THE SACRED HERD AND THE DEATH OF JUSTICE
Back in the dark ages, there were only priests, and they all dressed in Black or White, and held all knowledge closely in a very small and tightly knit community that had almost a monopoly on the teaching of reading and writing. Slowly clerks became literate and started training their own clerks, to read and write, and gained enormous power from their ability to put ideas on paper, and spell out what was to be done. Then a fellow called William Caxton, introduced the Printing Process, to England, and by 1600, the Holy Bible was a best seller, and still sells more copies than any other book.
The King, in his wisdom, was called upon to deliver justice, and a very clever King it was, in fact Henry the Seventh, back in 1487 who enacted, with the consent of a Parliament free of lawyers, a restriction on discharges from penal actions, being given by lawyer judges. He did not regard lawyers as sacred. In fact the provisions of the Holy Bible in the Book of Luke, Ch 11 verses 46 and 52, were made law in England, as far back as 46 Edward III AD 1372 and lawyers were banned from Parliament. For 498 years England had no lawyers in Parliament, but money talks, and in 1870, they repealed the Act banning lawyers. Of course, in Australia the Australian Courts Act 1828 means it is still in force in Australia, since it was not repealed for the Colonies, then it should be enforceable against any lawyer in Parliament. It was thought that lawyers in Parliament were harmless. They were until they started to regard themselves as a substitute for Almighty God. In 1966, the first nibble at the foundations of democracy were enacted by the Federal Liberal Party Parliament. Section 30 (3) Bankruptcy Act 1966 gave a Lawyer the right to refuse jury trial. Not a whimper from the people. Beauty: The Sacred Herd of Lawyers could go on their way, and enact the Supreme Court Act 1970 and again abolish Christian systems, and install their own sacred rites. Again, not a squeal from the masses. Gradually, the Sacred Herd of Lawyers, with LAW as their religion, replaced two Justices of the peace with Lawyers. A Magistrate is a lawyer. Then they refused to use juries in the Federal Court of Australia even though they can. They also refuse to file anything they don’t like in that “Court”. The Labor Party was the sworn enemy of lawyers, as this article shows, but they were persuaded to make one their leader for three years, and when he was replaced, the natural Lawyers Party, replaced him. There has been very little change in the Commonwealth government since 1972. Lawyers have tightened their stranglehold on government. In 2010, the forty year fraud, should be ended. Forty years in a godless wilderness should be enough. Let us melt down the Golden Calf of the Sacred Herd, and restore Christian Rule. Its is juries that should be ruling, not Judges. Until 1970, no one was arbitrarily sentenced or tried without consent. The Sacred Herd occupied New South Wales and like a cancer, have spread throughout the body politic of Australia, and caused the death of Justice. It is time for its resurrection.
The Labor Party Comments in 1900, deserve another run.
LAWYERS DOMINATE POLITICS
As in other democracies , the six colonial parliaments had always attracted a disproportionate number of town lawyers, whilst lawyers were over represented in many colonial ministries. Lawyers dominated the federation movement, as well as the Convention Debates of 1897- 1898 when the Federal Constitution was being drafted, and most of Barton’s ministry were lawyers. The first federal election returned a large number of lawyers to the Commonwealth Parliament and for the next decade or so lawyers in the Commonwealth Parliament, in the public service and in the High Court had a dominant influence on Australian politics. Barton was prepared to justify his selection of colleagues, but some Labor spokesmen had little respect for the legal profession, and as time passed the Labor rank and file were ill served by some of the lawyers who emerged from their own leaders. A Labor Newspaper commented:
In Barton’s Ministry, of nine members there are already seven lawyers. The whole Federal show, says a writer in a southern exchange, is in the hands of these bounders the lawyers. If the Federal Parliament is composed of them in the same proportions as the so called ministry, then God help us. Every position of any importance in all the States is held by one of these rotten sharks, or by their deputies. Under no set of circumstances that can be brought forward, have they the right to represent the people in Parliament—a place where laws are made by whose distortion these humbugs live in luxury. Most of the Acts passed by the various Parliaments are framed by these artists in political fraud; more especially does this apply to the Commonwealth Constitution. If carefully read it is found to be shaped for the special benefit of the few—the lawyers, the promoters, the directors, and general managers of course all in the name of the suffering people. How could it be otherwise when these smooth faced political frauds are allowed to represent the people in Parliament. Among all classes of men this side of eternity there are no greater octopuses than lawyers, who prey and exist to the detriment of their fellow men. They belong to that class that never produced one atom of real wealth, but who are able to wrest it from those who by their industry have produced it. How can the real wealth producers of this fair land under any circumstances vote for these rapacious birds of prey. Every worker who votes for any of these parasites should be blackballed for ever by his fellows. The land is full of law, but it is freedom that is required—the freedom that is every mans birthright.
— “Worker” Brisbane 30th March 1901. —