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Democracy has long odds in a stacked house : Comments

By Scott Prasser, published 6/7/2009

Executive power: unicameral parliaments cannot rely on watchdogs alone to guard against corruption.

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Scott Prasser has identified the problem, but failed to come up with a solution. The simple solution is for Kevin Rudd to reject sixty years of Liberal Party Government by benevolent dictatorship, and restore true democracy, by abolishing S 39 Federal Court of Australia Act 1976 and Order 46 rule 7A Federal Court Rules.

Those of us born before 1949, were born into a representative democracy, in every State except South Australia. It abolished representative democracy in 1927 when it gave its Judges absolute power, by abolishing civil juries. Representative democracy was abolished in New South Wales in 1970. When the Liberals created the Federal Court of Australia in 1976, it could be democratic, but was given a choice. It has never constituted itself as a court since its inception. A court is essential to a representative democracy.

A Judge is a State God. He or she is not a democrat. None of our Judges and Magistrates are either honest or democratic, and the word Judge does not appear in the Constitution. When the Parliament of the Commonwealth enacted s 268:10 Criminal Code Act 1995 ( Cth) so as to make it a twenty five years imprisonment offence to exercise ownership over another human being, Judges should have accepted their time was up. That is what a Judge does. He exercises ownership over another human being, and he or she is no less a criminal because the State has authorized this particular form of slavery.

Scot Prasser’s problem is that he has failed to remember there can only be One God, One Queen and One Nation in Australia, and until we work that out it is a miserable place, for so many of us. Kevin Rudd can fix homelessness. He has not as yet faced the fact that just throwing money around is not enough. He must assert the dominance of the Federal Government. Instead of having a one legged cripple as the Federal Court of Australia he should make it a democratic institution, that in the conduct of its business stops dealing exclusively in the private sector
Posted by Peter the Believer, Tuesday, 7 July 2009 9:00:13 AM
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I have never read so much codswallop as this article has attracted. There is so much ignorance about what a democracy is, that I am moved to write a bit more about it. Democracy and Christianity are synonymous. The places that do not have democracy do not have Christianity. They have a belief structure, but it does not have a Trinitarian nature. The Christian belief in the Trinity is the foundation of the United States democracy, and until the United Kingdom went bad after World War II was the foundation of that democracy too.

The Trinity, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, are the foundation of democracy, because the teachings of Jesus Christ, set out that all persons are equal before Almighty God. Almighty God is the Law. In every country with a government there is Law. In a democracy all people are equal before the law, and no one is entitled to rule over another.

The English adopted democracy derived from the New Testament when in 1295 they made the Magna Carta law. They had it read in every Church in the land three times a year, because many people could not then read. In 1640 they confirmed it again, in the Habeas Corpus Act 1640 16 Charles 1 Ch X. We got democracy in 1900, when we adopted a written Constitution. Like the English we started to lose it from 1949.

Democracy means that when you are accused of a crime, or called into court by another human being, you are not judged by an aristocrat but by a jury of 12 people just like yourself. This is because we are a Christian Country, or were, and the father in Heaven is represented on earth by an executive officer, who was called a Justice. Seated at the right hand of the father, are two or more gathered together, and in their midst is Jesus Christ, as promised in Matthew 18 Verse 20. The Holy Spirit does the judging, and it is declared that the worst blasphemy, for which there is no forgiveness, is to defile the Holy Spirit
Posted by Peter the Believer, Tuesday, 7 July 2009 9:24:24 AM
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Oh Boy.

One of the better articles and all it can generate is a couple of decent comments and some looney talk.

Could sum up OLO and other internet contributions to civil society...
Posted by Reality Check, Monday, 13 July 2009 11:17:12 AM
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Oh Brother,

Transferring the rights, services and benefits of a nation to IMMIGRANTS, &transfering the costs of that insidious strategy to existing citizens is NOT democracy.

It smacks of the farming of the human-race, the Animal Farm of human beings. At the end of the day the economic growth that comes from this strategy is transferred into investment futures & thus the costs onto future generations so the Maquarrie Street rich can live like pigs. The only beneficiaries are existing conglomerates of family dynasties &their extant political sock-puppets like Kevin Rudd and the NSW Politburo-government.

By all Orwellian accounts, democracy is the new communism.

Loony views?

Just try going out Friday night and not getting bashed. Try getting help in an emergency ward if your wife is pregnant or try getting from the southern suburbs to Nth Sydney in peak-hour in under an hour.

The only loony thing here is that as our economy grows all we get is pain, danger, frustratiion, media reports of "How Great we Are" and new and soon to be free Maybellinesque beauty products to trap men into the greatest undemocratic fiscal instrument in the economic quiver.... Marriage.

Unless this nonsense is challenged the rich will get richer and the majority will just become animal farm chattels.

Australia leads the world in the new communism.

In the name of FREEDOM and true democracy for all Australians of all racial backgrounds we need to STOP immigration. That means cancel the iniquitous GST which underpins the base value of immigrants who NEVER pay a red cent for their downsides to Australian communities.

Only civil war and rebellion will come from the current immigration to communism strategy. True economic growth will only come from mining and rural commodity exports which increasingly depend on lower population numbers to ease water & energy usage requirements that are needed to support sustainable developments in a fragile and dry continent.

True economic growth depends on new technologies like Geothermal energy committments, exports that support global green infrastructure and local green invesment in wetlands and mega-sewage containment to clean up filthy unproductive coastlines
Posted by KAEP, Monday, 13 July 2009 3:00:20 PM
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