2009-10-12

Australian State-Sponsored Terrorism Article and My Comments

Just to keep recipients of my last two emails informed about state-sponsored terrorism in Australia, I post you this article just copied from "The Australian" newspaper, of today, 12th October 2009.
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,26198390-26103,00.html

Police chief denies bullying culture


October 12, 2009
Article from: Australian Associated Press

QUEENSLAND'S police minister and commissioner deny a culture of intimidation and bastardisation persists in the state's police service.

Their denials follow accusations raised by the families of two officers.

Whistleblower Sergeant Robbie Munn has been ordered off work for 18 months and told to see a psychiatrist after he campaigned against corruption at the Maroochydore police station on the Sunshine Coast.

Sgt Munn reported flaws in the promotion system and exposed cover-ups over the sexual assault by police of female detainees.

The other case involves the mysterious disappearance of Senior Sergeant Mick Isles, who went missing two days after returning to work following the Crime and Misconduct Commission (CMC) clearing him of allegations of corruption.

Commissioner Bob Atkinson said at a Crime Stoppers conference on the Gold Coast today the police service had greatly improved the way it supported its officers.

"I reject that, I really do," he said, when asked whether there was a culture of intimidation in the service.

"We're not perfect as an organisation ... but I think the last two decades have seen an incredible change in the department, and I would hope the next 10 years sees further change.

"I think we've improved significantly in that regard in terms of the way we support people."

Mr Atkinson said the case of Sen Sgt Isles was most unusual.

"This is a very sad and tragic set of circumstances," he said.

"I don't think in our history since 1864 that we've ever had a situation where we've had one of our own members who is missing, and we fear the worst but hope for the best.

"For a senior sergeant of police not to be able to be found after over two weeks of searching and effort is tragic, particularly for his family."

The commissioner refused to discuss criticism levelled against the force by Sen Sgt Isles' family, but said he had been treated fairly.

"The allegations against him were serious and it's simply impossible for the CMC to ignore allegations like that and not investigate them," Mr Atkinson said.

"Tragically, and he was perfectly entitled to do this, Sen Sgt Isles chose not to cooperate with the CMC in terms of the investigation ... which probably took longer than it might have done otherwise."

Mr Atkinson said he was meeting with his deputies and police union representatives to examine the Sen Sgt Isles case.

But he declined to discuss the case of Sgt Munn.

"I can't give you the other side of that story, for personal and private reasons that are quite sensitive .. but I reject outright that this officer has in any way been bullied and picked on because he was a whistleblower," Mr Atkinson said.

Police Minister Neil Roberts said he was confident the service handles such matters appropriately.

"There are very stringent internal mechanisms to deal with people who have complaints of that nature, and if individual officers or members of the public have any concerns they also have the alternative of the independent investigative powers of the CMC," he said.
"So from my point of view I'm confident and satisfied those matters are dealt with appropriately."


If I can, (if I'm alive!) I'll watch Australia's media and forward any relevant articles for your perusal.

My comments: It is not a well-reported issue overseas, but Australia DOES suffer quite a lot from such behavior in our policing forces. There's no doubt we are an horrendously corrupt nation, from the wealthiest elites down to the beggared levels of society of the poorest regions and suburbs, right across Australia.
Usually the Australian media is of the "latte club", so "suck each others savaloys" in mediating and publishing such news events.
But to be fair to them, the Australian media tries it's best.
Clearly, to go the full monty and expose the seriousness of corruption and the brutality used to protect it in such areas of state control as the police forces, is fraught with danger to one's life, or that of one's family etc., and all nations, advanced western and developing, are replete with cases of reporters either being seriously bashed or assassinated for getting too close to the bone.
However, from where I am coming from, Australia maybe in a unique type of position, for having such an "abrupt" starting point at 26th January 1788. Prior to that date, the whole continent was occupied by the Aborigine. We have little of their pre-invasion stories, in terms of facts about what wars ensued over their lo-ong history, dating as you would know, some 100,000 years.
To some extent, this is OK, and concerning ourselves about what events helped form the Aborigine "Psychology" and their quite Profound Laws and social systems becomes irrelevant.
I think they would, in-the-main, agree.
This, because they had, by 1788 an extremely well established, and by all accounts, a well respected and abided by Social and Cultural System, so, in a Wiser way than most of the white, western world understand, "history" to them, even today, is a fruitless thing to brood over, and struggle to keep records of, etc.
But, in regard to the above article and the issues it addresses, the "abrupt" beginning of what we now call Australia, and the fairly good records of events which transpired since then, aside from the dynastic claims from Britain through the last 221 years, give us less ambiguous details and records.
The events of Australia's development are clear and can be brought together to display quite clearly which occurrences have brought the various "parties" such as our policing forces, and the many departments of government, and the citizenry to being what they and we now are.
Most people, coppers and the rest, do not want to be corrupt. But once one leaves the shelter of the child's nurturing, we are all forced to adopt whichever culture we are thrust into.
Dysfunction was the order from our earliest days, with all manner of desperation, and, I say with determination to expose the beginnings of our errant culture, with quite deliberate perversions and subversion of the original English laws which the first Governors and the more honorable settlers and officials sought to instil.
These subversions are all documented, and can be attributed to our past leaders in the societies which grew.
The problem becomes seemingly insurmountable today when a lack of Proper Education about our national history keeps the players under the hexes of passed eras, and thus unable to grasp the Courage to break those shackles of bad beliefs and theories on how to police, how to govern, etc.
Were we left to our own devices, it is as likely that Australia could blossom in all the right directions. However, every copper is hexed from above, and they above are hexed from even higher. Not as in European or other very old nations, by it's own ancient lineages of dynastic power, but from clearly definable entities.
Namely, the International Monetary Fund. The I.M.F.
If we were given the right and authority to become a fully Independent Republic, not under the warped influence of such as that overseas interest, I submit that Australia could grow into an honest corruption-free continent and collective of Islands.
I think there's not a copper here who would not prefer that, all things considered today.
There you go.....

Yours,

Omaxa bin Eartha
aka Max Nichols Cook-Meredith-O'Brien
aka Max Nichols Cook
aka Max No Difference, Max No Sense, Max No Point,

Outlaw, for
Global Land, Tax, Cult, Drug, & Work Law Reform.

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