The Gang's All Here

***another post part-written many weeks, possibly months ago, whatevs, briefly tidied-up as best I can, and posted...haven't been coping particularly well with several of the many things I've got goin' on...some have suggested that I shouldn't talk about my failings and thus give succour to those whom persecute me and those whom see fit to criticise the Man...(Bear Stuff-Pig-Ed)...ok, thankyou...those who see fit to criticise me for standing my ground but rarely if ever actually do anything about any of the many unpleasant realities involved...(ahhh, those people-Ed)...yeah, them, well some say I shouldn't give them succour/pleasure/whatevs by talking about how much I struggle/suffer with some of this stuff...(and what do you have to say about that young man!?-Ed)...I say...

Succour On This:...because I splutter, I stall, I fail, I fall, and I Crash And Burn Intermittent Narcolepsy (CABIN Fever)...I do all of these things over and over...and then I get up and I go again...and again...and again...and again...until it has become pretty much all I know, and I truly wonder if I can ever know any other way of being...(yay-Ed)...and you shrecks made me this way, I am the Frankenhippy of your creation............now...(what?-Ed)...the lightning...(what?-Ed)...the special effects, the thunder and the lightning thing, remember? for dramatic effect? when I say 'the Fr...(-flash-KRAK-KCRAAAASSHH-BBBOOOMMBOOBOOMBOOMMMMMM-RRRrumbleRRruummbbble....rumble-Ed)...no, not 'as' I say 'the Frankenhippy', aft...(-flash-KRAK-KCRAAAASSHH-BBBOOOMMBOOBOOMBOOMMMMMM-RRRrumbleRRruummbbble...rumble-Ed)...are you quite done?...

(And haven't you chosen some lovely ground to stand on-Ed)...mate! I was just standin' here mindin' my own business when this ship-sized stack of shizzle was dumped right on me! on every level, on every front, this chose me, these clowns chose me...(well I knew somebody regretted choosing something-Ed)...I'll say it again...(if you must-Ed)...all of this, all of the St Martins Lutheran School Child Abuse Cover-up and the subsequent institutionalised pro-paedophile corruption exposed in SAPol (police), the Lutheran Church, the South Australian Parliament, etc, etc, it all existed before I even knew about it...and re St Martins and Glyn Dorling, these people, these people who should have sorted-it-out, they chose instead to cover-it-up, and dumped all their corruption on me and the other families...and that's the community I live in, even on a good day...on with the post***

Howdy y'all in Slovenia, Turkmenistan, Switzerland, and Turkey...(welcome back Turkey-Ed)...indeed, lost you there for a while, but glad to see that you're back, albeit intermittently, cheers...regular availees will be aware that Turkey's President Erdogan had/has banned 'Social Media', including stuff like blogs, but we here at this 'ere blog, The Mount Gambier Independent, we still get the occasional 'availee'...(always welcome-Ed)...indeed, but we digress...

Please find attached below the front page from The Border Watch, Tuesday 13th September 2016, and associated farcical carry-on...(looks like someone's desperately keen to try and give SAPol some sort of credibility in this town, this corrupted li'l town where SAPol are one of the the key players in the St Martins Lutheran School Child Abuse Cover-up-Ed)...the St Martins Lutheran School Child Abuse Cover-up you say?...(yes, the St Martins Lutheran School Child Abuse Cover-up, where-in dozens (potentially hundreds) of junior primary students (aged 6-8) were systematically groomed and abused by "text-book grooming paedophile" teacher Glyn Dorling, at St Martins, from the late 1990s into June 2002-Ed)...ahhh, that Child Abuse Cover-up...

I also remind availees of Trevor Twilleys' extraordinary comments in TBW back in December 2014, when he was directly quoted as saying that he knew 'people in positions of importance/influence in Mt Gambier who are on/using 'Ice'...(orrr yeah, when TBW went with that hilarious leader/banner, 'Drug Use In High Places'-Ed)...yeah, 'cos there's nothing quite as funny as your local senior cop stating that he knows senior community members/people who are using 'Ice', so why wouldn't you make an atrociously stupid pun about it...(yeah, it's right-up there with TBWs' constant use of the term 'Breaking The Ice'-Ed)...indeed, when they're not helping cover-up the gross paedophile abuse of children in local schools/kindergartens/whatevs, TBW loves nuthin' more than an appallingly inappropriate pun about the nightmare reality that is the 'Ice' epidemic swamping Mt Gambier and Districts...(yay-Ed)...

***hello again, just a quick pre-disclaimer disclaimer to super-clearly identify that the following refers to many rumours that have reached my ears and/or face area re Mr Twilley...(or as we like to call him, T Five-0-Ed)...ranging widely across issues re Mr Twilley's alleged drug use and/or involvement and/or alcoholism, etc/whatevs...it is rather inevitable that a few people are going to have a few choice things to say about the senior SAPol officer, and even if they're right, not all of them get the luxury of front-page coverage...again, there are/were multiple rumours re Mr Twilley and I don't know and I don't care, because for all I know he asked his boss 'what's this St Martins stuff on that blog?', or he rooted the bishop's wife, whatevs...(it could just be relatively innocuous, ya' know, as presented, SAPol move senior people and T Five 0 don't wanna' go, etc-Ed)...as presented? look, there's no need to be ridiculous...anyhoos, whatevs 'cos it's the clowns clamouring around to profoundly sound-out their effervescent support for Mr Twilley, that's who I'm lookin' at...and it's this gushing exuberance for T-Five 0 that has surely led to the rumour/joke just below***

And in that context, the hilarious joke on the street, is that these 'people in high places' are desperately keen to not lose their 'connection' to 'Ice', namely Trevor, in a context where the self-same streets are awash with rumours that the SAPol Superintendent was suddenly and inexplicably removed because of his direct specific involvement in the 'Ice' trade...(indeed, whilst I've heard various versions of the same rumour, it is the 'scuttlebutt', it is the word on the street, that Trev got the rocket because of some involvement with 'Ice' and/or an 'Ice bust'-Ed)...indeed, it is the rumour that Supt Twilley was involved in an 'Ice bust', but involved not in his official capacity as the person stopping the 'Ice trade', but rather for his involvement with 'Ice'...I repeat my point that these are the rumours, rumours, that are doing the rounds, and that these rumours have differed somewhat, as rumours do, but the consistent content has been about Supt Twilleys' inappropriate involvement with 'Ice'...

Those are other peoples' rumours/accusations/whatevs and to me that's all they are, rumours, and quite frankly I really don't give a rats-arse, because to me he's just the latest in a series of corrupt SAPol officers who are intimately and irreversibly linked to the St Martins Cover-up...Terry Harbour, Mark Fairney, Trevor Twilley, all the same to me...and it's all the same to me because it's all there right on that page, all of the most critical players in the St Martins Cover-up, SAPol Commissioner and former head of the Paedophile Taskforce, Grant Stevens...(booo!-Ed)...pro-paedophile Premier Jay Weatherill...(hissss!-Ed)...and Glyn Dorlings' lawyer from the rankly corrupt TRB/CSO hearing, and Jay Weatherills' business partner, Stephen Lieschke...(ummm, boo! hiss!-Ed)...indeed Ed, boo, hiss...

(And wasn't it the head of the SA Police Association, Mr Carroll who was made the lead investigator for Comm Mullighan and his Child Abuse Royal Commission, after notoriously corrupt pro-paedophile lawyer (and now ex-Magistrate) Bill Morris was hounded-off that Commission by Child Protection Activists?-Ed)...indeed...(and doesn't ex-Magistrate Morris's definable criminality specifically involve drink-drive-murderer Eugene McGee and their collusion to steal the Court-seized assets of their mate, convicted paedophile Magistrate Peter Liddy?-Ed)...ahh dear, Stevens, Weatherill, Lieschke, Morris, McGee, and Liddy....Adelaide is a funny little town isn't it?...

***me again, and we're briefly back in February 2017...had Court again Wednesday February 8th, 2017, and on the day before I saw Bill Morris in Mt Gambier, and when I commented on this to someone they asked if he was here as my 'fly-in/fly-out' Magistrate, but of course he ain't no Magistrate no more...(he was probably here to visit his mate Liddy out at the Mt Gambier Gaol-Ed)...well that's exactly what I thought Ed...and imagine my surprise to see the Channel 7 Today Tonight program Monday last week (Feb 13th 2017) showing that convicted paedophile Liddy has been writing children's books and smuggling them out of the gaol to a publisher interstate...(I wonder who's been doing that smuggling for him-Ed)...I also wonder......I just love South Australia...***

An Apology Of Sorts:...but in it's context, an unreserved apology because it's simply not my place to tell Ms Kropinyeri how she should go about her business or who to associate with, etc, but to me as a White Australian so deeply mired in the soulless cynicism of the South Australian politic, particularly when it comes to our treatment of Aboriginal peoples, I see this as yet another example of Aboriginal people being dragged into politics when it suits the politicians...bottom-line, I don't know and it's not my business...I apologise to Ms Kropinyeri if I have caused any offence, please understand that I completely exclude her from the criticisms I have levelled at others on this page...            

Moving on...as for this farcical declaration that "the region has seen a 47pc reduction in crime", what a load of absolute bollocks, what town are you clowns living in? sure ain't this one...(well if the Mt Gambier Police Station is closed half the time, that is likely to half your crime statistics!-Ed)...nicely sarcasmed Ed, indeed, whilst fresh reports of a 'closed station' haven't reached me lately, those words are still ringing in my ears from the various examples/claims I've heard over recent years, 'went there but no-one answered the bell', etc...this '47%' is a random nonsense and bears absolutely no resemblance to the reality...

For example, I recently reluctantly had to attend a Housing Trust (Housing SA) Tribunal re the extraordinarily violent ('domestic violence') and disruptive behaviours of an 'Ice'-addicted couple, in a context where I had called SAPol 10-12 times over about 9 months, and was aware that other neighbours had called dozens of times, often multiple times in the same day as the violent behaviours escalated, often at around 0300hrs-0500hrs...(charming-Ed)...indeed, this is/was a definitive study in the lack of and/or rank failure of Mental Health and/or Drug Rehabilitation services in the South East region, and how the Housing Trust are being used as a pseudo-outpatients service for those suffering Drug and/or Mental Health problems...(and the 2 are very often inextricably linked-Ed)...absolutely Ed, and the current situation is only set to worsen as the South Australian Health System continues to be dismantled by a Rann/Weatherill Labor government that has privatised Health Provision in SA via the disastrously corrupt Royal Adelaide Hospital project...(yay-Ed)...but we digress...

Point being, I know roughly how many times SAPol were contacted and/or at least conducted door-knock visits, and that runs to dozens of times, again often multiple times in a day/early morning, and yet when it came to the official Tribunal there we were apparently only a handful of 'official complaints'...(well what happened to all the others? there were dozens-Ed)...well indeed, and that's my point...I know that there were dozens of reports/attendances, yet there were apparently/officially only a few...I don't know why this would be the case, but I'm assuming that police attendance at that address was so frequent that they (police) didn't bother to 'officially' log many of those occurrences...whatevs, the 'official' record was a fifth of the reality, less...'47%' means absolutely nothing...(and didn't SAPol recently contact you about giving evidence against the man involved re the domestic violence stuff-Ed)...that's right Ed, indeed they did, coupla' months ago now, several times...

Police, to their credit, were trying to prosecute this man for his multiple violent assaults of his 'partner', but this woman was refusing to press charges/co-operate/whatevs, and needed us neighbours to give evidence/statements, etc, otherwise SAPol effectively had no case...now I'm going to mention it, then go past it, the extraordinary, and I mean absolutely extraordinary situation where SAPol would contact me and ask me to help them...(wow, I know I say it alot, but that really is just wow-Ed)...I know, right?...what SAPol have done to me and/or other families re the St Martins Cover-up, in particular their extraordinary conduct in the extraordinary Pro-paedophile Political Persecution I am currently being subjected to via this bizarre Court case...and then they want to contact me and ask me to help...I'll say it myself, wow...

Unfortunately, I had not actually specifically witnessed any of the physical assaults because they occurred either inside, or at night, or in my absence...so whilst I could offer numerous accounts of the blood-curdling screaming and the violent crashing that had my windows rattling (across the street) and indistinguishable 'people' stuffing-about in the dark out in the street screaming, brawling, etc, at 0400hrs, I'm no good as an eyewitness because I didn't actually witness anything...to put it in context though, only a month after these people moved in (August 2015), their brawling/arguments were so frequent that I actually did a 'welfare concern' call to SAPol because I hadn't heard her screeching and/or screaming for 3 days, immediately following the latest violent episode...imagine what it was like for the two elderly ladies stuck either side as immediate neighbours...not the Housing Trusts greatest hour...

And yes, several people have suggested/stated to me that this was done deliberately to upset/stress me, and quite frankly, given what I've experienced and continue to experience of Mt Gambier it really wouldn't surprise me, really it wouldn't, but I personally believe that it was just a massive cock-up from the Housing Trust, combined with the gross failure of Drug and/or Mental Health services, services that in many contexts simply don't exist in the South East...but I digress...      

As stated above, here in this attached article are some of the main players in the St Martins Lutheran School Child Abuse Cover-up... 

Tomorrow: My Court Stuff As Promised

There comes a time when a man has to accept his limitations and accept that despite his best efforts, he is fundamentally screwed, and so it is with the conduct of the Pro-Paedophile Political Persecution* that I am being subjected to in the SA Magistrates Court...the entire power of the State, from the rankly pro-paedophile corrupt Premier Jay Weatherill, via an equally corrupt Club GoGo Bananas and the Banana Lord, and a wholly corrupt SAPol, and a pro-paedophile corrupt Crown Solicitor, Director of Public Prosecution, etc, etc, et al...     (*quoting myself from Court, as led to the 'Malicious Prosecution' stuff)

I am not a lawyer, yet I am being forced to represent/defend myself, up against a wholly contemptuous SAPol Prosecutions who have regularly perjured themselves, including in writing to the Court, and have repeatedly ignored specific Court Orders re providing documents/explanations/whatevs, and have acknowledged, again in writing, that I wasn't Summonsed to the original hearing way back in February 2015, but have failed to explain why I have never been actually charged...(not charged and not Summonsed-Ed)...yep...(wow-Ed)...I know!...(February 2015? seems like only 18 months and 20 hearings ago-Ed)...heh! I'll do the humour 'round here thanks...(I'm not seeing much evidence of that-Ed)...taboomtish...

Dear availees, given the deeply confronting subject matter in todays' post, horrendous Domestic Violence, the St Martins Cover-up stuff, the 'Ice' problems, the collapse of the Health Service, etc, I feel uncomfortable about even attempting humour in this post, but attempt it I have because 'a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down'...regular availees will appreciate that I am trying very, very hard to not bludgeon people with relentlessly dire commentary, in a context where the subject matter is fundamentally horrendous...

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

***and cheers y'all for your continuing patience and support...still trying, and I'll find that other page 4 to this article, but I reckon the main points are here, Jay Weatherill/Stephen Lieschke, Grant Stevens, the Police Association, etc...

Mt Gambier City Council Tries To Hide Their Corruption In SA ICAC

...(because that's what South Australia's ICAC is designed for after all-Ed)...well exactly Ed, exactly...and a big TMGI howdy in Bulgaria, the USofA, Bangladesh, and Latvia, and cheers to y'all else all elsewhere...it's a very short, sharp post today because the game is as obvious as it is afoot...(whaaa?-Ed)...the game is afoot, the game is currently being played-out...(oh oh, right, I get it, it's happening as we converse-Ed)...yeah, and by it's very existence makes itself immediately obvious...('as obvious as it is afoot', nice, I'm going to use it in conversation-Ed)...be my guest...

Another bludgeoning week just passed, what with yet another Court appearance, mini-heatwave, extended family visitationing...(is this where I say 'we love them 'cos they're family, but sometimes...'-Ed)...indeed, or as I like to say, 'we love to see them back, but eventually we love to see them backs'...(you ol' poet you-Ed)...and there's the physical reality of being occupied effectively all day every day with said visitationings...(and of course the bizarre Court stuff continues-Ed)...indeed, and I surely don't handle the heat at all well these days either...(what I can't understand is how The Border Watch newspaper had direct quotes from your latest Court hearing, 'cos I didn't see a TBW person in the Court proper or even in the building-Ed)...yes, I'm keen to learn myself just exactly how that is done, so how's about...

Tomorrow: Holding Court With Notorious N.I.C. 

But as for today's simple post, well, it's simple...just over two weeks ago Mt Gambier Mayor Andrew Lee was in the news re some seriously dodgy dealings with his Chinese business partner whilst in China on a Ratepayer funded trip in early 2016, the Mayor's subsequent part-purchase of a Coonawarra winery, and failings by Mayor Lee to disclose ownership and/or income, etc, etc, ad infinitum...sus' as all get-out...and this was reported in The Advertiser, and then 'responded' to in the Mt Gambier media...(and like, wow!-Ed)...not 'like wow!' Ed, exactly wow!...one of the worst, arguably the most pathetically inept 'Dorothy Dixer', armchair-ride interviews I've ever heard on the wholly corrupted Mt Gambier ABC Radio...     (sus' - suspect)

Mayor Lee repeatedly contradicted himself to the point that I actually lost track of what he was saying...first and most critical was 'I've got rid of my business (restaurant?) to concentrate on being Mayor', a statement that appeared to go entirely unchallenged by the ABC...(but the whole thing was about Lee buying into a business?-Ed)...well exactly, so why wasn't he held to account on that?...(and doesn't he have other businesses as well?-Ed)...apparently, but he doesn't want to talk about that/those...(oh well that's ok then, if he doesn't want to talk about them, I'm sure it's because that's all fine, just fine-Ed)...indeed, just super-fine I'm sure...and then it was an incoherent ramble through Mr Lee's various assertions about his own honesty and integrity...(well if he says so-Ed)...and I've no idea what was going on re the meeting in China, because Mr Lee seemed to say he wasn't there, but then that he was, but purely socially, and that he didn't speak to his business partner about the winery they co-owned only months later...(wow! with a strewth! chaser-Ed)...it gets better...

Mayor Lee, having been outed for not declaring income from said winery, stated 1) that he didn't realise that he needed to declare it...(I find that very hard to believe-Ed)...you and every other actual person in Mt Gambier...and then 2) that it wasn't actually a breach because he still had 5 days left to declare...(so he'd been sitting on it for several weeks, but hadn't declared it?-Ed)...apparently, but the real jewel in this crown of interviews was Andrew's attempts to laugh-it-up by stating that he wanted to 'thank the journo for pointing-out to me my careless omission because otherwise I would have forgotten to declare that income'...(I personally cannot stop laughing-Ed)...again, you and every other actual person in this town...

But even more bizarre...(how did I know, how did we all know that you were going to say that?-Ed)...were Mayor Lee's statements re that reportage in The Advertiser, because he seemed to be saying that they had contacted him for comment, that he had then corrected and/or explained the situation/allegations, but that The Advertiser had proceeded to print the story they did, with those allegations...(but if he'd spoken to The Advertiser and explained the supposedly appropriate 'facts' and the newspaper then went ahead and knowingly printed those non-truths, then isn't that defamation of Mayor Lee by the paper?-Ed)...well quite, Mayor Lee clearly stated that The Advertiser had printed things he had told them were untrue, things that clearly bring the Mayor's reputation and credibility into question...and that right there's 'Defamation 101'...

The entire interview was one long infomercial for Explain-Away, it neatly white-washes over those nasty allegations and unsightly improprieties, Explain-Away...a mind-numbing traipse through accountability and away out the other side entirely unscathed...pathetic...and then comes the truly, truly bizarre response from Mt Gambier City Council to this extraordinary conduct by the Mayor...(here we go, you're smiling, this'll be good-Ed)...only if you call the crassly conspiratorial collusion of carefully constructed criminality to completely cover-up City Council corruption good, if you call that good, because apart from that it's exactly as I just described it...(yeah yeah, 'Mt Gambier City Council acting corruptly', whatevs dude, we've heard it all before and it's like saying 'this steak is beefy'-Ed)...no, this isn't them just being corrupt amongst themselves with the litany of corrupt Tenders often involving the rankly criminal Nepotism stuff, the raft of Councillors 'Conflict of Interest' issues, usually ignored, etc, etc, what they've done this time directly breaches the ICAC Act 2012...(as I said before, yeah yeah, Mt Gambier City Council acting with wantonly corrupt disregard for legislation, what's new?-Ed)...this is different, this is very different, this is the ICAC...(let's pretend like I don't understand what that means exactly, and explain it to me-Ed)...sure...

Corrupt, Nepotistic Tenders and various other internal rorts and corruptions, are all very much against the law, supposedly, but the Independent Commission Against Corruption and associated ICAC Act 2012 specifically governs elected and other public officials, and includes very specific sections/directions stating that any public official/politician/whatevs, they are all absolutely obliged to report any concerns re corruption, malfeasance, etc, and that there is not to be any discussion of those allegations, the report, who's involved, etc, etc...(who are you sir, so learned in the ways of ICAC?-Ed)...I'm the dude who went to ICAC Commissioner Bruce Lander's totes-hilarious One Man Comedy Roadshow, ways back in November 2016, where-in The Big Bruce-kowski clearly stated that this is how it was to be so...(clear as mud-Ed)...simple, if you're a politician/Councillor/public servant/whatevs you are obliged under the ICAC Act 2012, you are obliged to report any concerns/suspicions/incidents/whatevs, to the ICAC, possibly via the Office for Public Integrity, whatevs, but you are obliged to report, bound by law to report, and then obliged to shut-the-hell-up, bound by law to shut-the-hell-up...(I think I can see the problem here-Ed)...away you go champ...(cheers-Ed)...

(Well, in it's broadest sense, the allegations should have gone straight to the OPI/ICAC, and then no-one should say anything about it-Ed)...that is exactly accurate mate...(it's way out-of-bounds for Mt Gambier City Council to do what they've done and hold a 'secret meeting' to discuss this-Ed)...absolutely in direct contradiction of the ICAC Act 2012...(there is no discussion to be had, MGCC and/or individual Councillors were/are obliged to report, it's not open to debate, and then it's not to be discussed-Ed)...and leading on from that, why did MGCC put this 'secret meeting' in their official 'Minutes', for it then to be reported by TBW, itself a further breach of ICAC Act 2012?...(the whole thing really reeks mate, and I mean like really reeks-Ed)...and welcome to The Game...

The Game:...is about taking the rank corruption of the Mt Gambier City Council and burying it for years in the wholly corrupted SA ICAC...SA ICAC is where SA corruption goes to hide...just look at the rankly corrupt 'Gillman Land Sale' farce from SA ICAC...(and the 2 year pseudo-investigation and exoneration of Labor Minister Jennifer Rankine and her subsequent outrageous outburst in State Parliament, using Parliamentary Privilege to rail against a journalist and call directly for SAPol (police) to arrest him!-Ed)...that's the one, right there...(now that's corrupt!-Ed)...and that's The Game we are playing now...(ahhh, I get it now-Ed)...go on then...

(Well we don't know who tipped-off The Advertiser, but it's likely one of 2 things, namely, 1) a very disgruntled employee has had a gutful, and apparently MGCC is currently festooned with angry soon-to-be-ex-employees and others abundantly under-whelmed by Council and it's wholly Nepotistic corruption, etc, etc-Ed)...well, it's certainly possible..(but it's far more likely that, 2) someone from within Council has deliberately exposed these relatively minor infractions by Mayor Lee, as a way of getting in front of the current wave of community fury, etc, and shutting-down any further discussion on any of Council's multiple corruption-related issues/allegations-Ed)...bingo!...(and that's why they had to have that meeting, and the wholly complicit The Border Watch reported it, to get that discussion point out into the public consciousness, 'it's gone to the ICAC'-Ed)...spot on Ed, but still one more step...(ummm, because now McShane et al can and will unofficially refer/defer to this alleged ICAC investigation, whilst officially stating that he/they cannot comment-Ed)...cannot comment until?...(until he/Council gets official written permission from the ICAC Commissioner that they're allowed to talk about it, then it'll be 'we're allowed to say that we cannot talk about it'-Ed)...and here endeth the lesson...

And CEO Mighty Marky Mark McShenanigans is gunna' have to be known as CEO Mark 'Sgt Shultz' McShane because he apparently 'knows nothing' about any of it...(and neither does Wattle Range Mayor Peter Gandolfi, even though he was at that same dinner party in China-Ed)...whatta' joke...this whole thing is a reeking, rotten set-up, be it right from the beginning or in response to a genuine complaint, whatevs, this is now 100% about burying Mt Gambier City Council's corruption in the ICAC for years...and this is exactly what the SA ICAC is designed to do, threaten genuine Whistleblowers and make genuine Whisleblowing effectively illegal, whilst providing a haven for the rankly corrupt, people the like of Mt Gambier City Council...(mmm, indeed that does smell very Gamey-Ed)...
 
I am Nick Fletcher and this is my blog...cheers and laters...

Federal Child Abuse Royal Commission Is A Corrupt Joke

***it's now early February 2017 and here's a post I started months ago...(one of many-Ed)...indeed, there are several such part-posts...apologies for any sync errors...talk to you shortly, but first, back we go to last yearearearearearearearear...***

Hello Switzerland, India, Romania, and y'all in Aotearoa (New Zealand) and welcome to The Mount Gambier Independent, as proudly not sponsored by anyone other than Aussie taxpayers...(is that a flippant reference to your position as a Disability Support Pension recipient and Housing Trust (Housing SA) tenant?-Ed)...well certainly a reference, but hardly a 'flippant' one, in that I've frequently acknowledged this financial support, and indeed only recently moved beyond that related sense of indebtedness, in that I am comfortably confident in my belief that I've contributed to my community far beyond what I have 'earned' via the DSP...in fact, I've paid a price far beyond the recompense of the DSP...(who'd have thought that a pig-ignorant almost bloody-minded refusal to back-down on issues like the St Martins Lutheran School Child Abuse Cover-up, that that would pay so well-Ed)...well indeed...

What Ed is hilariously albeit facetiously identifying is the massive and costly trauma visited upon myself and other families as the Lutheran Church and it's St Martins School here in Mt Gambier, and SAPol (police), our charmingly corrupt elected officials on Mt Gambier City Council and in both Labor and Liberal parties, our wholly corrupted Crown Solicitor Office and Dept of Public Prosecutions and Attorney General et al, and our extraordinary alleged Child Protection bodies, etc, etc, as they all conspire/collude to protect "text-book grooming paedophile"* teacher Glyn Dorling and by extension the Lutheran Church...(is this where I effervescently hiss 'bastards'?-Ed)...yep, right there'll do nicely...(bastards!-Ed)...thankyou Ed...

*And I keep using this quote because it's what was said directly to parents by Flinders Child Protection Unit/Service (as based at Flinders Medical Centre in Adelaide) at a meeting at St Martins on 1st August 2002 after FCPU had conducted basic first interviews with a small handful of kids...(so, off the back of only 'get to know the kids' initial interviews/meetings, FCPU had already heard enough to make this statement above?-Ed)...to a roomful of parents, absolutely, and in a context where they (FCPU) were simultaneously talking about these kid's disclosures as being "tip of the iceberg" stuff...(sorry? so a coupla' very brief 'get-to-know-you' interviews that really only exposed the "tip of the iceberg" re kid's issues/statements of abuse, this led FCPU to identify teacher Glyn Dorling as a "text-book grooming paedophile"?-Ed)...yep...(my gourd! what did the kids say in those brief interviews?!-Ed)...dunno' Ed, because we parents have been refused access to our kids statements/interviews under "patient/doctor confidentiality"...(wow-Ed)...  

Here's some homework if you can be bothered, but if you can't I've already done a 'search' through the Commission's website...(using what 'search terms'?-Ed)...just the one, 'Lutheran'...(any luck?-Ed)...well if you're the Lutherans, yes, because there ain't a single mention of you...not one...(but didn't you and other parents lodge official submissions back in late 2012 when the Commission first kicked-off?-Ed)...indeed we did Ed, lengthy submissions carefully spelling-out the litany of institutionalised failings/refusals that define the rank corruption evident in the St Martins Cover-up...(so's if you're a Lutheran, everything's fine, just fine, but if you're in a bitter conflict with the Lutherans as they protect a "text-book grooming paedophile", well then, then you're rooted!-Ed)...in a nutshell, yes...

Ooo, wait, hey, found one reference, under 'National Council of Churches in Australia Conference', where it mentions in paragraph 17 that the Commission has received '32 (allegations) relating to the Lutheran Church'...I cannot find any further reference to these 'allegations/submissions' in the Commission proper...

***earearearearearearhere we are back 'ere in 2017, and I have had another coupla' searches through the FRCAC stuff on-line, and indeed I found reference to 30 'complaints' re the Lutherans, as part of a list of organisations/religions/whatevs, but no details...and so to the now...

As covered in previous posts, the Federal Royal Commission Into Institutionalised Responses To Child Abuse is a deeply cynical exercise in mass-manipulation, created and controlled by deeply corrupt people who were/are very keen to be seen to rock the moral high-ground on issues of Child Abuse, yet actually act to ensure that many Child Abuse realities remain buried...(you mean realities like the gross institutionalised corruption of the St Martins Lutheran School Child Abuse Cover-up, and the definable institutionalised pro-paedophile corruption of SAPol, the Lutherans, the Labor Party, the Liberal Party, etc, etc, et al?-Ed)...spot on Ed, spot on...

The FRCIRCA knows about St Martins School and the abuses committed in the classroom against dozens of 7 year old kids by their teacher Glyn Dorling (January-June 2002)...the FRCIRCA knows about this because parents, myself included, have written lengthy submissions re St Martins...FRCIRCA knows about the official 'responses' from SAPol, the Lutherans themselves, the Labor state government, it's various Departments and Agencies, etc, etc...the FRC knows, yet nothing...

And now they're at it again, flooding the media with voluminous yet vacuous pseudo-vilification of Catholics, again, whilst the Child Abuse professionals, the Lutherans, march merrily on entirely unencumbered by any sort of semblance of even vague accountability...and Francis Sullivan and his freak-show 'Truth, Reconciliation and Healing Council' continue to pollute my world with his tritely unbelievable pseudo-compassion...(soulless hypocrisy only out-shone by his gushing admiration indeed idolisation of Julia Gillard, 'she should be Sainted for starting this FRC'...he actually said that, 'she should be Sainted'-Ed)...I know, what a sick joke...

It's very simple, the FRC is trawling through and trotting-out mostly historical abuse cases with accompanying statements about how great it is for victims to get to 'talk about it', etc, and roll-out some deeply traumatised person to try and give that credibility, etc, and there's much wailing and gnashing of teeth and other various gesticulations and incantations, but ultimately nothing will happen...

The FRC is what the Gillard Labor government conjured to give the appearance of action and appropriate resolution when the genuine purpose and actual functioning are all about cover-up...

Tomorrow: Mo' Mt Gambier City Council Corruption

And I know exactly how confronting it is to just accept the reality I have described here re the FRCIRCA...and only ever more confronting to consider that if this reality is possible, what possibly lies beyond...(indeed, it's potentially very traumatising-Ed)...well absolutely...(ya' know? to be accepting of the rank pro-paedophile corruption at the heart of a Federal Royal Commission into Child Abuse, that's confronting enough-Ed)...you don't need to explain it to me mate, I'm right there...(but it's the gaping chasm of undefined but now possible realities that opens-up under every other reality, that right there is un-nerving bordering on scary-Ed)...ya' preachin' to the choir mate...(because here, with  this deliberately corrupt FRC, here is what Labor PM Julia Gillard and her Labor colleagues Don Farrell (Mike Rann and Jay Weatherill) Penny Wong, Jenny Macklin, Nicola Roxon, et al, etc, etc, so-on-and-so-forth, deliberately set-up, and right here is a window straight into the empty soul of the Labor Party-Ed)...you paint an ugly picture mate...(not my fault-Ed)...

But don't just believe me dear availees, because it's not about me and my version of things being right, whatevs, I'm just calling what I see for what I see it to be, you see?...(ci!-Ed)...beyond that, simply take the template I have provided and place it howevs you like over this FRC shizzle, and you'll see there is no 'version' of this farce, here is the reality...

And just right now, on the ABC, a big spiel about 'ooo, how bad we were', "we have done great wrong", etc, etc'...empty rhetoric of disingenuous mia culpas...(whaaa?-Ed)...they're talking absolute bullshit in that exact 'it's all in the past' context...(I thought that's what you meant, I just wasn't sure-Ed)...be sure mate, it's just more of the same bullshit, heaped high to hide the actual realities...I guarantee you not one senior Catholic, Lutheran, Anglican, whatevs, not one of them will face one charge let alone time in gaol...it's a sick joke from sick, sick people...(indeed, it's become clear that not one single Lutheran will be asked one single question-Ed)...indeed...

We have a Federal Royal Commission Into Institutional Responses To Child Abuse, now running for 3 years at gourd knows what cost, and they're not going to ask the Lutherans one single question...not ask the Lutherans one single question...the massively wealthy and vastly influential Lutheran Church...and despite the multiple submissions re the St Martins Cover-up...not one question...(now that's corrupt-Ed)...

And this latest nonsense (ABC) followed immediately by Francis Sullivan and yet more vacuous lies about the Catholics' handing over documents "tangible expression of openness"...(but even if you get past the fact that these low scum have routinely covered-up child abuse for many decades, it's widely reported that there's a whole bunch of stuff being held and therefore suppressed by the Vatican!-Ed)..."openness", bullshit!...

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

PS:...don't ask me...just quickly searched under 'federal royal commission lutherans', and the first cab off the rank is "LCA receives Royal Commission subpoena"...which relates to a 'Notice to Produce' re a Lutheran School as apparently mentioned in the First Interim Report (or some-such) on the FRC website...can't get these damn documents to open with my computer, dunno', sorry...don't know why this hasn't come up before under similar if not identical 'search terms', including on the FRC website...whatevs, this refers to '2004' not 2002, and the fact remains that the Lutherans have never once been mentioned in the media, haven't been called to the FRC to give evidence, and the FRC isn't even going to look at the St Martins Lutheran School Child Abuse Cover-up...

PPS:...last week I was pulled-over by SAPol traffic cops who did a u-turn, followed me briefly, then flashed me red'n'blue to stop...I reckon one of them was the same guy who pulled me over right outside my house ways back in 2014...(ahhh yeah, I remember, the cops were tryin' to crack-down (pardon the pun) on ice-dealers in the area and if your license didn't match the street, you got some special attention-Ed)...exactly...anyhoos, 'he' walked-up, knew who I was, and then politely pointed-out that my headlight was out, gave me a warning, and that was pretty-much it...they clearly already knew who the driver was, that the car was registered, etc, and that was it...it was daytime but still early but as soon as the shops were open I went and bought new globes, as promised...

Is this possibly a polite reminder from the Universe, a reminder of that which I consider that I always consider in all ways?...(whaaa?-Ed)...that when I'm wailing about how everyone's rabidly pro-paedophile corrupt, etc, etc, there is always a raft of people involved who quite possibly aren't because they're just people, often stuck dealing with the same realities I'm screeching about...(yes, I do believe that it's important for a head-kicker to always aim for the head-Ed)...and always to identify that that's what they're doing and that's where they're aimin'...again, cheers and laters...

The Rankly Corrupt Mt Gambier City Council Must Be Removed

Hello Romania, Egypt, the Netherlands, and Canada and welcome to TMGI, and man, what a week...wow...(wow indeed-Ed)...that's what I said!...the rank corruption of Mt Gambier City Council has exploded into the local media, and whilst I am genuinely generally not one to say shizzle like 'I told you so', I have sure as heck been leapin' up and down screamin' and yellin' about the exact reality of how the wholly corrupt Mt Gambier City Council would behave/is behaving in/with China...

I have repeatedly stated that a Council like Mt Gambier City Council, a Council that functions so corruptly when here right in the middle of the community they are routinely stealing from, here in the community where Council systematically defrauds Ratepayers, if they are this corrupt right here, imagine how corruptly they conduct themselves when aways overseas, behind closed doors, signing deals on behalf of Mt Gambier, deals that no-one here has ever seen, etc, etc...these clowns are rankly corrupt here, and that will only get worse elsewhere...(corrupt is what corrupt does-Ed)...exactly, and corrupt people will act corruptly...(and MGCC, being so wholly corrupt, is inevitably corrupt here, there, wherevs-Ed)...exactly...

Mt Gambier City Council - wholly corrupt and farcically incompetent...Mayor Andrew Lee, CEO Mark McShane, and every single Councillor, you should hang your collective heads in shame and resign en masse...you people are a damned disgrace...(yeah, like that's gunna' happen-Ed)...fair call, probably won't, suits me...(suits you? how?-Ed)...well, if they won't resign...(and they won't-Ed)...and they won't, correct, so guess I'll just have to rain down on them like a relentless shower-a-shit, a stinking sluicing saturation they have so thoroughly bought upon themselves...('shower-a-shit'? hey, that's your specialty, your strong suit-Ed)...that's what I'm saying mate, suits me, if they don't quit they'll get what's a comin', bucket loads of it, every day...

And if any ya's wanna' try and undermine mine righteous rage with some drivel about 'trolling' - 'boo, Nick Fletcher's a bastard, look at him 'trolling' poor ol' Council' - well I'm more than happy to discuss any of this with any of these rankly corrupt stooges...(I think they'd all rather you didn't-Ed)...I'd like to think so Ed, and I do take a certain pride in that because it's not about me being particularly rude or offensively abusive or even potentially violent, etc, etc, because those are pretty much none-issues because 1) I'm just not like that...(bloody hippy!-Ed)...but mostly 2) they just don't need to be involved at all...I don't need to bring anything to these 'discussions' other than the reality of these stooges' own behaviours, and they are thusly royally rooted...(here endeth the lesson-Ed)...it is me, sort of, but it's more the cresting tsunami of potential accountability rearing-up behind me...I have seen this fear run in their eyes, this almost palatable fear hanging heavy in the thick air...it is me and it is what I bring into the room with me...and I have no problem with that, whatsoever...I used to, but not anymore...it is what it is and so shall it be...but we digress...

(Dude, I thought I'd heard some crassly pathetic, pro-corruption 'Dorothy Dixer' interviews from the sanctimoniously self-praising Australian Broadcasting Corporation, but the Selina Green interview yesterday with Mayor Andrew Lee was a crushing new low in complicit compliance to the pro-corruption agenda of ABC South East, corrupt mates lookin' out for each other via these pathetically transparent exchanges-Ed)...you mean this stuff where the ABC gets some dodgy mate in, serves them-up a bunch of pathetically ineffectual questions that are merely invitations to the interviewee to trot-out whatever crap they feel like in denying the accusation/claim/whatevs...(exactly-Ed)...mates helping mates cover-up their mutual corruption...there's your 'Public Broadcaster' right there...what a disgrace...

I vividly recall the rankly corrupt pro-paedophile stuff they did with then Member for Mt Gambier Rory McEwen, as Stan Thompson, Stuart Stansfield, etc, conspired with Rory to give him a platform to attack us parents in his/their support of the Lutherans and the St Martins School Child Abuse Cover-up...again, that's your ABC right there, willingly complicit in covering-up the gross abuse of a class of 7 year olds...

And I guarantee you Rory, mate, that it never ends for you, the same way it never ends for us...the St Martins Lutheran School Child Abuse Cover-up will haunt you to your grave and beyond...Rory McEwen will be synonymous with the St Martins Child Abuse Cover-up, synonymous with Pro-Paedophile Corruption...but again I digress, sorry, and I'll get back to this interview tomorrow...

There is simply so much rankly corrupt conduct here re Mayor Andy/MGCC that it starts to consume itself...I mean, what is this absurd nonsense about Council holding a sudden unscheduled secret "special meeting" yesterday, reportedly/allegedly to decide whether or not to report Mayor Andy to the Independent Commission Against Corruption, and then deciding to keep that meeting's outcome a secret...(well that's a farcical joke! it's a requirement of law, under the ICAC Act 2012, for Council/public officers to report potential corruption of a public officer, eg, a Mayor...who the shreck are Council to decide whether or not to make that report?-Ed)...so you're saying they've had a secret meeting to discuss/decide whether or not to comply with the Law...(spot on...and further more that discussion itself is illegal under ICAC Act 2012 section 56!-Ed)...sorry what?! and how do you know so much about ICAC legislation?...(well, not least of all, I went to the ICAC public meeting in Mt Gambier aways back on November 25th (26th? whatevs) last year (2016)-Ed)...do tell...

(Yeah, ICAC Commissioner Bruce Lander brought his hilarious one-man Comedy Roadshow to Mt Gambier, and I went and listened and learned and laughed, *my how we laughed, hee hee hee, haa haa haa* and apparently Bruce mate was going from that li'l soiree to speak specifically to Council about their responsibilities, etc, etc-Ed)...so ICAC Commissioner Bruce was in Mt Gambier in November 2016, only months ago, discussing this exact stuff with Council?...(yep-Ed)...and yet we still have this raft of rankly dodgy behaviours and even dodgier responses...and dear availees, I'm just scratchin' the surface with this stuff because it also opens-up the debate on just what exactly 'ICAC' is in South Australia, and just how problematically corrupted 'ICAC' is in it's design, construction, implementation and conduct...in South Australia 'ICAC' is the pinnacle of rank institutionalised corruption, not the resolution...
    (*The Young Ones - BBC TV)

Because there's so much to cover tomorrow, several articles to attach, etc, I'll end this post, we'll roll this stuff into tomorrow, and then probably the next day as well...and I don't apologise for repeatedly regurgitating the word 'rankly' because there is no phrase let-alone one single word that better quantifies and/or qualifies the corruption rancidly running through everything that MGCC does...crooks operating crookedly...their behaviours form a long list, a long line, a rank...a list of behaviours that absolutely stink of corruption...a list that stinks...a rank rank...

Tomorrow: Taking Out The Trash

(I thought you were going to be showering down, shit-style?-Ed)...nah, I'd like to think I can do both, ya' know? walk and chew gum at the same time, I'm multi-disciplined like that, a multi-tasker...(nice-Ed)...I'm a tool of many functions...(you're like the Swiss Army knife of Large Angry Hippies-Ed)...yeah, and it's always amused me just how similar a Swiss Army knife is to a penis...(indeed, how so?-Ed)...well they're both practical, very useful, and great fun to own, but you probably shouldn't whip them out in public...(I think there's something in that for all of us-Ed)...

One thing that is for sure, I am Nick Fletcher, and if y'all are reading this right 'ere, then this must be my blog, The Mount Gambier Independent...cheers and laters...oh, and don't forget to take a brollie (an umbrella) with you, it could come in handy...(##and it's a hard, hard, and it's a hard, hard, and it's a haa-haaarrr-haaaaard, well it's a haard raaaaaaain's a gunna' fa-aaa-aaall##-Ed Impersonating Bryan Ferry, Poorly)...thankyou my blue-eyed son...laters

Over The Pension Age Of Entitlement

***further apologies for recent continuing gaps and/or disjointed posts (like this one) in this 'ere blog...started this post a month ago, probably longer, so it's out of date, etc, and I've got several others half-finished, etc, etc...can only say I'm still tryin', and for what it's worth, just quietly, just between you and me, succeeding...but don't tell anyone...***

Howdy again Russia, Aotearoa (New Zealand), Canada, and Singapore, and to everyone else, welcome...given the brief part-post earlier last week, let's get stuck in to it, ay?...

Ways back last week I was 'just listening' to a South Australian Labor Minister Ian Hunter 'post-truthing' his way through an interview re the 'toxic dust cloud' blowing over Pt Augusta, in SA's Mid-North...the dust originates from the recently decommissioned coal-fired power station that is/was a physically imposing, defining feature of the very actual Northern point of Spencer Gulf, where it (the dust) has been exposed when 'recent heavy rains washed away the protective top-layer'...(what, off all 200 hectares of it?-Ed)...indeed, it's a huge area of swampy ground, mangroves, etc, and scrubby saltbush, covered in 50 something years of 'fly ash', ...

Ian stated outright that the gritty shit blowin' all over Pt Augusta was the "top ash" not the "bottom ash" and that there were specific differences as to where they came from in the chimney stack/scrubbers/whatevs, and that this was just "top ash" and therefore there were no potential health issues for affected residents...but then, having made these specific statements vehemently denying any problems or potential for problems he refused to answer specific questions re those statements, saying that he wasn't the expert on those matters so and he'd leave it to those experts (in the Dept of Health and the Environmental Protection Agency) to explain that stuff...and then the EPA guy came on and did the same thing, 'it's safe', followed by 'I'm not a health expert so I can't comment'...

(So, hang on, in the same interview, firstly Minister Hunter made specific statements of fact re 1) the nature and/or type of the ash, and 2) why that meant it was 'safe', which is itself 3) a definitive statement re health issues-Ed)...spot on...(but then refused to answer specific questions re those definitive statements, deferring to Health and EPA 'experts'?-Ed)...yep...(and then the EPA doofus did the same thing specifically re the health issues, stating that it's all safe, but refusing to answer questions, and instead deferring?-Ed)...yes, everything's fine apparently, and subsequent scientific analysis has apparently found there's absolutely no problems contamination wise...(so there's just the immediate chronic health problems associated with chowing-down on lung-fulls of otherwise perfectly fine chimney soot?-Ed)...I'm sensing a degree of sarcastic skepticism from you Ed...(do ya' think?! this is the shit they scrape outta' the chimneys mate!-Ed)...fair point...  

(And who did that testing? was it the South Australian EPA?-Ed)...not sure, why?...(because the Rann/Weatherill Labor governments have made so many nepotistic and politically subservient official appointments, that none of these departments have any genuine credibility anymore...remember, they made Mia Handshin head of the EPA-Ed)...yeah, another fair point...(and only recently Labor/Weatherill dumped independent members off the Economic Development Board and appointed 3 of his/their own-Ed)...mate, you don't have to convince me of Jay Weatherills' lack of credibility on any issue...            

(***dear availees, watch the gap...didn't finish this last bit just there and I haven't got anything to get me to the next topic just down there...(you know, availees could just go back and re-visit one of their favourite amusing Segue Dialogues from our vast catalogue of witty banter in previous posts, and just use it here to fill-in until we get to the next topic-Ed)...you mean like this banter right here, what we're doin' now?...(well no, perhaps not this one-Ed)...hey, here's the next topic now...(oh thank god for that, I got nuthin'-Ed)...me neither to be honest...(move on?-Ed)...it's for the best...***)

Sussin' the Sussan Ley Of The Land:...(tally bally ho! polo anyone?-Ed)...yes well indeed, I'll get back to you Princess Julie...to briefly explain, Federal Liberal Minister for Health Sussan Ley has been in all sortsa' strife for a simple mistake re her travel allowances and one trip to Queensland where she happened to purchase an $800,000 apartment 'on the spur of the moment'...and it was reported that apartment happened to be bought from a major Liberal donor...and Minister Ley did a stern turn at the lecturn for the media about how this purchase was just a "spur of the moment" thing, made after a 10 minute inspection, perfectly appropriate, but she's gunna' stand aside pending an inquiry, but no probs, it's all groovy...unfortunately, there just happened to be 30 other trips with Ms Leys' name on the tickets, including twice for New Years Eve parties...(ouch, not so groovy-Ed)...indeed...this is all covered ad infinitum in mainstream media, including numerous other examples of recent similar rorts by other pollies from both major parties, including Foreign Minister Julie 'Princess' Bishop spending/claiming over $2,000 to attend an exclusive 'polo party' in/near Melbourne...(charming-Ed)...

And while y'all are laughing snidely at these Federal crooks, consider that Mt Gambier City Council continues to function as a corrupt profit-venture for it's constituent members and their families and friends...and so this post segues so neatly into the next, a review of the recent rampage of rampant rorting of Ratepayers' readies, otherwise known as a Mt Gambier City Council meeting...

Tomorrow: Ding, Ding, Next Stop China

MGCC doesn't have one red cent to support public transport in Mt Gambier, but has ample albeit undefined funds to get themselves to China...(well that's public transport-Ed)...how?...(well the Mt Gambier public's paying for Councillors' transport-Ed)...hilarious...(and their accommodation-Ed)...yeah, alright, we get it...(meals-Ed)...you can stop now...(nice bottle of Grange-Ed)...enough!...

And Councillor and former Mayor Steve Perryman thrice declaring a Conflict of Interest re his involvement with his self-appointed Tourism Mount Gambier, on the third occasion actually leaving the Chamber (*this refers to the December 2016 meeting)...all this and multiple other truly bizarre developments re this wholly corrupt TMG group...and I say wholly corrupt sure in the knowledge that the 3 main players in this li'l pantomime are rankly corrupt people who I have personally witnessed engage in multiple acts of rank corruption whilst elected public officers in the employ of the citizens of Mt Gambier and South Australia...(and also personally witnessed and then catalogued here on this 'ere blog the extraordinary corruption in Council meetings re TMG-Ed)...well exactly...   

I am Nick Fletcher and this is my blog...cheers and laters...and it's a whole year since Bowie died...(can't believe that-Ed)...no-one can mate... 

***And what a stunningly karmic segue into the next post because this post (above) was started over a month ago, 50% completed, and then finished today (Jan 31st 2017)...Sussan Ley has resigned as Health Minister weeks ago now...the main point I was headed toward was the general attitude of these Class A Crooks, particularly in Federal Politics, bastards to a man, including the women, who are so, so wealthy yet continue to just rort and deceive and be, well, complete arseholes to the disenfranchised and poor, etc...and the latest possibly lowest act of all from these bastards? attacking the Old Age Pension...(you're right, what an act of unbridled arseholeness-Ed)...sorry? did you say 'please Nick, go ape-shaped-bat-shit crazy about this issue'?...(well no, no I didn't-Ed)...well consider it done...(wish you wouldn't-Ed)...no no, don't thank me...

Whilst they haven't actually asked me to, I'd just like to say on behalf of my elderly parents (and the thousands of other Aussies in similar strife), both of whom worked extremely hard their entire lives, and have both just had their OAP savagely cut...(Language Warning-Ed)...damn straight Language Warning...To The Federal Liberal Party...(Language Warning-Ed)...yeah yeah, ok, we get it, there's a Language Warning...(well it's just I've had a quick browse into this next bit, and I thought several Language Warnings were appropriate-Ed)..............fair enough, but I'm not just angry about what's happened to my parents, I'm just rabid full-stop about this...(and fair enough to you mate, you could boil bunnies with my blood right now, it's a bloody disgrace-Ed)...seriously though, if strong language offends, please avoid the next paragraph...(he ain't kiddin' folks-Ed)...

To the Federal Liberal Party,
                                        Dear Arseholes, you low fucking bastards; you low, thieving fuckin' bastards...you steal these peoples money whilst you swan-about on the taxes they're still paying...and then you wonder why people call you low, thievin' fuckin' bastards...and they do...because you are....................................there, I'm done...   

And We're Back:...(what? done? already? wow, that was quick-Ed)...said what I had to say the only way it could be said...(and fair enough, but it's hardly the most eloquent or witty evisceration you've come-up with over the years-Ed)...there's only so many ways to say, well, to say what I said there...(indeed-Ed)...and as far as I'm concerned, those ways number One for there is simply no other way to say it...(well quite-Ed)...in fact, it's actually really quite cathartic to read it through a few times, go on, give it a go...(no, I already have thanks, but I do get what you mean, there is actually something very healing about having a good hard swear at people who really deserve it...arseholes!!!-Ed)...that's the spirit...
 
Manna From Heaven:...but then, only yesterday/today (January 30th/31st 2017), the local media has been awash with allegations that Mt Gambier Mayor Andrew Lee has 'done deals whilst overseas on Ratepayer-funded Council trips' and 'not declared Conflicts of Interest', and 'not declared business links on the Council Register as required', and 'has received income re those businesses and not declared it either', and so on and so forth...(wow, a Mt Gambier Mayor involved in dodgy dealings and not declaring it, etc, etc, there's something you do see pretty much every day-Ed)...certainly in this sickly corrupt town you do, but he's still got a helluva' ways to go before he catches-up to former Mayor/current Councillor Steve Perryman and his litany of corrupt dealings, not least of all his latest rankly corrupt enterprise, the self-declared Tourism Mount Gambier, as funded by MGCC and therefore Ratepayers, to the tune of $160,000 per annum plus 'in-kind support' (office and a car)...(now that's corrupt!-Ed)...

Tomorrow: The Ongoing Corruption Of Mt Gambier City Council

I am Nick Fletcher and this here is my blog...Nick Fletcher, Bringin' the Angry as only a very Large Hippy can...cheers and laters...

Nick Fletcher Concedes Defeat

Dear Availees,
                    It don't take a mug of beer* to see that I haven't been 'coping' let alone posting, in fact reckon it's a month today since the last post...a mans' gotta' know his limitations, or so it's said, because otherwise just sometimes a mans' limitations gunna' come get him and remind him...and so it has been for me...my limitations have sought me out and fundamentally redefined themselves such that I might have a better understanding of 1) just exactly where that line exists, and 2) that I've left that line well behind quite some time ago...it is no exaggeration to say that I've spent half of the last 2 months 'dozing' from bed to couch...literally half...    (*Einstein...'ein stein' of beer)

I've covered this 'Crash and Burn Intermittent Narcolepsy (CABIN Fever)' stuff and how that relates to Depression, etc, and the Agoraphobia stuff, etc, etc, in previous posts, and the factors at play, most of that has also been covered, but not quite nearly all of it, etc, etc...one's got stuff goin' on, not coping quite as well as one might hope, etc, etc...it's all fairly straight forward really...

The Odd Angry Parting Shot:...certainly not least of all is the extraordinary conduct of my Court case re this 'ere blog, with another 10 'hearings' last year (2016), culminating in a supposed 'trial' in November that lasted less than a day before it ground to a halt as the Magistrate was forced to call an adjournment because SAPol (police) Prosecutions presented a 'Charge Sheet' riddled with basic errors and contradictions, etc, which they (SAPol) then moved to 'Amend', and 'Amend' after I'd already been directed/forced to 'Plead' to each of the 19 'Counts'...when we returned later that day, SAPol had a completely different 'Charge Sheet' covered with flouro highlighter marks and hand written comments, but still run-through with the same mistakes as before...

This discussion went on for well over an hour in total, and Magistrate Anderson carefully explained what Her Honour considered to be the problems, and that one particular 'Count', 'Count 10' simply could not be 'Amended' and therefore had to be removed or HH would make that 'Order'...as I say, this discussion about the problems/faults went on for well over an hour...first SAPol tried to 'Amend' half of their own 'Charge Sheet', leading to an adjournment, then we returned an hour later only to have HH take issue with most of the other half, and very specifically with '10'...

I am not a lawyer and I haven't studied Law, officially or otherwise, apart from some limited stuff re my particular case of course, but I'm at least intelligent enough to understand what is being said to me/in front of me when it goes on for an hour or more, and the principles at play are relatively so basic...so here goes...

SAPol have cobbled together a 'Charge Sheet' that cites 18* 'Counts' of breaching that specific Act, (*was 19 before HH put the boot into 'Count 10' and SAPol withdrew it), but the error is that each 'Count' actually contains multiple 'Counts'...please allow me to explain thusly...for example - it is alleged that, on a certain date, the defendant has breached 'the Act' by 'blogging' about the defendant's own complaint and identifying people the subject of that complaint/investigation under that same 'Act', namely Joe Bloggs, Jane Citizen, and John Doe, and also identifying the Local Government body involved...each of these 'identifications' is a separate 'Count'...simple enough...

The 'Charge Sheet' should list these as individual 'Counts', that is, Count 1- On (date) the defendant commented on their 'blog' re their own complaint; Count 2- On (same date) the defendant identified Joe Bloggs re 'the Act'; Count 3- On (same date) the defendant identified Jane Citizen re 'the Act'; Count 4- On (same date) the defendant identified John Doe re 'the Act'; Count 5- On (same date) the defendant identified the Local Government body re 'the Act'...all of these are allegedly a breach of 'the Act'...this is a very vague and broad version of what's happening specifically to me, but the basic issue is obvious, each alleged breach should be a separate 'Count' on the 'Charge Sheet'...

Citing Her Honours' own concerns back to HH, I politely declined to accept this attempt to 'Amend' the charges, and HH had no option but to call yet a further adjournment, and I went straight to the only legal advice I can afford, South East Community Legal Service, and they took one look at this 'Amend' the charges stuff and gave me an appointment, in which they re-iterated/confirmed everything that HH had just explained to SAPol and me about the problems/faults...SECLS provided me some limited advice as best they could, and photocopies of the relevant legislation, with only 2 words highlighted, firstly "prejudiced" re how this 'Amend' business affects my case, and 2) "dismiss", which is fairly self-explanatory...

This issue was never resolved by Magistrate Anderson because, on the commencement of my trial next morning, HH suddenly excused/disallowed/whatevs Herself from hearing my case, and the whole shabang was adjourned, again, to be heard 3 weeks later by a different Magistrate flying down from Adelaide especially...as previously posted, when HH called the adjournment early on that first afternoon, November 3rd 2016, HH stated that HH would utilise that now-free time to read the 100 documents I had provided the Court and SAPol, as Ordered by HH, documents in support of my frequent statements/accusations that my trial was/is "a pro-paedophile political persecution motivated by the contents of the blog"...this is me directly quoting what I have said at least twice in Court, along with multiple other similar "political persecution" statements...my constant statements re this issue led to HH acknowledging them as being claims/allegations of "Abuse of Process", which then became "Malicious Prosecution"...these are the specific terms HH used...  

The new Magistrate acknowledged but completely dismissed the multiple issues re the 'Charge Sheet' and acknowledged but dismissed the advice/photocopies from SECLS, even dismissing my specific examples of the several specific issues as identified by Her Honour previously...and aside from the advice/direction I had had from both HH and SECLS, I had also spotted that in several 'Counts' a specific person/group/whatevs was the subject I had allegedly 'identified', yet in other 'Counts' the same p/g/ws were 'identified' but not mentioned by SAPol's 'Charge Sheet'...so, what appears in one place and is apparently therefore a crime, appears in the exact same place/context, immediately adjacent, and yet is not a crime...this also then leads directly into the stuff about multiple 'Counts' within each 'Count'...

Pointless hyperbole aside, I had gone into Court that morning fully expecting for the whole case to be thrown out ('Permanently Stayed'), and was genuinely stunned by His Honours' repeated dismissal of all of the issues that had originally forced the adjournment on the first day of the trial, only weeks before...it's not often that I'm left speechless but I was left completely floundering, absolutely at a loss, absolutely unable to reconcile what I was now being told and how it conflicted with everything that I had been told previous by Magistrate Anderson and SECLS...His Honour described it as a 'judgement call' that my case was not compromised in any way by either the gross faults in the SAPol 'Charge Sheet' or the sudden self-removal of Magistrate Anderson...

I argued that my case/hearing was completely compromised because His Honour had not witnessed/experienced any of the extraordinary events of the many previous hearings, eg, the repeated lies of SAPol Prosecutions and their openly contemptuous conduct re the Court, Her Honour, and most particularly me, probably to be listed in reverse in that SAPol's contempt for and animosity toward me has slopped carelessly into their behaviour in Court...regardless, when SAPol Prosecutions lies to me, and is then stupid enough to put that in writing and then send it to me and then provides those same documents to the Court as being factual statements yet knowing that those documents are false, that right there is Contempt of Court, perjury, call it what ya' shreckin' like...but I digress...
  
I also identified to His Honour, the extraordinary and deceitful conduct of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) in lodging a scathingly libellous Affidavit with the Court, alleging years of problems with me and my supposed behaviours re the ABC, etc...using the ABC's own Affidavit I managed to convince Her Honour that it was necessary to get the ABC to provide information to support these outrageous allegations, explain the gaping omissions, etc, and in response to that Court Summons, senior ABC lawyers from Ultimo in Sydney provided swathes of photocopied 'case law' (about 1 inch), and long diatribes via phone hook-up, saying that the Summons was 'too vaguely worded', and 'just fishing for info', and overall it was just "too oppressive"...

You don't know sanctimonious self-satisfaction until you've heard a Sydney ABC lawyer righteously citing why it's alright for the ABC to make rancidly slanderous statements about me in an official Court Affidavit yet fail/refuse to provide one single document to back that up because 'it's all a bit difficult'...I can now, have already, and will continue always to prove 1) the rankly corrupt perjury of the ABC re their extraordinary Affidavit, and 2) how that perjury is motivated by the long history of corrupt behaviour from the ABC re the St Martins Lutheran School Child Abuse Cover-up...and I've barely scratched the surface with this ABC Affidavit stuff...cannot wait to get these gentlemen in Court when they are required to give evidence to this remarkable Affidavit...

Bottomline, I was so genuinely confused in the moment, with His Honours' apparently conflicting statements and subsequent decision to proceed, etc, that I had to ask for a break to get my head together, and HH called yet another adjournment, setting yet another date for another hearing in February 2017 (coupla' weeks away)...HH stated that the 'Malicious Prosecution' would be handled separately on that date and not as part of the actual trial, now set-down for another 3 days in March 2017...

Not too proud to say that I am completely lost...whilst withdrawing, Her Honour made statements about 'Contempt of Court' issues, etc, in a context where it seemed that the trial is/was still current despite HHs' self-removal, but His Honours' comments seem to indicate otherwise, we're having another 'hearing' prior to 'the actual trial'...I have no idea...and beyond that, Her Honour directed that my "Malicious Prosecution" claims would be tested as part of my trial, to follow the 'Charges/Pleads' stuff that we had started but that went so ballistically wrong, etc, and before SAPol began their 'prosecution case', but now it's apparently a separate hearing...no idea why...I have received nothing from the Court since this latest November 2016 hearing...

I do not understand how it is possible that my trial just continues, for 20 hearings and a disastrous trial, across 2 years now, continues-on seemingly regardless of the relentless official chaos and how that fundamentally and completely compromises my chances of a 'fair trial'...and now that I think about it, his bizarre ABC Affidavit perjury stuff and their mind-boggling lawyers, etc, really deserve a post all their own...ahhh, what the heck...

Tomorrow: And Then Gets Back Up And Goes Again

Apologies for deliberately inferring that I was stopping this 'ere blog...a tad naughty of me, but it's not a million miles from the truth...

I have been defeated by the sum of my woes and I have hit the sack like a deck of...I've sacked the deck like a spud of...I've dropped like a pole-axed oxen, prone, face-down in the mud, just a lyin' there...but then, something grabbed me by the scruff of the neck and started dragging me forward...and wouldn't you know it, it's that bloody Self Esteem...

Some weeks ago I made the conscious decision to let myself 'collapse', to resign myself to that which was already happening, etc, and it hasn't been particularly fun, but here we are...

I am Nick Fletcher and I am The Mount Gambier Independent and that's just the way it is and I am here to stay for exactly as long as it takes...cheers and laters...

To close with a joke...had a channel-surfing encounter with one of the plethora of Aotearoa (New Zealand) cop shows on Aussie TV, where-in a middle-aged traffic officer resonded happily that he didn't have any problems dealing with the boisterous and rambunctious young ladies he'd stopped for a vehicle check, no probs because he himself was a father to daughters of a similar age...least ways, that's what he was trying to impart to viewers, but instead, with a broad smile and obvious pleasure, he gushingly blurted-out, "I've had teenage girls"...charming...

Happy New Year 2017

Proper post up later today...cheers y'all and welcome to The Mount Gambier Independent for 2017, the 5th year of this 'ere blog, TMGI...(nooo?! really?! 5 years?-Ed)...well 5th year technically, 4 years of actual blogging, starting February 2013, so this February is 4 years of TMGI...(strewth-Ed)...indeed, strewth...(and February, that coincides with the second anniversary of your Court case, which started in February 2015, and is set to continue in February 2017 and then for 3 more days in March-Ed)...strewth!..(indeed, strewth-Ed)...and if you continue that back to when the official SAPol (police) investigation of me re this 'ere blog, 'Operation Baritone', back when that began in February 2014, it's also gunna' be 3 years of 'Taskforce Get The Dirty Mouthy Hippy'...(is it my turn?-Ed)...yep...(strewth!-Ed)...indeed, strewth...

I reconfirm my commitment to continuing with this 'ere blog, albeit I'm clearly still struggling with that...not one to make New Years' resolutions, I still consider the way forward is to push back to a daily post as per an actual job, that is, weekdays, with weekends off, etc, just like a job...one of the biggest problems I'm having with continuing is that I completely ran myself into the ground last year...(for only the 15th year in a row-Ed)...well quite, but specifically not least of all this year, I've had no choice but to expend enormous amounts of time, effort, stress, etc, etc, achieving a series of extraordinary 'wins' self-representing in my Court case...(so bizarre-Ed)...indeed...

Second problem is that just trying to address the issues currently at play in Mt Gambier and South Australia just drags me straight into the pro-paedophile quagmire of corruption that has crippled SA...I know I've been through this before, but what can you say? eg, the spiralling price of electricity, the most expensive in Oz, and yet the most unreliable, with repeated blackouts and no 'base-load' production...and Premier Jay Weatherill continues to say it's everybody elses' fault but his. on this and every other subject...pathetic...

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