INDEX
1) Affidavit by Mary Israel for
2) Institutional
Corruption & Human Rights Violations – Mary Hutchinson Women’s Prison,
3) Corruption
& Human Rights Violations - Police & Prison
4) Report on
5) To:
Tasmanian Government & Criminal Justice System about Human Rights Abuses
and Corruption - September to December 2004
6)
7) The United Nations Conference on Human Rights -
8) To: United Nations Human Rights Commission - 11th September 2002
9) Warning to
10) Submission to the Fitzgerald Enquiry into Institutional Corruption
in
11) Warning to NSW Government – February 1985
12) Warning to ACT Government – February 1884
13) Extract on Judges,
Magistrates, Lawyers & the Courts
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1) Affidavit by Mary Israel for
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF
No. of 200
Between Mary Israel
(Defendant) and the Tasmanian Director of Public Prosecutions
AFFIDAVIT BY
I, Mary ISRAEL of the
Mary Hutchinson Women’s Prison at Risdon Vale in the State of Tasmania do make
oath and say as follows:-
1. I am the
defendant in these proceedings.
2. I am 66 years old
and was born on the 15th January 1943 in
3. I am a British
subject with Australian residency since 1953.
4. I am married to
Michael Israel and we have six (6) adult children although our son Elijah died
tragically at 28 years of age on 6th November last year 2008.
5. I am normally
paid a Disability Age Pension by Centrelink and my
husband Michael Israel is paid a Carer’s Payment & Allowance as my full
time Carer.
6. I am a deeply
devout Christian woman, wife, mother, grandmother, prophetess & missionary.
7. I have no history
of alcohol or drug abuse and am totally committed to non-violence.
8. I am presently on
remand for the charges of Child Abduction, Aggravated Burglary, Failure to Appear (2) and Trespass.
9. I filled in a form at the prison nearly three
months ago to see a Legal Aid lawyer but none was produced. I no longer wish to
be legally represented in these proceedings by counsel as my prior experiences
with the private legal profession and Legal Aid Office here in
10. I have now spent a
total of nearly (6) months in custody un-sentenced and un-convicted, three (3)
months on remand until bailed by the Supreme Court late in 2004 and again in
custody this year on remand for a further two and a half months since the 27th
March 2009.
11. My physical and
emotional health have
both been
seriously compromised and have deteriorated significantly due to the constant stress placed upon me in
prison each and every day (see 12. below), in addition to the huge distress,
grief and shock I am still experiencing from the recent death of my son Elijah.
My blood pressure, which is normally low (but healthy, with a resting pulse of
60 or less) has risen markedly, I have great
difficulty sleeping, I have nightmares every night, suffer from constant
anxiety and I experience intermittent dizziness and see spots and “swirls” in
front of my eyes. Although the prison nurse has given me a course of tablets
for an inner ear virus, the problem is not physiological but an understandable
reaction to the violence of the environment.
12. I am severely
traumatised as a
consequence of my continued
mistreatment
over the past 3 months in the Mary
Hutchinson Women’s Prison, experiences that have been fully documented by my
husband Michael in reports and regular updates sent to the Minister’s office
and otherwise widely circulated by post and e-mail. For easy access, details
including my similar horrying experiences in 2004 in
the Risdon Women’s Prison & jail hospital have also been posted on his
internet web site :
www.geocities.com/michael_the_one/corruption
For 22 weeks I have been shamefully mistreated, harassed and literally tormented by staff and by
fellow inmates alike, constantly exposed to the noise of screaming, shouting and
swearing by inmates and staff, victimised, discriminated against, punished for my beliefs,
systematically lied to, threatened (by staff and inmates) and effectively kept
in solitary confinement for much of the past 10 weeks since my arrest on 27th
March, with very limited access to fresh air and exercise. Despite prior
warnings and threats of actual violence by inmate Kristen Poole in the presence
of staff, my safety was subsequently jeopardized by the prison management and I
was predictably assaulted by her. Following this I was taken to
I get no peace whatsoever and none of this is legal, none do I deserve
and most is certainly in breach of the International Covenant on Civil &
Political Rights (ICCPR) to which
That the Tasmanian Department of Corrective Services could so dishonestly
claim in its printed induction and promotional material that they are striving
to make the prison “a safe and secure environment where prisoners will be
rehabilitated” is deliberate deceit and empty public posturing. In fact it
would be hard to imagine or design a better environment in which to place
prisoners so that most of them would be guaranteed to re-offend upon release!
Rehabilitation is entirely theoretical and almost non-existent and the
buildings and other physical resources are not the problem. Rather it is the
almost complete absence of any appropriate rehabilitation programs, the total
lack of anything useful, productive, interesting, educational and active to do
every day as well as the disgraceful staff culture of laziness, dishonesty,
provocation, impropriety and real violence. All of this results in the
scandalous waste of $60,000 of public money per inmate, per annum as well as
peoples’ lives.
13. I recently spoke to Sean Wheeler, the
new/replacement/relieving manager of the Mary Hutchinson Women’s Prison, about
my situation and he frankly admitted that the prison could not guarantee my
safety. He also said that there was nowhere else within the prison suitable to
house me on protection despite the facility being effectively brand new. I should never be obliged to tolerate being
held in close physical proximity to the worst inmates in the prison yet a
number of highly intimidating inmates have had and still have) unrestricted
access to me whenever my cell door is open during the day. Nowhere else in
Australia are the safety and well-being of inmates needing any form of special
protection put in such deliberate jeopardy by management and the simple truth is
that the Tasmanian Department of Corrective Services has unmistakably shown itself to be unable (or unwilling) to discharge its reasonable duty of care towards
myself as a remand inmate of my age, state of health and emotional disposition.
14. I have unwaveringly maintained my innocence
for the past four and a half years and the actual circumstances that gave rise to the
alleged charges of Child Abduction & Aggravated Burglary compellingly
support my position. Details of these events have been supplied to the police
prosecution, widely distributed
throughout
To be specific about the events that gave rise to the charges, late in
September 2004 I met my husband down in
A day or so later, on the day of the alleged offences, I decided to head
towards the west coast intending to travel on my own up to Devonport so as to
leave
I hitchhiked, was given 3 lifts up to New Norfolk and later in the day I
met some local ‘Christians’ near who knew David & Fiona Fullarton.
They spontaneously offered to give me a lift to the Centre which I accepted and
I was driven up the long property driveway and dropped right outside the glass
door of David & Fiona’s cottage. I knocked and when no-one answered, I went
around the house knocking on all the windows as well. No-one seemed to be at
home and, as I desperately needed to use the bathroom, I let myself in as the
door was not locked. I believed that if they were genuine Christians, they
would not mind this. I then spent perhaps 30 minutes in the house using the
bathroom and then waiting for someone to return so I could find out exactly
where Cameron & Chantal were staying in this large complex. Finally I
decided to leave and as I was on my way out of the house, I heard a baby and
went to investigate. One of the bedrooms had a cot in it but except for the
cot, the room did not look at all like a proper child’s bedroom. It took me
some time to actually find the Fullarton’s daughter
Rebecca buried underneath all her bed covers but I picked her up and finding
her nappy saturated, looked around for a replacement as well as a change of
clothing. This was not easy because of the appalling mess,
I was finally able to find a fresh nappy but could not find any clean clothing.
I was most upset that a small baby girl should be left alone in a house
by herself and immediately phoned my husband on his mobile phone from the house
landline, asking where Rebecca’s parents might be. Due to our disagreement, my
husband had only briefly described to me his previous contact with David &
Fiona Fullarton and their 2 children, just a little
about his concerns about the state of their house and the deplorable standard
of child care for their small son and baby daughter. I asked Michael to call
the Child Protection authorities and he agreed and hung up after expressing his
concerns at me being in the house. A little later Michael called me back saying
that he had spoken to a Cindy on the Child Protection line but all they could
suggest was to try to find Rebecca’s parents. No doubt all these phone calls
are on record and could have been readily checked by the prosecution: my call
to Michael from the house and his calls to Child Protection and return call to
me using the landline in the office where he is/was staying, made in the presence
of the owner of the Portsea Terraces business, Ian
Burrows.
Michael then suggested that I might find David & Fiona Fullarton up the hill towards the back of the property at
the workshop and/or Oast houses, in the opposite
direction to the driveway, away from the front gate and the road. I decided to
try to find David or Fiona, return Rebecca to them and express my disgust at
them leaving a small baby alone in the house. I know that Michael assumed at
the time that I would go alone but my maternal instincts would not allow me to
leave Rebecca alone in the house. So I walked up the hill carrying her in my
arms, heading in the direction that Michael had suggested. I could not carry my
own bag as well as Rececca so I left it with all my
possessions, money and ID in it, at the house.
A considerable distance from the house, I came upon David Fullarton standing near his small son who was playing in
the dust. Seeing me, David immediately came over and said, “Mary Israel, you’ve
kidnapped my baby”, he grabbed Rebecca roughly from me and I made no attempt to
resist him. The fact that David Fullarton knew my
name took me by surprise because I had never met him nor spoken to him before.
David headed back towards the house, leaving his son still sitting there, abandoned
alone in the company of someone that he had just accused of trying to abduct
his daughter!
I was quite troubled about David’s disturbing and even bizarre behaviour so I decided to leave. I followed David down to
the house, collected my things, walked slowly down the driveway and left as I
had no idea where to find Cameron & Chantal. I hitch-hiked and was
miraculously given a lift almost immediately by a man in his 30’s who was on
holidays in Tasmania - he was driving a small white hire car up to Devonport to
catch the ferry back to the mainland that day. I was too exhausted to go far and so
got out of the car at Ouse where I stayed the night. I was arrested the following day while checking my e-mails at the local internet
café.
In essence all I was trying to do - and this is easily proved - was
comfort, change the saturated nappy of and return an apparently abandoned baby
Rebecca to her notably absent father and/or mother. I never had any intention
of depriving Rebecca’s parents of their daughter and no-one intent on abduct a
child rings her husband to ask him to ring Child Protection, enquires where the
absent parents might be, leaves all her things at the house and then walks away
from the house in the opposite direction of the front gate and road, towards
the back of the property where the parents are likely to be. It is fanciful to
suggest otherwise.
15. David Fullarton
told police (and apparently also told Cameron & Chantal Shalice)
that there was a baby monitor in Rebecca’s bedroom, something of which I saw no
evidence. For my husband Michael’s dealings and conversations with Cameron and
Chantal Shalice, again I refer to his own affidavit.
As I had made quite a lot of noise whilst in the house, using the bathroom,
talking openly to Rebecca in her room and also on the phone to my husband, the
baby monitor is most likely an after-the-fact fabrication by the Fullartons to make it appear that they were responsible
parents! If there was a baby monitor, no-one was listening to it and had not
been doing so for a considerable time. I also arrived at the house by car yet
seemingly no-one noticed or heard me – so much for proper child supervision!
16. Police were then, as now, highly
adversarial, biased and completely uninterested in the simple truth of what actually
happened, merely eager to charge and prosecute me based solely on false
misinformation provided by the two complainants, David and Fiona
Fullerton. They failed to investigate
the incident thoroughly with due diligence, have ignored or shown no interest
in any of the abundantly available facts that easily prove the innocence of my
intent and to the best of my knowledge have not even asked my husband, his landlord Ian
Burrows or the Child Protection authorities to make a statement.
With my initial interrogation, police insisted for some hours on
recording an interview despite me being exhausted and greatly in need of sleep
and my repeated refusals to say anything on the advice of the lawyer my husband
& I had contacted, Roland Browne. Roland Browne reluctantly spoke to me
briefly for only a few minutes by phone that evening at the police station but
did no more.
Even after four and a half years and despite the abundant evidence that
there is no substance whatsoever to the absurd charges of Child Abduction and
Aggravated Burglary, police
are fully determined to proceed with what I reasonably consider constitutes a malicious and vexatious prosecution that has
no basis in fact. I see this as a covert intention to illegally impose a ‘de
facto’ term of imprisonment on me, at very least keeping me in custody for as
long as possible until the charges are withdrawn, are substantially reduced to
a lesser charge that actually reflects legal reality (such as “Entering”, for
example) or defeated at a hearing. The charge of Aggravated Burglary in itself
requires a clear intention that is patently lacking in this case.
17. Two days before I was finally
bailed by the Supreme Court late in 2004, my husband Michael with great
reluctance urgently left the country to fly to
However I at no stage had the intention of staying away
permanently despite being disgusted and deeply disillusioned with my shameful
mistreatment by the criminal justice system here in
18. As to issues of my fitness to plead,
I have been repeatedly assessed by mental health professionals in several
states of
19. My husband & I
met with Department of Justice Forensic Psychiatrist David Parker at the prison
on the 8th June in order to complete a fitness to plead assessment.
At the conclusion of this, David Parker indicated that the assessment would
hopefully be ready by Friday 19th June and that he would probably be
concluding that I was fit to plead.
20. At the recent court hearing presided over by
Magistrate M.R. Hill on the 3rd June at the Hobart Central Courts, it was my
intention to plead guilty to the 2 minor charges of Trespass & the
associated charge of Failure to Appear. However I was not given an opportunity
to do so, my husband Michael was not allowed to speak on my behalf in
accordance with my clearly expressed wishes, the proceedings were rushed and
none of my concerns were dealt with in a careful, considered and just way. I
was dragged weeping from the court in great distress.
21. It is not unfair
to say that my husband & I have shown admirable restraint under all the
circumstances and that some police in this state, colluding with corrupt and
vindictive police in other jurisdictions, have effectively tried their best to
demonise me as a criminal for reasons that have nothing whatsoever to do with
my guilt or innocence. I see this as a typical example of the behaviour
of guilty hypocrites - they "strain at a gnat (make a great fuss about
minor misdemeanors by other people) and swallow a camel" (overlook major
impropriety and illegality of their own and their colleagues).
22. In view of the
complexity of this case, it is not possible for me to prepare and present a
proper defence to these charges whilst in custody.
23. There have been
extended delays in bringing these matters down from Launceston to Hobart and
several further adjournments in the Hobart Magistrates Court before my charges
were at last remanded (back) to the Supreme Court. I believe these delays to be
unnecessary and excessive.
24. I believe that I
have been unfairly and unjustly dealt with already and to spend any further
time in custody would be a blatant miscarriage of justice. In fact to this date I have effectively
served approximately 22 weeks on remand in total, the equivalent of a nine (9)
month prison sentence, and this could reasonably be seen to be more than any
penalty imposed in the highly unlikely event that I was convicted of any or all
of these charges.
25. I contend that to
continue the prosecution of the Child Abduction & Aggravated Burglary charges
serves no useful purpose whatsoever, is not in the public interest, is harsh,
unfair and unjust and could
even be
seen to constitute a deliberate conspiracy to obstruct and pervert the course of justice.
26. I respectfully
request that the court admit me to bail and I submit that most exceptional
mitigating factors and extenuating circumstances exist to justify a further
grant of bail in this case. If this is granted, I would reside with my husband
Michael Israel at 54
All the facts and circumstances deposed to in
this my affidavit are within my own knowledge and belief, except for the facts
and circumstances deposed to from information only, and my means of knowledge
and sources of information appear on the face of this my affidavit.
SWORN BY THE ABOVENAMED
DEPONENT
AT
DEPONENT
ON THIS DAY OF
JUNE 2009
BEFORE ME ………………………………………..
JUSTICE OF THE PEACE
2) Corruption & Human Rights Violations –
(Written as a series of reports & updates
April to June 2009)
Mary Hutchinson Women’s Prison,
Hobart - The Case of Mary Israel Friday 17th April 2009
The background
to the case of my 66 year old wife Mary Israel is detailed in the various
documents below on this web page, especially section 3) To Tasmanian Government & Criminal Justice System about Human
Rights Abuses and Corruption - September to December 2004.
Finally, after Mary had spent 3 months on
remand being effectively tortured in Risdon Prison late in 2004, the Supreme
Court here in
Mary only returned and came to the notice of
police late in March three weeks ago - she was arrested again in Devonport on
the same ludicrous outstanding warrants for Child Abduction and Aggravated
Burglary. Mary appeared unrepresented in the
In the ensuing 5 years, Tasmanian police have
failed to come to their senses, admit that they made a huge mistake, behave in
a decent, adult, lawful and humane manner and drop the charges or at very least
reduce them to something that actually reflected reality – say “Entering”.
Rather they are prepared to maliciously and vexatiously proceed with a
prosecution that has no basis in fact.
So Mary, who has not actually committed a
crime, is once again being held in prison, now in Cell 10 in the Wellington
Unit of the new Mary Hutchinson Women's Prison here in Hobart where exactly the
same issues exist as are exhaustively detailed in the above mentioned reports
written over 4 years ago. Despite Mary being already in huge distress, grief
and shock from the recent death of our son Elijah, she is once again being
victimised, threatened (by staff and inmates), discriminated against, punished
for her beliefs, assaulted by an inmate (aided and abetted by staff) and has
now effectively been kept in solitary confinement since her reception on 1st
April. In the first 2 weeks she was allowed out of her cell for only 5 minutes
each day, in order to make some coffee, when the other 2 young, violent inmates
in the unit were locked away.
This illegal and cruel confinement was/is a
consequence of the prison staff and management refusing to allow Mary, an un-sentenced
and un-convicted inmate, to wear her own clothing in accordance with provisions
of their own prison regulations. As usual their explanations and justifications
for not allowing remand inmates to wear their own clothing, irrespective of the
inmates’ sincerity and depth of Faith, are, under close examination, palpably
false and yet another excuse for a lack of due diligence with supervision and
detail! There are after all only 30 females in the Mary Hutchinson Women's
Prison in total, of whom only a few are on remand, and now only 3, including
Mary in the Wellington Unit!
Mary spent the first 10 days in prison,
barefoot, wrapped in a sheet and forced to sleep naked at night until the
Chaplain Ross Duncan brought her in a night dress (which staff also initially
refused to allow her to wear). Being confined to her cell for 23 hours and 55
minutes a day, Mary was unable to exercise and use the main yard and so was
denied access to the phone system there to ring anyone on her phone account.
For the first week no-one told her about or bothered to unlock the door to her
own private and secure yard. She was also prevented from coming to my first 2
visits, at the first one staff lied and told me that she refused to see me,
then told Mary that I didn’t turn up! Twisted depravity!
Mary has not been able to use the main unit
yard because of the continual threats of the only other 2 inmates, Kristen
Poole and Anna Walker. There is another inmate nearby, Sue Johns who has been
locked down in the DU at the far end of the unit behind a glass door. This is
precisely where Kristen, whose behaviour is pathologically deeply disturbed and
quite schizophrenic, was kept before Mary arrived and where she has now been
returned to following her vicious assault of Mary – see below. In fact it is
not incipient paranoia to see that Kristen was moved out of the Lock-Up area
close to Mary’s cell by staff to cause her maximum distress and disruption and
for the very purpose of tormenting and assaulting Mary.
Since the assault Kristen has not been
punished in any way whatsoever, rather the staff go out of their way to be
pleasant and friendly to her and she is being rewarded with extra privileges
like having lunch in the main yard. Prison management actually lied to the
Minister’s office saying that Mary & I wished to press charges with the
police – in this case the prison do not charge the inmate internally. In fact
Mary & I at the Hobart Hospital on Monday made it clear that we were not
interested in making a formal complaint to police – a total waste of time in
such a completely corrupt jurisdiction – and Mary has signed a form to this
effect confirming our position days ago witnessed by Richard, head of prison
security.
Kristen marauded around the unit from
Kristen, who is allowed free access to the
entire unit, should be locked up, especially after her violence at the visit
last Saturday 11th, and her subsequent unprovoked assault on Mary (see below).
Mary, who is locked up, should be allowed free access to the unit and granted
extra privileges! Mary’s 3 written requests to Manager Craig Hughes to be moved
were not even acknowledged, let alone responded to, and Mary is effectively
being punished by staff for standing up for her rights as a Christian woman and
for speaking the truth openly and honestly. This behaviour in itself is a form
of illegal torture totally against provisions of the UN charter on human rights
which the government and public service of
Typical of all prison environments, unselfish,
considerate, kind, responsible, non-drug addicted and non-violent inmates are
always disadvantaged and targeted and the worst inmates rewarded, favoured and
indulged. There is no real supervision and no limits set for violent and/or
anti-social behaviour (even in
On our first permitted visit on Saturday 11th
April, Mary & I were refused the contact visit I believed had been approved
so we were obliged to use the non-contact visiting area. The reason for this
decision by staff soon became obvious! Mary was locked in with Kristen in the
adjacent booth with no protection or physical separation whatsoever despite
Kristen having previously repeatedly threatened to harm her in front of staff.
Not only had Kristen not been punished or even reprimanded for her previous
threats, she was now given a wonderful opportunity to be violent and encouraged
to do this by staff clearly incensed at the truth Mary had written and spoken
about their own illicit, violent, lazy, immoral behaviour and negligence (which
is considerable).
In view of historical experience and
subsequent events, it would be naïve, even simple-minded, to not see that
Officer Margaret Mary, with the full support and connivance of senior
management who probably put her up to it in the first place, had deliberately
set up this inflammatory situation most likely to end in conflict. Mary told me
that Officer Margaret Mary “had it in for me” from the moment she arrived. This
not untypical behaviour in custodial establishments in itself constitutes
criminal conduct as well as a serious breach or failure in their duty of care!
Officer Margaret Mary herself clearly has major unresolved emotional issues of
her own and improperly introduces her own personal biases and religious
delusions into her professional responsibilities. This renders her totally
unsuitable to be left in charge of defenceless inmates, anytime, ever, and she
is certainly not alone in this amongst other male and female staff!
I in turn was put on the other side of the
glass screen in the non-contact section in the booth next to Kristen’s mother.
This female is of course at least 50% responsible for her daughter’s violence
and offending and for the obvious deprivation, neglect, abuse and violation of
Kristen’s own unfortunate small son who was also there with his grandmother,
naked and running around unrestrained. Both Kristen and her mother made a huge
amount of noise with no consideration for us (and with no intervention by
conspicuously absent staff!) but we tolerated this and said nothing. Their
visit, which began before our own, was allowed to go well over time, no doubt
to spoil our visit, provoke us as much as possible and hopefully cause an incident.
This would then be no doubt misused to obstruct or deny our own future visiting
privileges – we know the games, we’ve been around corruption for over 30 years!
At the end of their visit, Kristen suddenly
turned like a dog on Mary and I in full view and hearing of staff, came over,
stood right over Mary and threatened to slit her throat and have me killed by
friends “outside”. Typical of guilt ridden parasites with a huge amount of rage
and pain from their own abusive childhoods, Kristen tried to demonise Mary and
myself to justify her violence towards a 66 year old non-violent Christian
woman three times her age. She accused us of being “Tamps”, an accurate
description of her own and her parents’ behaviour, probably based on rumours
and misinformation supplied to her by staff. Kristen then tried to assault Mary
while the 2 staff members, Graeme and Billie-Jean came slowly in and
ineffectually pretended to restrain one short young female. Despite their
pathetic efforts, Kristen “managed” to throw a bottle of fluid at me which hit
the glass screen in front of Mary’s face. Of course nothing was subsequently
done to Kristen, no charges or punishment, rather she was rewarded for her
conduct by staff and was intentionally given a perfect opportunity to assault Mary
2 days later on Monday 13th, an opportunity that she took full advantage of.
On Monday morning the 13th April, Officer
Margaret Mary denied Mary access to her own private and secure yard where Mary
spends time every day for the first time. When Mary asked to see the
supervisor, Anne-Marie Koppleman about being allowed yard access, Margaret Mary
refused and virtually forced Mary to go out into the main yard where Kristen
and Anna Walker were marauding around as usual. Both inmates immediately began
to pick on Mary who sensibly retired to a corner by herself to read her Bible.
Suddenly, for no reason except her own cowardice and guilt, Kristen came over
and without warning punched Mary in the face three times, splitting her lip,
and kneed her in the chin, causing profuse bleeding. Mary went straight to her
cell and pushed the “Call” button (which is very difficult to use being low
down behind the TV). Staff took ages to respond and were not at all concerned
for Mary – in fact they seemed quite pleased!
Mary was taken to
Yesterday we had a very difficult
(non-contact) visit where Mary was understandably very bitter and deeply
depressed, carrying as she must be a load of pain and rage at her brutal
mistreatment. I visited again today, Mary refused to see me and I have genuine
well-founded concerns for her health and well-being as her full time Carer.
Mary has managed to survive well in a number of custodial environments in other
states but of course there the corruption is less flagrant and obvious and
there is at least some minimal pretence of concern for human rights!
This intolerable and totally unfair situation
underlies one important underlying reason why the more sensitive, vulnerable
and defenceless inmates become depressed and resort to self-harm, even taking their
own lives. In all these cases staff are always largely responsible, directly or
by default, and are often literal accessories before and after the fact to
Manslaughter. In any jurisdiction where the law and legal processes were
treated with some respect, they would be tried, convicted and imprisoned
accordingly!
None of the staff of the Mary Hutchinson
Women’s Prison are blameless in all this – Margaret Mary, Billie Jean,
Anne-Marie, Linda, Graeme, Chris, Melanie, Kate and Craig Hughes. However many
are well practised at pretending to be “nice”, “friendly”, “helpful” and
“concerned” when dealing with visitors and other outsiders. Always it is
important to closely scrutinise their actions and inaction and not be deceived
by their words.
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General Ongoing
Difficulties
1) Mail is clearly being deliberately
obstructed and delayed in both directions, from Mary to me, from me to Mary.
2) Several staff have lied to and misinformed
Mary about what I have said and done, and done the same to me about what Mary
has said and done. Most can’t be trusted to tell the truth, it is an integral
part of the prison staff culture.
2) Although Mary filled in a form two weeks
ago to see a lawyer, none has been produced. She no longer wishes to be legally
represented, the standard of legal representation in
3) We are supposed to be entitled to 2
non-contact and 1 contact visit per week as per my initial discussions with the
manager Craig Hughes. In nearly 3 weeks we have had no contact visits and this
is yet another example of arbitrary, vengeful discrimination.
4) Although we were under no compulsion to do
so – Mary dresses modestly and colourfully without being garish - Mary and I
took the initiative to try to negotiate a compromise acceptable to both sides
as far as her clothing is concerned. The prison administration virtually
ignored all our suggestions and produced a horrible, heavy, shroud-like,
embarrassing, demeaning, ugly, hot, uncomfortable and absurd garment most like
a long sweat shirt. Mary has worn this twice to visits under duress because
staff have refused to allow her to walk the 3m to the visiting area unless she
agreed to their illicit coercion. Clearly the female staff especially have
absolutely no idea of what constitutes proper clothing for a true Christian
woman (or for any woman for that matter!). In the last conversation I had with
Craig Hughes, a deep-cherry coloured dress with short sleeves was agreed on
made from material already available at the prison - this has never
materialised. I offered to buy some suitable clothing or draw a simple design
and obtain and supply the fabric etc etc but they
want it all their own way even though they are the problem, not Mary!
5) Craig Hughes offensively referred to the
Bible as the “greatest fantasy ever known” – he should look at himself and his
standard of (mis)management of the MHCC, now there’s
a real fantasy!
5) It took staff eleven (11) days to give Mary
her comb; female staff who have butchered their own hair (because they carry
such a perilous load of denied anger and pain) are obvious jealous of Mary’s
beautiful, long, silver-grey hair.
6) On the 7th April I dropped off some
clothing for Mary which was received and signed in by Officer Margaret Mary –
she did not give me a receipt. This included 2 plain, white, long sleeved,
cotton women’s singlets (which were not allowed and
described as “fashion garments!”), 1 pair of woollen
socks, 2 pairs of deep cherry cotton socks (which simply “disappeared”!), a
pair of gloves (not allowed – in this climate @ $2 a pair they should be
standard issue!) and a pair of long cotton pants which Mary uses as underwear
(refused because they were very mutely patterned).
7) One visiting health professional described
the new Mary Hutchinson Women’s Prison and the Wilfred Lopes Centre for Mental
Health as “white elephants”. $40 million has been squandered on the latter with
35 staff employed to look after a grand total of 6 patients. All for the idle
curiosity and misguided meddling of a number of mental health
“specialists” who treat inmates/patients like unfeeling rats in some cruel
laboratory experiment. They don’t want them to learn how to acknowledge and
non-violently deal with how they feel, the root cause of their “illness”, behavioural difficulties and offending, because they are
not aware of most of their own feelings.
8) When Mary was arrested, she had with her an
MP3 player with some of her favourite music loaded on
it. She was refused access to this even though from a security angle it posed
no threat whatsoever and it would have helped her greatly to relax and be able
to ignore much of the external noise. The excuse for refusal by a staff member
was nonsense, that other inmates not having such a
resource would be discriminated against. Clearly in prison there are many
inmates who are more privileged than others and besides, it is time that
Corrective Services got with the 21st century! Mp3 players are cheap to buy and
to run, have much, much less problems with contraband concealment and are
personal audio devices with no external transmitted sound.
**************************************************
Now I have provably exposed the corruption and
violence by those (un)gainfully employed within all sectors of the criminal
justice system in this state, not once but twice, and as a Christian Minister
have given all those responsible a spiritual warning 5 years ago. Note the
quote from one of the relevant documents on the web site referred to above:
“As a true Christian Minister I need to give
all those directly or indirectly responsible for this injustice and atrocity
directed a clear and specific warning. What you do to Mary, you do to
me, and what you do to me, you do to CHRIST, to HE WHO
sent me. Unless Mary is released immediately and appropriately compensated, I
know that the GOD WHOM I serve so faithfully will clearly show HIS obvious
displeasure in all your personal and professional lives as only HE can. My
extraordinary faith gives me the certain knowledge that HE will intervene in
HIS unmistakable way, soon, unless something significant is done for Mary -
today!!”
This warning of course in no way
implies any threat whatsoever from us - in stark contrast to the violent
heathens, gutless cowards and depraved deviates persecuting Mary, we are
totally non-violent no matter what the provocation imposed upon us."
I am not surprised that the Premier of this
state has recently died in agony and the Governor forced to resign in disgrace
- they both received the original documennt on Institutional Corruption in
Tasmanian appended below last year and did nothing.”
Our position is quite clear; we are totally
non-violent Christians, will not take matters into our own hands, are more than
pleased to trust GOD in all this, will not play your nasty little games in your
corrupt courts and will sit back and watch how HE WHOM we so faithfully serve
deals with each and every one of you. This not only includes those in this
jurisdiction but also all members of the Australian Federal Parliament &
Public Service and other courts, ancillary agencies, channels of appeal and
media both here and in the UK who could and should help.
The government of
Faithfully,
Michael Israel †
Update 22nd April in the year of our LORD 2009
Jessica Kupsch, a
prisoner whom Mary had met in the cells at Launceston, was last week moved into
the maximum section with Mary for 4 days. Jessica, another violent inmate who
had hit another inmate elsewhere in the prison is a close acquaintance of
Kristen (“Grommie”), another intravenous drug-using
mother of 3 children also with a huge agenda of un-faced guilt. Why was she not
put next door in the lock-up punishment area with Kristen with whom she
obviously has a great deal in common?
An unbiased observer would have to be
seriously suspicious of the prison motives for her placement in with Mary and
Mary wisely chose to not spend any time out in the yard with her. For 3 days
the staff (especially the supervisor Mr Harris) tried
to encourage Mary out into the yard with Jessica, leaving Mary’s meals there
even though she had made her concerns abundantly clear.
So Mary fasted and did not eat for 3 days,
taking only a little milk – she decided to continue this fast even after the
staff with great reluctance brought her meals to her cell and today has not
eaten for 5 days. This is in no way for protest but is something that we both
do from time to time for spiritual, emotional and physical renewal and strength
(I fasted last weekend for 3 days without any food or fluid whatsoever and feel
so much better for doing so). Despite this, no health professional was alerted
or bothered to talk to Mary about what for them would be an unusual thing to
do. They simply don’t care and are in such breach of their duty of care in
relation to Mary that prison management need to be charged with deliberate
criminal negligence.
In the meantime I have visited several times
but been unable to get to see Mary, being told by staff that she would not come
to visits. Last Saturday when I dropped off her new Bible, she carefully
explained to the officer on duty, Ken that she couldn’t come out because of the
potentially dangerous situation with Jessica. Ken, who came back out with my
own Bible that I had loaned Mary after her own was destroyed in the assault by
Kristen, neglected to even mention this to me. He just said that Mary refused
to see me. Such deceit and duplicity!
The prison do not even try to hide their
deliberate obstruction and delay of mail mentioned in 1) below. Despite Mary
writing regularly, I have received no mail from her for 10 days and mail from
me delivered by hand to the jail on the 10th & 14th April took 10 and 6
days respectively to travel 100m from Reception to Mary! Mail from the
Ombudsman’s office written and posted on the 8th was delivered to Mary on the
18th, again 10 days later! There is no excuse!
Faithfully,
Michael Israel †
Update 29th April in the year of our LORD 2009
After contacting Michelle Lowe at the office
of the Minister for Corrective Service's (Lisa Singh), there has been some
minor improvement but only in terms of mail delivery. We can now see how
quickly they are able to process mail!
Mary still gets no peace and still is the only
inmate in the maximum security section – why? She is constantly subject to
video surveillance, often by male officers, whilst on the toilet and in the
shower. This is sexual violation punishable by imprisonment!
The large inmate Sue Johns has been released
from her cell after 30 days lock-up into the adjoining area there, separated by
a glass screen from the section that Mary is kept in. She screams and shouts to
Kristen, who is supposed to now be on seclusion, they play cards underneath
Kristen's door and generally acts threateningly and abusively towards Mary.
Kristen has now finally been punished for her cowardly assault on Mary but only
due to our diligent efforts to follow this up. She has been given 30 days lock-up,
is of course totally unrepentant and is actually revelling
in the extra attention.
In "investigating" the assault by
Kristen
Mary recently appeared in the Launceston
Magistrates court by video link from the prison. She sat quietly during this
but was (intentionally?) intimidated by the unnecessary presence of three
members of staff - Craig Hughes, Max Harris and a female officer - all in the
same small room.. I was connected to the court by phone. The presiding magistrate,
Z. Szramka, whilst pretending to be reasonable, had
clearly already made up his mind what he was going to do and remanded Mary in
custody until 19th May, another 4 weeks 'de facto' term of imprisonment. He
totally ignored our requests to have the matters immediately transferred down
to
Faithfully,
Michael Israel †
Update 12th May 2009
To: Michelle Lowe – Office of Lisa Singh
(Minister for Corrections)
cc
Tasmanian, Australian & International Mailing List
I need to thank you for your continued
assistance and support. The truth is that without our repeated discussions with
and approaches to your office and your subsequent interventions/negotiations
with prison management, there would have been no improvement in Mary’s
intolerable situation. An excellent example of this was the situation with
contact visits where we were denied these for nearly a month with no
explanation – as when anything improper is going on covertly or underhandedly,
no-one at the prison said anything until I queried it repeatedly and then spoke
to you. Other examples are our insistence that Mary be escorted through her
unit to visits for safety reasons and our request that her private yard be
unlocked as much as possible during the day.
Consistent with their culpability and guilt,
no-one at the prison has apologised to Mary for what
happened nor shown any concern for how she was feeling except for the two
health professionals Fiona Mcfarlane & Fran Donaldson,
one of whom described the incident as “a vicious assault”. In stark contrast
the prison officers and management have been very friendly to and solicitous of
the offender Kristen, most especially the supervisor Max Harris (see below).
The obsequious, ingratiating behaviour by
males who pander towards the worst females may be very common in Australian
society but this is totally inappropriate within a jail environment and is a
clear breach of prison regulations. A wonderful opportunity is being lost with
Kristen to actually set her some firm, long overdue limits, not only for her
own good but also as a lesson for the other 6 or 7 young inmates now in the
Wellington Unit. Instead, as usual, staff indulge Kristen shamefully and she is
treated like some kind of celebrity instead of with the disgust and contempt
she so richly deserves. If Kristen had apologised and
meant it, the incident for Mary and I would now be closed but she is totally
unrepentant and has threatened to do it again. Consequently she should
definitely lose her 3 months good behaviour remission, something that is being
considered now by management, as part of her punishment. I fully expect that
prison management won’t do this, however, even though it would give a clear
message to all inmates about gratuitous violence! Also, the inmate Anna Walker,
who like Kristen so offensively and incorrectly called me a paedophile,
has been unpunished for her part in the assault. If you are not part of the
solution, you are part of the problem and there is no doubt that staff
impropriety, disinterest and incompetence at Risdon Prison has cost and is
continuing to cost the unfortunate Tasmanian taxpayer millions of dollars
unnecessarily.
After lock-down recently, one of the young
inmates in Mary’s section, Eboni Jane Savage (as is
the name, so tragically is the nature a lot of the time!), in her usual
screaming conversations with Kristen, said that she would have killed Mary if
it had been her involved. This young female (and others like her) has unrestricted
access to Mary whenever Mary's door is open during the day. Nowhere else in
The Mary Hutchinson Women’s Prison is a brand
new but poorly planned and designed facility with no obvious safe place for
those needing protection for any reason whatsoever and this is a complete
failure in the department’s reasonable duty of care. Apparently accommodation
is already under pressure and the jail has been full and is nearly full today.
Another emerging accountability issue is that the prison must not oblige non-smoking
prisoners to be exposed to second hand smoke either inside the unit or outside
in the yard. More caring, mature and aware people may see that actually
supplying cigarettes to jail inmates on “buy-up” is also a breach of their duty
of care. The excuse that inmates would be much more difficult to handle is not
a justification for squandering this opportunity to oblige them to give up
smoking. If there were in-house programs to help inmates understand,
acknowledge and constructively and non-violently discharge/express the intense
feelings kept down with smoking, the additional expenditure would be tiny
compared to the future, long term health cost savings (and savings in the costs
of cigarettes!). Other benefits include an improvement in the general quality
of life of inmates and their families and a definite decrease in recidivism. Of
course this enlightened approach will never happen unless and until the staff
themselves are prepared to look at their own addictions!
Predictably, Craig Hughes, the prison manager,
refuses to properly investigate our allegations that Officer Margaret Mary (
I also need to make another point about
Margaret Mary – she is a Catholic and Mary & I have been systematically
targeted by the Catholic Church worldwide for nearly 30 years because of our
informed criticism of their activities, wealth, privilege, molestation of
children and spiritual hypocrisy. It is not incipient paranoia to suspect that
Margaret Mary is in some way persecuting and mistreating Mary in response to a
request, direct or implied, from her spiritual masters!
In an incident in the evening of the 29th
April that I discussed briefly with you by phone, the nurse Pam refused Desiree
Evans from cell #14 her medication and also denied her the prescribed pain
killers because "you threw your medication across the room". When
Desiree turned angrily around, she nearly bowled over Mary who was standing in
the queue waiting to get the anti-histamines she then needed from having had no
fresh air for nearly 2 weeks. This is highly unprofessional behaviour and could
be seen as even sinister in view of what had happened with Kristen.
There is a continuing problem with mail which
is still being effectively vandalised. In deference
to security, I tape any enclosed pictures along one edge only so that the
underneath of these can be easily inspected. Despite this staff are roughly
ripping off the pictures from the letters and it seems reasonable to conclude
that some person or persons is taking great delight in destroying and defacing
anything nice, beautiful or uplifting. What possible objection can the prison
have to an un-sentenced, un-convicted inmate being allowed small pictures in
their mail? Inwards mail is also being intercepted and put into Mary’s
property, or being returned to sender or just disappearing without Mary ever
being informed. Unused stamps on my mail which I have hand delivered to the
prison are cut off and stolen/thrown away. This wanton destruction of mail is
unbelievable presumption, what gives them the right to do this?
Something that I neglected to mention to you
was that the prison staff escorting Mary to
The court ordered a psychiatric assessment for
Mary yet Debra Wood was sent to do this even though my information is that she
has resigned from the service? A strange thing to do!
Why are the numerous doors around the prison
not muffled with tape around the edges to reduce the endless noise of them
banging closed. Surely this must be easy and inexpensive to do and would
improve the quality of the staff’s working environment as well.
Finally, it is disgraceful what the corrective
services department has done with the nearby prison farm which used to be a
highly sought after placement facility for low security inmates, often before
their release. It provided them with healthy, fulfilling work and an
opportunity to learn some useful skills, a perfect way to “wean” inmates back
into society. Closing this facility, and/or the Hayes Prison Farm at New
Norfolk, no doubt for short sighted, financial reasons, is not only a really
stupid and destructive decision, it will certainly add to recidivism in future
and cost far, far more than the relatively modest investment to keep these
facilities operating.
Faithfully,
Michael Israel †
Mary Hutchinson Women’s Prison, Hobart - The
Case of Mary Israel
Update 19th May 2009
To: Michelle Lowe – Office of Lisa Singh
(Minister for Corrections)
cc
Tasmanian, Australian & International Mailing List
Confirming our phone conversation yesterday,
the Manager of the Women’s Prison, Craig Hughes, has now arbitrarily decided
without consultation with Mary or myself that there are no longer any safety
issues for Mary. He therefore refuses to allow staff to unlock her exercise
yard despite their undertakings to you and your own subsequent assurances about
this to me, after not one but two prior complaints/representations by myself.
Worse, the officer Billie-Jean, with whom I had a pleasant discussion following
last Thursday’s visit (when she told me that she had joined the prison service
“to make a difference” – to whom, one might ask?), said to Mary several days
ago that opening the yard was up to the individual officer on duty and she was
not going to do it. Billie Jean is very perverse, changeable and untrustable!
So Mary spent another period of 5 days from
Thursday until at least today effectively in solitary confinement in her cell.
Kristen will be released from “Lock-up” on
Saturday and will no doubt be accommodated in the Wellington Unit in the same
area as Mary, an obvious breach of the prison’s reasonable duty of care. In
fact the attitude of Craig Hughes in regard to Mary’s safety and security can
only be seen as quite sinister in the circumstances. Equally, to move Mary, the
innocent party, anywhere but into a lower security unit, would be highly
discriminatory and totally unfair!
This deliberately provocative and effectively
violent behaviour, so typical of the present prison staff culture, absolutely
infuriates inmates and their visitors and families alike. With civilised, decent and law-abiding prison management, it
would be deplored, censured and treated with the contempt it so richly
deserves. A person would have to be of a base and savage nature to continue to
torment a 66 year old woman in this way.
During yesterday’s visit in the contact
visiting room, Mary and I sat near the window looking out at the open grassed
area as we do. Anna Walker (see below), the prisoner who provoked the assault
by Kristen, was standing outside with a small group of inmates when she threw a
stone hitting the window directly in front of us, giving the “up-yours” sign
with her fingers. Now I appreciate that this individual must have difficulty
coping with the sad reality of how grossly obese and ugly she has chosen to
become, but this is not our problem nor is her huge burden of unresolved
personal guilt. I have complained but nothing will be done unless your office
intervenes because she is totally indulged by staff.
Mary’s health is deteriorating due to the
constant stress placed upon her every day. Her blood pressure, which is
normally low (but healthy with a pulse of 60 or less) has risen markedly, she
has difficulty sleeping and has nightmares, is anxious much of the time and she
is suffering from dizziness and seeing spots and “swirls” in front of her eyes.
Although the nurse has given her a course of tablets for an inner ear virus,
the problem is not physiological but a reasonable emotional response to her
environment and treatment. All this is completely avoidable with due diligence
by staff – instead they mutter platitudes like “this is jail, get used to it” –
when the truth is that they are responsible by what they do and don’t do!
Mary today appeared in the Launceston
Magistrates court again by video link from the prison - I was put through by
phone link. The same presiding magistrate, Z. Szramka
has remanded Mary in custody until 29th May and ordered a psychiatric
assessment to be done with input from myself. The police are predictably
continuing their malicious and vexatious prosecution of the two charges that
have absolutely no basis in fact. Again they brazenly lied to the court about
the circumstances of the incidents so as to have bail denied. So there are more
contrived and unnecessary delays which could reasonably be seen as evidence of
corruption in the courts. The Forensic Mental Health Service has already
totally failed in its reasonable duty of care by not even speaking to myself,
Mary’s full-time Carer, the person with the most comprehensive knowledge of
Mary’s prior health history, over the entire past 7 weeks, in order to complete
the report previously ordered twice by the court?!
Faithfully,
Michael Israel †
Mary Hutchinson Women’s
Prison, Hobart - The Case of Mary Israel
Update 4th
June
To: Michelle Lowe – Office of Lisa Singh (Minister for Corrections)
cc Tasmanian, Australian &
International Mailing List
Mary was today taken in to the
The court hearing predictably turned out to be a total farce, Magistrate
Hill was rushing (a clear sign of his own guilt and impropriety!), I was not
allowed to speak on Mary’s behalf despite her clearly expressed wishes to this
effect and none of Mary’s issues were dealt with in a careful, considered and
just way. Mary was going to plead guilty to 2 minor charges but was not even
given an opportunity to do this - she was dragged from the court weeping and
screaming in great distress.
First thing in the morning of the 1st June, Mary was assaulted
again, this time by Emma Polglase who came straight
out of her cell at ‘unlock’ and grabbed Mary by the throat in front of 4
officers. When Emma was then locked down, Mary heard her say smugly, “It’s just
for appearances”, exactly as was the case with Kristen Poole who previously
assaulted Mary, just pretence to make it look as if staff
deplore thuggery! Mary in talking to other inmates has formed the
definite view that most are scared of Kristen who is a real bully. This makes
the way she is pandered to and indulged by staff even more despicable and shows
that the anti-bullying prisoner policy is just more dishonest public posturing.
Anna Walker (see below) is back in the Wellington Unit after some
‘domestic incident’ in the other section of the jail. She of course continues
to threaten and abuse Mary and make some really disgusting lewd remarks to her
without censure, restraint or intervention. Another inmate also involved in
this incident, Trish Gordon, is next door in lock-down after requiring 6 or 7
people to subdue her!
After returning from court, Mary spent some time speaking to Sean
Wheeler, the new/replacement/relieving manager of the Mary Hutchinson Women’s
Prison about her situation. Wheeler frankly admitted that he could not
guarantee Mary’s safety and that there was nowhere in the prison to put Mary on
protection. What do they do with inmates who ‘cooperate’ with police, who are
child sex offenders, who are especially vulnerable, defenceless or who have
other special needs? The simple answer is that with present facilities, the
Tasmanian Department of Corrective Services cannot even remotely fulfil its
duty of care responsibilities towards these particular inmates unless and until
the staff actually discharge their own responsibilities with due diligence,
actively supervise and set some long overdue limits for the worst of the
inmates. This would not be difficult with caring, concerned, aware,
professional management!
Faithfully,
Michael Israel †
3) Corruption & Human Rights Violations
Police & Prison Service,
Townsville – 7th
September to 7th November in the year of our LORD 2008
The report below
describes in detail the day-by-day brutalisation, victimisation and abuse of a
non-violent, 65 year old woman, my wife Mary Israel (a British subject with
Australian Residency), by some of the most despicable, cruel, violent sub-human
savages in Queensland, cowardly curs, criminal thugs and parasitic frauds
taking improper refuge in the Department of Corrective Services and Police
Force of that completely corrupt state.
All that has been done
to Mary is of course completely illegal and totally against the provisions of
the United Nations Human Rights conventions, in particular the ICCPR. This is
The Queensland Police
Force is an absolute affront to human decency, integrity, justice and humanity,
a very sick, twisted, violent, corrupt and law breaking organisation which has
been (and still is today) guilty of murder, rape, grievous bodily harm, theft,
drug abuse and dealing, the manufacture and planting of evidence, tampering
with juries, obstruction and perversion of the course of justice, systematic
perjury, intimidation and assault, misuse and abuse of entrusted power, anarchy
and petty criminal activity all over the state each and every day. The incident
at Palm Island is an excellent example of the flagrant flaunting of their
criminal misconduct and lawlessness where a number of police officers, all
accessories before and/or after the fact to murder - the cowardly curs beat a
defenceless aboriginal man in custody to death, only the latest in a string of
such gutless crimes - were actually decorated for bravery for merely ‘saving
their own skins’ when the Palm Island police station was (so justly) under
siege by reasonably outraged residents. This exercise in deliberate public
posturing and deceitful propaganda, paid for as usual by the public, was highly
inflammatory, provocative and true violence in itself. Another current example
is the police officer who obviously murdered a young woman and dumped her body
but could only be found guilty of perjury despite the compelling evidence that
would have been more than sufficient to convict a private citizen. Even in this
case, he got away with planting compliant ‘stooges’ on the jury (or intimidated
some jury members) who would stubbornly maintain an innocent verdict in the
face of incontrovertible evidence to the contrary - finally a majority rather
than unanimous verdict was required to convict.
The unbridled
corruption that infests the entire system of criminal justice and public
service in Queensland, however, can only occur if the entire Queensland court
system from the Chief Justice, Court of Appeal and Supreme Justices, District
Court Judges, Magistrates, Court Registrars and Administrators, private and
Legal Aid lawyers and the Attorney-General's Department is also implicated,
either directly or by default. Otherwise those with genuine grievances could
obtain satisfaction and redress in the courts, something that has been quite
impossible for as long as I can remember, longer than the 62 years of my own
life.
For exactly the same
reason, all members of the Australian Senate and House of Representatives, the
entire Queensland Parliament, all High Court Judges, all senior Federal Police,
all senior public servants in DFAT and Immigration, the British High Commission
and Consulate, all Australian media, the Queensland Children's Commissioner,
Department of Child Safety (what a sick and twisted joke that name is, a real
oxymoron in this state infamous for child abuse and sexual abuse in state
foster "care"!) and the Queensland Health Department are equally
culpable, at very least by selfish disinterest and uncaring inaction.
To no avail we have
written and spoken about the situation in Queensland now for nearly 30 years,
repeatedly approached hundreds of senior Commonwealth & State public
servants and politicians, petitioned Australian Parliament and filed dozens of
detailed, easily verifiable documents and complaints with all relevant
appellate authorities including the Queensland and Commonwealth Ombudsman’s
offices, the Crime & Misconduct Commission (the refuge of a number or
corrupt lawyers and ex-police!), the Health Rights Commission and the Human
Rights Commission. We have also made direct representations to the British
Government in
See www.geocities.com/michael_the_one/corruption
As a credible,
articulate, intelligent, highly qualified and non-violent Christian Minister,
it is reasonable to conclude that if I can't get even the merest shreds of justice,
what hope is there for the average, aggrieved person, in this worst of all
countries in the world.
The contempt and
disgust that I feel for
As HIS Minister I
represent the GOD WHO made the whole universe - and HE is obviously outraged at
the situation here in
I have been predicting
and praying for a global financial “meltdown” for several years now, as a good
way of getting the attention of and getting through to the wealthy, developed
countries in particular. The modern system of economics worldwide is a ‘house
of cards’, ready to topple at a moment’s notice, as most people in these
countries do not actually produce or do anything needed, necessary or of any
essential value – just wasteful, childish, selfish indulgences. So many
squander their tragic, trivial, pointless, unfulfilled lives doing nothing of
true substance for anyone, sitting on their ever-increasing backsides at desks,
‘pecking’ away aimlessly at their computers and/or moving meaningless pieces of
paper around.
What is still happening
and has happened to Mary, myself and all our unfortunate children over the
years began nearly 30 years ago as a concerted, covert catholic/anglican conspiracy, the extent of which can only be
appreciated when the truth of what was illegally done to Mary by NSW Police
during the recent World Youth Day 2008 in Sydney is known. Mary and I were
actually detained by an assistant commissioner of police (who recognised Mary),
a superintendent and 3 inspectors on the public footpath outside St Marys
Cathedral when walking up to St Vincent’s hospital to have Mary’s broken foot
looked at. We were ordered into the Cathedral driveway and then arrested for
trespass. Some years ago I had been trespassed from the St Mary’s Cathedral
property after telling a group of catholic clergy imposters in the sumptuous
presbytery behind the church what I thought of their self-indulgence, gluttony,
parasitism, greed, selfishness and effective violence. I have similarly been
trespassed from Westminster Cathedral in
Two days later we were
on a train from North Sydney to the
I warned that evil
heretic Benedict when invited in to his holiday home in Les Combes
d'Íntrod in
I am a true Christian,
I never resort to violence and cannot and will not ever take matters into my
own hands despite the extreme provocation so deliberately directed at me
through the systematic destruction and continued violation of my family (Romans
12:19). However I have prayed really hard to the GOD WHOM both Mary & I
serve so faithfully to teach all those copied on this a long overdue lesson in
humility, obedience, true justice, courage and serving, not only the scurrilous
scoundrels who have acted so unlawfully towards Mary, our children and myself,
but also all those who by their evasion and abdication have allowed and
effectively condone all this (2 Thessalonians 1:6).
When GOD does act, as
HE most assuredly will, every single recipient of this needs
to realise and understand why what is happening to you is happening. Then you
will cry out to HIM in anguish of spirit but HE won't listen just as you all
refused to listen to those who cried out to you for the help that you were
legally and morally obliged to give! Just as HE did with Steve Irwin and Peter
Brock, it may come suddenly, when you least expect it, or perhaps, like the
heathens Johannes Bjelke-Petersen and the last pope John Paul II, it may be a
long, painful and protracted period of public humiliation and suffering before
your eventual demise. And then Hell for Eternity, so very fair and just, the
final "ethnic cleansing" of the vermin from Creation!
And the only possible
way to remove GOD's hand from you will be a full,
public confession and genuine repentance followed by every effort to make up
for what you have done and failed to do.
To give you all another
incentive, see how GOD makes a public example of the Townsville Prison Manager
John Harrison, prison officer Steven Crowley and Cairns policeman Jason Pascoe
for a start (See below) and what HE does to every single male officer in the
Townsville Correctional Centre who has leered at my wife when she was in the
shower or on the toilet under video surveillance. Perhaps the more decent and
sensible of their colleagues might listen.
This is the last chance
for you all - as a warning this in no way implies any threat whatsoever from
me, either directly or indirectly. I am only too happy to leave you all in GOD's hands (2 Thessalonians 1:6).
You all need to read: www.geocities.com/michael_the_one/christianity and take the
warning in this both personally and seriously.
In GOD's
terms Mary is a heroine with more decency, courage and integrity in her little
finger than all of the prison staff and police who have so illegally mistreated
her, put together. As a real missionary solely reliant on her wonderful
relationship with GOD, she has spoken and written the truth to both staff and
inmates alike, without fear or favour. Mary deserves a medal and needs a full
public apology and compensation for the cost of the replacement clothing and
for the all the other indignities that she has suffered at the hands of her
tormentors. Of course none of these cowardly swine could endure for 1 day what
she has with great patience put up with for 8 weeks - they can "dish it
out" but they can't take it!
Faithfully,
Michael Israel †
Conditions in Townsville Women’s
Correctional Centre
(Written as a series of
reports and updates between 17th September and 7th November 2008)
My 65 year old wife
Mary Israel was sentenced on the 8th September in Mareeba,
Prior to Mary arriving
at the Townsville Women’s Correctional Centre, I rang the prison and forewarned
them in advance about Mary’s simple idiosyncratic needs as a deeply devout,
non-violent Christian woman. Mary is on an Age/Disability Pension and I am paid
a Carer’s Payment & Allowance to support her - my responsibilities do not
legally or morally cease just because Mary is in custody.
In the absence of the
Accommodation Manager Laureena Waugh, I had a long
discussion with Tracy Richards, the Prison Head Psychologist, who went out of
her way to reassure me that Mary would be fine. She promised me that she would
inform her colleague on reception, the person who would speak to Mary when she
arrived, of the background. I told
Notwithstanding all
this, Mary was held in the reception area for over 8 hours until after 4pm when
everyone else had been processed and when no-one else was around. At this point
7 vicious, violent criminals posing as prison officers (2 male - John &
Paul (Activities Officer) and 5 female - Debbie, Coleen, Lisa Dalmau, Liz Davidson and 1 other) stood over Mary and
threatened to rip her clothing off if she didn't change into prison issue
clothing. Mary was then handcuffed behind her back on a verandah,
the male officers disappeared and her brand new singlet and blouse (cost $15 +
$45) were literally cut off her by the female staff. I was handed out this
vandalised clothing on 18th October and sent it on to David McIntyre at the
Queensland Ombudsman's office to get compensation from Corrective Services.
Prison Regulation 12
page 21 states quite unequivocally that inmates can wear their own underwear
and night attire.
Mary was effectively
violated by these 'feminazis' and despite Mary's
repeated requests for replacement clothing, she was
only given a grossly inadequate, very short, immodest smock to wear with no
underwear. In fact Mary was obliged to go without underwear for most of her 8
weeks in prison, something no doubt enjoyed by these twisted perverts and
sexual predators!!
There is no excuse nor
justification for this despicable violation and humiliation of a 65 year old non-violent
grandmother - I can just imagine what these emotional and spiritual
lesbian/neuters, destructive deviates and total traitors to their gender
regularly do to teenage and young adult female inmates!!!
I repeatedly and
unsuccessfully tried to take this further and speak with the Acting General
Managers of the Women’s section, Lisa Dalmau/Sally
Gray and/or with the Manager of the whole Stuart Creek Prison Complex, John
Harrison.
So much for the
official complaint mechanism and appellate channels where the Manager of the
Prison complex himself is a violent, woman-hating aged boy (very Australian and
very Catholic) who could not be trusted to fairly, justly and legally run a
chook raffle! Of course the environment is not working for anyone - staff
dissatisfaction is also high with frequent resignations. Note the recent case
of prison officer Yvette Plume who was ostracised by fellow staff and driven
out of employment for actually complaining and speaking the truth of what she
experienced and saw.
Though totally illegal,
this is a very common situation with prison staff, police, mental health
nurses, department of child & family personnel and teachers today and some
of the most wicked people alive take improper refuge
in these areas of employment, real social misfits and fringe dwellers with huge
unresolved emotional agendas of their own. Their behaviour is on the same level
of seriousness as paedophilia yet is not just condoned but actually rewarded in
the cultures that are and have been Corrective Services, the Police Force,
Department of Families/Child Safety and Forensic Mental Health Service for well
over half a century.
To quote from the
Queensland Corrective Services' own web site:
"The Queensland
Corrective Services (QCS), in partnership with other key criminal justice
agencies, is committed to the critical role of "community safety and crime
prevention through the humane containment, supervision and rehabilitation of
offenders".
QCS subscribes to five
key values:
• Integrity - we act ethically,
honestly, impartially and in the best interest of the community
• Accountability - we are publicly
accountable for our actions
• Working together - we work in collaboration
with our colleagues, stakeholders and the community
• Learning - we value creativity, innovation,
flexibility and continual improvement in the pursuit of excellence
• Diversity - we treat all people
with respect and value differences"
What a load of blatant
lies, untruthful propaganda and deceitful public posturing deliberately
designed to delude outsiders into believing that they have respect for the law
and legal processes themselves. Again, in John Harrison's delightful words,
"a load of crap"!
After organising 3
special visits for Saturday 20th September, Mary was predictably and
unnecessarily taken from the prison on Friday 19th up to Cairns and Mareeba to
face 3 outstanding minor charges that could and should have been transferred to
and dealt with in Townsville by video link at her own request on the
presumption of a guilty plea. Instead they wasted thousands of dollars of tax
payers’ money in deliberately disrupting Mary's whole existence and causing her
additional hardship and suffering.
On her way up to
At Cairns watch house,
in a similar incident to that described above, Pascoe threatened to put Mary in
a wrist lock saying "And then you will know real pain" - yes, by the
time GOD has finished with this little-spirited non-entity, he WILL know
In the whole 5 days in
On Wednesday the 24th
September I caught the local bus out to the Prison to put $50 into Mary's trust
account. I had previously organised with Laureena
Waugh, the Accommodation Manager/Supervisor of the Women's Prison, to contact
her that day and decided to try to see or speak to her about the above incident
while I was there. To that point she had pretended to be helpful. At reception
I was told that she was not available (hiding!) and so asked to make an
appointment to see Lisa Dalmau. The very pleasant and
helpful reception officer Stacey (who had just started working there and so had
yet to be corrupted and hardened by the appalling prison staff culture), after
speaking to the General Manager's P.A., asked me to wait and someone would get
back to me in about 30 minutes.
After sitting outside
for about 15 minutes catching up on my work, 2 male officers in prison overalls
came over in the usual menacing way and went into the reception building. I
KNEW that they had been sent in relation to me being there, I have been around
custodial environments for over 30 years and I KNOW the games, guilty attitude
and thuggish behaviour so typical of jail systems. They then came out and told
me that they had been "instructed to escort me off prison property".
Now I am only too
familiar with the widespread misuse and abuse of power by all sections of the
Queensland Criminal (In)justice system and realise
that this kind of provocative, insulting, unprofessional, unreasonable and
unnecessary behaviour is always motivated by the system's own guilt due to
their own serious culpability. Public servants with nothing to hide and nothing
to be ashamed of do not act like this but would simply have spoken to me on the
phone or made an appointment to see me face-to-face about the despicable
assault on Mary
In my experience, both
internally as an inmate and externally as a visitor, more extensive than any
other living person in this country, the above would be laughable if it were
not so serious. In fact the Queensland Corrective Services, like the Queensland
Police Force and Mental Health Services, is a law unto itself where
indefensible double standards, illegal activity, flagrant misuse and abuse of
power and physical and emotional violence towards inmates by staff are rife,
unrestrained and certainly unpunished. They have absolutely no conscience
whatsoever, are capable of anything and typical of people who are behaving
improperly and illegally, when even legitimately criticised, they react really
vindictively and maliciously.
This is one of the
indicative, diagnostic symptoms of Paranoid Schizophrenia and many of them
should be regulated in a psychiatric facility for the protection of others -
and would be if it were not for their position, money, corrupt mates and
influence.
On the 27th September,
after repeatedly asking for the special visit to which we were entitled (I had
flown up from Melbourne), Mary and I were finally allowed a single normal 90
minute visit, the first contact since I had arrived except for 1 brief phone
call. Mary was then able to detail her horrifying experiences and all the names
of the staff involved.
Late on 2nd October I
was told that Mary had been put into the infamous Detention Unit but no-one
would tell me why. Mary was obviously being illegally targeted and one
consequence of the latest move was that all Mary's privileges (like visits,
phone calls, mail, buy-ups, exercise, access to property etc) were all
suspended, restricted or disrupted. On Thursday 3rd October I spoke to David
McIntyre of the Ombudsman's office in Brisbane who at my request tried for over
an hour to speak to someone, anyone, at the prison, from John Harrison down,
about my visits and the reasons for Mary's detention in the D.U..
No-one would speak to him, a good indication of the contempt with which
Corrective Services treats The Ombudsman's office.
The web site of the
Queensland Ombudsman's office states that:
"Complaints by or
on behalf of prisoners comprise a significant portion of complaints to our
Office". This is hardly surprising yet I wonder how many of these
complaints are actually successful or achieve an outcome acceptable to the
complainant despite everyone knowing full well what actually goes on and has
gone on for decades.
In view of the number
of complaints by prisoners ("a significant portion of complaints to our
office"), why does the Queensland Ombudsman's office have just one single
prison complaint specialist (David Le Good) and he only works three days a
week?! This gives an excellent insight into how seriously they view prisoners'
complaints and how committed they really are to diligent follow-up and
resolution.
To continue from the
Ombudsman's web site:
"We play an
important role in ensuring the fair treatment of prisoners. We are an impartial
and independent body that is able to help prisoners and their relatives. Our
officers have extensive experience in dealing with community and custodial
corrections issues and can assist prisoners and correctional centre staff in
dealing with and resolving complaints."
The key phrases are
"is able to help" and "can assist" yet history would
suggest that they don't help and don't assist no matter what the good
intentions of some of the staff of this office may be! My experience suggests
that any confidence in David Le Good is misplaced - his hardened and
unsympathetic attitude is reminiscent of many prison staff and he must be
incredibly guilty to have covered up so much for so long!
The situation is
exactly the same with Forensic Mental Health. Despite so many jail inmates
suffering from personality & Behaviour Disorders and serious Mental Health
Illness, Forensic Mental Health Services, in what constitutes deliberate
criminal negligence, are grossly under-funded and under-resourced, insultingly
so. Here a wonderful opportunity to intervene and try to help these often
violated people, a real captive market, is squandered. The future costs, both
financial and emotional to the community and to these prisoners and to their
innocent, unfortunate families are scandalous yet fully avoidable! In essence
the system does virtually nothing to
intensely address their addictions, offending, standards of self-care, anger
management or other underlying emotional and relationship issues and all prisoners
with very, very few exceptions leave jail in a worse state than when they
arrived. As measured by results, the system is a total abject failure which is
costing about $65,000 per inmate, per annum.
I also spoke to Mary's
solicitor Ross Malcomson of Legal Aid for 2 hours on
Friday 3rd October about her situation and it is fair to say that without my
constant approaches to Ross and David McIntyre at the Ombudsman's office, the
prison would have behaved far, far worse. But this took a huge effort just to
get the prison staff to comply slightly with their own regulations and fulfil
the simplest of their responsibilities under law.
On Saturday 4th
September Mary and I had a non-contact visit. At the gate I was confronted by a
very smug looking John Harrison who was no doubt hoping that I would 'have a
go' at him and so spoil my visiting rights. In GOD's
good time, Little John!
Mary was calm and
settled but very worn out, in a great deal of pain and
absolutely furious at what they were trying to do to her, as any feeling person
would be in her situation. Hers was a reasonable, understandable, justifiable
and fully predictable response to staff violence and provocation, something
that in general is the principal motivating factor that incites inmates to
self-harm, violence against one another or violence towards staff. In all cases
the staff themselves are largely to blame for this
easily preventable behaviour yet staff then misuse the response they have
caused to justify their original impropriety and to make life even more
difficult for already aggrieved and provoked prisoners in future.
At one stage Mary had
been taken to the hospital with severe chest pains, something entirely
predictable due to the insupportable stress they put her under. I had
previously tried to explain Mary's condition to prison staff but they were
completely uninterested just as they were about Mary's equally stress-related,
potentially life-threatening bleeding from the bowel.
Mary told me that on
Thursday 2nd a particularly nasty officer June Mitchell had suddenly insisted
that Mary share her cell with another inmate just released from the DU. Like
all these lazy, under-utilised, indolent female staff, Mitchell has far too
little to do and countless opportunities to play games, cause trouble and
provoke inmates. Mary protested that this was unnecessary as the unit had over
20 spare beds and the reception Psychologist Daniel had agreed that due to
Mary's age, non-smoking and VERY high standards of self-care, she would be best
in a cell on her own.
Staff including
Mitchell and the equally sick and twisted Ian Luta, Paul Turnbull and Alycia Caesario then said Mary
would have to go to the Detention Unit. Here she was predictably confronted by
a filthy cell that stank because 2 large bags of rotting rubbish had been left
there for days and days, if not weeks. So many staff are lazy bludgers and
freeloading parasites who simply won't do anything themselves, won't lift a
finger. Hundreds of staff over the years have
obviously prevented this and other DU cells from ever being cleaned. Generally
they refuse to put out the rubbish and actively stop prisoners doing this also
(which is against health regulations) because these depraved deviates
sadistically enjoy imposing this squalor and health hazard on defenceless
inmates. The area outside the DU is also a disgrace with used towels left in a
heap for days, used plates and food on the floor (which attract hordes of ants
& cockroaches) and the inmates’ possessions thrown in the corner or all
stuffed together into a single locker. They behave exactly like the police with
peoples’ property, either too emotionally crippled to be neat and tidy and
careful, or deliberately destructive.
Undeterred and with her
customary courage, determination and resilience, Mary, using spare clothing and
a towel reluctantly supplied by staff, cleaned the entire cell on her hands and
knees. She also managed with great difficulty to get the rubbish finally
removed.
However DU cells have
almost no through ventillation as the windows are
covered with metal screens and the louvres were shut in Mary's cell. When Mary
asked to have these opened, staff said that they could not be opened - this was
a bold-faced lie as Mary later discovered when she returned to the same cell
after a week in the
Consequently, with
temperatures in Townsville around 30-35 degrees, the cell was absolutely
airless and unbearably hot, like a Japanese, prisoner-of-war hot box, something
else that is illegal and a clear abuse of human rights against ratified UN
Conventions and the ICCPR. The cell was so hot that Mary felt like she was
dying and when she tried to have a shower, the floor of the cell flooded. So
she mopped up the water as best as she could and then washed her clothes and
laid them carefully out to dry.
Staff then arrived and
took Mary to face the (absurd) charge of using offensive, obscene, insulting
and abusive language, a total fabrication which reflects their own foul
language, misbehaviour and impropriety. She was sentenced to a week which can
of course be extended on a "Special Treatment" order at the arbitrary
whim of management, a common way of targeting particular inmates by subterfuge.
Mary arrived back in
her cell to find that all her carefully organised things had been moved out of
the cell (and no doubt stuffed wet and dry together into a plastic rubbish bag
as is their usual violence). Mary then with great courage (reasonably) both
screamed at these space-invading marauding menaces and wept for over an hour.
Later staff including the horrible nurse Jan (the nursing staff at the prison
are worse than the officers with the exception of the Scottish Nurse Heather)
arrived and Mary was given a choice to go to the
It is no exaggeration
to say that they were trying to send Mary insane. In the
The opportunities for
staff games in the
Despite the food in the
main prison generally being of good quality (depending on the particular inmate
doing the cooking), the diet in the
Worst of all, Mary had
no privacy whatsoever and was obliged to shower and go to the toilet watched by
2 video cameras, with a male officer (the voyeur sloth Paul Currie) watching
for 6 days. Why do they not assign a female officer there when there is only 1
inmate, a woman?! Because they are sexual predators, all of them,
and the female staff eagerly cooperate with and encourage this twisted
perversion just as they do to their own daughters with their husbands! Mary was
also forced to wear a very short indecent smock and was not allowed to wear
underpants. When out of her cell on
exercise, Mary was able through the “fish bowl” window to see exactly what the
officers were able to look at on the video monitor. Through the glass doorway
Mary could also see into the medical centre where she could and should have
been kept, where she would have had the unrestricted access to a toilet and
shower that she needed, proper bedding and peace. And perhaps even some needed
nursing support.
Typical of the sadistic
deviates who run the jail systems, those most in need of real care and rest in
the
When Mary was moved
from the DU to the
On Wednesday 8th
October Mary called me at 9am – I am sure that this would not have happened if
the Ombudsman’s office had not become involved. Mary had apparently spoken to
David Le Good there the day before. Mary had woken to find blood dripping from
her bowel, obviously caused entirely by the stress violently imposed by staff.
With reluctance staff took Mary up to the hospital where she endured five (5)
hours in handcuffs (Why, they are the violent ones!) being forced to listen to
an unaware, inconsiderate and insecure child of an officer Rick who talked for
2 hours non-stop about his life and family. No-one is interested, Rick, grow up
and consider others!
On the morning of the
9th October Mary rang me at 9.10am. She was still in the
Mary rang me again on
the 10th October, another disturbed night with the staff TV on loud. She woke
at one point with such severe pains in the chest that she thought that she was
going to die - and Mary has a VERY high tolerance for pain having had 5
children by natural childbirth without drugs! Paul Currie, the Gestapo slob on
duty in the morning could not have cared less!
Another officer there, Tim O'Keefe, has some imagined grievance with
GOD, no doubt the usual trick of blaming someone else for his own or his
parents' child abuse, deprivation, neglect and invalidation, and he takes this
out on Mary as though somehow she is responsible for the self-imposed problems
of his miserable masochistic existence.
I saw Mary for a
non-contact (glass screen) visit on Saturday 11th October - she was brought up
in handcuffs! Mary was tired, not at all well but still surviving only due to
her courage, faith and determination. Despite being tormented for a week in the
Mary was deeply
traumatised and her physical and emotional health severely compromised due
solely to the incompetent, negligent and violent behaviour of prison
administrators and staff who commit far more serious crime every single day
than Mary has ever been accused of or than even many of the other prisoners.
These sick and twisted "low-lifes" were
clearly trying to destabilise her emotional/mental state, conspiring to have
Mary silenced and hopefully regulated and medicated under provisions of the
mental health act and so removed as an articulate and credible witness of their
impropriety, insanity and criminality. Mary had repeatedly asked to speak to
someone about how she was feeling for over 2 weeks, to no avail.
In fact Mary's
treatment makes no rational sense whatsoever, especially clinically. Mary is
absolutely no danger to herself nor to others (despite
the obvious efforts of corrupt police and magistracy to criminalise her) and at
worst she is a (needed) annoyance to those in positions of privilege and power.
In contrast the worst of these prison management and police are violent,
dangerous psychopaths and criminals whose mental health is NEVER questioned
(like the female policenazi in Ayr who hits women
prisoners over the back of the head with a phone book, the police watch house
keeper in Cairns who refuses to allow prisoners to have Bibles or the watch
house keeper at Mareeba who is an animal!) yet who so desperately need to be
regulated. The clinical double standards are infamous and indefensible.
All the above is
however very typical of the behaviour of many police, prison officers and psychiatric
nurses who pick on and make fun of people with supposed psychiatric
disabilities. They want it both ways, to have a convenient target for all their
own personal un-faced issues and feelings but refuse to treat people in
accordance with the laws regarding their entitled health care needs.
Mary battled on, once
again in the
During her first weeks
in the main prison, Mary had spent a lot of time with Elizabeth Watson, a
pregnant Aboriginal woman. Mary was under the impression that
When Mary asked,
"Where is Tanika?",
Apparently some
interfering, destructive, ignorant doctor, due to some imagined, irrational
fear about
(See www.geocities.com/michael_the_one/healthandhealing).
Prison management and
staff are also themselves responsible for this effective child neglect,
deprivation and abuse as they stood by and did nothing, as usual. Worse, with
their rules preventing women in Secure having their babies with them in jail,
the prison is responsible for the criminal violence of separating mother and
baby straight after birth. There is no doubt discretion available which they
have failed to exercise. What could and should have happened was that
The unnecessary
separation of a mother and her new-born baby is a crime against humanity, far
worse than paedophilia which is disgusting enough!
On the 18th October, we
were allowed a visit but again non-contact and only of 60 minutes duration
instead of the usual 90 minutes. Why? On the way out, I learned that finally,
after 5 weeks of trying, I was given approval to hand-in some clothing for Mary
to wear to court. So I made a special trip back to the prison on the following
day the 19th October to drop these off; a colourful African dress, burgundy
singlet and a pair of pink fisherman's pants, all brand new. These were neatly
folded and carefully rolled up and placed into a clearly labelled red plastic
bag which I handed in to a
At 8.10am the following
day, as I was about to leave to attend my 8.30 appointment with Ross Malcomson, Mary's Legal Aid solicitor, Mary called in
distress and outrage. For court, she had been given some second-hand, ugly,
totally inappropriate and unsuitable clothing that officer
Liz Davidson claimed to have signed in when I had dropped them off the previous
week. I had never seen nor heard of this clothing! Staff also said that they
knew nothing about the court clothing I had indeed dropped off the previous
day! More games designed to distress Mary before court and to provoke Mary
and/or I to some ill-advised response, a very common
game played by police and prison staff all over the world.
In court on the 20th
October Mary pleaded guilty to 5 public nuisance offences, reduced by the
magistrate to 3, and given fines of $200, $200 & $150. So the net result of
this farce was that Mary by her release date on the 7th November had served 2
months of a 4 month sentence for a single failure to appear on these simple,
minor offences! Now there's justice for you in
The police and prison
management naturally also tried to obstruct and pervert the course of justice
with the court case itself. Thomas Braes, the magistrate in Mareeba, had
ordered that Mary complete a pre-sentence assessment by Megan Fisher, a local
Townsville Psychologist. The order for this was sent to the prison on the 22nd
September yet nothing had been done by the time Mary appeared in court on the
20th October. When I found out what was happening, I contacted Megan Fisher on
the 16th October and at that stage she had heard nothing from the jail or from
the courts! They were clearly conspiring by subterfuge to extend Mary's time in
jail by prolonging court proceedings- again this is a very common practice with
police and prison staff.
Back in the prison,
Mary was charged again under the flimsy pretext of calling an officer a “Wyatt
Earp”. Mary had no idea what they were talking about (nor did they!) but later we discovered that they meant “voyeur”! In
the DU, a particularly large, dangerous, violent officer called Steven Crowley
was especially physically threatening to Mary on a number of occasions. This
certifiable psychopath and woman hater, whose mother must have been a
nightmare, regularly assaults and threatens female inmates and should never,
ever be allowed anywhere near women, anytime, ever. One afternoon and evening,
instead of doing what he is paid to do, he played football with another officer
right outside Mary’s cell window, deliberately making a lot of noise and disturbing
Mary, for hours. He also arranged a TV for another inmate in the adjoining DU
cell, a nasty female from New Zealand called Elke,
who then left it turned on loudly night and day, no doubt at Crowley's
suggestion. Some weeks previously, when Mary had asked for a TV for herself
(she is locked up for 22+ hours a day with nothing to do), she was told that
the TV didn’t work and couldn’t be used for “Health & Safety” reasons
anyway. More lies!
The gutless monster
On the 25th October
Mary and I had another non-contact visit. Mary was even more worn out from lack
of sleep, was very "on edge", felt dizzy as though she was going to
faint all the time from stress and her blood pressure had been confirmed as
elevated when measured by the nurse Heather. This is the exact opposite of what
could and should have happened to Mary in a law abiding, humane and professionally
caring environment. It is no exaggeration to claim that these marauding menaces
lack any due diligence and are in total breach of their duty of care, every
day, in every way.
On the 1st November we
were finally allowed a normal contact visit, only the second in nearly 8 weeks,
with no explanation as to why. This was no doubt a typical example of the
behaviour of the guilty who pretend to be ‘nice’ and ‘helpful’ towards the end
of the time spent with them so as to try to leave a falsely ‘good’ impression!
Very Catholic! Mary told me again that
she at times feels that she is going ‘mad’ due to spending so much time on her
own. In the previous week she had only been allowed 90 minutes exercise and so
had spent on an average 23 hours + in her cell except for some time allowed by
officer David McNulty in the interview room to write a letter. Mary also
commented that there was a huge difference in the way the unit ran when male
officers were in charge, more smoothly and without problems, in contrast to the
frantic chaos when females were in charge.
Mary was finally
released on Parole on the 7th November and her experience with Probation &
Parole was blessedly brief but the female in charge of the Townsville office
was predictably a really nasty, guilty, game-playing, trouble making criminal.
Staff Violence & Provocation
The incredible
deliberate violence done by prison staff never ceases:
- like
all under-utilised, sedentary bludgers, unit staff have unlimited opportunities
to play games and focus their unresolved emotional agenda and personal issues
unlawfully at defenceless and vulnerable inmates, especially the females
- unit
staff delay incoming and outgoing mail including sealed mail to the Ombudsman
and legal mail. I received the first letter from Mary, written and handed in by
her for posting on the 29th September yet this was not posted until the 7th
October when I collected it. We know the delays accurately because post office
staff personally put my letters to Mary into the prison mail bag (at the same
post office that I collect my mail) each morning at 7.30am before the prison
collects their mail that day. One day I posted two identical cards, one to Mary
and another to Natalie Perkins, another inmate to whom Mary had asked me to
write. Natalie was given her card the very next day,
Mary was not given hers for over a week. Mary also wrote weeks before her court
case to Andrew Telford, a local lawyer, asking him to represent her. To the
best of our knowledge this letter was never sent.
- unit staff often
obstruct or make almost impossible entitled phone contact with family, with the
Ombudsman's office and with Legal Aid or private solicitors and contact with
the Official Visitor
- unit staff constantly
lie to inmates, make excuses, postpone, protract, delay and refuse to comply
with any reasonable requests and entitlements.
- unit
and nursing staff obstruct and/or withhold needed medical treatment and fail to
supply medication as prescribed by the prison doctor. In Mary's case 3 separate
medication regimens were not supplied as prescribed without any excuse.
- despite saying that
they treat everyone the same, the criminal justice system in Queensland
regularly extends (undeserved and unfair) favourable treatment to some
offenders and vindictively targets others for no lawful reason whatsoever, in
what effectively constitutes vicious vendettas.
One of the most twisted
games unit staff and management play is to change the rules depending on who is
in charge on that particular day - Alycia Caesario is an especially violent offender in this regard.
As Mary said "This place is in chaos and rules change day-by-day, even
hour-by-hour, as different staff do what they like with no consistency or
predictability. You have to be strip searched and then you don't, you can have
your property in your cell then you can't, you are handcuffed and then you are
not, you are allowed 90 minute contact visits, then you are only allowed
non-contact visits for 60 minutes, you are approved to have 2 special visits
then this is withdrawn!"
Another very common
example of staff violence is when they spontaneously offer to do something for
an inmate or ask if they would like to do something (like make a phone call or
have some exercise) and then not do it with no
explanation as to why. There is of course never any real intention to actually
do what is promised or undertaken in the first place, just the
build-you-up-to-dash-your-hopes twisted game. The grossly obese female officer
Sandy C. is a very practised exponent of this.
The
usual endless, mindless games by really destructive, devious, deceitful,
dangerous, spiteful criminals and congenital liars. The only thing that
they do well is to destroy any care, any happiness, anything enjoyable,
fulfilling, satisfying, learning, productive and spiritually healing, renewing
and potentially rehabilitating in inmates' lives.
So rehabilitation is
absolutely non-existent and the cost to the unfortunate, misinformed,
long-suffering tax payer for this waste is enormous!! In fact the prison male
& female staff are just like the worst possible
versions of most inmates' fathers and mothers whose child deprivation, neglect,
abuse and violation are the main causal reasons for their children’s subsequent
tobacco, alcohol and drug abuse, their poor standards of self care, their
offending and general violence. Like police, what prison staff teach inmates is
the rule of cowardly violence, contempt for the law, legal processes and
injustice, perjury and lying, misuse and abuse of power, slothful laziness,
never to look at themselves or take responsibility for their own actions, low
standards of self-care and non-contributing parasitism.
The unbelievable
cruelty and violence focused at Mary is only able to be understood when the
horrifying reality of the average prison and police officers' own childhoods
are considered. Many are Catholics and many Catholic mothers (like so many
Australian females) are lazy, violent, filthy, dirty, hard, intrusive,
inconsiderate, game playing, trouble making, attention-seeking, competitive,
insecure, emotionally lesbian, immature eunuchs with no idea about themselves,
about children, about Love, about GOD or about life. The typical Catholic
father (like so many Australian males) is in turn a useless, abdicated, ineffectual,
violent, abusive, alcoholic, sports-obsessed, emotionally retarded aged boy and
unweaned infant.
And the entire Criminal
Justice system, public service and government are always implicated as everyone
within this system knows or at least strongly suspects exactly what is going
on. They will all so deservedly receive a full recompense of a reward, both in
this life and in the next.
See: www.geocities.com/michael_the_one/violence & www.geocities.com/michael_the_one/corruption
Faithfully,
Michael Israel †
4)
Report on RSA Police,
Courts, Prisons, Immigration & Health Services
My name is Michael
Israel, I am a 60 year old Christian Minister from
In fact in view of what
we have seen, heard and experienced, it is totally irresponsible, criminally
negligent and a huge waste of money diverted from vitally needed housing and
other public projects to even consider hosting the world cup in 2010. There are
immense problems with crime and corruption in the RSA, the country simply
cannot afford this childish indulgence and it will be a field day for
opportunistic criminals predating on vulnerable tourists with corrupt police in
complete collusion with their unlawful activities!
The report below
details my experiences in custody following my arrest in Cape Town on 13th
September 2006 subsequent to which I spent a total of 10 days in Sea Point
police cells, 4 weeks on Remand in Pollsmoor Prison
(Section 3C for inmates over 40), several hours in Parow
police cells, 1 night in Bellevue police cells, 1 night en transit in
Bloemfontein police cells, a weekend in Hillcrest police cells (Durban), a
total of 10 days in Durban Central cells, nearly 4 weeks in Westville Prison (3
separate nights in Medium A (Remand) Section C1, Room 101 & 20 days in
Medium B (Sentenced) Section B2 Room 201) and finally 5 weeks in the Lindela Repatriation/Deportation Centre, Luupardsville, Krugersdorp, before my deportation at my own
request back to Australia late in December.
Police Cells
In
As everywhere else in
the world, many South African police, both blacks and whites, sadistically
enjoy imposing depravity and privation upon those in custody, whether innocent
or not. Generally police cells are never properly cleaned and often the police
in charge actively obstruct cleaners from doing their job in the cells even
though often the corridors and public areas are kept in good condition to
impress and deceive visitors. In Parow the cells were
filthy and had never, ever been properly cleaned since their construction
decades ago. In
In Bloemfontein I
stayed 1 night in a cell which was like a cave, no adequate lighting or ventillation, broken plumbing and right on a major road so
that the traffic was only a few metres away, the noise very loud all day and
most of the night. I shared this cell with 2 male refugees who had been there
nine (9) months, a disgusting example of real torture!
I was dumped on Friday
by the 2 escorting police at the Hillcrest police cells as they were trying to
deceive their superiors into believing that the trip from Cape Town to Durban
was taking a day or so longer than the actual time spent - I overheard a phone
conversation in the police car between the male officer and his boss! They then
picked me up again on the following Monday and drove me the 20km drive to
Durban Central! At Hillcrest the senior officers 'in charge' were mainly female
and the place was predictably in chaos as a consequence. Most of these lazy,
arrogant, untrustable cruel deviates were grossly
overweight with deplorable standards of self-care, shamefully abused their
power over men and were provocatively intrusive – first thing in morning they
walked shouting into the very centre of the cell where men were sleeping all over
the floor, pretending to be efficient and counting the numbers but really using
this as an excuse to aggressively invade space and disturb. The male officers
were far more careful and considerate. This is a typical example of real
violence and sexual harassment.
Against police and
health regulations these female inspectors tried to have the sheet metal steel
cell door closed all day and night with 10 inmates in this tiny space –
fortunately one of the prisoners suffered from claustrophobia so they reluctantly
relented but the bar grille door was left shut except for one hour or so access
to the yard and showers each day. This was a complete contrast to my experience
in
The situation in the
Durban Central police cells was an absolute disgrace. The police in charge
should be arrested, charged and sent to jail for intentionally imposing this on
inmates, often unconvicted and unsentenced, and also
for being criminally negligent with public property. There is something
defective or broken with every single one of the smaller cells near the
reception yard, toilet flushes needing repair, damaged or blocked plumbing,
electrical problems etc. etc. although most problems could and should easily
and inexpensively have been fixed. What is lacking is the willingness of staff
to try or to care. Generally all the cells are filthy and a real health hazard
and the police even obstruct inmates like myself who
offer to help. Despite their efforts to prevent us, in the 10 days I was there,
my fellow inmates and I (all refugees applying for asylum, immigrants with
problems with their papers & other ‘illegals’)
thoroughly cleaned, tidied and fixed our cell and yard which was then the ONLY
one fit for human habitation.
The food was dreadful
and often we, as the last in the queue, were not fed at all. In fact if it was
not for the excellent food brought in by inmates’ visitors, many of us would
have literally starved. There was the usual twisted games played by staff who are a law unto themselves and the simplest of
requests like phone calls and toilet paper were refused, ‘forgotten’ and/or
delayed. One of my visitors from a local church who was bringing in some
requested Bibles for me to distribute at Lindela was
untruthfully told that I was no longer there by a member of staff who had taken
an arbitrary dislike to me. He was of course a criminal posing as a member of
the police force, a not uncommon occurrence all over the world.
One particularly
horrifying example of police violence and corruption that I heard of from a
number of fellow inmates was/is the situation with a local Nigerian criminal
and his muscular ‘side-kick’ companion. These two hoodlums, guilty of a number
of Durban murders and armed robberies, were allowed to take refuge in the
cells, misusing them as a sanctuary whenever uncorruptible
police were getting too close with their investigations or other mobsters
threatened their safety. They were deliberately put in a cell with up to 20 of
the inmates from other countries and, with tacit police approval, terrorised
and forced them to sleep up one end of the cell all crammed together, robbed
them of their cell phones, money and valuables, assaulted any who resisted and
ruled the cell like a personal fiefdom. They even forced a prisoner who was a
pastor from
Pollsmoor & Westville Prisons, RSA
(Extracts from e-mails
sent about my experiences)
If I was to design an
environment that would guarantee that most inmates would re-offend upon
release, I would be hard-pushed to 'improve' upon Pollsmoor
prison in
vulnerability, or
standards of self-care and capacity for rehabilitation. Also, despite the high
incidence of serious, contagious diseases like TB, hepatitis and AIDS, there is
no attempt whatsoever to separate those inmates so infected from the main
prison population, not even into their own rooms or cells. In fact whilst being
absurdly obsessed about the human rights and dignity of AIDS sufferers, those
uninfected inmates who have been more responsible, restrained and careful with
their sexual activity (and perhaps lucky) are actually disadvantaged,
unprotected and exposed to potential infection. Little special care is actually
given to those prisoners with these diseases and no real concessions are made
for them.
Adequate supervision by
staff to ensure that inmates bathe, wash their clothing and linen or that they
comply with the most basic elements of hygiene like washing their hands after
using the toilet is non-existent. This exposes others to serious risk of
infection and vermin, something that staff could not care at all about. This is
a breach of their duty of care and a failure to discharge their paid
responsibilities under law. As usual it is left to inmates to sort out these
problems, to do the staffs’ work without pay, just as they are obliged to
induct and inform new inmates as to prison procedures, routines, requirements,
rules and regulations. Many novices are as a result predated upon by fellow
inmates.
Gangsterism, drug use, extortion,
intimidation and theft is rife and so obvious that
staff are clearly involved or at best fully aware but do nothing. House-bosses
(Huis-Bos) in the large cells are appointed, not by
how mature, unselfish, fair, responsible and non-violent they are but by
criminal reputation and their prior history of and reputation for violence. In
the Section I was in at Pollsmoor, Section 3C for
over 40's, the 26 & 28 gang members are put into the same cells and occupy
opposite sides of the room under an uneasy truce. Beds are allocated to those
who will pay the R20 fee, seniority is ignored, favouritism & croneyism prevails and newly arrived gang members are given
immediate privilege. They often forcibly displace long term inmates from the
bed they have been using for weeks or months who are moved onto a shared
mattress on the floor. There is little regard for age, need, poverty,
disability, health or emotional state and staff do nothing about this.
Jails in
escape
The situation is
especially absurd in Pollsmoor as there is an entire
section upstairs, locked, completely empty and unused with excellent outside
yards and facilities. When I spoke to members of staff about this, they said
that it was closed (it was once used to house ANC & other political
prisoners) because some prisoners had climbed up the yard walls (but didn't
escape) and staff needed a dog handler in order to be given permission to use
these outdoor yards. A dog handler of course could have been easily organised
with real commitment and dedication - one was available every single week day
morning before dawn for court call - and their excuses were the usual deceit
and lies. Only those prisoners charged with less serious crimes or those with a
low risk of escape could have been placed in this section and this would have
alleviated the cell overcrowding problem considerably.
The lack of exercise
was scandalous during my time in Pollsmoor and due to
ongoing construction work in the only exercise yard, I spent 23 and a half
hours a day in the single cell with 2 other occupants (1 black, 1 white) with
very limited opportunities for exercise. Despite having approval to open the
upstairs yards, this never happened and in the first 3 weeks of my stay I was
only given exercise for an hour on 3 occasions. The staff
often 'overlook' this essential entitlement due to laziness,
game-playing, sadism or perverseness. Without exercise the inmates in large
cells spend all but 15 minutes a day in their rooms, like wild animals in a
cage, and this is another form of torment, especially for young, fit, healthy
men aged 18-35. Lack of regular exercise is definitely one of the main reasons
why there are fights between inmates and aggression towards staff so it is
incredibly stupid and short-sighted not to ensure that it exercise happens every
day. The central yard, now divided by walls into 3 sections, really precludes
any reasonable amount of space to walk, is very hot in summer, cold in winter
and has no seating or shelter.
The prison culture is
such that corruption is everywhere and most of the staff (known as “members”) are ‘on the take’ in some way and the 26 (into extortion)
and 28 (murder specialists) gangs effectively run the prison. EVERYTHING is for
sale including the clothing, cash, ATM and credit cards, cell phones, phone
cards, watches, jewellery, tobacco & cigarettes stolen from naive,
defenceless, vulnerable, intimidated inmates. Even prisoners’ own food rations
are stolen by unit workers and then sold back to them as well as prison issue
sheets, pillows, face washers and plastic spoons. The unit 'workers', as in all
prison environments worldwide, take a huge disproportion of the food rations
for themselves, leaving main course portions of meals for ordinary or cash-less inmates less than sufficient to adequately feed a
child. This naturally creates conflict, resentment and trouble.
The newly arrived
inmate's introduction to the realities of the system begins after they are
taken convicted or remanded in custody from court. In the police cells those
without gang associations, connections or other protection are literally bodily
searched by numerous fellow inmates at one time and stripped of anything and
everything valuable, often in full view of the police. If this doesn't happen
in the cells, it will happen during the trip in the grossly overloaded (by
about 300%) escort prison trucks/vans on the way to or from the jail. Unless
you insist that your valuables are held by police (something those newly
acquainted with the system do not know about), police and prison staff
deliberately issue all prisoners on their way to or from the court with their
valuables and do little or nothing to limit or prevent the thieving. In fact it
is reasonable to conclude that many probably profit from it just as they profit
from all illegal activity in the system. You can complain and point out the
offenders when you arrive at the prison who may then
be beaten with sticks and chains by ‘members’ and your property returned.
However this may also of course result in serious future repercussions inside
the prison where there is little or no protection from assaults by fellow
inmates.
In both prisons,
numerous prisoners tried to see if they could extort money from me in some way,
reasonably seeing me as a rich westerner (which by comparison I am). They were astonished
and incredulous when I showed them my entire worldly possessions, 1 small bag.
There are no secrets in prison and everyone knows who your visitors are, what
they bring in to you and how much money you have in your trust account. It was
a great blessing and much safer to have nothing and have had no visitors to
either jail for my entire time in custody. For these reasons I believe that
overseas prisoners from the developed countries should be kept separate from
the general prison population for their own protection.
In the holding cell
prior to leaving on the escort back to prison, many inmates can be clearly seen
wrapping drugs and other contraband in cling wrap and inserting these cylinders
into their rectums. Again many of the staff MUST be aware of this and are
therefore accessories to trafficking - drugs are freely available ‘inside’. The
money wasted on the cowardly escapism of drugs is scandalous as this could be
used productively for basic daily needs for those without any resources or external
support.
There is a significant
proportion of homeless in the prison population who are arrested for minor
theft and other petty crime, often committed in desperation to survive. There
is something obscenely cruel, negligent, wasteful and stupid about a system of
criminal justice that picks upon and criminalises the poor and confines them to
prison for weeks, even months, at a cost of around R800 per inmate, per week,
for stealing something worth, say R30. It is time that the hugely wealthy
churches who beg for money in CHRIST’s Name be held
to account and compelled to use the abundant resources that they fraudulently
collect (steal) in this way to house, shower, wash the clothing of, provide
meals and bedding for and transport those in genuine need. These unfortunates
should NOT be the responsibility of the criminal justice system and in the
There are also a large
number of men in prison as a result of breaching domestic violence orders. In
many cases it is again inappropriate to imprison these offenders, especially as
the potential opportunities to abuse the system by vindictive, malicious wives
are readily available.
Westview Prison is huge, like a
large town with 23,000 youth, women, remand and sentenced inmates. Medium A
section for unsentenced, unconvicted remand inmates
is ruled by gangs and is a very dangerous place indeed, much worse than Medium
B or C sections which hold sentenced prisoners, completely against the UN
ICCPR, but the usual deliberate, transparently obvious ploy to encourage remand
inmates to plead guilty. The way remand inmates were herded like cattle to and
from meals, the disgusting way that they were expected to crouch down on their
haunches like animals and eat hurriedly standing up, the physical violence by
staff towards remand inmates was and is an outrage. All around on the walls
were Legal Aid signs with their usual platitudes and deceitful pretence,
mocking “Innocent until proven Guilty” – what a sick and twisted joke! Naturally
the standard, loyalty, commitment and competence of most Legal Aid lawyers was abysmally poor.
In the cell in the
section for inmates from other countries in Medium A, the person in charge was
another despot who saw it as his right to search your belongings as soon as you
arrived, ostensibly for ‘security’ purposes, and take whatever he wanted which
was then sold to buy drugs. As a Pastor I was given a bed instead of sleeping
on a sheet (no mattress) on the concrete floor but it cost me some of the extra
clothing that I had accumulated! In Westville prison, the reception workers
basically run the reception and much of the administration. Fortunately for the
entire 20 days of my Contempt sentence I was housed in ‘the box’ which is the
reception workers’ cell. Here I had access to additional rations (3 meals
instead of 2) but bed bugs and lice were a real problem to begin with and I got
no sleep for the first 2 nights until I found a ’clean’ mattress. The showers
were cold for all but the last 2 days as the heating system was out of
order.
Nightime security and personal
safety in both prisons and the police cells was virtually non-existent and
there was no immediate help available in a crisis or medical emergency. The
cell monitor/alarm buttons were all out of order, deliberately disabled or just
ignored and in one instance that happened during my stay at Pollsmoor,
a prisoner died of TB and his cell mate was unable to get the attention of
staff until the next morning, 8 hours later! To call staff prisoners must bang
as loudly as possible on cell doors.
General Notes
- The quality of the
health professional staff, as in all prisons, was ‘variable’ and there is the
usual unrestricted access to pain killers for headaches instead of dealing with
the issues as to WHY prisoners get so many of these. Decent dental care is also
non-existent, just easy, quick and sadistic extractions.
- Nothing is ever fixed, inmates are blamed and misused as an excuse to avoid
doing proper and speedy repairs and maintenance even with urgent problems like
toilet blockages and flushes.
- The system with phone
calls, especially at Westville, is ridiculous forcing inmates to stand waiting
their turn for hours. It would be really easy to devise a chalk board
alternative but the present arrangement of course panders to corruption,
favouritism and bribery.
- Passive smoking is a
huge problem for the few non-smoking prisoners - in Pollsmoor,
for example, out of 250 in my section there were only about 6 inmates who did
not smoke. The wonderful opportunity to help and encourage inmates to give up
smoking is completely lost yet this could save millions in future health care
costs for the Public Health System.
- There is absurd
shortages of essential items like face washers, plastic spoons, pens, paper and
prison issue envelopes for mail (I never saw one!). In fact the mail system is
a total disgrace, mail is delayed or even deliberately held for days, even
weeks, and often stolen. A hair brush and towel sent to me at Pollsmoor by the Australian Consul 'disappeared' and at one
time I was given 12 items of mail from my wife Mary by the prison Chaplain, all
properly addressed with my prison and section number, some of which were
stamped as received 3 weeks previously!
- The night time noise,
particularly in Pollsmoor, by inmates screaming at
one another across the yard, and by the security staff wandering the corridors
laughing and talking at the top of their voices, was a nightmare. Nothing was
done to restrict or limit this at any time, not even between midnight and dawn.
- There were many
instances where obviously unsuitable females were inappropriately permitted to
walk around the prison, scantily or sexually clad, with their cleavages
exposed. These tragic, desperate, insecure, attention seeking aged girls should
NEVER be allowed to interface with men who are separated from their wives or
girl friends for long periods. This is a highly provocative and violent
invasion of men’s space even if most will not acknowledge this. Even the nuns
involved in pastoral care should not be in a men’s prison as they simply cannot
even begin to understand what it is like for the men or how they feel.
- The prison church
services are also a nightmare, noisy, frantic and escapist and nothing whatsoever
to do with CHRIST or Christianity. Many of the pastors have deplorable
standards of self-care, are overweight (when the prison populations show very
little obesity and are very fit in comparison to those in Australia), love to
talk but not actually DO anything real for those in need and shout their
pointless, repetitive sermons which avoid the real issues facing most inmates.
In contrast a genuinely Christian Ministry like mine can really change peoples’
lives by encouraging them to be slim, clean, tidy, live simply, put money last
on their priorities, be active but careful, express and discharge their intense
feelings only non-violently and generally be mature, considerate, kind, giving,
generous and gentle but direct, open and honest and stand up for what is right.
- The system with the
buy-up shop and the arrangements with visits are both
hopelessly inadequate, unfair and inefficient, provide easy
opportunities for thefts and stand-overs and there is
no privacy.
- It is not possible to
be neatly groomed because there is no access to scissors for anyone, not even
an official resident barber. Proper haircuts or beard trims are unavailable and
this explains why most inmates have their heads shaved which is really ugly and
destroys their individuality. A decent hair cutting and beard trimming service
could and should be started and this would be easy and safe to effect.
- It is simply
impossible to prepare and present a legal case in the South African prison
system, the necessary resources are unavailable and there is nowhere to sit and
write.
- There is no library
and very little access to reading material except what is brought in by
visitors. Even Bibles are not easy to obtain and guitars are rare despite
Africans well deserved reputation for loving to sing and dance. On the positive
side there was singing and even dancing by inmates nearly every day, especially
the Zulus in Westville, and their lack of inhibitions after boring
- The abundantly
available opportunities to give inmates some form of education, even basic
reading and writing skills, are completely wasted because no-one really cares
about their wellbeing. There is no excuse for this because some inmates spend
3-4 years on remand and any learning, even for only a few weeks or months can
be very useful. Boredom and the lack of any challenge, variety or learning are
physically unhealthy, emotionally debilitating and spiritually dangerous and
there are always significant costs associated with these.
- There is no attempt
to give inmates any self-awareness or understanding of how they really feel,
why they feel that way and how they are inappropriately discharging their
feelings in criminal, violent and non-constructive ways even though these
issues go to the heart of their offending.
In Westville as with Pollsmoor I again worked very hard with daily access to
about 200 fellow inmates in my yard plus others at the regular church services.
The most important message was that JESUS CHRIST was not white or European but
a dark skinned Middle-Easterner, that they had been lied to, deceived by,
stolen from and cheated by virtually all ‘Christian’ missionaries about the
true essence of Christianity and that the so-called 'civilised' white European
colonials were the true savages guilty of the most obvious violence, greed,
hypocrisy, double-standards and dishonesty. I also told my ‘flock’ not to be
ashamed of being poor because it is easy to find GOD and acquire Faith when you
are poor – in contrast it is extremely difficult to have true Faith when you
are rich, the camel & the eye of the needle, and very few of those from the
wealthy, industrialised nations will be part of CHRIST’s
Salvation by HIS own words and teachings.
(See “Christianity
& the Churches” on my web site www.geocities.com/michael_the_one).
The following extract
from other e-mails is relevant:
“We visited
Desmond Tutu is total
embarrassment with his silly, whiny, eunuch-like voice, dressed in his
expensive scarlet livery, a complete traitor to his own people. While we were
talking to him, he arrogantly brushed aside a homeless man who approached him
for some help, got into his chauffeur-driven limousine with his female personal
assistant and drove away. He epitomises exactly what is wrong with the churches
today!” However it is reasonable to conclude that many of those (un)gainfully
making money in the Parliament, Public Service and Criminal Justice System do
not wish to find solutions to the disgraceful state of the penal system, to the
appalling poverty and widespread homelessness as the present situation provides
them with a permanent job, a vulnerable group at whom to focus all their
personal issues and feelings and onto whom to offload their huge burdens of
un-faced GUILT and a justification for continuing to collect their exorbitant,
undeserved and largely unearned salaries.
At considerable effort
to myself, I made a submission to various government departments detailing a
sensible, practical, inexpensive and corruption-free solution to the problems
of unemployment, the homeless crisis and the impoverished standard of housing
in the settlements/locations like Gugaleto and Khyaletsha in Cape Town, Umlazi
in Durban and of course Soweto in Johannesburg. They did not even have the
decency to acknowledge my input or even reply despite their own program only
building 200,000 houses out of the 1,000,000 paid for! Corruption and crime in
the RSA, extremely widespread, ‘swallowed’ the rest!
Due to an unexpected
health crisis with Mary, we were given a horrifying first-hand insight into the
South African Public Health system at hospitals in
At Groote Schuur, the female doctor was a cruel sadist who
unnecessarily hurt patients and shouted all the time and generally the staff
ran the place for themselves and did as little as possible for patients. At Fishhoek Mary was blessedly treated by one of the most
caring, gentle, quiet, peaceful, competent, thorough and caring nurses that we
have ever met, anywhere, but she was grossly overloaded because most of her
colleagues were like the others that I have described. She was also tragically
very overweight because she little else but food in her life.
In conclusion our
experiences confirmed everything I have written over the past 30 years ago
which is contained in “Health Professionals, Hospitals & Healing” on my web
site:
www.geocities.com/michael_the_one
Lindela Repatriation/Deportation
Centre – Luupardsville,
(Operated by Bosasa)
My introduction to the
deportation process was to be picked up at 2am from the Central Police cells in
We arrived at Lindela at 9am and about 200 of us spent the whole day
sitting around waiting before being processed and put into cells/rooms in
Section B which has 32+ rooms which can accommodate up to 1,200 inmates
awaiting deportation or a decision on their refugee applications. With 2 other
sections A & C and the Women’s & Youth sections, Lindela
can hold and has held up to 5,000 people at a time. Fortunately, as GOD leads,
the following day I met a Colombian in the best room with only 13 men from
I spent 5 weeks in Lindela from the middle of November 2006 until my
deportation on the 28th December. I was interviewed briefly on the
My first criticism was
about the inconsiderate, improper and selfish behaviour of many of the
overnight security staff, his subordinates, who deliberately made the most
incredible amount of noise during the night. With no restraint whatsoever, they
(unnecessarily) shouted to one another across the yard, talked at the top of
their voices about personal matters of no relevance to their work, guffawed
annoyingly and did their level best to disturb the as-many-as 1,000 inmates in
my Section B. They did exactly the same in Section A and no doubt also in the
Youth and Women’s sections as well. This is a form of violence whether done
intentionally or through an immature lack of awareness and could reasonably be
viewed as a form of torture or sleep deprivation under the United Nations I.C.C.P.R.. The fact that it was totally unnecessary made it
even more reprehensible and the true motivation of many of the staff was
obvious when I talked it over in a very diplomatic way with one reasonable
staff member, the "I'm awake so everyone is going to be awake
syndrome". His companions behaved like all guilty people, pretended to be
outraged at me asking such a thing of night security (to behave with simple
consideration!) and one even stupidly said, “They must remember that they (the
residents) are not at home”. Yes, he and his noisy colleagues do need to
realize that they are not at home and cannot behave how they like. If that is
how they do act around their children at home, they are also guilty of a
particularly nasty form of child abuse!
The next point was the
lack of communication between Immigration and residents about their cases. This
made residents frustrated & feel abandoned, led to conflict and hostility
and put the staff of Lindela (who
are only the contractors in running the centre for Immigration) in a
very difficult position as the “meat in the sandwich”. Apparently in the past
Immigration maintained a regular presence in the sections and this is
absolutely vital to minimise friction. It is simply not fair to lock people up
in an ashphalt (white man's grass!) yard and not keep
them regularly informed as to the progress of their cases, their refugee
applications, investigation of their status or the date of their likely
deportation or release. Although a section notice board was tried (which was
vandalised by angry residents), something posted at the beginning of each week
where it was protected from damage and/or a bulletin for Lindela
staff who could then keep residents informed would be helpful.
There is little to do
in Lindela except sleep, watch TV or play/watch
soccer and the boredom is the greatest problem encountered there, especially
for young, fit, active men - in fact it is another form of torture. For those
from
The situation with
queuing for meals is totally unsatisfactory: instead of closely supervising
this, staff usually stand around idly chatting to one
another or inappropriately eating residents' rations, ignoring those inmates
who unfairly barge in creating conflict and resentment and violence. It is also
dangerous for the older, smaller and more vulnerable residents when there is virtually
an uncontrolled stampede for the better meals - this is a particular problem
when the centre is crowded. I was told by one staff member that the RSA Human
Rights Commission put a stop to orderly queuing claiming that it was unfair and
demeaning. If this is the truth, it is stupid and absurd - if not I have been
lied to.
I repeatedly rang and
asked someone from the
The attitude and
behaviour of some of the section B canteen staff was disgraceful. The worst of
these females were unbelievably rude, sullen and provocative and resented even
having to stand up to serve despite having so little to do. In contrast the
small woman in the main canteen was a real pleasure to deal with, obliging and
helpful.
The situation with the
women’s section is highly unfair and inappropriate with male residents walking
right past the windows of their rooms twice a day for meals, a process that
took about 4 hours in total each day. There was no proper supervised separation
of the sexes which may have been good for partners and friends but was
unsatisfactory otherwise.
The immigration policy
for those from neigbouring
The RSA government
needs to recognise and deal with reality. They cannot take the USA/Mexican
approach with a border fence as it never works and is extraordinarily expensive
and inhumane. The only way is to have totally free movement for
While at the
Immigration office in
Finally, where the hell
are the local
I spent 5 busy,
exciting, joyful, painful and humbling weeks in Lindela
before Immigration were finally able to organise me a seat on an Air Mauritius
flight back to Australia on the 29th December. I said goodbye to about 300
people and was in tears at leaving. Mary & I have fallen in love with
Africa and must return, as I am sure GOD is willing, not to South Africa which
spiritually is amongst the worst countries in Africa (ostensibly being the
richest), but to see the other 51 countries!
I was picked up at 3pm
on the 28th December after 3 1/2 months in custody by 2 private Interlink Sky
Marshals as Immigration sub-contract all their deportations by air. Even though
they decided that only one was needed, this was still a great waste of money as
I was deported at my own request.
Faithfully,
Michael Israel †
5) Human Rights Violations and Corruption in the Tasmanian Government
& Criminal Justice System
(Written as a series of reports and updates
between September & December 2004)
To: Australian Governor-General
Commonwealth Parliament
Tasmanian Governor
Tasmanian Parliament
Australian Human Rights & Equal Opportunity Commission
Supreme Court
Commonwealth Ombudsman
Tasmanian Ombudsman
Tasmanian Justice, Health & Human Services, Prisons & Police Depts
Advocacy Tasmanian
Tasmanian Children’s Commission
Tasmanian Director of Public Prosecutions
The
Bar Association of Tasmanian
Tasmanian Law Society
Tasmanian Legal Aid Office
Private Solicitors
Prison Reform Action
TAPSS Inc.
Anti-Discrimination Commission
Media
Re: Institutional Corruption in Tasmanian – The Case of Mary Israel
30th September to
Introduction
My wife Mary Israel, an entirely innocent 61yr
old Christian woman, wife, mother, grandmother and British subject with
Australian residency since 1953 has been ‘framed’ by corrupt Tasmanian police
with the full unlawful connivance of many other people in positions of power
within the Tasmanian Criminal Justice system – “work” is not an appropriate
description of what they get up to! Mary was originally arrested in the town of
Initially Mary was remanded in custody by
magistrate Roger Willee who had the unmitigated,
offensive gall to say that it was "dangerous to be zealously faithful to
GOD in this day and age"! It would be nice if those 'employed' within criminal
justice systems would confine themselves to making remarks and expressing
opinions about matters that they have the necessary, prerequisite, demonstrated
qualifications and credentials to be able to understand. Otherwise such
indulged and idle comment is impertinent, presumption and totally uncalled for!
Willee subsequently continued to sit on the bench at
hearings involving Mary despite Mary having written to him, expressing her
certainty that he was corrupt. Undeservedly refused bail and remanded in
custody on a number of occasions by the complicit Magistrates and Supreme
Courts, Mary has been repeatedly refused bail on the flimsiest, most
transparently unfair and unjust pretexts.
Over the past 7 weeks, Mary has been
shamefully mistreated, constantly harassed and literally tortured in Risdon
Prison by staff and by fellow inmates alike. Mary gets no peace whatsoever and
none of this is legal, none does Mary deserve and most of it is clearly against
the International Covenant on Civil & Political Rights (ICCPR) to which
Prisons all over Australia with few exceptions
encourage and reward selfish, attention seeking, irresponsible, dirty, messy,
noisy, inconsiderate, addicted, violent, criminal behaviour and superficial
religion and actively discriminate against all those who try to be clean, tidy,
considerate, quiet, giving, sharing, honest, open, kind, law-abiding and
non-violent, those with good standards of self-care, genuine faith and who
choose to live in reality. The high recidivism rate experienced is both
predictable and inevitable.
Details of the Charges
I had myself previously visited and stayed at
the Kingsholme Centre for Healing at Ellendale only a
few days beforehand on my own, at which time I familiarized myself with the
place as it was supposedly set up and administered as an interdenominational
‘Christian’ trust. I am a Christian Minister and have worked and been involved
with those in real need all over Australia and in several countries overseas
and always look out for available resources to assist the homeless, poor, refugees,
prison inmates on release and those with psychiatric disabilities and problems
with gambling and drug & alcohol abuse. See “Christianity & the
Churches” on my internet web site:
www.geocities.com/michael_the_one
At the Kingsholme
Centre there are in effect 3 houses, a manager’s cottage, two huge Oast buildings (mainly filled with rubbish, old machinery
& building materials), self-contained, good quality, cabin accommodation
for nearly 100 people and a large parcel of land eminently suitable for a working
farm. The place is absolutely ideal for the purpose to which I suggested it
should be put when I later spoke to David Fullarton
(see below). During my stay, however, the property was deserted except for one
of the trust’s elderly founders and his wife in the house on top of the hill
and David and Fiona Fullerton with their young son and baby daughter Rebecca in
the cottage! Just after I arrived, a young couple, Cameron and Chantal Shalice, also arrived in their campervan with their baby which was fairly amazing as Mary & I had met them in Deloraine a few days before. At that time I had suggested
that they might also contact David Fullerton, the manager of the centre, about
accommodation and work, something I intended to do myself when down in
The following day I made the offer to David
Fullerton that Mary & I be given one of the houses free of charge and in
return I would approach the social services agencies in Hobart so as to
organize to bring the above mentioned groups of needy to the Centre for
accommodation, counseling, anger (& other intense feelings) management,
simple education (basic literacy and numeracy) and constructive, healthy
physical work. I could see the centre becoming highly effective and largely
self-sufficient over several years, instilling a significant pride in those
that worked and stayed there. It would also be reasonably entitled to some
government funding. I told David that this process would be undertaken slowly
and carefully, building up the necessary support services and taking the time
to sort out the inevitable “teething problems”. I also commented that it was an
outrage that all the resources at the Centre were sitting idle and unused in
slow decay when the urgent need for accommodation and rehabilitation services
in
I was invited for a meal at the Fullarton’s that evening and was silently outraged at the
disgusting state of the house, a filthy, cluttered and untidy mess in total
disarray. There was absolutely no care or love in the house and it was clear
that Fiona Fullarton was one of those increasingly
common females today who takes every available opportunity to avoid being a
diligent, active, caring wife and mother.. What was worse was that one of
excuses she used to run away from the squalor of her house (and to also get
away from her lovely daughter Rebecca) was to take naïve, gullible visiting
females, one or two at a time, up to the ground floor of one of the Oast houses which had been converted into a depressing
“chapel”. There with great arrogance, hypocrisy and impertinence, Fiona
presumed to give advice and teach them about things of which she patently knows
nothing – being a diligent Christian woman, wife and mother devoted to her
family and to GOD! Although a medical practitioner (Opthamologist),
Fiona Fullerton is spiritually blind, lives in a total fantasy world about GOD
and what constitutes Christianity and her house shows clearly that she knows
nothing about serving a GOD of Love!. Fiona does the barest minimum for her
children and does not relate to them except on a very superficial level.
Fiona also recklessly puts her daughter
Rebecca in potentially hazardous situations at risk of harming herself, another
common scenario with many Australian mothers today. At one stage that evening I
suggested that Fiona leave Rebecca with David and I in
the dining room because I was so concerned about her being in the kitchen
(which was a dangerous disaster area!) with her mother cooking. Fiona said that
she was OK but eventually and predictably Rebecca hurt herself.
The following day David told me that they did
not want to have people staying at the centre except as visitors during the day
and only a few at a time. He and Fiona had delusions of grandeur about being
some kind of spiritual gurus giving these visitors spiritual guidance, advice
and leadership. Driven by remorceless guilt and
hoping to get rid of me as soon as possible in case I had not already seen how
much they had and how little they did, he also told me that they could not
offer me any further accommodation! I laughed at him to scorn, expressed my
reasonable disgust and indignation at his wickedness, deplorable standards of
parenting and gross misrepresentation of ‘Christianity’ and gave him a
spiritual warning. David then threatened and assaulted me and Fiona arrived and
also assaulted me, just as they no doubt do to their unfortunate deprived,
neglected and abused children when no-one is around. Despite their obstructive
efforts, I managed to pack my things then walked down to see Cameron who happily
gave me a lift into
Mary however felt compelled a day or so later
to embark on one of her missionary journeys on her own with no original
intention of going anywhere near Kingsholme. She
hitch-hiked towards the west coast up the
Mary was most upset that a small baby should
be left alone in a house by herself and phoned me from
the house, asking where Rebecca’s parents might be. I had only briefly
described to Mary my contact with David & Fiona Fullarton
but we agreed that I should call the Child Protection authorities - we both had
concerns about Rebecca, my own based on my previous dealings with the
I assumed (wrongly) that Mary would leave
Rebecca in the house while she did this, knowing what guilty troublemakers the Fullartons were. However Mary’s admirable, understandable
and most reasonable maternal instincts would not allow her to abandon Rebecca
so she walked up the hill carrying Rebecca in her arms, heading in the
direction that I had suggested. She could not carry her bag as well as Rececca so she left her bag with all her possessions, money
and ID at the house. This is hardly the behaviour of someone who is trying to
abduct a child! Several hundred metres from the
house, she came upon David Fullarton working on a
tractor with his small son sitting nearby in the dust. Seeing Mary, he
immediately came over saying, “Mary Israel, you’ve kidnapped my baby” and took
Rebecca roughly from Mary. The fact that David Fullarton
knew her name took Mary by surprise because she had never met him before,
another aspect of the case in which the police appear to be concealing
something else relevant. David then headed back towards the house, leaving his
son still sitting in the dust, abandoned alone in the company of someone that
he had just accused of trying to abduct his daughter! Mary was quite troubled
about David’s strange, disturbed behaviour so she walked down to the house,
collected her things, walked slowly down the driveway and was given a lift to Ouse almost immediately by a man in his 30’s who was on
holidays in Tasmania and he was driving up to Devonport to catch the ferry that
day. The lift was quite a miracle on a back road with so little traffic!
Later David Fullarton
stated that he saw me pick Mary up in the car, the police at one stage claiming
that this car was seen outside Battery Point where I was staying – a total
fabrication by guilty police desperate to implicate me at any cost! David Fullarton would need to have the eyesight of a bird of prey
to discern who was in the car at that distance! He also told police (and
Cameron & Chantal) that there was a baby monitor in Rebecca’s bedroom which
Mary saw no evidence of. As Mary had made quite a lot of noise whilst in the
house, both in Rebecca’s room and on the phone to me, the baby monitor is most
likely another after-the-fact invention by the Fullartons’
to make it appear that they were responsible parents! If there was a baby
monitor, no-one was listening to it and had not been doing so for an hour or
so.
The following day Mary was arrested in Ouse by a most unpleasant policeman (originally from
Conclusion
In essence all Mary was trying to do - and
this is easily proved if the police and Prosecution were seriously interested
in the truth - was comfort, change the saturated nappy of and return an
apparently abandoned baby Rebecca to her notably absent father and/or mother.
No-one abducting a child rings her husband to ask where the absent parents
might be and then walks from the house towards the back of the property away
from the front gate so as to find them and return their daughter! Also, the
other nonsensical charge of aggravated burglary requires a clear intention that
is patently lacking in this case. To proceed with this is a malicious and
vexatious prosecution, a typical example of the behaviour of the hypocrite -
they "strain at a gnat (make a great fuss about minor misdemeanors by
other people) and swallow a camel" (overlook major impropriety and
illegality of their own and their colleagues in the system).
Cameron and Chantal Shalice
were also at the Kingsholme Centre at the time of the
alleged offence and have subsequently expressed their own serious reservations
in relation to what the
The police, when interviewing and taking a statement
from Cameron and Chantal, were very narrow and absurdly selective in their
enquiries, being clearly biased and behaving most suspiciously. They were
certainly not interested in the truth but merely determined to gain just
sufficient misinformation so as to charge Mary no matter what actually
happened. Both Cameron & Chantal gained the distinct impression that David
Fullerton himself was putting on a great performance for the police and openly
lied to them. He claimed that he was already walking back to check on Rebecca
when he came upon Mary - in actual fact he was still working on the tractor
when Mary came up to him. David Fullerton is just very, very guilty because he
without comment or intervention allows Fiona to do things and behave in ways that
constitute literal child abuse. Like so many males in this country today, David
Fullerton is an accessory to all this, a useless, ineffectual, abdicated,
emotionally absent aged boy who refuses to grow up and set his grossly indulged
wife some long overdue limits.
With Mary’s interrogation, police insisted for
some hours on recording an interview despite her being exhausted and greatly in
need of sleep and her repeated refusals to say anything on the advice of the
lawyer we both contacted for her, Roland Browne. Browne reluctantly spoke to
Mary for only a few minutes by phone that evening at the police station but did
no more, a real betrayal of his client, so typical of so many Hobart lawyers -
no wonder the police are so out-of-control in this state!
In fact the widespread incidence of flagrant
corruption in all aspects of the criminal justice system here in
http://www.geocities.com/michael_the_one/corruption.html
As I wrote in my submission to the Fitzgerald Enquiry, it is simply impossible to have extensive,
well-entrenched corruption in only one section of any fully integrated organisation or system. If therefore illegality and
impropriety exists in one area, such as the police force or prisons (which is
so obviously the situation in Tasmanian), all related, interdependent areas
must also be similarly implicated and tainted, at very least by default: the
entire criminal justice system (courts administration, judges &
magistrates, Legal Aid & private lawyers, Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions, Child Protection, Forensic Mental Health,
Probation & Parole), Office of the Ombudsman, senior public servants, the parliament and even
the media.
When I later spoke to Geoff Storr of the Tasmanian Ombudsman's office about this, he
lamely protested that it could not be true and then hung up on me. His
behaviour and attitude in maintaining unfounded fantasies about reality and
living in convenient denial, was all too reminiscent of that displayed by the
Queensland Ombudsman's office in 1980-1987 when repeatedly approached by Mary,
our son Paul and myself about similar grievances. As a consequence of the
Fitzgerald Inquiry there, the police commissioner was jailed as were several
politicians, a number of other senior police officers were ‘retired’ or
reassigned, a judge was forced to resign and the National-Liberal government
lost power and was reduced to political irrelevance, a situation which
continues to this day!
The Conditions in Risdon Prison
Mary has been actively discriminated against
as a remand inmate, as a protection inmate, as someone supposedly suffering
from a disability, as a Senior citizen and as a Christian, treated far worse
than seriously violent, sentenced male offenders, for the first 3 weeks worse
than anyone else in the entire prison system. This despite my repeated
personal, written and e-mailed representations to the Magistrates and Supreme
Courts, to the entire Federal & Tasmanian Parliaments, to the
Lieutenant-Governor/Chief Justice, to a number of Hobart lawyers, to Legal Aid,
the Bar Association and Law Society, to wide sections of the media, to senior
public servants in the Premier’s, Health and Justice departments, to the police
Commissioner and police prosecutions, to the Director of Public Prosecutions,
to the entire management of the Prison’s department, the Anti-Discrimination
office, Prison Action Reform, The State Ombudsman’s office, the Official
Visitor, Advocacy Tasmania, the Human Rights Commission, the British Consul
(Mary is a UK subject) and others!!!
Mary has been suffering intermittent bleeding
from the bowel, dizziness, severe chest pains, nose bleeds and migraine
headaches and wakes in the middle of the night screaming, all caused by the
intolerable stress, distress and torment to which she is deliberately subject
every day by staff. These contemptible, cowardly criminals posing as prison
officers never leave Mary alone, scream at her, invent
excuses to disturb her, invade her space and disrupt her entire existence. They
also actively obstruct Mary caring for herself, make the simplest of daily
activities incredibly difficult if not impossible and unreasonably delay or
refuse her entitled requests. The most violent are Linda (a sadistic and
dangerous female who would make an excellent Nazi), Tracy, Margie (an obese
slob posing as a health professional), Mandy (a really nasty, extremely
provocative, game playing and trouble making emotional infant) and the male
officers Whitbread and Jeeves although the acting
manager Brian Thomas is responsible overall and knows exactly what goes on.
Mary was forced to go on protection because
she was/is constantly picked on, abused, threatened, assaulted and taunted by
fellow inmates as a result of entirely false and malicious personal
misinformation intentionally ‘leaked’ by staff. Also the inmates who are
pregnant are themselves very guilty because they smoke and have appalling
standards of self-care – it is easier to pick on Mary than face their own
effective child abuse. Prison management allow this
and are therefore literal accessories – it is no wonder that
The staff, far from intervening and setting
limits as they are paid and required to do by law, actually allow and actively
encourage and reward other inmates for doing this. This is a common ploy in
custodial institutions the world over where staff get detainees to 'do their
dirty work' for them! One inmate Rebecca ('Beckie')
threw a bucket against Mary's cell door, Nicole assaulted her - but of course
nothing will be done. On protection Mary is locked in her cell 22-23 hours a
day, effectively treated as if she was being punished - she is only allowed out
for an hour and a half a day, during which time she is locked in the yard
outside. However after the first day of comparative peace, the next day
sentenced inmates were also locked outside in an adjacent yard (the staff are totally
absent at this time) and they yelled abuse and threw stones at Mary, tried to
push over the table on which she was writing to the Ombudsman (her cell has no
desk or chair).
During one of our recent non-contact booth
visits, inmates in the yard came to the visiting area windows and again abused
Mary & myself. Linda, the officer on duty did nothing - in fact she was one
of the officers who assaulted Mary during the strip procedure (see below). Mary
still carries the obvious bruising from this. During visits Mary is also locked
into the non-contact booth visiting area along with mainstream inmates.
This is what the depraved deviates, cruel
sadists and vicious voyeurs running this prison call “Protection” for an
un-sentenced, un-convicted prisoner on remand! It is no exaggeration to say
that Mary, as a woman has been treated worse in some ways than the humiliated
and degraded POW’s in
Mary then spent the next 2 weeks in that
infamous den of deliberate deprivation, the Risdon Prison Hospital, the worst
possible environment for anyone in custody in the entire state (and
acknowledged as such by many of the staff) before being moved down to the
Female prison on the 11th October. As was the case detailed in the report
written last year appended below, Mary was vindictively placed in the hospital
despite not being ill nor disturbed nor being medicated nor treated in any way.
Here she was actually denied access to the natural supplements and cream
necessary for her health and physical well-being that were in her property
nearby. The psychiatric evaluations done principally by John Crawshaw (he was “a challenge” to deal with!) were cursory,
superficial, ill-informed and criminally negligent and conflicted
with/contradicted far more thorough assessments made by other fully qualified
health professionals. No attempt was made by any of those health
‘professionals’ involved to properly consult me. I am Mary’s husband of 25
years and her Full Time Carer (acknowledged as such and paid a benefit by
Centrelink) with a better knowledge and appreciation of Mary’s history than any
other human being alive. In fact Crawshaw later
confided to me that had Mary been successful in getting bail, they had planned
(plotted!) to have her taken across the road to the
The hospital environment in Risdon prison,
supposedly for sick inmates needing special care, peace & quiet, patience
& gentleness, undisturbed rest and the un-hassled, easy fulfilment
of their simple daily needs (bathing, washing & drying clothing, exercise,
phone calls, mail, meals & medication), is infamous and a real nightmare.
It is reminiscent of the infamous ‘Black Hole’ at ‘Boggo
Road’ jail (where I spent 10 days back in 1981) and equated for Mary to being
in the Detention Unit of any mainland state prison. Mary was held in solitary
confinement in what is effectively the punishment cell area and the conditions
with which she was confronted daily were harsh, inhumane and draconian. Several
of the male inmates in the hospital quietly confided that Mary was being given
a particularly hard time by both male and female staff, most of whom have no
idea of how to treat or behave around a real woman (quietly with kindness,
gentleness and respect).
Most staff were hard, rough, noisy, intrusive
and rude towards Mary, behaviour that is immature, delinquent and really
disgraceful and many shouted at her, swore at her, made fun of her, called her
names and slammed her cell door hatch closed every half an hour or so, day and
night.. The worst could only be truthfully described as marauding savages,
depraved deviates, cowardly curs and cruel sadists and how they tormented Mary
gave a rare insight into the appallingly low calibre
of the coarse, vulgar, hard, rough, noisy, sexual, intrusive, deceitful females
they must have been around all their lives, especially their mothers!
I initially phoned Alan Burton (Hospital
Manager) in a very conciliatory way and offered help so as to make Mary’s time
there as stress-free and comfortable as possible for all concerned - my
responsibility for Mary does not stop when she is physically away from me, even
in prison. Whilst pretending to be pleasant and friendly to me, a common game
in the criminal justice systems of this world, he high-handedly and arbitrarily
refused a number of Mary's reasonable requests (including a phone call to her
Consul) and ignored all my suggestions.
All the usual childish, boring, annoying and
provocative games were played by senior prison staff: Mary's mail was
obstructed and delayed, her cash and property were intentionally ‘mislaid’ and
sent elsewhere, she was refused any phone calls for 2 weeks (not even one to me
despite my intensive involvement in her care and her legal defence),
her prescribed antibiotics were not reliably issued, she (and I) were
repeatedly lied to, the staff failed to do what they said they would do,
messages about legal matters were not passed on and Mary was deliberately not
informed of entitlements such as access to the Official Visitor and ‘Buy-up'.
Typical of mismanaged and/or corrupt custodial environments, there is no
reliable consistency - entitlements and activities are arbitrarily allowed one
day, then not allowed the next, and routines are also changed from day to day
so that inmates can never relax but are always in a state of constant anxiety
and under stress. This is again a form of illegal torture because it is most
often done deliberately by people who are themselves psychotics.
Worst of all was the regular misuse of
physical force and Mary was unnecessarily assaulted several times. When first
taken down to the Female section on Friday 1st October, Greg Chaplin, the
Female section Manager, ordered Mary to change into prison issue track pants
and top. Mary reasonably refused as she had already painstakingly explained her
religious beliefs in relation to clothing. As a Christian woman (and not a
neutered female eunuch), Mary chooses to wear women's clothing (dresses &
skirts) and not men's clothing (pants, jeans & shorts). There are specific
provisions in prison regulations that allow remand inmates to wear ‘suitable’
clothing and to cater for genuine spiritual needs in relation to clothing, diet
and religious ceremonies. Despite this, Chaplin, a particularly nasty, violent
little male with major unresolved personal issues of his own about females (it
is no surprise to learn that he used to be a psychiatric nurse in the public
mental health system!), then threatened that he would have 2 male officers come
into her cell and strip off her clothing unless she complied. Mary
understandably screamed at this illegal, threatened, sexual assault worthy of
imprisonment and despite not resisting was then physically assaulted by 1 male
and 1 female officer, handcuffed and dragged into a van by another male
officer, driven back to the hospital and dragged into her cell. If this is what
they do to a woman of Mary’s age, faith and commitment to non-violence, I can
imagine the depravity, assaults and sexual violations the staff have got away
with over the years! One day they will undoubtedly get exactly what they
thoroughly deserve when they stand in front of GOD!
For the first 10 days in the hospital Mary was
locked in her cell 23 hours a day with nothing to occupy herself and with no
other women to talk to. Mary was moved five times in as many days, usually just
after she had cleaned her cell (which are all filthy and a distinct hygiene
hazard), at one stage into one that was so over-heated that she perspired all
the time. This is another form of deliberate, illegal torture. Later she was
put in a cell with its own yard which was sometimes left locked and sometimes
not. The last cell she occupied was really depressing with a concrete plinth
bed, no chair, no shelves, no table, a bare concrete floor, the basin taps hurt
her hands to use and she could not control the shower or TV herself but had to
ask every time. This was ‘problematic’ because her cell was right down at the
end of the corridor and the staff, if she could get their attention by banging
her sore hand on the glass door (there is no intercom), though grossly under-utilised, were reluctant to do anything for anyone,
anytime. The shower was literally like a fire hose (other female inmates have
complained about this to no avail), had see-through glass doors, there were 2
cameras and 2 male prisoners opposite so that she got no guaranteed privacy
whatsoever. Water went all over the cell from the shower so that the bare
concrete floor took hours to dry out. When Mary was reluctantly allowed to use
the bath in the main bathroom, she was confronted on her return by a naked male
prisoner showering in the cell opposite which has only bars for a door. If Mary
and I had not made such a fuss about this, she would still be stuck there.
It took me numerous phone calls and several
days to have Mary provided with a Bible and the brand new Bible (still sealed
in its wrapping) I provided her was originally refused
as was the 2 Gideon Bibles I brought for the general prison use. They know Mary
receives real comfort and strength from GOD's word
and it is not unreasonable to again conclude that they were trying to destabilise her. Hospital staff acknowledged that the
Female section of the prison would probably have accepted her Bible had she
been there. Why is it more difficult to get a Bible into the hospital where
this is most needed? - there are a number of inmates
there who have tried to commit suicide and they could certainly use some
spiritual comfort, strength and guidance! But the twisted criminals on the
staff enjoy inmates taking their own lives and cause many of the feelings which
give rise to prisoner suicide!
Mary's daily hygiene needs as a woman were put
last after all the male inmates', instead of first as is done in a caring and civilised society - children come first, then women and
finally men. Showering, washing and drying her clothing were made as difficult
as possible and she was originally forced to use bathroom and toilet facilities
that were also used by men. Mary had a change of clothing in her property to
which she was denied access and so for 2 weeks had no clothing except what she
stood up in plus her nightdress. This was a transparently obvious attempt to
coerce Mary into wearing the awful prison track pants and top. In Brisbane
Women’s Prison earlier this year an acceptable dress was made for Mary in about
an hour and she then spent one month in mainstream without any serious
problems.
Mary was refused a toothbrush and toothpaste
for 3 days despite these being readily available and found it very difficult,
if not impossible to get access to shampoo (which was initially supplied daily by
the nurse) and a hair brush. One of the female prison officers 'graciously'
brought her in a comb from her home but I was not allowed to leave her a small,
easily inspected toiletry kit with all these essential items. There is no
excuse for this as Mary is more trustable and less violent than any of the
staff as well as having much better standards of self-care and responsibility.
Greg Chaplin blessedly went on 7 weeks leave
effective the 11th October, perhaps he was deliberately sent away to escape any
accountability or consequences of his unlawful actions? However when Mary was
again taken down to the female prison on Monday 11th, his acting replacement
Brian Thomas (who later pretended to be pleasant, reasonable and sensible to
me) ordered Mary to change into regulation prison clothing. When she again
refused, he instructed 2 female officers (Sandra & Linda) to forcibly strip
Mary of all her clothing, leaving her sitting naked and weeping for about 30
minutes, and threw her sandals across the cell. There is a camera in this
observation cell and knowing how sexually depraved are many of both the male
and female staff, it had probably been turned on beforehand by prior
arrangement. All those guilty directly or by default of this outrageous
atrocity and sexual violation deserve to be imprisoned and would be if there
were even the merest shreds of justice and decency in this completely corrupt,
wicked state. I am myself sickened, disgusted, appalled and infuriated but
nonetheless willing to leave these violent deviates in GOD's
hands WHO will most certainly deal with them far
better and more severely than I ever could or would. Of course once they had
their 'pound of flesh', most of Mary's clothing (purple pants, white
underpants, nightdress and white top) was subsequently returned to her and she
is now allowed to wear it again! I repeat, prison regulations authorise both sentenced and remand inmates with genuine
religious beliefs to wear clothing appropriate to their professed needs. Brian
Thomas, after discussions with the new Chaplain, Charles Whitton
(whom I had asked to speak to Thomas) quickly resolved this unnecessary dispute
about clothing and had a dress made for Mary. This should have taken 1 hour but
took 2 weeks and caused Mary huge distress!!
Mary made a formal complaint about this
incident and about not being allowed to wear her own clothing as per prison
regulations. Typical of guilty people with so much to hide and so used to
getting away with it, the Director of Prisons Graeme Barber, weeks later in his
reply stated that although prison regulations do allow for remand inmates to
wear ‘suitable’ personal clothing, personal clothing is in fact deemed ‘not
suitable’ because of “possible targeting of remandees
and potential protection issues”, the usual Catch 22! This did not apply to
Mary as she was on protection and separated from other inmates anyway. What a
sick and twisted joke that is as Mary is already relentlessly targeted and
harassed all the time yet the staff do nothing about it! Wearing her own clothing would not affect the situation one iota.
The congenital liar Barber also stated that the reason Mary was stripped was to
be searched. This is an obvious, deliberate lie as strip searches are
requested, Mary was left naked and weeping for half an hour afterwards with no
clothing and she had come from a higher security section of the prison anyway,
the hospital. All the same corrupt games as pre-Fitzgerald Inquiry/pre-‘Boggo road’ jail riots in Queensland - the only remedy in
Tasmania, as in Queensland, will be to effectively staff the new jail with
completely new personnel, starting at the top!
I found the behaviour of the medical and
nursing staff especially disgraceful as every day they betray their patients'
trust and fail in their duty of care by what they do and fail to do. They know
what goes on in the hospital and by doing nothing become accessories to a great
deal of criminal violence, abuse and neglect - many are voyeurs who actually
derive twisted enjoyment from the inmates' suffering and distress and the
psychiatric personnel are the most disturbed, as usual. One psychiatrist, Farzaan Metha, whom Mary
described at the time like an unfeeling robot or clone, organised
for someone to talk to Mary's at her own request as she was so traumatised by her continual violation. This drug pusher
stupidly but predictably suggested that Mary might benefit from some
anti-psychotic medication yet no qualified, aware, experienced professional in
touch with their own feelings could make such an ignorant, unhealthy,
dangerous, insane suggestion. It is typical of these hardened and deeply
disturbed health amateurs so lacking in affect, so 'flat-line' in their own
feelings and emotional response to life, that any deep feelings are now seen as
indicative of psychosis. Mary enjoys being able to feel, her responses to what
has been done to her are reasonable, understandable, justifiable and
appropriate and her religious beliefs and values far from over-valued. Their
contrived, stupid and superficial theories about human behaviour and ‘mental’
illness certainly are “over-valued”! How about locking up and forcibly
medicating the criminal police, prison staff, lawyers, judges, magistrates and
miscellaneous officialdom who show many of the indicative symptoms of mental
illness!
With their usual pretence of concern and
infamous obsession with treating symptoms, the health professional who ‘work’
at and visit the prison hospital dangerously dispense ‘pain killers’ (like Panadol) and anti-depressant medication as though they are lollies and readily prescribe courses of anti-biotics but of course do nothing to remove or attend to the
easily preventable causal factors that cause headaches, disease and infections.
These include the noisy, inconsiderate, rough, brutal, perverse, arbitrary and
provocative behaviour of staff and the filthy, unhygienic state of the cells.
Another bizarre scenario recently occurred
when Mary decided to fast for a day or so, something we have done for health
and spiritual reasons over many, many years. Unlike most health professionals
today we know and fully understand the physical, emotional and spiritual
benefits and implications of fasting and do not have the unfounded, irrational
fears about ‘starvation’ or ‘dehydration’ common to the aged, un-weaned infants
and obese gluttons so common today. We have both successfully completed
extended fasts – Mary safely went for 21 days in April this year with only
sweetened herbal tea and I neither ate nor drank anything for 16 days on one
occasion and 10 on another. In all cases we were much healthier for the
experience and are well able to monitor our own progress. Despite this, after
Mary missed one (1) meal last week, 4 prison staff including the Linda,
Whitbread, Jeeves and the nurse Margie (who has such
appalling standards of self-care she should be treated with derision and
contempt!) burst into Mary’s cell where she was trying to rest with her eyes
closed. Margie pinched Mary painfully on the ear and said in her whiney,
annoying little voice “Mary, are you all right?” She then insisted on checking
Mary’s blood sugar levels, an enormous pretence, unnecessary invasion of space
and obvious excuse to disturb and distress Mary yet again. Mary of course said,
“Are you people insane? I have chosen to miss one meal, the food here is
appallingly bad and mine may being contaminated. Why don’t you do something
about that?” At this Linda sadistically assaulted her by driving something
sharp into Mary’s palm (not a needle) at which point Mary naturally screamed.
Her blood was forcibly taken and she was then left distressed and violated. Her
blood sugar levels will of course be fine, something that we could have told
them without the need for this unwarranted space invasion, something they could
also have readily determined using their eyes and ears if they knew anything
about health.
Least important of all is the appalling
general standard of the prison meals which are nutritionally deficient,
unpleasant in taste and texture (like indistinguishable sludge) and lacking in
fresh fruit and vegetables in a state with such an abundance of these dietary
essentials. Despite Director of Prisons Graeme Barber's proud public posturing
in the papers recently, either the ingredients are very poor, or those in
charge know absolutely nothing about food preparation or both. The food is
worse than ‘
The latest chapter to this sorry saga now
involves the Director of Public Prosecutions and the Supreme Court. I organised Kim Baumeler of
However when I arrived at the Supreme Court
for the hearing at 2.15pm on Friday 8th, I was told that the Prosecution were
now opposing bail and asking for more time, a remand until the 11th. Kim Baumeler, instead of vigorously expressing her reasonable
indignation, opposing any further delay (the prosecution had been given plenty
of notice) and questioning the validity of the charge itself, was absolutely
useless in a real betrayal of her client. I was myself really outraged at this
duplicity and at the improper games that the Prosecution were
playing but merely shrugged my shoulders in obvious disgust and frustration.
However Justice Pierre Slicer, after having been really rude and provocative a
few minutes earlier towards Mary without just cause, then unreasonably,
irrationally and self-indulgently pounced on and pretended to take offence at
this silent gesture. In what was a transparently obvious, previously organised, prior intention to provoke me and then misuse my
justifiable indignation as a contrived excuse to neutralise
me as a surety for Mary’s bail, he then said that I would not be suitable as a
surety. He had to that point not even spoken to me nor acknowledged my
presence, I had not even offered to go surety and I believed that one was not
required anyway. I stood up, told him that I considered his behaviour to be
most offensive and improper, expressed my disgust and outrage at the obvious
corruption which tainted the entire criminal justice system here in
To continue this absurd scenario, the
prosecution on the 11th then agreed to not oppose bail but required a surety!!!
The fact that they are determined to proceed with such a fanciful charge in
these circumstances gives a good insight into their true motives and character,
their contempt for the law, disregard for legal processes and their total
disinterest in justice.
I then spent nearly 3 weeks trying to get a
decent solicitor who would actually represent Mary (and not the Prosecution!).
Norman Reaburn, the Director of Legal Aid, whilst
pretending to be reasonable and helpful, refused to re-assign aid again and
only a fool would have persisted with Kim Baumeler
who has betrayed a number of clients’ interests that I have been personally
told about. Greg Meyer is only interested in money and won’t represent Mary,
even for a simple bail application with the paperwork already filed, without
guaranteed legal aid or payment. Stephen Chopping withdrew due to a perceived
conflict of interest – his uncle Reg Chopping started
the Kingsholme Centre for Healing where the alleged
offence occurred! Legal aid agreed to 'in-house' representation but their
reputation is far from encouraging and they have only half the number of
counsel they really require. In fact it is difficult to have any confidence
whatsoever in Legal Aid as I tried for 10 days as Mary's authorised
representative to have Rochelle Mainwaring speak to me and return one of my
calls. Mary finally was able to actually speak to a lawyer for the first time
after being in custody over 3 weeks!
Norman Reaburn
subsequently sent Mary via myself a most offensive
letter in which he expressed an attitude and took a position that was
adversarial and more consistent with that of the Prosecution than with someone
defending Mary. He also deceitfully made a statement about Mary's likely defence, presumably for the record, which was a complete
fabrication. He refused to fund Mary's Supreme Court bail application despite
Legal Aid implying that they would do so for Kim Baumeler
the week before. Another wolf in sheep’s clothing! Corruption is corruption; if
you are not part of the solution, you are part of the problem! Legal Aid is
also responsible for the inexcusable situation with another defendant in
custody, Erin Triffett who was recently arrested up
north for a burglary committed 3 years ago when she was a drug addict. Erin was
intimidated into making a statement and pleading guilty by police, remanded in
custody despite being pregnant and the case transferred down to
I am outraged, sickened and disgusted by the
whole situation and would be extremely disillusioned if not for the fact that
in the course of my
Something that is particularly annoying and
very ‘Tasmanian’, to quote your Premier, the considerably less than honourable Paul Lennon, is the affected fuss that is made
about conservation and the environment in this state whilst the far more
pressing and important issues of corruption and human rights abuses are left
unaddressed. I agree that our environment desperately needs protection here and
appreciate that any clear felling of old growth forests with chainsaws and
bulldozers is not real work, it is environmental vandalism, destructive
desecration, parasitic freeloading and literal bludging
– as are the efforts of all those who support it. In fact what is done to
people as babies and young children, they will do to themselves when they
become adults, to their own children and to the environment as a whole unless
they face the truth of their childhoods, constructively and openly express all
their repressed rage, fear, pain and guilt and grow up. This behavioural truth gives a good insight into the generally
poor standard of parenting in this state over the previous generation or so –
and it is getting worse!
As a true Christian Minister I need to give
all those directly or indirectly responsible for this injustice and atrocity directed
a clear and specific warning. What you do to Mary, you do to me, and what you
do to me, you do to CHRIST and to HE WHO sent me.
Unless Mary is released immediately and appropriately compensated, I know that
the GOD WHOM I serve so faithfully will clearly show HIS obvious displeasure in
all your personal and professional lives as only HE can. My extraordinary faith
gives me the certain knowledge that HE will intervene in HIS unmistakable way
soon unless something significant is done for Mary - today!!
This warning of course in no way implies any
threat whatsoever from us - in stark contrast to the violent heathens, gutless
cowards and depraved deviates persecuting Mary, we are totally non-violent no
matter what the provocation imposed upon us.
I am not surprised that the Premier of this
state has recently died in agony and the Governor forced to resign in disgrace
- they both received the original documennt appended below last year and did
nothing.
Faithfully,
Michael Israel †
Mary Israel’s Health & Court Proceedings – Update - 18th November
2004
Last night Mary was suddenly moved from the
female section back to the Risdon Prison hospital for 'administrative' reasons
that have nothing whatsoever to do with Mary needing to be there. It was done
because the staff in the female section are stubbornly
unwilling and apparently unable to supervise and manage all inmates with
fairness and due diligence in accordance with the law, with prison regulations
and with their own job descriptions. Instead these cowards harass and pick on
Mary because it is so much easier than doing what they are paid to do.
Mary, an unsentenced,
unconvicted 61 year old non-violent Christian woman,
mother and grandmother, has now been placed in a cell directly opposite Martin
Bryant, the worst serial killer in
When I went out to visit her today, as I do 3
times every week, I was told that I would now need a written authority to visit
from Graeme Barber, the Director of Prisons because I had spent time in custody
in Tasmania (3 days in the Remand Centre over 1 weekend last year!). I have of
course already visited Mary in both the prison hospital and the female section
nearly 20 times over the past six weeks without question but this 'requirement'
has been 'suddenly’ discovered as a deliberate ploy to obstruct contact between
us. The fact that I am representing Mary as her advocate in the impending
committal proceedings next week (26th November) will not have escaped the
attention of these corrupt individuals but no doubt be part of their insidious
schemes. By delaying/postponing any visits, Mary & I will be unable to
prepare and present a proper defence - and the
approval, if forthcoming, might possibly reach me by mail on the 25th or 26th
next week! The fact that this constitutes a deliberate and blatant attempt to
pervert and obstruct the course of justice will not trouble them at all because
they have got away with it for decades and the criminal justice system in this
state is totally corrupt from the very top right down.
After the farce that was the recent re-listed
Supreme Court bail application in front of J. Peter Evans (who was
extraordinarily rude to Mary, an unnecessary act of real provocation and
cowardice), Mary’s position is clear. She will not accept bail but needs all
charges to be dropped immediately, a proper written apology and full
compensation for all that she has had to endure for the past 6 weeks - $150,000
would be a good starting point and we will work upwards from there if there is
any delay or attempt to negotiate. Those involved have already cost the
longsuffering Tasmanian taxpayer tens of thousands of dollars to fund what is
in effect an illegal, vicious vendetta. Mary and I are both sick and tired of
and outraged with your silly, pointless, corrupt (il)legal games. She will tolerate no more handcuffs (she has
removed 3 pairs herself in transit), no more being driven to and from court in
a degrading ‘dog box/sardine can’, no more being treated like a felon by
felons, no more unjust, corrupt court proceedings and no more inhumane
treatment of her as a woman. I fully support her position.
Since Mary warned Prison management from her
cell, the construction contractors have cut the water main and the Female section
was out of water for half a day. When the water was reconnected they had a
flood because some taps had not been turned off! A few days later the main
electricity and phone supply lines were ‘accidentally’ cut, again by
construction workers – no power or phones for several hours and no hot water
for a day or so! A day or two later they had no hot water again.
Now you may like to see all this as simple
coincidence but our Faith is sufficient to rely upon GOD’s
increasing personal and professional afflictions of those responsible for this
criminal outrage, within and without. Either our religious beliefs are totally
unfounded or you are all in more trouble than you can imagine and will regret
ever persecuting Mary & I in these outrageous
ways! Ask the completely corrupt Premier of Queensland Peter Beattie what
happens to those who refuse to obey the law in relation to us, his 'annus horriblis'! Your Premier,
Paul Lennon today certainly looks like GOD has 'sat upon' him and deservedly
so. His eventual end will be worse than his predecessor’s.
Faithfully,
Michael Israel †
Mary Israel’s Health & Court Proceedings – Update Friday 3rd
December 2004
Mary has been in extreme pain for the past 10
days or so, she is totally worn out and probably anaemic,
suffers chronic migraine headaches, constantly feels dizzy as if she is about
to pass out and emotionally is ‘at the end of her tether’. On Sunday night last
she wept for about an hour, had nightmares all night and awoke on Monday
morning (30th November) bleeding copiously. All this is a direct result of the
physical privation and psychological torture that she is forced to endure every
day, most of which is easily preventable and completely avoidable and much of
which is deliberately caused by custodial staff themselves.
The stress to which Mary is constantly subject
causes all these health problems and as a consequence she is now obliged to
take 3 Brufin and 6 Panadol
every other day for the pain, someone who rarely uses pain killers and who
normally endures great emotional distress without complaint. We have repeatedly
offered to supply at our own expense the simple, readily available treatment
that we know actually works for the bleeding to no avail – none of the several
doctors or nurses consulted has been interested in our hard-won experience! So
I have purchased and will attempt to drop out to the prison what Mary needs – a
natural Iron tonic (Iron tablets cause constipation and aggravate the problem),
Rutin with Vitamin C to help build capillary strength
and aid in the digestion/absorption of Iron, Calcium supplements because the
prison diet is disastrously inadequate in Calcium for anyone who is rapidly
growing, pregnant, breast feeding or over 50 and prone to osteoporosis and
finally, Witch Hazel cream to reduce the swelling. By copy of this to the
health professionals involved in Mary’s situation, I would appreciate your
support in getting these products in to Mary for her use – none compromise
security in any way, all containers are brand new and the manufacturers’ seals
intact with the exception of the cream which is in an easily inspected plastic
jar.
Mary & I both see her mistreatment as a
deliberate, illegal, immoral and inhumane attempt to destroy her health and
emotional wellbeing and compromise her safety. What has happened and is still
happening to Mary can not be seen in any way as just an abject failure in duty
of care or criminal negligence but constitutes the crime of causing grievous
bodily harm, either directly or by default, in an effective conspiracy
orchestrated by some highly corrupt, sinister, guilty, scurrilous scoundrels in
the criminal justice & law & order systems of this state. The worst of
these depraved deviates, vicious voyeurs and cowardly criminals hope that Mary
will either commit suicide (which she would never, ever do as a Christian) or
die which will implicate them all as guilty of murder or manslaughter. Everyone
responsible has all been warned of the implications and consequences of their
actions and inaction and will not be able to lie, as they are so used to doing,
claiming vacuously that Mary tragically “fell between the cracks”. This
scandalous, illegal scenario has been clearly and repeatedly publicised in widely circulated reports sent to all those
in positions of power in Tasmania for over 2 months now – no-one has any valid
excuse not to have intervened and done something tangible no matter what they
may feel about Mary & I or about what we write and say.
Custodial staff at Risdon Prison (and
especially in the Female Section) do virtually nothing to provide a fit and
proper environment for all inmates and make almost no effort to diligently and
actively supervise and monitor inmate behaviour, despite having all the power
at their disposal and being in charge of all the various forms of rewards and
punishments. At absolute best even management make only the most ineffectual
and ineffective pathetic pretence of setting limits so that the worst inmates
are indulged and rarely held to account; those who swear, are selfish, noisy,
loud-mouthed, foul-mouthed, sexually depraved, drug & alcohol addicted,
violent, inconsiderate, vulgar, coarse, intrusive and who have the lowest
standards of cleanliness, tidiness, order, self-care and emotional awareness.
There is no serious attempt by custodial
services to change any or all of these basic tenets and
values of the criminal culture nor to set a proper adult example of
honesty, integrity, maturity, restraint, patience, courage, genuine concern and
responsibility. Generally speaking, it would be hard to imagine a better
environment in which to place remanded and sentenced inmates that would
guarantee most would re-offend upon release, a dangerous, unfair and unjust
place of great privation, degrading mistreatment, emotional dishonesty and
repression and deprivation of dignity which impacts disastrously on what shreds
of self-esteem inmates may have left after their invariably horrendous
childhoods. Although the physical facilities at Risdon Prison are archaic and
the place very over-crowded, it is the staff who make the place such an
insupportable nightmare for inmates, that do their level best to destroy
anything that is still decent, caring, strong in spirit but gentle,
considerate, open, honest and law-abiding about inmates following the obvious
prior efforts of their child-abusing parents. Many inmates are also
unrecompensed, violated victims of the state and private foster system
systematically subsequently harassed by juvenile authorities and police when
teenagers which together with prison ‘successfully’ turns them into hardened,
bitter, cynical, disillusioned, drug-addicted, violent criminals.
For this incompetence, irresponsibility,
injustice and stupidity Tasmanian taxpayers are being effectively defrauded of
about $65,000 per inmate, per year, most of which is extorted as salaries by
staff within the system, many of whom are completely corrupt and guilty of
overt fraud as they do not even remotely fulfill their paid responsibilities,
especially senior administration. This disgraceful expenditure represents the
same cost as assigning 1 personal full time ‘minder’ to each inmate outside, a
much better solution for at least half the prison population! Another lateral
suggestion is to instead give selected short term inmates (especially those
with families and with no history of violence) the $65,000 that would have been
wasted on their senseless, counter-productive containment, naturally under the
most stringent conditions, so as to help them intensively work on their problems,
relationships, addictions and offending behaviour, establish themselves in a
settled environment and be taught how to value and enjoy their lives. None of
this is possible in prison despite the laughable pretence of rehabilitation.
The courses in anger management, substance abuse and cognitive skills are
incredibly superficial and misleading and teach inmates virtually nothing about
acknowledging, coping with and constructively discharging their pain, anger,
fear and ‘guilt’ in non-violent, lawful ways. Counseling is usually done by
arrogant, ignorant, impertinent young single females armed with Psychology or
Social Work degrees fresh out of university who have absolutely no idea about
themselves or about how men, especially those with families, really feel or why
they behave in the ways that they do. In other states like
Instead of other, more sensible, viable,
productive and humane options for dealing with prisoners, many managers and
staff actually enjoy the current situation, blatantly misusing their positions
as an unsupervised opportunity to be physically and/or psychologically violent,
exploiting comparatively defenceless and vulnerable inmates as convenient
targets for all the repressed feelings and unresolved issues that they refuse
to deal with from their private lives. This improper introduction of personal
emotional agendas and vested interests into professional responsibilities is a
particularly insidious and widespread form of corruption today, the corruption
of power. I am always reminded of the behaviour of a Deputy Superintendent of Rockhampton Prison 20 years ago, a sadistic, fat slob and
aged infant whose house was a filthy, messy pigsty and who was savagely hard on
prisoners about cell cleanliness and tidiness only because he was so useless,
ineffectual, abdicated and emotionally absent himself. He lacked the courage,
decency and integrity to grow up, be a man, stand up to his lazy, dirty wife
and have her clean up his home - consequently he illegally focused all his rage
and guilt at inmates.
The courts are knowing accessories before and
after the fact to these systematic, institutional abuses of human rights, to
rape and murder (inmates in this state have been killed by staff, by fellow
inmates encouraged to do so and rewarded by staff, by deliberate ‘doctoring’ of
medication and by being driven to suicide) and to this scandalous misuse of
public money. Judges and magistrates remand and sentence people to this horrendous
environment fully aware of what goes on there, actions that at best show a
callous, disregard and disinterested inhumanity, at worst a really depraved
form of vicarious voyeurism. Pontius Pilate-like they disclaim any
responsibility and refuse to listen to prisoners’ grievances and this gives an
excellent insight into the true motives and character of so many of those who
make money in the worldwide systems of Law & Order and Criminal Justice. In
fact the most extensive network of organised crime in
the world today is the collusion by corrupt police (governments, business,
intelligence organisations and military) globally who
improperly conspire with one another to engage in all kinds of criminal
activity and to persecute or eliminate anyone who threatens or exposes them.
This is a fact that no government anywhere is willing to acknowledge, confront
and deal with. Am I supposed to be so naive as to believe that it is a
coincidence that the day after I filed a complaint with the Internal Investigation
Unit of the Tasmanian Police Force, I was given a summons by police to appear
in court on 6th December on a trespass charge from early last year that has
‘suddenly’ surfaced. Constable Kerry McNaughton phoned me to arrange this from
the office of the Commissioner as I later discovered when I tried to phone him
back!
With Mary’s court proceedings the farce and
impropriety continues. Everyone knows (and has done for over 6 weeks) that Mary
is unrepresented by counsel and that I am supporting her in whatever way I can.
I have rung and otherwise contacted police prosecutions as well as the office
of the Director of Public Prosecutions on several occasions over the past month
(as would have her lawyer) but they have refused to talk to me. In the
ludicrous hearing before Fred Thornett JP last
Friday, Christie Holloway representing police prosecutions exultantly claimed
that they had not heard from Mary or her lawyer, were not ready to proceed on
the committal and also would not be proceeding at the next hearing date on the
20th December despite having had over 8 weeks to prepare. They are only
delaying because they know they have no case and this is a deceitful and
particularly nasty way of sentencing Mary to a ‘de facto’ term of imprisonment
as I have previously pointed out. We have provided the courts and prosecutions
with more than enough information to prove that there is no substance
whatsoever to any of the charges laid against Mary.
These deliberate tactics are typical of the time and money wasting ‘legal’ game
playing which is a feature of courts all over the world. The profiteering
parasites un-gainfully un-employed therein gleefully protract and prolong cases
to suit their own insidious agendas – only the unimportant, much maligned,
fiscally suffering and largely irrelevant defendants and taxpayers are
inconvenienced and disadvantaged.
Fred Thornett
inanely recommended that Mary get a lawyer when it is the useless, incompetent,
untrustable, hardened, disinterested, uncaring,
ambitious and avaricious lawyers who are at least partly responsible for Mary’s
totally unjust mistreatment, that have caused much of the problem in the first
place. Also, despite Thornett’s self-justifying
comments to the contrary, our extensive experience (and my invariable recommendation
to others) is that it is far, far better for defendants to represent themselves
if they feel confident and able to do so. They know all relevant details of
their case, can trust themselves to ‘put their heart into it’ and actually care
what happens and will then not feel like irrelevant units in the legal system’s
production line. Legal Aid duty solicitors are especially infamous, often late
and hung-over, always rushed and usually hopelessly over-loaded and all those
in the courts systems know this and do nothing about it. Getting
a lawyer to do a case for nothing, no matter how worthy, to represent someone
‘pro bono’, is difficult elsewhere and impossible here in
Fred Thornett also
noted that on court documents Mary was shown as having no fixed place of abode
despite the arresting police being told where we were living at Battery Point.
Police knowingly lied to the court to compromise Mary’s situation in relation
to bail and they have known where I am living for over 2 months. As detailed in
typed transcripts I have widely distributed recently of Statutory Declarations
sworn by 2 of the only 3 non-police witnesses in Mary’s case, investigating
police were uninterested in the truth, guilty of bias and gross distortion and
misrepresentation of the facts (and improperly introduced issues of their own –
Constable Fiona Clark has not come to terms with why she can’t have children,
Constable Steven Fry told Mary that he hates them!) Mary has obviously been set
up as a scapegoat to bear everyone’s guilt and it is outrageously unjust but
typical that 2 magistrates and 2 Supreme Court judges have refused to even
consider the (pathetic) strength of the case against Mary, despite this being
of crucial relevance to her situation in relation to bail.
As detailed in previous documents, Mary
originally appeared before Roger Willee SM, someone
Mary has strenuously objected to and whom Mary reasonably believes is unable to
be impartial and has behaved improperly. In answer to our continuing objection
to him sitting on Mary’s case, Fred Thornett parroted
on about “the importance of administrative considerations and convenience”, a
pathetic ploy and ‘red herring’ to justify his improper decision to remand Mary
to appear again in front of Roger Willee on the 6th
& 20th December. His stubborn refusal to remand Mary’s
matters to another magistrate, even though Willee
himself has pretended to do this once already himself and despite my
diplomatically voiced objections, is patently absurd and an abuse of power.
If they have nothing to hide, they would comply with our clearly expressed,
genuine concerns - as I stressed in the court, justice needs to be seen to be
done as well as to be done. The fact that the prosecution so eagerly supported Thornett’s decision is indicative of their determination to
have Mary’s case kept in front of a “compliant” magistrate about whom we have
the most serious, clearly expressed and well-founded reservations. With the
matter on the 6th December, the decision is especially indefensible and
unjustifiable, as the charge of disturbing a religious service has not been
dealt with before. Be aware, I will not speak on Mary’s behalf in front of
Roger Willee and Mary will not say a word in his
courtroom.
Thornett, no doubt for the benefit of the public
gallery, went on with some further nonsense about the courts maintaining the
integrity of our “free society” when free in this context can only mean that
the corrupt and totally self-interested privileged elite who administer and
effectively control the legal system are ‘free’ to treat the law and legal
processes with complete contempt, act unlawfully with impunity and typical of
the outrageous double standards of these guilty hypocrites, expect everyone
else except their crooked cronies to behave with absolute, rigorous propriety
(“They strain at a gnat and swallow a camel”).
If the prosecution were behaving properly in
this case, they would have been reasonable, instead of viciously vexatious and
spitefully malicious, open to my previous suggestions that they withdraw the
abduction charge completely and the aggravation element of the burglary charge.
Although Mary has done nothing morally wrong in entering the Fullarton’s house, I recognise
the enormous deficiencies of the Tasmanian criminal justice system, the lethal
burden of personal and professional guilt carried by most of those who make
money therein and their inability to behave fairly, justly, decently, courageously
and with humanity and integrity. Therefore I tentatively offered weeks ago to
try to convince Mary to plead guilty to the much lesser charge of burglary to
resolve this absurd situation. Clearly she has been punished already much more
than any reasonable person could ever expect!
Faithfully,
Michael Israel †
Final Ultimatum Monday 6th December 2004 – Mary Israel’s Health &
Court Proceedings
Unlawful Brutality by Greg Chaplin (Manager Females, Risdon Prison)
Further to my documents above, I received a
phone call from Mary late Thursday afternoon 2nd December. Mary told me that
the bleeding had blessedly stopped on Wednesday morning (with no help from the
health professionals at Risdon, of course) and she managed to have a single day
of comparative peace though still effectively locked in solitary confinement as
she has been now for 9 weeks. She was also finally able to (briefly) enjoy
items bought on ‘buy-up’, a carpet for her cell floor and a jug to boil hot
water for her hot water bottle to ease the pain. However, as Mary has remarked
several times, the worst twisted deviates on the staff always try to ruin any
enjoyment the inmates may manage with difficulty to extract out of this
infamous cross between a ‘concentration camp’ and an insane asylum known as
Risdon Prison.
On Wednesday last around the middle of the
day, Mary was having an amicable discussion with 4 inmates from her yard next
to theirs, the nicest one she has had in 8 weeks. The discussion was quiet,
peaceful and productive, about giving up smoking and about Christianity, and
there was no swearing or unpleasantness, for a change. However, Greg Chaplin
walked past and being such an insecure, jealous, interfering troublemaker,
decided to do what he does best: purposely create a problem, damage and
destroy. He told everyone not to make so much noise (which they were not doing
- he does nothing about the screaming, shhouting and swearing the rest of the
time) and summarily cut Mary’s time outdoors short, in fact in half. When Mary
understandably objected and took exception to this provocation and injustice,
everyone else was locked away and Mary peremptorily moved out of the cell that
she has called home for 6 weeks or so and taken to the observation cell, cell #
1. This is tiny, right next to the staff area and is the noisiest one in the
prison where everyone walks past. She was left there until after dark with only
4 blankets and nothing else and she also decided not to eat dinner.
During the early evening after lock-down, Mary
took the opportunity to tell the rest of the prisoners how disgusted she was
that they were so lacking in courage and compassion, how they were destroying
themselves as women by the way they chose to behave and reminded them that the
eventual outcome of this dishonesty was an eternity in hell. This created a
major disturbance with everyone screaming and shouting. Any sensible and aware
staff member would of course have allowed this uproar ‘run its course’ and
everyone would have settled down eventually after productively getting some
anger ‘off their chests’, safely locked in their cells. Instead the custodial
officer Sandra frantically ran around (in her silly, ugly overalls) trying
desperately to quieten the inmates down - Chaplin was
apparently called.
Mary had gone to bed after trying to read her
mail in the dark (she cannot control the lights in the observation cell). She
was nearly asleep when Greg Chaplin suddenly turned on the light, burst in
accompanied by a very large male officer and tore the covers off her bed where
she was lying. Chaplin would never have had the courage to do such a spineless,
abhorrent act of terror during normal daylight hours,
and never alone by himself - he is a little man in body and spirit who clearly
suffers from the incipient paranoia typical of Napoleonic despots. This
inappropriate and violent sexual violation and unconscionable invasion of
personal space is an all too frequent occurrence at Risdon
where female inmates are commonly threatened, harassed and assaulted by male
staff. There are female staff available who
should always be present with male personnel when/if they enter female
prisoners’ cells and no staff member should ever enter a cell without warning –
in this case Sandra watched from outside the cell.
Chaplin said that he was a Christian (now
there’s a dangerous delusion and mistaken misrepresentation of reality for you,
one that borders on the insane), summarily ordered Mary to get dressed
immediately and said that unless she hurried, he would have the male officer
“grab her and drag her down the back”. Mary took this threat seriously but, as
she was only wearing her nightdress, asked them to turn away while she got
dressed. They refused and so she was forced to hurriedly put on her pants in
front of both these deviate males and then moved to a cell right down the back
of the prison. This was, surprise, surprise, absolutely filthy, very like a
police watch-house and has very poor ventilation. Mary had heard on the
‘grapevine’ a few days before that the manager acting in Chaplin’s absence,
Brian Thomas, was planning to move her there, all because he would not manage
the prison properly (see below).
Chaplin came to the cell a little later by
himself, physically threatened Mary several times by poking his (ugly) face
right in hers and said ”if I have any more trouble with you, I will strip off
your clothes myself and stuff you into overalls”. Nicole Stirling,
one of the worst, nastiest and most guilty inmates, was instructed to get
Mary’s things from the other cell that she then threw into a heap on the floor.
This successfully ruined all the order and care that Mary has painstakingly put
into her other cell and deliberately turned her life upside down.
Understandably Mary was very distressed, wept uncontrollably, had little sleep
and discovered the following morning that she was bleeding heavily once more
from the stress. However no-one did anything for her whatsoever the whole of
that day (Thursday), half her possessions had been intentionally left in the other
cell, she was unable to wash the blood off her pants all day, was denied a
pillow, had nothing to write with, no hot water bottle and felt very ill and
understandably so! Her light was left on all that night and all the following
day and the meal that she was reluctantly offered in the evening was some cold
mashed potato and a solid, partly frozen corncob (an interesting diet for
someone with an Iron deficiency!).
Intuitively I had guessed on that something
was seriously wrong and decided to come out to the prison to check and to drop
off some mail even though our final visit for the week was not scheduled until
the Sabbath on Saturday. I pushed the bell at the Female Section around
Incidentally, the usual games are still being
played with Mary’s mail - at the visit on Tuesday she had told me that she had
not received mail for a week until the previous evening when 7 letters from me
had arrived, all but one hand delivered into the prison mailbox. 3 had taken
over a week, 2 took 3 days and 1 was delivered overnight! Someone on the staff
is also stealing the special stamps from the first day cover envelopes that I
buy to brighten up Mary’s day and for a few other selected inmates who have
showed Mary kindness. They of course do not touch the ordinary stamped mail so
it is nothing to do with security! As of Friday last they had not given Mary the
approved pink singlet that I passed in a week ago and were quick to refuse the
small, new, see-through Perpex radio I bought her
that would have afforded Mary some peace and relief (and which in no way
compromises security). Infuriatingly they also returned the things that I
dropped off weeks ago for the productive use of any inmate: some nice floral
paper, the 3 sets of guitar strings that the Chaplain Charles Whitton and I had together bought for the 2 guitars which
have broken strings (Brian Thomas promised to re-string the guitars and refused
my offer to do so – he lied) and some Christmas cards that I sent several other
inmates. The excuses given were the usual infuriating lies and
self-justifications that they always use to try to rationalise
their perverse, obstructive, provocative and essentially violent behaviour, the
total misuse and abuse of power.
Of course prison management could not behave
so violently and corruptly unless the police force, courts and the rest of the
criminal justice system, senior echelons of the public service, all appellate
authorities and the parliaments both here in Tasmania and in Canberra were
fully implicated accessories, both before and after the fact. It should be
noted that the Director of Prisons here in
As I have written previously to Judy Jackson
and to the Official Visitor of the Prison, Jan McLaughlin, Jan O’Grady is also
an impertinent, presumptuous little spirited female who is ‘way out of her
league’ in this position, an act of fraud and false pretences that makes the
situation with corruption much worse. They are all like someone’s maiden aunts
and what they like doing (and all that they are good at) is sitting, talking
and avoiding all the real work! If she, like them, actually put everything she
could muster into being a woman, wife, mother and grandmother, with GOD’s help she might just manage to make it. What all these
positions require are strong spirited, courageous, honest and just men who will
stand up for what is right and speak the truth. Significantly, of the 300 or so
addressees copied worldwide on my mailing list for Mary’s case, only 2, have blocked all my e-mails from the outset, Judith
Jackson, the Minister for Justice, and Graeme Barber, the Director of Prisons.
Those with the most to hide and be ashamed of have displayed the greatest
arrogance, ignorance and intolerance in relation to Mary's situation. Neither
has acknowledged nor replied to any of my correspondence. The only 3 people who
have asked me to remove their address from my mailing list are Peter Fraser
from Prison Support, a journalist from the ABC and Justin Lawson from the
Internal Investigation Unit of the Tasmanian Police Force.
By copy of this to the Human Rights Commission
of the United Nations and to the High Court in
Like them, you all need a long overdue lesson
in humility and obedience and to be taught WHO is really in
charge of this world, certainly not you hopeless bunch, all suffering from
delusions of relevance and significance. In the greater scheme of things
you have no importance and no real power at all. I am only too happy to leave
the resolution of this situation in HIS hands. I actively encourage you all to
treat this spiritual warning with derision, doubt and contempt - that way the
more sensible and less arrogant, ignorant and intolerant of you might heed the
lessons that HE is about to teach the worst of you! You all ought to be
thoroughly ashamed of yourselves, both personally and professionally!
Faithfully,
Michael Israel †
Attachment
To: Tasmanian Parliament & Governor
Police Department
Courts
Corrective Services
Forensic Mental Health
Department of Health
Senator Bob Brown
Churches
Homeless Services
Media May
2003
I needed to write this to you all in the
course of my life and work as a Christian Minister following the (blessedly)
brief but intense 3 weeks my wife Mary and I spent in
Our personal experiences in
1) Mary and I were arrested and charged with
disturbing a religious service for speaking openly to the clergy and the
congregation in the Anglican church at Battery Point
on Sunday morning. We spoke for 10 minutes prior to the service starting and
left before the scheduled service time. However the churches in general are
desperate to prevent anyone speaking the truth openly due to the huge discrepancy
between their own activities when compared to CHRIST's
teachings and example (1). The churches in Hobart more so than in any major
Australian city have a very significant presence and exert an (improper and
covert) influence on government and its various instrumentalities, most
especially the courts, police, prisons and forensic mental health. This would
not be so bad if they actually did what they claimed to do and represented a
GOD of Love even remotely. However it is not inappropriate to describe all
denominations as a kind of religious fascism (especially the Catholic's and
Pentecostal's indoctrination of children with intimidation and the threat of
physical force, reprisals, punishment and exclusion), a deliberate, organised form of spiritual extortion and gross
misrepresentation of true Christianity. A properly prepared and presented
prosecution for fraud and false pretences would undoubtedly succeed in a fair
and just, unbiased court of law, if one could be found somewhere in this
completely corrupt country.
In fact the churches are so terrified of being
exposed that the senior clergy do not hesitate to resort to actively
persecuting those who do speak and write the truth by misusing their contacts
in positions of power within law enforcement, mental health, the courts and
prisons. These decrepit individuals and hypocritical heretics have so much to
hide, so much to lose and such an investment in their unearned and undeserved
status, influence and admiration and respect they command. Mary, a non-violent
60 year old Missionary and myself, a Christian Minister have been
systematically targeted in this way for over 20 years with no redress, in ways
that decent, law abiding people in this country would find horrifying and
difficult to believe.
2) We were kept in the Hobart Remand Centre
for about 7 hours, the usual delaying games under some fabricated pretext, and
refused any meals or access to a lawyer, even by phone. Mary was not allowed to
speak to her British Consular representative. When finally brought before a JP
sitting on the bench, we naturally protested our innocence and mistreatment.
This alcoholic crook's response was to collude with corrupt police and remand
staff (incensed at our criticism of them), have us removed from the courtroom
and refused us bail in our absence. Most of those who fraudulently make money
with the Criminal Justice systems of this country (and elsewhere in the world)
have an extremely low tolerance for the truth and react violently, viciously
and vindictively to any criticism, constructive comment or exposure of their
nefarious activities. Police typically resort to foul language and abuse, the
use of unwarranted and excessive physical violence and the unrestrained misuse
and abuse of their entrusted power, the behaviour of cowards and criminals.
Mary was extremely distressed by all that had
happened (in addition to the load of pain and stress that she bears each and
every day in relation to the situation with our daughter Hannah (14)) as well
as the appalling state of so many other children whom we meet everywhere. Mary
understandably went through a number of intense emotions when bail was refused,
especially because we had committed no offence in the first place. The Remand
staff and especially the Acting GM showed themselves to be hopelessly
ill-equipped, inadequate and inexperienced and completely unable to understand
or cope with this easily managed situation. As usual, far from behaving with
kindness, compassion and professional care, they over-reacted insanely and
(predictably) made Mary’s situation worse. In particular the Acting General
Manager is a real sadist and cruel bully who misuses his physical size to
intimidate and assault inmates and has serious unresolved issues about females
from his personal life which he improperly introduces into his work
responsibilities. This renders him unfit to be placed in a position of
responsibility or trust for women in custody. He openly colludes with corrupt
police to give certain 'favoured' prisoners privileged treatment and to make
life as unpleasant as possible for and illegally deprive others of
entitlements. He changes quite schizophrenically from being nasty, threatening
and violent one minute into a 'nice' little 'innocent' boy the next when he
needs to deceive or impress someone from outside the Centre.
Typical of the insanity of the Remand
situation, if someone is deemed or assessed to be likely to harm themselves or
to be otherwise needing of close supervision or watch, they are put in a
video-monitored cell without adequate bedding and subject to bright lighting
that is never turned off. In other words when anyone especially needs peace,
quiet, undisturbed rest, real care and comfort, they are given the exact
opposite in what is effectively a clear case of twisted, sick, depraved,
voyeuristic sadism. For no valid reason I was held in such a cell all Sunday,
forced to lie on a concrete bench without a mattress and would no doubt have
spent the next 2 days there unless I had managed myself to swap cells on return
from court on late Sunday afternoon.
3) Because the entire Remand staff couldn't
cope with one outraged, distressed, non-violent 60 year old Christian woman,
Mary was sent to the Mental Health Unit at Risdon Prison on Sunday evening.
There she encountered such brutality, savagery, perversion and cruelty as to
make the Hobart Remand Centre look like a Club Med location! In stark contrast
I, who was not unduly stressed, upset or outraged, was taken during the day up
to the main Remand units upstairs, allowed
unrestricted access to showers and was even able to exercise on the open roof
courtyard. At the prison Mary was effectively tortured and tormented by a group
of staff whose activities are thoroughly deserving of imprisonment, depraved
deviates, callous thugs, lazy freeloaders and introduced vermin of a sub-human
species posing as public servants and health professionals. She asked
repeatedly for a shower and her other legal entitlements and encountered the
usual infuriating, provocative, obstructive games and troublemaking, double
messages, lies, excuses and self-justifications that abound in these
unmonitored institutions. In one report I wrote to the Executive Director of
Corrective Services in
4) While the illegality may not always be as
blatant, obvious and savage as it was with Mary who was brutally assaulted for
repeatedly asking for a shower for 36 hours (and suffered serious obvious
bruising on her upper arm as a clear consequence of this), it is always there,
often covertly disguised behind the outward pretence of 'concern'. In fact
these people's standards of self-awareness, emotional maturity, restraint and
general professionalism are deplorably bad.
5) At one stage Mary was threatened by 22
nearby male psychiatric inmates in adjoining quarters with rape, sodomy, murder
and mutilation with no intervention by staff to defuse the situation or put
Mary somewhere peaceful, safe and private. In fact it is reasonable to conclude
that the worst of the staff had set the situation up in the first place, a not
uncommon scenario in jail. This is unconscionable and a complete denial of
Mary's rights under both state and Commonwealth law.
6) Mary & I were finally brought before
the court separately on Tuesday afternoon. The magistrate totally ignored my clearly
stated request to be present at Mary's appearance as her acknowledged and paid
Full Time Carer. This was not an oversight but part of an orchestrated
conspiracy to have Mary removed and silenced as an embarrassment. Having
unlawfully arrested her, unlawfully refused her bail, unlawfully detained her
in custody for 3 days, unlawfully mistreated her and deliberately tried to
break her spirit and destabilize her emotional state with continuous
provocation, severe stress, deprivation of basic rights, physical assault and
emotional torture, they were then going to use her reasonable and
understandable response to this as an excuse to place Mary under a Mental
Health order in the PICU of the Department of Psychological Medicine over the
road at the Royal Hobart Hospital! This was a deliberate ploy by a group of
public servants funded from the public purse who do the exact opposite of their
paid responsibilities!!
Mary was allowed no contact with me, bailed
first, involuntarily assessed and then taken to the PICU. I was then bailed
with considerable deliberate delay an hour or so later and told nothing even
when I directly questioned the very flustered and clearly guilty presiding
magistrate as to what had happened - such crooks! I discovered Mary's whereabouts
only by the Grace of GOD and went straight to the hospital where I was able to
overhear a substantial amount of what Mary was trying to tell the assessing
staff. Mary was understandably aggrieved and upset and I certainly support all
her legimate criticisms. If allowed, I could have
easily managed Mary's distress and settled her down with a mixture of kindness,
understanding, patience and care, commodities notably absent in all hospitals
today. In contrast the ignorant, inept, even stupid psychiatric staff
over-reacted with their clumsy arrogance and misused medication totally
unnecessarily. Against her will, Mary was injected with Acuphase,
a strong sedating agent used to placate and restrain violent psychotics, which
rendered her incapacitated for 3 days!!! There was of course no
legitimate medical basis nor justification for this gross invasion of
Mary's personal space and breach of her rights and Mary woke up even angrier,
more distressed and feeling more violated - another medical success and 'miracle'
cure!
7) Mary's subsequent experiences in the PICU
and briefly upstairs in the Open Ward of the Department of Psychological
Medicine were consistent with my previous observations - refer to a separately
forwarded extract entitled "Health, Healing, Health Professionals &
Hospitals". I find it hard to believe that such ordinary, emotionally
unaware and unskilled, small spirited & fundamentally inexperienced people
can be put in charge of psychiatric patients already under so much stress and
in so much emotional turmoil, crisis and confusion. This is a savage
condemnation of the medical & nursing education, assessment and
qualification system today which place such an insane emphasis on intellectual
processes, mindless memorising and academic theory
and almost no demonstrated personal emotional maturity, competence, awareness
and understanding nor the vital prerequisite mastery and care of body and
spirit. Not one staff member was able or willing to cope and deal with intense
rage, pain, fear, guilt or even joy. In fact most of the time they isolated
themselves from patients, held endless meetings with one another (instead of
being accessible to and actually actively listening to and helping patients)
and rely almost entirely upon drugs. My complaint to the (supposedly
independent but manifestly corrupt) Health Rights Commission in
8) Finally there were our experiences in
relation to Heather Rose Nicholas, an intelligent, articulate, sensitive,
fine-spirited woman of 54 years of age who 'chooses' to live on the streets.
This deplorable situation came about after Heather purchased a house in Rokeby and was subsequently terrorised
by neighbours known to her who repeatedly vandalised her house. She unsuccessfully appealed to police
for assistance but they were (typically) useless. They told her that they could
(would) not help nor could guarantee her safety, a lie. It is not unrealistic
to describe this behaviour at best as an abdication of and failure to discharge
their duty of care, at worst it is a depraved form of sadism by males who have
serious unresolved issues about women which they improperly and illegally
introduce into their professional responsibilities as police officers. These
repressed feelings are focused directly and indirectly at any female
unfortunate enough to become under their care.
While Heather was considering her position
under a shadow of fear and trepidation, the events of
The police do what they do best all over the
country - they pick on her, taunt her and move her on like the cruel, cowardly,
sadists that so many of them are. At one stage 2 police officers deliberately
gave her completely conflicting directions and when she was unable to comply,
they (mis)used this as an excuse to arrest her. She
was then directed by the court to stay out of the city itself, a really stupid
and inane order. Forensic Mental Health are also
useless and uncaring and will not exercise their discretionary authority to
have her at least regularly placed into the PICU so that she receives a simple
basic level of care. Clearly Heather is not well and urgently needs to be
bathed, clothed, sheltered and fed properly and intervention may need to be
done a number of times before she takes on this basic responsibility herself.
Mary & I tried to help Heather repeatedly
over the 3 weeks we spent in and around Hobart, seeing her almost every day at
least once, often in the middle of the night, We took her hot cups of tea, gave
her clothing including a waterproof poncho and toiletries and bought her food
as well as assertively encouraging her to have a shower and wash her clothes.
On several occasions we offered her the use of the facilities where we were
staying without success. I told her that I would with her approval organise emergency accommodation, an entitled Centrelink
benefit and longer term housing but Heather is so unwell that she will not
cooperate with this.
Heather is suffering a serious psychiatric
disability despite her obvious intelligence and ability to sound 'reasonable',
has life-threatening standards of self-care and is effectively slowly
committing suicide in an obvious form of chronic, dangerous (and
self-indulgent) masochism. Without intervention she will die on the streets. In
addition she is endangering others because she sits on bus seats also used by
commuters and school children. She smells atrociously and is infested with
fleas and other vermin of an indeterminate nature which can be picked up merely
by sitting near her. She collects and keeps rubbish, anything that is given to
her, and carries this around in bags that she bizarrely places neatly in rows
wherever she is sitting. I quietly removed the worst of these from her one
night and put them in a nearby rubbish bin. This uncovered her repressed anger
and infuriated her, how she really feels underneath the surface, the root cause of her bizarre behaviour. If any of the
so-called mental health 'professionals' knew anything about human behaviour
they would know that to heal Heather requires intensive intervention, ongoing
imposed care and the encouragement and management of her feelings. I tried to
do this but I had neither the authority nor the resources (which the Police and
Mental Health most certainly do have) to make any significant difference in
view of her reluctance to face and deal with her issues.
Finally, early one rainy morning before dawn I
took Heather's bag containing her personal papers which was falling apart. I
hid this down the lane next to the Post Office intending to return with some
plastic gloves to sort through this, throw out the rubbish and put anything
important into a replacement bag. I dropped Mary off at a local bakery cafe
where I obtained the gloves and bag and was returning in our rental car when
stopped by the Police. They falsely fabricated a charge that I had failed to
stop at a red light and gave me a ticket to that effect (which I have
absolutely no intention of paying), a ploy to hold me while they found out what
was happening. Heather had apparently gone to the Police Station to make a
complaint about me removing her bag. Mary and I were both arrested for theft
but later released as Heather did not wish to press charges. However we were
held in custody yet again for several hours while they took us to court to
serve a restraining order upon us.
This is typical of this country and the
literal unemployed bludgers, opportunistic
freeloaders and idle busybodies who infest the government and public service.
The only 2 people who really cared for Heather and who were prepared to show
this in action with so few resources of their own, were penalised
for doing so and restrained from helping her! Heather only survived the winter
last year as it was a mild one but she is suffering some form of serious health
crisis due to the privation and squalour she is
imposing upon herself. Unless all of those copied on this act to give Heather
what she needs, she will die.
Conclusion
There is no true government anywhere in this
'lost', completely corrupt, morally decadent and spiritually bankrupt country,
no leadership by example, no truth, no foundation, no balance, no justice and
no integrity, courage or simple human decency (4). In fact most of the
Australian population shows all the same characteristics and behaviour as the
population of
The police, legal profession, magistrates,
judges, prison, parole, mental health and children's services personnel
nationally are undisciplined, out-of-control, lawless layabouts
and unbelievable incompetents who are grossly under-utilised,
who conspire to commit a great deal of crime themselves and outrageously
provoke and mishandle so many young people into a life of crime. These
conclusions are equally true of all the criminal justice systems in every other
state of
Of course the underlying cause of the rapidly
accelerating deterioration in Australian society at large, the generally
deplorable standard of parenting today, is deliberately ignored and left
unattended to because those people in positions of power are amongst the worst
parents! These frauds extorting their money under false pretences do no real
work, - sitting and talking is not work - they have appalling standards of self
care and the private reality of their personal lives and relationships is very
different to their proudly proclaimed public posturing. Caring for your body
and spirit, and so being slim, fit, active and healthy, is the first, simplest
and most basic aspect of being a mature adult, a prime prerequisite for being
in charge of, giving advice to or offering leadership to anyone, about
anything, anywhere, anytime, ever. Obesity is of plague proportions in this
country, a clear indication of and direct and inevitable consequence of at best
dissolute excess and inactivity, at worst gluttony, idleness and disgusting
laziness. So many people are choosing to become fat, ugly, shut-off and lacking
in any dignity, self-respect and gender-appropriate spiritual definition
whatsoever (there are no fathers and mothers now, just a-sexual 'parents') and
it is increasingly impossible to find anything that is praiseworthy, redeemable
or admirable about the general Australian psyche.
We are not "decent, democratic or caring"
as that dangerous, destructive, violent spiritual dwarf John Howard claimed
when shamefully pandering to his deluded supporters and it is time to give up
these comforting childish fantasies and delusions. So many Australian males are
useless, ineffectual, emotionally absent and abdicated aged boys playing with
their silly toys and obsessed with childish ball sports, real users of women
and children. They are invariably emotionally castrated by the females around
them and remain emotionally unweaned infants who
cannot cope with reality without constantly sucking down their feelings in
desperate denial with their dummies (cigarettes, pipes, cigars and drugs) and
baby's bottles (beer, wine, sodas and water). If anything however the females
are worse, tragic emotionally lesbian eunuchs with shorn hair, hard, noisy,
intrusive, coarse, vulgar, foul-mouthed and loud-mouthed, sexual, indulged,
game-playing, troublemaking and presumptuous in behaviour and manner. Taking
advantage of the myth of sexual equality which they have rapidly mutated into
gender identicality, they compete with men, ridicule
and humiliate them, try to render them irrelevant, betray them, emasculate
them, play games with them, cause trouble for them, ruin the lives and
relationships for and take over their space and cut their own hair and dress
and present themselves just like boys. They do this to avoid being women, wives
and mothers and are determined to destroy, even eradicate anything that once
was soft, gentle, quiet, peaceful, fragile, sensitive and vulnerable about
their true initial essence as girls and women. As my wife Mary says,
"Where are the women, wives and mothers? What hope have the children
got?" No wonder they are killing themselves in a plague of suicide, alcohol
& drug abuse, dangerous driving and reckless & extreme 'sports',
escaping reality into unhealthy pursuits like computer games and the internet
or worst of all, squandering the precious gift of life in the pointless pursuit
of the worst 'drugs' of society - money, power, fame and the accumulation of
possessions after the appalling example of their parents.
We do not for example have an unemployment
problem in this country, we have females stubbornly refusing to discharge their
primary responsibilities as woman, wives and mothers and so running away to
make money, aided and abetted by their useless, greedy husbands. In the process
they steal jobs which should be being done by men (and especially by young men)
who are understandably furious at this violent intrusion into their space! In a
country that has had no real fathering for generations, it now has effectively
no mothers genuinely devoted to their children and no wives devoted to their
husbands. This situation will continue until men grow up, stop being craven cowards,
behave like men, put out their spirits and set some long overdue limits for
females, unselfishly devote themselves to their real needs and give them some
desperately needed guidance and an example of maturity. Unless this happens,
the future consequences in sickness, disease and behavioural
disabilities, violence, crime, addictions, other forms of emotional escapism,
accidents and quality of life for children will be catastrophic!
It is time to grow up
Faithfully,
Michael Israel †
PS Heather subsequently died on the streets in
6)
IN THE
SUPREME COURT OF QUEENSLAND AT TOOWOOMBA
Number: of 2004
RE: SENTENCING SUBMISSION - AFFIDAVIT BY MICHAEL
I,
Michael ISRAEL prisoner of Wolston Correctional
Centre at Grindle Road Wacol in the State of
1. I am the
defendant in these proceedings.
2. My legal name is
Michael Israel, changed from Michael D’Arcy Shelley in 2002 by Deed Poll.
3. I was born on the
18th May 1946 in Sydney New South Wales and I am 57 years old.
4. I am married with
six (6) children, only one of whom is not an adult (Hannah 13). I am approved by Centrelink
as a full time Carer and was paid a Carer’s benefit up until my arrest. My wife of 25 years, Mary Israel, who is on a
Disability Pension, relies greatly on me for continuous, daily support and is
very stressed with me in custody as she has no-one else available for support.
5. I hold a
Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering, a Masters in Business Administration
and have completed course and thesis work for a Doctorate in Human
Behaviour. I have some years ago
lectured in Business Administration and Management in the Bachelor of Business
program at the
6. I am a Christian
Minister and although not a member of, attached to nor
aligned with any of the established churches (nor any other worldly spiritual
organization) my work over the past nearly 25 years is widely known throughout
7. I am presently on
remand for an alleged breach of a suspended Supreme Court sentence. I have just served a sentence of 3 months for
a Failure to Appear offence, my conditional release date was the 16th March
2004 and the full time release date was the 15th April 2004. I have been in custody since the 18th January
2004.
8. I was originally
remanded in custody charged with the following offences:-
2
x Stalking
1
x Breaching a Supreme Court order.
However
the 2 Stalking charges were withdrawn in the Toowoomba Magistrates Court on the
15th April 2004 conditional on my agreeing to sign a restraining order
regarding the 2 complainants, Thomas and Lenore Blaine, the foster parents of
our sons Saul (Stephen) and Joshua (John) and our daughter Hannah (13). This I have done without any admission of
guilt by myself in relation to these matters.
I next appear in the Toowoomba sittings of the Supreme Court for
sentencing in relation to the latter charge on the 21st April 2004.
9. I am therefore
confronted with a bizarre scenario where I am being charged with a breach of my
Supreme Court suspended sentence for a Failure to Appear conviction on two
charges that have now been withdrawn. I
am actively contesting the remaining charge and I have no other outstanding
Court matters.
10. The background to
my situation and the circumstances surrounding the current charges I am facing
are unique and complex and it is no exaggeration to claim that never in the
history of this state or of the whole of
In
addition, for no lawful or just cause and despite our proven dedication,
devotion and competence as parents, Mary and I have had four of our children
Elijah (23), Saul (20), Joshua (19) and Hannah (13) illegally abducted from us
using the most suspect and flimsiest pretexts by the Department of Families
(and their various mutations over the years) with the full connivance and
encouragement of unlawfully behaving police (especially Juvenile Aid). In the process the key relationships between
us and our children and also between one another have been deliberately and
systematically destroyed. Worst of all
our children, especially when babies and young children, have been terrified,
violated, deprived, neglected, abused and confused by various case workers,
supervisors and senior administrators in the Department of Families and by
foster carers of an appallingly poor caliber, all
assessed and approved by the Department of Families. Our oldest son Elijah by his own
acknowledgement has become an intravenous drug user and already spent time in
prison as a direct result of his mistreatment by these culpable criminal, his
addiction faithfully reflecting his desperate attempts to escape from and block
out the intense feelings he is left with to deal with on his own, a direct
legacy and result of the horrendous abuse he suffered in their insidious
clutches.
11. All this has been
done or allowed by a group of literal criminals, scurrilous scoundrels and
miserable miscreants, especially those who have taken (and many still take)
improper refuge in the Queensland Criminal Justice system. These include police, child welfare and
social workers, prison staff, judges, magistrates, prosecutors, lawyers, court
administrators, staff in the forensic mental health system, offices of the
Ombudsman and Children’s Commissioner and politicians. They have totally misused and abused their
entrusted power in relation to our situation or have failed to act with due
diligence in supporting and defending us as per their paid responsibilities
under law. The worst have behaved with
vicious malice and unconscionable cruelty in response to our legitimate,
well-founded, exhaustively documented criticisms of their actions, their
incompetence, their negligence and their impropriety from as far back as 1981,
a spiteful reaction entirely based on their own considerable personal and
professional guilt.
12. Our case has
far-reaching significance and serious implications and consequences for past
and present governments of this state along with their public service
departments and various related instrumentalities, especially the system of
Criminal Justice. It dramatically
highlights the horrifying truth about the rampant and flagrant misuse and
widespread abuse of government and institutional power in this state and when
full details of the history are made public, all decent, law-abiding citizens
will be horrified, appalled, disgusted and outraged. The major established churches are also fully
implicated in what constitutes an illegal conspiracy as their senior clergy
have been incensed at our exposure of their own widespread spiritual
bankruptcy, avarice, gluttony, hypocrisy, child abuse and fraud and have not
hesitated to illegally misuse their considerable influence and contacts within
the Queensland Police Force to intimidate, silence and discredit us (Exhibit
A).
13. Despite the
revelations of the Fitzgerald Inquiry in 1988 (to which I made a detailed
submission at the time - Exhibit B), much of which validated what I had written
and spoken over the previous 8 years, we were not subsequently able to secure
any satisfaction to our own genuine grievances and the abiding injustice
remains. The recent inquiry into the
Department of Families has again lent considerable credence to our allegations
of incompetence, impropriety and actual corruption within the Department of
Families and extensive abuse of state sponsored foster children by their foster
parents. However the Crime &
Misconduct Commission’s report has also predictably been full of deliberate lies,
clichés & half-truths, platitudinous self-justifications, unfounded
excuses, outrageous omissions and deliberate deceit, yet another government
orchestrated ‘white-wash’. I refer to my
letter to the United Nations dated the 11th September 2003 attached (Exhibit
C).
14. Over 23 years we
have unsuccessfully exhausted every possible available avenue of state and
federal appeal throughout this country and overseas and even petitioned the
Human Rights Committee of the United Nations in
15. In 1990 Mary, Paul
and myself fled
16. Hannah was
summarily given back to us without apology seven (7) weeks later after I had
written an extensive expose of the corruption in
17. As I had
confidently predicted, Legal Aid was refused for the Children’s Court proceedings
despite our obvious entitlement to this, so we were yet again not represented
and not personally present in proceedings involving the determination of our
own children’s care and control, their guardianship. With considerable difficulty we made substantial
submissions by E-mail and by mail that were summarily ignored by a clearly
corrupt Magistrate who was resolutely determined to not consider any of the
relevant contentious background details.
Our contact with Elijah continued to be virtually non-existent and our
contact with Saul, Joshua & Hannah was made increasingly impossible. After an initial short period of pretence by
the Department of Families and despite an enormous, on-going correspondence
effort of our own, replies to our careful, considered, regular and frequent
letters into which we put so much effort and heart, were so short, inadequate
and infrequent as to be offensive.
Clearly the Department of Families in direct contravention of their
legislative responsibilities were actively discouraging our children from
developing any kind of relationship with their natural parents, no doubt
because Elijah, Saul, Joshua & Hannah would soon be asking highly
embarrassing questions as to why they were separated from us and why were they
obliged to endure such an impoverished quality of life compared to what they
would have enjoyed with us. Also this
would later provide them with a convenient justification not to return our
children to us in the absence of significant bonding, their responsibility entirely.
18. After vainly
writing repeatedly for 10 years from New Zealand to a succession of Australian
Prime Ministers & Ministers, Queensland Premiers, Family Service Ministers
and Directors-General, we finally in desperation returned to Australia in June
2000 in order to try to effect some improvement in this intolerable
situation. Despite our conciliatory
initial overtures to the Department of Families through the then Minister Anna
Bligh, we were again falsely arrested and charged three (3) months later with
stalking. I was refused bail in the
Magistrates court and twice by the Supreme Court. On the first occasion an
19. Although entirely
innocent of both these charges, in 2001 following negotiations through my then
lawyer Peter Shields of Ryan & Bosscher with the
Director of Public Prosecutions, under great duress I pleaded guilty in the
Supreme Court in Brisbane to 1 charge of stalking and a charge of demanding
money with menaces on the proviso that I received no more time in jail. The latter charge originated from a letter I
had written in desperation to the then Queensland Premier Michael Ahern back in
1988, 12 years before, a politician as clearly corrupt as his predecessor
Johannes Bjelke-Petersen who is so deservedly now dying in great distress,
anguish and terror as I confidently predicted he would in a report to the NSW
Government over 20 years ago (Exhibit E).
Based on past experience, this was the absolute best outcome I could
expect from the demonstrably corrupt Queensland Criminal Justice system in
which I had completely lost faith after 23 years of bitter personal
experience. I was also under enormous
pressure elsewhere to help Mary through a horrendous 11 month period she
unnecessarily and illegally endured in psychiatric custody (October 2000 to
September 2001).
20. Although clearly
not guilty of either charge, I was given a 12 months sentence by Justice Shepardson, suspended after the time already spent in
custody on remand, a little over 4 months.
I reasonably saw this and especially the 5 year period of sentence
suspension as yet another desperate ploy to remove me as an
embarrassment, to intimidate me and discredit me further. The sentencing Judge actually had the
temerity to say that the Director of Public Prosecutions was being very lenient
in only asking for a sentence of 12 months (on a charge that I was obviously
not guilty of!).
21. In 2002 I was
maliciously and vexaciously charged by
22. In March 2002 I
providentially discovered the foster names of 3 of our 4 children and their
foster parents Thomas & Lenore Blaine and Mary and I were able to find out
their whereabouts at
23. Despite there
being absolutely no implication of physical or sexual abuse on our part and the
only issue being a highly contentious, problematic misdiagnosis of Non Organic
Failure To Thrive (NOFTT) (which does not stand up to the most superficial
scrutiny or analysis), our only permitted contact with our own children was by
mail. And this was only allowed after an
initial period of total embargo of ten (10) years in which we had no contact
whatsoever, an attitude reminiscent of Stalinist Russia or the treatment of the
'lost' generation of Aboriginal children.
In fact the Department of Families over the years had repeatedly changed
the reasons for removing our children from our exemplary care and only deceitfully
applied the NOFTT diagnosis as an a posteriori
justification many years later. Out of
malice, due to their own guilt and for highly unsavoury reasons of their own
they have in collusion with various corrupt Juvenile Aid police refused for
over 20 years to allow (let alone encourage in keeping with their legislative
responsibilities) us to form, maintain and develop a relationship with any of
our children whilst in their neglect, deprivation and abuse. They still refuse to do so, now misusing as an
excuse the absence of any relationship with us (their own responsibility and
deliberate determination entirely) to prevent any contact whatsoever. In the meantime they have systematically
turned our children against us and poisoned and destroyed their relationships
with their natural parents, Mary & I, with their own brother Elijah and
with their half-brother Paul. They have
done this by feeding Elijah, Saul, Joshua & Hannah on a diet of lies,
half-truths, innuendo, malicious misinformation and outrageous omissions about
us.
24. In March 2002 Mary
went to
25. Subsequently the
foster mother Lenore Blaine has openly admitted to Mary that she is confident
that access to our children could have easily been organized for everyone’s
benefit and to everyone’s satisfaction had it not been for the determined
obstructive and perverse misbehaviour of the Department of Families.
26. Mary & I
learned later in 2002 that our children were then living and Saul & Joshua
were working at the Metropole Hotel in
27. Mary and I were
subsequently bailed by a Toowoomba magistrate to an address in
28. The matter was
adjourned to
29. Mary and I then
focused on trying again to locate our son Elijah. At our own initiative and with absolutely no
help whatsoever from the Department of Families as usual, we had providentially
discovered some details of Elijah’s foster name, his foster parents, his
university studies and residential address in Rockhampton back in September
2001. On September 11th we travelled to
Rockhampton but were unsuccessful in finding Elijah who was totally estranged
from his various foster families and had moved to
30. During the time
spent in Rockhampton, both Mary and I had been arrested on the outstanding
warrants yet bailed at large to appear in
31. We then travelled
across to
32. Following the
threat by Gale and after considerable discussions with myself,
Mary fled to
33. Before returning
to
34. Mary decided
to present herself alone to Toowoomba police whilst I had resolved to do this
accompanied by our lawyer Brooke Pugh of Clewett, Corser & Drummond - I reasonably do not trust the
police there. Brooke Pugh however was away on leave until the 20th January so I
left a message with her office to ring me urgently on my mobile to arrange my
presentation at the Toowoomba police station.
Mary & I booked into the Rosewood Hotel half way between Ipswich and
Toowoomba on a weekly basis in order to have an address if bail were granted,
paid a week’s rent in advance and Mary presented to the Toowoomba police
station on the 16th January. The police
spent 40 minutes or so ostensibly checking warrants then told her that there
were none outstanding. Mary was
astonished and insisted that they check again which they did with the same
result. Mary left the police station, we providentially met a few minutes later and
decided after some discussion to wait until Brooke Pugh returned to work to try
again together.
35. Two days later on
the 18th January, following an incident at a political rally in
36. There is
considerable justification to hold the view that Magistrate McIntyre should
have excused himself from hearing the cases against both Mary and myself as we had written to him previously in the course of
our
37. I enjoy good
health, have no problems whatsoever with drug or alcohol abuse and absolutely
no history of the threat of or actual violence.
In fact I am widely recognised as being non-violent despite the
horrendous provocation I have illegally been subject to over many, many years. It is not unfair to say that Mary & I
have shown admirable restraint under all the circumstances and that the
Criminal Justice system of this state has effectively tried to do its best to
turn us, 2 decent law abiding Christians adults, spouses and parents into
criminals for the reasons of their own fully detailed above. After 23 years of extensive insight into,
intensive involvement with and unparalleled experience of all facets of the
Queensland Criminal Justice system, I reasonably have a well-founded mistrust
of and total lack of confidence in its ability, capacity and willingness to be
fair, just, impartial and diligent in relation to myself and my family.
38. In view of the
complexity of this case, it has been impossible for me to prepare and present a
proper defence of duress to this charge whilst in custody. I require considerable personal access to my
own files in Internet storage, something that is not able to be delegated to
counsel, and extensive Freedom of Information retrieval and sourcing of documents
from various government departments and agencies, both here in
39. I verily believe
that most exceptional circumstances exist justifying a grant of bail in this
case if there is any further adjournment and I respectfully request that I am
admitted to bail pending any further Court appearances.
40. I have
scrupulously complied with a number of bail undertakings over the years
including an order for bail by the Court of Appeal in February 2001 and the
Supreme Court in May 2002. These have
often involved rigorous reporting conditions at great personal inconvenience to
both me and family over many months.
41. I reasonably
believe that I have been unfairly and unjustly dealt with already and to
activate any of the outstanding suspended sentence
would be a further blatant miscarriage of justice. In fact I have effectively served 6-8 weeks
(?) on remand in 2002 before being granted bail on a prior alleged breach of
which I was subsequently acquitted (Section 21 above). Also the 3 month sentence just completed
could reasonably be seen to be harsh and excessive - it would have been
appealed except that my then counsel Brooke Pugh totally ignored my clear
instructions in this regard and failed to follow this up as directed
immediately after the hearing. Her
breach of client trust and unreliability gave me no option but to change
counsel but by that stage the 28 day appeal period had passed. Also of relevance is that my conditional
release date for the 3 month sentence was the 16th March 2004 (Exhibit D). In view of my history and the nature of the
offence, I almost certainly would have been released on that date - this is
effectively another 5 weeks already spent in custody.
42. I therefore submit
with due respect to this court that my sentence be squashed and I be released
unencumbered.
All the facts and
circumstances deposed to in this my affidavit are within my own knowledge and
belief, except for the facts and circumstances deposed to from information
only, and my means of knowledge and sources of information appear on the face
of this my affidavit.
SWORN
by the deponent at
Deponent
On this day of 2004
Before me
…………………………………………
A
Justice of the Peace
7)
The United Nations Conference on Human Rights -
Elsewhere on this
web page are examples of the many documents written over the past 25 years to the
United Nations about the abiding injustice and outrageous ongoing abuses of
human rights in relation to my family and myself in
In essence the UN
conference was an unnecessary, counter-productive exercise in superficial
pretence and another example of theoretical, wordy, westernised, intellectual
minimal tokenism. Most of it was
motivated by exactly the same dishonesty, hypocrisy and intrinsic fraud as the
churches conducting seminars and holding conferences on how to be better
Christians - instead of just getting out there and doing it. Christians and all those genuinely concerned
for human rights are people of action and few words yet all I heard and saw in
the brief time I spent at the conference was endless words, both written and
spoken, more verbal pollution and unsightly graffiti - just another shamefully
self-indulgent excuse to sit and talk, do nothing tangible and risk even less!
Most of those
attending the conference clearly had covert, undisclosed emotional agendas of
their own (often unacknowledged even to themselves) which motivated their
involvement, nothing to do with a genuine interest in human rights. These are to do with guilt and other un-faced
and unresolved issues and feelings from their own personal & professional
lives and relationships. In other words
their proudly, publicly proclaimed concern is neither clear nor clean and this
is morally (and for many) legally corrupt particularly those responsible for
organising and convening the conference - they are part of the problem, not
part of the solution. Those attending
were typical of Australians at large: useless, ineffectual, emotionally absent
and castrated, abdicated aged boys who refuse to grow up, give support and
guidance to and give an adult example and set long overdue limits for the lazy,
idle, emotionally neutered females around them who had absolutely no business
being there in the first place. What
human rights activism most needs are strong-spirited, non-violent but outraged men
to stand up courageously for what is right, confronting violators in their own
homes and places of work. Most females
at the conference were clearly avoiding and escaping from far more important
responsibilities and guilty of depriving and neglecting their families in
tangible, readily identifiable ways.
What about their children and grand-children’s human rights?!
To give you all
something real to deal with, by far the most common form of domestic violence
today is the physical and emotional violence directed by females (mothers,
grandmothers, other relations, teachers, child care workers and health
professionals) at children and especially at boys. Another point to consider is that whilst
making a great fuss and feigning concern for human rights abuses in relatively
remote places like
You also missed the
point with East Timor where the
To begin with, any
human rights activist must first demonstrate the necessary, pre-requisite
qualifications and credentials of high standards of care of their own body and
spirit and an excellent self-awareness.
This means being able-bodied, slim, active, emotionally honest and open,
not addicted to alcohol or drugs and in touch with reality. In contrast most of those at the conference
had appalling standards of self-care; many were fat (in fact obese) or very
underweight, were addicted to cigarettes, other drugs and alcohol and spent
most of their lives sitting and talking (which is parasitic bludging and not
work!). Most were emotional escapists
living in desperate denial with no self-awareness whatsoever and they were
indulging themselves by expressing any opinions about anything, anytime,
ever. Certainly not until they free
themselves from the blatantly obvious selfishness, greed, hypocrisy and
irresponsibility of their trivial, unimportant, meaningless, irrelevant and
loveless lives.
In fact all I saw at
lunch on Saturday was a large group of emotionally stunted aged children and
piggish gluttons making a lot of noise and gorging themselves with food and
drink most didn’t need. What about the
human rights of the children, one of whom dies every three (3) seconds for want
of the resources you all steal from them, the resources you hoard, squander and
misuse every single day?!
Let me take away any
self-satisfied, smug complacency you have so falsely acquired during your human
rights conference and strongly urge you all take the warning in the
letter below both personally and seriously.
Faithfully,
Michael Israel † http://www.geocities.com/michael_the_one
8)
To: United Nations Human Rights
Commission
To Human Rights Commission of
the United Nations
Cc Australian Governor-General Commonwealth
Parliament
Queensland Governor
Australian Human Rights Commission Crime
& Misconduct Commission
Parliamentary Crime & Misconduct Commission Commonwealth Ombudsman
Queensland Justice, Health, Family Services, Custodial Services &
Police Departments
Queensland Children’s Commission Mental
Health Tribunal
Patient Review Tribunal Mental
Health & Prison Official Visitors
Director of Public Prosecutions The Bar Association of
Queensland Legal Aid Office Private
Solicitors
Media
I refer to the numerous serious allegations that my
wife Mary, son Paul and myself have exhaustively submitted over the past
twenty-one (21) years to the various appellate organisations here in Australia
about the extensive corruption that so obviously infests the entire government
structure of Queensland (and elsewhere in Australia) - especially the
parliament, the criminal justice system (police force, courts administration,
judiciary, magistracy, legal aid and legal profession, forensic mental health,
prisons and probation & parole) and senior public service. In particular I
refer to my recent complaint to the United Nations Human Rights Commission in
Geneva, my submission to the Brisbane Children’s Court dated the 5th September
2002 in relation to our daughter Hannah (and our sons Elijah, Saul &
Joshua), my widely circulated report on the case of Raymond Ali (and a number
of other convicted ‘serious offenders in prison’) and my other complaints made
to the Crime & Misconduct Commission and Parliamentary Crime &
Misconduct Commission in Queensland.
The replies by all the various appellate organisations
to our credible, specific, detailed complaints typify the outrageously
offensive and pathetically inadequate (or totally absent) responses to all the
time, effort and expense we have expended on these substantial issues - they
are a provocative insult and total affront. Examples most recently include the
letters from the Children’s Commissioner Robyn Sullivan of
In contrast over the years these various instrumentalities have
squandered the most obscene amount of public money and wasted so much of our
valuable life in doing their best not to investigate our complaints. In
fact all appellate organisations Australia-wide (and
this includes Police Complaints Authorities, the Crime & Misconduct &
Parliamentary Crime & Misconduct Commissions, State and Federal Ombudsman
Offices, the Health Rights Commission, the Children’s Commission, Prison
Official Visitors, Mental Health & Patient Review Tribunals and the Human
Rights Commission) have been deliberately set up by those in power, usually
without power (or severely curtailed in scope), as a deceitful exercise in
outward pretence, further instances of political 'grandstanding' and 'window
dressing'. Both Federal and State Governments and Opposition parties have done
this to make it look as though they are really concerned about justice, about
health, about prisoners', patient’s or children’s' welfare and about human
rights when nothing could be further from the truth. They are only interested
in their own health, welfare and rights!
All these organisations are invariably all
show and no substance, specifically designed and maintained to
predictably and reliably control, obstruct, dilute, protract and frustrate
genuine complaints. In the process they intentionally exhaust and deplete the
energy of those reasonably aggrieved private individuals
most needing help, betraying their trust and not even trying to fulfil their legislative responsibilities towards them.
They also very effectively censor and prevent any indiscriminate open
disclosure of embarrassing details, keeping these well away from the public
eye. Far from being impartial, balanced, fair and beyond reproach, they are
extravagantly expensive and disgracefully wasteful, completely subject to the
arbitrary whims and Machiavellian manipulations of those in positions of power,
and invariably headed and staffed by reliable, compliant, planted 'stooges'. In
no way can they be seen as a genuine source of assistance to offset the gross
imbalance of power when private citizens are unjustly disaffected with or
mistreated by governments or their various instrumentalities. Instead of a
proper and dedicated concern for the truth, these far-from-independent bodies
inevitably accept the lies, fabrication, half-truths, implausible excuses, and
platitudinous self-justifications commonly produced 'ad nauseam' to explain
individual and institutional impropriety and criminal misbehaviour.
In this way they virtually ratify, condone and give ‘de facto’ support for and
credibility to their indefensible perjury and misinformation. Inevitably the
final outcome is grossly unsatisfactory and unfair to the complainants,
achieved at enormous personal and often, financial cost to themselves and
complainants go away feeling more cheated, outraged and disadvantaged than
beforehand.
A perfect example of the above is the Australian Human Rights Commission
itself, an organisation that is infamous for what it cannot and will not do. To
be specific, the Human Rights Commission does nothing to prevent:-
- illegal arrest, detainment and imprisonment
without just cause
- unnecessary, harmful, forcible medication and
unlawful medical experimentation
- deliberate,
systematic persecution based on religious or political beliefs and a commitment
to the written and spoken truth
- kidnap and deprivation of liberty of both
children and adults
- destruction of the family unit
- physical, emotional and spiritual mistreatment,
torment and torture
An excellent question to ask is what does the HRC
actually do? - the answer is virtually nothing except
act as a deceitful façade to make it appear that
The media are also part of the problem in this country, not part of the
solution, at best cynical accessories before and after the fact by default to a
whole range of criminal activity and an integral part of the totally corrupt
hierarchy of power. They fawn over and obsequiously ingratiate themselves to
the famous, wealthy and those in positions of power, shamefully pandering to
and indulging them with undeserved space and attention and allowing them
unrestricted opportunities to air their outrageous lies and express their
valueless opinions. The media are privy
to an enormous amount of incriminating ‘inside’ information about these
reprehensible, so-called ‘pillars of society’ which they fail to print or
broadcast, taking improper, cowardly refuge behind and misusing as an expedient
excuse the iniquitous libel/defamation laws which are deliberately designed to
protect those least needing protection.
The media also actively divert public attention away from the full
horror of what is really going on locally with similar sensational items about
other jurisdictions and/or trivial, unimportant, fringe, peripheral issues.
Alternatively they distract with bizarre, freakish, sexually depraved and
explicit stories treated briefly as superficial cameos, vicariously and
voyeuristically enjoying weird, extreme, violent behaviour themselves so as to
satisfy their own sick, twisted, ghoulish and degenerate natures and childishly
short span of attention. Like all essentially dishonest people they do nothing
of tangible benefit and are also guilty of fraudulently accepting their
exorbitant salaries under false pretences.
More vultures feeding off the carrion of corruption and human misery,
freeloading parasites and under-utilised bludgers pandering to the public's gullibility and determination
to avoid facing and dealing with reality at all costs so that it does not
impinge upon the meaningless superficiality and greedy selfishness of their own
trivial, spiritually impoverished existences.
In summary, you are all responsible in your various capacities for doing
nothing to remedy this deplorable situation, especially in relation to our own
situation and that of our three sons Elijah, Saul, Joshua and our physically,
emotionally and spiritually abused daughter Hannah who have been effectively
abducted from their natural parents, whose lives have been ruined and whose
childhoods have effectively been stolen. As a consequence as a Christian
Minister I need to give you all a direct and unequivocal warning on this
auspicious date. I have more than sufficient Faith to know that unless you
immediately begin diligently to rectify this abiding miscarriage of justice
using all the power and influence at your disposal,
you will know GOD's extreme displeasure in your
personal and professional life - soon. This in no way implies any threat
whatsoever - unlike the violent criminals and scurrilous scoundrels arrayed
against us, my wife Mary, sons Paul and Elijah and myself are totally
non-violent no matter what the provocation imposed upon us by those with so
much to hide, to be ashamed of and to be guilty about.
I can assure you that GOD is most unhappy with the Queensland
Government's continued illegal persecution of and vicious vendetta against my
family and the Commonwealth’s effective support and funding of this obscenity.
We are only too pleased to leave you squarely in HIS hands knowing that HE will
act in HIS way, in HIS time. GOD hears your every word, sees your every action
and knows every evil thought and wicked imagination of your hardened, impenitent
hearts. Nothing can protect you from HIS judgment and if you continue to choose
to not listen, your already impoverished quality of life will continue to
deteriorate even more rapidly. Eventually an eternity in hell will be your
thoroughly deserved reward from which there is no deliverance.
Faithfully,
Michael Israel † http://www.geocities.com/michael_the_one/
9)
Warning to
To: Brendan Butler (Chairman & CEO -
David Bevan (Official
Misconduct Division -
I needed to write to you all in the course of my life and work and after
trying (unsuccessfully) for over three (3) years to have you openly consider
and diligently investigate our serious allegations about impropriety and
illegality in this state, notably involving corruption in the Queensland
Department of Family Services, Police Force and other sections of the Criminal
Justice system.
You steadfastly refuse to respond to my genuine, well-founded complaints
nor even acknowledge or reply to my correspondence and numerous phone calls,
not because the issues I raise lack substance or credibility but rather because
you know full well that they are the truth with widespread implications.
In fact you are deliberately choosing to not deal with the most blatant
case of institutional misuse and abuse of power in the entire history of this
state because the people involved hold such senior positions of trust and power
within the instrumentalities of government in this state and the likely
consequences are so far reaching – these would publicly humiliate and result in
the prosecution and imprisonment of far greater numbers of famous, rich and
powerful people than the Fitzgerald Inquiry ever uncovered. This implicates at
least 500 present and past Premiers, Ministers of the Crown, other Members of
Parliament, senior police, Court of Appeal, Supreme and District Court judges,
magistrates, senior court officials, public mental health psychiatrists, nurses
and administrators, prison management and staff and senior public servants, a cosy coterie of comfortable, complacent co-conspiring
criminals indeed.
Instead of confronting and dealing with the real issues of corruption in
this state, the CJC (like the media and the Ombudsman’s office) deliberately
focuses upon and distracts public attention with relatively minor, unimportant
and trivial but sensational side issues like electoral fraud. In fact it does
not really matter which political party is in power except to the parties
themselves – both sides are at very least morally corrupt and self-interested
and neither has the decency, courage, integrity and moral fibre
necessary to deal with the widespread, ongoing problems in government in
Queensland. You no doubt are not in the slightest bit interested in the fifty
thousand dollar ($50,000) bribe that Premier Peter Beattie accepted, amongst
others, when he was Secretary of the Queensland Labor party - ask his ex-lover
and ex-investigative journalist Pat Gillespie for details!
As I wrote to Tony Fitzgerald well over a decade ago, it is simply
impossible to have extensive, well-entrenched corruption in only one narrow
section of any fully integrated, interdependent organisation
or structure like the police force, the criminal justice system, the public
service or the parliament. All areas must be similarly implicated and tainted.
Despite this fact, Fitzgerald (like the CJC) conveniently focused largely on
one small area of police misconduct, licensing, when it is obvious that all
police were effectively corrupt to some degree, at least by default, and had
been for years.
Even the subsequent imprisonment of the “sacrificial lamb” and
“scapegoat” ex-Commissioner Terry Lewis did nothing substantial to remedy the
deplorable state – the Queensland police “service” have just become more
careful and covert and less flagrant with their criminal activities. They were
and still are infamous throughout
It is obvious to any emotional adult that the police could not be so
unrestrained and out-of-control if it were not for the complicity and collusion
of all other parts of the criminal justice system. In fact the magistracy and
judiciary along with the Queensland Legal Aid Office, Attorney General's
Department (especially the office of the Director of Public Prosecutions) and
most criminal barristers and solicitors are fully implicated accessories before
and after the fact to all this criminal activity, again at very least by
default. Fitzgerald, himself a lawyer, conveniently and deliberately avoided
dealing with this vital reality - the only judge implicated was one the other
judges wished to have removed - and so the corruption continues unabated.
It is fair to say that there are some very ambitious, unsavoury individuals indeed within this system who have a considerable emotional and financial investment
in the current situation continuing irregardless of the implications for and
adverse effects upon those people whose interests the system is supposed to
serve - the public.
To begin with, it is fair, balanced, unbiased and truthful to say that
it is very difficult, if not impossible to find any genuinely honest and
law-abiding policeman or policewoman in the entire state. Most drive like
maniacs, are foul-mouthed, have scant regard for the law and legal processes
themselves, set a deplorable example of immature, delinquent behaviour to young
men and women in particular, are scandalously provocative and vindictive and
misuse intimidation and physical force as a matter of course. Many are
unstable, emotionally unfit and mentally imbalanced individuals
who schizophrenically “snap”, overreact and became extremely violent at the
slightest excuse. Police are very closed and defensive, typical of all those
with a great deal to hide carrying a perilous load of personal and professional
guilt and quickly become vicious and malicious towards anyone who even
legitimately criticises their obvious misconduct,
deplorable double standards and common misuse and abuse of entrusted power.
Most are lazy, inactive, grossly underutilized, deliberately obstructive,
arbitrary, perverse, game-playing and waste the most
obscene amount of time, money and other publicly funded resources, especially
in unnecessary arrests and prosecutions, often to satisfy their own illegal
vendettas and incipient paranoia. Most are pathological liars who blatantly
perjure themselves under oath in court and who manifestly manipulate the court
system to their own sinister advantage.
In turn the
• they are too terrified
to face the truth of what police are really like and too cowardly to stand up to
them
• police fail to arrest
them when they break the law (notably with alcohol related, driving offences)
and expect the favour to be returned in future •
police have incriminating evidence about other illegal activities (such as
sexual perversion or paedophilia) and hold this over
them or
• they are so ambitious
and greedy that they happily choose to become willing accessories
Similarly defence lawyers funded by Legal Aid
themselves regularly co-operate with corrupt police and are frequently friendly
with the prosecution in front of their oppressed and confused clients whom they
betray shamefully. At best they mutter ineffectual platitudes and the mildest
of protests while police continue their sadistic, callous and cruel
mistreatment of prisoners in custody. There have been a number of instances,
for example where police have deliberately left pregnant women in cells
overnight without bedding or even a mattress.
We have ourselves personally encountered not one, not ten, not a hundred
but thousands of instances of the above over the last twenty (20) years.
Blatantly obvious impropriety and collusion occurs in police cells, prisons,
courts and all other areas of the criminal justice system, (notably probation
and parole and mental health services) every single day in this state. Anyone
seriously interested in justice could not fail to rapidly become aware of the
true situation - only cowardly fools who maintain childishly comforting
delusions and fantasies about reality or criminals in complete collusion with
this effective conspiracy could avoid acknowledging and facing the horrifying
consequences of the current situation.
In our case we have been systematically harassed and effectively
persecuted for twenty (20) years with the sinister figures of the equally
corrupt and spiritually bankrupt clergy of the main established
"Christian" churches always lurking in the background, equally
desperate to avoid the true nature and extent of their own evil activities
being publicised. These contemptible cowards have
provably manipulated and misused their influence with Family Services to
effectively kidnap our children without lawful or just cause and deprive them
of a rich, varied, healthy, adventurous, fulfilling and meaningful childhood
with their natural parents. When we have so reasonably spoken out against this
effective conspiracy, corrupt or unwitting psychiatric staff
have colluded to have either Mary or myself forcibly regulated under the
draconian Queensland Mental Health Act, claiming that our provable beliefs of a
top level conspiracy and institutional corruption are simply indicative of
mental illness. Even the most superficial and cursory examination of the facts
of our case indicate unmistakably that something is very, very wrong and highly
suspicious and that a grave, abiding miscarriage of justice has occurred and
continues to this date.
What you do with all this is your decision but I can promise you as real
Christian Minister that if you do what is right, just and fair for our family
you will be providentially encouraged, validated and rewarded for your efforts.
If however you are foolish enough to choose to continue to co-operate with this
obscene conspiracy against us, in action or by abdication and inaction, it is
my certain faith and knowledge that GOD WHOM I serve will show you HIS
displeasure in HIS inimitable way
I am giving you a clear,
unequivocal warning and this in no way can be construed as a threat – in stark
contrast to the literal freeloaders, vagrants, menaces and opportunists arrayed
against us who daily feed like vultures off the carrion of corruption and human
misery around them, Mary and I are totally non-violent. I am only too pleased
to leave you all in GOD’s hands - HE sees your very
action, hears your eveery word and knows every evil
imagination and wicked thought of your hardened, impenitent hearts.
If you are foolish enough to ignore this genuine spiritual admonition
and rebuke, consider Johannes Bjelke-Petersen, an excellent example of a
heathen, hypocrite and criminal. He chose to repeatedly ignore my warnings and
is now so deservedly dying slowly in terror and torment. After his miserable
demise, he can confidently look forward to an eternity in hell, a fate from
which there is no release, where he will have a lot of company with all those
who have similarly conspired with and behaved like him.
I am not in the slightest impressed nor intimidated by your elevated
positions, reputations, power, wealth, influence or fame - rather I am revolted
and disgusted by these worthless "trinkets" of a spiritually
superficial, morally bankrupt, behaviourally
decadent, emotionally infantile and hedonistically self-absorbed society.
In fact as GOD's servant with the Faith HE has
so abundantly blessed me with, I have more real power than all of you put
together. I need action today, I need support, I need justice and I need
appropriate compensation and help to rebuild my family and relationships so
contemptibly destroyed by these human vermin and parasitic bludgers
funded with public money.
Faithfully,
HIS Servant,
Michael Israel †
E-mail
Address: [email protected]
10)
To: The Fitzgerald Enquiry into Institutional Corruption in Queensland 1988
I needed to write to
you in your capacity as Commissioner heading the Inquiry into Corruption in
Despite the enormous outrage I so reasonably feel at the crimes
perpetrated deliberately against my four sons Paul, Elijah, Saul and Joshua,
against my wife Mary and against myself, I believe without reservation that all
we have both spoken and written has been expressed clearly, specifically,
thoroughly, accurately, fairly, verifiably and honestly without unreasonable
bias or prejudice. We do not exaggerate nor do we allow unacknowledged or
ulterior motives to colour or unfairly distort what
we are saying - this cannot be said of anyone who works within the system or
whose investigations and observations are conducted from a position of power or
under artificially contrived conditions.
What I need to say
to you, Tony Fitzgerald is crucial to your inquiry and goes to the heart of all
corruption in any society or culture. Immorality, greed and dishonesty
invariably have their roots within individual families and society at large
merely reflects the aggregate average and general extent of this in all those
families, which comprise it. The responsibility within each family is obviously
the parents’ and grandparents’ despite the current trend to disclaim such
responsibility by those wholly responsible for their own children’s and
grandchildren’s behaviour, a very convenient and entirely deceitful evasion.
This is increasingly common practice today because it gives parents and
grandparents everywhere, those who effectively control the channels of
communication and dissemination of information within society a way of avoiding
facing the consequences of their own actions, allowing them to blame nebulous
influences in society and implying that their children’s actions are somehow a
result of influences largely outside their control. In a very typical example
of putting guilt unfairly and undeservedly onto an entirely defenceless target,
adults blame children for the deterioration in society’s morality, decency,
courage and wisdom when the simple truth is that children always faithfully
reflect the quality of their upbringing and parental example like a mirror
The greater the depth and extent of corruption in any culture, the
clearer the indication of the essential corruption that must exist within all
or most individual families that comprise that culture. The pretence,
selfishness, hypocrisy, dishonesty, deplorable double standards and revolting
greed which is rapidly becoming so much a feature of most families in this
country (and all other industrialised nations)
encompasses the entire gambit of family life and activities and certainly
effects all the various relationships between the members of each family. This
situation is clearly reflected generally in society in so as corruption is not
restricted to any one area of activity, say in the police force. Societies are
integrated systems and illegality and impropriety in one area can only exist
and flourish with the full support and connivance of all other sections.
To understand the roots of corruption and to deal with it effectively
therefore means not to limit the inquiry to one relatively unimportant and
insignificant area of police activity (in this case licensing) but rather to recognise that similar criminal activity must also exist in
all government instrumentalities and agencies, especially in the magistracy,
the judiciary and the legal profession. The police force in any jurisdiction
can only become corrupt if the legal and court system is itself equally tainted
and it is a dangerous, deceitful and cowardly delusion to believe otherwise.
There is for example not one magistrate in the entire state of
To not see that the situation is rapidly getting worse is to accept at
face value what is effectively just a more convincing facade of external
pretence and again is a convenient delusion and avoidance of reality. Only
those who themselves choose to not deteriorate concurrently in morality along
with society at large are in a position to perceive this worsening situation
clearly. All others become knowing accessories to what is happening either because they enjoy and profit from the situation or
because they lack the courage and conviction to speak out against it - in the
final essence there is no substantial difference between these two groups
I enclose for you a letter to Men
Everywhere, all of which is true of your own life, your parents, your
childhood and now, your own family. This explains simply and clearly how things
are supposed to be, how they in fact are and what we can do about this
deplorable situation as men, husbands, fathers, grandfathers and Christians.
The key aspect of this is the essential responsibility of real men as husbands
providing support, protection and guidance (as well as setting appropriate
limits in love) for their wives, the vital and needed involvement of men as
fathers giving true leadership, justice, equity, fairness, strength, firmness,
gentleness, openness and unselfish consideration and concern by example to
their children and the external reflection of this genuine honesty and lack of
hypocrisy to the community at large. In fact it is the general abdication,
irresponsibility, cowardice, greed, selfishness, physical and emotional absence
and useless ineffectuality by so many individual males today which is the main
underlying reason for the proliferation in corruption and lawlessness, the
deterioration in the real quality of child care and upbringing, the growing
obsession with material ambition and competition and the preoccupation with
external appearances rather than actual substance in daily living. Everything
else written by the so-called experts fails to pinpoint the essential problem
with our world and certainly lacks any real appreciation of the reasons for the
accelerated deterioration in the quality of our life and in our standards of
decency, modesty, integrity and honesty.
Children everywhere are being deprived, abused and neglected of real
love and care and they are being molested, invalidated, oppressed, intimidated,
bribed and conditioned into accepting the lies, half-truths, deliberate
fabrications, distortions, self-justifications and platitudes imposed upon them
by their parents, their other relatives and later by their teachers. When they
become adults (at least in age) they then have the choice of either following
their parents’ corrupt example, one generation worse or courageously facing the
truth about their own parents’ behaviour, expressing how they feel about this
and then ordering their lives along appropriate, sensible, responsible and
caring lines. It is however extremely difficult for young adults today to even
acknowledge that they have any real choice because their perspective,
experience and expectations have been so narrowed, confined and stunted by
their own unresolved emotional agenda and by the hopeless example set by their
elders. Consequently, society is deteriorating as a whole because the vast
majority of young parents simply impose upon their own children a worse version
of their own childhoods with more words and pretence and less real care. There is no other intelligent or rational
explanation for why our society is so sick, moral standards so perverted and
spiritual life so superficial and lacking in any substance or reality. People
everywhere become accessories to corruption because this faithfully reflects
their own individual selfishness, dishonesty and greed and every single adult
Queenslander is responsible for what has happened and is still happening in
your state. At best they affect a casual indifference providing nothing
impinges upon the triviality and meaninglessness of their own existence and at
worst they are culpably involved without conscience.
You have had a Premier in Bjelke-Petersen who exemplifies all that is
worst about males and so-called Christians today. He has only ever been concerned
for himself and has used all those around him (his wife, children, electorate,
fellow party members, politicians, public servants) to aggrandise
himself, amass financial wealth, maintain power at any cost and most
importantly to avoid facing the truth of his own childhood and growing up. He
blatantly and obviously lies openly, he has perfected the art of pretence, he is accomplished at taking the focus off his own nefarious
activities, has completely misused and abused his entrusted authority and has effectively
spread his evil influence throughout every section of the
I also enclose for you a self-explanatory letter to a number of people
in the NSW. Government written some time ago that demonstrates clearly the
extent to which this “disease” spreads under corrupt leadership with the tacit
support of an uninvolved or equally immoral electorate. There are effectively
no exceptions because all senior administrators are either directly involved
themselves or deliberately choose to ignore and overlook the obvious evidence
of their corrupt colleagues’ illegal activities which they are legally and
morally obliged and required to publicly admonish, rebuke and disclose. They
fail to do so out of self-interested greed and cowardice.
The least worrying aspect of corruption in the police force relates to
financial impropriety because this is of least importance and does least real
harm in absolute terms. Of much more concern is the polices’ complete contempt
for the law themselves, the unfairness and injustice of their own practices,
their illegal influence throughout the magistracy and judiciary, their improper
persecution, provocation, ill-treatment and subsequent imprisonment of the most
vulnerable and defenceless in our society (especially young people, women and
aboriginals), their actual deviate and sadistic enjoyment of violence,
intimidation, crises, emergencies and sexual perversion and their flagrant
disregard for human life itself. It is not that police corruption is
widespread, it is total. It is extremely hard if not impossible to find
one single policeman in Australia today who literally obeys the law himself,
who treats everyone politely, directly, justly, fairly and honestly
(irrespective of their age, position, wealth, sex or race), who tells the truth
under oath, who only uses physical force when absolutely necessary for
restraint purposes, who values the sanctity of life, who is helpful, diligent
and active and who would not fail to report illegal or improper behaviour by a
superior officer, publicly if necessary, without fear of the consequences. Just
like good nurses, good doctors, good teachers, good prison officers, good
magistrates, good judges and good lawyers, good policemen soon get
disillusioned and disgusted and resign or choose to remain and become tainted
and corrupted by their colleagues.
The police in
All these conclusions are equally applicable to the media and private
enterprise. They demonstrate exactly the same narrow selfishness, the same
obsessive greed and preoccupation with money and appearances,
they effect the same pretence, mutter the same platitudes, give the same
excuses and self-justifications and show the same lack of real integrity,
interest or concern for the truth or injustice. When they do ‘champion’ a cause
it is always for dishonest and indirect reasons; to work off their own guilt,
to effect a pretence of concern, to have an excuse to evade their primary
responsibilities as men, husbands and fathers or to fulfil
their ambitions and greed. The media knows what really goes on in government,
in the courts, in the police force, in prisons and in psychiatric institutions
and they are privy to an enormous amount of privileged information that vitally
needs to be published and broadcast in the public interest. Rather than inform,
educate, uncover and investigate, they hide so conveniently behind the
restrictive, unjust and totally unfair libel laws that are only designed to
protect those least needing protection, those with all the power. As with
everyone else, the media vainly tries to disguise their deliberate abdication
of responsibility by pretending to be involved and concerned with other less
important and peripheral issues while the real issues of importance are only
alluded to or dealt with indirectly. In the process they mislead, deceive and
take the focus away from what needs to be reported most, wasting huge
quantities of resources and providing people with entertaining fantasies,
rather than fact. To suit their own infantile limited span of attention, they
constantly take up and then discard events, never treating anything thoroughly,
completely or in any depth. They treat life as a series of superficial cameos
to gratify their own idle curiosity, to distract themselves from the awful
reality of their own empty existences and to indulge their perverted obsession
with the tragic, the violent, the weird, the bizarre and the sensational. They
incessantly ask questions to which they already know the answers of people who
need not to be grovelled to and not indulged with the
opportunity to talk about themselves and to lie bold-facedly about their real
motives and actions. The media always fails to make even the simplest and most
obvious statements about situations, pretending this is the only way to ensure
impartiality when really it is just an excuse for a complete lack of any
commitment or personal involvement.
Like the courts, all appellate bodies, tribunals, Ombudsmen and the
Human Rights Commission itself are exhausting to those most needing the
assistance, time wasting and delaying with the outcome inevitably being
unsatisfactory, incomplete and unjust. People with genuine grievances in
I could go on and on, Tony Fitzgerald, detailing innumerable instances
that demonstrate without doubt the horrifying situation throughout your state.
Unlike the police, lawyers, prostitutes, pimps, politicians, drug addicts and
petty criminals which frequented your court of inquiry, my wife Mary, son Paul
and I always tell the truth and our lives clearly attest to the lack of
hypocrisy and prejudice which underscores all we write and speak. We have
always been believed in the numerous court proceedings in which we have been
involved even though we have never been given even the semblance of justice. As
a measure of just how threatened those in power in your state are by the truth
spoken directly and openly, we have had our three sons, Elijah, Saul and Joshua
effectively stolen from us as a spiteful and vindictive act to frighten us away
and discredit us as adults, parents and Christians.
The Department of Children’s Services in
The Children’s Services Department is infamous for creating problems and
causing trouble for the most vulnerable and defenceless, especially for the
families of prisoners in jail and for wards of the state. A typical example of their notorious
behaviour was the incident a few years ago when a father was shot to death by
police in front of his seven children in a caravan park near
Finally, one of the hardest aspects to come to terms with is the
corruption so rampant in the established churches today, notably the Catholic
and
We have considered giving evidence to your inquiry and enquired about
doing so on more than one occasion. We have decided against pursuing this
further for a number of valid reasons. Firstly we do not believe that our
efforts would achieve anything of substance. Secondly, your preoccupation with
what is essentially a fringe area of corruption (licensing) is sensational but
serves only to conveniently take the focus off the more substantiative
issues. One example of how transparent and deceitful Ahern’s own motives are
and the off-handed contempt with which he treats the
I do not believe,
Tony Fitzgerald that you have the strength of spirit, courage, real experience,
discernment, integrity or openness to even begin to consider what is written
here despite the crucial relevance and importance for your inquiry. You will no
doubt concede some of the points made but turn away when the truth brings up
too much fear, pain and rage in yourself or where it exposes your own
considerable guilt. In fact the only way to sit in judgement of anything to do
with people is to first and foremost come to terms with your own past and
present life, constructively express your repressed emotional agenda, make the
long overdue necessary changes to your own existence and then listen openly and
without bias. It is only by using your heart that you can determine accurately
what is truth and what is a lie - look people straight in the eyes and see
clearly the differences between what you see and feel there when compared to
their well-practised, external facade, facial expressions and dishonest words.
The current obsession with proving a case against someone is enormously
time wasting, expensive, protracted, essentially unjust, unfair and completely
unnecessary. All it takes is the commitment by a brave and just man whose own
life is without hypocrisy, to make a balanced, complete, detailed, specific,
comprehensive and thorough statement of what he knows and believes to be the
truth. He should of course receive no remuneration whatsoever for this effort
except that exacted from those shown to be culpable - for example, the
outrageous amount of money you and your grossly overindulged legal colleagues
have so fraudulently extorted from the public of Queensland could have more
fairly been paid from the confiscated superannuation of the convicted police,
politicians, public servants, judges and magistrates - you would do very well
indeed if you were dedicated and zealous. Following this inquiry the
commissioner would then absent himself and his family from all and any
connection or association with any individual or group involved in any way with
corrupt activities - what an extraordinary contrast to the judges, magistrates
and lawyers today who feed like parasites of a completely irredeemable and less
than useless court system. If this is all you did without fear or favour you would have already achieved more than what could
reasonably be expected of such a relatively small spirited and unimportant
person in real terms. To put you in charge of this inquiry has placed you in a
position well beyond the spectrum of your capabilities, “way out of your depth”
in the words of your own staff, and this was no doubt done deliberately by
those in power. You have however accepted the responsibility and to not now
make a strong and direct statement detailing how appalling the situation is in
general in
I strongly urge you to read the enclosed letter very carefully and take
the warning implicit in it both personally and seriously. If as expected you
are foolish and unprincipled enough yourself to try and evade being completely
direct and honest in your findings, I can promise that your life will become
most unpleasant, a deteriorating nightmare, both within and without. There is
no implication here of course of any threat or pressure to do anything but what
you are legally paid to do and what you have publicly undertaken to do. In
particular I need to emphasise that everyone who has
been directly or indirectly implicated needs to be named. To deceive yourself
is one thing, Tony Fitzgerald, to deceive others is far worse but to disobey
what your MAKER so clearly asks of you through your conscience is however the
ultimate deception and will be “rewarded” accordingly.
Thousands of Australians have learnt and are still learning to their
considerable discomfort (and in some cases, demise) what it means to casually
ignore or off-handedly dismiss what is so obviously a genuine spiritual
direction and rebuke from a real Man of GOD.
Faithfully,
HIS Servant,
Michael Israel †
Footnote It is no surprise that
after receiving this letter Tony Fitzgerald has now effectively become a
frightened recluse. His evasive, biased, superficial, verbose and nebulous
report, which notably (and predictably) avoided mentioning any of the rampant
illegality in the legal system itself, was pathetic and grossly inadequate.
Where can he hide after so culpably choosing not to listen?!
11) Warning
to NSW Government – February 1985
To:-
Neville Wran - NSW Premier Paul
Landa - NSW Attorney General
Ron Mullock
- NSW Minister for Health Frank
Walker - NSW Minister for YACS
Peter Anderson -
NSW Minister for Police Bob
Debus - NSW MLA
Nick Greiner -
NSW Opposition Leader James
Rowland - Governor of NSW
Trevor Haines - NSW
Justice Dept Gerald
Gleeson - NSW Premier's Dept
Bob Winder - NSW Justice
Dept John
Avery - NSW Police Dept
Barney Ross - NSW Police
Dept John
Whelan - NSW Police Dept
Angus Graham - NSW Police
Dept Vern
Dalton - NSW Prisons' Dept
John Walker - Legal
Services Commission Jim
Staunton - District Court Judge
Harry Gibbs -
Michael Kirby - Court of
Criminal Appeal Abraham
Saffron - Organised Crime Figure
Clarrie
Briese - Chief Stipendiary Magistrate Ian Temby
- Director of Public Prosecutions
Brian Toohey
- Editor, National Times Bob
Bottom - Journalist
February,
1985
I needed to
write to you all in the course of my life and work following the considerable
insight into, and extensive contact I have had with, all aspects of the NSW
Government and Public Service, especially in relation to the custody of my
eldest son Elijah. Elijah, now four years old, was illegally and criminally
stolen from my wife and I, his natural parents, by the Queensland authorities
over two years ago, only as a response to the truth we have both openly spoken
about the cowardice, sadism, abuse of power, injustice, impropriety,
conspiratorial and collusive behaviour, corruption, negligence and abdication
of responsibility by the Police, Prisons, Children’s Services, Health and
Justice Departments in Queensland as well as the total absence of leadership or
real concern about this situation by either side of the Queensland State
Legislature. We have reasonably, forcefully and openly spoken about, appealed
and publicised this case throughout Queensland, NSW,
Victoria and the ACT for over two years now with absolutely no action or real
support from anyone (except in words).
This has
happened despite no-one finding fault with our allegations and all involved
being able to clearly see the exemplary care we show all our children (we have
a son Saul, 17 months and another son Joshua, 3 weeks old). We finally rescued
Elijah from the foster "home" last year without violence or property
damage and left
The situation
in NSW is certainly no exception and the truth is you make
This is
especially true in the police force, prison system, the justice department, the courts and amongst politicians. Over 2O% of the serious
crime in NSW including rape, murders and hard drug dealing, is actually
committed by the police and they are indirectly involved or profit from nearly
half of the remainder. In addition, due to their disgusting, violent, improper
and unlawful treatment of those in police custody, their general thuggish, game
playing, unpleasant, bullying and threatening attitude towards all those
without power, influence or money and their complete disregard for and lack of
any commitment to law and order themselves, the NSW police cause over 95% of
the crime they are grossly overpaid to solve. While doing this they waste and
misuse an enormous quantity of physical and human resources. Try becoming one
of their prisoners and look and listen and you will see - they do effectively
nothing but cause trouble, sit around talking and looking for people to put the
guilt for their own unlawful behaviour onto. It is no surprise to learn that so
many policemen have been brought up in catholic homes, the Police Force being a
natural extension of the violence, brutality, dishonesty, hypocrisy and
spiritual unreality of a typical modern catholic home and schooling. Every
single N.S.W. policeman today is up to his ears in crime and if dealt with
fairly and justly by a court of law would be jailed. Every N.S.W. policeman in
a court of law when under oath perjures himself in the witness box as a matter
of course and every magistrate in N.S.W. is directly or indirectly in collusion
with the police's activities. The large increase in people being charged with
conspiracy today only reflects the guilt of those that work in the police and
court system, guilt they are desperate to offload onto others.
The NSW
judiciary is of course a knowing and willing party to all this, the court
system being a wordy, overindulged, legalistic ritual dedicated to obstructing,
obscuring and avoiding the dispensation of real justice. All those involved
enjoy this ritual as it gives them twisted and deviate delight to make those
before the courts feel awkward, inferior, scared, guilty, incapable and
helpless. A real system of justice would do quite the reverse. Most barristers
and solicitors are effectively in collusion with the police also and the whole
situation is a game where everyone wins except the accused. The legal
"aid" provided is a farcical and useless exercise in hypocrisy with
the accused always being played games with and made to feel grateful and
obliged for getting rushed, rude, off-handed, incompetent and uninvolved
"advice and assistance", often by lawyers who give advice which is in
the best interests of the police, not the accused. Why do you give people
"help" to be involved in a system of injustice? It is not "the
law which is an ass", it is the High Court, Supreme Court and District
Court judges, the magistrates, barristers, solicitors and court officials who
are all so proud and full of their own importance, who talk with such authority
about things of which they are so ignorant (like justice) and who do nothing
for the accused but posture, pose, indulge themselves and dress up in women's
clothes and wigs. If they only knew how stupid they all look! There is
certainly nothing "worshipful" or "honourable" about any of them and the use of these
titles is both hypocritical and blasphemous for a genuine Christian.
Everybody in
the system knows what goes on and all the real decisions are made covertly and
behind closed doors, subject to influences and activities that are never openly
spoken of but acknowledged by all involved. To hold a position in this system
is to commit a crime!
The victims of
this system, when sentenced, are then subject to the ignominy, injustice,
degradation, oppression and deprivation of human dignity that is an every day
part of the prison system. Its very defensiveness, suspiciousness and
covertness clearly indicates the guilty motives of those working in it and most
warders and other Corrective Services personnel break the law daily as a matter
of course. There is absolutely no excuse for this in the legal or humane sense,
those involved simply using prisoners without restraint to take out all their
pain on, just like caged animals. The treatment of prisoners in jails is a
criminal obscenity which guarantees that they will break the law when released
- they are reasonably very, very angry annd this is their way of expressing this
anger when freed and able to do so. In essence those working in Prisons and
Probation & Parole cause the very high recitivism
in the jail system and therefore are directly responsible, together with the
police and the courts, for nearly all the major crime in this state. Certainly
those in prison today are relatively innocent when their crimes are compared to
those committed by prison officers and superintendents, police, magistrates,
judges and politicians. Naturally the prison system fully (and illegally)
co-operates with the police and the government to provide extraordinary
privileges for favoured prisoners and particular unpleasantness, violence and
even death for those prisoners selected for "special" treatment and
persecution. A prison system committed in action to the rehabilitation of
prisoners would reduce the population in N.S.W. jails by 5O% in the first two
years and eventually by over 9O%. Most prisoners remaining would be
ex-policeman, judges, magistrates, solicitors, barristers, warders, politicians
and other miscellaneous public servants.
The health and
hospital system is also a total disgrace, being in action dedicated to the
furthering of suffering, sickness and disease and totally uninvolved in the
real processes of healing. All public hospitals are staffed by noisy, lazy,
selfish, frantic, intrusive, ignorant, pretending and "shut-off"
nursing staff who disguise their ineptitude and un-feelingness with busy and wordy "efficiency". The
most disease ridden and unhealthy environments in the western world today are
hospitals and doctors' surgeries and doctors and nurses are by far the most
physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually diseased people. In fact the
truth is that the medical profession causes most of the disease and sickness it
purports to so marvelously heal. Doctors today only know about health in theory
from books as they typically have no real personal commitment to caring for
their own bodies, being overweight, pasty faced, unhealthy, half blind and
balding, a very reasonable legacy of their hypocrisy, stupidity, dishonesty and
ignorance. The advice and treatment offered by these hypocrites is consequently
and understandably inappropriate, physically and emotionally damaging,
over-reactive, repressive (their "cures" stop one set of symptoms but
give rise subsequently to more serious illness) and unmindful of the real
underlying causes of disease and sickness. Patients (and one needs
to be patient whilst in the hands of a doctor or nurse) only get better in
hospitals as a desperate manoeuvre to escape the
noise, the awful food, the inconsideration, the pretence, the total invasion of
personal privacy and space, the savagery of the treatment and the enormous
expense involved. There is absolutely no excuse for this as there are ten times
the resources available, both physical and human, to superbly care for all the
sick in this state. What is completely lacking is the courage to provide real
leadership in health by example, to set responsible limits concerning
self-destructive behaviour and habits and finally to ensure that the grossly
overindulged, overpaid and out of control medical and nursing profession both
do what they are paid to do - serve and heal gently, quietly, considerately,
unselfishly, without drugs or unnecessary operations.
My conclusions
regarding the Department of Youth and Community Services (YACS) are consistent
with my disgust for the other areas of Public "Service" mentioned
above. Frank Walker, the Minister is an emotional child, an "aged
boy" who does not want to grow up and his example is followed faithfully
by all the male staff of this useless department. As a consequence, the females
employed by YACS are exactly as I describe ‘lost’ women in the attached letter
to Men Everywhere - they are totally ignorant about children or their real
needs and their concern and ‘care’ is an enormous pretence. Rosemary Foote of
the State Opposition is a typical example being in action actively committed to
the separation of families, to unnecessary fostering of children and to the
criminal, violent and shameful treatment of young people in institutions. These
people in action do everything they can to destroy a real family as they refuse
to face their own ineptitude and abdication of responsibilities as parents in
their own homes. You would all do well to spend some time yourselves in the
places of ‘care’ that YACS funds or is responsible for - rat infested youth refuges,
alcoholic and drug addict shelters where conditions are reminiscent of the
German concentration camps, jail-like pre-schools and kindergartens where
noisy, talkative, ignorant and useless females (rarely males) fill an enormous
space whilst doing effectively nothing for the very people they are paid to
serve. To waste over $60million (most of which would be spent on these bludgers' salaries) is a crime in itself.
Which brings me to the N.S.W. Parliament, an organisation
representing the worst possible aspects of the entire government system in this
state. The higher the level occupied in any corrupt
system, the more culpable and implicated are those involved and politicians in
this state are no exception to this rule. No politician in NSW (or for that
matter in
To give you an
incentive to change, watch carefully how GOD deals with Johannes
Bjelke-Petersen, a man who pretends to be a Christian and yet whose activities
bring enormous disrepute to CHRIST. I have given him a warning earlier this
year which he has chosen to ignore in his pride, presumption and avarice. What
is in store for each and every one of you is foreshadowed in his shortly to be
determined disgrace and eventual demise. This will
occur, as with your own fates, without human intervention or involvement and is
clearly a question of your own personal choice. My wife and I have already
clearly and unmistakably proven beyond any doubt in a court of law that it
would be oppressive, unfair and unjust to extradite us ever to Queensland on a
charge of child stealing - the truth is that the Queensland authorities
themselves are guilty of this charge of child abduction with Elijah on four
separate occasions and I have no intention whatsoever of allowing them to put
their guilt onto us. I am also certainly not going to put my family or myself
through the pain and distress of yet another courtroom ordeal where the outcome
has been shadily and illegally determined beforehand.
For those
people remotely interested in justice, our situation is comprehensively covered
by the transcript of similar proceedings in the ACT last year, none of our
evidence being contested or denied. In fact the
I have only
taken matters into my own hands under extreme duress in the absence of any
support or assistance from those well able to do so. If the system here (and
elsewhere in
Any attempt by
the recipients of this letter to further persecute my family or myself will be
providentially confounded and will certainly receive a full and just
recompense. My enormous faith in GOD is, unlike your commitment to your ‘jobs’,
a commitment of action. You all need to read the attached letter to Men
Everywhere very, very carefully as it is all certainly true of your own
lives, your own childhoods, your own parents and now, your own families. You
need to take the warning in this letter both personally and seriously.
HIS Servant,
Michael Israel †
12) Warning to ACT Government
To:- Prime
Minister's Department
Attorney General's
Department
ACT Welfare Branch
ACT Corrective
Services
ACT Legal Aid Office
Deputy Crown
Solicitor's Office
ACT Judges,
Magistrates & Court Personnel
Commonwealth
Ombudsman's Office
Australian Federal
Police
Department of Social
Security
Private Solicitors
Human Rights
Commission
The Media
February
1984
I needed to write to you all in the course of my life and work following
the direct or indirect contact I have had with all of you as a result of those
matters concerning my family and myself both in
It is this commitment to tell the truth, and this commitment alone which
has given rise to the persecution of my family in
Such is clearly the case with the Court System, the Police Force, the
Health Authorities, the Children's Services, the established Church, the
Welfare Agencies and charities, the Legal Profession, the Parliament, the
Prison System and the Media in
I put the responsibility for this shabby affair squarely where it
belongs (and where it could be simply and quickly remedied by a few men brave
enough to grow up and speak the truth). Your behaviour disgusts and sickens me
and it can only be accurately described as collusive, cowardly, dishonest,
useless, irresponsible, illegal, negligent, hypocritical, ineffectual and
superficial. Not one of you is free from
taint in this sordid affair as even the "nice" ones are avoiding
confronting your fears as men and facing up to the criminal behaviour of those
more directly implicated. This is
voyeuristic and parasitic as you are all paid to do something positive
and involve yourselves actively and you all accept your
living to do so. As you do not do so,
you are accepting your renumeration under false
pretences.
To be specific about the truth of what has happened in the past three
months:-
(1) My son Elijah and myself were arrested in Queanbeyan by members of the
A.F.P. before a warrant was even in existence.
The provisional warrant later produced was only valid in the A.C.T. and
not in NSW
(2) My son Elijah and I were taken by the same police from Queanbeyan to
(3) My wife Mary, friend Glen and son Saul were abducted by the same
members of the A.F.P. and taken from Queanbeyan into
the A.C.T. without consent, legal documentation or other authorisation.
(4) My wife and myself were both assaulted by the same police without provocation. I have written to these police whilst in the Belconnen Remand Centre and I know that they are already
receiving the retribution they so richly deserve at the hands of their Maker.
(5) The vehicle in our charge was unlawfully used by the same police
without permission, justification or authorisation.
(6) Our complaints to the Internal Investigation Division of the A.F.P.
will of course be yet another wordy, exhausting and useless exercise in
superficiality, hypocrisy and pretence.
Everyone involved knows we tell the truth and that we have no reason
whatsoever to lie, yet nothing will be done.
Those involved with these complaints from the Ombudsman's Department are
either terrified of the police or are in collusion with their activities by
their inaction and
disinterest in real justice.
(7) My son Elijah was subsequently abducted from the A.C.T. by the
Queensland Welfare Authorities with the full knowledge and consent of Ted
Harrison and Ethel Macguire (A.C.T. Welfare), that
enormously overweight and untrustworthy Ron Cahill (S.M.), the alcoholic and
equally corrupt Kevin Dobson (S.M.), all the police involved (especially Brian McGahey and Ann Dellacca of the
Juvenile Section) and Margot Drewer of the Canberra
Hospital. Joan Jardine
(Human Rights Commission) and Chris Stanisforth
(Legal Aid Office) were not directly involved but most certainly knew of what
was going on without protest. No legal
authority existed for Elijah's extradiction and the
Children's Court records show no mention of him. Despite the best efforts of Mary and myself
to legally prevent Elijah's extradition, all those above and many others to
some extent did their best to obstruct us.
They did not of course do this openly as, like the Queensland
Authorities, they are simply totally lacking in any moral fibre,
sense of decency or courage.
(8) Anthony Gillies and several other lawyers
from Legal Aid had ample opportunity to do something constructive both before
and after Elijah's abduction from the A.C.T.. In fact the Legal Aid office gave us only
sufficient support to make it look as though we were getting justice. The truth is that due to our own efforts and
testimony alone we were finally admitted to bail. The solicitor first provided to Glen, Ray
Livingstone, gave advice which could well have come originally from the
(9) Despite the unusual, contentious, potentially newsworthy and
important nature of our court case and our best efforts to involve and inform
the press, their actions clearly showed that they had been influenced to
provide minimum coverage. The press
misinforms, deludes and misleads and this is common knowledge to even the most
obtuse observer - their self-interest, cowardice and lack of real concern was
however particularly disgusting as they did nothing for Elijah. In legal terms they are also an obvious party
to conspiracy. One example was the
behaviour of the Canberra Times reporter Rod Campbell who after covering the
other four days of the hearing simply "decided" not to turn up one
afternoon when there was important testimony from Mary. The covert involvement of more senior media
people was even more sinsiter and collusive and all
news coverage was clearly biased. In
fact the media has deliberately lied about and distorted our situation and has
always failed to mention anything that favourably
reflects our side of the case. Elijah
was very clearly extremely distressed during the T.V. coverage of the foster
mother's boarding of the plane at
(1O) The treatment of all my family at the Belconnen Remand Centre was an absolute disgrace,
especially considering it is a place for remanded, not sentenced
prisoners. The Ombudsman's office and
the Human Rights Commission were difficult to involve, hard to
convince and all their efforts only effected temporary and superficial
change.
(11) The entire court system in the A.C.T. is a shabby, corrupt,
self-important, pretentious, greedy, ritualistic, useless, expensive, grossly
over-indulged and totally dishonest parody of justice. All those involved do not even obey the very
laws they are paid to administer. All
magistrates (Clarrie Hermes, Ron Cahill, Kevin
Dobson, Warren Nicholl and John Dainer) are
in collussion with the illegal activities of the
police and only dispense real justice when the case is not important to the
police or other "interested" parties.
The situation deteriorates as you go up the hierachy
and it becomes more indulged, more disreputable and more concerned with
appearances only. Richard Blackburn, the
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court is no exception to the above observations
and he consulted several senior public servants and politicians before refusing
my bail application. He is a highly
morally and ethically suspect person who cannot be trusted to even abide by the
legal system he is grossly overpaid to administer. Most solicitors openly acknowledge the truth
and corruption of the legal system in the A.C.T. but by continuing to be a part
of such a system, they are equally criminally implicated. We were always treated like there was
something wrong with us and what we did and noone
tried in the slightest to understand our side, especially the corrupt Federal
Police.
(12) The final decision by Dainer was a farce,
a "compromise" where we yet again were the losers. Dainer made no
attempt to disguise his efforts to help the police conceal their own criminal
activities and as such he is a knowing party to these activities. He showed no interest in gross discrepancies
in the police testimony and his final decision was totally inconsistent with
the evidence given. In fact only a week
after the Chief Justice refused me bail based on his conclusion that I would
not honour such an agreement, Dainer
placed us all on bail, fully aware of the enormous injustice and oppression we
would be subjected to if we honoured such an
agreement. Dainer
has in fact encouraged us to break the law - despite our presentation of clear,
uncontested, incontrovertible evidence (admitted by Dainer
in his summation) that it would be totally and absolutely unjust for us to be
returned to
(13) In truth what we have all done is to risk a great deal in order to
rescue a small, vulnerable boy (my own son Elijah} from the clutches of some
dreadful bludgers in
I therefore enclose for all your interests a document entitled Men
Everywhere which was originally written as a letter all my friends at
school on the occasion of their 2Oth year reunion in 1983. All of this is true
of lives, your own parents, your own childhoods and now, your own
families. You need to face the truth of
this and choose to change. If you do not
the implications of such a choice are obvious and you need to take the enclosed
warning both seriously and personally.
So that you may understand and believe that this is from a real Minister
of GOD (and not the result of an unfounded religious fanaticism) you need to
know that Joh Bjelke-Petersen has ignored a similar
warning from some time and will meet his Maker in no uncertain terms.
This will be clearly of GOD and not of man and will be a great relief to
us all. GOD has had enough!
HIS Servant,
Michael †
13) Extract on Judges,
Magistrates, Lawyers & The Courts
Lawyers, with their contrived, narrow, rigid,
closed, biased and very, very limited perspective are the worst possible people
to be involved with or in charge of human rights, leadership in government or
the issues of truth, justice, judgment and equity. Although completely false and misleading,
their legalistic approach enables judges, magistrates and lawyers to maintain
their persistent, unfounded delusions of competence, understanding and
relevance.
In fact legal qualifications are substantially
theoretical and worthless, gained by years of essentially unhealthy study and
an extremely imbalanced, contrived and artificial lifestyle which requires a
complete denial and repression of students' real needs and feelings. Legal
training absurdly compels law students to memorise
tens of thousands of precedent cases, statutes and other information largely
irrelevant to justice, a classic example of "not being able to see the
forest for the trees." Academic
achievement with its associated emphasis on mental/cerebral processes is also
the worst possible basis upon which to assess someone's capacity to make
ethically sound decisions about issues of morality, about law and order,
accountability, punishment and the apportionment of blame. True discernment comes from the 'heart', not
the 'head', and it is no wonder that the intellectually obsessed but
spiritually disabled (even retarded) legal profession has created such moral
dilemmas and such an incredibly wasteful, extravagantly expensive, confusing,
complex and self-serving system of (in)justice with impossibly difficult legal
processes and ridiculous formalities and rules.
Criminal court proceedings have degenerated into
bizarre, ritualistic charades and production lines where the defendant is
largely irrelevant and which are determined to avoid looking at the
substantive, underlying causal reasons of crime and alcohol and drug abuse. The
higher the court, the more ridiculous, pompous and affected are those involved.
The administration of the law has mutated into something that actually has very
little to do with what is just, fair and equitable and courts are obsessively
based upon pretending to prove guilt or innocence rather than the simple
discernment of the truth, knowing what is right and wrong. This often allows guilty people to go free
and innocent people to be convicted based on police (and prosecution witnesses)
blatantly obvious perjury. It is also
not uncommon for judges today in all jurisdictions to manifestly manipulate
juries so as to obtain the desired verdict - opposite outcomes are possible
based on exactly the same evidence presented in court.
Most judges, magistrates & lawyers today lack
the necessary, pre-requisite, demonstrated credentials to be able to work in
any real system of justice, civil or criminal and actually have a very low
tolerance for the truth. Most have appalling
standards of self-care, many are obese with stomachs like pregnant women or
very underweight, many are addicted to cigarettes, other drugs and/or alcohol
and all spent most of their lives sitting and talking (which is parasitic bludging and not work!).
If you can’t give your own body and spirit justice, how can you possibly
dispense it to others. Vital
qualifications for appreciating and dispensing justice and equity include high
standards of care of body and spirit, an excellent self-awareness and the manly
virtues of temperance, moderation, restraint, patience, decency, courage,
kindness, compassion, integrity, absence of arrogance and covetousness and not
given to wine (or anything else alcoholic) or reliant or addicted to any drugs
(prescription or illegal). This means
being able-bodied, slim, active, emotionally honest and open and in touch with
reality. In contrast most judges,
magistrates and lawyers are grossly indulged, hypocritical frauds and emotional
escapists living in desperate denial with no self-awareness whatsoever.
Globally criminal and civil justice systems are all
corrupt and self-interested and there are no exceptions, just different ways in
which the situations are presented and disguised. The courts are supposed to serve the
interests of the society at large yet now mainly serve the unbridled ambition,
greed and unsavoury emotional agendas of all those (un)gainfully (un)employed therein. Judges, magistrates, lawyers and court
administrators and all miscellaneous hangers-on are in a sense all profiteering
parasites guilty of an enormous amount of real violence, inconceivable
illegality and immorality themselves. All the conclusions made and reservations
expressed in the letter to the Human Rights Commission of the United Nations
below about appellate channels of redress equally apply to the legal profession
and courts. Lawyers have basically
‘high-jacked’ and rigorously control the court systems and aggressively resist
all attempts by outsiders (the general public) to have any standing or input
within them that might compromise their grossly over-inflated and completely
undeserved fees. There is no justice for
the common man and especially not if reliant on so-called ‘Legal Aid’ support. To get even the shreds of satisfaction and
justice costs extortionate amounts of money and even the wealthy are obscenely
disadvantaged financially by the present systems.
There are of course many people within the
legal/court systems worldwide who have significant vested interests (both financial
and emotional) in the continuation of this highly unsatisfactory and unethical
situation and they have powerful ‘friends’ in government and amongst the
privileged elite. Just like politicians, the health profession, senior public
servants and clergy and other greedy, over-privileged and ambitious groups in
society with artificially inflated, undeserved social status and economic
positions, the legal profession is manifestly corrupt. It outrageously misuses
its entrusted power and influence and will not hesitate to spitefully slander,
maliciously malign and covertly conspire to discredit or persecute anyone who
genuinely criticises or accurately exposes its
culpable misconduct and nefarious activities.
Despite their self-important pretentiousness and
proudly proclaimed, pompous public posturing, the truth is that the majority of
those in the legal professions and justice systems globally are mainly
concerned with their own grossly inflated incomes, with their position and
power over people, with the evasion of their primary responsibilities as
adults, spouses and parents, with their pretence of concern for law & order
and with avoiding any real and active contribution to this world. The worst of
them are smug, presumptuous, arrogant and dangerous impostors who know very
little and who in real terms do even less, accepting all their fees and
salaries fraudulently under false pretences. Generally speaking they are part
of the problem, not part of the solution and popular television programs
(police and court dramas) are outrageous misrepresentations of reality and
dangerous propaganda and not merely innocent entertaining fantasies. These fictional mis-portrayals
are deliberately designed to lull a gullible, deluded public into a false sense
of security so that they do not see how they are being cheated and defrauded.
Faithfully,
Michael Israel † http://www.geocities.com/michael_the_one