Lutheran College in Mildura...absolutely complicit in the Dorling Cover-up, running disinformation interference against us parents to other parents, etc...in this interview praises-up St Martins Principal (in 2002) John Alexander for teaching her everything she knows...

4) Damian Bradley - now Head of Middle School...I don't know exactly what he knew about Dorling, but taught alongside him in 1998(?)-2002...  

5) Cherylynn Perryman - former Admin and who personally abused me in front of my child and/or in the supermarket, accusing me of dishonestly hurting the school...

There are of course many others directly and complicitly involved eg, the then Principal John Alexander, local politician Rory McEwen, various senior Lutherans like Peter Heuzenroeder, other local and state politicians, etc, etc...

Here's a real quantifier for y'all that may still have ya' doubts either way...(which is sortta' understandable given how bizarrely damning this issue is of all involved, ie, the Lutherans, the clearly corrupt SAPol, the SA Parliament en masse, the Crown Solicitors Office, the Teachers Registration Board, the SA Courts, even the Child Protection Services who did initially at least try to help a bit but ultimately succumbed to the crushing pressure from 'above' to 'drop it'-Ed)...yep, let's just call them 'The Authorities', cops, politicians, public servants, etc, etc, they're all complicit in the St Martins Cover-up...and if I may indulge in very specific but defining example of the sortta' Pro-Paedophile Corruption us parents were always and still are up against...

It was my good mate and now SAPol Commissioner Grant Stevens who told me back in 2008, when he was head of the farcically mis-named Paedophile Taskforce, that he wasn't going to do anything about and/or look at the St Martins Cover-up 'cos he'd been told to 'drop it' by his then superiors in SAPol...(and now he's Commissioner?-Ed)...yep, and I'd contacted him after my child and 2 others disclosed incidents of abuse to a Year 8 class and teacher at the start of year orientation lesson...(well hasn't that worked-out nicely for Grant then-Ed)...I believe it's called 'quid pro quo'...(well I believe it's called 'demonstrate you're compliantly complicit and we'll reward you with a massively undeserved promotion'-Ed)...well we quibble over terms, but you're exactly right, Grant has proven himself to be reliably corrupt and/or corruptable, and he's been duly rewarded with the top job...(well he's certainly on that throne, but I don't reckon anyone who's even vaguely informed believes he's the one actually running the show-Ed)...no-one believes that mate...but we digress... 

In some of the first posts on this 'ere blog we've included letters from the Lutherans Pro-Paedophile lawyers Piper Alderman, including specific threats about us families supposedly 'defaming' various senior Lutherans, eg, Barry Kahl and St Martins Principal John Alexander...(didn't Piper Alderman write to you demanding info about how you were gunna' pay their various clients damages and costs?-Ed)...that's in one of those letters, yes, a base attempt to 1) infer that there had been some sort of legal action already, in which the Lutherans had been successful, and failing that effort, 2) just plain threaten/scare me and other parents about potential legal costs of pursuing the issue...Neville John and his slimy li'l pals at Piper Alderman are the sort of scum who know exactly who they are acting for, who they are protecting from appropriate sanction, and that they're doing that up against deeply traumatised parents of abused children, and are prepared to attack those traumatised parents with the basest and/or outright deceitful legal machinations they can imagine/conjure...but again I digress...  

Oops, no I don't, just found where I've saved those letters, so here we go...there's a coupla' letters, both full of 'Messrs Alexander, Kahl, and Jericho like totes aren't protecting paedophile teacher Glyn Dorling, and are like way offended by your claims and stuff'...here's the main letter I received...please note on page 3 the statements about 'how are you going to pay these damages', deliberately worded to imply/infer that they'd already been a Defamation Action run and won by the Lutherans...enjoy... 

And of course, when we started this 'ere blog aways back in 2013, some of those early posts (April-May) were about these threats from Piper Alderman...(and then Nifty Nev and his dodgy compadres had a solid gold whinge to The Googles-Ed)...yes they did, and had those posts pulled-down...(and then we put them straight back up again-Ed)...yes we did, well versions of them...(and there they have stayed, letters and all-Ed)...yep, for 9, nearly 10 years now, those threats have been hangin'-out there for all to see...(and here they are again-Ed)...obviously...(and all involved are willingly and knowingly complicit in protecting 'text-book grooming paedophile" Glyn Dorling-Ed)...yep, and covering-up the abuses he committed against our 7 year old grade 2 kids...

Just for the record, those "investigations" Nev baby refers to are the multiple fake 'investigations' by SAPol...(for example, the 5-6 wildly differing tales told to parents directly by SAPol about their allegedly 'speaking to Dorling', once, but with different locations and officers involved, and Dorling never actually formally interviewed let alone charged with anything-Ed)...and of course SAPol repeatedly blamed us parents for their failures to act...(and the TRB who exonerated Dorling after a 20 month 'investigation'-Ed)...indeed, an official Inquiry as originally instigated/forced by us parents, but concluding with the TRB stating they believed Dorling's 'defense' that, yes, the kids were putting their heads on his lap, etc, but that it wasn't his fault 'cos the kids were forcing themselves on him and he couldn't stop them...(shreck me! what a corrupt joke!-Ed)...and again, as with SAPol the TRB repeatedly blamed, threatened, harassed, bullied, and lied to us parents as they went about protecting Dorling... 

It's so fundamentally obvious but I'll spell it out again for y'all...if what us parents were saying and have continued to say to and/or about multiple official 'Inquiries', alleged 'Investigations', eg, Comm Mullighan, etc, etc, via the numerous legally accountable Statutory Declarations and/or Sworn Evidence we have provided, etc...(and via what very limited opportunities you've managed to politely bludgeon from a largely complicit 'Media'-Ed)...yeah, all that...(and then of course via this 'ere blog itself -Ed)...well of course via this 'ere blog, it's the fundamental reason this blog exists at all...(fair call-Ed)...with all that I/we've said and/or done, and continue to say and/or do, relative to our statements about the Criminal Conduct of all involved in the St Martins Lutheran School Child Abuse Cover-up, why has nobody actually engaged us head-on and held us to account for our supposed defamations/lies/delusional rantings?...(it's a most valid question-Ed)...it's the only question, and it answers itself like it was screaming in ya' face...

No-one dare give us the opportunity to properly and legally present the facts, because the irrefutable facts are that the Lutherans, SAPol, the SA Parliament, SA Child Protection Authorities, et al ad infinitum, are collectively complicit in the St Martins Lutheran School Child Abuse Cover-up.  

Dozens if not hundreds of young children were abused at St Martins, by Glyn Dorling, and the Lutherans et al have protected him and covered it all up.

And I'll say it again for the record, these 'Authorities' have time and again colluded directly with and/or in parallel with the Lutherans to attack and threaten and bully and intimidate and denigrate and discredit and traumatise us few parents who have pursued this issue...(but most specifically 'Authorities' have come after you-Ed)...well indeed, up to and including the farcically corrupt ICAC Trial involving my own SAPol 'Operation Baritone', 3+ years in Court, dozens of hearings and 11 'Trial' days, and the definable collusion between Magistrate Ian White and SAPol, and between ICAC Commissioner Bruce Lander and SAPol and the Labor government, etc, etc, etc, blah blah blah...that entire wholly corrupt farce was motivated by a desire to attack/harass/intimidate/punish me for speaking-out about SA's Institutionalised Corruption, particularly the Pro-Paedophile Corruption, and most specifically about the St Martins Cover-up...

Fascinated to see a Channel9 Under Investigation expose on telly a coupla' weeks back about a senior SAPol officer who was very clearly executed in 1981 by his own corrupt heroin-dealing colleagues and/or others directly related to those bent cops...(yeah, supposedly committed suicide but SAPol somehow managed to almost immediately afterwards find his body at Myponga, at night, then did all their 'forensics' in the dark, and there was no proper autopsy, but the deceased cop critically didn't have any gunshot residue on his hands, etc, etc-Ed)...and all this happened only days after he'd accidentally walked in on a 'meeting' between some drug dealer(s?), SAPol officers, and notorious convicted murderer New South Wales cop Roger Rogerson...(even the panel on UI were visibly shaken by the brazenness of the murder and openly challenged the farcical 'suicide' explanation-Ed)...yep, they were untypically scathing...(and didn't the SAPol-supplied 'witness statements' to the Coroner prove to be false, apparently written by someone within SAPol?-Ed)...yeah, that was part of it...(I see where current Labor Attorney-General Kyam Maher reckons he didn't see that program and therefore supposedly doesn't know any of the details and therefore won't investigate, etc-Ed)...indeed, what a farcical cop-out on so many levels...(eg, it's available 24/7 online-Ed)...exactly! his wilful 'ignorance' is driven by the underlying fact that he knows exactly what happened and absolutely doesn't want to go anywhere near it...(and so runs the cover-up of the cover-up-Ed)...indeed...

And is it fair to say that Kyam Maher is yet another SA politician who knows all about the St Martins Cover-up and is complicitly silent about it?...(well given his Mt Gambier-based and deeply Labor-involved parents Jim and Viv (deceased) both knew the intimate details from very early on, and that the Cover-up was overseen/instigated/supported by the Mike Rann/Jay Weatherill Labor government (2002-2018) it's hard to believe that the St Martins Cover-up  was never discussed between the 3 Mahers-Ed)...and as unlikely as them not discussing may be, it's impossible to believe that Kyam is entirely unawares of the St Martins Cover-up given it's extensive exposure through Rann/Weatherill/Mullighan, etc, etc...

The whole UI program was absolutely extraordinary, an irrefutable example of wholesale and high-level murderous corruption within SAPol...and of course this has been the constant demon lurking over the shoulders of the few families who have pursued the St Martins Cover-up...(and obviously, the more you define the rank Pro-Paedophile Corruption of SAPol, SA Parliament, basically the entire SA Legislature Executive, and Judiciary, the more you discuss and the closer y'all get to exposing that rancid reality, the more dangerous it gets-Ed)...absolutely, and that was brought into sharp focus when we first started communicating/liaising with Child Abuse Commissioner Ted Mullighan...us parents were effectively the second group to meet with Mullighan, and while we were having these meetings, etc, every member of the 'first group' he'd met with were being murdered, one after the other...(that was the group who were exposing/reporting Paedophile Politicians, some still in the Parliament, and paedophile cops, etc-Ed)...yeah, and after they formally were interviewed by/for Mullighan and provided written statements, etc, they were all murdered...

And that's an exact chronological co-incidence...we were meeting with Mullighan, providing him Statutory Declarations and volumes of associated documentation, etc, and these first group were being murdered...(and not just murdered, but in several instances abducted, tortured, and then killed and their bodies dumped in prominent public places, as a clear warning to anyone else who was thinking of speaking-out about Adelaide's internationally notorious Pro-Paedophile Parliament/Police/Judiciary-Ed)...yep, and that was and still remains the climate of fear and threat surrounding us parents and our efforts to get appropriate sanction against Dorling, and some sense of justice for our kids... 

I know I've gone over the same ground several times today, but in many respects I've just lost better focus and specific direction, lost to the frustration of having exposed this horrendously official Child Abuse Cover-up, the St Martins Lutheran School Child Abuse Cover-up, over and over and over again, for 2 decades now, and still it remains an officially 'Authority' sanctioned Cover-up...

Tomorrow: Council Elections And Dodgy Amalgamations

I know I promised the ongoing ICAC Testimony stuff but I'm having problems getting stuff to copy-'n'-paste, so might have to be more Council shenanigans and stuff about the FARC (Farcical Aquatic Recreation Centre)...

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

Post One About My ICAC Inquiry Testimony

Howdy dear availees...and yes I know it's been awhile, again, but it's been a very long coupla' months...(what with the 20th anniversary of the June 2002 commencement of the St Martins Lutheran School Child Abuse Cover-up-Ed)...yeah, that, that certainly hasn't helped with my general disposition toward Mt Gambier specifically and humanity just in general...there's also a coupla' full-on things I can't really discuss 'cos it's sortta' mostly about other people's business that just happens to heavily/deeply involve me...(could you be any more vague?-Ed)...well deliberately vague, yes, 'cos, like I said, it involves a lotta' other peeps personal stuff...enough to say that I've been physically and mentally through the ringer and it ain't helped my perpetual sense of exhaustion..(and not quite knowing what day it is sometimes-Ed)...yeah, that too, that too...and I haven't forgotten that I've promised multiple posts about how notorious 'Rapist Protector' James 'Jimmy Trumpets' Morrison has abandoned/scurried away from Mt Gambier...(and the posts about just how massively and fundamentally the Mt Gambier City Council have roo-ooo-ooo-ted the Farcical Aquatic Recreation Centre-Ed)...yeah, those too...(and the totes bizarre MGCC/District Council of Grant 'Amalgamation' plan that literally just dropped outta' the clear blue sky a coupla' weeks back-Ed)...strewth, yeah, and that...(and even posts revisiting the St Martins Cover-up-Ed)...sure sure, but like I said, no apologies this time 'cos I'm just exhausted, so let's just do this one and see where we end-up, ok?...

So there's our recent post, More South Australian ICAC Related Parliamentary Corruption, where-in I cut-'n'-pasted my own original submission to the Sow Strayan Parliamentary Inquiry into ICAC Cock-ups...(otherwise known by the title just below there where we've cut-'n'-pasted your actual personal testimony-Ed)...well, the first coupla' pages, yeah, with several more posts to follow as I explain-step y'all through my testimony, the related documents, etc...but what's really pissed me off is the trouble and effort I went to to ever-so politely wedge my way into the SA Parliament's Legislative Council 'Special Inquiry' into the Harms and Adverse Outcomes...(yes, they weren't that keen to have you along at first, were they?-Ed)...not exactly bursting with enthusiasm, no, but as per my submission, I quite reasonably argued that what had happened (been done) to me could happen to any and/or every private citizen, therefore, it was an issue too big to ignore/exclude...anyhoos, to jump ahead of our own posts by a bit, I went through all the time and effort of the submission and negotiations...(then actually getting to Adelaide to appear before the Committee/Inquiry-Ed)...yep, all of that, and proved how corrupted and retributional my treatment had been at the hands of ICAC/SAPol(police)/Courts, with full documented evidence to support my otherwise outlandish claims...and take a wild guess exactly how much of my testimont/evidence made it into the final report?...(well we've already done this one before, and the answer then was "zero, not one word", so unless something has changed since then?-Ed)...nope, as far as I'm aware it is as it was, zero, not a single word...

There's only one place I 'appear' in the entire Final Report, available to peruse here, at this link below, and scroll down to where it says Committee Files and there you'll see Final Report of the Select Committee on Damage Harm or Adverse Outcomes Resulting from ICAC Investigations, just click on that...

 https://www.parliament.sa.gov.au/Search/Result?type=committee&id=377

I'll save y'all some time should you be lookin' for any mention of me and/or mine, and just scroll through to the very last page, to literally the last 2 words...and there, behold! in the Index of Witnesses, I am identified as the final one...

I've also included, should y'all wish to read it, a 'response' from ICAC Commissioner Ann Vanstone QC...I note this letter was written 15th December 2021, stating that, "On 30 November 2021 a report by the Select Committee on Damage, Harm or Adverse Outcomes resulting from ICAC investigations was tabled in the Legislative Council."...meaning that the Final Report was collated, concluded and tabled only 5 weeks after I appeared, and whilst I was still in contact with the Committee/Inquiry trying to negotiate another hearing to complete my testimony...(ah yeah, that's right, 'cos they started about an hour late on your 'session' so you only got to go through the technical details, timeline, etc, of your ICAC "persecution"-Ed)...yeah, and I'd asked for a full day 'cos of the protracted and convoluted nature of my entire ICAC 'experience'...also, I was never notified that the Final Report had been tabled...here's that link... 

https://www.icac.sa.gov.au/documents/correspondence-to-cpipc-15-december-2021.pdf

Anyhoos, let's kick-off my testimony and related dissection/explanation with the first coupla' pages...across the next several posts we'll eventually cover the whole thing, and I'll try to explain stuff briefly but concisely in a context where the dear availee may be new to this subject matter...and aways we go...ahem, my testimony, ahem...***

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What I am looking at is the harms, the harms that I have personally suffered as a
result of being subject to an ICAC investigation and prosecution, the potential harm for literally every
citizen in South Australia because, as a private citizen, what's happened to me can happen to every
citizen in South Australia. That's where I will refer to the first paragraph there. Shall I read it onto the
record as part of my statement?
3411 The CHAIRPERSON: Yes, but just tell us how it all began.
Mr FLETCHER: I don't want to get people into trouble here. Mr Pangallo, you and I
have spoken several times about the issue that saw me become involved in politics way, way back,
going back nearly 20 years ago now. Mr Wortley and I have met before and discussed this and have
exchanged communications, etc., about a child protection issue, the failure of authorities to address
that correctly back in 2002 at my son's school in Mount Gambier.
3412 The Hon. R.P. WORTLEY: Just to go onto that, just for my memory, you approached
me when I was at an opening or something.
Mr FLETCHER: A car park at Coles in Mount Gambier.
3413 The Hon. R.P. WORTLEY: That's right.
Mr FLETCHER: And there were a couple of emails and stuff exchanged. You were
also involved when Mr Xenophon got up a parliamentary inquiry into the Teachers Registration Board
that us parents lobbied for and Mr Xenophon helped us get. That was off the back of what did and
didn't happen with regard to that. That's my original position. That's how I have become involved in
politics. That was in the middle of 2002 and leading on from there.
I started a blog basically out of frustration, just desperation. That would have been
in early January-February 2013. I appreciate that I have been less than polite about a number of
people, but I pride myself on being factually correct. I have a mountain of defamation threats that
have been levelled at me by various people—lawyers, authorities—that show that I have been
accurate in what I say because none of those threats have been realised. Nobody has ever actually
followed up and taken me to court for saying the things that I say, which leads into what I had to say
about me being prosecuted under ICAC legislation, that this was an opportunity being used to
prosecute me.
I actually used the term 'political persecution' in court numerous times for the things
I have had to say on my blog and for my activism, particularly around the child protection issues. I
have made many—I don't know; I say 'enemies' is probably too strong a word, but I have certainly
upset a number of people on all sides of politics, Independents, etc., along the way. That's just the
way it is and I don't apologise for any of it. None of it needed to happen.
As part of getting involved, I have run as a candidate in the state election in 2010 for
Mount Gambier and in the local government elections as a mayoral candidate in 2014. I never
expected to win. It was purely about being involved in the debate, in the discussion, literally putting
myself on stage, in the manner that I am now, for people to come to me and hold me to account for
the things that I have been saying and to level some of their accusations at me to my face, in public,
so that we could get it all nutted out.
Having said that, I am not a politician. I am a private citizen. I don't belong to a
political party. I have no political affiliations whatsoever. I belonged to Greenpeace 30 years ago—
that's about the closest I have ever come. But, through my own life experience, I have become
increasingly involved in politics. I have gone to the meetings—all the meetings, whatever meeting
that needed to go to—particularly council meetings. My attendance at Mount Gambier council
meetings was better than most of the members up until this stuff happened with ICAC, and I will go
into that briefly as well.
As part of that, I have witnessed numerous incidents of insider trading, nepotism and
a catchphrase that I would call just corrupt conduct within the council particularly. I have endeavoured
to address some of those issues, and ultimately that led to me contacting both my then local member,
Don Pegler, in late September-October 2013 and writing to the Ombudsman at the time. At that stage
I was deliberately avoiding ICAC, because I thought I knew enough about it that I was concerned
with what potentially was going to happen with things going into ICAC. I had no idea what was about
to unfold, but I had concerns.

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I attended a council meeting, where I became aware the #### #####,
##### ########, said he had a conflict of interest about an ############# agreement with a
business that was tendering to pull down the old hospital. He got up and said, 'I have an ############# agreement with these people; therefore, I have a conflict of interest.' And he got up
and walked out. The council then voted to give the tender to that company. ## ######### runs # #####
in Mount Gambier, so they were going to #### at his business. That was one of the specific issues
that I raised in the letters that I've got copies of here that I wrote to the state Ombudsman and also
to, as I say, my local member, Don Pegler. What I didn't realise was that under the legislation at the
time—
3414 The CHAIRPERSON: Are you going to table those documents?
Mr FLETCHER: Yes, please, thank you. There is a letter to the state Ombudsman,
dated 2 September 2013, and one to Don Pegler dated 24 September 2013.
3415 The CHAIRPERSON: Can somebody move that those documents be tabled?
The Hon. T.A. FRANKS: I will move that they be received and published.
Carried.
Mr FLETCHER: What I wasn't aware of was that under the legislation at the time
any—I call them reports, not complaints, because as far as I'm concerned they are factual accounts
of what I had personally witnessed, so it's not a complaint; it's a report. Just because I'm a private
citizen doesn't make it any different as far as I'm concerned, but I'll leave you to define exactly what
that is. Under that legislation, the local member and the Ombudsman are both obliged to report to
ICAC, because there were allegations of corruption within local government, etc., etc.
I therefore heard from the ICAC and from Don Pegler that this had gone to ICAC and
was going to be an ICAC investigation. As part of that, I received an email from Mr Pegler, which I
would like to enter, thank you, dated 1 October 2013.
3416 The Hon. T.A. FRANKS: I will move that that be received and published.
Carried.
Mr FLETCHER: Thank you. He describes, if I may:
I have been in discussions with the Attorney-General, OPI and ICAC about what information MPs
can give their constituents when they make complaints. It appears that Sec 56 of the act is ambiguous and quite wordy
and not clear enough on confidentiality.
That's the section I was charged under a bit later, down the track. The problem he has run into there
is whether he's allowed to discuss with me my complaint report to him. He ended up having to get a
written authorisation from the ICAC commissioner just to be able to tell me what he was doing about
my complaint. So that's an email; that's October. Around about this time ICAC has started an
investigation. I'm not exactly sure the dates for that, because I don't have them, but it was around
those complaints so around that time.
3417 The Hon. R.P. WORTLEY: And they were investigating ## ########; is that
correct? Is that what we are talking about?
Mr FLETCHER: ## ######## was the main one. That was basically the straw that
broke the camel's back that led me to lodge my official reports/complaints. I included a number of
other issues that I considered to be nepotism: contracts going to councillors' family members, etc.
So there was a series of them, but I don't need to go into that. The fact is that is what I had done;
that is how I ended up with the ICAC.
I received several communications through ICAC about not being allowed to discuss
anything and also via Mr Pegler. I wrote to them several times and rang them to say, 'Can you clarify
what you mean with this?' They kept sending me the same single-page pamphlet which didn't have
any explanation but only had the actual legislation—section 56, which is the second paragraph of my
initial submission. Can I just ask: given the changes that have recently been made, is that still a
current definition? As far as I am aware, it is. I'm sorry; I just haven't had a chance to look at the—
3418 The CHAIRPERSON: These are restrictions on disclosure?

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Mr FLETCHER: Yes.
3419 The CHAIRPERSON: They are still in place. Anyway, continue.
Mr FLETCHER: I endeavoured to get a proper explanation, and at this stage I didn't have any legal advice. I was just liaising, myself, with the ICAC. They kept sending me the information sheet with that definition on it.
If I may just jump sideways a little bit there, I challenged that definition in court. Community legal service, who read that definition, were so confused by it that they had to write to
the ICAC commissioner on my behalf, asking him to explain it. I have copies of those letters which I
will present shortly. It doesn't make sense. Using language like 'tending to suggest' that something
might, may be, could be, literally captures everything anybody might potentially say about anything
at any time because it might wind up in ICAC in the future.
I went through this with the lawyer at the time, and she was politely half laughing at
me until she read the legislation and then, as I say, felt that she needed to write to the ICAC
commissioner, Mr Lander at the time, to ask him to explain and provide definitions. I will come to
that.

***...well that's roughly a good place to leave it...haven't got real far, but it gives y'all a good idea about what's happening...coupla' quick things...1) (obviously the 'School/Child Abuse' issue referred to is the St Martins Cover-up-Ed)...indeed, I had several contacts with Frank Pangallo while he was producer of Adelaide's Ch7 Today Tonight current affairs tv program...2) due to the complicitly corrupt and vile misuse of Final Intervention Orders by Magistrate Ian White, to try and stop me attending MGCC meetings or blogging about SAPol's corrupt conduct in my 'ICAC Trial', etc, etc, I've removed references to a certain MGCC Councillor, their name and identifying details replaced with ###...(we do note that this is testimony/evidence to a Parliamentary Inquiry and is therefore itself officially "received and published"-Ed)...yes, but I just don't need the cops on my doorstep again, makin' bogus claims about me supposedly breaching those FIOs and stickin' cameras in my face and demanding DNA samples and tellin' me I'm supposedly gunna' get "charged" at some random unidentified time in the future, etc, etc, like they did 7 times in November/December 2018...(hey yeah, what happened with all that?-Ed)...apart from the harrassment and intimidation and threats and lies?...(yeah, apart from all that-Ed)...nuthin'... 

I further note that when Ian White imposed his FIOs he ignored the fact that I had official complaints already lodged/pending about the abuse, threats, and harrassment I had been repeatedly subjected to by numerous MGCC Councillors and/or staff when I attended MGCC meetings...(including the elected Member we've had to 'censor'?-Ed)...yep, including them...my complaints/reports were effectively dismissed by then Minister Geoff Brock...(now back as a Minister as part of the Labor government-Ed)...indeed, my complaint 'dismissed'/returned to then MGCC CEO Mark 'Mighty Marky Mark McShenanigans' McShane, one of the half-wits I'd complained about for harassing/threatening me...I'm looking to get those FIOs revoked but it's a long and convoluted process, and a process I have no faith in given how and why the FIOs were imposed in the first instance, as part of my broader rancidly corrupt ICAC-driven Retributional Persecution...gunna' pull stumps there, but we'll try to return absolutely asap... 

Oh, but just in closing, I was gently stunned to hear on ABC South East Radio this morning, Liberal Member for McKillop Nick McBride go boots first off the 10m tower into the deep end, pardon the puns, of the MGCC/DCofG 'Amalgamation' bollocks...("10m tower"? "deep end"? puns how?-Ed)...yeah, 'cos he very bluntly identified the massive debt MGCC has conjured with the FARC (Farcical Aquatic Recreation Centre)...(some refer to it as 'The Hub' or 'Wulanda'-Ed)...well bully for them, but Nick mate went brutally blunt about why DCofG Ratepayers wouldn't want to get involved with that massive FARC debt...in context of how everyone else besides DCofG Mayor Richard 'Mumbles' Sage has danced around and/or ignored the issue, Nick was explicitly eviscerating...my Political Cynicism Radar bat senses were a'pingin' madly, is this the proof that the Labor government and probably many others know that MGCC is on the verge of going, if not already, bankrupt?...(ah, and it's politically expedient for the Libs to see Labor suffer that pain/humiliation/cost/whatevs of having to bail-out a bankrupt MGCC? is that what you're suggesting?-Ed)...spot on mate, absolutely spot on...(and despite the fact that it was Liberal Tony Pasin and the Federal and SA Liberals and Liberal-controlled MGCC who originally promoted/forced this whole 'Indoor Pool' disaster?-Ed)...mate, that's so last electoral cycle...

We're just spit-ballin' here, but damned if there wasn't something wildly uncharacteristically precise about McBride's comments this morning...   

Tomorrow: Part II Of This Splendipherous Cluster-Farce

Read with wonderment just exactly how complicitly corrupt SAPol, the ICAC Commissioner Bruce 'Brews Slander' Lander, and the SA Parliament, especially then Labor Attorney-General li'l Johnny Rau, all were in changing the SA ICAC Act 2012 specifically such that I could then be prosecuted...(and how even then you were never actually 'Charged' but still needed written Bruce approval to be allowed to even speak with your own lawyer/family/friends/doctor-Ed)...fabulous stuff... 

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