This was planned as an expansion of some points, but it has a new edge in view of Mr. Edward’s second response. First, some notes to his comment on, A reply to Mr. Steve Edwards:
1. “Ok, I get it. …The Kennett Government was using the STO to strip people of their property.”
Does it really gel with Mr. Edwards what has been effected and is still perpetrated against many Victorians? Does he have an inkling of how shocking, appalling and corrupt these actions are? Does he have an inkling of what many Victorians have to endure and suffer?
2. “… is there any evidence that the CIS was specifically advising Kennett on his policies regarding the STO? Were they even on his payroll? “
Unless the Institute of Public Affairs and the Centre for Independent Studies are tooth fairies, it is plain tooth fairies were not advising the Cabinet.
Who said anything about ‘on the payroll’ as in the Government Payroll? We are talking about, CIS and IPA in advisory capacities.
3. “…unless we can pin the CIS down on having directly contributed to this particular policy”
I have not stated that anyone in the CIS and the IPA did. I have stated that there might have been. Given the involvement with the Kennett Administration, it is highly possible there might have been some involvement.
4. “this particular policy that you don’t like”
We are not talking about a bit of garbage called a policy. We are talking about the corruption of the STO and OPA and how it was effected, and what is consequently perpetrated systematically. It is not a question of likes or dislikes Mr. Edwards, it is a serious matter of systematic thuggery, and many Victorians are real victims of this real thuggery, Mr. Steve Edwards.
5.”then practically anyone who has ever held a public opinion or lodged a submission in Victoria would be “indicted” as a “Kennett government adviser” who was “in on the conspiracy”.
It is not a conspiracy Mr. Edwards. It is the actions of those involved in the conversion of the STO and OPA, and those since then responsible for the actions of these agencies. Who said, just “anyone…. indicted”? I didn’t?
Neither have I said criminal investigations and charges be executed on such flippant, facile, juvenile counts as Edwards insinuates.
What has to be done is an uncompromising investigation, and those responsible have to be examined and those who warrant charging be charged.
6. “So far, you haven’t given me much to work with here…”
More material is linked below. However, it’s not a matter of Mr. Edwards ‘working with’, and the perpendicular ‘I’ is obious. One has put up hard evidence to make sure it is public knowledge and as part of a strategy to:
- Induce action against slimey thugs.
- Ensure it is not buried, and by the Statist, blowhard Right. Indeed, this is what the blowhard right have done; one of their blob MPs, for example, though I delivered the material to the thing, still refuses to do his oath sworn, honour bound duty. Mind, it was to shame the spineless, useless, bludger, because he dropped a very serious case, and the victim is his constituent. His name is David Davis. While he cannot do his duty, he can bring himself to vote for state sanctioned killing; as he explained ‘properly worded euthanasia bill’ would receive support of Liberal MsP be passed.
Let’s restate this: The Kennett administration converted the STO and OPA on the basis of the fiction of perfect competition, of which an extension is ‘user pays’. The rationale went; the STO could be turned into a business and floated on the stock exchange.
The STO, and the OPA, were (but not now) administrative institutions whose functions were to uphold the real rights of anyone who decides to take up the bound oath of the Crown to uphold their rights and freedoms. It is a straight expense to not Government revenues but taxpayers. There is no basis on which they can legitimately operate as a business and make earnings and profits, and another source detailed the explanation of why.
So, where were the ‘earnings’ of the pseudo-business to be made? Here’s where: Stripping the private property of those who named the STO as Trustees or, through the OPA put under administrative control. This, another source related to me, was early conducted on a very large scale. It proved up rapidly, in very short time. It was “highly profitable”; it was mega bonus time for all. This stunning success decided the Kennett Administration and advisers to complete their conversion of the STO into a shell company
Therefore, what was done was no mere transformation of the OPA and STO. The ‘policy’, as Mr Edwards so tritely puts it, thoroughly corrupted it and with it, those employed in it. Principled staff who understood the responsibilities of the STO exhaustively, backed by solid experience, were over-ridden and left in disgust: this was one of the matters related to me by sources (1).
It is no mere playing about with paper planes called ‘policy’. It is the actions of those responsible for the conversion, including inside the OPA and STO, and their advisers and all involved today. Besides, any cretin can have a policy and, by gum, the Centre for Independent Studies and the Institute of Public Affairs, and not simply cretins occupying precious Liberal Party seats, invent policies by the truckload. The CIS’s masterstroke policy is to wipe out Australians with Co2 taxes. Rudd and his gang appreciates it, and so does apparently another fascist and economic cretin, the new deah leadah of the Liberal Party Malcolm Turnbull.
Missing is principles, sound economics, and a grip on their force for law and institutions. There it is, Mr. Edwards contained in a nutshell. This lot are no better than developmentally arrested adolescents.
I have not said that Kennett, Stockdale, and their advisers corrupted the STO and OPA deliberately and out of malice. They did it out of blind ignorance and pinned to lousy, rotten economics, which is not free market economics, Mr. Edwards.
It is anti-free market economics that justifies Statist and increasingly absolutist measures. This is what the falsehood, the lie, the intellectual fraud of perfect competition buttresses and excuses. Thus, for example, the Federal Government, the ACCC, Fels, now Samueld, are on a crusade to break up successful firms, using ‘regulation’ which is not law but the rule of lawless thugs as the excuse to do it.
Out of blind ignorance…What else is wrong with this? They did not reason things out, though this is beyond their ability too. It is also transparent that they did not seek alternative advice. Besides, the scrofulous Right have ensured alternative advice is never heard.
The CIS and IPA go out of their way to ensure it by smearing genuine Liberals and who are economic guns. This is why Mr. Edwards that, for example, Nahan and Greg Lindsay smear Jackson. So does “Professor Sinclair Davidson”. So do so many clowns in the HR Nicholls Society. These clowns, having closed down debate, have rocked up a long list of disasters, in the name of the Liberal PArty, and Australians! At tremendous expense to taxpayers and Liberal Party members.
The OPA and STO is singular tribute to the “Right’s” incompetence, ignorance, insular self-regard, arrogance, callousness, and masterful Stupidity. Thus, too, Kennett; an arrogant, anti-intellectual know-it-all blow hard. These are qualities the “Right” prize and are the supreme qualifications for promotion. This is why the Liberal Party is dead.
Yet, the above does not excuse them. They were in office, and these bastards were playing around with the lives of Victorians. Ignorance is not an excuse for those in Office. Thus, they are still responsible for what they did, still answerable for it, and so are any of their advisers who were involved in it. Needless to say, so too are the Bracks and Brumby Cabinets. The cure is: the Kennett Cabinet and their advisers should not have cooked up the scam in the first place.
Readers, I stop here for today. There is more to draw out but the above and the items below are enough to digest for now. The explanation, so far, also indicates why one found Mr. Edwards second reply unamusing. Edwards is defending the indefensible. This is typical of the callous Right.
It is all about them. They do not give a stuff about principles, and what they are responsible for. It is why the HR Nicholls Society, the CIS, IPA, Andrew Bolt, Nick Minchin, and others blew the fight for free labour markets out of the water and sunk the Federal Liberal Party with it. Why couldn’t they have been rested content with their previous great success; destroying the Victorian Division? Ah, silly question; super egos seek great conquests.
Nick Minchin unilaterally rejected material expressly directed to Cabinet. It blew the ACTU case out of the water. His mates in the HR Nicholls Society suppressed other material that that singular destroyer of the Liberal Party, Michael Kroger, received and was required to pass onto Cabinet. He sent it to Evans. Well that was it. Material that destroys the ACTU false case also blows apart the rubbish these clowns purveyed as the economic case for labour market reform. Needless to say, they burned that material too.
It’s all about them. Thus they play games with great matters, and as the case of the STO and OPA draws out with great clarity, the lives of Australians, which the callous Right holds in contempt.
These matters are very serious, and a thorough criminal investigation must be conducted. If it hauls in any of the arrogant, ignorant, myopic Right, good! Justice must be done, and this is what Mr. Edwards is trying to divert reader’s attention from.
Where is Mr. Edwards’ spine? Where, principles? Where, the important relentless, ruthless pursuit of truth in all things? In fort Knox, safely locked up inside heavy security machinery? Or, were they killed off and buried? Only Mr. Edwards can decide what he stands for and whether he has the guts to stand up for principles and truth, though it would mean him first facing up to the truth about his ‘Rightwing’ pals and heroes, and forthrightly going for their jugulars.
The diseased Left is in Office, States and Federal, because of the sclerotic Right. Now, they cannot be defeated until the callous Right are pulverised, for it is this lot who put the hard Left into office and are keeping them in Office.
This article links three articles of material:
The Right established a large-scale criminal operation in Victoria.
In part 2 of this reply to Mr. Edwards, more material will be furnished not published yet. In one of the items linked in the above article, it should be noted:
Discussion with another source corrected a false assumption that I held:
“The Attorney General, and through him, Premier and Cabinet are responsible for the OPA, as well as STO and VCAT.”
The STO reports to the Treasurer. Under Kennett, it meant Stockdale. Under Bracks, Brumby. This was tied to the conversion of the STO into a private property hoovering machine.
(1) This is not unique to the STO. I’ve had genuine public servants relate much the same. Not only under ALP Administrations, State and Federal, but also under Liberal Administrations:
Imposition in large numbers those with no solid grounding over the heads of solid, sound public servants. Their objection is not against new blood, but against the damage caused by appointing large numbers into senior position devoid of the thorough institutional grounding required.