THE ROAD TO HELL
Have you ever
wondered how society got to the place where we find ourselves today? Have you
ever wondered how women and children who flee terror and seek asylum can be
incarcerated in detention centres for years at a time, places where they suffer
child abuse, rape, domestic violence, and the very same kinds of physical and psychological torture they
tried to flee?
Have you ever wondered how children can be left in
homes where there is domestic violence and child abuse, or taken from their
parents and siblings and placed into a foster care home. Where they are
subjected to domestic violence and child abuse, suffering decades of brutal,
sadistic torment or even death? Have you ever wondered how the Roman
Catholic Church, Church of England, Jehovah’s Witnesses, and so many other
religious cults were able to get away with rampant child abuse and paedophilia
for decades, or how the police and public services have been responsible for
the same kind of abuses and cover-ups, yet never held to account?
How did we get to
this place? How is it possible that nobody, at any point, said ‘enough’? How is
it that nobody took a stand, drew a line and said “no further”? All those
inquests, Royal Commissions, stooges placed in positions of authority, and
recommendations over the decades, and yet few are implemented, and nothing has
really changed. What will we see when we look back? That line that we made when we said “this is what we will not cross”, way back there, in the distance.
The road to hell is
not paved with good intentions, it is a series of small steps, little
compromises made by people claiming to protect the rights of someone else,
usually a victim, but all the while protecting their own self-centred interests.
When Edmund Burke said “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for
good men to do nothing”, he was wrong. The reality is, the only thing necessary
for the triumph of evil is for bad people to force good people to remain silent so that those good people may do nothing.
This is how the entrenched culture of corruption that infects our society started. While moral and ethical bankruptcy knows no class boundaries, it will remain as long as those in positions of authority make the rules, set the example, and maintain the power to eliminate any threats to their ability to get what they want. The authorities are well aware of the systemic failures that have led to the brutal indignities and murder inflicted on far too many women and children, and yet have done nothing in the decades they have known.
As a kid, I was
brutalised by my parents and step-father. My grandparents were indifferent to
what was happening, and the police and public servants who knew what was going on instructed me
to remain silent. Those authorities still do. My siblings and I suffered
horribly, and still do. Some of them are now abusers themselves. I’ve written
to dozens of politicians and the stooges they have given positions of power to deal with their own personal concerns, and yet none of them have ever
done anything to address these systemic failures.
There is a serious problem in our society. Anti-social behaviours are encouraged and enabled by a lack of real action to re-educate flawed attitudes or remove dangerous people from our community. The evidence for just what kind of threat this imposes can be seen in comments like those of the Domestic Violence Against Men Facebook profile. Two years ago it claimed no more than 1,500 like-minded predators, but today it boasts over 15,000, sick, angry creatures that are influencing others, too often children.
They lash out with their ignorance and bigotry, they
project their own flaws on others, imposing their own narcissistic rules on
those who do not meet their own hypocritical standards, and justify what they
do with disassociation to dehumanise their victims. They happily inflict
injustice on others, but only ever consider it to be unfair if someone does the
same to them. Indeed, they believe ‘others’ deserve it, and anybody who
disagrees with them is evil.
The rape and murder of Tiahleigh Palmer was an incident that shocked the Nation, but one of only a few that has forced the authorities to launch an investigation into what went wrong, albeit only a token one to distract and deceive the public, and one in which those authorities claim no prior knowledge. They are liars. They have known of these failures for decades, and now those at fault investigate themselves to find solutions to something of which they claim they were unaware. How did we get to this point, where victims are isolated and silenced so that abusers can be concealed and enabled?
That attitude
certainly explains why Tialeigh Palmer and far too many others have suffered as
we did, and why she and far too many others like us have been murdered.
Predators forcing their victims to remain silent is to be expected, but how is
it that the authorities that are supposed to defend those in need are just as
rotten? They set the example. They draw the line. If the politicians, police
and public servants are not part of the solution, they are part of the problem.
Social media has
allowed us to communicate ideas, important issues, and information better than
ever before. But again, we find the insidious canker that is the culture of
corruption. It is entrenched. Rampant. We find predators and freelance idiots
at large spreading their lies, trolling good people, bullying them into silence
with hypocrisy, projection, disassociation, and every other tell-tale sign of
any unhinged individual desperate to force their narcissistic, sociopathic
desires on others.
Why do they
do this? Well, the answer is obvious. They are sick. They are demented. They
are evidence of failure, where good public health and education is lacking. But
why are trolls like them able to do this? Now that is a far better
question. The answer is obvious. They are supported by a network of their ilk,
infesting the very agencies that are supposed to identify and address the vile
things they do. The absence of meritocracy and accountability in those agencies
is reflected in the behaviour of unhinged people in the general populace.
The only way to stop
this reprehensible culture of corruption is to impose serious deterrents on
those at fault, to discourage repetition. But how is this possible when the
rights of the ‘accused’ are given greater value than those of the victim? How is
possible that the identity and crimes of those offenders – even if they
are found guilty – can be suppressed to protect their rights? How is it that
they can be protected by the very authorities that are supposed to investigate
them and protect their victims?
If you own a
dog, you are supposed to keep it leashed in public, display a ‘beware of dog’
sign on your gate, and if it bites anyone, it will be put down. But if a
predator stalks someone, steals from them, harms them physically,
psychologically, or financially, defames them, rapes them, tortures them, even
kills them, their punishment is too often little to nothing of real detriment.
There is not even a warning sign for potential victims. How did we reach the
point where the rights of predators are of more value than the victim? Why
is the price of a victims suffering and life worth so little, yet a predator's
is worth so much?
It costs over
one-hundred-thousand dollars a year to incarcerate someone. The victim is often
left with nothing but a lifetime sentence of psychological and physical
injuries. A victim gets no parole. A victim who has been murdered does not come
back from the dead. Why are we conditioned to assume that no crime deserves the
death penalty? Maybe, if we were able to see and hear what horrors the victim endured,
we would change our minds, and spend some of the money saved on helping them recover.
We are all told by politicians on a remuneration package (wage and ‘entitlements’) of a quarter-to-half a million dollars a year that the unemployed are parasites, and that at thirteen-and-a-half thousand dollars a year (two thirds the official poverty rate) to support, they are driving our society into debt. A politician costs society the same as it does for between twenty-and-forty unemployed people for the same period of time, and only politicians have the power to influence employment opportunities or, better yet, find a way for everyone they claim to represent to live with a basic income and standard of living.
This isn’t the place
for that discussion. It is far too complex. It is the place to consider this attitude, however, in regards to the culture of corruption, have a look
at the examples presented here, and ask ourselves why we continue to walk down that dark path
to hell. We have the power to change this. We live in a society where
Capitalist Democracy exists, an oxy-moron to be sure, and more aptly Plutocratic
Fascism, but one in which we have the opportunity to provide good public
education and mental health services, and justice, for everyone.
Throughout this post you will notice excerpts from Facebook pages, comments on news feeds what others have said. There are several mentally deranged people in these examples who inflict their flawed personalities on anyone that does not appear to agree with them - they do their best to cause harm no matter how unfounded their allegations. The two examples above and below demonstrate just how bad this situation has become.
Oh, and for the record, Fascism is, by its very nature, Right-wing, but since when have the facts, literacy, education, or even basic comprehension ever prevented a fool from making an idiotic comment? The evidence speaks for itself. Weller, Moir, Lanham, and Thompson display all the hall-marks of
the mentally unbalanced, sociopaths clearly living in their own deluded realities, projecting and inflicting their own serious personality flaws on others.
The insane comments made by Sandra Louise Weller and Patricia Moir (above) were in response to a news feed on
on Doug Cameron’s 2016 video link where he repeated his challenge to every Liberal MP and Senator to open all donations received over $1000 to public scrutiny. It followed the LNP’s claim that Union corruption was rampant. You will notice they got a
lot of support from those who had not bothered to read what I’d written, or
were also trolls. I had said the evidence suggested that there was no ‘rampant’
Union corruption and there was a far greater need to address the entrenched culture
of corruption in the police and public services.
Their responses demonstrate
the opposition good people face in their efforts to expose and purge the
systemic failure. You will also notice they were not only quick to make an
assumption about what I’d written – without actually bothering to read it – but
were also very quick to unleash insulting language. Weller would then go on to hypocritically
accuse me of being at fault and unworthy of an apology for their vile behaviour
because I had responded in kind. She did not acknowledge that she had begun
this.
It may also amuse
you to learn that my continued efforts to alert them to their complete failure to
comprehend even basic reality resulted in notification from Facebook that Weller
and Moir had reported my comment and it was removed under claims it violated
so-called ‘Community Standards’. It did nothing of the sort. My response
suggested they actually read what I had written and pointed out that their
responses to me and others (yes, they attacked others in exactly the same way) were
defamatory.
After posting a
comment about how the pair had reported me and had my comment removed, others
posted comments saying the same. Facebook removed all those comments and
blocked me for twenty-four hours. They blocked all of the people who responded
to Weller and Moir, and when we were allowed back on, we all made complaints
about those two trolls.
Facebook said the comments the two had made did not
violate ‘Community Standards’ and warned us that if we complained again our
Facebook profile pages would be removed. Facebook would later remove Moir's comment for 'violating Community Standards', but not Weller's despite them both being pretty much the same comment. But why did they enable those two trolls at all?
But it's not just freelance trolls on Facebook making these kind of idiotic comments. Far too many of them are police, public servants, and politicians - bobble-heads incapable of engaging their brain, easily or willingly led by those elevated to positions of power and authority through nepotism or the ineptitude of those who should have known better. Rosie Batty was promoted based on political opportunism because she became a figure-head for the fight to address the systemic failure in how domestic violence is dealt with, but quickly became part of the problem.
She fought a war on
two fronts. She was too focused on her own concerns, and her position
insulated her from reality - she was inaccessible to people like her. Aside
from a little following of sycophants, she does not respond to those who need her help. To make matters worse, she was up against the predators like Mark Latham who were
determined to tear her down for fear she might actually do something to expose
and purge systemic failures. They needed have bothered. Like Hetty Johnston and
Megan Mitchell, there is an appearance that Rosie only serves to give the illusion of affecting positive
change while the status quo is maintained. Their inability, or unwillingness, to engage with (and actually help) victims reinforces this image.
There is no way this
systemic failure will ever be exposed and purged while the predators maintain
positions of authority. Good people cannot affect positive change while the
victims are isolated and silenced using laws, policies and procedures that downplay
the problems as isolated incidents, or conceal them altogether. Those actions
enable the predators and ensure systemic failure will continue unabated. The
price of little lives like Tialeigh Palmer, Chloe Valentine, Mason Lee, and far
too many others is considered negligible compared to that of the freedom of predators, and
those that shelter them, to continue doing what they want.
And Facebook
is part of the problem. Why is it that Facebook punishes the victims of trolls
but not the trolls themselves? Why are so many vile comments posted on Facebook
considered acceptable? Why are those that express legitimate concerns punished
and threatened for speaking out? Why is the very same practice inflicted on
whistle-blowers? What effect does this have on society? How does this influence
and shape the most limited intellects? How does this expose and correct
systemic failures? Facebook has no
duty of care toward its users. No responsibility. No accountability. It is not
there to protect them, or recommend some kind of psychological help for
sociopaths. It is there to make money for the people that own it, foremost
being its creator, someone who is considered a sociopath himself.
Many of us are all
too well aware of this entrenched culture of corruption, and yet nothing ever
changes. Why? I’ve written this post for those with enough intellect to think,
expand their view of the world, place themselves in the shoes of another, and
become a better person for it. It is a call to attention for those who are
unaware of the problem. It is a cry for help for those who have been forced to
remain silent. It is your opportunity to become part of the solution.
If you
have not asked yourself the same questions as those presented here, now is your
chance. Behaviours of politicians, police, public servants and Facebook that
are contrary to the policies they claim to uphold are an indication of systemic
failure. They are a warning sign. So too is any claim it will be addressed by ‘internal
investigation’. That is a conflict of interest. They are working against basic
human rights, dignity, and justice. I did not write this for the likes of them
and those you will see trolling on Facebook and other social media, for there
is no point - they are beyond help. You cannot reason with unreasonable people.
They are part of the problem.
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