Zero Tolerance for Families

Three-strikes and you're out of the family?

A three-strikes plan, which uses the threat of fines and jail to (force) parents to meet their parental obligations after divorce, could be introduced under a draft proposal from the parliamentary committee charged with reviewing the Family Law Act.

Non-custodial parents mainly fathers? Who for example fail to pick up their children at the time dictated by Family Court orders would face "reasonable but minimum financial penalties" the first and second time they breach conditions? If the parent breaches the conditions for a third time and shows a "pattern of deliberate defiance", then all access rights could be withdrawn.

But why mainly fathers? Is father a dirty word in 2003? Could that be discriminatory considering 80-20 Family Court rule that's 20 per cent access for fathers and 80 per cent access for mothers. So I suppose fathers are more likely to breach the arrangements that are typically unfairly made in the first place.

How does zero tolerance work when families are based on trial and error? You tell me. I'll tell you. Then we'll both know. I guess you don't have to be a rocket scientist to get on the parliamentary committee charged with reviewing the Family Law Act.

The parent could also face imprisonment if consistently continuing to breach court orders.

GKCNN has been told the fines are intended as a "wrap over the knuckles" to encourage the parent to correct their behaviour. The same "wrap over the knuckles" force and threats used by our government to get short term results which helps the community accept, quite wrongly, that "wrapping people over the knuckles" is a way to get things done. Which it is not!

How about inviting people into the decision making process and finding out more information about those involved. How about asking how parents can help, therefore getting and obligation from the parents to help, because they may have come up with a solution, taking into account their circumstances.

All too hard for the government, they'd rather find a violent solution that gives them short-term results but a long-term disaster coupled with the inflation of it.

It's okay though, because the fundamental group unit of society (the family) and the taxpayers will pay for it won't they?

GKCNN understands the recommendation is contained in a draft report distributed to members of the Family and Community Affairs Committee for their comment yesterday. The final report is due by the end of the year.

The draft report also is understood to recommend giving grandparents for the first time special status in custody hearings a proposal that could make it easier for them to gain custody of their grandchildren.

In addition, parents would have to include grandparents when developing their parenting plans, and to develop a range of strategies to ensure they are part of the mediation process.

The three-strike recommendation flows from a series of hearings where children have told of the disappointment of waiting for parents who never arrive. While the Family Court can fine parents who fail to meet their responsibilities; it is understood that the committee members believe they do not use their powers enough.

In other words the stick is not big enough, long enough and hard enough like a prison sentence or a fine?

Other recommendations being considered include requiring all separating couples to lodge parenting plans with a new tribunal.

The tribunal could include a child psychologist, a mediator and a family law expert. This effectively would mean that custody disputes would be removed from the Family Court and dealt with by a tribunal.

Family Court Chief Justice Alastair Nicholson has attacked this proposal, describing it as unconstitutional and impractical.

Not just that but lazy and general. Not particularly suitable for a families individual needs but more suitable for a bunch of victim industry graziers looking for a feed. Like lawyer's psychologists and mediators.

You need these people with a formula that incites violence and you also need to jail those who don't agree three times. Short answer! Lazy corporate greed opposed to a better community response.

The Prime Minister asked the Family and Community Affairs Committee to investigate a range of highly emotive issues, including automatic 50-50-child custody after divorce, when he announced the inquiry in June.

Frustrations over child custody and support consistently rank among the most common complaints raised with government backbenchers.

By No Human Error 25 Nov 03

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Australia: The ruling class, capitalism and de-valuing the scholar

Ruling class "values" are different from working class "values" even more so now we are into full-blown capitalism where the wealthy multinationals influence the ruling class to the detriment of the general community. Zero Tolerance is an example.

Zero Tolerance for Families

A three-strikes plan, which uses the threat of fines and jail to (force) parents to meet their parental obligations after divorce, could be introduced under a draft proposal from the parliamentary committee charged with reviewing the Family Law Act.

In a community one must have tolerance because people only learn by making a mistake (trial and error). Being right means being right all the time but being wrong and right means being right in the end. So we learn more from being wrong than we do from being right. The less tolerant a ruler the less social justice this ruler has to deliver or be seen to have to deliver.

An example is the High Risk Management Unit at Goulburn Correctional Centre. " a box within a box" with no sunlight or fresh air. With no constructive education, hobbies or work for the prisoners. Extensive lock-downs and security rule the HRMU. Visitors have to pass a security test to gain access. Prisoners are chained and cuffed in leg-irons if they are to be moved. Prisoners are moved into a different cell every 14 days and the guards move their personal belongings.

So you see that uncertainty and ignorance about the requirements of the human being are part of the ruling class campaign not even try to rehabilitate prisoners who have made a mistake. Or even to make their living conditions reasonable as you would a cat or a dog.

Instead the prisoners are caught up into being exploited with references made by their jailers like "this person is regarded as one of the most violent now" and "this person is attempting to escape now" hence we need to make his life intolerable to the point where the prisoner who knows full well that he cannot escape then self-harms taking his/her frustration out on themselves.

In some communities now there are three-generations of parents who are unable to pass on social skills to their children. Without social skills the children take more risks and use more resources in order to achieve the same goals as you or me.

In order to relate to the community with respect and go on to socialise, children need skills or else they will end up in jail, because the ruling class won't tolerate them. An example is Opposition leader John Brogden who wants a curfew at Dubbo to prevent kids committing crime.

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Take two plants turn one up side down. What is your expectation that the plant that is up side down will grow?

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The ruling class divides the community by demonising its failures in order to introduce laws like the Bail Amendment (Repeat Offenders)Act the presumption against bail, mandatory sentencing and indeterminate sentencing Kable Vs The State of New South Wales now struck down by the High Court, Garry David Vs the State of Victoria now repealed because David died in custody of self-harm. And today in Queensland in Fardon V's the State of Queensland.

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Then you have 10 NSW prisoners who, to use the phrase of the Premier, Bob Carr, are "cemented in their cells." With their papers marked never to be released.

Bill Skaf who is serving 55 years for rape.

One of those convicted "Shorty" Jamieson, who has just been denied his application to the Innocence Panel because Police Minister John Watkins, has closed it down. Not one person is yet released by the panel who can find people innocent based on DNA evidence that does not match the crime scene.

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These sentences have left a group of community members who are unique individuals that are priceless and who are not dogmatic in a totally stagnant and hopeless situation, with no hope and no light for any form of improvement, when we know that people can learn from their mistakes.

Try and build a human being without an egg or sperm? Try and build a Gregory Kable, Gary David, Ivan Milat, Malcolm Baker, Phuong Ngo, Shorty Jamieson or Robert John Fardon with a toolkit from a hardware store or even a hospital. These unique human beings deserve more, even for making a mistake.

If the community won't eventually release these people, because they don't want to see that it can work, then they can be provided with constructive lives in prison, which is far short of what is being offered, by complaints Justice Action has received from the HRMU and many prisons around Australia today.

Prisons that are over-crowded have fewer resources to go around and so prisoners are being negatively reinforced and de-socialised.

Instead of leaving prison as community nurturers, they leave prison bewildered and lost.

This means if they have no insight into why they went to prison and have learned no new skills then they may be worse off than when they went to prison, because they have few social contacts with which to rely on. No light at the end of the tunnel is like terminating at Redfern instead of taking the city circle and heading off in a new direction.

So the community is cleverly played off against itself (divided) while the ruling class takes up more slack, in the tug-of-war, between Capitalism and Social Justice, between Industry and Community. Two sets of different values one of greed and money and the other of nurture and love.

Citizenship has just recently been added to the school curriculum but there is a real need for communication, conflict resolution and social skills, so our children can learn to relate to each other and then socialise, even if parents or carers lack those skills to pass onto their children.

In the USA the Patriot Act has been introduced. A person was jailed because he had a link on his website that had a plan for a bomb. Do you watch all your links on your site to see how they have changed? Not likely if you're busy like me.

So perhaps in Australia you don't have to be able to communicate. An example (The banning of Framed Magazine to all NSW Prisons).

Human Rights 'Framed'

Here is a quick report on our Human Rights Commission approach on Framed (the quarterly magazine of Justice Action) being banned from all NSW prisons. After 42 issues went in.

The recent Australian Federal Government crackdown. The Federal Government plans to outlaw the Internet for "offensive and menacing purposes". Proposing new laws that could mean two years in prison for activities like organising or advocating violent protests through the Internet.

Australian communication rape

Using the Internet to communicate thoughts and expose corruption. Opposed to the Governments line, 'Material on the Internet that would be regarded by a 'reasonable person' as inciting violence, offensive and for 'menacing purposes'.

Protests are organised through the Internet and most of the time the police crackdown and launch the violence not the words on the Internet or even the gathering of people but the charge of police with batons or on horseback.

The legislation will also introduce "criminal penalties for placing material on the Internet that would be regarded by an [alleged] reasonable persons as being, in all the circumstances offensive". When the ruling class and the media demonise us it usually takes the form of labelling and categorising the demon.

Violent protesters or wife killer, sex monster, murderer, rapist, bank robber etc. But what you are actually seeing and hearing is the devaluation of human kind by the ruling class. Oh! That is not harassment, offensive or menacing because they did it?

The ruling class who are all too willing to turn the community against itself in order to get more power to divide and conquer the community, by drafting new forms of draconian laws that fall short of the correct community response, because it is purported that you the community need to feel safe.

Holistic solutions that work are not found when we de-value a human being into labels and categories. Nor by setting the communities values against the community. At best these new laws deliver short term results and inflation opposed to the possibility of long term results.

How to abide by realistic laws seems more important than the laws that offer no hope and no light. If our leaders don't lead by example and our teachers don't teach, then we are being misled.

Framed Magazine

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The dark side of the NSW Police Force

Operation Viking is really picking up a lot of no-hoppers who really just don't have the street smarts to avoid high-profile policing.

Police storm troopers in New South will raid communities for illegal handguns. But do they have a reasonable excuse? This team of storm troopers will comprise of 46 officers and form part of Operation Vikings, which has been targeting street crime since its inception 15 months ago.

But Vikings is also grossly interfering and harassing ordinary citizens as well.

Commercial sectors have suffered and private citizens who have been stirred and heavily shaken by Gestapo style policing that (Starlin and Hitler would be proud of) just don't agree with this form of brutality, breach of their privacy and interference in their daily lives.

Police around the state alleged to have seized more than 2,500 guns last year and obviously that wasn't enough. But police around the state did not seize those guns by any operation Vikings.

Operation Vikings is just a smokescreen and a witch-hunt used by police or politicians. Police will try to validate their search if they don't like your head and find any reasonable excuse at the end of their search to validate their harassment and interference.

Politicians think having some dog to sniff guns out of your underwear will fix the problem. But is it just a cloak? Police can target anyone now and will interfere and harass anyone using this excuse.

Does that make it legally and morally fair? Having strip-searched people, then by searching your vehicle. If anything is found they will invite themselves into your home.

Police Minister John Watkins says after the success of Operation Vikings, they have decided to concentrate on the proliferation of illegal hand guns.

"It was developed out of the view that by saturating an area, concentrating resources, based on intelligence, with high visibility, high numbers of police, we'd have a better outcome and it has worked brilliantly," he said.

But the NSW Opposition is unimpressed by the gun crackdown using storm troopers.

The New South Wales Opposition has dismissed the Government's latest attempts to crackdown on the illegal gun culture.

Shadow Police Minister, Peter Debna, says the announcement falls well short of the action required to attack the problem.

"Operation Viking is really picking up a lot of no-hoppers who really just don't have the street smarts to avoid high-profile policing," he said.

"What we're talking about is a number of people, a number of thugs and criminals in NSW who have illegal handguns.

"Those people know how to avoid high-profile policing, those are the ones we need to target."

May the Force be with you Luke.

By Obi-Won Kenobi 11 August 03

THE FOX: If you cast a wide net you're likely to catch more chickens.

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Deeds
I am disturbed by Governments 'actions' in relation to shuffling the police service. Clive Small seconded into Parliament like a cocky in a perch. A breach of the fundamental Separation of Powers Doctrine does not in my view allow the thought of intervening, planning, or shuffling to stack the deck of our police service. The one that suppose to be autonomous according to Lord Denning. Where the Parliamentary Secretary can ask the commissioner of police to 'report' then sack him if he is not satisfied with such report.

Australia's Political Underworld...& their enforcers
The promotion of law and order means money to big business. Profits from insurance, security fixtures, patrol services and the like can only continue to grow if the perceived threat of uncontrollable crime wave escalates. In the past few months there have been many examples of the true nature of our blood thirsty politicians and their sinister attempts to spoon-feed a not so gullible public with their repetitious rhetoric.

Truth
Who is telling the truth? Well I guess Dr. Ed. Chadbourne or Mr. Peter Ryan may have the answer to that. Dr. Chadbourne sacked by Peter Ryan and more specifically in my view because he elected deputy commissioners Dave Madden and Andrew Scipione as the best men in the service in relation to his qualifications to make a recommendation in his capacity as human resources.That is if you believe that a Dr. can be corrupted.

Honesty
What is happening between the Police Service and politics is quite extraordinary at the moment. If stand over tactics don't work tell half the truth honestly and follow the example of sheep. Another word for it is sleaze, yeah. Another word for it is workplace harassment. Another word for it is bribing a Police Officer. Another word for it is misleading Parliament.

Tele Tales
Most people I know don't buy the Daily Telegraph. Why? Because of the lies and propaganda purported by them.

Lord Denning
Interesting how a member of the Police Board Mr. Tim Priest would hold grave fears for his safety from dangerous senior police but fails to name them or have them sacked. Rather Priest resigns as if he had no powers. Could that mean what he was saying is that the Governments are also corrupt?

Corrosive
Clive Small is Bob Carr's choice for the new Police Commissioner. It could only be the case considering his, Small's special appointment into Parliament House. Small who suffers from the little person syndrome is the ideal bend over boy who gets shuffled through his corrupt actions. Rolling the legal system for him after the fact, just like his predecessor Roger the dodger Rogerson.

Black Nexus
The Separation of Powers Doctrine is nowcontaminated witharangeofcolours, now leaving us with a black shirt on a once blue bridge that crossed that thin blue line. The 'Amery and Woodham show'.

Same boat
The Premier, Bob Carr, relies on a militia. A gang of bikies and our Police Service, to show all of us he is no murderer. He should be taken to the task along with his partners in crime like Clive Small to account for those people who like my self have been maliciously assaulted and who have complained, without any service and those who cannot speak for themselves who were murdered, like Terry Falconer. Terry murdered in custody.

Good Cop
Why have our democratic institutions broken down? It's not just the criminal justice system. The Anti-Corruption Network webmaster@anti-corruption-network.org exposes the same issues. A group of white-collar workers who say they have suffered as follows:

Dangerous
I refer to the Daily Telegraph article 22 March 2002 under the heading Priest quits advisory job.

Partners in crime - history!
Roger Rogerson, the old hero, who never faced a result in the Warren Lanfranchi, or Sally-Anne Huckstepp murders, was let off in my opinion when the New South Wales Government rolled the legal system (deciding what evidence to give the police prosecutor) to have the jury believe the illusion they (the Government wanted to create).

Police Chronology 1994-2001
View events in the NSW Police Force since the Wood Royal Commission began in 1994. 1994 May Justice James Wood is appointed Commissioner of the Royal Commission into the NSW Police Service ('WRC').

QANTAS drug testing: Pooping on people?

People are in different classes. What class are you in?

Some people struggle more than others do in order to survive. People take drugs to get through their life. Whether it's illegal or not has no bearing on what an employee can do for you as an employer.

Does your employee criticise you for cutting a corner in order for you his employer to make a profit?

In the gamble of life you take the good with the bad and the results can easily be seen. If there are no results then your employer will go broke. Based on your work performance your employer can sack you or keep you on depending on what you can do for the company. You can tell nine times out of ten if your employee is drunk on the job. Or stoned out of his/her mind and won't perform.

So what is the problem? Police, politicians, workers, and bosses are all stressed at some point. Better to admit what is real and call a spade a spade and let people get on with the job.

Zero tolerance is a contradiction within itself because a human being is not infallible and therefore a human being can only do their best.

Do not judge what a person has to do in order to survive.

Ageing causes people to respond. You're on a rock face in reality. Wind, rain, sun and waves crashing around you breaking you down slowly. Even the air you breathe is eating your internal organs away. Humanity accuses people of judging others so who are you to be the judge?

Employers have been accused of jumping the gun by introducing drug and alcohol testing programs while neglecting other issues that could impair a worker's performance, such as fatigue.

Fatigue may be correct but this statement indirectly attempts to cover up the reality of employers who may take drugs. People don't want to be seen as having to depend on drugs for medicinal purposes.

What about the employers own performance excuse me? Do the employers who wish to introduce this testing intend to test themselves first to see whether they're qualified to judge their employees?

If you want to introduce drug testing it has to be across the board starting from the top Prime Minister down. In that order because the ministers are leading us by example. Then there would be a need to go into the High Court of Australia and the bureaucracy, on to police and medical and then trickling down to the common class of workers.

If you're not prepared to have this type of reform then who are you 'Qantas' to be the Judge?

A drug testing specialist, Judith Perl, a forensic pharmacologist with NSW Police, said she expected many employers to follow companies such as Qantas in introducing schemes in an effort to meet obligations under occupational health and safety laws.

Is this Qantas or John Howard?

Qantas plans to trial random drug and alcohol testing in Sydney later this month, but is facing strong union criticism about the potential for discrimination and privacy breaches.

Dr Perl said occupational health and safety changes were putting company bosses in a position to ensure that there was a safe working environment.

"They are all jumping the gun and saying, 'Well, let's drug test'," Dr Perl said.

"They will be thinking if they are seen as doing something, that makes for a safe environment. But they neglect things that are in the too-hard basket, like fatigue."

Over the next three days Qantas employees will attend briefings by union officials about random urine- and breath-testing.

Qantas expects to test about 5 per cent of its 35,000-strong workforce each year once the program is fully operational.

Ten unions are involved in the campaign against the program. They say they do not oppose drug and alcohol testing to prevent and determine impairment, but they are concerned that the trial will force workers to reveal use of prescription medicines or over-the-counter drugs.

The assistant national secretary of the Australian Services Union, Linda White, said the tests would pick up whether workers took HIV or IVF medication or Viagra.

"People don't think that that's any business of their employer," Ms White said. "People are concerned that there's a privacy issue."

But a spokesman for Qantas, Michael Sharp, said it would not test for HIV and IVF medication or Viagra. It was only interested in three types of drugs depressants, stimulants and hallucinogens - and thresholds (such as a 0.02 blood-alcohol level) would apply.

He said the program emphasised education and rehabilitation, with staff testing positive to undergo counselling and return a negative test before they returned to work.

"We respect all employees rights to privacy the focus of it always has been our commitment to safety on the ground and in the air," Mr Sharp said.

By Medicinal Purposes Workplace Reporter 5 August 03

THE BIRD: Why did you take that drug? Because it was there and because it relieved my tension. Some people take to the bottle to find solace because it removes tension. Tension that could otherwise cause a company to go broke. We respect all employers right to privacy as long as the drug testing starts with the employers CEO's and is not discriminatory in that Prime Minister John Howard is tested as well as everybody else. Otherwise you could be judging others without judging yourself.

That's not fair. Your have an expectation about what others should do but not what you have done yourself. How do you rate?

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Alcohol Abuse: You're one of my kind?
Special Minister of state John Della Bosca says there is only a small percentage of people who are alcoholics, but that small percentage has a disproportionate impact on their own health and costs to society. Small percentage? Excuse me? Do I need a calculator? Or do I need a new set of eyes? According to the statistics at least two million people abuse alcohol?

Australia: Wine glut alert?
Wine glut alerts bank to grape grower debt and we need to be aware there's no magic bullet here either, it is a chronic condition just like the other one? You know, Abra Cadabra.

Australian Alcohol Abuse: Abra Cadabra, I want to reach out and grab ya No magic bullet? This is a chronic condition! Government's Legal Drug Alcohol is costing Australia billions: study. Alcohol-related incidents cost the Australian taxpayer more than $7 billion in a single year. Of that sum, $2 billion arose from loss of life, pain and suffering. The report says in 1998 alone more than 2,000 Australians died from alcohol abuse.

Drug law blamed for hep C epidemic
THE federal Government's conservative tough-on-drugs policies have triggered an explosion in hepatitis C infections, a secret health department report has found. And the disease has become an "epidemic", with half a million Australians likely to have the debilitating virus by 2020.

MJA - BBCD Outbreaks in NSW prisons
Seems some of our friends in & around Corrections Health Service (CHS) were able to take advantage of a couple of recognised cases of needle sharing by HIV positive prisoners to gather data for a study.

Medicinal cannabis trial approved or not marijuana still remains a big hit! THE nation's first trial of cannabis for medical relief will begin in NSW by the end of the year, a move that Premier Bob Carr said yesterday would stop decent people feeling like criminals.

CWA wants pot legalised
PERCEIVED as the height of conservatism, the Country Women's Association has had a reputation for baking and handicrafts until now. The organisation yesterday confirmed it is seeking to have cannabis legalised for health reasons. A recommendation to be put forward to the annual meeting in May calls for the legalisation of the drug for the treatment of terminally ill patients.

Drunks propel rise in violent crimes! But who promotes drinking really?
Every day NSW police deal with more than 300 violent offences committed by people who are drunk and they say the number is rising. But they don't say because the government promotes alcohol and only alcohol.

Another lethal party drug article...
This is another lethal party drug article by the Daily Telegraph's (DT)'s Super Crime Buster Division, but I'll try to straighten it out a bit so you can understand it.

Poison Ivy: Drugs and Substances
Everything is a drug love, money, vegemite, and honey so why the hang up on coke? Things go better with Coke. at least that's what we're told each and every day by advertising. [?] So why the big hang up on alcohol, amphetamines, cigarettes, marijuana, speed, ecstasy and cocaine?

Police selling drugs? Bikies selling drugs? Pharmacies prescribing drugs Of course there will be criticism when you cross that thin blue line! You have to realise how the government itself has been corrupted because of the drug scene and the money involved.

Drug rehabilitation: Threats, threats and more threats!
But a spokesperson for Citizens Against Being Forced Mr Ihave Amind Ofmyown said, "Major Watters is John Howard's adviser because he's a bully. Citizens make their own decisions about what is best for them and if you don't like that step down."

MPs told of police corruption
Corruption and mismanagement are still entrenched in the NSW Police, and problems at the highest levels are "whitewashed", according to evidence given yesterday to a federal parliamentary committee.

Alcohol is just the beginning
People who start using alcohol by their mid teens are more than twice as likely as others to experiment with different drugs and to become dependent on drugs a major Australian study has found.

Tobacco, alcohol top the drug abuse toll
Tobacco and alcohol accounted for 83 per cent of the cost of drug abuse in Australia, dwarfing the financial impact of illegal drugs, a Commonwealth Government report has found.

NSW police cracked up on antisocial behaviour
Hundreds of extra police will be on the streets of Sydney from this afternoon as part of a major blitz on crime and activities as "antisocial behaviour" says the ABC online last Fri 24 May 2002.

Alcohol pickles your brain
The only two social drugs the Government sanction are cigarettes and alcohol as legal, yet they cause the most damage." He said.

Lies dictated exit to tent embassy raid: Common Sense

Police have defended their actions during an early-morning raid at the Aboriginal Tent Embassy in Canberra.

More than 40 police, some with riot gear, surrounded a burnt-out shipping container while contractors worked to remove it.

The structure was damaged during a suspected arson attack last month. Federal authorities had declared it a safety hazard.

ACT police operations commander Mandy Newton says the operation had been in planning for about a fortnight and was approved earlier this week.

"You're never sure whether or not you'll have 10 people, 20 people, 50 people or 100 people there at the time," Ms Newton said.

"We have to maintain safety for our police officers in having adequate police available if things escalate and there is some level of a breach of the peace taking place."

By We're Not Stupid 16 July 03

HONEST: Last report on the Aboriginal Tent Embassy on SBS Television showed no more than four people if that and one bloke who decided to sleep on the roof in a sleeping bag so he could prevent the Embassy being removed. AUSTRALIAN OF THE YEAR. When are police and the government going to stop defending violence and terrorism with lies?

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O'Shane blasts constitution
Controversial New South Wales magistrate Pat O'shane has described the Australian Constitution as flawed and grossly inappropriate.

Demounting Auntie Isabel Coe
The information demountable and Auntie Isabel Coe's demountable were set alight at 3am last Saturday morning. The info demountable was completely destroyed- 31 years of photos and info on the grassroots Indigenous rights movement destroyed! Wilson Tukey (FUCKER)has wanted any excuse to get rid of the embassy for ages. This week he has been using the excuse that the burnt out shell is a danger to the community therefore the embassy must be removed.

NSW Ombudsman to probe police 'move-on' powers

The New South Wales Ombudsman will audit police records to determine if the controversial police "move-on" powers are being used fairly and appropriately.

Concerns have been raised that police may be unfairly targeting young people. The audit is part of a review of the extra powers officers were given to help tackle the illegal drug trade in Cabramatta in south-west Sydney.

Officers can temporarily ban people from a suburb if it is suspected they are there to buy or sell drugs. The Ombudsman will analyse how directions to "move-on" are issued, the length of the bans imposed and the age and background of the people who receive them.

Some legal and community centres have told the Ombudsman of concerns police may be targeting young people in the use of the powers. The Ombudsman has released a discussion paper and will accept submissions until the end of the month.

By Luke Skywalker 14 July 03

THE DOG: The ideology that police are fair is a myth? This is simply another form of police harassment and general interference. Is there a long-term result that is fair? Or does this just get you out of the way for now? Where is it written? The more power one has the more work gets done and the more problems are solved? Buggered if I've read it.

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NSW: More Police Force?
Police Minister 'open to ideas' to stop shootings? Or police Minister acting dumb? The New South Wales Police Minister says he will consider giving officers more powers if it will help prevent gun crimes.

Peace Welfare and Good Government? Or Corruption Lies and Good Capitalism? POLICE officers are not making arrests for fear they will be sued, as the force faces lawsuits demanding almost $100 million compensation for wrongful arrest, assault and malicious prosecution. Officers fear they will become personally liable for legal action if they make arrests said, The Police Association yesterday.

Police WarLords set to take over Sydney again
Police warlords are set to take over Sydney's suburbs because police are not being supervised properly.

Jailed man's conviction to be reviewed
The New South Wales Court of Criminal Appeal will today review the conviction of a man, after claims in the Police Integrity Commission (PIC) last year that police planted weapons and faked suspects' confessions.

Rookies step up to ranks of Keystone-Cops?
Officers untrained in major criminal investigation are being posted to the state's elite body of detectives.

The inaugural Australian Police Summit
The inaugural Australian Police Summit (APS) will take place 18-19 June 2003 at the Australian Technology Park, Sydney. APS is Australia's only dedicated event focusing on all aspects of Law Enforcement and Policing.

NSW Police! Soothsayers or slayers? Strategy part 3 Permit denial
Part three: Refuse to grant a permit for another planned march because they manipulated the populist view. How? By exploiting your argument and eroding the public's confidence in peaceful demonstrations and by using the media to tell their lies, then using that as a weapon against peace.

Police violence fractures Peace movements?
The resolution also criticised New South Wales Assistant Police Commissioner Dick Adams for creating a threatening environment by mobilising excessive force for the protest.

No confidence in 'Force' when service is out the door
How are shopkeepers and service staff going to feel today knowing police are vulnerable to be attacked while serving customers at the counter of a police station?

Every dog has his day: Brammer resigns
The Police Integrity Commission found that Brammer, along with other senior police, had at times displayed a lack of support for the former police reform body, the Crime Management Support Unit.

MPs told of police corruption
Corruption and mismanagement are still entrenched in the NSW Police, and problems at the highest levels are "whitewashed", according to evidence given yesterday to a federal parliamentary committee.

Black Knight Moroney to give evidence?
Accusations about former high-ranking NSW policewoman Lola Scott's alleged failure to act against paedophiles have dominated a federal crime inquiry hearing in Sydney.

The NSW Police Force
The NSW Police Force has stopped production on its new movie Viking. Viking, showing in NSW Parliament House and in the suburbs of Sydney recently.

Crime victim group wants say in money allocation
A spokesperson from Justice Action Mr Brett Collins said, "Victims should be properly compensated regardless of the source and that is currently the law. The law says you don't need to find even the offender to get compensation. This is an attempt by the opposition to create a law and order issue-involving victims when there is in fact no issue!

Abolition of 800 year old double jeopardy law a crime
The 800-year-old rule prevents a person who's acquitted of a criminal charge from ever being re-tried for that offense.

When real safety is jeopardised in NSW
Perception of crime is still a problem in NSW, with a new Productivity Commission report showing the state's citizens feel less safe than most of their counterparts.

Call to Bronwyn Bishop's Federal Crime Inquiry
I call on Bronwyn Bishop to allow me to produce first evidence about police corruption and to be able to attend Parliament House Sydney without fear of conviction.

Australia: politicians should watch police
In Sydney yesterday the Opposition police spokesman, Andrew Tink, urged Federal Labor MPs to allow the public hearing of the claims, which include that senior police, the PIC and the Ombudsman's office were failing to investigate legitimate complaints of misconduct, including corruption in the police promotion system.

The community questions ICAC's slagging and fobbing you off?
The ICAC, Commissions, Ombudsman, Police Integrity Commission (PIC), and numerous Tribunals etc, are all arms of government set up as an insurance police for the government's 3 or 4 year election terms. In short they'll be out of office by the time you may be lucky enough to have your matter heard.

Who is bad?
Super Rat? M5? M11? K8? N2? So I trust that some people who, with the photos and guns guessed that a jury would quickly establish a case against a profiled person whom, you just had a picture and a history of. Common knowledge? The government knew their victims would take the blame. Not just chess in court, 'moving around the pieces', but 'putting false evidence, or not enough evidence before the jury."

2,500 crooked detectives? Or a corrupt Government?
Evan Whitton: Either two things occurred. If you said you didn't join the police force to extort money from working girls, your papers were marked 'not suitable for plain clothes' and you were sent back to uniform.

How to become corruption resistant in NSW
Don't trust those who cannot prove themselves with the little amounts of trust you give them. Just because they have a letter of perceived trust doesn't mean they can be trusted.

This is not how you eat 'antisocial behaviour'
Process corruption, perjury, planting of evidence, verbals, fabricated confessions, denial of suspects rights, a solicitor to induce confessions, tampering with electronic recording equipment, framing. Generally green lighting crime, and I say Murder, including the kids who overdosed on heroin. No doubt.

Black Knight - Long way to go home
In line with the current climate of police corruption and the demise of the reform unit set up by Wood, these facts ought to have been a good reason to leave Moroney out of the package as Commissioner.

Bob down and sniff my arse
These are serious invasions of privacy and draconian laws? Where are our democratic soldiers, the lawyers and the barristers who need to take on the government in the courts? Are they plastic? Or to busy feathering their nests? Or have they been cleverly purchased by this black government. Drug test police and politicians, and have the tests independently accessed.

Come in spinner? Or Come in sinner?
"You don't have, in my view very vigilant processes. I suppose it's akin to the problem of corruption within the police," he told the ABC radio. " People say there's corruption with the police (but) do you get the police to investigate problems within their own ranks?

Deeds
I am disturbed by Governments 'actions' in relation to shuffling the police service. Clive Small seconded into Parliament like a cocky in a perch. A breach of the fundamental Separation of Powers Doctrine does not in my view allow the thought of intervening, planning, or shuffling to stack the deck of our police service. The one that suppose to be autonomous according to Lord Denning. Where the Parliamentary Secretary can ask the commissioner of police to 'report' then sack him if he is not satisfied with such report.

Australia's Political Underworld...& their enforcers
The promotion of law and order means money to big business. Profits from insurance, security fixtures, patrol services and the like can only continue to grow if the perceived threat of uncontrollable crime wave escalates. In the past few months there have been many examples of the true nature of our blood thirsty politicians and their sinister attempts to spoon-feed a not so gullible public with their repetitious rhetoric.

Truth
Who is telling the truth? Well I guess Dr. Ed. Chadbourne or Mr. Peter Ryan may have the answer to that. Dr. Chadbourne sacked by Peter Ryan and more specifically in my view because he elected deputy commissioners Dave Madden and Andrew Scipione as the best men in the service in relation to his qualifications to make a recommendation in his capacity as human resources.That is if you believe that a Dr. can be corrupted.

Honesty
What is happening between the Police Service and politics is quite extraordinary at the moment. If stand over tactics don't work tell half the truth honestly and follow the example of sheep. Another word for it is sleaze, yeah. Another word for it is workplace harassment. Another word for it is bribing a Police Officer. Another word for it is misleading Parliament.

Tele Tales
Most people I know don't buy the Daily Telegraph. Why? Because of the lies and propaganda purported by them.

Lord Denning
Interesting how a member of the Police Board Mr. Tim Priest would hold grave fears for his safety from dangerous senior police but fails to name them or have them sacked. Rather Priest resigns as if he had no powers. Could that mean what he was saying is that the Governments are also corrupt?

Corrosive
Clive Small is Bob Carr's choice for the new Police Commissioner. It could only be the case considering his, Small's special appointment into Parliament House. Small who suffers from the little person syndrome is the ideal bend over boy who gets shuffled through his corrupt actions. Rolling the legal system for him after the fact, just like his predecessor Roger the dodger Rogerson.

Black Nexus
The Separation of Powers Doctrine is nowcontaminated witharangeofcolours, now leaving us with a black shirt on a once blue bridge that crossed that thin blue line. The 'Amery and Woodham show'.

Same boat
The Premier, Bob Carr, relies on a militia. A gang of bikies and our Police Service, to show all of us he is no murderer. He should be taken to the task along with his partners in crime like Clive Small to account for those people who like my self have been maliciously assaulted and who have complained, without any service and those who cannot speak for themselves who were murdered, like Terry Falconer. Terry murdered in custody.

Good Cop
Why have our democratic institutions broken down? It's not just the criminal justice system. The Anti-Corruption Network webmaster@anti-corruption-network.org exposes the same issues. A group of white-collar workers who say they have suffered as follows:

Dangerous
I refer to the Daily Telegraph article 22 March 2002 under the heading Priest quits advisory job.

Partners in crime - history!
Roger Rogerson, the old hero, who never faced a result in the Warren Lanfranchi, or Sally-Anne Huckstepp murders, was let off in my opinion when the New South Wales Government rolled the legal system (deciding what evidence to give the police prosecutor) to have the jury believe the illusion they (the Government wanted to create).

Police Chronology 1994-2001
View events in the NSW Police Force since the Wood Royal Commission began in 1994. 1994 May Justice James Wood is appointed Commissioner of the Royal Commission into the NSW Police Service ('WRC').

Coalition proposes to exploit children

The Coalition says it would reform juvenile justice in New South Wales to require the courts to "get tough" on juvenile crime.

An election policy launched in Maitland today includes giving young offenders one warning before taking them before the courts, and abolishing the practice of giving one sentence for multiple offences.

Shadow Justice Minister Chris Hartcher says non-violent offenders will be sent to "second-chance" camps.

"The second-chance camps will be from two to 12 weeks where they'll learn vocational skills, outdoor skills and it'll give them a chance to actually be a responsible citizen in the community rather than act irresponsibly," he said.

The peak [social services] group for the state says a "zero tolerance" approach to juvenile crime could be counter-productive.

New South Wales Council of Social Service director Alan Kirkland says cutting back on formal cautions and diversionary programs is not the way to go.

"I think you'd have trouble finding a researcher who wouldn't think that sending people into detention is a bad idea, because the sooner you send someone into detention the more likely they are to reoffend and then continue offending," he said.

"You've got to stop that cycle the first time, and the best way to do that is through an emphasis on appropriate services and on diversion out of the system."

A spokesperson for Justice Action Mr Brett Collins said, "This proposal is political desperation by the Coalition." "Kick the kids for a vote."

"This shows callous indifference to damage because every researcher knows first institutionalisation leads to jail." He said.

Justice Action

By Edu Cation 6 Feb 03

THE TEACHER: Educate. Don't incarcerate!

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Critical Resistance - Sydney
This new prison abolition group aims to bring together active people from diverse cultural backgrounds around a common struggle against the Prison Industrial Complex (PIC) and its negative effects on our communities.

Death camps looming in Victoria
A letter was received on 15 January 03 from SCS-4\320 a remand prisoner in Victoria's Barwon Prison I later found out that the prisoner was in the Acacia High Security Unit.

Jail search finds knives, syringes
Mr Brett Collins a spokesperson for Justice Action said, "It shows there is a lot of desperation in the prison system at the moment and has been for some time."

Take crime talk beyond the bars:'lobby group'
A coalition of academics, crime experts, welfare and church groups is preparing to launch an intensive pre-election campaign aimed at refocusing the attention of NSW politicians from harsh sentencing reforms to crime prevention strategies.

Six weeks, six months, six years: inmates have little chance of making fresh start More than 15,500 people are released from NSW prisons each year, twice the number of 20 years ago. But new research shows many ex-prisoners find it impossible to reintegrate into society and, months after release, are worse off than before they went to jail.

Fiona Stanley, the children's crusader
It is all about prevention. As Fiona Stanley sees it, with one in five Australian teenagers experiencing significant mental health problems, there are just not enough treatment services to cope with the demand.

Attempted thong theft costs $560
A man has been fined $500 after appearing in a northern New South Wales court charged with stealing a pair of thongs.

NSW A-G moves to stop criminals and ex-criminals selling stories
From next month criminals or ex-criminals who try to profit (earn a living for paid work, like writing a book etc..) from their crimes in New South Wales will have the proceeds confiscated.

NSW Govt criticised over criminal justice record
Key criminal justice groups have described the New South Wales Government's record on justice issues as a "disappointing performance".

APPOINTMENT OF KLOK IS: 'DECLARATION OF WAR'
The decision of the Carr government to appoint John Jacob Klok as the new Assistant Commissioner for Corrective Services in charge of security represents a statement of contempt to all those concerned about law and justice in NSW.

How NSW Dept of Corrective Services spent $800,000 dollars to rehabilitate a Sydney man sentenced to life for second murder! A spokesperson for Justice Action Mr Pro Grams said, "Well it's your money, how would you like it spent? And what do you think about rehabilitation on behalf of the Department of Corruptive Services?

Prisoners Representatives Excommunicated
Ron Woodham, Commissioner Corrective Services stated "[this Department] does not recognise Justice Action as an advocate on correctional centre issues." He has ordered a ban on all Justice Action material inside the NSW prison system. This resulted from a request for the approval of the latest edition of Framed (the Magazine of Justice Action) to be distributed throughout NSW prisons as has occurred for the past ten years.

Academic devises scheme for low income earners to pay back fines:
A professor at the Australian National University [another one of John Howard's hand picked losers like Peter Saunders the social services head-kicker has come up with a scheme which could see low income earners pay back criminal fines over a period of time.

Dept of Corrective Services: Rotten Ron Woodham on the ropes
This is The Freeedom Of Speech and The Press in a goldfish-bowl! Herr Goebells has spoken. Zieg Heil! (Which means, actually: "aim-for health!" incidentally)Apologies for not making meetings ... my first experiences with Woodham (then a -screw-gestapo-minor-with-a-friendly-dog - AND YOU KNOW WHAT IT MEANS WHEN EVEN HIS DOG DOESN`T LIKE HIM?)

At the Minister's Pleasure The case of Michael Kelly
Michael is caught up in a particularly cruel version of the game of Cat and Mouse. Because he is classified as a forensic patient under the Mental Heath Act of NSW, the Minister for Health is his master, not the Minister for Corrective Services. And the Minister for health will not let him go.

EX-PRISONER UNEMPLOYMENT: SENTENCED FOR LIFE
Name removed by request served time in prison decades ago. Shes still being punished today. According to commonwealth and state legislation, ex-prisoners applying for jobs must declare any conviction that fits into the following categories: less than 10 years old, more than 10 years old but served more than 30 months in prison.

ARE YOU INNOCENT?
The Australian Law Reform Commission had recommended that the Innocence Panel be independent and have the power to investigate alleged miscarriages of justice.

NSW Department of Corrective Services attack right to privacy
Corrective Services Minister Richard Amery has a problem attacking prisoners right to privacy.It seems to us that a civil society is best served when social justice laws are applied to all people regardless of their circumstances. Once government starts making exceptions which disadvantage certain groups and individuals, such laws are meaningless.

Litigants are drowning: in the High Court
There were so many self represented litigants appearing in the High Court that more than half of its registry staff's time was taken up in dealing with them. The "go it alone" litigants have to take on tasks well above their qualified league causing them stress. This growing problem cannot be left unchecked.

Everyone wants to get out of 'jail' but 'Framed' wants life: Rotten Ron on the ropes On 2 May 2002, Justice Action received a faxed letter from Manager of DCS Operations Support Branch saying that, in his view, articles in Framed edition #42 'lack balance and integrity' and he is therefore 'not prepared to recommend this issue of Framed for placement in to correctional centre libraries.' Prisoners and those concerned about prisoner issues have very few sources of information.

Methadone addicts formed within: 'NSW Prisons'
The New South Wales Opposition has accused the State Government of turning jailed heroin users into Methadone addicts.

Murder charge first for DNA data bank link, but not the same as solving the murder Mass DNA testing of prisoners has [allegedly] led to the first NSW case of a person being charged with a previously unsolved murder as a result of a controversial gene-matching data bank.

Medical Records: Alex Mitchell's lost world
Perhaps we can get your medical report and spew it around publicly so you can see how it feels. But surely we do not have to go that far. And of course we are law-abiding citizens and I should think it would be enough to remind you of your ethics to report at all.

Prisoners can prove innocence for $20?
Les Kennedy Daily Telegraph reported today that" Prisoners who believe that DNA will prove they were wrongly convicted will have the chance to prove their innocence for a mere $20 administration fee. The move comes 20 months after NSW inmates were asked to provide DNA for comparison with a databank of DNA from unsolved crime scenes for possible convictions.

NSW opposition pledges review of detention laws
A spokesperson for Justice Action Ms Anal Advice said " NSW Prisons are a sex offence if you have been raped, bashed and squatted down to be strip searched. People should be diverted from going there at all material times".

Civil libertarians condemn planned changes to prisoners' privacy rights The New South Wales Government is using a recent case involving [framed] serial killer Ivan Milat to justify its decision to remove the privacy rights of prisoners. But really just another attack on Ivan Milat from Parliament House.

RESTORING TRUE JUSTICE:
Australian prisons are fast becoming the new asylums of the third millennium. The prison industry is booming, while Australia spends far less on mental health services than similar countries.

The punishment: Is the 'crime'
The punishment is the crime according to retired chief Justice of the Family Court of Australia Justice Alistair Nicholson. "Smacking a child ought to be seen as assault".

Mr. & Mrs. Mandatory Sentencing
Well congratulations to the bride and groom. Could you please be upstanding and raise your glasses for Mr. And Mrs. Mandatory.

Just wipe your arse on Ivan again Minister?
Mr Amery Minister for Corrective services has a problem with finding a toilet roll to wipe his bottom. Justice Action is appalled at the attacks by Amery and others in parliament on Ivan Milat's right to privacy and their attacks on the Privacy Commissioner and his office.

NSW prisons - primary industry bailed up!
In many quiet regional centres around NSW there is a new primary industry shaping up. It has something to do with Bail but not with bales. The minister for Agriculture Richard Amery who also has the prisons portfolio is now committed to farming prisoners.

NSW Parliament Bitter Pills To Swallow?
One delusion pill: So people who investigate their own mistakes make sure there was no mistake or someone else made the mistake. Perhaps you're not biased and you will be honest about it.

The Government is likely to abolish the Inspector General of Corrective Services position The Mulawa inspection report recommendations below strictly illustrate how important he is.

Black Nexus
The Separation of Powers Doctrine is nowcontaminated witharangeofcolours, now leaving us with a black shirt on a once blue bridge that crossed that thin blue line. The 'Amery and Woodham show'.

Prison Mind Games-Do they exist?
Directives are given inside the prison system that are not consistent with the law in NSW. And not in the good interests of the health and well being of the prisoners.