tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-776872662073607566.post4870913654302798330..comments2023-09-06T22:30:02.061+10:00Comments on The Knight & Drummer: Lawyers and Media: Viilfying the Good, Defending the Bad.Amfortashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07474382097575605017noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-776872662073607566.post-87531359949828462572014-12-22T15:34:08.504+11:002014-12-22T15:34:08.504+11:00Make sure you ply the old fellow with the sleigh w...Make sure you ply the old fellow with the sleigh with some fine port. Meanwhile the pints are lined up for you.Amfortashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07474382097575605017noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-776872662073607566.post-65287100966788366472014-12-21T17:15:46.410+11:002014-12-21T17:15:46.410+11:00I will enjoy a pint as I work up to the next rant,...I will enjoy a pint as I work up to the next rant, but I can't spend too long. I have to meet with Santa. I want to discuss Christmas 1951 when he left everything I had asked for at the house across the road - with a little boy I really didn't like. I have quite a lot to say about that also! Perhaps several pints would quench the fire in my belly?<br />Peter H.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-776872662073607566.post-26146369280640426522014-12-21T15:25:39.200+11:002014-12-21T15:25:39.200+11:00There is great merit in keeping the Tavern open &#...There is great merit in keeping the Tavern open 'after hours' so that fine rants and cogent speeches can be added to the conversation. And you are all so often there at the patio doors having climbed up the ivy on the wall. How can I but welcome the weary traveller with a tale to tell. <br /><br />Have a pint, Peter. :)Amfortashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07474382097575605017noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-776872662073607566.post-31367574219614541872014-12-21T15:10:39.411+11:002014-12-21T15:10:39.411+11:00Truth, honesty, justice - it is corrupted everywhe...Truth, honesty, justice - it is corrupted everywhere. Having dabbled in the law (many years ago) I quickly became dis-affected by the ever increasing weight of law and the awful absence of justice. There is extraordinary misuse of both law and justice within the farcical family court system. Why it was called a "family court" remains a mystery to me. The "destruction of family" court would be far closer to the truth. In the best interests of the children is nothing more than code for "destroy the father and distribute his assets primarily to the lawyers". All other participants loose - especially the children. And the results are all around us - just observe the terrible behaviour of fatherless children in our supermarkets, in fast food outlets, wandering our streets at all hours of the day and night. Listen to the hippopotamus women trumpeting their complaints to each other and castigating men as the culprit. For a day's entertainment, go sit in one of your local magistrate courts and watch our law in action. It costs nothing, it's great entertainment and it demonstrates just how ineffective this silly system is - offenders who have caused huge cost, pain and endless inconvenience to their victims, again and again and again, being lectured by the "beak' to the point of somnolence, then allowed to go home before doing it all again. It's silly. There is absolutely no restriction on obvious and appalling dishonesty, shockingly bad behaviour, committing fraud, deception; and the list just goes on. The family court enshrines it. Politicians think it is their natural right. We have an endless line up of large corporations that want the taxpayer to guarantee record profits year after year and lobby the government (that pretends to represent us) to enact legislation to ensure this. Frequently they're called "private public partnerships". But the banks, insurance companies, power and gas utilities, petrol companies, mining companies, superannuation providers - all demand the unfettered right to gouge the public endlessly; and governments of all persuasions quickly fall into line to accommodate them both overtly and covertly.<br /><br />If you are totally reliant on our age pension, then you would envy those incarcerated in our prison system - free accommodation and meals, free medical and dental care, free pay T.V., free access to a gymnasium, free education at all levels, free counselling and the benefits just go on and on. The only thing lacking is free holidays, but pensioners can't afford them anyway. I guess conjugal comforts are a bit limited, but I'm looking for something new and exciting anyway.<br /><br />I'm thinking that the ABC and BBC simply reflect the standards set by our politicians and it's worrying to see further and continual degradation. But, nevertheless this is the standard; and having to listen to the disingenuous pontifications of proselytising politicians is apocryphal.<br /><br />An island is a great idea. One set in the middle of the Pacific, fertile and abundant with fruit, lots of steaming swamps and riddled with gnats and mosquitoes. I believe there are a couple available with the potential of sinking beneath the waves at some point in the future.<br />Peter H.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-776872662073607566.post-7042544212062696982014-12-20T10:05:57.217+11:002014-12-20T10:05:57.217+11:00Reduce the number of prisons by one and they would...Reduce the number of prisons by one and they would be a little more crowded. Add one and accommodate a few more of the wicked. 'Appoint' and island where all of them can remain in whatever depravity they construct and televise the descent of man. It works for 'Survivor'.<br /><br />Love the sinner: hate the sin. The sign on the Tavern wall says it clear. I have, still, some way to go.Amfortashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07474382097575605017noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-776872662073607566.post-43093206024445445192014-12-20T09:48:25.294+11:002014-12-20T09:48:25.294+11:00Hmmm, I'm getting this impression that you'...Hmmm, I'm getting this impression that you're not totally enamoured of the legal profession or the Beeb. Problem is the jails are already full.James Highamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14525082702330365464noreply@blogger.com