Sunday, 22 April 2012

SPEAKING IN TONGUES

Babble On Ian

Confusion of Tongues?
Confusion of Truth.   

One of Jersey’s independent journalists, Rico Sorda, continues his work on exposing the corruption that runs through the heart of governance in Jersey. Perhaps it isn’t so surprising after all, now that we can read so much of the evidence for how “The Jersey Way” is, and always has been so foully toxic, that the only sources of evidenced facts available to islanders, are the blogs – with not one of Jersey’s mainstream media – not even the BBC – actually addressing the real issues.
Mr. Sorda’s latest article, to which I have contributed a commentary on the conduct of Ian Le Marquand, can be read here:
In that current posting, Rico Sorda takes a close and full look at the quite remarkable transcript of the suspension meeting conducted by Home Affairs Minister Ian Le Marquand, concerning Police Chief Graham Power and Dr. T. Brain – and the so-called “Operation Blast” files. Whilst so many of the assertions of Le Marquand were manifestly absurd at the time, they appear ever more fantastical and jaw-droppingly dishonest with each passing week, and as more evidence emerges.
Ian Le Marquand – like so many other a-moral, shallow, ruthlessly self-serving, dishonest and decadent prominent figures in Jersey society - imagines himself to be a good Christian. He is a regular at St. Paul’s Church in New Street – where the congregation are given to “speaking in tongues” – or babbling – in accordance with some Christian tradition.
Perhaps Ian le Marquand needs to set aside that practice, and just concentrate on English for a while? It doesn’t seem terribly likely that he is going to enjoy any great success in spreading the Word of God to other peoples via glossolalia  whilst he persists in spreading confusion and lies in his native language.
There can be no hope in mending the confusion of tongues – unless a start is made by speaking the truth. And there doesn’t appear to be much hope of that in the case of Ian Le Marquand, who may as well have been babbling during the suspension-hearings, so devoid of meaning – and estranged from the truth – were his words.
Stuart.

69 comments:

voiceforchildren said...

Stuart.

Just left this comment on Rico's Blog which is just as apt here.

Have just read the suspension transcript, once more, in its entirety and anybody with half a brain can conclude that is half more than Senator Le Marquand has.

Your readers MUST be encouraged to read this transcript, especially those who think it unfair to describe Ian Le Marquand as brainless. To qualify that statement and to demonstrate the desperation of Ian Le Marquand (the Law Offices stooge) to pin something on Graham Power QPM one only needs to point out that if Senator Le Marquand had have looked in the telephone directory, he wouldn't be looking so brainless right now.

Selected extracts from transcript.


Senator B.I. Le Marquand:

which is the tape recordings area. If Mr. Power were able to give me an undertaking that he would not make such tape recordings in future without the knowledge or consent of individuals then I would not view that as being a matter which would warrant consideration of suspension, if I can put it that way. We can effectively dispose of that for the purposes ...

Dr. T Brain:

With respect to the tape recording of any telephone calls, I would draw to your attention this extract from the Jersey telephone directory, under P where police is stated as an entry, there are various numbers there and I will just read it out for you. I am quite happy, of course, for you to have this copy although I am sure you can obtain a copy of the relevant page for yourself. “Police, States of Jersey Police Headquarters, P.O. (Post Office) Box 789, SHJE 48ZD. Please note: calls may be recorded or monitored.” Now, the recording or monitoring of telephone calls is a public statement contained in the Jersey telephone directory. If we are looking at the seriousness of the nature of any matters currently disclosed by Operation Blast then I would ask you to consider them fully in the context of that very, very public statement that is made in the Jersey telephone directory.(END)

That's about the calibre of it.............................BRAINLESS

voiceforchildren said...

Stuart.

Just to remind readers of Rico's live and interactive broadcast tonight Sunday 22nd April 2012 at 6pm HERE

Anonymous said...

Ian le Marquand should be tried in a real court for his offences against Mr. Power and by association the child abuse survivors.

Jill Gracia said...

Oh how well you have summed our Home Affairs Minister up Stuart.

Sadly, the type of ministry he delivers in his church is that which brainwashes people. It seems it is not only in his church he tries to do that.

However Mr Le Marquand, much as it may surprise you, some of us have just a modicum of intelligence unlike yourself who have lied and misled the public.

Shame on you.

Anonymous said...

Speaking in tongues (glossolalia) is a gift of the Holy Spirit. It is described in the account of Pentacost in the New Testament and can be heard at several of the Island's Christian congregations. I've witnessed it myself many times; it's not sinister and those who speak in tongues believe it to be a form of holy language.

Anonymous said...

Why do Ian Le Marquand's supporters, especially in his church, fail to see how tainted they will become by association? They should realize by now, this documented record of ILM's dishonest and corrupt actions will never go away. It will only expand as the true nature of the man becomes ever more permanently incorporated into the account of Jersey's horrific child abuse and human rights record. Everyone who stays silent is risking association with a sinister level of political crime which will - absolutely and ultimately - shaft Jersey internationally.

Denver Gals

Anonymous said...

Anonymous 20:26:

Your assertion that speaking in tongues is a gift of the Holy Spirit is not accurate. It is more accurate to say that it may be a gift of the Holy Spirit. But it may equally be something arising from another source altogether - self-delusion, for example. Which - agreed - means that the practice isn't terribly sinister; but it is not a little sad.

I have long experience of churches where "speaking in tongues" is accepted practice: I would estimate that the self-deluding outnumber the genuinely gifted by upwards of twenty to one.

Anonymous said...

Speaking in tongues (glossolalia) is a gift of the Holy Spirit. It is described in the account of Pentacost in the New Testament and can be heard at several of the Island's Christian congregations. I've witnessed it myself many times; it's not sinister and those who speak in tongues believe it to be a form of holy language


BOTTY WATER

Anonymous said...

'Babble on Ian'

Babylonian

I was going to write 'oh dear'.

But then I saw how appropriate your pun was.

As well as being the location of the Tower of Babel that God thwarted by casting upon men the 'confusion of tongues', Babylon and Babylonian are also watch words, to this day for excess, arrogance, materialism, corrupt power, dissolution and decadence.

Does that remind us of anywhere?

Babble on Ian, indeed.

Does the 'Tongues' language have a word for irony?

Anonymous said...

Stuart,

How embarrassingly wrong and proved to be wrong can Ian Le Marquand, who is completely off the wall in his decisions last in office ?

Rico's objective and factual reporting has seriously caught the liar red handed and is fully documented.

How far down the well, do you have to be before the Jersey Evening Proper-gander government mouthpiece turns against you.

I read the blogs, and under the Taser story he is getting literally hammered on the blog with JEP allowing posts through that pull no punches.

What in your opinion is going on, and why has the States not called a vote of no confidence in him as the people certainly have ? or is the evidence now so strong this will happen any day ?

How many times has he tried people as a Judge on the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth, and now disgraces his office ?

Anonymous

Anonymous said...

The intent of this post is obviously not to evaluate or debate the Biblical history of speaking in tongues. It is to make a point about the babbling nonsense coming from a corrupt public official who hides his criminal character behind the cloak of religion.

Anonymous said...

I've suffered the displeasure of having to work with someone who had opposing views from mine, but was in a position of power of me and it was hellish.

He would bluster and attempt to blind me with science, skirting around issues while avoiding my logical reasoning.

Any attempt to reason with him (on pointless work-related issues) was like pulling teeth. It was like a game to him, I could see him enjoying trying to tie me in knots, taking his time to strategically choose his words to precisely out manouever me, calmly as he could, without digging himself into a hole.

Basically I couldn't win, although I knew I was right. The chump was just abusing his power and enjoying it. I'm delighted not to be working there any more, and pity my former colleague who still have to put up with him (and they all know what a prize plonker he is).

ILM seems to be exactly the same kind of creature. Full of misguided self-belief, the power to get their own way, and no real friends.

Take away the power and they're nothing - just jokes.

(Word verif.: babler!)

Anonymous said...

Le marquand goes against all that is taught in the Christian message,he has without doubt lost his way,(or his marbles)just the type who would lie three times,I would like to be a fly on the wall on his judgement day!!

Anonymous said...

Rico's posting of the transcript is indeed mighty revealing.

Like most readers, I suspect, I found myself shaking my head in disbelief a number of times. However, perhaps the most striking part to me was Le Marquand's response to Dr Brain's argument that he (Le Marquand) ought to consider whether he was too personally conflicted to continue to oversee the suspension process.

Following Le Marquand's breathless "expose" of Operation Blast to the States, Graham Power filed a formal complaint claiming that, in doing so, Le Marquand had breached the confidentiality clauses in the disciplinary code of conduct.

Dr Brain argued that the existence of such a complaint, which was neither frivolous nor vexatious, gave rise to a conflict of interest which cast doubt on the ability of Le Marquand to continue overseeing the suspension process.

Le Marquand's response appeared to be genuine bewilderment: he seemed utterly incapable of grasping the simple concept that natural justice requires a person acting in a judicial role to be free from actual or apparent bias.

As seems to be his modus operandi, rather than making a substantive argument explaining why he did not believe he was conflicted, he reverted to Dickensian-lawyer mode, rambling into rhetorical cul-de-sacs about the finer points of Ministerial delegation. All the while ignoring the central point: if he was conflicted, he was not a proper person to act in a judicial capacity.

While many of Le Marquand's ramblings are offensive to plain English, his comment that Graham Power was receiving a salary and therefore well-able to afford legal representation was simply offensive, period.

How much of OUR money has Le Marquand squandered to date on trying to find something to pin on Grahman Power? Somewhere north of a million pounds? Well, this is the sort of money Graham Power would have had to spend on defending himself in equivalent terms.

Only somebody with no grasp of reality could possibly make such a glibly pompous statement.

Let's see Le Marquand put his money where his mouth is: let him refund the tax-payer for all the costs incurred in framing Graham Power, and then litigate to try to recover the costs - again using his own money.

I mean, I'm sure he could find a lawyer here at a knock-down price of £500 an hour if he shopped around a bit.

voiceforchildren said...

Stuart.

Deputy Tadier on JERSEY JUSTICE

Anonymous said...

Stuart

A couple of wweks ago you mentioned that you would be making some significant new postings.

Any news on that front?

Anonymous said...

Rico's objective and factual reporting has seriously caught the liar red handed and is fully documented.


Rico has done a top class job.

Anonymous said...

Re "While many of Le Marquand's ramblings are offensive to plain English, his comment that Graham Power was receiving a salary and therefore well-able to afford legal representation was simply offensive, period.

How much of OUR money has Le Marquand squandered to date on trying to find something to pin on Grahman Power? Somewhere north of a million pounds? Well, this is the sort of money Graham Power would have had to spend on defending himself in equivalent terms.

Only somebody with no grasp of reality could possibly make such a glibly pompous statement."

I expect ILM does have a grasp of reality to make that comment in that he knew too well the difference between what he could spend and what Graham Power could spend. In fact I would go so far as to suggest he was rubbing salt in the wounds to show how he can do what he likes with our money but Graham Power does not have that luxury. Yep, I took ILMs comment to be extremely derisory and very pompous too as you pointed out.

Anonymous said...

Anomymous at Monday, 23 April 2012 11:37:00 GMT+01:00, wrote, "Le Marquand's response appeared to be genuine bewilderment: he seemed utterly incapable of grasping the simple concept that natural justice requires a person acting in a judicial role to be free from actual or apparent bias."

An acquaintance of mine who follows the Jersey abuse scandal closely, found this to be a profoundly significant observation and showed it to me over lunch, here in a distant country. We were pondering the reasons this minister still gets away with this behavior, and that bewilderment described by the anonymous commenter seems to sum up not only the mad minister himself, but all who are not appalled by his arrogant ignorance.

Kuddos to the commenter; the other observations made in the comment were equally perceptive. It can only be a matter of time before the thick blanket of awareness settles too heavily for this system to remain tenable.

Anonymous said...

Dear Mr Syvret,

As an experienced ex politician you stated the opposite to Phillip Bailhache at the hustings when you stated that Ministers and senior civil servants lie.

You are also known for your strong stand against corruption. The JFSC are set up and equiped in order to stop financial corruption.

Are foreign investors also being stolen from, while JFSC executives look the other " Jersey Way "

http://planetjersey.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,2823.msg54691/topicseen.html#msg54691

Anonymous.

Póló said...

Anonymous (@ 11:37) above has put it very well. I was also struck by the two points he stresses.

ILM did not seem to understand the idea of a conflict of interest, which of course speaks volumes for how he must have conducted himself in office down the years.

And the idea that Graham Power should squander his money on defending himself against malicious allegations just because ILM thinks he might be able to afford it is obscene, and also gives an insight into how this man sees his role in the Jersey system of governance.

As Stuart is wont to say: you just couldn't make it up.

Ian Evans said...

A PICTURE PAINTS A THOUSAND WORDS

rico sorda said...

Hi Stuart,

Thanks for highlighting my posting.

It has been a long road for me on these issues. They started as gut feelings and ended up with a fully exposed timeline that shows exactly what our current Home Affairs Minister is about. It just shows you what can be done when you take the time to investigate.

The fact that Senator Le Marquand is still a Minister says everything about the current States Assembly.

The JEP are running after Ozouf to try a pin a half million handshake on him when everyman and his dog knows it was Frank Walkers fault. So, why don't they challenge Senator Le Marquand and his incompetence /corruption in a public office?

CHILD ABUSE

THATS WHY

rs

Ian Evans said...

A TICK-et TO COURT

Anonymous said...

Dear Stuart,
Having just seen the posted copy of the Scrutiny Newsletter where a photo of bags upon bags of toxic ash waste from our lovely new incinerator are being 'lined up' in "so called" pits at La Colette land fill reminds me of a certain young Politician who when, having the 'gaul' to raise the subject of ash disposal on the so called waterfront, was howled down by the childish foot stompers of the time. This picture to my mind perhaps shows more than any other the 'Jersey Way' of sweeping all that is toxic under the carpet, albeit for some other future generation to sort out the toxic mess and this is without taking into account Guernseys contribution!. It is perhaps very telling to see how many of your 'lost' battles have since come to be outstanding victories, what is so very sad is the simple fact that the past foot stampers will still see fit to stamp their little tootsies, where is the true long lost calibre of our 'past' Statesmen and Stateswomen gone when these troglodyte replacements are hell bent on petty point scoring to the detriment of the people of this Island.

Ex-Senator Stuart Syvret said...

I see it's Stella o'clock, eh Jon?

Stuart

Ian Evans said...

You getting it as well Stuart?

Hee Hee, PMSL :)

Anonymous said...

Stuart, a little bird tells me that your two law-suits, against the Jersey police and the Jersey Attorney General, get formally 'tabled' for the first time, in Jersey's Royal Court at 2.30 p.m, this Friday?

Presumably, no conflicted judge will be sitting to hear whatever application you make concerning the scheduling of the forthcoming court cases?

Am I right in assuming that your claims name, in significant ways, Michael Birt and William Bailhache? If so, it could hardly be them who hear your initial application. But, now I say that, isn't it the case that Barking Bill did hear one of your applications, even though he was an interested party in it?

So, as it can't be Bailhache or Birt who hear it, one of the local Commissioners perhaps? Frances Hamon? Oh dear, no.

Julian Clyde-Smith maybe? But, you do know about his conflicts? Don't you???

If not, better get asking!

Ex-Senator Stuart Syvret said...

Yes - Friday, 2.30 - that's correct.

And yes - the rest of your observations are sound, too.

And whilst I was not aware until recently of a profoundly serious conflict of interests concerning Julian Clyde-Smith - I am now.

And it is a concern I have to now conclude is correct - as I've e-mailed him - via the court secretariat in Jersey - put the conflict to him, and asked him directly, to confirm or deny it.

Clyde-Smith refuses to now answer.

I've said to him that I - and others - have no choice other than to take his refusal to answer a simple and clear question - as a de facto confirmation of the concern.

Still - he refuses to answer.

So - yes - that conflict of interest is known to us.

And its damning.

Not just of Clyde-Smith - but the whole "Jersey Way" apparatus.

You know - if I was a malicious and vindictive man - I'd actually be pleased right now - at the way things have panned-out. All of the arrogance by the Jersey mafia - that sense of invulnerability - the hubris - all those occasions when we would have settled for a few small victories for what was right; maybe all of that Kafkaesque absurdity was worth enduring?

Or maybe all of those jaw-dropping complacencies - that naked, undisguised class-war - the idleness, incompetence and stupidity of the Whitehall apparatus and the UK politicians who have striven for years to protect the Jersey mafia; maybe those of us who have sought only the proper rule of law, had to put up with the staggering conduct of these clowns - to arrive at this moment?

There's no shortage of opportunities to indulge in schadenfreude, if one was so inclined.

Instead - what we see is a sad and wretched spectacle.

The brazen corruption of power - which is inevitable, when those who wield power do so absolutely - and are not subject to any functioning check and balance - at all.

This is the true picture of the British establishment - in the 21st century.

Not so different, really, to so many of those corrupt, repressive gangster regimes our glorious leaders tell us we must send our troops to die against.

In what has been one of the most alarming aspects of the situation, it became clear to me, in a kind of epiphany, maybe four years ago, that the Jersey polity was, truly, a ship of fools.

During the last couple of years, I've come to the same realisation concerning Whitehall - and the powers-that-be in London.

It's simply a ship-of-fools - when it comes to its responsibilities - and obligations - concerning the Crown Dependencies.

In truth, these people are simply idiots.

If they weren't - they wouldn't be faced with the contagion billowing like a metastasised cancer, off of the Jersey oligarchy.

Stuart

Anonymous said...

http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/aftercare_and_support_for_pindow#incoming-276333

http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/the_bfms#outgoing-197777

Anonymous said...

The Aitkenhead report is now available on line at;

http://www.gov.je/News/2012/Pages/AitkenheadReports.aspx

Ian Evans said...

BLOGGERS FORCING GOVERNMENT TRANSPARENCY

Ex-Senator Stuart Syvret said...

Stella O'clock comes a bit early tonight eh Jon?

I was going to suggest the bad weather must have kept you in, but then I remembered onanistic troglodyte Mittians rarely venture forth in any event, save to acquire more larger.

Stuart

Anonymous said...

Did he swear upon his oath??? If so please explain the bible and the left hand being used instead of the right.

http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/120424-jmurdoch-9a.380;380;7;70.jpg

Anonymous said...

Good luck for Friday Mr Syvret
It's been a long fight for you up till now but I'm sure in the next 15 to 20 years we are going to see a positive change.

Ex-Senator Stuart Syvret said...

Is the use of the left hand supposed to make a difference?

Is that like keeping your fingers crossed behind your back when you made a bet with another kid at school?

Stuart

Anonymous said...

Stuart,

We would like to closely follow your case from over here, as supporters across the pond. When and where should we look for updates? Will VFC be interviewing you following the session?

Elle

Anonymous said...

I know that Sinicism, Stuart as I too feel the same when it comes to these clowns and there dressing up costumes and funny handshakes, I was just asking if it matters to the court or to the British system of injustice or legally so to speak if legally means anything at all. I have no Idea as I'm know very little about the law.

Anonymous said...

http://bit.ly/Ijcn0c

Anonymous said...

Stuart.

The Law Office will surely be working overnight tonight, trying desparately to find a way to get your Royal Court case tomorrow Struck off.

Do you think they will manage to this time?

Ex-Senator Stuart Syvret said...

Tomorrow is simply the formal tabling. Discussion will be limited to factors of scheduling and adjournment.

Of course they will try to have the cases struck-out at some future hearing.

This is Jersey; what else would you expect.

Stuart

Anonymous said...

"These sequestered nooks are the public offices of the legal profession, where writs are issued, judgments signed, declarations filed, and numerous other ingenious machines put in motion for the torture and torment of His Majesty's liege subjects, and the comfort and emolument of the practitioners of the law."

Charles Dickens, the Pickwick Papers

voiceforchildren said...

Stuart.

A FIRST FOR JERSEY.

Siobhan Gallichan said...

left on the Rag tonight, not sure if it will get posted - my last two or three have vanished without trace...

Ok, putting aside Syvret's court appearences etc, a few years back he was sacked as Health minister for saying he had no confidence in the services etc...

So, howcome these years later they haven't improved? What is so wrong in Jersey that the island simply finds it impossible to care for children properly?

Is there some kind of mental block in the States and Civil Service that prevents them from acting correctly?

Or is it deliberate...?

Considering some of the horror stories that have emerged, and some of the people involved, that last question may possibly, possibly, be more then just a silly comment.....

Anonymous said...

Now, you realise presumably that the "court" you go before tomorrow is an artifact; not a real, functioning court of law? That it's all just "emperor's new clothes" and smoke and mirrors?

Simple: bed-rock of English justice, even, long before the European Convention Human Rights was dreamt of, a judicial procedure must be objective and impartial. Not only that, so strict and established is the case-law, judicial procedures have to meet the test of appearing to be objective and impartial; that is, they can't even look as though they might be conflicted.

Any judicial process that fails those test is, well, not a judicial process. It is something else.

The Jersey judicial system cannot hope to meet those tests. It's as simple as that.

What the Crown tolerates here and turns a blind eye to is a corrupt simulacrum of "justice".

There's only one path you can take - and I don't mean Strasbourg.

But I guess you know that?

Ex-Senator Stuart Syvret said...

Yes, I know that.

Stuart

Larry Rivers said...

The world is facing a wave of uprisings, protests, revolutions and outright war. Everyday thousands are being killed in the name of democracy. Arab dictators are being swept away, public spaces being occupied, slum dwellers in revolt, cyberspace buzzing with utopian dreams. Events we were told were consigned to history - democratic revolt and social revolution - are being lived by millions of people. This is all available online. #paulmasonnews

Recession has lead to currency wars. Currency wars lead to trade wars. Trade wars lead to outright war.

Study the history of global economics since 1840.

Bailhache, with all this going on, wants Jersey to go independent. Its suicide based on greed and political ignorance.

Stop him in his tracks and protect your way of life before we lose it all.

Anonymous said...

Good Luck for today Stuart.

Will JC-S's conflicts surface ?

Will The Local Media mention it ?

Doubt it, maybe not today.

But keep it up !

Anonymous said...

Stuart, I commented above and said, 'So, as it can't be Bailhache or Birt who hear it, one of the local Commissioners perhaps? Frances Hamon? Oh dear, no.

Julian Clyde-Smith maybe? But, you do know about his conflicts? Don't you???

If not, better get asking!'

Well, how'd it go, and who did they get as judge?

Ex-Senator Stuart Syvret said...

I used to use the phrase "you couldn't make it up", quite often, but now I'm so inured to the extraordinary, I forget how crackers the Jersey mafia are.

It was William Bailhache in the chair today. And notwithstanding my obvious and immediate recusal application, he refused to do so - and spent the next half hour arguing with me - even though I explained how he was directly, centrally involved in the matters I am challenging - and I even read out some excerpts from the Order of Justice against the Office of Attorney General.

I suppose one shouldn't complain; he screwed-up dramatically in at least three significant things he revealed. And his performance today furnished us with more evidential material as to how the administration of justice simply doesn't work in Jersey.

But stepping back from the predictable madness - there was an interesting occurrence. The Police are not being represented by Howard "Blunt" sharp (who again, quite plainly, hadn't read the papers)but are instead being represented by private-sector lawyers. The representative of the police spoke to me briefly before the proceedings began, and in a surprising display of common sense, she informed me that my application to adjourn sine die would not be opposed by them.

The Attorney General however - through Blunt Sharp - insisted - against the obvious public interest - that my case against the Attorney General get listed - for the inevitable strike-out application.

So there's now going to be a double-run of litigation - two cases dealing with broadly the same facts, evidence and witnesses - when it could have been dealt with in one set of proceedings.

And barking Bill Bailhache was rooting throughout - as the presiding judge - for Blunt "7 Bedford Row" Sharp and the Attorney General - even though Bailhache is the prima facie malfeasant party at the heart of the matter.

I even reminded him how he had attempted to criminally coerce the legitimate Police Chief Graham Power into dropping an investigation, and when Mr. Power refused, Bailhache said to him, "so be it" and few days later the Police Chief was illegally suspended.

Jersey: couldn't make it up.

Stuart

Anonymous said...

Stuart, is that for real? You're telling us William Bailhache presided over a tactically and strategically important court decision on timing of applications and procedures, even though he's a key party in the substance of your applications?

And that he argued against you?!?!?!

The thing that causes me to express such amazement is not the motivation, but the stupidity on display. In fact, is not another of your sayings, 'never underestimate the stupidity of the Jersey oligarchy'?

My God. The fools. It is groupthink isn't it? These people really have lost the plot.

Ex-Senator Stuart Syvret said...

Yep - that's for real.

It was even better than that, in that as I was attempting to defend my position against Bailhache's oppressions - he was suddenly supported by another lawyer from the benches, who stood up, interrupted me, and said words to the effect, "is Mr Syvret going to shut up yet, as I'm here waiting to represent my private clients?'

It was brilliant, really.

I was quite restrained in response and didn't proceed to demand of him that he was not - surely - thinking of charging his private clients for time passing as a result of other, unrelated judicial proceedings?

Let's face it, it would have been a redundant question.

But I did think the interjection was great in an entertaining way. I didn't recognise the lawyer in question, but his name will be on the transcript. let's hope his clients peruse their bill very closely.

Stuart

Anonymous said...


Feversham School at centre of a cold case cop probe

Anonymous said...

This is a great idea. Just the antedote to Bailhache's feudalistic little Jersey mentality. Go look, and take out an e-mail subscription, and pass the link on. Jersey Today

voiceforchildren said...

Stuart.

Rico will be live and interactive tomorrow night (Sunday 29th April at 7pm BST). He will be discussing a number of issues concerning Jersey and interacting with the online audience. The broadcast will be, up to, an hour in duration and can be found HERE

rico sorda said...

Stuart, my later posting ties in with what you are doing. This is about the conflict of interest on Graham Powers Judicial Review. It really is a must read.

You couldn't make it up.

This might just be the most conflicted Judicial Review in the whole of the British Isles


http://ricosorda.blogspot.com/2012/04/operation-end-game-21-judicial-review.html

Anonymous said...

Rico I think you're right, possibly the most conflicted in the British Isles.

You should remember, these are gentlemen with manners you speak of and perhaps these particular gentlemen can ignore, personal conflicts of interests in determining Mr Powers personal rights or those of the commoners in his right to a fair hearing.

Anonymous said...

It is shocking to read the latest Rico Sorda posting because almost every point of evidence the judicial ruling is based on has now been systematically discredited or logically disputed from his part time investigative reporting.

Nothing about the case against Graham Power is evidenced. It can't withstand any honest public scrutiny whatsoever, let alone a lawful judicial review.

That is the simple, if startling truth, but it ultimately leads to increasingly complex issues about Jersey's ability to function under the guise of a respectable government.

I think Jersey's loss of credibility from what Rico has uncovered should expose the judiciary to any international reader as an entirely corrupt enterprise.

Ex-Senator Stuart Syvret said...

During one of the early appearances I made before Michael Birt and William Bailhache friend, Christopher Pitchers, I stated quite plainly "Jersey's judicial apparatus is a criminal enterprise."

And it is.

The difficulty they face is that increasing numbers of people now see that fact.

And that's a fatal occurrence for the racket.

Once that "magic" has gone - once the thing is seen for what it is - under the gaze of close public scrutiny - it can never be restored.

Stuart

Anonymous said...

Stuart

Your comment about the racket being under public scrutiny is profoundly true at a time when documents are read in multiple countries within minutes of your posting them. There is no going back.

Anonymous said...

Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain

Ex-Senator Stuart Syvret said...

The silly little man behind the curtain in the Wizard of Oz.

Yes - that's exactly how it is.

And the curtain has been pulled open on the Jersey judiciary.

Stuart

voiceforchildren said...

Stuart.

An interview with Abuse Survivor Jean from the Grouville Home For Girls who tells us GOOD CAN COME FROM BAD.

She is very appreciative of meeting with you and wants that message conveyed.

Anonymous said...

Are you dead?
Hopefully some one will pop around and check on you , will send this message to your mates I think he might have your e mail in his contacts.
Look after yourself mate, no one else wants to look after you

Ex-Senator Stuart Syvret said...

I'm quaking in my boots.

Doesn't it occur to you cretins that if the death-threats were going to work, I would have quietly gone away - a long time ago.

Stuart

Anonymous said...

Ring the coppers Stuart , they just love you down at the cop shop.
Especially now your suing there boss.

Ha Ha

Anonymous said...

When was the last time you wore a pair of boots to do any positive work ?

Anonymous said...

Why do you think that was a death threat.
I think you are reading to much into that, it looks to me that it is someone being very sarcastic.

I guess when you are such a high profile person you can't be to careful

Anonymous said...

Unless there is another (more intelligent?) monkey imitating him, the source of those threats can be listened to here.

http://therightofreply.blogspot.com/2012/04/another-reminder-of-jerseys-freaks.html

There is a difference between sarcasm and threats.

The audio (directed at Mr.Syvret's landlord) includes:

"we're going to [have sex with*] you" (repeated in the conversation)

"Nurse M is going to kill you and your family"


Who "we" are is unclear, and "have sex with*" replaces another word (but even the literal meaning would not surprise me)

It is worrying that "Worthless" indicated common propose or association with [ex-military] "nurse M" -presumably that is what "we" meant.

People like Jon (and possibly "nurse M") are useful to the present authorities, just like the blackshirts were useful to the Nazis.

It seems unlikely that this was a one off but it is an occasion on which he was caught and with it being on tape even the authorities had little choice but to act, in spite of the previous co-operative PR enterprise.

Care in the community is perhaps not working -this could be a train crash waiting to happen.