Former Police Chief Graham Power
Describes the Evidenced Events.
“If the Jersey regime could do this to me and get away with it then think what they could do to others. Think what they could do to the victims of abuse. Think what they could do to you. Think about it.”
Graham Power, QPM.
Through Jersey’s citizen media, Graham Power, Queens Police Medal has been asked by many islanders to provide an overview of the events surrounding the illegal suspension enacted against him by Jersey’s Law Officers Department and their client civil servants and politicians.
Mr. Power has done so, with all the customary dispassionate, forensic, evidenced precision we have come to expect.
The full text of Mr. Power’s explanation can be read here:
http://ricosorda.blogspot.com/2012/02/operation-end-game-graham-power-replies.html
It is essential reading for any thinking person with an interest in the rule of law and of good governance in Jersey.
Jersey’s public authorities – the government, its prosecution system, its judiciary and its senior civil service – are a lawless syndicate, out of all civilised restraint and scrutiny. We passed, in truth several years ago, the stage at which any credible denial could be made of that fact, such is the sheer volume of documented evidence now available.
Every single institution in Jersey that wields any kind of influence or power has closed ranks and united – and has done so in exclusive protection of the strong and powerful, and in corrupt and repressive opposition to the vulnerable and the defenceless.
I’ve observed before how remarkable it is that the Jersey oligarchy did not possess as much as one ‘wise head’ amongst their number to have made them turn aside from the path of this madness. And “madness” is not in inappropriate word. Within the ranks of the Jersey establishment, there are now growing whispers amongst the more intelligent that are asking questions about the mental health of those who have been responsible for driving and controlling the events of the last four years.
And when your society is so obviously devoid of functioning checks and balances and the proper rule of law at the best of times, it is an alarming prospect to consider that amongst those at the very core of power might be some individuals living in an hallucinated parallel universe – the mirage of which is maintained in their eyes by the unquestioning deference of those around them.
It is a reality that Jersey’s quiescent middle-classes would be well-advised to wake up to – for their own sakes. As Thomas Jefferson wrote:
“The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.”
And as Graham Power writes:
“If the Jersey regime could do this to me and get away with it then think what they could do to others. Think what they could do to the victims of abuse. Think what they could do to you. Think about it.”
Go and read Mr. Power’s latest analyses here:
http://ricosorda.blogspot.com/2012/02/operation-end-game-graham-power-replies.html
Reflect on the question, “how on Earth did Jersey get itself into this astounding and scandalous crisis”; we are staring at the corrupt, hi-jacking and politicisation of objective policing, of the obstruction of the very enforcement of the law.
Sometimes societies sleep-walk – and when they eventually wake up, they find themselves in a bad place.
Sometimes very bad.
Stuart
A Quote from Graham Power’s Statement as published in full by Rico Sorda, 19th February 2012.
“In spite of all of the conflicting and contradictory accounts offered by the Jersey Government we can be sure of some things which have emerged from this issue. The facts of this story support a view that senior figures in the Jersey Government are willing to lie, to make false statements, to destroy evidence, to withhold the truth, to invent accounts and to cover-up for each other. And this is not a story about me. I am not a victim of child abuse. I do not have to seek justice from the very authorities whose conduct and ethics have been exposed by their actions in this case. It is no wonder that the survivors of decades of abuse in Jersey Government institutions have little faith in the Island’s political and legal system. If the regime will lie about one thing then they will lie about another thing. If they will destroy evidence in one case then they will destroy evidence in another. If they are willing to collude and cover up the truth in relation to one matter then they will do the same about other things. If the Jersey regime could do this to me and get away with it then think what they could do to others. Think what they could do to the victims of abuse. Think what they could do to you. Think about it.”
Graham Power
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'And when your society is so obviously devoid of functioning checks and balances and the proper rule of law at the best of times, it is an alarming prospect to consider that amongst those at the very core of power might be some individuals living in an hallucinated parallel universe – the mirage of which is maintained in their eyes by the unquestioning deference of those around them.'
I can't imagine who you're talking about. I really can't.
I mean, if there were any of them really that nutty, they'd be doing obviously crazy things like talking of Jersey becoming independent, and sailing off into constitutionally unchartered waters with them at the helm, in their fancy dress red coats, and with dead seagulls on their heads.
Now, that would be barking.
Stuart.
As criminal as this all is and truly frightening, equally frightening and criminal is that none of it will be shared by Jersey's STATE MEDIA
The people of Jersey will have no idea of how much danger they are in, as Mr. Power has pointed out, if this is what can be done to the Chief of Police, then what can be done to ordinary members of the public?
I take my hat off to the courage of the jersey blog family.
What if ? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFcqRf-iSmo&feature=related
"I take my hat off to the courage of the jersey blog family."
I want to take time to second that sentiment. The evidence makes it almost too easy now to point out the blatantly corrupt officials, and the failings of the sheeplike self-deluded masses to hold anyone to account, but focus should also remain on those who rose above the pit of vipers at personal risk, especially in Stuart's case, of considerable ongoing sacrifice.
Great and small heroic acts were recorded from the darkest hours of the twentieth century, and later to be celebrated throughout the majority of the free world. Most of us learned of these pivotal acts of personal courage from our elders and in school. How is this crisis in Jersey any different?
Always, real people are the villains, and real people are the heros of the circumstances in which they find themselves. The difference between the villains and heros often comes down to the series of seemingly small - but firm - moral choices they made.
When we read history, it is those heroic choices we identify with, almost all of us believing ourselves to be "good." We speculate about the motives of the villains and their terrible choices seem so obvious to us. Why did they so foolishly take that wrong path? How could they not see? We are able to demonstrate how it was always right there in front of them!
Is that only obvious in hindsight? Can history's repetitive lessons be so hard to miss in Jersey? Any of us who are foreign bystanders can hear the echos of every conflict between good and evil as it plays out in this drama, and we confidently predict this all ends badly for those now being exposed as naked enemies of democracy's most prized ideals.
Leigh
The best bit for me, was
"While the holding of two contradictory views at the same time is not an unknown feature of Jersey politics, readers might find this a particularly interesting example.
"The Jersey government position appears to be that the suspension was justified on grounds which included there not being a Gold Group, and also on the basis of negative evidence emerging from the Gold Group.
"Perhaps history will pass its own judgement on the ethical and intellectual qualities of those supporting this argument"
Well done GP, RS, SS
did any one else but me hear the announcement on radio Jersey tjis morning that they are about to launch a new feature that will give the truth behind misconceptions. I cant recall what the name is,but it sounds promising.
They are either going to surprise or dissapoint.
The St Clement special Assembly called to consider the Electoral Commission fiasco is from 7pm Tuesday 21 February.
Everybody is welcome to attend. Voters of St Clement only can vote on Deputy Le Herissiers most important amendments.
A similar special Assembly will take place in St Helier (date to be confirmed)but time is pressing. The States will soon be asked to endorse ex Bailiff now Senator Bailhache's counter moves to usurp reform.
See you all at St Clement...
Having been an avid reader and at times poster on the various blogs, this one being the one that raised my interest back in 2008 if I remember correctly, I get this strange thought, probably way off but its this:-
I believe some very smart people have helped orchestrate a slow burn attack on the Jersey Government and MSM, thereby ensuring they obtained a lot more evidence to support some legal action, knowing that those who had lied and covered up would continue to do so. Lots of questions to the CM and Home Affairs Minister, providing various media with information to later show they failed to be balanced etc... etc..
I guess therefore, there will be some end game real action in the near future!
hi all. A bit off subject but i hope i wasn't the only one who noticed the lead story for channel on line which stated that people who are in receipt of disability benefits and injury benefits could see those benefits cut in order to claw back some of the £10,000,000 that is claimed by about 1,000 people. The whole story was pulled within the hour. Guess what FFrancis Le Gresley was the proposer of this unbelievable story, i suppose he will want to cut my pension next..
Syd
I also heard Roger this morning speak in a strange tone when he said.....
Roger Bara........”Thank you very much to Malcolm Fosse. We will be back with Malcolm in a little while, in an hour to be honest with you...
Now later on in the programme in a few minutes we will be launching a series that aims to get to the truth of the matter. There are various views expressed here on RJ, and indeed around the island, but
How many of them are factual.?....
You know what I’m talking about!
Well wait and see er what we come up with
For the 1st of the series... The Truth of the Matter
Coming up right here on Breakfast with Bara, here on BBC Radio Jersey where it is approaching half past seven.....
The commenter at 17:09:00 GMT, said, "I believe some very smart people have helped orchestrate a slow burn attack on the Jersey Government and MSM, thereby ensuring they obtained a lot more evidence to support some legal action, knowing that those who had lied and covered up would continue to do so. Lots of questions to the CM and Home Affairs Minister, providing various media with information to later show they failed to be balanced etc... etc.."
My sentiments exactly! Is it even possible for them to maintain control of the public narrative when they have no facts on their side? There is absolutely nothing they can do to halt the spread of permanent evidence based information about this on the internet. They foolishly add to the indestructable evidence of their cover-up week by week, proving they are as inept as they are criminal.
My question is why would they think they can permanently control this? The State Media can only reach those it already reaches. It has no influence beyond those who struggle to avoid critical thought.
Is Roger Barra hinting he will actually get to "The Truth of the Matter" concerning newsworthy factual evidence on blogs? Now what an amazing and historic feat for the ages.
To do that he'd have to admit to humiliating self incriminating behaviour. He would also have to allow information showing the sheer criminality of the Jersey Way. The BBC would be reversing its policy of helping to corrupt Jersey further. NOT GOING TO HAPPEN!
Roger Barra - and the truth - and BBC Jersey - in the same sentence?
Now, that's funny.
Funny like something written by Sam Beckett.
How are Frank & Fiona's cocktail parties these days Roger?
How are Glenn & Karine Rankine keeping?
How's Dick keeping?
How's John Averty and the poodles?
The BBC - stakes its reputation on addressing "the truth" - in Jersey.
This is going to be entertaining.
Stuart
Hey does this mean he will be discussing Graham Power's Wiltshire response or the Warcup "interim stich up" or any of the other evidence!!!
I thought this was a brilliant comment left by anon. on Rico's blog.........
...Can anyone write a sufficiently informative, feeder e-mail to the new Sun on Sunday Newspaper?
This should fit all their requirements: Child Abuse Cover ups, Governmental Corruption, Politicians lying on oath, Civil Service Government within Government, Police Chief removed by Subterfuge & Lies, Local media including the BBC complicit in the cover-up. High level accused Abusers still in Post, protected by the Authorities, Golden Handshakes to Criminals, Whistleblowers Jailed, Inappropriate use of Data protected reports & Police Reports. Possibly forged reports, Prosecutions sabotaged by the legal system to protect Paedophiles. Victims abandoned by those meant to protect them. Have I missed anything?
Probably - Sadly
Andre Bonjour REVISITED
Ah. The PRAVDA of the matter.
Potentially priceless !
It may be another layer of cover up or it may be that the BBC proper has woken up to it's rouge trader franchise and has had words and is giving it one chance to put it right.
In short an exit strategy for both the BBC and it's local staff.
Time will tell.
I shall run it past Ian Hislop in the spring :-)
Poster at 20 February 2012 17:09, echoed by a couple of others:
"I believe some very smart people have helped orchestrate a slow burn attack on the Jersey Government and MSM, thereby ensuring they obtained a lot more evidence to support some legal action, knowing that those who had lied and covered up would continue to do so."
That is the way it has worked out but those involved love this island and genuinely care for it's people and have, I think universally, been wishing at every juncture for this madness to stop!
I was first alerted to Mr. Syvret's intellect and fortitude when he was proved right about the LLP "Legislature for Hire" scandal.
This also alerted us to the dysfunction of our Parliament when he was wrongly excluded for 6 months, but returned with his head held high.
Mr. Syvret did not want to go to Jail for the alleged data protection infringement during his attempts to protect the vulnerable of this island but this shall be a "mandela" that he can always wear with pride and our gratitude.
BBC and getting to the truth mah luv eh?
My mate Helier and I had just finished replacing the lights on the sea front, you know, the one's that do not require replacing so often ... when he said that if the abuse scandal and all its consequent fall out are going to be mentioned then the PR team at the States must have been working overtime on this.
There will be plenty of people happy to hear the soothing words of comfort from the ministry.
The Beano is not the Rag
The 'truth' of the matter from one of the mouthpieces of "The Ministry of Truth".
More of the same then - or is this really a new leaf ?
The trouble is that the truth hurts and the past has proven that those entrusted with the local BBC mantle have not been brave enough and has been happy to tell us what we wanted to hear - or more to the point, what the Establishment wanted us to hear.
This 'truth offensive' (did someone predict a 'charm offencive' btw ?) just might be a step in the right direction but "BBC Central" would be better off stepping in, cleaning up and hacking out any rotten wood.
The BBC has a great reputation and it is worth maintaining.
The dynamic of this is truly fascinating.
http://www.channelonline.tv/channelonline_jerseynews/displayarticle.asp?id=498274
ELECTORAL COMMISSION
I know TV companies are supposed to produce a certain percentage of locally made programmes per month.
Does 90% of CTVs output seem to be adverts about how brilliant and fair they are?
Is it deliberate that they keep showing the one where Jess D changes 2 words and adds one of her own to a written statement?
Maybe it's so we know what to expect.
Maybe it's what the award proposers look for.
The above link:
http://www.channelonline.tv/channelonline_jerseynews/displayarticle.asp?id=498274
A 36-year-old man [Niall Linden] charged with causing death by dangeours driving was in court this morning.
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Miss Dita Pavarniece, a 27 year old Latvian passenger died after the Lotus Elise crashed into a wall in a St Clement 30 zone in the early hours of Saturday 12 February 2011
The vehicle, barely recognisable, ended up looking more like one of those mini-mokes they used to hire out to tourists.
Such a shame (about the girl obviously, not the car).
Why was it months and months and months before the driver's name was released ?
This sort of event is all too regular, but aren't the names of the drivers involved usually released much much quicker than this ?
:-(
And the days when people could get away with perjuring themselves in defamation actions is long over - as Tommy Sheridan, Jeffrey Archer and Jonathan Aitken could attest.
Well - you feeling lucky, punk?
Come and have a go if you think your reputation is hard enough.
G'day mate,
Tough and true words.
we have taken an interest in corrupt Jersey, since the kiddies abuse headlines a while back and as my brother worked there as a beach guard.
Fair play to you, we have a lot better reporting in our papers than your crappy paper.
Keep up the good work, its all about the truth.
Marc
Australia - Check the IP if you want.
BBC Jersey's new The truth of the matter.
Pantomime players in association with BBC Jersey have announced an updated rendition of Pinocchio !
Don't miss it !?? (what happened to teh phone in btw ?)
It will not cost you a penny* - only your free will
The puppet master says:
Look Shineeeeeee
*over and above your licence fee
The commenter at Tuesday, 21 February 2012 07:15:00 GMT defended those who, "...believe some very smart people have helped orchestrate a slow burn attack on the Jersey Government and MSM, thereby ensuring they obtained a lot more evidence to support some legal action, knowing that those who had lied and covered up would continue to do so."
I would have thought most readers agree that it is in the long term best interest of Jersey to clean out the rot in the government and media. So the exposure of the truth is really more of a patriotic duty than defending the current States Mafia's control.
In the 1960s, so called American Patriots used the slogan, "America! Love it or Leave it" against those who stood against continuing the ill conceived Viet Nam War. Would that country have been better served by sending all who opposed that war off on the next boat in the morning?
The greatest moments in American journalism may have stemmed from the release of evidence, like the Pentagon Papers, proving the government had lied.
Watergate, and its aftermath, did not topple the underlying democratic system but instead, only strengthened the rule of law.
Imagine what would eventually become of Jersey if such detectable, and verifiable corruption of both media and rule of law, are never democratically addressed and remedied?
I will shout it out here: THE JERSEY SYSTEM IS UNTENABLE! HOW MUCH LONGER CAN THIS BE IGNORED?
Hi Stuart.
Just put up the Audio from today's Question time. You & your Reader's can Listen HERE
For clarification of my post Tuesday, 21 February 2012 07:15:00 GMT which has perhaps been misunderstood @21 Feb 23:41
"..... That is the way it has worked out but those involved love this island and genuinely care for it's people and have, I think universally, been wishing at every juncture for this madness to stop! .... "
IMPORTANTLY:
"those involved" being those involved in the said "slow burn attack on the Jersey Government" [NB not my phrase]
AND
I actually don't see it as an "slow burn attack on the Jersey Government"
I see it as a long term ROBUST DEFENCE of ALL Jersey people, many of whom are once again being let down by their elected and non elected government and parts of their civil service.
Those who perpetrate these acts or cover them up are cowards who only love themselves or love whatever position they have attained.
[or 'love' children in a way I don't even want to think about]
I dont make a habit of defending the indefensible.
This war MUST BE WON.
WHY must be won ? see the BBC2 investigation extract:
http://youtu.be/0uCoqldzLJs
I failed to hold back a tear or two when the little rescued girl said to the 300,000 in perfect English:
"Thank you for turning up in such numbers"
Futile of course because 300,000 have no chance against an Establishment and a few bent cops and lawyers.
NO ! This war WILL BE WON.
And if it can be won with minimum cost, casualties and collateral damage -then that suits me just fine.
The bigger fish will be fried.
I imagine that universally; Syvret & Sorda & You ...... just want "this madness to stop" so that they can get on with their lives.
Me too.
H. x
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I was asked an interesting question this morning! my friend said " Do you think that Stuart Syvret met up with any victims of abuse while doing his short stint in prison."
Devon & Cornwall Police
Record 1
Freedom of Information Act Request No: 000415/12
Total expenditure under external training per each financial year, with a caveat that it will include some accommodation, travel and conference expenditure.
Also a list of all training suppliers that can be identified through paid invoices in the period in question, but without expenditure totals per supplier, and on the basis that accommodation/travel suppliers will also be within that list.
Please proceed with this for the years last 5 calendar years (2007 to 2011)
The Finance Department have provided the following information:
Total expenditure under external training per each financial year, with a caveat that it will include some accommodation, travel and conference expenditure.
Financial year Total cost per annum
2007 £1,150,586.82
2008 £1,355,486.21
2009 £1,237,537.43
2010 £863,208.59
2011 to date* £577,064.96
£5,183,884.01
*It is possible that this figure may be likely to change and invoices are sent to the central Finance Department for training provided in 2011 from geographic areas.
These figures do contain some element of accommodation, conferences and travel
Additionally where we have trained other force/law enforcement delegates the reimbursement of costs is not included in these figures
Also a list of all training suppliers that can be identified through paid invoices in the period in question, but without expenditure totals per supplier, and on the basis that accommodation/travel suppliers will also be within that list.
Please proceed with this for the years last 5 calendar years (2007 to 2011)
...2008 Suppliers ...
MARKET CARPETS LTD
MATT TAPP ASSOCIATES
MAVEN TRAINING
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FROM RICOS LATEST BLOG POST
Sunday, February 12, 2012
THE METROPOLITAN 'INTERIM' POLICE REPORT
8. MAJOR INCIDENT ROOM
8.1 The Major Incident Room (MIR) was set up in September 2007 to deal with the administration of the investigation and operated primarily as a 'manual' or 'paper' major enquiry system. Jersey did however utilise a computer-based spreedsheet for dealing with some aspects of the information gathered and for Action Management.
8.2 In late November 2007 it became clear the the MIR did not have the capacity to cope with the volume of information being received and that the HOLMES system would need to be introduced. On the 3rd January 2008, a meeting took place with the Devon and Cornwall Police (who provide Major Incident IT support for Jersey) to undertake 'Back Record Conversion' (BRC) TO HOLMES. This process was started at Devon and Cornwall headquarters while new workstations were purchased and installed in Jersey. This BRC took longer than initially envisaged due to the volume of material involved, but good support was provided by Devon and Cornwall Police who also loaned an experienced officer manager (OM) to run the MIR.
Does Graham Power realise that Matt Tapp Associates were working for Devon and Cornwall Police at this time, in 2008?
Please can you ask him this?
http://jewelleryjersey.blogspot.com/2012/02/does-anyone-believe-anything-government.html
Which shows rather neatly this is not a simple tribal or left right thing. I agree with the libertarian's comments here for the most part.
The saddest part though. Of the senatorial candidates last time I can think of only 3 who cut the grade in terms of arguing for what they truly believed with some capability and political knowledge. With so little choice we will never change the States politcial landscape.
CHILD ABUSERS will be GETTING WORRIED :)
Stuart, do you think current Attorney General Dim Tim Le Cocq possesses sufficient intelligence to have by now realised what a disastrous mess he has dug himself into? It's obvious to anyone looking at the situation from the outside that he has fallen for the same tricks that Ian Le Marquand fell for. Which is that they were both "clean hands" coming into their jobs but like utter schmucks, they were mugged into carrying on other peoples dirty corruptions and cover-ups. Both men could have made an historic difference and have gone down in this whole scandal as "good guys", the men who finally broke the chains of inherited corruption in Jersey's public authorities. Instead they're doomed permanently now to forever be carrying around a huge stinking, sloping bucket of other peoples shit. With more being poured into it from time to time, it splashing their clothes, spilling over the edges, filling their shoes, impossible to ever be clean from, getting heavier and heavier, whilst those whose shit it is laugh at them behind their backs.
Your comment goes on - with the admirable economy of incisive metaphor - to answer your own question.
If Tim Le Cocq was intelligent - he would not be carrying around that bucket of shit.
But let's face it - if he had been intelligent, he would never have got the job.
It's kind of axiomatic.
His predecessors needed someone who was thick enough to inherit their big stinking bucket of shit - and who would, rather than tip it away and clean things up, carry it around, with a pat on the head.
Frankly - so clearly is "carrying the shit-bucket" a key, central function of being Solicitor General and Attorney General in Jersey, they may as well put it in the job-description.
Along with - "only complete dopes need apply."
I mean, we can see very clearly just how well the current Solicitor General fits those requirements. Howard "Blunt" Sharp: the lawyer who believes a court can't judicially review executive decisions.
Stuart
Stuart, this has got to be read by all your
readers
http://ricosorda.blogspot.com/2012/02/operation-end-game-3.html
It really is staggering
rs
"but good support was provided by Devon and Cornwall Police who also loaned an experienced officer manager (OM) to run the MIR. "
Was that experienced officer manager Matt Tapp, who was working for Devon and Cornwall Police at the time (2008)?
Anon at 23:41 wrote
"In the 1960s, so called American Patriots used the slogan, "America! Love it or Leave it" against those who stood against continuing the ill conceived Viet Nam War"
The so-called patriots used to say "my country, right or wrong", to which the kids (remember back in the 60s when the kinds had guts and integrity?) used to shout back "my country, right or wrong - when right, to be kept right; when wrong, to be put right"
Another American slogan used during the late 1960s in response to "America - Love it or Leave it" was "America - Change It and Save It!" That could also apply to Jersey's situation.
Stuart.
SUSPENSION REVIEWED??
Thursdays meeting at St Clements Parish Hall on the 21st of February was very informative with Deputy Le Heriser explaining he’s amendments to the voters of the Parish, along with others who chose to be there, giving as to what the electoral reform commission entails.
It does not bode well for the Democracy of this Island even States Members at the meeting admitted it was not their right as Politicians to sit in or on any Independent Commission on electoral reforms.
Public rights could be in danger of being compromised, this Independent Commission as D Wimberly laid out was not intended to be watered down with any politician being a part of the process or with the possibility of Senator Philip Bailache or any other States member should sit as Chairman.
This could be a possible risk to Democracy as we know it, and possibly yet again a waste of Taxpayers money.
As this is an opinion. It would be interesting for others to have a chance to also share their views and vote accordingly at the Town hall on Wednesday 29th Feb at 7pm.
Democracy
Time to read this again
It is not just Jersey system that is conflicted...
http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/9550977.Paedophile_foster_carer_jailed_for_21_years/
http://ricosorda.blogspot.com/2012/02/operation-end-game-4.html
Im now looking at the establishments discrediting of ACPO
rs
LOOKING IN THE WRONG DIRECTION
Stuart.
Does your neighbour own a PETROL BOMB?
Very interesting, that Deputy Assistant Commissioner Sue Akers leading the Met inquiry into the hacking scandal, has given some very blunt and expansive testimony to the Leveson Inquiry:
"In her evidence, DAC Akers said evidence suggested that the Sun often made payments to relatives or friends of sources and that one of those arrested allegedly acted as such a conduit.
The payments being investigated were not ones that "just involve the odd drink or meal," she said. They were "regular, frequent and sometimes significant sums of money to public officials".
DAC Akers said there was some evidence of officials being put on retainers.
Over a number of years, £80,000 was paid to one individual, she said, while one journalist received £150,000 from the paper to pay sources."
That is precisely the corruption methodology used by the Jersey oligarchy.
The difference in Jersey is that in addition to certain public officials being involved in a network of corruption - the payola here flows to journalists - rather than from them and their employers.
But certainly "regular, frequent and significant sums of money" change hands in Jersey's corrupted public sphere.
The source of the funds is often the Criminal Offences Confiscation Fund - THE key slush-fund run by the Jersey syndicate.
And many of the payments made would, indeed, be described as "retainers" - for such things as "consultancy" work.
And, of course, those who receive such "work" are tremendously grateful - and thus keen to ensure those who "commissioned" them receive - in turn - the occasional "bonus" of their own.
It's a very "neat" operation, when you think about it.
Why run the attendant risks of operating like a traditional mafia - when your racketeering can be carried out under the actual authority of THE prosecution system?
That way you get OBEs and Knighthoods - instead of fifty year stretches or concrete boots.
Stuart
I'm not happy with he Chief Ministers explanation of the payment made to Matt Tapp it may be an insignificant amount for the Minister, yet that does not alter the fact it happened without checks and balances or records to date. I also have concerns with the payment made for operation blast, were there receipts and records of this payment who to?
Two small examples but concerns never the less. Then we have the golden handshakes sudden departures of involved parties.
I can understand the worry and damage the phone hacking has done to some people, however there are thousands of victims of abuse who have to wait sometimes 10 to 15 years before they even get to see a courtroom and when they do they palmed off with pennies for having to go through some of lifes worst possible experiences for many years.
Mr Syret, you caught on to the `Syndicats' who own and run jersey very quickly! And there's more a lot more!
In the words of one of the God father's (close) relatives:
`` so be it''!
My first thought when I heard about Jersey's Criminal Confiscation Fund was to guess it was used as a slush fund for bribes and other pay-offs. It is too easy for public officials to be corrupted when funds are not transparently accounted for. Jersey is especially and most blatantly corrupt, but no country can afford to risk having the covert exchange of funds without any unaccountability to the general public.
I wonder how Gorst is seen in all of this? My impression is that he is a decent and honest man. But he's also a very skilled politician in a very vulnerable position.He needs all his skill to stay in power. Every day I say a little thank you that Sir P did not become Chief Minister. But I am sure he is just waiting for Gorst to faulter. Do you think, Stuart, Gorst has seen the reality of how the oligarchs and their henchmen work, or is he still in the naive and ignorant position that you were in for most of your (part 1?) political career?
Ian Gorst has never given me any reason to regard him as anything other than a basically decent, reasonably intelligent, honest person.
And yes - so much better that he became Chief Minister than the frankly deranged and dangerous Phil Bailhache.
I do though think Ian Gorst is naive - too innocent - to find life in his position easy.
He is surrounded by a pack of vipers. Not least the aforesaid Phil Bailhache. Add into the mix the likes of Bill Bailhache, Michael Birt, Tim Le Cocq, Phil Ozouf - and the senior civil service - and you can see he is in an environment in which his freedom to simply make the correct decisions - and do what is right - is dramatically constrained.
The coming weeks and months will serve as a real and difficult test for him - for his strength and his wisdom.
How will he handle the subject of the public inquiry into the Jersey Child Abuse Disaster?
To do what is right - will require him to defy the likes of the Bailhache Brothers and Dim Tim - defy certain other Ministers - and defy a number of the Frank Walker Party backbenchers.
Ian Gorst must lead in this subject.
The public interest of this community requires that our polity grapple with, and face up to, its stark and disgraceful failure. But, by way of contrast, the self-interest of that polity - and many of those within it - wants to bury the truth.
Does Ian Gorst have the strength, the resolve, the wisdom - to do what is right?
I certainly hope so.
In respect of what was my career, I don't think I was naive or ignorant for most of it; frankly, I knew it was a toxic cesspit - mostly filled with people who were little more than grifters, halfwits and huxters. All you could do was keep focused upon doing what was right. That way, no matter that one was frequently thwarted, and obstructed, at least you retained your integrity. I could always say that I at least tried to always do what I believed to be right, throughout that whole period. The average States member never even thinks about whether what they are supporting - or opposing - is right - or wrong.
The only time I was truly naive - and actually shocked - at the true nature of most of the wretched scum - was their willing and rabid hostility toward exposing the child protection failures.
I was naive in that respect.
Not even I - after seventeen years of exposure to the self-seeking whores - expected a great majority of them to line-up in support of the unlawful concealment of child abuse. Yet - that is what they did - at the merest word from their leaders.
And it does speak volumes about the irredeemable decadence of Jersey politics.
The States of Jersey is the only legislature in the entire world - to sack a Social Services Minister - for trying to protect vulnerable children.
Ian Gorst - if he is going to try and do the right thing - is going to need all the support he can get.
Stuart.
Jersey's Criminal Confiscation Fund - are records kept, accounts published? Or can they do what they like with it?
Is it made public but with things hidden in plain sight? "Consulting fees" with no explanation, etc?
Don't get too excited about Ian Gorst, he praises the JEP today for being a very good barometer of public opinion.
MEET THE SHREDDER
Re: Anonymous @ 17:07, said...
"Don't get too excited about Ian Gorst, he praises the JEP today for being a very good barometer of public opinion."
I was going to leave the very same comment!
I also note that Ian Gorst is not tying the Ogley payolla to the reasons behind it. Has he ever expressed any interest in why Ogley was paid off this way?
My personal opinion is that Ogley was promised MORE than the reported amount of the golden handshake because what sum would be high enough to let his masters sleep peacefully at night? A half million would not protect them in the event Ogley was forced to hire expensive lawyers to protect THEM!
Well, as I think I indicated, the jury is out on Ian Gorst.
So far he has appeared to be a basically decent person.
But now - the greatest challenge he will ever face in his life is upon his shoulders.
Do as is expected of him - under the whip of the Jersey oligarchy - and maintain the corrupt and lawless system?
Or - make an epochal, historic difference - and be the person from the Jersey establishment side who finally says - "enough!".
He may be a basically nice guy - but does he possess that strength - does he possess that wisdom?
Much like the current police chief Mike Bowron - there is no compromise path before Ian Gorst; he either chooses to clean-up the rampant corruption - or he goes along with it - and becomes just another part of the problem.
He has that historic choice in front of him - and it is a choice he must make - now.
There is no hiding-place.
He either goes down in history as the man who cleaned-up Jersey - or he becomes just another crook.
It's one of those two destinies.
We wait.
Stuart
http://ricosorda.blogspot.com/2012/02/operation-end-game-5-senator-le.html
THE CORPORATION SOLE
IS IT SO DIFFICULT?
RS
THE BLAME GAME
Ian G is a right wing Christian who has Ian Le M and Philip B on either side of him. No way will this man be any different, just forget it.
Stuart, could I ask you a favour?
Could you PLEASE go into your blog settings and alter the Captcha style?
Blogger have changed it by default without warning and the new style is unreadable half the time. I'm getting frustrated of having to enter the thing 3 or 4 times before getting it right, to the point that I'm soon going to give up trying to leave comments.
There's a few people also complaining about this on the Google forums, so I know I'm not alone. Some bloggers have even turned off the comment verification because of the problems its caused!
Apparently there's a section in your settings where you can reset it to the more readable old style.
I'd really appreciate it if you could change it, or maybe even ask public opinion about it first.
It's quite an important issues because it's putting people off commenting on blogs, which defeats the object of the comment section. Why Google though that was a good idea we can only guess!
Thanks
Yes - its probably fair to describe Ian Gorst as a right-wing Christian.
But not all right-wing Christians are axiomatically bad.
I know, I know - we can be forgiven for thinking otherwise when we look at so many Jersey oligarhcy figures - the hypocrisy, the self-regard, the mind-numbing degree of shallow materialism and greed, the arrogance, the near-compete absence of empathy - the standard characteristics so readily observed. Indeed - you could take Ian Le Marquand as an archetype of all that is rotten, decadent and foul amongst Jersey's right-wing Christians.
But, believe it or not - not all of them are like that.
Ian Gorst may well turn out to be a decent person.
As I said - the jury is out.
Of course, it won't be easy for him. He is - as you correctly point out - surrounded by toxic Jersey oligarchs. For Ian Gorst to exhibit the necessary wisdom and leadership will require great strength and courage.
But let's not condemn the man until he deserves it.
Stuart
The Captcha style change was automatic, as you state. I assume it could be changed back to the old style.
But I'm curious as to what readers think? Personally, I've found it a change for the better - finding it easier to distinguish between lower-case and capital letters, which were some times easier to confuse under the old style.
Stuart
both Captcha styles are annoying but the new one more so.
Stuart I also am having trouble copying the words and have actually given up once or twice.
The Captcha is really difficult for anyone with eyesight problems.
I'm having real problems to, perhaps it would be an idea to change back as you don't seem to be getting many comments and could be down to this.
Have you read the filthy-rag today? Walker and the rag saying its your fault Ogley got the handshake money............couldn't make it up.
"Have you read the filthy-rag today? Walker and the rag saying its your fault Ogley got the handshake money............couldn't make it up.2
Its always Stuarts fault.............. alegedly
JRCbean
The rag article hinting that you are to blame for the Ogley payout is one for the ages! you aren't mentioned by name but Walker is clearly suggesting it's your fault. Truly one for the ages. I suggest you find a used copy from someone's bin and frame that one for laughs.
Reminds me of the joke about you, the reporter, and a rescue from a burning building! Yes, it is always your fault, somehow.
A fascinating spin.
But Frank Walker and the rest of the oligarhcy obviously hope that people are stupid.
Who negotiated the defective contract with Ogley?
Who did that - so as to enable Jersey tax-payers to be taken to the cleaners?
It was walker, of course.
And people shouldn't overlook the significance of the confession made by walker today - that he personally - individulay - negotiated the contract with Ogley, for it to then be rubber-stamped by the Employment Board.
The actions of Walker in acting in that way - undertaking singular, unscrutinised negotiations - with the key public official in the civil service - was not lawful.
But, as far as any role I may have played - if I was responsible for Ogley's departure - then I wear that responsibility as a badge of honor.
Bill Ogley is a despicable, wretched liar and crook; a man who corruptly conceals child abuse - and engages in conspiracies to pervert the course of justice.
Stuart
PROTECTION FOR OGLEY
Yes, indeed, Sir. We should be congratulating you for the removal of a man who engaged in covering up every allegation of failure to protect children. The removal was the right act. The payout was the problem, although Walker seems to want you to be responsible for the expense, as if you would have felt sorry for Ogley and financially rewarded him for his failures.!
Remind readers of Bill Ogley's position on Mario Lundy! How about solitary confinement of vulnerable children? And, do we know his position on Simon Bellwood?
Stuart.
“Remind readers of Bill Ogley's position on Mario Lundy!”
From the Former Police Chief’s sworn AFFIDAVIT.
“The third example I have chosen relates to a Strategic Planning Workshop held at the St Pauls Centre on Friday 24th October 2008. The Workshop was attended by a number of senior public servants including myself and the Chief Executive. At the commencement of the workshop the Chief Executive asked for silence and said that he had an announcement to make. He named a senior civil servant who was present. The person named is a suspect in the abuse investigation but has not been suspended. The Chief Executive said that the suspect had his total support and that “if anyone wants to get…….(the suspect)…….they would have to get me first”. This announcement was applauded by some but not all of the persons present. I took it as a further indication of the “in crowd” closing ranks against the “threat” of the abuse enquiry. The Chief Executive later played a significant role in my suspension.”
Yep.
And the really obvious - and stark - issue that all intelligent people now see, is not, "oh, how dreadful that Ogley got a big pay-off" - but rather, "Why has this overt and evidenced criminal not been charged and prosecuted - what the hell does the Crown think it's doing?"
Stuart
Stuart.
The former Police Chief, Graham Power QPM, in his Affidavit said.
"The Chief Executive later played a significant role in my suspension.”
Well the Chief Executive Officer (Bill Ogley) also played a significant role in the appointment of David (The Destroyer of Evidence) Warcup.....
Poor Bill Ogley & his family were feeling a little uncomfortable & someone had offered him a better deal elsewhere, 7 years back, in 2005. So, Frank gave himself permission to sweeten the CEO's deal. What leverage exactly did Bogley have at that point? I didn't think things got nasty until 2007? If someone of FW's level in the hierarchy is being hung out to dry in this way, times must be challenging. Good news!
It is strange here in the UK we are seeing actual hush money that has been paid to silence an abuse inquiry and the PEOPLE!!! of Jersey are doing and saying NOTHING?
A little reminder from Stuart 4/2/2009
Senator S. Syvret:
The point is you allowed the Minister for Health and Social Services to make a disgraceful personal attack on me yesterday and you thought that was perfectly okay. But never mind, that is past. I am going to move on with the debate. In the 1990s the States Assembly, the States administration, its senior civil servants, who also cost vast millions of pounds, blew a total sum of £49 million in capital project overspends. That was when the ship of public administration in Jersey had at the helm all of our supposed fine, upstanding, masterful elder statesmen, people that understood the financial realities of the business world; £49 million of taxpayers’ money blown. Nobody held accountable for it. Not a single civil servant’s head rolled. I do not even think any politicians’ heads rolled. Here we are, we cannot give £139,500 to workers who have been thrown into the street. Frankly, it is disgraceful. What did Les Pas Holdings cost us, £12 million? We pay the private sector lawyer for our representation in that over £1 million in fees for what was a disastrous failure. How much is the farrago of the Trinity landfill mess going to end up costing us ultimately? The fact remains that the sum of money we are talking about here is less, this total sum of money that we are looking to spend on these workers is less than - I can almost guarantee you - the golden handshakes and payoffs that a lot of the senior civil service clowns that are responsible for the disasters we see at the moment will get when they are sent off into the sunset.
I did not realise Mr Ogleys contracted was ammended to enable him to receive the pay off. Exactly where, are the savings made by Mr. Ogley?
It will be interesting to see how much money is spent finding out what Mr. Ogley did for his money.
Is there proof of an offer of employment from the company Mr. Ogley was headhunted by? I hope the States of Jersey hr department can prove that was the case.
In the JEP they claimed they obtained information of amount in golden handshake from freedom of information request
JEP praise Mr. Perchard for being the first person to publicly questions, mr Perchards claims the whistleblower was from within the department and no longer working there.
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@MatthewHotton The Payoff was going to published BECAUSE of the Accounting Standard, not the FOI request. Its a shame that was not reported
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Mr. Gorst Chief Minister over turning states policy after campaign by the JEP conceded it was the JEPs action on behalf of Islanders that played a part.
Mr. Ogley himself allows information to be released.
They all did it. Got the news out first.
Where is the truth. I personally believe it is a press release from States of Jersey acknowledged and agreed by all parties. Why? and what is the angle with Mr. Perchard? He is in the story for a reason.
Kuddos to the commenter who posted "A little reminder from Stuart 4/2/2009" on Thursday, 1 March 2012 23:33:00 GMT.
Think about what Stuart said here, "How much is the farrago of the Trinity landfill mess going to end up costing us ultimately? The fact remains that the sum of money we are talking about here is less, this total sum of money that we are looking to spend on these workers is less than - I can almost guarantee you - the golden handshakes and payoffs that a lot of the senior civil service clowns that are responsible for the disasters we see at the moment will get when they are sent off into the sunset."
How foolish the voters were to let this courageous politician go, when he was right, time and again, about the real waste of public money and general failure of government accountability.
I especially cringe when I hear the mainstream media complaints about Lenny Harper's pre-approved expense account meal and a couple of justified upgrades on airline tickets as if they were what really matters most in Jersey's budget.
Where is the proportionate outrage?
At least there is something where the JEP and public agree. Jimmy Perchard and Mick Gradwell are cut from the same cloth both have been accused of leaking confidential emails concerning the child abuse inquiry. But whistleblowers they are not.
Tried to post this on JEP This is Jersey in reply to Proud Jerseyman's latest missive.
(Not published yet but we'll see)
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"I get your drift PJ.
This has nothing to do with the safe pair of hands that was Mr Walker. Oh no. It was a fiendish plot by that scoundrel Mr Syvret all along.
His intrepid campaign to make Jersey believe BO had striven to cover up all sorts of wrongdoing, whilst feathering his own nest is so obviously exposed.
Clearly he must know that middle Jersey would not bother to read the detailed evidence piling up on local blog sites.
Why he & his friends keep making more of this stuff available to everyone I do not know! It's not as if anyone will want to receive more information than can be provided by the JEP, CTV & the BEEB."
If they can post messages from a certain Mr Mike Hunt (Comment number 12 on the "No need for an apology" thread).
I can't see why they'd censor this!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-17225087
Dear Stuart,
If this whole 'payoff' matter were not so serious it would almost be 'funny', but it is most certainly NOT funny in the extreme, here we have the likes of Frank Walker, singularly agreeing 'a deal' with Bill the Shredder of notes and then without so much as a "Wonder if the taxpayers would like a say" getting the whole farse rubber stamped by the pet poodles. This man (Frank Walker) assumed he was perfect, invincible, and above all protected but all of a sudden the light is shining into his little dark world and what does he do? yes just like all cowards he turns on anyone he thinks can shoulder HIS failings, no wonder he never got his craved for knighthood. What all these clowns do not realise is that more and more 'evidence' is being posted and this will in the end be their downfall. Oh and I like many, many ordinary Jersey folk have just joined the ranks of the 1(1)K in that I am now paying more tax then most of them, except of course that I am not earning anywhere near their incomes....trouble is coming to this blessed Island and it is not too far off!
Re ogley and his golden hand shake, we are led to believe it was insurance against being attacked by politions, making his position untenable,more likely he orcastrated his own leaveing by makeing out he was being given a hard time,there by leaving the job with the conditions agreed with walker being met, allowing him to claim the money and run, prusmebly before more comes to light as to what other damage this git has caused and cost the public of this island,I am feeling a little guilty myself because if i was in his position and knew this money was on offer I might try and orcastrate my own dismisel to claim £500,000,im sure the bums i would be working for would,nt see through it.( I supose i would have to learn to spell first though).
Canardly believeit
The JEP did post this however!
March 2, 2012 at 11:41 am
As ever ‘Proud Jerseyman’ you rightly point out the very positive attributes of our elders and betters. We need more people like you to guide our way. Without Sir Frank we would be much poorer in areas as diverse as maritime registers , shelters for those needing them and some of our emergency services.
Will States members be discussing the original contract of employment given to Mr. Ogley and the clause that allegedly allowed him to receive a salary equal to a UK local authority that offered him a position of employment?
At the time Mr Ogley was employed with States of Jersey he must of actively been seeking a new position and attended an interview for him to have secured the position and the salary that Mr. Walker used to defend his own action.
Perhaps the otherwise mystifying and extraordinary silence of the BBC in Jersey has certain "cultural" explanations?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-17225087
"Ex-BBC presenter Peter Rowell jailed for abusing girls".
Former BBC and ITV presenter Peter Rowell has been jailed for six years for sexually abusing girls.
He admitted 12 charges of indecent assault on girls under the age of 16, six charges of making indecent images and one of possessing images.
Rowell, 53, had denied a charge of rape and the jury at Bristol Crown Court accepted an alternative charge of indecent assault.
He assaulted his five victims between 1989 and the early 1990s.
Rowell was also placed on the sex offenders register.
Sentencing him, Judge David Ticehurst said the effect on his victims had been "considerable".
"You had a position of trust in the media which you abused.
"You were prepared to use the world of showbusiness to attract young girls."
'Computer seized'
The broadcaster, from Wickwar, South Gloucestershire, sparked a nationwide search after failing to turn up for work in March 2011.
His car had been found in a supermarket car park at Yate.
The father of one was found "safe and well" the next day in Keswick, Cumbria, and was later arrested by police.
Before his disappearance, police had raided his home and seized his computer.
On that computer detectives found more than 400 indecent images of children.
Speaking outside court, Det Insp Jill Kells praised the five victims for being "really brave" and "very courageous" in coming forward to explain what happened to them.
She said police were alerted when the first woman came forward just over a year ago.
A second then made contact and following Rowell's arrest and charge, another three victims contacted detectives
Det Insp Kells said a lot of the initial contact with the victims had been made through the studios of the then GWR station on Bristol's waterfront after the girls had shown interest in the radio station and in Rowell.
"Mr Rowell abused his position of trust and respect and took advantage," she said.
"Many of the offences took place at the radio station [GWR] and at a victim's home address... but none of them were committed at the BBC or ITV studios.
"He used very predatory and grooming behaviour to groom them and then offend against them.
'Starstruck'
"I hope this sentence allows the victims to get some sort of comfort and closure and allow them to move forward."
Sian Sullivan from the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said that despite the fact the offences took place some time ago, it would always prosecute if there was sufficient evidence and it was in the public interest.
"Peter Rowell used his fame to exploit innocent, starstruck young girls.
"Today shows this type of behaviour will not be tolerated by the justice system and offenders will be brought to justice, whoever they may be."
Rowell, originally from Sunderland, presented the afternoon show on BBC Radio Bristol and BBC Somerset.
He was also a newsreader on ITV West for more than 10 years and worked as a DJ for commercial radio station GWR in the 1980s.
Well, it's either that or the bribery.
Stuart
Mah mate Helier and I had just finished the days operations in the General when he mentioned about Bill Ogley's departure.
ILM is blaming Graham Power's involvement in Operation Blast to justify the suspension; however Bill Ogley was involved too - even though he initially denied it. Could the £500K not be seen as a bung to get him out of the way PDQ before ILM then gets a clear run at using Blast to suspend Graham?
If I have got this wrong I'm more than happy to be put straight.
The Beano is not the Rag
http://www.thisisjersey.com/latest/2008/12/03/childcare-in-crisis/
8 months later Pollard resigns.
JERSEY: Childcare In Crisis?
Added on December 8, 2008
by Andy Sibcy, The Jersey Evening Post, 3rd December, 2008
ISLAND social workers are having to juggle almost twice the number of childcare cases recommended following the death in the UK of Victoria Climbié.
The Jeresy Evening Post has learned that Children's Services are so short-staffed that each officer is dealing with an average of 20 cases - even though Lord Laming, who led an inquiry into failings by Haringey Social Services following the eight-year-old's murder, concluded that individual caseloads should be capped at 12.
Senior figures in the Health and Social Services Department said that they would need an extra ten staff to meet the target, but stressed that the system was still working well. Health chief executive Mike Pollard (pictured) said: 'Providing social services in a small community is likely to be more successful because there is a very close working relationship between the many agencies, like the police and Hospital staff, who work together to keep children safe and far from harm. Providing services in a small island like Jersey also means that it is far harder for families to slip through the net.'
However, it is understood that recruitment is becoming harder and harder in the wake of both the Haut de la Garenne inquiry and Senator Stuart Syvret's past criticisms of the service. It is also now much harder to recruit qualified social workers to the Island because UK pay levels have now caught up with Jersey's and restrictive housing laws make the Island an unappealing option.
How delighted I wasn't to see a Michael Gradwell (titled Former Police super) on BBC News at lunchtime, looking just as miserable and arrogant as ever
Mick Gradwell on BBC?
A reader says:
"http://www.thisisjersey.com/latest/2008/12/03/childcare-in-crisis/
8 months later Pollard resigns."
Search for the word "Pollard" in the Verita report.
However, it is understood that recruitment is becoming harder and harder in the wake of both the Haut de la Garenne inquiry and Senator Stuart Syvret's past criticisms of the service.
I think it's getting harder to recruit anyone with an ounce of sense and decency. Who in there right mind would want to work in a corrupt place like this?
Dick Shenton reminisced on his life on radio jersey sunday morning.I was suprised to hear him say that he supported Bailhache over the mans promise to reform the states,and more surprised at him having a slight dig at Gorst, considering that not even you have found fault with him yet.
Dick Shenton - along with the Bailhache Brothers - is amongst the core Jersey oligarchs that has most to hide.
Let's not beat about the bush - it's quite obvious what Jersey civil society is up against in respect of these people.
Before Graham Power and Lenny Harper were on the scene - the policing function in Jersey was corruptly politicised.
The police were under political direction and control.
It was made plain to the leadership of the police force by the relevant politicians and Attorney Generals - "we don't want you to investigate X - just forget that; we want you to go and investigate Y instead."
For many, many years - Dick Shenton was THE political "Boss" of policing in Jersey.
He controlled the force - he controlled that power.
Think about it.
One of the absolutely key issues that has to be externally investigated in respect of the Jersey Child Abuse Disaster - is just how often were the police force and the old police chiefs told to back-off, and not investigate fully, if at all, various child abuse cases?
How often was political direction given to the old police chiefs in respect of not investigating many and various other crimes?
Because - let's face it - that kind of power over the policing function - that's a hell of a "commodity" to have.
Quite a number of people really don't want that stone lifted and turned over.
The Bailhache Brothers and the Shenton amongst them.
And one or two media bosses.
So if those old Jersey oligarchs are attacking Ian Gorst - perhaps there is indeed hope for him being a good, decent Chief Minister?
Stuart.
When is your book coming out Stuart? There really is a gap for a work that joins up the dots between political and economic power on the island.
That and a few indiscreet anecdotes as well.
One thing that has always puzzled me. How was it that straight, honest cops like Graham Power and Lenny Harper were appointed to the two senior posts in the first place?
Were there some straight, honest establishment types on the appointment panel, or did they just get it all dreadfully wrong?
Yes, Stuart, of course. Now I understand.
Wasn't JEP / Guiton Group Boss John Averty a Senator once? A former friend and colleague of Dick Shenton?
And didn't Dick Shenton, and then his son, Ben Shenton, enjoy a 'charmed life' as far as JEP coverage and support was concerned? Weren't the enemies of Shenton routinely marginalised and attacked by the paper too?
Week by week - more and more of the truth about the Jersey Establishment is falling into view.
We've been such fools over the years, we really have.
What a disgusting, nasty, sleazy claque we've let ourselves be ruled by.
Stuart.
North Korean style protocol not worth the paper it's WRITTEN ON
http://ricosorda.blogspot.com/2012/03/goldenhandshake-captain-frank-schettino.html
A little look at the golden- handshake - debacle
rs
Stuart, as I'm sure you are aware, it's approaching three years, since April 2009, when the massed police raid and arrest and search without a search warrant was conducted against you.
And whilst, of course, there have been many different unlawful actions against you since then, and even many fresh causes of action, you will know that, in respect of the raid, arrest etc, you have a three year window of opportunity to bring a legal claim in tort?
Just wanted to make you sure you understand that. I assume you've been busy working on the Orders of Justice?
I shall try to come to the court hearings. The entertainment value of watching my learned colleagues argue the strike-out this time will be simply priceless. There's so much juicy evidence in the public domain now, especially from the last six months or so, I think even what you so aptly describe as 'the syndicate' are going to struggle this time. I mean, what with a police force acting against you, when it's now an established fact that the command of that force had been taken over illegally (and I use that word distinctly) by a man directly supported by those you were trying to expose, the entire vires of the policing actions against you seems so tenuous as to be hanging by a thread.
But I'm sure you understand that already?
And as far as the vires of the conduct of the Attorney General, well, what can one say?
Press the button young man, press the button.
This so bad they may even have to get Lord Justice Richards and Hon. Mr Justice Tugendhat over to Jersey this time in an attempt to bury this one. (Stephen's, ahem, courting displays permitting of course.)
What a splendid, glorious mess! I suspect these people are about to discover, in great culture shock, a third specie of problem: one that can't (a) be crushed through brute force, or (b) bought off with a large cheque. We live in interesting times.
"Courting displays".
Oh dear.
But, yes, thank you for the nudge - those matters are indeed progressing.
And if I may say so - I think it's looking to be even more messy than you suggest.
Of course, it goes without saying that the actions of the States of Jersey Police Force against me were unlawful - and illegal - given the corrupt purposes and improper motives and unlawful obtaining of the promotion - by David Warcup.
But the syndicate face even greater problems than that.
Stuart
In just a few short years of this blog a lot has been uncovered. It was almost as if you picked up the rocks to see what dirty things were hiding under them only to inspire a growing landslide of evidence from fellow bloggers. In all the time you have had this blog, no one has proved you wrong. The evidence on other blogs is catching up to what you told us was happening in Jersey all along.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-17250107
Why the link to the story concerning the death of Paul McBride? What relevance?
Or is it supposed to be a threat?
Stuart
Paul McBride? What relevance? Hollie Greig
Ref Paul McBride - yes, I remember now.
Here is a quote from Robert Green's blog - in which he describes one small part of the overt corruption of the administration of justice in Scotland.
"It has also been pointed out to me that a senior SLAB employee, Douglas Haggarty, faced criminal charges in 2009 after being arrested with a rent boy in a shopping centre toilet. In this case the Procurator Fiscal decided to scrap court proceedings in favour of a "direct measure". It was never disclosed what this "direct measure" was, Haggarty did not face any professional sanctions from the Law Society of Scotland and he remains employed by SLAB. He was defended by Paul McBride QC, a member of the SLAB board who has been tipped to be the next Lord Advocate."
Robert - as we know - was persecuted by the Scottish establishment - and is now serving a prison sentence for making public interest disclosures of matters that the Scottish mafia very much wanted to remain hidden.
McBride's death natural?
Well, its possible.
But with his kind of background - his habits - the people he mixed with - and the things he knew?
A very convenient death.
Stuart
Stuart.
As anonymous at 23:37 says 3 years will be up in April.
But no doubt you have it under control.
Do you have any idea when your actions start to be taken seriously?
And will your actions now be directed to London, now that you have gone as far as you can in the Jersey Courts?
My legal actions are always taken very seriously - very seriously indeed, by the Jersey oligarchy.
Why else go to such extraordinary lengths to block them, and prevent them from ever proceeding to fully evidenced hearings?
Why else does the syndicate use judges who repeatedly make assertions in my cases that are wholly incompatible with even rudimentary logic, let alone case-law?
Incidentally, I haven't had time yet to post a deconstruction of Pitcher's last judgment. It's brilliant, really - couldn't make it up.
But when you say 'when will my actions start to be taken seriously?' what we're really speaking of, is 'when will my cases ever - even one of them - secure a full and evidenced hearing in a Jersey court?'
The answer to that question is "never" - precisely because the Jersey oligarhcy takes them so seriously.
As I said to Pitchers during an early hearing - "Jersey's judiciary IS a criminal enterprise."
And that being the situation, London is where the real battles will be fought.
Stuart
Shenton (benney)records telephone calls, is that not a form of phone hacking if it is done without the caller knowing?
Daddy poured his heart out on the radio on sunday,to listen to him you would think we were all bandits.and in his day in the states everything was perfect.
'As I said to Pitchers during an early hearing - "Jersey's judiciary IS a criminal enterprise."'
You certainly know how to win friends and influence people.
Are you really surprised that Pitchers then proceeded to make every single ruling and judgment against you, even when to do so was obviously irrational and had no basis in law?
These people are human beings; as much as we expect judges to be dispassionate and objective, when you defy and mock them as you've invariably done, their petty human weakness will become evident.
Oh, Pitchers and the Jurats were going to find against me - no matter what.
No amount of fake obsequiousness on my part - or even a case of the actual Stockholm Syndrome these people try to induce - would have made an atom of difference.
This was one part of the criminal enterprise - that had to - simply had to - protect the earlier part of the criminal enterprise.
Even had there been any doubts about that that - such doubts would have been removed by Pitchers' ruling on the directions hearing - in which he pre-judged the entire case - and stood the data protection law on its head - and ruled inadmissible the key grounds for the appeal.
It wasn't really any great surprise when he eventually confessed - many months later - to having had dinner with Michael Birt and William Bailhache.
The only thing that's still faintly awesome about these people is the degree of hubris they swim with.
Stuart
Stockholm Syndrome:a quote from Wikipedia:
"Stockholm Syndrome can be seen as a form of traumatic bonding, which does not necessarily require a hostage scenario, but which describes "strong emotional ties that develop between two persons where one person intermittently harasses, beats, threatens, abuses, or intimidates the other."
A perfect description of the repressive abuse of power, and how so many people are expected to defer to such abuse.
Looking at your court appearance and judgements given against you, is like watching a video clip in rewind motion.
The end being the beginning.
BBC News - Police recruiting private security:
(sickbags at the ready)
Michael Gradwell, a former detective superintendent, spoke to the BBC ....
Ref Gradwell's comments
Fascinating - absolutely fascinating.
Now, Mick - as you have these concerns about where the boundary should be drawn in respect of using civilians to do policing work - and apparently you draw the line at covert policing and intelligence - perhaps you would care to explain how that squares with you - yes, you - employing and directing civilians - yes, civilians - such as Mark Kane - to engage in intelligence-gathering and covert surveillance against members of the Jersey parliament - and then planning illegal massed-raids upon them?
But you won't explain - will you Mick Gradwell - because you are a liar, a coward and a criminal - and you would not explain you role to the Scrutiny Panel.
But rest assured - you are going to be one of the witnesses subpoenaed.
You - and your civilian agent, Mark Kane.
Mick Gradwell - the bent cop who covers up child abuse and clinical murders.
Stuart
The timing of that appearance by Gradwell is an interesting coincidence.
Here is just one sentence form the Order of Justice shortly to be issued:
"Following the illegal usurpation of Mr. Power by Warcup, the rape investigation was not pursued correctly and was sabotaged – for example via the use of non-police civilians such as Mark Kane."
Stuart
We approach Armageddon I see.
Mr syvret I just wanted to let you now i give you my support. I long for the day when any1 who is accused or linked to some crime at is made to declare it. make them Wear a badge on their arm. We don't need courts to decide who is guilty or who is innocent. ITS OBVIOUS AND EASY TO TELL
Hail Syvret!!!!!
It would indeed be a wonderful and highly desirable state of affairs - if we had a policing function, prosecution system, and judiciary that did protect vulnerable people - and properly investigate crimes, and enforce the law.
Unfortunately, we don't have that in Jersey.
Instead we have a system in which powerful and influential serial rapists can - via their friends and close business associates - have the police chief removed - and replaced by a corrupt puppet.
We have a system in which nephews of prosecutors can be arrested for trying to import 2 kilos of cannabis resin - and get let-off - when everyone else would have got ten years.
We have a system in which powerfully evidenced child abusers can have the case against them dropped, because to proceed with it would have exposed the gross failures and criminality of their employers, the States of Jersey.
We have a system in which obviously deranged clinical serial-killers are able to have the investigations of their crimes curtailed, so as to protect the state from embarrassment.
We have a system in which that which passes for a judiciary is largely peopled by ethically bankrupt claquers who preside over cases involving their friends, and in which they themselves are conflicted - and who would be seen as little better than gangsters were we observing their conduct in most other jurisdictions.
We have a system in which "the law" is enforced on purely party-political lines; if you are a member of the oligarhcy, or one of their vassals, the law is not enforced against you - and if you are an opponent of the feudal oligarhcy, "the law" is abused so as to repress you.
It is such a state of affairs that prevails in Jersey - that proactively protects criminals - and virtually ensures that those allied to the local mafia never, in fact, have the crimes brought before a court in the first place.
Those of us interested in the rule of law and civil society have no choice other then to expose such wrongdoing.
And as far as those who now face the inevitable exposure - really - what did they expect?
Did they really believe they were so omnipotent and invulnerable? So much so they could forever corrupt the very name of the Crown to their own protections?
Hubris indeed.
Stuart.
Stuart - your post at 16.15 today is a masterpiece. It sums up the situation in our beautiful island briefly, succinctly and comprehensively.Says it all!
Lorna x
Stuart, you say:
Here is just one sentence from the Order of Justice SHORTLY to be issued.
Can please let us know if shortly means hours, days, weeks, or months?
Stuart, what do you hope to get out of all this? the establishment have obviously done really ott things against you, things that would not stand up for 10 minutes in a fair court. Why don't you just quietly and privately put in your legal case and seek a settlement behind the scenes? They've obviously really messed up in a big way on a lot of grounds, so there must be someone on their side who will make them see sense and make you an offer. But don't you make that impossible if you raise the stakes so much? If you bring in all these wider issues and embarrass them over them not enforcing the law, and letting off these different establishment people, and especially if you make it all public, don't you put them in an impossible situation where they have to resist any settlements with you and use their political court system to carry on ensuring that you can't get your cases heard properly and that you carry on losing? Wouldn't life just be so much easier for you if all this was ended with an Ogley kind of settlement and some insincere apology to you over the raid and arrest or something like that? Then you could draw a line under it all and get on with your life. Maybe run for election again.
A reader says:
"But don't you make that impossible if you raise the stakes so much? If you bring in all these wider issues and embarrass them over them not enforcing the law, and letting off these different establishment people, and especially if you make it all public, don't you put them in an impossible situation where they have to resist any settlements with you and use their political court system to carry on ensuring that you can't get your cases heard properly and that you carry on losing?"
I can certainly see how such an approach might appeal to certain Jersey oligarchs - and certain of their allies.
Which is perhaps why it is suggested?
It would be the ultimate damage-limitation exercise, wouldn't it? A nice discrete veil - drawn over affairs?
But look - let us not speak falsely now, the hour's getting late.
As I wrote at least three years ago - because the truth of the situation was plain, immutable and stark, even then - in acting as they did, people like William Bailhache and the rest of the Jersey oligarchy took the irrevocable decision back then - irrevocable - to embark upon "total war".
The Jersey mafia decided to embark upon a war that can only end with one of two possible outcomes:
The total destruction of their opponents;
Or the total destruction of themselves.
That was the decision - that was the plain fact - three years ago.
Some kind of 'armistice' or truce is not even faintly possible.
The Jersey syndicate chose back then to abandon all pretence at being a lawful administration, and instead mobilised as the undisguised mafia that they are.
They say "every man has his price"; well, maybe that is so - but somehow, I just don't think they have big enough cheque-book to explore what mine might be.
The other method?
If one of their ex-military east-European gangsters burst through the door this minute and said "sign this agreement - or I'll put a bullet through your head right now" - I'd say "fire away, scumbag."
The war continues towards its conclusion.
No retreat - no surrender.
Stuart
Stuart
Why do you think London will see your case any differently? You have been tried by an English judge and you lost. The criminal law here and in England are basically the same. Warcup, Gradwell, Power, Shaw, Baker, Pitchers, you name it, they are all English. Stop putting faith in the grass being greener over the water. You are wasting your time. And as for Strasbourg, since when did that court have any interest in cases like yours? They can't overturn your conviction anyway. Ask Curtis Warren.
You need to reconnect with your electorate, not waste your time on quixotic and grandiose legal cloud-chasing. Storm the Child Abuse Inquiry with your best points, show why you are right and the establishment is wrong - then you will make a difference. And it will be seen that it is not about you but about doing the right thing.
I fully appreciat the seriousness of the campaign to bust the coverup and fully support it.
But, from time to time we need the odd lighter moment.
I happened to notice that the @StatesofJersey twitter stream is almost free of comments and just pouring out States' pap. So I have started commenting on individual tweets and using the hashtag #jerseycoverup.
Beats kicking the cat. Anyway I'm a cat person and this is a much better way of letting off a wee bit of steam.
.
A reader says:
"You need to reconnect with your electorate, not waste your time on quixotic and grandiose legal cloud-chasing. Storm the Child Abuse Inquiry with your best points, show why you are right and the establishment is wrong - then you will make a difference. And it will be seen that it is not about you but about doing the right thing."
You're quite right about one thing - this is not about me.
It never has been.
If it had been about me - I would never have become the first and only States member to expose and speak out against the child abuse.
I would have taken the easy path - rather than opposing a manifestly corrupted system of public administration.
I have, as is evidenced fact, "done the right thing".
Stephen Baker repeatedly lied in open court, in asserting that proper consideration had been given to evidence sought for disclosure. It had not - as he accidentally admitted - two years later.
That staggering confession - which would have seen the proceedings halted as an abuse-of-process in any functioning court in England - was simply ignored by Pitchers - as though it hadn't happened. Pitchers also - quite improperly - refused for many months to declare his association with conflicted parties. He eventually - and with great reluctance confessed he had dinner with Birt and Bailhache.
None of the proceedings presided over by Pitchers concerning me would be regarded as legitimate or safe in any English setting.
And what of Bridget Shaw? She was herself involved - for several years - in the various unlawful failures of the Law Officers' Department and the Police - along with her friend and then colleague Andre Bonjour - to charge and prosecuted various child abuse cases and child protection failures.
Bridget Shaw was aware of the gross failures of the system - yet did nothing to address them - until the matter had already become a public scandal.
Further - she worked routinely and directly with the very officer - Andre Bonjour - who was failing to take action against corrupt former officers who were tipping-off child abuse and child-pornography suspects.
It was simply unlawful - end of - for her to play any role - at all - in hearing a trial concerning the only public figure who had spoken-out against such gross child protection failures - a trial for, of all things, whistle-blowing.
Bridget Shaw had a direct and immediate professional and personal stake in seeing that the public figure in question was harmed, damaged and discredited.
This is the great difference between Jersey and England.
In England, none of the above-malfeasances would have occurred.
In Jersey - on the other hand - they behave exactly like that -because they can.
As far as "reconnecting with my electorate" is concerned - I do not have an electorate to connect with. As I said - this isn't "about me" - so the opinions of the electorate are an irrelevance.
It is laughable to suggest relying on a putative inquiry into the child abuse. Even if the inquiry happens - it will not have the correct terms of reference - nor be undertaken by the correct people.
And would my evidence appear? Go and check the BDO review sub-panel's web site - and see how long it takes you to identify the only witness who's testimony does not appear as a transcript.
No. There is one thing - above all others - that will fix the child protection failures.
And that is to bring about - for the first time ever - functioning checks and balances in Jersey.
Such as a non-conflicted and non-corrupted prosecution system - and a non-corrupt, non-politicised judiciary.
And that is only going to happen via the legal path I am taking.
It is not "quixotic and grandiose legal cloud-chasing" - rather, a clear road - to bring about the simple, basic rule of law.
Stuart.
Stuart
From this outsider's perspective, you are right.
There is no systematic way for anyone to ensure clean governance in Jersey. No one politician or individual issue will clear up the patronage and privilege culture ingrained within the still feudalistic oligarchy.
London certainly does not want to change anything about Jersey's oligarchy control, but only wishes to benefit from Jersey without being tainted by any negative association. Only when the threat of exposure of their own complicity forces them to address their responsibilities will London voluntarily step up.
The most direct route to real checks and balances will be through a future combination of public court proceedings, Strasbourg, and published accounts of the wider scandal that is the Jersey Way. Then, and only then, can there be meaningful reform in Jersey.
A well written book documenting the factual history of the abuse scandal would definitely help to facilitate that process.
Elle
"Jersey broadband 30 times that of the UK."
Who pays the ferryman? 30 times higher than the UK perhaps it’s the stratocracy, Junta’s way of making Jersey folk pay for anything approaching the truth coming to the island. It kind of prices the poor, the victims and vulnerable of the internet.
GORST THE STOOL PIGEON
Hi Stuart.
Just put up the audio from today's Questions with out Answers. You & your readers can Listen HERE
BBC 'buried Savile sex abuse claims to save its reputation’
That Daily Telegraph article.
Sad, deeply disturbing - and not in the least surprising - especially in respect of the BBC.
"The BBC now stands accused of covering up the allegations, which were detailed in The Oldie magazine, because senior executives did not want the corporation’s reputation to be tarnished.
"A BBC News source said: “The extreme nature of the claims about Savile meant that the Newsnight report was going to seriously compromise the lavish BBC tributes scheduled to run later the same month.
“And second, the allegations directly involved the BBC, in that the woman who gave the interview said that she and others were abused by Savile on BBC premises.”
It's now about six months since I supplied the BBC with some dramatic documentary evidence that gives the inside-track on how Jersey's establishment illegally suspended the Police Chief Graham Power, so as to sabotage child abuse investigations.
The report is dynamite - with many entirely new, and disturbing, matters raised in it.
Just to take one example - the clear indication that certain named senior police officers were being offered very significant career advancements - by establishment politicians - as a corrupt inducement to those officers to surrender to political direction by the executive.
The boss of the BBC in Jersey has simply buried the matter.
Stuart
Stuart.
The glorious BBC
Yesterday's vote is Step 1 in the masterplan to do away with those troublesome Town Deputies who upset the Establishment too much.
When they're finished, it will be 100% Establishment, and even less democratic than it is now.
The government we deserve!
Yep.
The government you deserve.
On Monday the 8th August, I wrote a warning about what would happen if Phil Bailhache was elected.
I quoted Thomas Jefferson, when he observed, ‘the the price of freedom is eternal vigilance.'
Now Phil has stopped the electoral commission from being an independent body - and he will have the Senators removed - and the under-represented voters of the urban areas will be even more disempowered, by the distribution of their seats to larger rural constituencies - and the rotten-boroughs Connétables will, in future, be the Ministers.
Frankly - I've no sympathy.
The government you deserve.
Stuart.
The government you deserve !
A rare provable wrong statement from you Stuart !
Please change this mantra to.
'The government WE deserve' because you are one of US now ,like it or not, whether or not you vote.You cannot detach yourself entirely from the society you live in.
"You cannot detach yourself entirely from the society you live in."
Yes - you can.
Stuart
There's some comment on Facebook of having an organised boycott of the electoral commission.
'Oh no you can't!' (I'll refrain from 'he's behind you'.)
Even Marcuse said..
"Surely, no government can be expected to foster its own subversion, but in a democracy such a right is vested in the people (i.e. in the majority of the people). This means that the ways should not be blocked on which a subversive majority could develop, and if they are blocked by organized repression and indoctrination, their reopening may require apparently undemocratic means.'
Like it or not you are one of US and responsible for this lot!even by default or inaction.
Stuart.With regard to Jimmy Savile I have emailed you with my concerns about the apparent cover-up by the BBC of the abuse allegations that came out around the time of the tributes that were made to JS following his death.
In 2008 when the story broke about HDLG there was a photo on the net of a group of children and staff with JS in the centre of the group. Not long after that the picture was taken down from the net and I have since seen a similar picture of the same group without him in it. So what happened? Was the photo originally
shown a fake? Was he airbrushed out of the photo I saw or was it another photo taken on that day?
One thing I do know - it was the grounds of HDLG around the 70'sand the children were from HDLG. The women who say they were abused by Savile at the BBC have waited until he was safely dead before they came forward. If anyone has seen the photo at HDLG with him in the centre do you recognise anyone in the photo? Were you one of those children or staff? If he was known to visit another home and there were allegations of abuse then surely there must have been victims at HDLG if he was a regular visitor?
At the time JS denied ever visiting HDLG vehemently!
If you know anything about this please contact Stuart by email if you haven't already done so. It is never too late to name and shame even when someone is dead.
Lorna
Stuart.
The sooner you expose Sir(?) Philip Bailhache for what he really is....
The better!!
Philip Bailhache is - on the evidence - a liar and a crook.
It's already exposed.
And the voting Jersey public think that's just great.
You pays yr money you takes yr choice.
The government you deserve.
Indeed - here's a quiz for readers:
A famous American writer, who was once running for a public office in America as an anti-vietnam war candidate - gave what could be - in so many ways - one of the greatest political speeches of all time - when looking out at a campaign meeting, as he stood at the microphone.
A place in the after-life - as imagined by Samuel Beckett - to the first reader to identify the author and the speech.
Here's a clue; during the Jersey election, I was within seconds of quoting that speech myself - at many of the hustings meetings.
Stuart
In 2008 when the story broke about HDLG there was a photo on the net of a group
of children and staff with JS in the centre of the group.
electoral evisceration An distinctive but meaningful piece on the essential nature of the voting in the States on the electoral commission.
Eugene McCarthy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_McCarthy_presidential_campaign,_1968
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kb0viQ1TG0c
I guess your candidate would have to be Eugene McCarthy. As to the speech 'Im not sure. Probably the civil rights speech at Boston.
Least that's how I view it from the West.
'Crystallize dissent' of course. How did I foget.
S.O.
Thanks you so much Web Guru for finding that photo! How could Jimmy Savile deny ever being at HDLG? I recognize the buildings and some of the children although this was a little while after I left. I can't name anyone in the picture but it is possible some visitors to this blog may know them or be one of them.
There were some people who denied that Paisnel was a regular visitor to HDLG but the police told me that he was when they interviewed me. I was also told by a reliable source that Jeff Le Marquand was also a regular visitor to HDLG. How many more known paedophiles were invited in?
What a tissue of lies, denials and cover-ups! All this benefits the abusers and not the abused.
Lorna
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIrHNuiQ6fQ
Seems most relevant in this context
I'm afraid it wasn't Eugene McCarthy.
The person I was thinking of was, in many ways, a deeply flawed and thoroughly obnoxious individual - but even such characters can have certain moments of insight.
Try again.
Remember - this is a writer I'm referring to.
Stuart
JFK won the Pulitzer prize, so qualifies as an author. He was pro the Vietnam war when he took office but gave some anti-speeches latter.
I cannot think of an inspiring speech he gave but Dr Benjamin Spock fits the rest quite well.
I think even more flawed and obnoxious than JFK.
The character in question was primarily an author - not a politician who also occasionally wrote.
Stuart
No, not Benjamin Spock.
This person was - quite often - notoriously obnoxious.
Let me give you another clue: often married - strangely enough, given his behaviour.
Stuart
Norman Mailer one time mayoral candidate?
Hal Draper, but you're not qualified to award the prize.
Norman Mailer Stuart
No one is qualified to award the prize.
All we can do is wait.
If it's any consolation - that incorrect answer will not add to the waiting.
We all wait - no matter what.
Stuart
Yes, Norman Mailer.
I knew if the obnoxiousness didn't get readers there - the many wives would.
Stuart
what other paedophiles at Haute de la Garenne ?
A mate told me of a guy that used to drive past the home trying to entice kids into his vehicle.
A local arts dealer who committed suicide before he could be questioned by the police.
The gardener at HdlG.
The Superintendent of the Home.
Stuart
You mention passing on to the BBC "dramatic documentary evidence that gives the inside-track on how Jersey's establishment illegally suspended the Police Chief Graham Power, so as to sabotage child abuse investigations".
I presume you are talking about the BBC on the mainland, rather than BBC Jersey.
Can you tell us which department received this material, and did they display any great interest in it?
Stuart.
Bloggers (Jersey's only independent media) set the STANDARD
senator-bailhache-to-chair-electoral-commission
A commision chaired by a Liar & Criminal is not what the Jersey People either want of demand.
I posted this about an hour ago but I suspect the propaganda machine in Jersey's democracy is at work.
The Jersey Eveing post are as bad as any child abuser who ever opperated in Jersey, they have known about this for decades and possibly been involved in the actuall abuse.
Teh Rag as its known will not come out of this smelling of anything other than GUILT...
Right its off to the real media in Jersey which everyone knows is the Blogs.
"You mention passing on to the BBC "dramatic documentary evidence that gives the inside-track on how Jersey's establishment illegally suspended the Police Chief Graham Power, so as to sabotage child abuse investigations."
Don't bother with Radio Jersey. When they ask a Rugby coach what the differences are between Football and Rugby you know you've got no hope.
That question will be fondly remembered by me as the most stupiest question every asked by by a journo ever.
Well done BBC radio jersey and the 5pm man... way to go.
"A local arts dealer who committed suicide before he could be questioned by the police."
I believe you may be getting confused with a Bergerac plotline, although I apologise if I'm wrong.
I can't remember the title of the episode but the art dealer's flat or gallery was the old corner shop at Bel Royal filter in turn.
You neo-lefties have are full of ideals with no pactical knowledge of how things are done/governments are run. Politics is omnipresent and if you look hard enough you can find corruption in the xmas school play.
I have a rather valuable saying you all might learn a lot from. "Life is not fair" it is not about fair, and there is no man in the clouds, nor individual, nor transcendental human moral compass which points to 'fair'.
You are idealists. You strive to tare down whatever exists that is not perfect, without any intent to put forward anything in it's place.
"I would try to build a government where we all live in peace and harmony where money doesn't exist and we are all free to do anything we want wherever and whenever. But I can't find anyone to do the admin"
"A local arts dealer who committed suicide before he could be questioned by the police."
No-one is getting confused. Gorey, Victoria College connected.
"You are idealists. You strive to tare down whatever exists that is not perfect, without any intent to put forward anything in it's place."
Excuse me, but I am a very practical person, and please don't call me a neo lefty as I am a very conservative person.
I have always said consistantly that we need laws, and that I am not an anachist at all and I try very hard to keep all the laws. The problem with trying to keep all the laws in this day and age is the difficulties of trying to keep up with what actually is the law, as the Government keep bringing in so many new ones, and all the public county libraries no longer have a proper reference section with the latest law books available for the general public to scrutinise.
But it's not the laws as such that I have a problem with, it's the fact that while most people are expected to abide by the laws, a small group of people are considered to be above the law. I don't think its a neo leftist idea to expect that EVERYONE should abide by all the laws, perhaps you disagree with that, anonymous?
I note this comment left on the channel tv website under a story relating to a 1m pound drug bust:
"Lock 'em up and throw away the key
Posted By: Jonny Bailhache on 09-Mar-2012
I can't understand how these individuals are out on bail. Drugs smugglers are the scum of the earth and should face the full force of the law. No excuses and no exceptions."
...so maybe at least one of the clan understands the difference between right and wrong?
A reader says:
"Lock 'em up and throw away the key
Posted By: Jonny Bailhache on 09-Mar-2012".
Hmmm.....my my.
Boy, when dams start to break, they really break, don't they?
Stuart
"I can't understand how these individuals are out on bail. Drugs smugglers are the scum of the earth and should face the full force of the law. No excuses and no exceptions."
The war on drugs is a failure and was doomed from the beginning! Thatchers drug tsar was a heroin addict howerver he could afford the best quality heroin and never displayed some of the signs.
The biggest drug dealer are the governments, CIA FBI and MI5 & MI6,
Perverts and peadophiles are the ones who should be in Jail and
Jersey has more of them than drug dealers.
Many of whom are actively protected by some civil serents and members of the government and a media better placed in north korea.
Yes, indeed.
But it's not only child abusers who are protected by Jersey's prosecution system and media.
Certain well-connected drug-smugglers are too.
It's amazing what daddy and a well-placed uncle can do for you.
Stuart
"Lock 'em up and throw away the key
Posted By: Jonny Bailhache on 09-Mar-2012".
Could be this a "troll" that knows more than most.Thought that the "real" Jonny would want to steer very clear of the subject
Jersey Police Force Mike Bowron - HSBC 8-12 Victoria Street Money Laundering Scandal - City of London Police Fraud Corruption Conspiracy Case
Sunday November 6th, 2011 at 10:43PM
US HM Government National Secu…
The Carroll Foundation Trust one billion dollars organised crime tax fraud scandal took a further disturbing twist with yet another UK Police Authority revealed in the new compelling case dossiers. It has emerged that the former City of London Police Chief Mike Bowron who moved to be the Chief Constable of the Jersey Police Service concealed shocking offshore money laundering fraud files directly linked to the fraudulent incorporation of HSBC 8 Victoria Street Westminster numbered bank accounts and forged and falsified Coutts Bank & Co Gerald Carroll banking arrangements.
Sources have confirmed that the London law firm Manches premises were penetrated by the FBI Scotland Yard crime syndicate which removed specific Carroll Foundation Trust archival records in what is believed to have been a bungled attempt to destroy any forensic paper trails leading back to the co-ordinated criminal seizure and liquidation of major operating divisions of the Carroll Global Corporation's world wide interests.
It has emerged that the primary "Manches blue files" are currently held in custody by Scotland Yard officers charged with this embezzlement operation which stretches the globe. These shocking revelations follow on from further British and American media reports which have stated that the criminal destruction of the Gerald Carroll estate records at an Essex firm of solicitors who has been named as Prestons Kerlys is closely connected to the much wider billion dollar fraud case.
Political commentators have leaked that private investigators who are thought to be working on behalf of a US Government sponsored organisation have disclosed that the City of London Police files also contain explosive prosecution files embracing a startling litany of criminal obstruction offences which impulsed the break-ins burglaries and multiple criminal seizure offences targeted at the Carroll Trust's multi-milllion dollar Eaton Square Belgravia penthouse and Westmnister residences over a staggering three year period.
International News Networks:
http://jerseypolice.blogspot.com/
A reader says:
"Jersey Police Force Mike Bowron - HSBC 8-12 Victoria Street Money Laundering Scandal - City of London Police Fraud Corruption Conspiracy Case
Sunday November 6th, 2011 at 10:43PM .....et, etc.
A jolly good yarn - and so much typical conspiracy theory guff.
A notable absence of any documented evidence.
All that's missing to complete the picture, are a few references to Jews, the Rothschilds, the Bilderberg group and shape-shifting space-alien lizards.
Hell, maybe there are such references; I can't say I've bothered to study it in detail.
Stuart
A reader says:
""Lock 'em up and throw away the key
Posted By: Jonny Bailhache on 09-Mar-2012".
Could be this a "troll" that knows more than most.Thought that the "real" Jonny would want to steer very clear of the subject."
Yes, I expect so.
Stuart
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2000/may/06/2
The Carroll Foundation Trust might be linked to the Carrol Group of Companies that was subject of some detialed investgation as far back as 1998. Certainly there were some odd goings on and a huge amount of secrecy around the investigation.
I am not aware fo any local connextiosn, but I might just take a look now ;)
S.O.
Stuart.
Why did the cadaver dog alert to the scent of human death at HAUT DE LA GARENNE?
http://ricosorda.blogspot.com/2012/03/operation-end-game-6-road-to-operation.html
The beginning of a complete look at Operation Blast
Somehow, I just kind of get the feeling that the oligarhcy are not going to especially care for the revelations concerning Operation Blast.
The ides of March approach.
Stuart
Stuart.
Is next Thursday your first day of your second phase of action?
Has PB got a son called John from his first marriage?
http://ricosorda.blogspot.com/2012/03/operation-end-game-7-operation-blast.html
I must read posting if I don't mind saying so myself.
rs
Dear oh dear oh dear.
Having read Mr. Sorda's article - linked above - assuming it is accurate in its suggestions concerning the safe-cracking to seize a telephone transcript involving me - and - staggeringly - the passing of that transcript to other politicians - I'm almost lost for words.
Really.
Even, "you couldn't make it up" just doesn't get close enough.
I repeatedly - in a formal, legal context - asked the Attorney General in respect of the malicious prosecution against me - and I asked the States of Jersey Police - and I asked the prosecuting lawyer in court - and I asked the Data Protection Commissioner - and I asked the Judicial Greffe - and I asked the Home Affairs department - and I asked the Home Affairs Minister - if there had been any such motives, and communications involving politicians, concerning me?
I've asked for disclosure, I've asked for discovery, I've asked questions of witnesses under oath, I've asked for FOI releases, I've made data subject access requests.
And each and every single response I ever received - has contrived to conceal those crucial facts.
If there is any evidence that the transcript in question was prepared - and that it was passed to the Home Affairs Minister - then whatever tatty cosmetic fragments of 'integrity' might have been clinging to the malicious prosecution and show-trial against me, have been destroyed.
If it is true that such a transcript was sent to Ian Le Marquand - well - what a despicable, corrupt, lying criminal the man is.
But more significantly - what a politicised, criminal enterprise Jersey's prosecution system is.
And how bent and inadequate its judiciary is.
You know, I can't predict when, or how, all this is going to end - it's such an unfolding train-wreck - no one knows - no one has control.
The momentum is unstoppable, and mindless as an avalanche.
Chaos, madness and naked criminality reign.
The final destination of all this is in the lap of the gods.
One thing is quite certain - the calculating, measured, predictable old Jersey caucus no longer control the destiny of their apparatus - and I suppose they never have done, since they made the disastrous mistake of letting Philip and William Bailhache loose in the Crown Offices.
As Lenin's allegiance with Stalin went - the old Jersey oligarchs can only watch, helpless, as their creature becomes a monster.
Stuart
Greetings Stuart,
Just read your last comment. There must be a stone shortage, what with there being so many of these needing knaves to hide under them.
You might remember me occasionally saying that they can't deny the one thing that matters - you're still here but the thing is,you're still here.
Have you reported recently on the story about the emperor's new clothes? ;O)
"A local arts dealer who committed suicide before he could be questioned by the police."
I believe you may be getting confused with a Bergerac plotline, although I apologise if I'm wrong.
I can't remember the title of the episode but the art dealer's flat or gallery was the old corner shop at Bel Royal filter in turn.
Friday, 9 March 2012 03:10:00 GMT
No. I assure you that I am not getting confused.
Jersey's next abuse scandal: a prediction.
In the UK, all carers are required to undergo a police check before being allowed to look after the vulnerable.
In Jersey, the States are funding carers from its preferred option - a UK employment agency - which performs no police checks whatsoever.
That inevitably means people with serious criminal records will have access to elderly people in their homes, and any of their possessions.
Would you be happy with a total stranger, of unchecked background, having several hours a day in your elderly mother's house?
This undercuts local nursing agencies which are required to undertake police checks, and imports cheap labour from the UK at a time when we have high unemployment in Jersey. But what the hell, it's cheaper.
It doesn't take a genius to know how this will end.
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