PS

In my last line above I meant to say: "They're called injustices against society by the State."

The same jail time was served by Pauline Hanson, set up by Scumbag Howard and the shining light Abbott on behalf of theLiberal Party, for a crime she did not commit: How soon we forget!

Dan

diver dan,

I say "Down with the lowlife scumbags of the world!"

Professor:

"The second explanation is ideological blindness. It is what I have elsewhere argued is the path dependent, ideology-driven compulsion to believe and say stupid things because your belief system and world view demand that you believe and say things that might conform to the ideology but which simply don't pass the smell test."

"This drives many of the bizarre and easily disproven climate alarmist claims."

Why bring the Climate Change debate into an otherwise fine informative article?

Your unsubstantiated dismissal of the climate change science - of the measured and recorded impacts on the Polar Ice-caps, and on glaciers, and in sea-level rise and changes in oceanic currents and temperatures, with incursion of invasive species previously unrecorded in many oceanic sectors, and changes in world weather patterns generating more, and more intense, storms and floods and droughts and devastating bushfires - is of course without substantiation, because there is no legitimate substantiated proof for such a dismissal available.

A pity to so naively cast a verifiable smidgen of doubt over the whole of your otherwise credible offering.

Not perhaps indicative of any personal 'ideological blindness'?

That's some victory lap, Paul. A bit more fun, at the expense of the 4444 Catholic "losers" who went to the Royal Commission. AKA, the tip of the iceberg.

But we're as divided as ever. For some, Pell is the real victim. For others, Pell is a coward who saw and heard no evil, then coined the self-serving Melbourne "response". Who carries a pro forma list of allegations against his own person.

On top of that, he joins his bestie Abbott, in openly acting out his prime allegiance to a foreign power. One word for that in our language is "traitor".

ttbn: “Question we all need to ask is Why did Judge Mark Weinstein dissent in George Pell's Victorian appeal?”

As one would expect in an appeal case, he came to his conclusion after rigorously analysing all the evidence.

Surprisingly, there has been little discussion of a report on Victoria’s Court of Appeal by Victoria’s former chief crown prosecutor Gavin Silbert QC. published in the Australian Law Journal. The Australian of 23 July 2020 reported:

Victoria’s Court of Appeal has been rocked by a landmark legal study finding that 18 criminal judgments under its president, judge Chris Maxwell, have been overturned by the High Court.

The report … concluded that during Justice Maxwell’s reign the court had “cast off its near-perfect record”.

“The first 10 years of the Court of Appeal in its criminal jurisdiction saw its judgments affirmed on 10 occasions and reversed twice by the High Court,” Mr Silbert writes in his report

“The next 14 years (under Justice Maxwell) have seen the Court of Appeal’s judgments reversed 16 times and affirmed on six occasions, with a large number of its decisions criticised, particularly in … sentencing ...

The Silbert report covered the first 24 years of the Court of Appeal and contrasts the Maxwell court in unfavourable terms with the court under the decade-long rule of judge John Winneke from June 1995.

“The first 10 years of the court (under Justice Winneke) are notable on two counts; first, the relatively few grants of special leave by the High Court and, second, the fact that only two decisions of the Court of Appeal were reversed,” Mr Silbert finds.

“The next 14 years (under Justice Maxwell) are notable for an increase in the applications for special leave to appeal and the number of judgments reversed on appeal.”