Sign E-Petition to Overturn UK Ban on American Journalist
Leah McGrath Goodman
In common with a number of other Jersey bloggers, I’m publishing the posting below to draw attention to the unlawful repression of independent journalism, and to ask readers to sign the important e-petition which can be found by clicking on the following link:
You can also join in the discussion, and express your views about the Jersey government, by going to the comments section at the bottom of this article.
The American journalist, Leah McGrath Goodman was excluded from re-entering the United Kingdom by Immigration officials, following her being “flagged” by the Jersey authorities, after it became known to them that she is researching and writing a book on child abuse atrocities in the island and the associated failures of Jersey’s government, prosecution system and judiciary.
Her exclusion from the United Kingdom was also “conveniently”
timed in such a way as to prevent her from being in Jersey to observe, monitor
and research Jersey’s last election, which took place in October 2011.
Please read the posting below, and help us to spread
the word via the web. For those who use twitter, the hashtag is #FreeJersey.
Sign the e-petition – and help the fight for independent
journalism, democracy, the rule of law and free-speech.
Stuart Syvret
The E-Petition:
THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE IS ISSUED BY JERSEY BLOGGERS,
IN THE NAME OF CIVIL SOCIETY AND THE RULE OF LAW
Today is not a day to focus on right-wing versus
left-wing politics, but the difference between right and wrong. When a democratic government abuses its substantial legal, legislative and financial powers to crack down on journalists’ freedom of speech, force policemen and elected officials from their jobs and systemically dismantle its own checks and balances so as to deny each of its targets due process, clearly it is a government that has lost its way.
Jersey, the jewel in the crown of the Channel Islands, may be one of the world's leading offshore financial centres, but it has begun to use its clout against its own people – and it is keeping the rest of its population in the dark about it. This is now a place where court and legislative records – those that are public anyway – can now be redacted. This is an island where secret trials are now allegedly taking place and elected officials are forced to debate key issues in secret. Web content is banned and journalists booted out. This is not the way a democratic government is supposed to be run.
Again, this is not about politics. It is about
standing up for truth, honesty and integrity. It is about restoring the good
name of our beautiful island whose reputation has been dragged through the mud
by those attempting to cover-up the facts surrounding some of the most heinous
crimes known to man – crimes of violence against children. Crimes the vast
majority of islanders would never defend, yet most of those who stand accused
of committing them have not been brought to justice and continue to walk among
us and our children. Worse, these alleged perpetrators remain entrenched in
some of the very highest echelons of Jersey’s government – working in
departments that focus on children! It is beyond comprehensible.
On an island where children in need of care have
been let down by the government for decades – and continue to be let down – we
cannot afford to ignore or repeat our mistakes. More broadly, challenging the
government’s current decisions, particularly when not made in the best interest
of the public, should not require bottomless financial resources and friends in
high places. We are supposed to be a democracy, right?
With our checks and balances hamstrung, the international and independent media may
be our last chance at reclaiming our democracy and re-establishing rule of law.
Today,
Jersey politician Deputy Trevor Pitman launched an e-petition on Change.org in
support of the return of U.S. investigative journalist and author, Leah McGrath
Goodman, to the island to continue her research into decades of child abuse at
Jersey’s state-run “care” homes and allegations of cover-ups in the wake of the
government’s removal of the chief of police and shut-down of the entire
investigation. One year ago today, Ms. Goodman was banned from the UK and Jersey for two years after revealing to the Jersey Customs and Immigration Service during a voluntary meeting that she was writing a book on atrocities against children at Haut de la Garenne. According to the UK Border Force, she was flagged by Jersey Immigration authorities for removal upon her next border crossing – and that is exactly what happened. After the intervention of UK Member of Parliament John Hemming, the ban was reduced to one year and it expires today, 11 September 2012. That said, the UK and Jersey have so far declined to restore Ms. Goodman’s visa or allow her cross the border to continue her research. In order to do so safely, she will need to have her Tier -1 visa status fully restored – hence, the reason for Deputy Pitman’s e-petition today.
Leah McGrath Goodman should be permitted to complete her work in order that there is an accurate record based on the available facts and evidence. Jersey needs to confront the failings of its past so it can redress them and, most of all, ensure the safety of our children’s future.
We ask readers who care about the island’s children, who care about the island’s reputation, who believe in a free press and who want the truth to be told to sign Deputy Pitman’s e-petition. We also ask fellow bloggers to copy and paste this blog onto their own Web sites so that we may show the world that Jersey wants the best for its future and its children. It is time to leave our island’s culture of secrecy behind and demand the kind of free and open society our island deserves. Those who would do otherwise are not representative of the majority of islanders.
Please spread the word and sign this petition (ten seconds). The Internet is the one thing Jersey authorities have not been able to lock down.....yet! The petition can be signed here:
For those who tweet this campaign, please use the #FreeJersey hashtag. While Jersey may try to keep journalists out, it cannot keep us for letting the truth in.
Posted on behalf of Jersey bloggers and civil society.
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107 comments:
Some STRAIGHT TALK from Leah McGrath Goodman!!!
The messed with the wrong politician when they messed with you. They messed with the wrong journalist when they banned Ms Goodman. Talk about throwing petrol on the fire!
uSyvret Destitute!!!
I hope one day Stuart, that the common folk realise just how much the Jersey Bloggers have given up to fight the good fight against Jersey Corruption.
Until then, we remain, fighting in the shadows where we all are comfortable :)
If there is no conspiracy and the closure of the HDLG investigation and the suspension of Graham Power etc.. is all as stated by the Establishment/BBC/CTV/JEP etc..
Having a great investigative journalist like Leah McGrath Goodman take an interest should have been seen as a positive by those in power, they should have recognised she would find no such conspiracy and she could tell the world now all they did by getting banned was highlight the fact that they must have big fears of what she would find!!!
Another "own goal" by the Jersey establishment.
For those who don't tweet or don't understand Twitter, you can see the #FreeJersey tweets easily here.
Stuart.
Leah McGrath Goodman on YOUTUBE
'The Jersey Way' explained :
You build a nice big room-sized cage, and in one end of it you put five monkeys. In the other end you put the banana. Then you stand by with the fire hose. Sooner or later one of the monkeys is going to go after the banana, and when it does you turn on the fire hose and spray the other monkeys with it. Replace the banana if needed, then repeat the process. Monkeys are pretty smart, so they’ll figure this out pretty quickly: “If anybody goes for the banana, the rest of us get the hose.” Soon they’ll attack any member of their group who tries to go to the banana.
Once this happens, you take one monkey out of the cage and bring in a new one. The new monkey will come in, try to make friends, then probably go for the banana. And the other monkeys, knowing what this means, will attack him to stop you from using the hose on them. Eventually the new monkey will get the message, and will even start joining in on the attack if somebody else goes for the banana. Once this happens, take another of the original monkeys out of the cage and bring in another new monkey.
After repeating this a few times, there will come a moment when none of the monkeys in the cage have ever been sprayed by the fire hose; in fact, they’ll never even have seen the hose. But they’ll attack any monkey who goes to get the banana. If the monkeys could speak English, and if you could ask them why they attack anyone who goes for the banana, their answer would almost certainly be: “Well, I don’t really know, but that’s how we’ve always done things around here.”
Is it News?
An international TV channel, free on Sky and all over Europe (RT is a clear channel for all to view, not scrambled) broadcasts a piece very critical of Jersey :
"... it sounds like Jersey (has) become like a medieval fortress, surrounded by a moat, run by a mad king who is bent on torturing and raping while looting the country".
(see that part here)
As Crapaudverload says, "I'd imagine that this is newsworthy and most islanders would be interested to hear about it.
"The question is: will it get a mention in the local 'accredited' media? Will it be covered-up from the locals? I'm assuming that the issue won't be aired on island TV or radio, or in the JEP - but you never know, maybe someone might get a sudden pang of realisation what journalism really means!"
How can it not be news?
Stuart.
If Jersey's State Media does report this news it will be in the form of Leah McGrath goodman being an enemy of Jersey.
Jersey's State Media are nothing if not predictable. #FreeJersey
A friend posted on Facebook:
Hillsborough report makes clear there was a cover up and media once again complicit in aiding the official story rather than searching out the truth. But take heart Jersey, even after decades the facts do come to light as long as some faithfully carry a candle into dark places.
Mr Syvret, I’ve written recently on what I’m beginning to think of as my ‘erstwhile friends’ in the senior posts in Jersey’s administrative apparatus. I note you referred in a comment to the interjection by Deputy Bailiff William Bailhache during question time in the States assembly. I too heard the exchange in question, and I and others are increasingly sharing your diagnosis. I’m afraid Mr W. Bailhache is plainly unwell and his judgement and conduct is disastrous. In fact it is increasingly realised that his condition, coupled with his hubris and the fact there has been no form of constraint or accountability upon him, has been responsible for the undermining and imperilment of Jersey’s respectability and stability during these last five years. He must be prevailed upon to resign, take ‘early retirement’, whatever the excuse may be.
The man is plainly a living, breathing, continuing nightmare for Jersey’s body-politic.
It requires no great learning in law or even the basics of good, or even acceptable, public administration to know that a post-holder is irredeemably conflicted, without remedy, if they are the sibling of a person they are exercising the decision-making public authority over.
Sadly, we are lumbered with the equally dangerous and eccentric Philip Bailhache for this electoral term, but William Bailhache has taken leave of his senses, and the Crown must rescue us, and its own reputation by finding a means of getting him out of the door, so to speak.
Though few would say so openly, most lawyers in Jersey (not to mention accountants and senior bankers) now have zero faith in this man, are frightened by his actions, and want rid of him.
But there will obviously be other, more powerful and pressing and external opinions also of that view. After all, it has not been lost on thinking observers that, according to the former head of the Police Mr Power, William Bailhache was associating with serious criminal suspects, whilst being Jersey’s only prosecuting authority. Public officials get arrested for such conduct in law-abiding jurisdictions. It seems to me and the many other Jersey conservatives I speak with that William Bailhache’s career in public office is now over. In reality it has been since he became so drunk with hubris.
The only matter yet to be determined is whether Mr. Bailhache’s departure is ‘easy’, or extremely ‘difficult’. The former would be by far the best outcome for Jersey and its stability. The latter would be extremely painful. Either way, the inevitable is going to occur.
Stuart.
Team Voice will be returning to their live and interactive broadcast a week tomorrow Thursday 20th September 2012 at 7pm HERE
To Anonymous 17:19:00 BST
William Bailache cannot just go. He must be fully investigated and duly prosecuted.
Do you know if the Jersey Way recorded questions asked yesterday?
Commenter @ 17:19 BST,
"Drunk with hubris," is an accurate description. I fear that the City of London has not yet grasped what many outsiders do, that this superficially acceptable but crazed neo-feudalist has set the UK up for a great scandal, by apparently continuing to support him.
They would not have recently knighted Birt, if they were doubting Jerseys "leadership"....
Surely?!
Hi Stuart.
I just put up some questions from yesterdays States Meeting, you & your Reader's can Listen HERE
See Leah on Max Keiser show http://jerseylibertarian.blogspot.com/2012/09/max-keiser-on-jersey-with-guest-leah.html
Having read the Sharp Report, I assume its is a public document, is it not?
If so, why was it necessary for the Deputy concerned to retract naming Mr Breton when not naming him could be said to raise a question mark over all current Jurats by the public?
I'm baffled?
Stuart.
ROLE PLAY.
MARIO LUNDY
When i brought my post i thought i saw a miracle JUSTICE AT LAST no i was wrong.
Hi Stuart, it appears the BBC do not have a copy of Graham Power's 62k document. How can this be true?
From Voiceforchildren:-
"After being black-listed for almost a year, the BBC finally allowed yours truly, on live radio this morning. Although not before I was interrogated by the show's producer, who also told me that Editor of BBC State Radio, Jon Gripton hasn't got a copy of the 62,000 word submission to the Wiltshire Constabulary written by the former Chief of Police Graham Power QPM. The very same document that was given to the editor by former Health Minister Stuart Syvret, apparently on the 22nd of September 2011."
An S.O.S. from the People of UK Tax Haven Jersey
Bring back the Phone in
Latest twitter from courtnewsuk. Looks promising.
An update and a thank you from LEAH
Two Senators nominated two Jurats. I think we need a separation of powers between the Legislature and Judiciary. Senator Bailhache nominated the man who got elected. This has got to stop.
Senator Le Marquand nominated ex Constable Ken Vibert lol this is beyond bonkers.
States members nominating sitting Jurats how conflicted is this?
What do you call a lawyer with an IQ of 70?
Your honour.
Changing lawyers is like moving to a different deck chair on the Titanic.
How does a lawyer sleep?
First he lies on one side and then on the other.
If a lawyer and a tax inspector were both drowing and you could only save one of them, would you go to lunch or read the paper?
Mark Twain said;
"It is interesting to note that criminals have multiplied of late, and lawyers have also;but I repeat myself."
have a great weekend
Stuart.
The petition has just breached its 1,000th signatories THANK YOU and please keep spreading the word #FreeJersey
PETITION
The Corporate Sole & the STATES of JERSEY Inc
Is England registered as a corporation with members of the Senior members of Government listed as directors ?
Of course not.
Then why is Jersey ? Is this what the voters voted for and what are the benefits to the directors and to put it bluntly what the hell is going on ?
Just read the post above showing documents showing Jersey is indeed Incorporated.
http://therightofreply.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/the-states-of-jersey-inc-working-to.html
In the aftermath of the Hillsbrough Report Michael Mansfield QC is calling for a Ministry Of Truth in order to hold public authorities to account. He said "it's clear that the State is incapable of investigating itself".
Can we have one here please?
I note that Ken Vibert was one of the "P9-26" crowd.
More than 651,000 page views is pretty nice. That must be a scary number to more than a few criminal States Members. Unlike the passive readers or listeners to whatever State Media propaganda is brought into their homes, your readers represent a large pool of people interested enough to actively seek out your blog.
Elle
Yes, 651,000 pageviews. That's very good for one man's blog. And what is impressive is that it seems to get a few hundred pageviews every day. I'm pretty sure that amongst those hundreds who visit every day will be some people outside of Jersey, who are now getting to read the evidence of what the Jersey government is really like and just how slack and hypocritical London is letting this corruption and oppression go on.
Thanks for letting me know about the counter, didn't know you could do that :)
Very handy gadget.
Hadn't noticed the counter before those comments. 651,400 now. It's no wonder the Jersey mafia and their protectors in London want this blog crushed and silenced.
I have one too now!
350,178
Will try and catch you up Stuart but you have a few years on me.
I started blogging in January 2008, but the built-in Blogger counter was only introduced a year or so after. (Maybe someone can tell us when?) So a big number of my readers and page views happened before the counter started. My real page view figure is probably over a million.
So you'd better get a move-on.
Stuart
Stuart, I hope you don’t mind if I submit this important comment that was left under your last posting. We must make the establishment understand that the days of their cover-ups fading away and being forgotten are over.
'Anonymous said…
Mr Syvret, I've offered my opinion before on the case of the fatal Road Traffic Accident that another reader refers to when they say:
"Stuart, I don't think you have this quite right. My understanding is that he pleaded guilty to careless driving. That is a different offence to dangerous driving. Careless driving (or driving without due care and attention) falls below a standard of competence and care. Dangerous driving falls FAR below a standard of competence and care."
I'm afraid it is the reader who has it wrong, not you. The mistake they make is to fail to attach sufficient, if indeed any, importance to the process of trial.
The actual inquisitorial and adversarial process of the court is the method, place and safeguard by which justice is done. Key amongst the considerations of a prosecutor will be the gravity of the apparent crime before them; the greater the gravity, the more necessary charging and prosecution becomes, for all of the very obvious fact-finding and public interest issues.
In this case, a person was killed. A young woman lost her life. The gravity of the case is clear.
The public interest importance of trying the matter in open court, and getting to the facts, speaks for itself.
What the reader fails to understand, or if they do understand it, they are deliberately obfuscating on the question, is that many, many criminal cases are brought to prosecution in England in which the accused is resisting the principal charge brought by the prosecution, but are pleading guilty to a lesser charge. For example a person charged with murder, might plead not guilty to that charge, but accept guilt for culpable homicide.
In important cases, for example where a death is involved, as in this case in Jersey, the prosecutors will usually always bring the higher charge to court, knowing that the accused is pleading guilty to a lesser charge, because the prosecution know that it is not their role to usurp the court's function, by deciding guilt or innocence in some back-office, as opposed to it being determined in open court by a judicial process.
Plainly, the central and key matter of dispute in the Jersey fatal RTA is the degree and extent of the culpability of the driver. That he is culpable to an extant is not disputed by the driver or prosecution. The question is "was the degree of culpability sufficient to secure a conviction for causing death by dangerous driving?"
That question could only have been correctly and lawfully settled by argument, in a trial, in open court. By preventing that process occurring, Jersey's prosecutors have undermined the public interest.
That is the most charitable thing that can be said of their bizarre actions.
Sunday, 16th September 2012 13:28 BST'
national scandal brewing up
Having watched the BBC documentary into Hillsborough I was surprised initially to see that the programme 'consultant' was none other than Mick Gradwell.
My surprise was short lived when I considered that what Gradwell doesn't know about government/police cover-ups is really not worth knowing.
"That question could only have been correctly and lawfully settled by argument, in a trial, in open court. By preventing that process occurring, Jersey's prosecutors have undermined the public interest"
In a trial, in open court, exactly. I can't see the point in any other sort of court. The legal term "In Camera" seems to be taken from the Camera Obscura, a dark chamber that allows a beam of light in so that the true reflected image can be reflected onto a screen.
Well anyone who has been on the recieving end a secret family court trial will tell you that perjury is committed as a matter of course in those dark chambers, and the truth ends up distorted. Secret trials are open to abuse.
I think there should only be open trials, justice must be seen to be done. If I had the power to make just one change in the Justice system that is the thing I would change.
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Thanks Stuart
Looking back over Graham Power's statement, it's even more damning than it seemed first time around. If what he's saying is true, Jersey does not have the rule of law or fair & balanced policing. When you think about it, he's saying that the Attorney General is biased, political, obstructive and interfering. He's saying the Attorney General socialises with criminal suspects. He's saying that Jersey people are not protected by the law properly because we don't have a fair and impartial prosecution system. He's saying that the politics of things are that the Home Affairs Minister can be leaned on by other Jersey politicians to interfere in police investigations. He's saying that the police chief and his deputy can be threatened with suspension unless they stop investigations that the establishment politicians don't like. He's saying the police can't get decent legal advisers on prosecutions and he's saying that senior civil servants can obstruct and suspend the police chief and take part in their suspension, even when its the senior civil servants who are being investigated.
Like I said, if what Mr Power is saying is true, and no one in the Jersey establishment has ever shown that it isn't, then this is a mafia island basically.
I'm not a lawyer, but I would still say things look pretty clear to me. Can you tell people, what's going to happen with your legal action in London? I don't know the process but I'm guessing the powers that be there can't win the factual argument about if things are corrupt in Jersey and the rule of law has failed here, so they will use 'technical' lawyers arguments to try and stop the case getting to an argument about the evidence and the witnesses? What do we do then? Will you appeal that all they way, make a real long fight of it, like the Hillsborough families?
A reader says:
"What do we do then? Will you appeal that all they way, make a real long fight of it, like the Hillsborough families?"
Yes.
Absolutely. That is what's going to happen.
Stuart
Hi Stuart
Can you put a link on your blog relating to the unlawful police raid please?
http://ricosorda.blogspot.com/2012/09/team-voice-blog-tv-live-this-thursday.html
Hi Stuart,
Team Voice will be re-launching Blog Tv this thursday at 7pm.
rs
There were 651,400 page views yesterday. Now 651,962. Over 400 page views, and that’s under a posting a few days old. Lots and lots of people reading this blog. Scary for some people, no? Another comment said that people who come here do so because they’re genuinely interested. Very very scary.
Some awkward questions for BOWRON'S BOYS
This is a bit of an aside but..
This morning Senator Ozouf was on BBC 'State'Radio singing the praises of JT rolling out ultrafast broadband, while employing 'one hundred unemployed youngsters'. Bearing in mind that this is a States owned business that charges the public ,I didn't hear one comment that 'other suppliers are available' that would normally pepper such conversations. There was just a sickening interview with a fawning family saying how wonderful it all was but remarkably had no idea how much it cost?
Sorry VFC your North Korea arrow is flowing in the wrong direction!
The News of the World hired private detectives to spy on a former Metropolitan police commissioner, Independent Voices can reveal.
Lord Stevens, who led Scotland Yard between 2000 and 2005, was placed under surveillance by Southern Investigations, a firm of private investigators linked to one of London’s most notorious unsolved murders.
Its co-founder Jonathan Rees claims the defunct Sunday tabloid hired his company to watch Britain’s most powerful policeman in 1999. He said Southern Investigations received a tip that the then-deputy commissioner was using taxpayer funds to fly a Metropolitan police plane up to Northumbria to see a mistress. There is absolutely no suggestion the tip off had any foundation.
At the time, it can also be disclosed that Scotland Yard had an undercover officer – Derek Haslam - inside Southern Investigations who warned police that the firm was also trying to obtain other embarrassing information on the former Commissioner.
As well as selling the story to the News of the World, Haslam claims Southern Investigations also wanted to use the sensitive information to “control” Lord Stevens.
Haslam said: “I told my handler ‘you’d better tell him they are on to him and they are looking at anything’. They saw filth on police and politicians as a way to control them.”
However, in an interview with Independent Voices, Rees rejects the bombshell allegation as absurd.
Asked if he had Lord Stevens put under surveillance, he replied: “We were given instructions and an allegation that he was using a Met police plane from Biggin Hill to see his mistress in Northumbria.
“Now we did organise a surveillance team because it’s what the News of the World wanted and we had team in Northumbria and here, but he never showed so whether the allegation is true or not, who knows.
“The allegation was that he was using…a Metropolitan police federation plane bought by donations from charity, and the petrol, the fuel, to travel up to Northumbria to see his mistress. You can see why people wanted…that story.”
Haslam’s take on Southern Investigations’ activities is very different. During his nine years as a police “mole”, he claims he told the Yard the firm was committing a vast array of crimes – often on behalf of the News of the World.
Given the widespread criminality he was reporting back to his handlers, Haslam was astonished and confused when no-one was arrested. However, his suspicions were raised last July when the relationship between the Murdoch media empire, Scotland Yard and senior politicians came under intense scrutiny after it emerged that the News of the World hacked the phone of murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler, 13.
This morning Senator Ozouf was on BBC 'State' Radio singing the praises of JT rolling out ultrafast broadband, while employing 'one hundred unemployed youngsters'
They are not only employing youngsters but also some long term unemployed who they are trying to encourage back into work by......wait for it......continuing to pay their benefits whilst also giving them a salary from JT, all be it for a limited but significant time period. So you lucky tax paying people not only are you paying some, maybe all of them, a regular salary but you are also paying them benefits.
The Jersey way, don’t you just love it?
I'm not familiar with the details of the scheme, but it seems entirely sensible to me to try and have in place transition arrangements that enable people to move from long-term unemployment to work, without a sudden (and frequently counter-productive 'on-off' approach to benefits.
And whilst the average tax-payer can have many grounds for criticising the States of Jersey, I suggest that their ire would be more appropriately focused on a system that enables the wealthy and very rich to simply pay no tax at all if they so choose, which thus increases the burden on everyone else.
Stuart
I said this.'This morning Senator Ozouf was on BBC 'State' Radio singing the praises of JT rolling out ultrafast broadband, while employing 'one hundred unemployed youngsters'
I wanted to point out the irony of the statement not to denigrate in anyway the individuals benefiting.
Stuart you are entirely right, readers should also look at how people such as the new owner of ytel/Newtel only pay 1% tax after a set limit and that Pip in the States said this didn't happen (to the best of his knowledge).
When a GET OUT OF JAIL FREE CARD is the only option!
Boring and very very repetative
"Boring"? Well, you probably don't have the type of mind that is driven by intellectual curiosity.
But - in any event - things can often get quite exciting, in unexpected ways.
Stuart
Stuart, I estimate you've had over 400 pageviews today. Obviously, someone doesn't find this blog 'boring'.
Coming to a blog near you. John Hemming's speech from today's parliament.
http://ricosorda.blogspot.com/2012/09/john-hemming-exposes-jersey-in-house-of.html
rs
Yes? What was that about?
Stuart
Stuart, have you seen Rico Sorda's blog posting, just put up a few minutes ago? Holy crap!!!
None of this is going away, is it?
I haven't seen it, no. I'll check it out after I've eaten.
Stuart
Well - as far as I know, Parliamentary Privilege trumps all.
That fact was explained in great detail in the judgment in 'Syvret vs Bailhache and Hamon' (LLP law corruption) - which was written by Philip Bailhache's friend, the learned Mr Michael Beloff - so it must be right.
Mind you - he did appear to be relying upon 'second-sight', or a ouega-board - or something - when asserting in his rejection of my more recent judicial review appeal against William Bailhache, and the need for disclosure of evidence - that "we do not consider that there is any prospect of any such material emerging in the foreseeable future that would have a material impact on the arguments available to Mr Syvret."
But perhaps he's simply so clever, he can just "know" what evidence might exist - without having to examine it?
Although - such a "skill" is obviously fallible - as just such evidential material does, indeed, exist. I know, because a number of people, me included, now have some of it.
Black swans, guys and girls - black swans.
Stuart
Ooh, over 500 pageviews now. Definitely not so boring!
Dear Mr Syvret,
I am not in favour of the Kate natural published photos, because everyone deserves privacy, and I see no important public interest story.
There is an interesting parallel with your, Rico, VFC and other Jersey informative blogs that publish factual documents and information which are clearly in the public interest and not connected with security of state military protection.
Stand behind the truth it will always protect you in most civilised democratic countries with the exception of Jersey which plays its own game where you can be prosecuted for publishing the truth and you are outside of the inner circle.
A lesson for introvert, white tower living, small minded secretive Jersey politicians and the judiciary working to stop the truth from being published on line.
An Injunction on behalf of members of the Royal family has been served by the French Judiciary requiring the offending photo's to be taken down etc , etc.
I have viewed the actual photos on five different websites regardless, mostly in America to see if they were still there and they are, and on more sites if you can be bothered to look.
Forget it secretive worried Jersey Government et al. If the esteemed English Royal Family and establishment with the backing of the French Government cannot stop the natural femininity of Kate being exposed, how are you going to stop the real factual truth being published by honest Jersey people using the internet, which is rapidly becoming the real accredited media in Jersey ?
Maybe the long game but a certain set and match result to Jersey's blog fraternity which is now unstoppable.
Anonymous
To the anon. commentator who posted today at 08:56:00. about Ozouf on BBC Jersey.
Please, please, please go to BBC Complaints website http://www.bbc.co.uk/complaints/
and lodge your complaint.
Its a tedious process that takes about 5 to 10 minutes to complete. You can mention that BBC Jersey may be breaching aspects of the BBC Editorial Guidelines Section 14- Editorial Integrity and Independence from External Interests.
WARNING - It will undoubtably get fobbed off so don't get your hopes up.
AND... next time you find a fault with BBC Jersey,(lets face it, that date is not far away), complain again.
Speak to your friends and collegues and encourage them to do the same.
If we all keep hammering away, eventually we can hope to nail BBC Jersey and expose their complicity in siding with the States of Jersey. We don't pay for SOJ propaganda with our TV license money so don't put up with it.
Do it- be cool, be brave, no matter how trivial the issue.
So, can you comment on things made under parliamentary privilege ?
What about other people commenting?
As the Hemmings comments are now in the public domain has 'the dragon been slain'? ie the mist falls away, but one might be forced by the evil one to continue to 'believe' in dragons, so to speak despite the peasants dancing on the body.
"we do not consider that there is any prospect of any such material emerging in the foreseeable future that would have a material impact on the arguments available to Mr Syvret."
I guess that is what happens when the police illegally raid ones home, it gives some the mistaken belief you have no evidence!
"that "we do not consider that there is any prospect of any such material emerging in the foreseeable future that would have a material impact on the arguments available to Mr Syvret."
I guess that is like saying, no matter what you produce, even if it is 100% bang to rights, we will not read it in that way and we have no intention of letting you win!
Stuart
Some time ago you published a report, or parts of a report, by DC Cornellisson in respect of the investigation into Jervis-Dykes, amongst other matters. From memory, it contained some references to obstructions put in his path by some officers.
Would it be possible to direct me to that report?
Many thanks
A reader asks:
"Would it be possible to direct me to that report?"
Monday, 1st March, 2010.
It's in the archive.
Stuart
Mr Syvret, I commented under your last posting, in reference to what I termed the 'pyromaniacs' in the Jersey 'Establishment' who seem wholly determined to immolate themselves, and take the rest of us with them.
I see the information that had been 'doing the rounds' during the last couple of weeks was correct.
Oh for God's sake!
Just how much more petrol do William Bailhache, Tim Le Cocq and Emma Martins etc. intend to add to the inferno?
I know a significant number of my Jersey conservative contacts read this blog avidly, even though not being allied to you Mr Syvret. Let me say to them that this has gone far enough. William Bailhache must go, or be made to go, and go now.
I'm more and more firmly of the view that if this plainly unwell man, whose judgment has been so catastrophically bad during the last five years, is not 'found' a 'reason' to 'retire' in the next few weeks, then a 'reason' for his departure will be found by others. An outcome that can only amplify yet further and more dramatically, the damage and harm to Jersey.
Anyone even vaguely in touch with Jersey legal or political circles knows perfectly well that the war that has been pursued against any form of effective 'opposition', and against Mr Power, and against Mr. Syvret has had William Bailhache as the central driver.
The man is finished. If he does not go, it can only be a matter of time, and perhaps not very much time at that, before open expressions of no confidence in him begin emerging from conservative circles.
Let those with an interest in Jersey's respectability, stability and prosperity recognise a very plain fact: there can be no 'closure' on these controversies, no 'line drawn under them', no 'moving on', and no 'healing' for as long as William Bailhache remains in any public Office.
If he himself seriously imagines that it is possible for a man to act in Office as he has done these last five years, and for there to be no consequences for him, and for him to remain in post, then he is even more mentally ill than appears.
Stuart.
Blog TV RE-LAUNCH
In affirmation of the comment yesterday by Anonymous at 23:50, it does help to complain to BBC, even when they appear to ignore you. The record of complaints is important to establish for the sake of maintaining an accurate historical account.
BBC Jersey's complicity in the covering up of matters pertaining to Jersey's long and tragic institutionalized abuse of children will be at the forefront of future accounts of Jersey's history.
As a separate side issue, the complicity of the media and State attempts to control free speech will remain of interest to outsiders even after the original scandal of abuse itself has been thoroughly exposed and put to rest, just as the complicity of institutions in Nazi Germany will always be an important source of study in Western democracies.
MURDER MOST FOUL
Stuart, I know it's been a long hard battle for you, and the personal sacrifices you've had to make are very big but I want you to know that there are some Jersey people who recognize and appreciate your efforts.
Most of us are too frightened to speak out openly, but we're praying, and we know you and the other bloggers will win in the end because Britain is a decent country, and goodness always wins, like Hillsborough, although it can take a long time.
If it's any consolation, the stand you made throughout your time in politics has brought about the situation in which the Bailhache Brothers have become the historic cause of the end of the system they stole for their own ends and did so many bad and mad things to maintain.
I hope you get some personal happiness as a reward for your efforts.
Hmmm, seems to me this blog has had over 700 pageviews today?
Whatever is going on, whatever the establishment are doing against you now, it didn't work, did it?
It's been a while since I saw that wise saying about the Jersey establishment, "never underestimate the stupidity of the Jersey oligarchy."
You know, these people are not acting "in my name" as I'd never condone such corrupt and anti-democratic conduct, but I almost resent even more paying for such sheer stupidity. At least most tyrants and oligarchs around the world seem to be cunning in an evil way. Our lot are just obviously twots.
I'd hope for a better standard of despot.
I once read a reworked version of "The Emperor's New Clothes" which claimed to more accurately represent what would have really happened.
In the new version, the boy still pointed out that the emperor was naked but the crowds did not start laughing - they simply tut-tutted as the emperor's guards arrested the boy and took him away for interrogation and psychiatric assessment to see why he could not see the emperor's magnificent new clothes.
I can't remember if the boy eventually admitted that he thought the clothes were gorgeous or whether he was banged up in the loony bin for life.
Lawyers of "STEAL!"
Stuart, an entertainingly desperate and fearful leader comment in the Jersey Evening Post today. They think their readers are morons. They claim that the bloggers have produced no evidence and just lie. But the truth is the opposite, the JEP produces no evidence at all to back that claim, and on the contrary, bloggers like you, Rico Sorda and Voice For Children have published dozens of articles that include actual documentary evidence. Absolute screeds of it.
Will you be responding?
Yes, I will be responding. Perhaps tonight - maybe later.
We have the indulgence of taking our own good time; something that accrues to those who have already won.
Stuart
You have won on the basis of evidence and on the presumption that any impartial observer will see the truth in what you and your fellow independent investigative bloggers in Jersey have presented. There really is no "other side" and to the degree people are willing and able to understand that, your evidence has already acquitted you of anything but acting in the public interest for justice. Absolutely nothing they do from within Jersey can change the facts already in the public domain. The best they can hope to do to you now is to keep a large number of Islanders disinterested in knowing what is truly going on around them, but truth has a way of invading even the minds of the willfully ignorant.
You have won on the basis of evidence and on the presumption that any impartial observer will see the truth in what you and your fellow independent investigative bloggers in Jersey have presented. There really is no "other side" and to the degree people are willing and able to understand that, your evidence has already acquitted you of anything but acting in the public interest for justice. Absolutely nothing they do from within Jersey can change the facts already in the public domain. The best they can hope to do to you now is to keep a large number of Islanders disinterested in knowing what is truly going on around them, but truth has a way of invading even the minds of the willfully ignorant.
Sorry, but I had to leave this on the Rag.... I laughed my head off at their comment today..
Hello hello... The JEP is running scared. Thing is, the blogs HAVE posted the proof - and if you guys did your jobs properly, instead of doing what Uncle Phil demands, this whole mess would have been cleared up ages ago.
Seriously, this comment from the JEP is like the Iraq Information Minister complaing about the noise of tanks....
I note that the JEP have added to the evidence file.
The Jersey Evening Post takes on John Hemming & THE JERSEY BLOGGERS :)
Stuart, looking beyond this recent twitching of the Jersey oligarchy corpse, so to speak, and focusing on the important, have you and the others given detailed thought to what form the UK intervention takes? You'll have enough political nous to realise they have to have some kind of 'face-saving', realistic method of fixing things. It has been more than obvious to the powers-that-be in London (and observers wider a-field) for some time now that the boil had to be lanced. London will need to find a path that will satisfy you and other victims of Jersey's mafia, but which won't 'upset the apple-cart' too much in terms of 'reputation' and 'instability' etc.
It's all about just finding the 'right' actions and outcomes now. As soon as that's been 'settled', even if tacitly, between London and the victims of Jersey's criminality, it will be all systems go.
Pip pip.
Re: 10:00 BST comment
I do not see any evidence the UK intervention is likely at this point. If it does take place, I believe it will be in response to a humiliating international journalistic exposure of UK complicity and media complicity going back over a long period of time. If there is no truly international scandal, the UK will hope P.B. can maintain his proper surface appearance and cover it all back up.
I do hope you are right, however. That would be a major win for democracy and justice, as well as free speech.
Oh that depends on what you mean by intervention! There's intervention, then there's "intervention". And of course you won't "see" any evidence of it. Come, come, this is the 'Firm' at work. And I can certainly assure you of one thing, Philip Bailhache is not any source of "hope" to London. On the contrary, he's been recognised as a dangerous maverick and a very significant "problem" for quite some time now. Think Apocalypse Now, with London pondering how best to discharge the "mission" to send someone "up the river", as it were, to halt the "gone-native" lunatic Colonel Kurtz.
There are still a few senior figures in the London establishment who haven't received the "message" yet, in respect of the Bailhache Brothers and their attendant cult, and who still labour under the misapprehension that they are supportable. They are rapidly becoming disabused of that notion!
But of course you are quite right about the international media consideration. It was always that looming danger that was going to eventually force London's hand. Well, let's be realistic, politics was always driven by such practical imperatives.
Pip pip.
Mr Syvret, whilst I'm reasured to learn from your well-informed London reader that the Bailhaches are now recognised as the problem, and that the "intervention", when it happens, will be of an appropriate kind, I wonder if it is recognised just how so very very badly polluted and compromised certain individuals on the English bench are?
I'm afraid it was perhaps always an inevitability of permitting things to get so out of control in a small parallel legal environment as Jersey, one with so much money available, and one so dominated to such an unhealthy degree by its legal profession, that contagion of corruption would spread into English judicial circles. I hope London has recognised that phenomena, and has an appropriately discreet - but firm - means of ending it? All good things must pass, after all.
That game has run its course.
Best accept it, and end the danger.
"But of course you are quite right about the international media consideration. It was always that looming danger that was going to eventually force London's hand. Well, let's be realistic, politics was always driven by such practical imperatives."
The internet has brought about a surprisingly strong degree of international exposure and a growing awareness of Jersey's sinister opposition to Islander free speech in the greater public interest. all international readers can simply read the evidenced facts and see that Jersey is hiding a great many dirty things under the carpet. The JEP's State sponsored editorializing reaches almost none of those readers, so there really isn't much outside voice they can use on behalf of the cover up.
In the end, the greatest international press exposure will probably come not from her book itself, but from Leah McGrath Goodman's banning. The foreign investigative journalism fraternity typically embraces stories concerning the sensational victimization of their own kind. In creating a dramatic scandal within a child abuse scandal they were hardly keeping a lid on, Jersey and a complicit UK have outdone themselves with stupidity by banning her. I feel relatively confident that story will expose the rest.
Stuart.
Relaunched with A CHALLENGE
Question: How many of the Jersey judiciary does it take to change a light bulb?
Answer: None
They like it shady.
Nice piece in the Daily Mail today under the Comment (pg14), section Freedom to offend, last paragraph:
"Yes, the trolls are loathsome. But if we prosecute them, it could be the start of a slippery slope towards persecuting people who hold legitimate views which the authorities do not necessarily agree with"
They forgot to add, like Jersey have just done!
JEP Page 5 22 September 2012
Minister at party conference.
JERSEY'S Assistant Chief Minister, Senator Philip Bailhache, is attending his first party conference in the UK next week when he represents the Island at the Liberal Democrat conference.
The event being held in Brighton from tomorrow until Tuesday, will be attended by delegates from within the political party as well as representatives of charities, the private sector, political organisations and other jurisdictions, including Jersey and Guernsey.
It is the second year running that Jersey has attended UK party conferences and will be followed by the visit of Chief Minister Ian Gorst to the Labour Party conference on 1 and 2 October in Manchester.
Assistant Chief Minister Senator Paul Routier and Treasury Minister Philip Ozouf will attend the Conservative Party conference between 7 and 9 October in Birmingham.
Senator Bailhache said: 'This will be the first party conference that I have attended and I look forward to using the opportunity to engage with prominent UK politicians on issues that affect both our governments.
''The UK is our most significant economic partner and it is therefore important that Jersey maintains an open dialogue with the coalition parties.'
from JEP Page 4 22 Sept 2012 This small section from todays piece Swearing-in of a new Jurat continues a family traditon, peeked my interest in looking for clues as to Jurat qualifications or selection criteria. No offence intended on Mr Blampied I know nothing of him.
Bailiff Sir Michael Birt welcomed everyone, including Lieutenant-Governor;General Sir John McColl and Lady McColl, and congratulated Jurat Blampied and his wife, Louise, who he said shared the honour of his appointment. ''You come to this office well qualified,' said Sir Michael. 'After school and university you qualified as a chartered accountant in London before returning to Jersey in 1976 and joining the practice of Coopers and Lybrand in Jersey.
'You specialised in the provision of trustee services and moved to the independent company of Abacus when that demerged from Coopers and Lybrand.'
Evidence
He continued: 'You were the director of Abacus responsible for the Esteem Trust, which was one of the leading trust cases in recent times. You gave evidence over several days and no doubt you will be able to give us some useful tips on the administration of justice as seen from a consumer's point of view.
'You also have previous judicial experience in that you have sat as a Commissioner of appeal in relation to income tax for six years.'
After taking the oath of office and shaking hands with senior members of the court, Jurat Blampied said that he felt 'humbled' to have been appointed by the Electoral College.
Jersey Record Broken!!!
Only seven months to get a complaint filed against BRIDGET SHAW alleged magistrate.
I'll do a new posting tomorrow; one in which we'll be taking a look at why the Jersey oligarchy and its media can only pretend that the evidence is on their side, and how the destiny of such pretense is the death of legitimacy - meaning the death of the public's faith in the Jersey system and its media.
Happily, that inevitable public awakening is accelerated by every deafening silence of the BBC and every plainly untrue editorial leader comment in the Jersey Evening Post.
In passing, it worth noting that today is the first anniversary of the day the BBC were given a copy of the interim statement of Jersey's former Police Chief Graham Power. That they never reported a word of it, is a fracture in the foundations of the organisation.
Stuart
Jack Straw, Guardian report 22/09/2012. This deeply flawed and disturbed self absorbed man should never been in the position of power he held. His own dis-functionality clearly clouded his judgement and prevented so many victims their justice. Selfish, selfish man trying to get our sympathy.
Couple questions
1. Where is the church on the COI, they have been very quiet. Seems odd as you would expect them to be standing 'should to shoulder' with the abuse survivors and demanding a full and open terms of reference.
2. Will the Bailiff, Deputy Bailiff + Sir Philip be standing arise during proceedings in the House during the COI debate as they are all conflicted. If not what excuse will they use to 'be involved'.
3. If it is found that Sir Philip has been involved in torpedoing the TOR's, despite him being conflicted should he face a vote of 'censure'?
Keep the faith
http://ricosorda.blogspot.com/2012/09/john-hemming-jep-and-bloggers-challenge.html
My Challenge to the Jersey Evening Post
Stuart.
Is there anything at all you can do besides-to wait until their freefall finally hits the ground?
Ex-Prime Minister Heath used his yacht, the Morning Cloud, to travel to Jersey.
In 1971 that yacht was sold to Stewart Benest, from Jersey.
We have the Benest-Syvret legal firm in Jersey.
You yourself are a Syvret from Jersey. And an ex-polly to boot.
It is claimed that Heath used his yacht to get to Jersey in order to access children supplied by Savile.
Wheels within wheels. And then of course there is the then-prosecutor now Supreme Court Judge Leask whom earlier defended William Benest and now acquits Hells Angels while using profanity in the court room.
Sure, the links are tenuous. But there are in fact real links between Jersey/Heath/Savile/Benest and Syvret, and they are often circular.
How often do you talk to your elders about these matters?
Let's take a look at the comment above.
Edward Heath may have brought his yacht, Morning Cloud, to Jersey. Personally, I don't know for sure.
It was, apparently, sold to a William Benest - who, until this comment, I had never heard of.
I've no idea if the said William Benest had any involvement with the law-firm Benest & Syvret.
There are actually quite a number of Benests in Jersey - just as there are quite a number of Syvrets.
So far as I'm aware, I'm not directly related to the lawyer Ken Syvret (now semi-retired) and his son Philip Syvret, who is now a partner in the firm, but - this being Jersey - it wouldn't be a surprise if I was distantly related.
I have no contact with either man - nor, for that matter, any regular contact with any Syvrets, with the exception of the marine biologist Andrew.
I have no idea what is meant by "ex-polly"? Politician, maybe?
So - what point is the commenter trying to make?
That I am a part of some traditional Jersey clan?
Well, I don't have "elders" - and I'm not a part of any kind of clan, tribe, or secret-society, such as Masons, etc. I do not have any hidden agendas, and never have had.
The commenter than goes on to state, "It is claimed that Heath used his yacht to get to Jersey in order to access children supplied by Savile."
Yes - it is "claimed" that that occurred. I too have heard such "claims", from various sources. But they're not claims I have made - because no-one has ever come to me and said they were abused by Ted Heath, nor that they witnessed such abuse.
It's very easy to state that X or Y is "claimed" - without having seen evidence - or spoken first-hand to witnesses.
That, of course, does not necessarily mean the claims concerning Heath are untrue; all I'm saying is that I, personally, have seen no evidence for them.
Let me say right now - if anyone out there was abused by Ted Heath - or you know first-hand any such victims - or you have access to other evidence - do, by all means, contact me at st.syvret@gmail.com - I'll do all I can to assist the exposing of the truth.
But I'm afraid in general terms, the comment has all the hall-marks of irrational,falsely-associative, empty Ickeien conspiracy-theory.
Stuart
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