Ozzy Bile Bursts onto Blogs

I am still amazed, and disheartened, with the bile that spills out into these Blogs about this issue. What it says about Australian society today is more revealing than about its target: Mr David Hicks.

Its rabidity and rapidity suggest professionals at work. I wonder what the going rate is for xenophobic partisans ignorant of the rule of law, and the need for fair process and informed impartial judgment in the pursuit of justice?

I detect a familiar venting of similar muck to the public persecution of Lindy Chamberlain some years ago: know-it-alls abounding with their ignorant and hostile opinions on a subject that is obviously far beyond their capacity for appreciation. And in the end, proved wrong. And so, I believe, will this eventual outcome prove similar – if it is ever given a chance to proceed.

A holy man of peace is quoted as once saying: “You brood of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak what is good? For the mouth speaks out of that which fills the heart.” (Mathew 12:34), and “You serpents, you brood of vipers, how will you escape the sentence of hell?” (Mathew 23:33).

What we are dealing with here is public vilification of a person, an Australian and British citizen, by people who have no respect for the rule of law. And we have the shame of a government that panders to, and is derived from, this class of person. Ugly! Ruddock’s many faces says it all to me. Watch, slowly, frame-by-frame, the legion running through his various performances on this subject: the Age have provided two good examples on their web site.

Like the ALP’s Kevin Rudd, I may not agree with what Hicks did but I defend his right to do what is not explicitly against Australian law, and to a fair, open and timely trial before his peers on any charges that the authorities bring against him.

What is really suffering here is the legal framework that we supposed to exist for us all, care of hard work and sacrifice of our British forefathers. It seems to be fundamentally threatened through ignorance and vested interests. It is ironic that the Prime Minister is a trained lawyer. Who is his client? He seems hell-bent on acting like the ‘CEO of Australia’ rather than the servant of the people. Is this a sign of emerging plutocracy at work?

I am concerned that this increasing impotence and uncertainty in the Australian legal system means I need a Bill of Rights to feel safe. Just like many other mature democracies around the world. The Queen of Australia obviously has abdicated any interest in maintaining a British standard of justice here and we are now somewhere in transition towards an American approach – but without a similar constitution and protections – including, I might add, the right to bear arms. Now, it seems, all we can do, like the baboons, and the ancient Scots, is bare our backsides.

I predict, based on research into ancient lore and myth, that when this case is solved, and this government replaced, then it will rain again. Cheers to those in good spirits. R.

Posted by: Russell_c at January 19, 2007 3:40 PM


I also added later:

I read in the Age: (http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/downer-stupid-on-hicks/2007/01/19/1169095959836.html)

"But Mr Downer this week rejected a suggestion Hicks might not be mentally fit to face trial. "There is no evidence of that from what I have heard from Guantanamo Bay. None at all," he said."

Is this not the AWB fiasco all over again! Downer has no evidence. Ruddock has not seen the data. Howard has no heart for the truth. All we need now is Dorothy and Toto.

Posted by: Russell at January 19, 2007 3:53 PM
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But I suffered a small cut. The last lines I included were not published in the above. I did not save them but they said something like: "And the answer is simple 'dip sh__ts'. Do what you are paid for and go and find out the facts." ... or words to that effect. I thought they were fair enough with a healthy dose of Australian irreverence for wackers @ the top.