Legal System Farce

In the legal system we trust, kind of. We have "faith" might be a better term to use. Faith that comes and goes. Because we all know that often,

the legal system fails big time!
Like women who are raped seeing their attacker go scott free without even community service; or dunderhead judges telling a woman that "No does not mean No"; and other moronic judgments.

But besides these farcical cases, the system is so one sided it begs belief. And no-one, it seems, questions it.

Look at it: The prosecutor is paid by the government. The judge is paid by the government. Court appointed defense (if you cannot afford the big bucks of private defense) is paid by the government. So you could see a situation where all members of the case - prosecuting attorney, defense attorney and judge are all employees of the state. With such a one sided legal system, does anyone really expect a fair trial? Really?

Prosecutors aspire to be judges. And all judges used to be prosecutors. And we all know the legal profession is one big buddy system - just like the medical profession. So why should we expect total impartiality from a judge? He is paid by the same people who pay the prosecutor, after all.

If there is a case where, for example, Microsoft and Apple are fighting each other, neither side would accept that the judge is an employee of the other side. And to suggest such a thing would be ludicrous. And yet, this is EXACTLY the case in criminal trials. The judge is an employee of the same "body" which is charging the person with a crime.

It could be said that one work around would be to do like they do in some international sport matches... have referees from a country other than either of the countries in the match. So you could see a New Zealand judge sitting on cases in the U.S. or U.K., and U.S. judges sitting on cases in Australia and so on.

Barring the obvious problems of knowing the laws of the respective countries the judge would be presiding in, you still cannot get around the buddy system... that the judge is paid by the state - which is the same group bringing the case to trial - and that they are merely glorified prosecuting attorneys.

The thing is, if you asked of the state to appoint your own judge - like you can pick and choose your own defense - your request would be denied! And they would claim that you would pick a bias judge. While maintaining that their judges were not bias and that you will get a fair trial. Yeah right.

Ask Martha Stewart about getting a fair trial...

She is found guilty of lying about doing insider trading. Yet there is not enough evidence to prove she did insider trading. Logic would then tell you, you cannot be found guilty of lying about something it cannot be proven you did. But who said the court was logical or fair?

The result is, Martha is found guilty of lying about doing something they cannot prove she did. And as a result of her "guilt" she has to go to jail. So she is going to jail because, well, buggered if I really know. No-one was hurt. No-one was defrauded of money. It cannot be proved she did anything wrong. But she is going to jail anyway. And justice, as they say, has been served.

Of course, it begs the question: WHOSE justice has been served?

Politics By Mail

Don't worry. We don't use public money during election campaigns. Only "party" money. - Never alluding that "party" money comes from the public purse in the first place. Shhh.

With this stolen money they get full-color brochures printed and mailed. Sometimes their propaganda comes in envelopes. Sometimes it doesn't. But it always arrives via good ole Australia Post (a government monopoly business).

Elsewhere, I have written about my run in with Australia Post (AP) distributing pornographic stuff into my mail box. And how they fell back to the "it's ok according to the rules" argument. You see, they can put porn in my mail box as long as there are no visible naughty bits. So an ad for a XXX porno movie, with a near nude woman dressed in a thong with some tassels on her nipples, is a-ok because you cannot see the naughty bits.

Such is the mindlessness of the government postal workers. No-one is able to make a decision. They all go by what the "rules" say - never mind a real live breathing person made the rules. And in this way they can avoid all responsibility. And, in fact, it would turn out that no-one is responsible for anything.

Anyway. With such mentality it is no surprise there is enacted-bias exhibited by the mailmen (for the politically correct nut jobs, my use of the masculine includes the feminine. And if it fries your pumpkins so much to see me use such vernacular, tough). I am talking about HOW my mailman delivers the Liberal Party (which is the conservative party in Australia) propaganda pieces. He just tosses them over my letter box into the yard. He does NOT put them in the box like he is paid to do.

When I first saw him do this I was quite surprised. When I went out to see what it was he tossed onto the ground I saw it was a small Liberal Party booklet.

The following week when I saw him toss another something onto the ground in my yard I said to my wife, "I bet it is something from the Liberal Party". And it turns out that it was.

If he was in the habit of tossing paid-for advertising literature onto the ground, I would not be surprised when he did it with political ads. But he has NEVER done it before EVER. ALWAYS he has placed stuff in my letter box. Even when he has had to remove flyers from it to put the AP delivered ads in.

Obviously, this mailman does not like the conservative party and is taking his dislike for them, out on the propaganda pieces he has been entrusted and paid to deliver. And it highlights an important consideration for business owners too... if the mailman does not agree with what you are advertising he is likely to toss it anywhere except where he is paid to. And the money you spent will have been wasted. All because of a minimum wage postal employee with a grudge.

An Alien's Perspective On The News

If I were an Alien just visiting Earth, I would think the things going on in Iraq were the worst that is going on. Simply because that is all the media is showing.

I would not know of the slaughter that is going on in the Sudan. I would be none the wiser about Mugabe in Zimbabwe kicking landowners off their land and claiming it all for himself - as well as doing a bit (lot) of killing here and there.

And I would be puzzled as to WHY these mass atrocities are not being reported - and why there is no massive outcry at the actions of those responsible - while people seem to be quite annoyed at the U.S. for trying to rebuild a country that had just spent the better part of half a century under the same conditions being ignored in those other countries.

I would be baffled at do-gooder groups like Amnesty crying foul that the U.S. isn't building hospitals quick enough, while they keep silent about what Mugabe is doing to his own people and what is going on in the Sudan.

And I would scratch my head as to why the media wants to hang Putin while giving the terrorist bastards who murdered over 300 innocent children a "get off free" pass.

I would not understand the outrage over some POWs being tied to a bed with female underwear on their head, while terrorists can chop the heads of living innocent non-combatants with hardly a mention.

And after seeing this, I would conclude that the media is, in fact, in league with the terrorists and the murdering despot dictators. Because they exhibit all indications of being their paid propaganda machines trying to undermine freedom loving people and their efforts. And I would conclude with certainty that, the mass media is a very poor source of news about what is really going on in the world.

My Network Meeting (NOT Network Marketing Meeting) Experience And Why Such Meetings Are A Waste Of Time

First I need to describe WHAT a Network Meeting is: It is a gathering of business owners. Usually over breakfast in a cafe. The idea is to meet other business owners and exchange business cards and the like, in the HOPES of passing business or business-leads to each other.

As I sat through the meeting, it dawned on me how pathetic it was. Here were a bunch of business owners taking time out of their day to HOPE the other business owners at the meeting would GIVE them business.

I saw the meeting as an exercise in futile wishing for business. Almost as if each member was kind of begging the other business owners to send business their way.

I looked at HOW MUCH MONEY it would cost me to join this group so I too could hope to get business for nothing, at some point in the future. And I concluded, I could get better and faster results by taking the money I would spend on joining this "club" and participating in their meetings, and running ads and other marketing with it. I would not have to hope and pray that one of the other business owners would give me business for nothing.

I looked at HOW MUCH TIME it took out of my day to go to this meeting. All up, including traveling and meeting time, it took two hours out of my day. That is two hours spent with the results of HOPE that one of the other business owners would give me business for nothing. I could have spent that same two hours in active marketing and had immediate and profitable results. No waiting. No hoping. No wishing. And by the end of the month I would have spent 8 hours of time (a whole work day) in pointless "my name is so and so and I provide such and such" meetings with a small group of business owners hoping they would give me business for nothing. I could have had better results giving that same spiel door to door for one day.

Of those who go every week, I deemed them all guilty of the "something for nothing" mentality. Like the farmers of old hoping the farm god would give them a good crop without them having to be pro-active to make a good crop. These business owners are hoping the other business owners will give them a customer without them having to be pro-active to generate a customer.

Obviously, I consider this Network Meeting a useless thing, as it is. That is, in its current format I deem it as useless. And costly too. Because, for example, all the members were using the member who ran a printing business despite the cost. A cost that would see me pay 30% more for business cards than I currently get them printed for. And I consider blindly giving a business all your business just because you both belong to the same small business owner's group is bad business.

Now here is how I figure such a group would be worthwhile...

Instead of a Network Club I would have it as a Marketing Club. Where business owners with complimentary businesses get together and market directly to each others' customers in turn. Such as...

Week 1: All businesses give coupons to their customers offering something from business X.

Week 2: All businesses give coupons to their customers offering something from business Y.

And so on and so forth. And what gets discussed at the meetings are new strategies and offerings which can be made to each others' customers. This is direct help and not just "hope you send some business my way" as the current Networking world is.

One example of such a club could have the following businesses (one of each type): Mobile lube/mechanic, dress store (casual) dress store (formal), shoe store, jean store, make up store, hair salon, nail salon, tanning salon, gym.

On week one, all the businesses could give each of their customers a coupon which is redeemable at the shoe store. Week two would see all businesses give a coupon redeemable at the jean store, week three would be the hair salon, and so on and so forth. And after ten weeks all businesses will have had the other businesses give their coupons out.

And as each coupon would require a name and address (or email address) to be redeemed, each business thus gathers a customer list. And once every three months they could offer their customers more products or a package of products.

This is how such a club would work. And work better than the typical networking club. Direct assistance to each member from each member. Because that is the purpose of the club. And that is the crux of the whole matter...

Current Networking Clubs have no purpose. Hence they are useless as a means of growing business effectively, most of the time.

But when there is a specific purpose for those club members coming together, then magic happens.

For instance. The members of the club I went to have just now (after three years) decided to do a joint project. Which sees them buying a piece of real estate as a group. Some put in as much as $20k and others put in as little as $1k. Their idea is to hold onto it for a few years, let appreciation do its job, then cash out for a profit - while the weekly rents give them all a little bit of return on their money during the appreciation stage.

By going with a specific purpose - acquiring real estate as a group - they have achieved far more in the few weeks the idea has been going than they have in all the previous years of hoping for business for nothing. And without realizing it, they have finally applied the secret which Napoleon Hill wrote about in Think And Grow Rich. Do YOU know what that secret is?

Analysis Of A Propaganda Piece

This one took me by surprise. It is from the Socialist Alliance and it was an ad in our local weekly newspaper.

For those who do not know, the Socialist Alliance would like nothing better than for Australia to become a communist country. For the rich value producing members of society to fully support the lazy and unproductive. And basically implement their Marxist doctrine across the board. Which, of course, would result in wide-scale impoverishment - as such socialist practices always do.

Anyway. We start with the headline,

"HOWARD'S WAR On Average Australians"

There is no further explaining what this so-called war is nor which form it takes. It just sits there without basis in fact. To draw attention under false pretenses. But we cannot expect anything less from the far far left Socialist Alliance.

This is followed by four bulleted paragraphs - Health, Education, War, GST.

Under HEALTH it talks about private health rebates while ignoring the money spent on public health. It talks about State and Federal governments blaming each other for the crisis in the hospitals, while never actually mentioning what this crisis is, nor that the hospitals are under State jurisdiction. Of course, they cannot mention that the hospitals are under State control because ALL States in Australia are under the control of the leftist Labor Party. And the Socialist Alliance will not hint at any blame towards any part on the left.

Under EDUCATION they point out how much money the Federal government spent on private school funding, while saying that State school students swelter in oversized classes in rooms without air conditioning. Of course, they do not mention that the private schools do NOT have air conditioned classrooms, nor mention the FACT that State schools are under the jurisdiction of the State governments - which are all controlled by the leftist Labor Party as already mentioned.

So far, their two digs at the right leaning Federal government use examples that actually prove the failures of the leftist Labor parties within the States. But they do not mention these because it would obviously undermine their purpose.

Under WAR they again spout the "Iraq had no connection with the September 11 attacks" thing. Not that such a connection was ever claimed mind you. But hey, repeat a lie often enough and the people will believe that that was what the war was about. So the Socialist Alliance is being deliberately misleading.

Under GST they say the tax makes sure even the poorest Australians pay their "fair share". Again, they deliberately ignore that wholesale tax and sales tax were removed when the GST was introduced. Which is no real surprise as they are trying to make it appear as if the GST was an ADDITIONAL tax that targeted poor Australians and not a replacement tax that simplified the tax system. They ignore that essentials like food are exempt from the tax. And that a wealthy person pays far more tax when they buy a single expensive item than a poor person would pay in a year.

These four bullet points are followed by three small points...

1: That the Attorney-General threatens to abolish ATSIC (an Australian Aboriginal group created by the previous leftist government). They don't mention WHY, which is because the Aboriginals who ran the Aboriginal community group were defrauding it of millions of tax payers' dollars and siphoning it off into their own pockets and not into the Aboriginal community - effectively screwing their own people.

2: That Australia imprisons asylum seekers with mandatory detention. This is another out and out lie from them. Asylum seekers do not get put in jail under mandatory detention. In fact, there are no Asylum Seekers in Australian detention centers at all. People who try to enter Australia ILLEGALLY are put into detention UNTIL they can be identified and their story checked out. And these are the people who ILLEGALLY try to sneak into Australia on rickety boats by landing in unpopulated areas, not genuine asylum seekers.

3: That Australia is stealing East Timor's oil because the current government is ahering to sea boundaries Indonesia drew up WITH East Timor. Of course, they fail to admit that the Labor Party in all of its years in office also adhered to these boundaries. Not that adhering to sea boundaries two other countries decide on is a bad thing and actually shows that there is no bullying going on. But never let the truth get in the way of the Socialist Alliance.

All up, the ad is one lie after another and one deliberate misleading point after another. And shows the Socialist Alliance up for resorting to any tactic - even blatant lying - to convince people to their way of thinking. And if that is what they do in a small ad in a local newspaper, what would they do once they got a seat in the Senate (which is what they are asking the Australian people to do at the upcoming election - vote for them for the Senate)?

If it is anti-government (specially anti-conservative right leaning government) then the Socialist Alliance is there. They appear at all the marches waving their banner. Handing out flyers to get people to join them. Even when said marches have absolutely nothing to do with them. They (the Socialist Alliance) are an insidious group of people who want to instill their brand of Marxism/Leftism/Communism onto the (relatively) free Australian people and impoverish the lot.

And as I read some of their stuff (it pays to know your enemy) I cannot help but wonder what madness has overcome them to the point they think as they do. To the point where infringing upon people's property rights is a matter of course and to be expected. Where wide-scale theft of value-producers, by force under mob rule, to give to the unproductive, is the order of the day. Somehow they call this fair.