The reason lawyers are refusing to be honest about the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights hereafter called the Covenant, is because it abolishes their monopoly. It provides in Article 14 that all persons are equal before the courts and tribunals. That means anyone can select anyone else to represent them, and it also means no one person can exercise the judicial power of the Commonwealth over any other, so all Judges and Magistrates in Australia are criminals. They have been crims, since 2001, when the Criminal Code Act 1995 came into force, but Mick Keelty was chasing fake terrorists, when the real terrorists in Australia are still sitting and still drawing humungous salaries, tax fee in many cases, on the benches of the Courts created illegally by all State Governments and the Commonwealth.

Just imagine if all the members of the Australian Federal Police were serious about the war on terror, and sat in every court in Australia just to make sure the Judge complied with the Covenant. We would have a major outbreak of the benefits of Christianity. The separation of powers, enacted as a Godly Statute in John 5 Verses 22 and 23 would be applied as law, because the Judge would have to apply S 80 Constitution to everyone and grant a jury trial. The Holy Spirit which in Godly Statute, is said to be present when two or more are gathered together in the name of Jesus Christ, is again enacted in the Covenant. ( Matthew18:20)

Sentencing and guilt were enacted as the prerogative of Almighty God to be exercised by a jury. The Royal Prerogative, once present in every court, but abolished by Governments dominated by atheists, is restored by the Covenant. We should have some accountability from lazy Christians who do not read their Holy Bible and the Covenant together. It is good law, sanctioned by Almighty God and lawfully enacted by the Parliament of the Commonwealth. If KR does nothing else, he should instruct the Australian Federal Police to enforce the Covenant, and apologise that it was not done since 2001

Back to your old tricks again, Leigh.

Would do you good, and others like you to do the type of studies we did in Sri-Lanka under Dr John Maquire.

As I said in my earlier thread, proof how much of the present terrorism is the result of colonial greed, as we learnt in our studies.

Finally, might let you know, Leigh that letting the Sri-Lankan government handle the Tamil boat-people problem, is just another example of the weakness of Australia's global awareness.

Alistair
If the majority vote for a crime, does that make it okay?
Is a right whatever the state says it is?
Is anyone justified in using violence or threats to promote equality?

What do you mean by equality anyway? Obviously people aren't to be equal in weight, or height, or singing ability, or aptitude for mathematics, or the number of children they have, or house size, or their preferences, or the values they hold, or skills, or experience, or income, or capital.

Bah- it's usually the Bills of Rights from Church groups that I fear mostly- hence why I'm not remotely interested in supporting the current Bill- because a fanatical Jesuit loony is chairing it.

Pass thanks.

The enlightened Uniting Church is to be commended in supporting Human Rights leglisation, distancing itself from the cruel perpetrators of so many acts of Human Rights abuse of likes of the Catholic Church and the Church of England.

Opposition to Human Rights leglisation by most Christian Churches, has nothing to with the usurping the Holy Spirit or the coming Kingdom, rather it is a fear of loss of power to the Courts, wherein Churches can be held more accountable and they will have less control.

I guess the generations of children abused by Christrians in Church orphanages would have appreciated greater judicial guardianship.

It is good when the Church yeilds to the Rights of the Citizen. This true progressive liberalism burying the elites of the past.

Goodness gracious me, I do believe the Reverend Alistair Macrae is a bit rich advocating human rights while his organisation in cahoots with the vile Mission Employment has subjected me to such degradation and misery that I consider the phrase human rights is the antithesis of what I have experienced under the work for the dole scheme. I have been led to believe that this scheme is designed to give long term unemployed people some work experience. While this may be useful for a year 9 drop-out, I cannot see for the life of me how playing shop at a Lifeline second-hand clothes depot is going to help me with my future career. I do have a couple of degrees including a first class honours, and I did work for the ATO for nearly quarter of a century, I am 50, yet the powers of Christ-inanity under the inspiration of the unholy spirit decided to punish me for my education and work history and sent me to sort old clothes by gender and size and learn how to push a broom. When I complained and declared such tasks as being beneath a man of my education and experience I was declared a ‘job snob’ (goddamn you Tony Abbott). When I had a bit of a mental breakdown while sweeping a two acre expanse of concrete at the Lifeline garbage sorting depot, precipitated when one of the supervisors complimented me on my sweeping to which I replied that I didn’t give a fruitloop, I was very nearly lost my unemployment benefits. I was also subjected to the most humiliating and personal verbal attack from Mission’s ‘community work coordinator’ who threatened me with all sorts of punishments which betrayed the deep hypocrisy of these Christ-inane outfits purporting to help the unemployed, but who in reality use their Howard-granted power to implement a neo-Calvinist agenda in order to punish the unemployed for the sin of not working.
Christianity and Human Right: as great an oxymoron as you’ll ever find.
PS
As Yosser Hughes from The Boys from the Blackstuff would say, 'gizza job'