Dear Banjo,

We can't change the past but we can try to ensure
that there is a fairer future for sexual abuse
victims with reforms to our legal system and
within our religious institutions as well. Now that
is something worth striving for.

Thank You for you rational input into this discussion
It has been greatly appreciated.

Enjoy your day!

Banjo,

I see you are still struggling with the concept of reasonable doubt and are still happy to ditch citizens' fair rights for a kangaroo court.

Discernment is a reasoned judgement, a long way from dispelling reasonable doubt. Witness testimony especially from a distant past is notoriously unreliable. A reasonable alternative to B's testimony is that he fabricated the story for his gain, or it was not Pell etc.

What dispels reasonable doubt is corroborating evidence for which there was none. In fact, the jury in its wisdom completely ignored the opportunity witness whose testimony contradicted B's.

A competent judge would have tossed the case out of court.

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Dear shadowminister,

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Looks like you’ve had enough, so I won’t bother you any longer, shadowminister.

Many thanks for your input. The exchange has been quite fruitful. I appreciate it.

No doubt, we’ll have the opportunity of exchanging again on some other thread of common interest here on OLO.

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Dear Foxy,

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You wrote :

« We can't change the past … »
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That’s true, but there are many negationists and revisionists around who deny that certain major historical events occurred or who change the narratives to suit their purpose and rewrite the history books for present and future generations.

Half the world population lives in countries with varying degrees of democracy and half in countries with varying degrees of authoritarianism.

The negationists and revisionists are to be found in both halves, the mind control of the citizens of the latter being naturally more severe than in the former.

We are lucky in Australia to be rated 9th among the “full democracies” of which there are only 23 in the world. New Zealand is 4th. The UK and the USA are not “full democracies” at all. They are both listed as “flawed democracies” and have been for quite some time.

That said, Foxy, I very much appreciate your initiative in creating this thread and giving me the opportunity of developing and expressing my ideas and opinions on what I consider, rightly or wrongly, to be a major, and highly regrettable, historical miscarriage of justice.

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Dear Banjo,

I'm grateful that you continue to post on this forum.

Thank you.

I learn so much from you - always with a positive slant
that gives me hope and lifts my spirits.

Is PELL in HELL?

Does anyone know the answer.

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