Article X. Police organised the APVO extension even though the protected person indicated she has no genuine sense of fear and that there has been no history of violence
1.
On 9 November 2010 at Newtown
Local Court the police applied for an extension when no matters had been
trialled or heard even though I had been found not guilty in a similar matter
with Gregory Rowell. They did so even though Rachel had indicated to them on
the 12 October 2010 she had no genuine sense of fear in terms of violence and
that there had been no incidents of violence for the duration of the APVO from
myself towards Rachel. They did so with the knowledge that the APVO using
Rachel’s position of power and authority over me had incited incidents of
violence and prejudice towards myself. There had only been charges made that
were in relation to alleged contravenes of the place and communication
restrictions. Through the course of the trial through the next 12months there
only ended up being three convictions that were of political communication text
message nature calling for help to stop the violence and prejudice the APVO had
incited towards myself. They were not contravenes of the Crimes (Personal and
Domestic) Violence Act 2007. They did so with the knowledge that my history
prior to the APVO had reflected that I am a victim of violence and prejudice
who organises rallies to stop violence and prejudice happening not just to
myself or for others by prejudicial laws but to win equal rights for all. Maybe
at one point Rachel wanted an APVO yet I suspect she doesn’t want it today and
is only telling the same line of Meirda about me because you don’t want to
listen to the truth that I have continued to tell and show. If some else puts
political posters up or sends my political messages whether in there own
language or mine in support of the campaign I have no control over that. In
fact I had to buy a lanyard because I have a history of loosing my phone and my
friends were trying to teach me to keep tabs on my own personal property so
that others can’t misuse it because I’ve lost about 20 phones in the last four
years due to stress of having Rachel Evans power and authority over me be
misused by APVO to incite violence and prejudice towards myself all simply
because the court didn’t listen in the first place that the matter would have
been better referred to a Community Justice Centre to be dealt with. Yet in
doing so even they didn’t commit acts of violence towards Rachel. The Honourable Magistrate Quinn on 16
December 2010 agreed based on a maybe or a belief it is unfair to judge a
person based on a belief, a maybe or an opinion and not a fact without
trialling them first and giving them a go If they had bothered to check they
would have found that even during the stay period when I had every opportunity
to do so I didn’t stalk Rachel I in fact didn’t wait for Rachel even though I
was told to and went and fought for our people that I also did within the
provisions of the APVO.There have been many successes in doing so in that it
has continued to changethe social situation that caused them to mistakenly
label me with an APVO in the first place. In this particular case though the
harm done by the APVO every day it has existed outways any mutual benefits such
an order could provide. I know this because I have had to clean up the mess
from the APVO every day it has existed. If I didn’t care about the APVO then I
wouldn’t be wasting my time and energy for the love of the living humanity of
our people fighting for equal rights for life to anull and revoke the APVO from
the moment it was delivered to me at my house that after 8 months of waiting I
was finally told that this was an APVO that was being pursued using Rachel
Evans power and authority over me. Had I not asked for answers as to what
exactly my crimes were supposed to have been to have been treated as an illegal
human and held a prisoner and gagged for seeking asylum with our people and
calling for political assistance in that task I would never have known. Our
comrades and CAAH people as well as the community also assisted with my
investigation into the APVO in order to show that this APVO extension was not
genuine that I have put forward. Yet my strategy have not been to seek revenge
but to simply call for amnesty so we can all just start again. I also undertook
some political rehabilition with our people in order to show that that was the
better strategy with me than personal condemnation orders for too much texting
in the past because my means of communication was being gagged by others.
Section 1.01 APVO criminally charges committing CAAH acts using Rachel’s power and authority over me
2.
On 29 November 2010 the APVO
threatened to criminally charge attending a work meeting. Rachel had been doing
this every time I tried to come to work.
CAAH as a whole doesn’t support the AVO, nor have they been permitted to
hear the appeal and invited us to come to work but because of the do not
approach or contact rule Equal marriage organised campaigning is treated as a
criminal act since 2008 using Rachel’s power and authority over me by APVO. It
is like the 1978 struggle where lgbti people faced a 21 year jail sentence only
not for committing homosexual acts today but an endless jail sentence with no
release date for uniting with the majority to commit organised equal marriage
campaign acts using leaders within our movement power and authority over people.
3.
From: Heidi Claus
<heidi.christine.claus@gmail.com>
4.
Date: 30 November 2010 14:03
5.
Subject: [CAAH_Marrickville]
Marriage Equality - Where to from here?
6.
To: CAAH_General
<CAAH_General@yahoogroups.com>, CAAH_Marrickville
<CAAH_Marrickville@yahoogroups.com>, CAAH_SydneyCentral
<CAAHSydneyCentral@yahoogroups.com>, Sydney Equal Love
<equal_love_syd@yahoogroups.com>
7.
A successful year!!! But
where to from here?
8.
The campaign for Marriage
Equality has been going strong! Yesterday's rally was fabulous, with again
people coming out on mass to demand that the homophobic laws are wiped off the
books!
9.
The cracks in the Labor Party
are definitely widening, with fresh news of the South Australian Labor
Conference yesterday voting up support for marriage rights! And even Penny Wong
has decided to come out, and publicly support same-sex marriage!
10.
Yet we aren't there yet, we
don't yet have our rights legalised, and Julia Gillard has maintained the outdate
claim that marriage is between a man and a woman! Shame!
11.
Community Action Against
Homophobia (CAAH) the organisation that has been calling the street protests,
are therefore putting on a meeting to discuss how we can blow those cracks in
the Labor Party wide open and win equal rights! We have had such an incredibly
successful year. Let’s keep the momentum up!
12.
When? This Thursday 2nd of December at 6.30pm
13.
Where? Twenty10/GLCS Aurora Room (upstairs) 43
Bedford St, Newtown
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Join us! Get involved! We
have our rights to win!
15.
Join the Facebook group for
the campaign here
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RSVP to the meeting here
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--
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Cheers,
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Heidi Claus
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0419 377 396
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22.
Rally for Marriage Equality -
Saturday March 19, 2011, 1pm Sydney Town Hall
23.
www.caah.org.au
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www.campusequallove.com
Section 1.02 CAAH acts considered a criminal act email
25.
CAAH Sydney
caahsydney@gmail.com
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to
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shiverstess@gmail.com
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ate
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29 November 2010 14:20
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Important.
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hide details 29/11/2010
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This email is being sent to
advise you that you will be in breach of your court order if you attend the
Where to next campaign meeting, organised by CAAH, being held this Thursday.
36.
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If do show up at the meeting
the police will be called immediately.
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39.
Thanks
Dropped charge 1) Villawood
40.
On 16 December 2010 at the
Newtown Local Court Rachel stated, “I never hit her over the head or anything
like that.With the lifting of the 100 metre place restrictions including on the
activist centres meant a little freedom to begin to repair the damage the APVO
had caused. The honourable Magistrate Quinn agreed it is unfair to judge of
pursue an AVPO on a person without trial of them first. That is prejudice to
judge a person without trial based on a few leaders who profess to be the true
interpreter of the situation and of who I am. I know who I am and where I
belong and have come out of many closets long before I came before any court,
long before I even found my comrades and CAAH people. It is not for a courtroom
or for those with power and authority over me to decide who I am and where I
belong. As a DOCs child I oppose the state orders that interfer and decide who
I am and where I belong. That is why I oppose the place and communication
restrictions being put on APVOs in relation to DOCS children and their people because
your still not letting us as adults decide for ourselves who we are and where
we belong. That is between our people and myself and not for the police or the
court or for leaders with power and authority over me to decide. As a child you
tried to lie to me and my birth mother that she was unfit and that I was not
wanted well I found out the truth that she did want me but that I was stolen
from her because it was considered an embarrassment that I was born because it
was proof of my father’s adultery and sort to get rid of his wife who knew the
truth as well as myself. Again I know the truth that I am wanted by our people
because we got to know each other before this APVO happened but it was
considered an embarrassment that I was misjudged that leaders like Rachel has
never done before. Perhaps if I had been permitted to tell my background myself
and who I am and what I did to help others resolve this situation despite being
legally prevented from asking for political assistance to resolve a difficult
situation all this could have been avoided instead of others doing that for me
and getting it wrong. The only thing this court can decide is whether violence
has been committed by myself or not. All I have wanted is a chance to tell what
actually happened which would stop all this because I have a photographic
memory. I have only ever had one concussion in my life and the memories
returned as soon as the bruising healed itself and from interaction with our
people. Those who read this who know me and our true history prior to the APVO
and currently will realise there is nothing wrong with my memory or my
knowledge or my intelligence or my heart. I am more aware and more intelligent
than what those with power and authority over me have given me credit for.
Except for my teachers and University lecturers for any topic they always give
me an above average credit to High Distinction score. Anyone can get an above
average credit to a High distinction or an A once in their life, the hardest
part is keeping it.
41.
On 19 December 2010 I went to
Villawood Detention Centre. The white stolen generation chant is. “Let us in.
Let us stay. We are not illegal.” State
orders using leaders power and authority over us with communication and place
restrictions to treat us like property rather than human violates inhumanly the
birth rights that were fighting for. It was an organised regular visit with
both RAC and Westies for Refugees, Socialist Alliance and Resistance. Yet
Rachel using her APVO power and authority decided to free someone that day from
Villawood. It might be considered amusing to some if the AVO didn’t detain one
like a Villawood refugee in this case. I was the first to arrive after speaking
with Comrade Aaron Roden at the train station who asked me why I thought they
were pursing this AVO using Rachel’s power and authority over me. Luke Weyland
arrived and I went in. Rachel arrived minutes later after me. Inside she tried
getting my attention, followed me around watching me like a Hawke. When she was
speaking her then told everyone including myself to come towards her in her
request, “to come out into the open.” I just kept my head down to the ground
and kept another person in between myself and she at all times. She then
disappeared out of Villawood and the next thing I know a SERCO guard told us
there was police who had come to see us.
I knew they were coming because Aaron had warned us at the station about
Rachel coming. I just said, “Its coincidence, I was here first, I’m going to
free the refugees just like we’ve always organised together in campaigning
since 2006. It’s almost 2011 she has had three years of space literally making
me an illegal human, now it’s my turn. She needs to stop scaring me to try to
shut us down using APVO power and authority over me and let our people give us
an equal go.” The police didn’t charge me
Section 1.03 December 2010 Green Left Weekly End of year
42.
Craig and I went to the Green
Left Weekly End of year event. It was supposed to be a political event yet the
APVO had caused a personal navel graving club about me that started with
Brianna, the Paul. I kept tape over my mouth. Brianna bastardised and name
called me. I just told her we need to unite to defeat out common enemy before
our common enemy defeats us. The police was threatened I just kept tape over my
mouth not willing to give up fighting for them. Paul kept saying what about
your good behaviour bond. I laid out a freedom banner and kept tape over my
mouth just occupying with Craig and giving comradely greetings to whoever said
hi. Paul then decided to take pictures. While I had to fight for it I went and
got a drink paid triple for it with Paul and John Togs.
Dropped charge 2) Take the power back??
43.
On 5 May 2011 I went to the
Resistance Conference to have the matter addressed. “Take the power back” it
was themed. I had paid and registered to attend that was fully accepted. I have
attached the record. Upon arrival all kinds of security measures were in place
while I ran a thousand risks fighting for equal socialist alliance and CAAH
rights with neither body guard nor arms. Paul had made some prejudicial
comments about me to one of the guards. I explained the situation to Peter that
we were protesting for equal socialist alliance and CAAH rights and that there
had been an APVO in place using a leaders power and authority over me that was
denying our people the right to hear the truth that would help resolve it. Peter
the manager let us stay and I was permitted to occupy the conference. I wore
tape over my mouth. The Occupation won popular support. As a result of the APVO
the majority of our people didn’t even know about the APVO using Rachel’s power
and authority over me. They had been wondering where I had been. Didn’t understand why there were all kinds of
security measures and was happy to see us again. I told them I had been held a
prisoner by APVO. There had been a frame up and no civil trial and that I had
been fighting for it for it for equal Socialist Alliance and CAAH rights. It
was established as a well-known fact other branches were the least affected by
it. Uncle Comrade Duryon came out and gave us some legal advice regarding the
APVO. I told him, “That’s the problem with lawyers you always think you know
everything.” Duryon came back looking at the security measures and said, “I
might be a lawyer. I don’t profess to know everything but I know bullshit when
I see it.” I said, “And so do I.” It was very clear the majority hadn’t had any
say in the decision of the APVO nor had they made any decision about me. Nor
did they even know what had been going on since November 2007. This was just a
couple of leaders whose power and authority over a new comrade based on a
misjudgement without civil trial was being used by the state to violate our
democratic trial procedures and processes. Comrades had got us in, in order to
help demonstrate you take a dump in the loo and not on your comrades. I had
said to Paul where he and a number of guards jumped on top of me blocking the
entry to the loo using the APVO power and authority over me. I had said, “Do
you have to act that inhumane that a person can’t go to the toilet because even
that is considered a criminal act? They backed down. And let me go. Comrade Ben
my nephew just grinned and said hi. He didn’t know exactly what had happened
but saw the injustice of the APVO that was happening to me. Paul did a little
pantomime for us with Alex navel graving about the tape over my mouth and Alex
shook his head at me. I didn’t buy it as truth for a single secondwho only
reaffirmed the APVO using Rachel’s power and authority over me that created
this situation was indeed false.
Section 1.04 Day Two
44.
I came early with banners.
Warning about the ALP would take one step forward and two steps backwards on
supporting equal marriage rights at the National ALP conference. The other
about the campaign for equal socialist alliance and CAAH rights Both in RAC and
CAAH comrades Karl Hand and myself both proposed the ALP conference as the next
big rally at the same time even though as a result of the AVO we had not even
permitted to speak with each other. I had also proposed ideas for the rallies I
managed to get on the CAAH Facebook group through various allies. The APVO was
used to gag the ideas from the people the security guard upon arrival noticed
the banners and the APVO were used to call the police upon Paul’s arrival. The
security guard made various prejudicial comments and tried to take the banners
away. I held to them saying nothing because the APVO power and authority had
incited him to commit acts of hate and prejudice. The police came and a 10
metre boundary was proposed. I refused to comply. They threatened arrest if I
didn’t accept. I said what I’ve never said before, “Go ahead. I commit
Socialist Alliance acts arrest me “I explained, the AVO was false and that a
civil trial such as a conference would better than going to court. I had
highlighted the manager Peter had granted us the right inconjunction with Paul
to be there. That the police actions were only building the people’s support
for the campaign. I was given a field notice with a 48 hour restriction with a
court date. The charge is H46357587. The matter was combined with the Abercrombie
St charge mentioned in Dropped charge 7 for mention on 25 July 2011.
Section 1.05 .
45.
I had pleaded not guilty to
the Abercrombie St charge but wasn’t given a chance to enter any plea on the
refusal to comply with a move on order.
In Cross examination of the first witness because I spoke the truth that the
charge was only a result of the APVO.
That we were in the Resistance Centre was in the process of moving,
Resistance Books was denied from entering the trial and Magistrate O’ Shane
dismissed before it was even permitted to be heard or trialled. Even though two
psychiatrists and the mental health system had already declared our excellent
state of mental health, both cases were dismissed under a Section 33 and I was
to be sent to be trailed in secret. I have already explained what happened but
I was released under my independent psychiatrist who re affirmed, “While she
might be considered eccentric. She is not mentally ill or a criminal, she’s
just fighting for her life back for her people so stop causing her to suffer.”I
was never again brought back to the trials of those two charges but it makes no
difference. Resistance Books still got to trial and test us in Occupy when I
won the right to give any talk on the History of the road to rainbow liberation
at free school on the 18 February 2012 that everyone loved. Craig’s death is
already explained in an earlier paragraph while I was detained. That’s all I
have to say about that.
46.
When we went back to court
for the determination of the three charges, I was told again Rachel had gone on
a holiday, told to wait until she returned to lodge the annulment was promised
oranges and sunshine and was left to clean up the mess. I got granted the right
to go to the conference.
Dropped charge 3) Resistance Books denied from entering the trial..
47.
On 25 March 2011 Craig and I
went to the activist Centre after court for a civil trial. We were moving
buildings I knew it would have Mountains somewhere in the name of the address
from Castro’s speech but the path to that destination was not clear as a result
of the AVPO. There was a for sale sign on top. We went to the door. Paul sent
Pip and Susan outside to do his dirty work for him . I highlighted what had
happened and that it was double bind and a civil trial was needed. They told me
to talk to my lawyer which meant I had to ask him to step down and step forward
myself. Craig fought for amnesty. I had said it’s very easy to frame someone if
you’re blocking the door. I had said if I was such a threat for fighting for
the Alliance then why doesn’t everyone take out an APVO. Not one person stepped
forward. Comrades beginning with Susan didn’t want us to get arrested but
someone on the phone gave Paul the order to redirect it back to court until the
APVO was annulled. I wore tape over my mouth and laid a banner. Paul told us of
the accusations I would need to refute. Paul had told the police there had been
an APVO in place as the reason he had called. He had told the police when they
asked if Rachel was in the building that she wasn’t. The police arrested us it
wasn’t until after they had detained us that I found out what my charge was.
The charge number was H46563686. The matter was set for hearing on 25 July 2011
at the Downing Centre Local Court.
Section 1.06 World at a Crossroads Climate Change Social Change Conference Police stopped.
48.
When I arrived in Melbourne I
received the following email. This was a different state, I was just going to
the conference for the appeal to be heard on block. The APVO was attempted to
be used. The police supported the right to protest and I distributed Green Left
Weekly. After three days the police
stopped coming. The APVO incited Tony Itis to take his anger out on me,
personally attacks us and attempt rip Green Left out of our hands. I just told
him I’ve already paid for the right to distribute this paper go inside to learn
about being human. It ended up being a success and no arrest
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To Shelly Dahl,
51.
52.
This is to inform you that we
cannot accept your registration to the Climate Change Social Change conference.
53.
54.
The reason for this is one of
the speakers at the conference currently has an AVO against you, as you would
already be aware.
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As a result, the conference
organising committee have decided to not
allow you to attend the conference. This decision is final and no
further correspondence will be entered into on the matter.
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If you attempt to attend the
conference you will not be permitted entry and will be asked to leave.
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We have processed a refund
for the two tickets you purchased for the conference through the Try Booking
website – you will receive an email fromTry Booking confirming this shortly.
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Sincerely,
64.
Viv Miley
65.
on behalf of the Climate
Change Social Change
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Conference organising committee
go to work at our conference in Melbourne.
67.
After arriving in Melbourne I
got sent these emails.
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Your booking for an event was
refunded.
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Inbox
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X
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Try Booking Team
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Hello comrade shelly, your
booking with the following details was refunded: E...
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26/09/2011
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Try Booking Team to me
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show details 26/09/2011
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Hello comrade shelly,
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Your booking with the following
details was refunded:
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Event Name: World at a Crossroads
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Event Date: September 30, 2011 5:00 PM (GMT+10:00)
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Booking Id: a3c0b5a1-4995-43cd-b194-bb2dfbd701e3
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Booking Date: September 13, 2011 8:49 PM (GMT+10:00)
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No. of Tickets: 2
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Total Amount Refunded: AUD 60.00
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Your booking was refunded by
the event organizer for the following reason:
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One of the speakers currently
has an AVO against you - as such your registration has been denied.
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We have already contacted the
Payment Gateway to refund your transaction.
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For questions, please contact
the event organizer.
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Sincerely,
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The Try Booking Team
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Shelly Dahl to Try Booking
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The current AVO has actually
been lifted for the conference by order of the court as I have been granted
permission to sit amongst the defence by the court including the prosecutor.
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The NSW AVO doesn't apply to
interstate in Victoria and the current order was only an interim order which
has not yet been determined.
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State AVO's are not federal
and she needs to apply in that state if she wants it to cover Victoria, but she
will have to leave the state of NSW permanently to do that if she doesn't wish
to help clean up her screw up that I have continued to do.
113.
While the organiser in
question is actually supposed to be overseas on holidays as she informed the
court, unless she is admitting to perjury, it is the police and not the
organiser in question who is pursuing this (as her signature is not on the
application).
114.
If organiser wishes to have
the AVO in place in the state of Victoria because she is scared of my people
knowing the truth that the order has been false that she continues to punish me
for, then she will have to officially leave the state of NSW permanently and
then she will have to apply to the court in that state and will need to send me
a court attendance notice. That I envisage will cost her too much time and
energy and money that neither she nor I have.
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No refund will be accepted
and she doesn't have the right to stop me fighting to get the truth to my
people since Nov 2007 to free us all from this night mare be it legal or
humane.
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This is our socialist
Alliance, green Left and resistance conference and our CAAH not just hers and I
will not accept any refunds as that money was raised by the poor who are
sending me to rectify things so the police don't come and arrest her for implementing
a false implement to pervert the court of justice she blames me for. While
victims have the right to trial their own accused, she doesn't have the right
to continue to use others such as yourself to continue to violate ones' human,
political, organisational, civil liberties, nor deny the right to unite with
the majority to defeat our common enemy, nor build a hate or prejudice campaign
as well as gag the truth from the people that will end this nightmare. I will be showing up with my guest for the
purpose of the conference, to fight for a conference trial and will be
proposing a right to rebel orders of tyranny to bring about amnesty on the
order. Any action the organiser takes to
stop us from attending will be in violation of the court, she wishes to obey
instead of what the majority of people want.
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yours sincerely comrade
shelly
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On 26 September 2011 15:36, Try
Booking Team <no-reply@trybooking.net> wrote:
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Hello comrade shelly,
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Your booking with the
following details was refunded:
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Event Name: World at a
Crossroads
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Event Date: September 30,
2011 5:00 PM (GMT+10:00)
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Booking Id:
a3c0b5a1-4995-43cd-b194-bb2dfbd701e3
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Booking Date: September 13,
2011 8:49 PM (GMT+10:00)
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No. of Tickets: 2
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Total Amount Refunded: AUD
60.00
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Your booking was refunded by
the event organizer for the following reason:
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One of the speakers currently
has an AVO against you - as such your registration has been denied.
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We have already contacted the
Payment Gateway to refund your transaction.
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For questions, please contact
the event organizer.
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Sincerely,
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The Try Booking Team
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"Se dice Nada Se Hace
todo - say nothing do everything" Cuban gay liberation cry
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"If you tremble at every
indignation you are a comrade of mine" -Che Guevara
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"History will absolve
me"- Fidel Castro
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"We have nothing to lose
but our chains for we have an equal world to win" -Malcolm X
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"We all belong. There
are no borders in this struggle to the death. A win anywhere that defeats the
enemy between us is our win. Just the same as a defeat anywhere between us is
our defeat. We cannot be indifferent or ignorant to the struggles in the
underdeveloped world because they are the same struggle in the socialist world
because we are fighting for a better equal life for all our human existence.
For when it comes to life we have more to win by uniting than dividing. It is
why if nothing else we need to unite to defeat our common enemy for all
life."
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Shelly Ann Dahl
Revolutionary, Queer, White stolen generation, Civil & Human Rights,
Activist
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Socialist Alliance
West/Central Activist
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Resistance Supporter
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Green Left Weekly Supporter
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Community Action Against
Homophobia (CAAH) Syd Activist
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Refugee Action Coalition
Activist
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Stop The Intervention Syd
Activist
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No To Pope Coalition Syd
Activist
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Get Mad About Penrith
Activist
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UWSSA West Syd Activist
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Stop the War West Syd
Activist
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West Peace Activist
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World Without Wars Syd
Activist
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Street Level Syd Activist
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Women's Abortion Action
Coalition Activist
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Email: shiverstess@gmail.com
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Ph. 0459 771 520
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Section 1.07 NDA 2011
174.
Upon return we went to the
NDA. I was constantly targeted with the AVO.
Section 1.08 The Occupy Movement
175.
From 15 October 2011 we
occupied Sydney and Parramatta from November. I’m sorry this is not political
or articulate or succinct of perfect enough as a result of the APVO power and
authority over me. The Occupy Movement had great empathy but at the same time
there was a core group who redbaited and used the guilt fix method. Like with
my party or any organising collective I’m not going speak about our internal
organising but just give a general overview of my role and where the APVO
created a problem and what we did to resolve it. Rachel turned up to the Occupy
meetings in the first couple of days. She was supposed to be on holidays, but
stayed this time. I spoke of Socialist Alliancing for social change, I spoke of
the need for a united campaign and Rachel just laughed at me. The first night
the solidarity and the militancy was incredible and I did this in practice and
Rachel just laughed at me. Rachel didn’t stay at night. I volunteered for every task and did
everything with comrades and queers. We initiated the equal marriage and RAC
campaigns for support and Occupy Sydney was the first Occupy in Australia to
support helping to organise and build the equal marriage campaign within days
and I’m proud to have done that. Green Left helped us write the politics on why
people should occupy for the equal marriage campaign for the queer press. CAAH
and RAC helped us write Occupier’s position on the queer and refugee struggle.
It was like rally central with an action to organise and go to everyday it was
great. It was almost like pre APVO. I volunteered to be a police liaison. I was
very good at telling the police I have to go speak with my people first and
we’ll let you know. If the police yelled at me I just didn’t speak and simply
said like with a naughty child, I’m not going to speak with you until you calm
down and act like a human being and stop screaming at me demanding a
confession. At night the people saw me crying
for comrades and CAAH that I had been doing every night since November 2007.
They asked me about it and I told the people about the campaign. They just told
me that they accepted us as a Socialist Alliance and CAAH person who just need
some political rehabilitation with her comrades from Socialist Alliance and
queers from CAAH and the people not personal condemnation orders from those who
abuse their power and authority over us by APVO. I found I constantly had to
fight to be given ago to take on any organising rally task. I took on the facilitation
working group because no other socialist volunteered for the role. Like many I
had problems with the full consensus model. So rather than agonising about it I
got in there to help organise a solution. There was a core group who struggle
to accept any modification. A blocker was like an APVO action in some cases. We
resolved it. We worked in pretty much
every group to organise campaigns or various tasks.
176.
After the first eviction it
was back to full APVO conditions and the struggle began again. I was only
arrested once with a fine and challenged it along with the rest of the
majority.
177.
We handled contentious issues
almost perfect from day one. Communication was a big issue. I was elected to do
the text announcements. We didn’t quite get around to discussing what to do if
someone wanted off the list if we couldn’t convince them to hang in there and
not abandon the struggle. One or two every now and then was fine but if it
happened on mass I had no way of distinguishing between Rachel and Alex telling
people from the outside to give us the APVO to gag us because of Rachel’s email
back in 2009 and someone who genuinely doesn’t want to unite. I had become
highly sensitive to any hint of Rachel’s APVO power and authority over me
through the behaviour and language of others.
178.
Free school came out of the
eviction. We all organised the rally for two weeks. The people listened to the
solutions to the warnings. We all re occupied.
179.
We proposed to give an equal
marriage talk. I needed help to check the updated stuff. I asked Karl for help
but all he couldn’t. I asked Ben for any queer comrade who could help us update
it because I lacked self-confidence in giving the one I had already written. I
needed it checked by comrades just in case I missed something. What if it’s too
long then they won’t listen, what if it’s too succinct do I risk excluding too
much. What if it’s not written right. Made sure I included everything, spot on
so no one can find fault with it. They
will just find fault with everything I do and say and punish me to death even
more. Not give us ago with political rehabilitation and not personal
condemnation. I cry. I worked 24/7 on it and didn’t get it done in time cause
of no help. What if it’s not good enough not perfect enough for the people. The
prison is never going to end. I cry. They won’t stop using Rachel Evans power
and authority over me by AVO to continuously find fault they never have
anything positive to say or give back. I cry. My tears won’t stop flowing for
comrades since November 2007 I used to
be able to just do it. This speech is not political or legal enough or perfect
enough how much more I have to do for other before you will listen. I’m sorry
but I didn’t get any political help from comrade leaders. I just got given the
guilt fix method or palmed of to the mental health, welfare and legal system or
were too busy or stonewalled us. Received too much finger pointing and
misjudgement of me and not enough listening.
At least I give it a go. There is a time to wait and a time to act. The
time to act is long overdue..
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So Ben said he could help us
find another queer comrade from CAAH who could help us with our politics who
could help guide us I was so happy. We suggested it as CAAH to free school becausethey
might not understand if they’re not a comrade why we care so much about getting
it spot on. The day before the equal marriage talk was due we didn’t hear who.
I asked Alex to contact Ben. The gag order. Ben was angry and said to talk to
Rachel. I’m not allowed to talk to Rachel I’m not allowed to talk at all or
I’ll get punished. I cry.
Section 1.09 Rachel uses her AVO power and authority to attempt to shut downOccupy equal marriage
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On the day Rachel turned up
and used her AVPO power and authority over me to shut down the equal marriage
talk via Ben. She only came cause I had something she wanted and I was expected
to just give it to her and exclude myself after doing all the hard work in
organising it with the people and fighting for so long for the right to help
organise anything as part of the equal marriage campaign beginning with
political discussion without personal attacks. I was told by Ben Rachel was
giving the talk and that I was also not to participate. The 99% said, No, you
have no authority. We supported anyone from CAAH giving the talk but not
preventing anyone from attending. We even put forward the suggestion of wearing
tape over my mouth during the talk. If I had to give up my voice just to be
able to hear those politics spoken by anyone in person. Then I was willing to
do it. I most likely wouldn’t have been stopping
the tears from running while sitting within the circle and just listening but I
would have done it. Instead Rachel shut
it down and redirected everyone into the legal working group. What she didn’t
know is leaders from the legal working group and me had already had the
discussion they don’t have the resources and so I had done the legal work
myself. Occupy only has each other and whatever the generous community can
provide, just the same as me. It’s about the issue we don’t care about
legalities or the money. Ben had said, quite clearly it has to be me, this time
and not Rachel.
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1love conference same thing.
The sex and gender diverse conference, we got to attend, but Farida Rachel had
filled her head with so much shit about me, she didn’t say nothing to me her
body language spoke louder than words of the amount of prejudice she had
developed of me. It was the first time we had been permitted to work together
in four years with no restrictions or any leader using their power and
authority to stop us working together off course it was going to be
uncomfortable. Sacrificing comfort for change is what the occupy movement is
all about. So I proposed campaign ideas for the conference to win equal rights
to endorse me showed Farida what comrades do best. Of course I wasn’t perfect
at first, I’d had the guilt fix method used on me for the past four years,
hadn’t been allowed to speak didn’t get any help from leaders to stand up to it
and stop it of course it would sound underdeveloped. That’s what the guilt fix
method does when used on a new person. All the good work done in training a new
person, it affects their speech. I can’t afford to pay for a speech therapist
to overcome the alienation from the capacity to communicate as a result of the
order which is what I have really needed since the SRC, so I look for any
chance to speak internally with the people about any issue in order to practice
within any organising collective to work on my articulation problem. Except for
chairing of a refugee forum and every Friday night at Street Level and the
church. Occupy was the first chance I had been given with no restriction to
speak publicly and to give political discussions as who I am a Socialist
Alliance and CAAH person with no denial of who I am.
Section 1.10 National ALP conference 2011.
183.
National ALP conference. Well
there had been a secret plan to hold an illegal wedding ceremony, but everyone
had to fight to be permitted to speak at the equal marriage rally. I was
standing right near the stage. A choir was brought on to cover what was going
on in the background. An aboriginal elder who wanted to stand up for the queers
was denied the right by the organisers to speak out and found her having to
fight just to be permitted on stage. I just grinned when she got up there and
spoke. There should always be an open mic section for anyone who wants to speak
along with the nominated speakers. Most people have enough common sense to
speak about the issue that people have come to fight for. To show people this
is what democracy looks like where every voice is heard. I not necessarily
agreed with everything some would say in open mic sections, but I not
necessarily agree with what some nominated speakers had to say like queerocrats
Clover Moore either. Yet there’s more heart and guts coming from those
sometimes during open mic sections than what some bureaucrat might have to say
at our rallies.
184.
I remember this woman who
came as a chicken in occupy during the rally to reoccupy. We had all these riot
cops surrounding us after standing linked arms together for hours on end and
she gave the funniest political poem that made absolutely no common sense which
was kind of a metaphor for absolutely no common sense of all the riot cops
surrounding us occupiers at the time. I’ll never forget comrade Ben my nephew
going, “What the fuck?”. He was dumbfounded and couldn’t work out what the
purpose of the chicken was. That’s what made me laugh. I had never seen comrade
Ben so dumbfounded trying to work out what the purpose was behind this chicken.
It was making fun of the police in what was the purpose of all the police and I
just kept pointing at the people as if to say, look, it’s lifted everyone’s
spirits to keep going to get through a difficult situation. Laughter is contagious
once one starts everyone starts because it was teaching people to laugh to get
through and overcome tragedy. What I used to do.
185.
On 21 December 2011 I applied
for a cross claim after what had happened in court. While my attachment to Socialist
Alliance was finally recognised. The fight for CAAH still continued. We had won
partial rights, but it was a concession. Based on a belief and not a common
sense issue of civil human rights the AVO was still in place. Two text messages
and a bit of untrue Mérida about me from Rachel with no facts. That’s all they
needed. The probation and parole and the courts and Rachel until that cross
claim was lodged they wouldn’t have listened. I had had enough of Rachel’s
power and authority over me being used to shut us down and shut us down and
shut us down for doing what any rational human being would do for the last four
years. It wasn’t like I could go and approach anyone for us all to sit down
with Rachel to address Rachel’s behaviour and language towards us for the last
four years as a result of her having AVO power and authority over me that had
incited others to have prejudice. What was I supposed to do just keep putting
up with being bastardised faced with another two years of hell on top of four
years of forced to say nothing while doing everything to stop it?
186.
I went on a holiday this time
after I had lodged it. I hadn’t been on a holiday since I was little, I just
used to move. It was only $32 return by train from Sydney to Brisbane and back.
I love train travel. A plane was good, even though I got nervous every time I
went on a plane because of the worry about the plane crashing if you were in a
hurry but I couldn’t afford plane trips when I had to go for work conferences
and national rallies unless I sacrificed my rent money. I needed a break from
all the court and the restrictions and the cops because I knew I was headed for
another nervous breakdown if I didn’t. I normally spent Christmas with Street
Level in Sydney, but there was one in Queensland, an Occupy and comrades. It
was comrade Sian who had invited us to come to Queensland. I had feared the
place when Lester was alive and after he died. I thought given that we were all
adults now with no parents alive now maybe my biological brothers and sisters
might have woken up. I didn’t know where they were couldn’t find them
everywhere I looked, I found comrades, queers, Street Level and occupy instead
which only reaffirmed who my real family is.
187.
I came back New Year’s Eve
and everyone was happy to see me. The police had also given Occupy Sydney a
break over the holidays. Occupy Sydney’s events was drug and alcohol free,
while the rest of the city all got drunk to forget about the injustice we had
all lived through under capitalism. The city never had to pay any money for our
clean-up bill for our New Year’s Eve celebrations. We just cleaned it up
ourselves. We talked revolutionary politics about campaigns for the year ahead
all night that’s what we all got drunk on.
Occupy is very good at organising political stuff to build and building
them. I’m better at organising than building. I just used to say you build
revolutions we revolutionaries just help organise it. I think it was a bit of a
shock to some socialists about the occupy movement cause they were not used of
the 99% telling revolutionaries what to do directly. My philosophy is to all
socialists we wanted editorship of the proletariat, it’s not dictatorship of
the socialist. The 99% will be the government and will be telling
revolutionaries what to do when Socialist Alliance wins the Federal elections
and hands over the power to the people the people will be telling socialists
what to do. Hence all socialists get used of the 99% being our bosses. I don’t
mind being told what to do by the 99% but a little respect is appreciated.
188.
The Equal marriage talk ended
up going ahead at Occupy Parramatta. I combined both the previous talk I had
given with the equal marriage report Karl Hand, Farida Iqbal and Rachel Evans
had done. I included the missing history in the last four years. People
including Duncan loved it. I didn’t have any assistance in cutting it down but
I managed to give the entire history of the global and Australian queer
struggle in 40 minutes. There were other politics I wanted to include in it and
I would have liked more time for discussion but Jacob was in a hurry. It was
pretty good considering didn’t have any
assistance with editing.
189.
It was never our intension to
engage in mortal combat with those leaders who gave us the order the harshest.
Nor was an endless court battle of constant accusations and confessions. I
tried going through other means but Rachel Evans and those who called the
police instead of listening including the judicial system wouldn’t let me
organise the campaign except mostly though the court system. I tried to do this
without Rachel Evans as I was requested to do and I got condemned I tried to do
this with Rachel Evans and I got condemned.
I tried not going through the court system but Paul Benedeck and Rachel
Evans and the police and the judicial system al insisted that I have to go
through the court system to organise this campaign. I tried but you all kept
redirecting me to go back through the court every time you called triple zero
even if I wasn’t there when an alleged incident happened because another person
had dared to promote the campaign or make out I had tried to escape this
prison, like committing Socialist Alliance and CAAH acts is considered such a
crime. It’s not a crime to commit Socialist Alliance and CAAH acts but those
leaders who have attempted to criminally charge me for it in the name of
legalities are really contradicting themselves. It is a situation where some
comrades do it but many don’t give us the order. The only ones who are carrying
it out are comrade leaders the majority isn’t. Ripping Green Lefts out of my
hands, slamming doors in my face, constantly navel graving about me,
threatening cops dare I go to the toilet or eat or drink or engage in political
discussion or organising with comrades, constantly negatively name calling me,
staining and degrading me to treat me just like the refugees get treated, not
listening, constantly finger pointing and criminally charging us for coming to
an event to help organise to change the world to win a revolution not just for
ourselves but for everyone like I normally would with no AVO. Could anyone
tolerate that constantly incited by an AVO. Anyone else would have left, but
not me because a just cause such as Socialist Alliance and CAAH is worth fighting
for to help all life to win its freedom from this system.
190.
So why fight for it? Well
while I am currently in the process of writing “Socialism and Human in
Australia” updated from Che’s original works I think it can be best summed up
in towards a Socialist Australia.
Section 1.11 Why Socialist Alliance equal rights? Cause it means “Towards a Socialist World” to me
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Why socialism?
192.
1. The rise of resistance to
dictatorships, corporate rule, military occupation and corrupt politics, which
has occurred in the 21st Century, brings new hope for humanity. The revolutions
sweeping parts of Latin America, which put democracy, the planet, and the
rights of all people at their centre, is an inspiration across the globe to all
who believe that fundamental social and political change is both possible and
necessary.
193.
2. The current ecological and
economic problems facing the world have happened precisely because we live in a
political and economic system that puts profits ahead of people and the planet
– capitalism. To save ourselves and our planet we need a sharp change of
direction towards a new people-centred form of social organisation – socialism.
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3. Apologists for capitalism
have long devoted enormous efforts to arguing against socialism. They argue
that it is a completely utopian exercise that flies in the face of human
nature; that it will never work; or that it will always lead to bureaucratic
dictatorship.
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4. But imagine a society
where each individual has the means to live a life of dignity and fulfilment,
without exception. Imagine a society where discrimination and prejudice are
wiped out, and where all members of society are guaranteed a decent life, the
means to contribute to society and a safer planet.
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5. This is socialism – a
truly human, a truly ecological society.
197.
Our world is in turmoil
198.
1. One way or another, the
twenty-first century will be decisive for the fate of human civilisation
199.
2. Unless greenhouse
emissions are swiftly and drastically curbed, scientists tell us, the result in
time will be environmental catastrophe on an almost unimaginable scale,
threatening the survival of life on the planet.
200.
3. Alongside this developing
ecological disaster, after close to four years, the system shows no sign of
being able to escape its worst economic slump since the Great Depression.
201.
4. As their dilemmas mount,
the capitalist response to these challenges is denial, quack “remedies”, or
business as usual and, above all, savage attacks on the welfare and democratic
rights of working people. Huge resources are misdirected into war and
repression, rather than on solutions to the problems we face.
202.
Climate change is real and
immediate
203.
1. The reality of climate
change is manifesting itself in an increasing number of extreme weather events,
such as heat-waves, droughts, floods, hurricanes and tornados. Melting ice
sheets are resulting in rising sea levels and increased flooding of low-lying
areas. Some islands will soon be totally submerged, turning their inhabitants
into climate refugees.
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2. These problems
disproportionately affect the world's poorest people, who contribute the least
to the crisis.
207.
3. The solution to climate
change is known and simple: rapidly phase out the use of fossil fuels and make
the switch to renewables. But significant economic interests at the heart of
the capitalist system have big investments in coal, oil, gas and nuclear power.
Protecting these interests, governments, refuse to take more than token
measures to halt climate change
208.
4. The goal of the big
corporations is to secure the greatest possible profits for their super-rich
owners – regardless of the consequences to the planet and its people.
209.
Globalisation has hit a brick
wall
210.
1. World capitalism has
survived the past half-century largely by accessing cheap labour in poor
countries. Globalisation has allowed big capital to maintain profit levels,
keeping the high-profit functions of research and development, design and
financing in rich countries, while outsourcing manufacturing to the Third World.
211.
2. Within wealthy countries
employment and wage structures have been “hollowed out”, with a layer of jobs
disappearing from the economy. Manufacturing jobs have been exported and
technology has enabled much routine administrative work to become computerised.
212.
3. These pressures on jobs
have allowed employers to reduce real wages and conditions. New jobs are
largely in the low-skilled service sector, offering low pay and little job
security.
213.
4. But this model has hit a
brick wall. Countries such as China and India now undertake their own Research
and Development, design and financing - and now compete with traditional
capitalist powers.
214.
5. Profit rates are being
crushed by overproduction, and low paid workers and super exploited workers in
the third world simply can't afford to buy all the extra goods and services now
on world markets.
215.
6. Rather than invest in
useful production, capitalists now seek big returns through financial
speculation, creating bubbles in IT stock prices, real estate, or exotic
derivatives. And the results have been devastating.
216.
7. Since 2008, a boom built
on financial speculation has been replaced by the worst economic crisis since
the 1930s.
217.
8. In all cases the first
task our governments set themselves is to protect the bankers and speculators
whose unrestrained greed has been the distinctive feature of the problem.
Trillions in stimulus spending have largely finished up in bankers’ pockets.
218.
9. More and more, the
capitalists are trying to make working people and the poor pay for the system's
failures. Jobs, wages and democratic rights are under attack. Austerity
measures and the resulting contractions in consumer spending are simply making
the crisis worse.
219.
10. The crisis won't be fixed
by simply disciplining a few selfish speculators, because the problem is with
the system that bred them.
220.
11. The United States, the
mainstay of world capitalism, is gripped by seemingly intractable problems. The
American elite refuse to consider serious tax increases on the rich, or to curb
militarism, so the government has been cutting public spending on health,
welfare and education in an attempt (so far unsuccessful) to reduce the budget
deficit. Millions of people have been evicted from their homes and real
unemployment is around 22%.
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12. In Europe the response of
capitalist governments to the crisis is austerity, with pensions and wages cut
and further sell-offs of state assets.
224.
Australia: governments avoid
climate action
225.
1. Some commentators claim that
Australia's greenhouse emissions are insignificant in world terms. But this is
a lie.
226.
2. Per head of population,
Australians are the worst emitters of any large developed nation. In absolute
terms, we pump out almost as much carbon dioxide as Italy, with its 60 million
people. Take into account coal exports, and our share of world emissions
roughly doubles.
227.
3. Now, Australia’s resource
moguls plan to increase those exports by as much again. New coal mines are
being planned and built across the country. In many instances prime farmland
and water sources are being destroyed in the process.
228.
4. Cheap fossil fuel lies at
the base of Australian capitalism's business model, and the big parties know
it. The ALP's market-based emissions reduction scheme aims for a tiny cut of 5
per cent by 2020, and the Liberal-National Coalition's misnamed “Direct Action
Plan” proposes to reach the same target by paying emitters to cut their
pollution.
229.
5. Rather than a full-scale
switch to renewable power sources, the federal ALP government is promoting the
large-scale development of gas. The big resource investors are on board. But
coal seam gas extraction techniques can do grave environmental damage. And
evidence is mounting that when that when venting and leaks of methane - a potent
greenhouse gas - are taken into account, energy from gas has a greenhouse
impact almost as bad as from coal.
230.
6. Also taking place is a
massive expansion of uranium mining to fuel the nuclear industry. Nuclear power
is not the answer to humanity's greenhouse gas dilemma. Weapons proliferation
is a serious danger. Current nuclear technology with its potentially
catastrophic safety risks, unresolvable waste storage issues, and high
greenhouse gas emission footprint is no solution to climate change.
231.
7. Australia has some of the
world's best capacity for renewable energy - solar, wind, and wave and
geothermal. There is no access or technological barriers to moving to 100%
renewable energy in Australia, however the switch to renewable energy across
the board is being blocked by those who profit from the polluting industries.
232.
8. Successive Coalition and
Labor governments have refused to invest in clean industries and green jobs,
instead choosing to subsidise the fossil fuel industry to the tune of billions
each year. Conservative governments in Victoria and NSW have now imposed
crippling restrictions on the wind and solar industries.
233.
Economic crisis already here
- with worse to come
234.
1. Compared to Greece and
many other countries, Australia so far has had an easy run during the global
economic crisis. Decades ago, this country's capitalists found a lucrative
niche for themselves as low-cost exporters of raw commodities, especially iron
ore and coal. Over the past two years, investment and prices in these sectors
have largely held up.
235.
2. But the luck is running
out. Export markets now face an uncertain future. Industrial production in
India is falling, and in China, a huge property-price bubble that has kept the
economy afloat is deflating fast. Demand for construction steel in China has
dropped – and that's bad news for Australian iron ore prices.
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3. Instead of building a
diverse economy that can satisfy people's needs broadly, with world's-best
education and cutting-edge manufacturing, Australia's capitalists have gone for
the easy money in the resources sector, and we are now paying the price.
239.
4. Already, decades of
neoliberalism has made Australia a harsher, crueller, more unequal society.
Privatisation, outsourcing, casualization, restructuring, deregulation,
user-pays – all are just terms for shifting wealth from working people to the
well-off.
240.
5. The richest 20% of the
population now own 61% of total household wealth, while the poorest 20% own
just 1%. Two million people live in poverty, and at least 100,000 are homeless
on any given night. Public health care is under-funded, and quality education
is increasingly for children whose parents can pay. Pensions and unemployment
benefits are far below poverty levels.
241.
6. Official unemployment is a
“low” 5.3%, but at least as many people again who want full-time work can't
find it. Millions fall into the categories of “underemployed' and “working
poor”.
242.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander oppression remains
243.
1. Since white colonisation
began in 1788 the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population has suffered
the trauma of invasion, enslavement, assimilation, genocide, racist exclusion,
land theft, the destruction of life, language and culture, and the denial of basic
human rights.
244.
2. The Rudd government's
official apology was a symbolic step forward but remains a hollow gesture. The
scandal of black deaths in custody continues and racism is endemic.
245.
3. The 2007 Northern
Territory intervention was a massive bipartisan attack on Aboriginal
communities. The federal government policy, along with Territory policies
banning bilingual education, withdrawing support from homelands and
centralising government services in “super shires” and “hub towns” (at the
expense of community councils) represents another attack on Aboriginal language
and culture, self-determination and land rights.
246.
4. The Labor government's
Stronger Futures legislation deepens and entrenches this neoliberal
assimilationist trend for at least a decade.
247.
5. Paternalistic welfare
measures introduced as part of the Intervention are being extended to other
parts of the country, particularly areas with large migrant and Aboriginal
populations.
248.
6. Meanwhile, mining
companies offer Aboriginal communities investment and “development” in exchange
for allowing access to mine on their land.
249.
Billions wasted on corporate
handouts and war
250.
1. Australia is a wealthy,
industrially developed First World country. We have the resources to give
everyone a decent, comfortable life and provide aid to our poorer neighbours.
251.
2. Yet calls to address the
state of the public healthcare system, housing, welfare and social services are
met with the mantra “Where’s the money going to come from?”.
252.
3. While social programs face
endless cutbacks, 'corporate welfare' is booming with handouts, tax breaks,
concessions, and cosy contracts such as public-private partnerships. The
official company tax rate is a very low 30% but many of the big corporations
pay far less. Faced with opposition from the mining industry, the federal ALP
government watered down its projected mining super-profits tax.
253.
4. Billions Are wasted on
militarism. Up to US$6 trillion - more than the total cost of World War 11 –
has been spent on the US-led wars in Iraq and Afghanistan in which Australia
has been an
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Enthusiastic participant.
These countries have been wrecked and hundreds of thousands killed and
displaced.
257.
5. Bipartisan support for the
Australia-US war alliance makes Australia complicit in the human and ecological
disaster of Iraq and Afghanistan.
258.
6. Australia has sent police
and army units to Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands and Bougainville and it
continues to maintain a military presence in East Timor.
259.
7. When people flee war,
seeking refuge and a new life in our country, they are demonised by the
government and put in mandatory detention, at a cost of millions of dollars
each year, face the threat of deportation and discrimination.
260.
Our economy must be owned by
society
261.
1. Under capitalism a tiny
handful of people – the capitalist class, “the 1%” – control the means of
production, distribution and exchange. They own the corporations that own the
mines, factories, banks, transport networks, supermarket chains, media empires,
and so on. They effectively control the superannuation funds in which workers
are forced to invest part of their wages.
262.
2. The Murdoch’s, Packers,
Harvey’s, Rinehart’s, Forests, Lowy’s etc. dominate the headlines but behind
each of these pillars of Australian capitalism is an army of workers whose
stolen labour makes up their profits.
263.
3. Much of the precondition
for these massive profits is created through the capital investment market. In
Australia around 75% of this is workers' superannuation contributions.
264.
4. The economy is a social
enterprise. We all depend on it and the labour of working people keeps the
wheels turning. But because the capitalists control it they get the profits,
and workers' wages never reflect the full value of what they produce. The fight
for a decent wage is a constant struggle against entrenched corporate power
backed by the state.
265.
5. The market-based, system
is represented in the media as all-powerful, constant and accepted, to the
exclusion of any possible alternative. But our economic and social
relationships are a human creation, and as such, they can be changed.
266.
6. But our economy must be
socially owned and controlled. Key sectors of the economy should be publicly
owned (whether federal, state or municipal). The privatisations of recent
decades should be reversed and the public sector massively expanded.
267.
7. With the economic levers
in our hands society could make a conscious plan focused on meeting human
needs. Combating climate change and building a sustainable economy would be the
most urgent priorities.
268.
8. Plans would be
democratically decided. Workplaces would be controlled by their employees.
There would be no obscenely overpaid CEOs and insecure badly paid workers with
no say in what happens. The work week would be significantly reduced enabling
workers to play a much greater role in political and cultural life.
269.
Democracy under capitalism:
formal and limited
270.
1. Capitalist democracy is
more formal than real. Every few years we get to choose which of two neoliberal
parties will govern on behalf of Australia's corporate elite. So much of the
electoral spectacle is theatre as the media tries to pretend that there are
real differences between the pro-corporate Coalition and the equally
pro-corporate Labor Party.
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273.
2. The very limited democracy
we have does not extend to the economy, the workplace or the state bureaucracy.
There, ownership rights, managerial prerogatives, and hierarchy and
subordination rule largely unchecked.
274.
3. The civil liberties we
enjoy are real and important. They are a result of past workplace and
community-based struggles. But they are fundamentally undermined by severe
practical limitations inherent in the way capitalism works.
275.
4. We generally enjoy the
right of free speech, although laws, by-laws and special powers enable the
state in some instances to restrict our right to political expression and
protest. The corporate media is privately owned and essentially inaccessible to
ordinary people.
276.
5. Workers' ability to fight
for better wages and conditions are limited by anti-union laws which
criminalise industrial action (except under very limited conditions), outlaw
solidarity actions by unions (e.g. secondary boycotts) and make workers and their
unions’ unequal with employers before the law. Meanwhile employers can legally
lock out workers without pay, close down industries, and force thousands out of
work.
277.
For real democracy, for
people's power!
278.
1. We need a system of
popular democracy that empowers the majority of Australian people.
279.
2. A first step is social
ownership of the economy on which we all depend. Real democracy is impossible
if one part of society owns the economy and the other part is compelled to work
for them.
280.
3. Parliament requires
fundamental change. MPs should carry out their duties on a worker's average
wage. They should be subject to recall through a simple process if their
electors are dissatisfied. The voting age should be lowered to 16 years.
281.
4. All public officials in
leading positions should be subject to election and recall.
282.
5. Workers should be able to
elect their managers and collectively direct their workplaces, especially in
regard to health and safety. Anti-union laws should be scrapped.
283.
6. The main goals and targets
of economic activity should be publicly discussed and voted on.
284.
7. The mass media should be
radically opened up to reflect the interests and concerns of ordinary people.
285.
How will we get there?
286.
1. How will fundamental
social change come about? There is no map or blueprint, but long experience
shows that we will get nothing unless we fight for it. The involvement of the
majority of people will ensure that real change can be achieved and defended.
286.
287.
2. The capitalist oligarchy –
“the 1%” – and its supporters will fight to the end to defend their privilege
and wealth. They will have to be compelled to stand aside. Only the power of
the organised and mobilised working-class majority can do this.
288.
3. The creation of militant,
democratic campaigning organisations, determined to win, is crucial. One of the
most important of these is a socialist organisation – one that seeks to unite
all those who want to fight to end capitalism and that strives to win mass
support through its involvement in all the day to day struggles of the
exploited and oppressed.
289.
4. Through working with
social movements and unions, sharing political information and analysis,
participating in elections, and putting forward solutions to the problems we
face, such an
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292.
Organisation can also help to
convince the majority of Australians that humanity and the planet requires
fundamental social and political change.
293.
5. Even if popular forces
committed to fundamental change win an electoral victory, we will have to
mobilise in the streets, workplaces, schools, campuses and neighbourhoods to
defend any progressive moves made against the power of the corporate rich.
294.
Towards socialism
295.
1. If we have overcome
capitalism, if the economy is socially owned and controlled and we have a
system of popular power – then we have a framework for dealing with the
ecological and social problems of the past.
296.
2. the most urgent order of
business of a real people’s government would be an emergency program of action
to tackle climate change, including the consequences of decades of inaction,
and to build a sustainable economy.
297.
3. A peoples’ government
would sign a treaty with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people,
recognising and compensating for their original dispossession and move rapidly
to overcome disadvantage at all levels and in all sectors of society.
298.
4. The guiding principle of a
post-capitalist society would be the welfare of all people and a stable
environment. No-one would be abandoned to their fate, as is the case under
capitalism.
299.
5. Gradually more and more
basic goods and services could be provided without charge (healthcare,
education, transport, welfare, etc.). These are rights belonging to every human
being.
Section 1.12 Treatment of prisoners
300.
In war time, armies that
torture prisoners have always earned contempt and abomination of the entire
world. Such cowardice has no justification, even in the case where aboriginals
were invaded by Captain Cook and his first fleet on the 26th of January 1788.
In the words of a South American Liberator: "Not even the strictest
military obedience may turn a soldier's sword into that of an
executioner." The honourable soldier does not kill the helpless prisoner
after the fight but rather, respects them. They don't finish off a wounded
person but rather helps them. They stand in the way of crime and if they cannot
prevent it, they act as the soldiers did during Vietnam who upon learning that
it was a senseless war laid down their arms, went AWOL to return home and
marched with the protesters.
Section 1.13 Judicial proceeding conduct
301.
My statement may seem absurd
and extemporaneous to you. Yet do not be surprised. It is I who am astonished
that a court of law should have attempted to deal a death blow to misjudge
someone without civil trial. Adhering strictly to the facts, truth and reason -
as I have done all along - I will prove what I have just stated. These laws of
virtue which the court was created granted it, in so far as problems of
unconstitutionality are concerned, a specific and clearly defined area of legal
competence to rule in all matters of appeals claiming the unconstitutionality
of situations, legal decrees, resolutions or acts that deny, diminish, retrain
or adulterate the constitutional rights and privileges or that jeopardise the operatus
of the public established very clearly the following:
302.
"All magistrates and
courts are under obligation to find solutions to conflicts between people and
the existing laws in accordance with the principle that the former shall
prevail over the latter on the balance of probabilities. Therefore according to
the laws that created it, the constitutional rights of people should rule in
favour of the constitution. When this court implemented exclusion, it
completely overstepped its boundaries and its established field of competence
there by rendering a decision which has the community alienate which is legally
null and void because it denies civil liberties of an entire state. Furthermore
the decision itself absurd and absurdities have no validity in neither law nor
in fact, not even from a metaphysical point of view. No matter how venerable a
court may be, it cannot assert that circles are square or, what amounts to the
same thing that the grotesque offspring of making New South Wales illegal to
live in should be considered official unconstitutionality of a state."
303.
The constitution is
understood to be the basic and supreme law of the nation, to define political
parties and organisations political structure, regulate the functioning of its
governance to the people and determine the limits of their activities. It must
be stable, enduring and, to a certain extent flexible.
Section 1.14 The right to rebel
304.
As the Court has accepted
this state of affairs, what more are they waiting for? They may as well hang up
their judicial robes. It is a fundamental principle of general law that there
can be no constitutional status where the constitutional and legislative powers
reside in the same body. When the laws, the decrees and the rules are made- and
at the same time have the power to change the law in a moment of time - then I
ask you: why do we need courts that make these laws that give individuals the
power to persecute and then blame the victim who contests them? The ruling on
December 5th 2008 was irrational, inconceivable, and illogical and totally
contrary to the democratic laws that you, Honourable comrades, swore to uphold.
When the Court supported the policy against me it supported a policy against
the party. The peace was not restored on that day but rather the order perpetuated
others to have the right to commit violent acts of alienation towards us
renouncing autonomy and committing legal suicide. May it rest in peace!
305.
The right to rebel, long
established of the Constitution, is still valid. Was it established to function
while the democratic Socialist Alliance was enjoying normal conditions? No.
This provision is to the Constitution what a lifeboat is to a ship at sea. The
lifeboat is only launched when the ship has been torpedoed by enemies laying
wait along its course. With our Constitution betrayed and the people deprived
of all their prerogatives, there was only one way open: one right which no
power may abolish. The right to resist oppression and injustice by uniting to
defeat the common enemy. If any doubt remains, there is an article of the
Social Defence Code which the Honourable lawyer would have done well not to
forget. It reads, and I quote: 'The appointed or elected authorities that fail
to resist sedition with all available means will be liable to a lengthy jail sentence
of interdiction of from six to eight years.' The comrades of our nation were
under the obligation to resist the policy's treacherous coup of the 12th
February 2008. It is understandable that when no one has observed the law and
when nobody else has done their duty, those who have observed the law and have
done their duty should be sent to prison or fined.
306.
You will not be able to deny
that the clique forced upon the nation is unworthy of Australia's history. In
his book, The Spirit of Laws, which is the foundation of the modern division of
governmental power, Montesquieu makes a distinction between three
307.
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308.
types of government according
to their basic nature: 'The Republican form wherein the whole people or a
portion thereof has sovereign power; the Monarchical form where only one man
governs, but in accordance with fixed and well-defined laws; and the Despotic
form where one man without regard for laws nor rules acts as he pleases,
regarding only his own will or whim.' And then he adds: 'A person whose five
senses constantly tell them that they are everything and that the rest of
humanity is nothing is bound to be lazy, ignorant and sensuous.' 'As virtue is
necessary to democracy, and honour to a monarchy, fear is of the essence to a
despotic regime, where virtue is not needed and honour would be dangerous.'
309.
The right of rebellion
against tyranny, Honourable comrades, has been recognized from the most ancient
times to the present day by people of all creeds, ideas and doctrines.
310.
It was so in the theocratic
monarchies of remote antiquity. In China it was almost a constitutional
principle that when a king governed rudely and despotically he should be
deposed and replaced by a virtuous prince.
311.
The philosophers of ancient
India upheld the principle of active resistance to arbitrary authority. They
justified revolution and very often put their theories into practice. One of
their spiritual leaders used to say that 'an opinion held by the majority is
stronger than the king himself. A rope woven of many strands is strong enough
to hold a lion.'
312.
The city states of Greece and
republican Rome not only admitted, but defended the meeting-out of violent
death to tyrants.
313.
In the Middle Ages, Joan of
Arc national heroine of France and a Catholic Saint who fought for the
political liberty of France to free it from English tyranny famous cry was,
"You say that you are my judge; I do not know if you are; but take good
heed not to judge me ill, because you would put yourself in great peril. One
life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice
what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than
dying."
314.
Saint Thomas Aquinas, in the
Summa Theologica, rejects the doctrine of tyrannicide, and yet upholds the
thesis that tyrants should be overthrown by the people.
315.
Karl Marx a German political
theorist and communist against political tyranny who wrote the communist
manifesto belief was that "We have nothing to lose but alienating chains
because we have a world to win"
316.
Lenin who led the Russian
revolution and avid reader of Marx said, "Only armed people can be the
real bulwark of popular liberty."
317.
Martin Luther proclaimed that
when a government degenerates into a tyranny that violates the laws; its
subjects are released from their obligations to obey. Dr Martin Luther King
during the civil rights movement opposed tyranny saying” Cowardice asks the
question - is it safe? Expediency asks the question - is it politic? Vanity
asks the question - is it popular? But conscience asks
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319.
The question - is it right?
And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor
politic, nor popular; but one must take it because it is right."
320.
Che Guevara, he never gave
up, his insistence to unite to defeat the common enemy helped to win the Cuban
revolution. His strategy for dealing with a situation like this in Socialism
and Man was love for the living humanity. He stated:
321.
At the risk of seeming
ridiculous, let me say that the true revolutionary is guided by great feelings
of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this
quality. Perhaps it is one of the great dramas of the leader that he or she
must combine a passionate spirit with a cold intelligence and make painful
decisions without flinching. Our vanguard revolutionaries must idealize this
love of the people, of the most sacred causes, and make it one and indivisible.
They cannot descend, with small doses of daily affection, to the level where
ordinary people put their love into practice.
322.
The leaders of the revolution
have children just beginning to talk, who are not learning to say “daddy”;
their wives, too, must be part of the general sacrifice of their lives in order
to take the revolution to its destiny. The circle of their friends is limited
strictly to the circle of comrades in the revolution. There is no life outside
of it.
323.
In these circumstances one
must have a large dose of humanity, a large dose of a sense of justice and
truth in order to avoid dogmatic extremes, cold scholasticism, or isolation
from the masses. We must strive every day so that this love of living humanity
is transformed into actual deeds, into acts that serve as examples, as a moving
force.
324.
The revolutionary, the
ideological motor force of the revolution within the party, is consumed by this
uninterrupted activity that comes to an end only with death, unless the
construction of socialism is accomplished on a world scale. If one's
revolutionary zeal is blunted when the most urgent tasks have been accomplished
on a local scale and one forgets about proletarian internationalism, the
revolution one leads will cease to be a driving force and sink into a
comfortable drowsiness that imperialism, our irreconcilable enemy, will utilize
to gain ground. Proletarian internationalism is a duty, but it is also a
revolutionary necessity. This is the way we educate our people.
325.
Fidel Castro who gave the
revolution its impulse in the first years, and also its leadership.[49] He
always set its tone; but there is a good group of revolutionaries who are
developing along the same road as the central leader. And there is a great mass
that follows its leaders because it has faith in them. It has faith in those
leaders because they have known how to interpret its aspirations. It is true
that it follows its leaders, basically Fidel Castro, without hesitation. But
the degree to which he won this trust results precisely from having interpreted
the full meaning of the people's desires and aspirations, and from the sincere
struggle to fulfil the promises he made.
326.
No less a man that Juan
Mariana, a Spanish Jesuit during the reign of Philip II, asserts in his book,
De Rege et Regis Institutione, that when a governor usurps power, or even if he
were elected, when he governs in a tyrannical manner it is licit for a private
citizen to exercise tyrannicide, either directly or through subterfuge with the
least possible disturbance.
327.
James Madison, Chief
Architect of the Constitution wrote “If Tyranny and Oppression come to this
land; it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy. Of all the enemies
to public liberty, war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded because it comprises
and develops the germ of every other... No nation could preserve its freedom in
the midst of continual warfare.
328.
About the same time, a booklet
- which came to be widely read - appeared under the title Vindiciae Contra
Tyrannos, and it was signed with the pseudonym Stephanus Junius Brutus. It
openly declared that resistance to governments is legitimate when rulers
oppress the people and that it is the duty of Honourable people to lead the
struggle.
329.
John Althus, a German jurist
of the early 17th century, stated in his Treatise on Politics that sovereignty
as the supreme authority of the State is born from the voluntary concourse of
all its members; that governmental authority stems from the people and that its
unjust, illegal or tyrannical function exempts them from the duty of obedience
and justifies resistance or rebellion.
330.
Thus far, Honourable Judges,
I have mentioned examples from antiquity, from the middle Ages, and from the
beginnings of our times. I selected these examples from writers of all creeds.
What is more, you can see that the right to rebellion is at the very root of
Australia's existence as a nation. By virtue of it you are today able to appear
in the robes of Australian Judges. Would it be that those garments really
served the cause of justice!
331.
It is well known that in
Australia during the 19th century the miners rebelled for a constitution and
the right to vote. These actions coincided with the birth of federation of
political philosophy and provided the ideological base for a new social class
which was struggling to break the bonds of colonialism. Against divine right
autocracies this new philosophy of the social contrast and of the consent
governed and constituted the foundation of the Australian federation. The
women's right to vote, the aboriginal struggle for self-determination and 1978
gave birth to the modern Australian queer movement where queers faced a 21 year
jail sentence for acts of homosexuality, the end of the Vietnam war were great
revolutionary events that ushered in liberation of Australia's independence.
The final link in that chain being broken is mateship. The new philosophy of
rebelling against tyranny helped us to evolve our country. This was influenced
by socialists currents of our time; the principle of the social function of
property and of a person's inalienable right to a decent living were built into
it, although large vested interests have prevented fully endorsing those
rights.
332.
The right of insurrection
against tyranny then underwent its final consecration and became a fundamental
tenet of political liberty.
333.
Over 2000 years ago a man
named Jesus Christ some would call a revolutionary fought to free the nations
from tyranny. When an adulterous was condemned by a crowd he said, "Let he
who is without sin cast the first stone." and not a single stone was
thrown at the woman.
334.
As far back as 1649, John
Milton wrote that political power lies with the people who can enthrone and
dethrone kings and have the duty of overthrowing tyrants.
335.
John Locke in his essay on
government maintained that when the natural rights of people are violated, the
people have the right and the duty to alter or abolish the governance. The only
remedy against unauthorised force is opposition to it by force.
336.
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337.
Eugene V. Debs said
"Wars throughout history have been waged for conquest and plunder and it
is the working class who fights all the battles, the working class who makes
the supreme sacrifices, the working class who freely sheds their blood and
furnishes their corpses, and it is they who have never yet had a voice - in
either declaring war or making peace. It is the ruling class that invariably
does both. They alone declare war and they alone make peace. They are
continually talking about their patriotic duty. It is not their duty but your
patriotic duty that they are concerned about. There is a decided difference.
Their patriotic duty never takes them to the firing line or chucks them into
the trenches."
338.
Jean-Jaques Rousseau said
with great eloquence in his Social Contract: 'While a people sees itself forced
to obey and obeys, it does well; but as soon as it can shake off the yoke and
shakes it off, it does better, recovering its liberty through the use of the
very right that has been taken away from it.' 'The strongest man is never
strong enough to be master forever, unless he converts force into right and
obedience into duty. Force is a physical power; I do not see what morality one may
derive from its use. To yield to force is an act of necessity, not of will; at
the very least, it is an act of prudence. In what sense should this be called a
duty?' 'To renounce freedom is to renounce one's status as a man, to renounce
one's human rights, including one's duties. There is no possible compensation
for renouncing everything. Total renunciation is incompatible with the nature
of man and to take away all free will is to take away all morality of conduct.
In short, it is vain and contradictory to stipulate on the one hand an absolute
authority and on the other an unlimited obedience ...'
339.
Thomas Paine who wrote Common
sense said “Those who profess to favour freedom, and yet depreciate agitation,
are men who want crops without ploughing up the ground. They want rain without
thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its
waters. This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it
may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle! Power concedes nothing
without a demand. It never did, and it never will. Find out just what people
will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong
which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue until they are
resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are
prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress."
340.
Malcolm X a US nationalist
leader said "Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the
oppressor. Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the
oppressor. You don't need anything else."
341.
Harvey Milk Gay liberationist
and Mayor of San Francisco during the 1960s believed tyranny was responsible
for closeting queers. Before he was assassinated he stated, “If a bullet should
go through my head let that bullet go through every closet door.”
342.
The people's right to rebel
has been opposed only by reactionaries like that clergyman of Virginia,
Jonathan Boucher, who said: 'The right to rebel is a censurable doctrine
derived from Lucifer, the father of rebellions.'
343.
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344.
The Declaration of
Independence of the Congress of Philadelphia, on July 4th, 1776, consecrated
this right in a beautiful paragraph which reads: 'We hold these truths to be
self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their
Creator with certain inalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and
the Pursuit of Happiness; That to secure these Rights, Governments are
instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed;
That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is
the Right of the People to alter or abolish it and to institute a new
Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers
in such form as to them shall seem most likely to affect their Safety and
Happiness.'
345.
The famous French Declaration
of the Rights of Man willed this principle to the coming generations: 'When the
government violates the rights of the people, insurrection is for them the most
sacred of rights and the most imperative of duties.' 'When a person seizes
sovereignty, he should be condemned to death by free men.'
346.
I have tried to sufficiently
justify my point of view. I have called forth more reasons than the Honourable
prosecutor called forth to ask that I be condemned to a further indictment and
a 2year imprisonment or a $5500 fine for uniting to defeat the common enemy.
All these reasons support people who struggle for the freedom and happiness of
the people. None support those who oppress the people, revile them, and rob
them heartlessly. Therefore I have been able to call forth many reasons and she
could not adduce even one. How can this AVO’s presence in power be justified
when it was gained against the will of the people and by violating the laws of
a democratic socialist alliance and Australia through the use of treachery and
force? How could anyone call legitimate a regime of blood, oppression and
ignominy? How could anyone call revolutionary a clique which has gathered the
most backward people, methods and ideas of public life around it? How can
anyone consider legally valid the high treason of a Court whose duty was to
defend the Constitution? With what right do the Courts send to prison citizens
who have tried to redeem their country by giving their own blood, their own
lives? All this is monstrous to the eyes of the nation and to the principles of
true justice!
347.
Still there is one argument
more powerful than all the others. We are queer revolutionary Australians and
to be a queer revolutionary Australian implies a duty; not to fulfill that duty
is a crime, is treason. We are proud of the history of our country; we learned
it in school and have grown up hearing of freedom, justice, human rights and
have an insistence to unite to defeat the common enemy. We were taught to
venerate the glorious example of our heroes and martyrs. Marx, Engel’s, Lenin,
Trotsky, Castro, Che, Chavez, DSP, Socialist Alliance, Green left, Resistance
and Community Action Against Homophobia were the first names engraved in our
minds. We were taught that the mentor once said that liberty is not begged for
but won fought for through united political organised mass action. We were
taught that for the guidance of Australia's free citizens, the Apostle wrote in
his book The Golden Age: 'The person who abides by unjust laws and permits any
person to trample and mistreat the country in which they was born is not an
honourable person ... In the world there must be a certain degree of honour
just as there must be a certain amount of light. When there are many people
without honour, there are always others who bear in themselves the honour of
many people. These are the persons who rebel with great force against those who
steal the people's freedom, that is to say, against those who steal honour
itself. In those people thousands more are contained, an entire people are
contained, human dignity is contained ...' we were taught to cherish and defend
the beloved flag of freedom, and to sing every afternoon the verses of the Internationale:
Section 1.15 The Internationale
348.
Arise, ye workers from your
slumber,
349.
Arise, ye prisoners of want.
350.
For reason in revolt now
thunders,
351.
And at last ends the age of
cant!
352.
Away with all your
superstitions,
353.
Servile masses arise, arise!
354.
We'll change henceforth the
old tradition,
355.
And spurn the dust to win the
prize!
356.
So comrades, come rally,
357.
And the last fight let us
face.
358.
The Internationale,
359.
Unites the human race.
360.
So comrades, come rally,
361.
And the last fight let us
face.
362.
The Internationale,
363.
Unites the human race.
Section 1.16 Conclusion
364.
All this we learned and will
never forget, even though today in our land there is murder and prison for
people who practice the ideas taught to them since the cradle. We were born in
a free country without parents, and Australia will first sink into the sea
before we consent to dividing instead of uniting to defeat the common enemy.
365.
It seemed that the Apostle
would die during this Centennial. It seemed that this memory would be
extinguished forever. So great was the affront! But she is alive; she has not
died. Her people are rebellious. Her people are worthy. Her people are faithful
to her memory. There are Australians who have fallen defending her doctrines.
There are young people who in magnificent selflessness came to die beside her
tomb, giving their blood and their lives so that they could keep on living in
the heart of her nation. Australia, what would have become of you had you let
your Apostle die?
366.
I know there are those who
wish to silence me for years to come. I know that they don’t want the truth to
be known that it was a misjudgement and a mistake based on an overreaction they
don’t want to be known because their scared of the consequences. Yet the
consequences the leaders may face at no time did they relinquish their duty as
revolutionaries or patriots.
367.
I come to the close of my
defence plea but I will not end it as lawyers usually do, asking that the
accused be freed. I cannot ask formy freedom from the AVO I have to fight for
it by continuing to fight for equal Socialist Alliance and CAAH rights for life.
It is understandable that the police would want to use a leader’s power and
authority over another person to make Socialist Alliance and CAAH acts illegal where
the powers that be are a criminal and a thief because they don’t care about
human life.
368.
To you, my Honourable Judges,
my sincere gratitude for finally having allowed me to express myself free from some
of the life threatening restrictions. I have never held bitterness towards any
you. It was because grandad comrade Dick Nicoles told me in May 2008 sometimes
the party leaders make mistakes, misjudgementsof new people. He told me I’m not
doomed to keep going, don’t give up and they will eventually wake up. I
recognize that in certain aspects you have been humane. We are not each other’s
enemy. We are comrades because trailing and testing of new and old cadre for
Socialist Alliance only ends with death. It doesn’t end simply because a leader
says so. Simply because something bad is written or told about a person don’t necessarily
make it true. It is always important to remember did you really go with the
majority on that one or did you just do it cause a charismatic leader told you
to cause you forgot history or who each other or forget to be human in the heat
of the moment cause you were fixated on the problem instead of the solution. I
know that Rachel, a woman of impeccable private life, cannot disguise her
repugnance at the current state of affairs that compels her to dictate unjust
decisions. Still, a more serious problem remains for the Court of Appeals: the
real indictment the police are pursuing and for this appeal to be heard in our
party and CAAH that the majority have been denied from hearing since November
2007. If all the weight of the law does not fall upon the guilty because of
cowardice or because of domination of the courts, and if then all the judges
don’t rethink the way justice is done, I pity your honour. And I regret the
unprecedented shame that will fall upon the Judicial Power.
369.
I know that this imprisonment
has been hard to live though than it has ever been for anyone, filled with
cowardly threats and hideous cruelty. I am afraid every day, but even though
I’m scared I fight every day for freedomfor our people from fury of the
miserable tyranny of the AVO created that made the lives of all us to live
through an endless nightmare. Stop condemning me, I do matter. History will
absolve us.. .
