One thing Australians do not lack is arrogance. This is now a world wide trait in the legal profession who are ever ready to overturn laws made by the elected representatives of the people on the basis of “Human Rights”,a new religion thought up by Marxists lawyers to rule humanity. We did not kick the church out of politics to let the lawyers take over.
An article in The Australian,15.9.2008,p.5.,by Verity Edwards titled “Blame Rann for the disrespect to the judiciary not media,Top silk.”cites a letter to the Law Society by Andrew Harris,Q.C.,which attacks the Law Society President Grant Feary for attacking the media and not the Rann government for the portrayal of lawyers as “self interested and venal”and for the growing disrespect towards lawyers and the judiciary.
The article quoted the criticism by Mr. Rann of the suspended sentence handed to Paul Nemer and the outburst after deputy chief magistrate Andrew Canon released a guide to sentencing that identified over-crowding in the State’s prisons as a relevant issue in deciding jail terms.
Much more serious is the British courts’attempts to over-ride laws aimed at deporting illegal immigrants and political bias at the highest level.
In Australia the head of the federal police,Mr. Keelty,can say nothing about the objection many of the legal profession have to our strong terrorist legislation and the “failure”of such cases in court but by saying that he was satisfied and would not change the conduct of such cases by the federal police,he as good as said that the courts considered themselves above the elected representatives of the people in deciding the law.
I do not like Rann or the Attorney General,Michael Atkinson,but I applaud their admonishing of the legal profession.
Any member of the legal profession who wishes to legislate should stand for parliament. That is how democracy works.
Any attempt to over-ride laws enacted by our legal representatives should result in the miscreant being brought before the bar of parliament and if the police refuse to do so the Army should.
