TOXIC CULTURE – PART 4
The
vindictive workplace harassment and bullying in the public services by
management who have the system rigged so they investigate themselves… and then
inflict greater harm including unemployment and blacklisting victims so they
can never get work again. The ATO refusing to investigate claims from minimum
wage workers for unpaid Super, but then the very same scumbags raiding bank
accounts to withdraw money illegally in what was referred to as a ‘toxic
culture’. And it’s not just in government.
The
culture of corruption is entrenched in every aspect of our society. It is
rampant. There is nowhere for victims to go to get justice. Predators in every
agency protect one another. They do as they please with casual or complete
disregard for the rights or lives of others because they can, and nobody will
stop them. A reporter stated, during a report on the ball tampering incident
that “without a serious deterrent to discourage this kind of bad behaviour, it
will be repeated”. Duh.
So why has
nothing ever been done to discourage the bad behaviour? You only have to look
at all our so-called political representatives. All the left-wing pro-Union
ones claiming they care about us, but despite all their Union activity… they
don’t give a damn about individuals who need their help. Neither do the Unions
which took ‘fees’ from them. And the right-wing ones? What a bunch of fucking
useless narcissistic arseholes whose only contribution to society is to
parasitically feed off us and then say and do things so incredibly stupid we
wait in hopeful anticipation for karma to kick them in the balls.
But
because of all that empty, opportunistic rhetoric, you’d think the majority of
people in society would be so angry they would force politicians to do the
right thing. How can they though? Despite numberin in the millions, the general
population, the (forced to be) silent majority (not to be confused with the
very loud and obnoxious minority that claims they are the silent majority but
are, in fact, part of the problem) have no real power, and the predators and
parasites know it.
Consider
my own efforts to alert the authorities to systemic failures of the years.
Every attempt has gone unheeded, in some cases for decades. And yet, in every
case, soon thereafter, the media latches onto similar situations are publishes
a story about it. Other times, though, they publish bullshit stories about
people suffering insignificant complaints about insignificant things, and how
that person is suing and making a small fortune from their ‘pain and
suffering’.
Meanwhile,
people like me are being silenced by the authorities and the media is
disinterested in what we could tell them. We suffer real physical,
psychological, and financial harm as a result of what has been done to us.
While one report is based on hearsay, they refuse to even listen to people like
me let alone look at the evidence we have. They make an assumption that we have
nothing, and dismiss us, and even make astonishing suggestions that translate
as ‘get over it’ while, at the same time, expressing insincere sympathy and
asking us to contact them again if there is anything else we’d like help with.
Have a
read of The Tip of the Brimstone. Consider what happened there, how this shaped
the victims, how many others also suffer in silence because they have been
subjected to the same brutalities and indignities at the hands of predators and
the authorities, what has been exposed and what has changed in how the
authorities respond to victims, how this has affected society in general, and
whether any of this means anything at all given victims like me are still being
forced to suffer in silence.
It’s been
almost 35 years since I first tried to report it, and multiple times since.
Over 45 years of relentless abuse and suffering. Still, not even an
investigation. Countless victims, many of them being brutalised during those
last 35 years. At least three people dead under suspicious circumstances, and
possibly more. The offenders have continued to do the same things, even
escalated as their twisted desires evolved to accomplish other goals. And their
victims are still forced to remain silent... by them... and by the authorities.
A former
police officer with a history of violence and sexual assaults against women and
children that is even recorded in a letter from another victim. And the police
knew about it 45 years ago. Hell, they covered it all up. A nurse who used her
training to cover-up the crimes she committed. The son of a former town mayor.
All of them friends with a former Chief Prosecutor in the town where the
Timeline of Abuse detailing the crimes had to be reported. And a former
Politician in the Gippsland region who has also financially benefited by his
efforts to cover-up the abuse and at least one suspicious death.
The
victims, like me, have to live with the horrors. We are forced to be complicit
as IBAC and other agencies inflict acts designed to intimidate us into silence,
legal services refuse to even listen to us let alone look at any evidence,
because we do not have enough money to engage their ‘help’, and the media
ignores our requests to tell our ‘stories’. And all the while, there are other
victims, children now, who will face the same shit when they try to come
forward and are told ‘nobody else has ever complained about that person’…
followed by instructions to remain silent for the rest of their lives.
And, as
people like me are ignored and struggle with the psychological damage, the
anxiety, depression, the headaches, PTSD, and darker thoughts, others ‘cope’ by
simply assimilating what was done to them in order to try and ‘survive’, and
then inflict it on their own victims. A vicious cycle created, concealed,
maintained and enabled by the very authorities that claim they are there to
‘help’ the victims and stop the predators but, instead, do the very opposite.
And it’s
not just child abuse, elder abuse and domestic violence victims that suffer
this vile treatment. It’s victims of employers who bully their staff and refuse
to pay wages and Super, and of the so-called public services and political
representatives who claim they are there to ‘help’ the victims and stop the
predators but, again, do the very opposite instead. On occasion, a sound bite will
be played telling the public that victims should come forward, report it, that
they are what helps fix the problems…
…but
that’s bullshit. How can anyone fix a problem they won’t acknowledge is there,
or learn anything when they refuse to listen? How is it helping when the
victims are told to “piss off”? What has changed when the victim is still
forced to suffer in silence? What kind of fuckknuckle thinks a victim has
‘closure’ and can ‘let it go’, ‘get over it’ or ‘move forward’ when they have
not even been allowed to speak? They, clearly, have not suffered as a victim
has, so what would they know? To victims, there is little difference between
the predator that abused them, and the predators that force them to suffer in
silence.
My
grandfather lies dead, cold and rotting, restless in his grave. The evidence of
the brutality and death he suffered at the hands of our abusers is lost with
every passing year. He died six years ago now, and the people that put him
there, and made sure nobody investigated, continue to benefit from his death
while his legacy is corrupted and the other victims join him, one after the
other, while the predators that murdered us, one way or another, continue to
get away with it.
The
Australian recently published a story about ‘the Australian crisis we can’t
ignore’, boasting that if it had not been for the media, the horrors being
inflicted on children in that Northern Territory town would never have become
public knowledge because there was a conspiracy by locals and Government
departments to cover it all up. The quoted a nurse who suggested that speaking
out against sexual abuse was the place to start “to change a culture that
tolerates sexual abuse”.
That’s the
line? Maybe a better place to start would be to speak out against all forms of
abuse. Maybe it would be better if the media exposed the real Australian crisis
that affects every Australian – the failure of Government departments to help
all victims (children, women, and the elderly) of abuse instead of forcing them
to remain silent. Report on how the police and protection agencies are refusing
to even listen to the victims, look at the evidence, investigate the
allegations. The media is just as guilty of placing a dollar value on the lives
of victims, choosing to report only on the most sensational.
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