Poirot,

Actually reading what I post before you reply would assist you in making sense. I clearly said:

"I have many times in previous threads said that the FWA handling of the report was incompetent."

This was precisely because it took 3 years and nearly a million dollars to assemble evidence that would have taken a few people in a professional law firm several months. To make it worse it didn't cover the full scope of the brief and wasn't laid out in a format that could be used by a prosecutor. But for a Labor appointed statutory body could you expect anything different?

In spite of all this the report contained a significant amount of solid evidence. Thomson is not being prosecuted on the basis of the report, but on the evidence that formed the basis of the report, and further evidence put together by a professional team over the last 6 months.

If a man shoots someone in front of 3 policemen and is arrested, before the court he is assumed innocent until proven guilty, however, outside the court process only the most delusional would kid themselves that he was pure as the driven snow until the final verdict.

Under what circumstances did this man shoot the three police men.
They may have been pulling his arms and legs off, for all you know.
Your assumption of Thomson is what you find in the kangaroo court.
Thomson was guilty on the release of the failed FWA documents, and that was before any six month review by anyone.
Your presumptions are not in anyones interest, besides propaganda purposes.
If Thomson is guilty of anything, he will be dealt with in the proper way.

SM,

What you actually wrote was:

"I have many times in previous "thread" said..."

I took it to mean previously in this thread.

"...Thomson is not being prosecuted on the basis of the report, but on the evidence that formed the basis of the report..."

Hee, bloody, hee (I thought you said you were an engineer, not a contortionist : )

Surely whatever formed the baisis of the report "is" the basis of the report?

But as we slip into the quicksand of semantics, I'm grabbing the nearest overhanging branch - see you on another thread.

Belly,

Stop lying.

I never said anything like "ANY conservative charged EG SA female senator, should be given air until convicted."

What I said on 22 August 2011 about a week before the trial was "The presumption of innocence is a valid position where the issue is being dealt with by the correct authorities, such as in the case with MJF, with a fixed time line to its conclusion at the trial on Sept 1."

The reason I call Thomson a crook is because of the piles of forensic evidence against Thomson for about $500 000 of stolen money. The evidence against MJF consisted of the word of one person that she had stolen about $70 of goods. As such the charge was dismissed.

Labor spent $350 000 on legal fees to prevent Fairfax from spilling the beans, and did whatever it could to slow the process whereas the coalition did nothing to defend MJF.

The moment there was a second case MJF was forced to resign. Juliar several times expressed her full confidence in Thomson.

It is important I do not become involved in a slanging match with this *Gentle man* Humor intended.
A man who I have, time and again spoken of in the harshest terms, including a call for imprisonment, if found guilty.
Has not yet, been charged with anything.
Forgive me, but in truth his crime, at this point, is keeping the ALP government in power.
In this matter I do not lie,AND THINK I NEVER KNOWINGLY HAVE.
My Government, my party, lead by Gillard, is headed for a loss, and a bad one.
Well past time,an honest look at our incoming government, and its policy's, other than Negativity and keeping a distance between truth and them, in truth Tony Abbott lies far more than any one.
In distancing my self from the poster above,I want to point out NARCISSISM a belief in self beyond reality, more often than not is self harm.
In an under achiever both over valuing their own worth and under valuing their opponents they, as is their habit, defeat their own augments.
Thankfully it is not an Australian habit to form lynch mobs .
To hang the not yet convicted.
It is and always has been and will be the true Conservatives view that only their view has merit.
Self deception, funny,but in the end? self defeating!

It is and always has been and will be the true ALP members view that only their view has merit.
Self deception, funny,but in the end? self defeating!