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KELVIN SHELVED
David Hicks advocate Kelvin Thomson quits Labor’s front bench:
Shadow Attorney General Kelvin Thomson has resigned after it was revealed that he gave a reference to fugitive drug baron Tony Mokbel in 2000.
Mr Thomson said he decided to stand down after he was approached by Opposition leader Kevin Rudd with the information.
He told reporters in Melbourne this afternoon he was unaware of Mokbel’s profile when he gave him the reference for a liquor license.
Mokbel’s profile was already known to the law by then.
UPDATE. This articulate young Melbourne idealist might be Thomson’s perfect replacement. Sign him up, Kevni!
That’s a shame, old Cueball Kel was spectaularly bad at media apearances, always looked as shifty as a shithouse rat, sounded like he had cocaine catarrh and was astoundingly incoherent, making as much sense most times as the hirsute chap who smells like a mix of stale baccy, fortified wine and poo who invariably sits next to me on the very odd occasions I venture on public transport.
The baldy bastard was worth 3 seats, easy.
Looks like both sides are pushing the dead bodies overboard before the election. Can’t have any of this come out when real damage might be done.
Must be the Libs turn to make the next sacrifice.
First the Libs, Fran Bailey might get moved sideways or out. They’re going need real muscle in the small business portfolio to shore up the IR laws.
Also, I’ll bet Garrett is no longer Labor’s environment spokesman by June. Too much baggage.
From the story:
###
Mr Rudd said an anonymous tip-off to his office led to the discovery of the reference for Mr Mokbel.“On Tuesday my office received anonymous information that the Member for Wills and Shadow Attorney-General, Mr Kelvin Thomson may have provided a letter of support of some sort to Tony Mokbel,” he said.
###I wonder what they’d do if they received
an anonymous tip-off that Kevin Rudd had
been cavorting with Brian Burke trying to
find himself some friends???Burke, Mokbel - Rudd and his people move in classy circles.
Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2007 03 09 at 12:54 AM • permalinkWould’ve been interesting if this didn’t come up and Labor was elected- one wonders how Chromedome Kel would handle an extradition application for Fat Tony if he bobbed up somewhere with a treaty with Australia.
Tones is also another fine example of multiculturalism and dual citizenship at work, being a son of the Levant.
The ALP has had to pay dearly for their shameless tarting for the ethnic constituency.
Who taught Kevin to speak? It sounds like he needs more fibre in his diet.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 03 09 at 01:05 AM • permalinkNow, see, here you rude colonials go, bollixing up the works again.
In the US, that sort of behavior would guarantee you a Democratic Party committee chairmanship in Congress…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2007 03 09 at 01:06 AM • permalinkLaughing my arse off:
To whom it may concern,
“I have been asked to provide a reference on behalf of Mr Tony Mokbel of ... Pascoe Vale South, who will be submitting his application for a liquor licence to the Liquor Licensing Commission.
“I understand that Mr Mokbel has been married for the past eight years and has two children.
“I further understand that over the past eight years he has been a responsible, caring husband and father.
“Mr Mokbel has in partnership purchased a number of business properties in the Brunswick area. As a result of his business and property ventures, Mr Mokbel is making a significant contribution to the community and employing a substantial number of people.“I urge you to take into account Mr Mokbel’s last year of unblemished conduct, his commitment to family and his successful establishment as a local businessman in making your decision concerning his application.
“Yours sincerely, Kelvin Thomson, MP, Member for Wills”.
Fair dinkum, who (public figure or not) would provide a personal reference for someone they didn’t know?
Surely its a “personal reference” not a “make-something-up-about-him”.
Like all politicians who get the boot for minor infractions, its not the minor infraction itself but the fact that it demonstrates their personal monumental stupidity (or carelessness in who they choose to staff their office) that makes them unsuitable for office.
Posted by Stop Continental Drift! on 2007 03 09 at 01:33 AM • permalink#3 Scooper, more likely they’re planning to set up a statue of Tony Mokbel.
Radio National was interviewing the son of Donald McKay about the proposed statue of that sleazy little pimp Grassby. Mr McKay came across as an utterly decent, quiet-spoken man who made his case against the statue. Second question from the ABC journo: “What would you say to those who say your attitude is racist?” Unbelievable.
#13
Speaking of ethnic constituency ...On ABC Ruddio National Breakfast this morning, Geyser Trad on the Mufti’s media gagging by his muzzi mates:
The “convict beginnings” comments in Egyptian media were “explained” on his return - he “made it worse” (Fran Kelly) note Trad talk her down and her kowtow: “he made it worse on Egytian TV”, Trad insists, “mmm sorry yes”, Kelly - Fark!
The camel shagger wouldn’t bully a man like that: showing your true colours there, sunshine!Kelly: “If he keeps needing to make clarifications ... best to confine himself to the Mosque ... (muzzi community) response to public demand for action ...”
@21 min in 1st hour of file.Trad said that the Mufti will be on Sunday Profile with Monica Attard, (pre-recorded) on ABC Local Ruddio, can’t wait.
The guy was the shadow Attorney-General and he’s giving references to known criminals?
That is totally insane. Off the front bench? He should be out of parliament, out of the Labor Party and out of a job.
He’s my local member and he’s a shady as they come. He had the audacity to march in the ANZAC day march one year, up Sydney Road, and he looked like John Cleese on horse tranquillisers. The diggers avoided him like the plague.
Good riddance.
Of course, it’s just fun and games - ‘a comedy of errors’ - to the Canberra Press Gallery.
Link to a copy of Thomson’s original reference for Fat Tony.
OT, but amusing:
Red Campaign spends $100 million on advertising to raise $18 million
This is one of those overhyped celebrity charity campaigns with the likes of Oprah Winfrey, Steven Spielberg and Bono involved, with predictable results.
Re: update
I will renounce beer and women for a month to be allowed 5 mins alone with Mr Malcontent.
Our police
forceservice has been crippled by panty waisted, cock gobblers.Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 03 09 at 02:19 AM • permalinkThey must issue Vic coppers with Mogadon. How could you not pop that prick?
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 03 09 at 02:28 AM • permalinkOkay, obligatory nerd comment of the day.
The Kelvin temperature scale was invented by Lord Thomson. You could almost call it the Thomson Kelvin scale. Either his parents have a sense of humour, or I’ve spent way too long memorising useless shit like this.
The smart money is on option b).
http://www.gwb.com.au/gwb/goss/oneill.htm
via Brenton Groves of Toorak Via A Bolts webpage.Kleen Kevie still has some things to answer for in his past- Scroll down or better, cut and paste into word and scroll down to page 28.
More, much more to emerge about Kev.
A few dodgy back benchers not acting appropriately do not equate with asprirations for the top job.
The whole of labour is rank with corruption in each state and federally. God help us if they are elected to run this country and what sort of people are we sharing space with who would elect these wankers.#37 - Kevin Rudd doesnt seem to care too much about this ‘Global Warming’ issue does he?
From the link at #37 re Rudd’s investment property -‘The house had a room air-conditioner, which was left running 24 hours per day, even though the house was unoccupied’.
‘Neighbors complained about the noise from the air conditioning unit running 24 hours per day’.
LOL!!Agree with #23 - Kelvin should not be an MP. But expect him to be a minister if Rudd wins this year. Associating with known criminals has never been an offence in the ALP as we have seen in the past few weeks. And how about these blasts from Labor’s glorious past - Al Grassby, Rex Jackson and Tom Domican, the underworld figure who reputedly beat Peter Baldwin to a pulp in a factional dispute. Add the Builders Labourers Federation and Painters and Dockers Union to the mix, both of which had some control of Labor through the ACTU. If it was any other organisation that the labor party, the Labor party would be demanding a royal commission into its criminal activities.
#46 Oh yes. Like everything concerning various State Politics, we the ‘plebs’ only hear and read about the slimy deals done later on down the proverbial track. Everybody except the elected ‘non productive high earners’ are forced to pay. Talk about being over governed. For a population of approximately twenty three million or so, we have Local, State, and Commonwealth setups. Then we have the hanger-ons, non-productive in any meaningful way, in the meantime, taxes and charges increase, while drunken politicians (Liberal), ideological vandals and Prima Donnas have massive payouts awarded to them. Maybe ‘big TB’ did pay his dues.
#33 Behemoth
The Kelvin temperature scale was invented by Lord Thomson.
Not quite right. The Kelvin scale was devised by Lord Kelvin, who was born William Thomson.
Posted by flying pigs over mecca on 2007 03 09 at 05:35 AM • permalinkRe the video, how the fuck can the cops just stand there and do nothing? When I return to Australia, I think I won’t base myself in Melbourne.
Posted by flying pigs over mecca on 2007 03 09 at 05:42 AM • permalink#52 Muzzie Zapper
...how the fuck can the cops just stand there and do nothing?
This appalling situation had its genesis six years ago when Premier Steve Bracks appointed a new Chief Commissioner of Police. Christine Nixon is from New South Wales. She was chosen ahead of a group of local candidates, much to the disgust of the Police Association and its boss Paul Mullett. She is determined to change the culture of policing in this state. No more telephone-book-induced confessions, or a stiff clip behind the ear for errant youths. Hers would be a new community based police ‘service’.
This article by John Silvester helps to explain the idealogical struggle that has occurred ever since.
It says in part:
Christine Nixon, the daughter of a senior NSW policeman, was trained in Sydney, educated at Harvard and is committed to changing policing from a male-dominated force to a service that reflects the broader community. Her expertise is in the human side of policing.
And this:
“Fish” Mullett, the son of a Welsh street copper, is an old-school, hard-edged detective who was locally trained and remains a traditionalist. He sees policing in terms of law and order. Anyone who knows Paul Mullett learns quickly that while he is engaging company and a loyal friend he can be an unforgiving enemy.
#28
I can’t find the original literary quote, but it goes something like this… “Just five minutes is all I ask. Just five minutes while you’re running for the doctor and the preacher.”
The thing I’ve noticed with the resistance mob is that they actively seek confrontation. That is the only cause they are interested in.
Just once I’d like a bunch of star picket wielding neo-fascist skinheads turn up instead of the police…I was wondering what became of the People’s Poet.
Posted by Captain Wacky on 2007 03 09 at 06:53 AM • permalink#54 Thanks under the whip, that was quite a sad read. It must suck to be a police officer there right now. It also explains why the punks feel brave enough to taunt the police. Reminds me of a jackass who taunts a tiger in its cage. The funny thing is when you toss this jackass in the tiger’s cage his whole attitude suddenly changes. You know, the old cat’s and uncovered meat story.
52 MZ
Look at it this way, but for the grace of a higher power, you could have been born to a nice American couple and have to live in San Francisco, CA.
Such a lovely place and
infestedinhabited by only two kinds of people. Radical Leftist shit bags and effete Leftist useful idiots.How’s Sapporo treating you?
#60 El Cid
How’s Sapporo treating you?
Very coldly.
Posted by flying pigs over mecca on 2007 03 09 at 07:11 AM • permalinkAlthough the cultural struggle in the Victoria Police goes a long way to explaining this un-police-like policing, it doesn’t paint the whole picture. The fear of being sued is as worrying to the police at these types of protests than any fear of violence.
Any number of leftist law firms are ready to offer their services to these ferals, just as Slater & Gordon did recently to win a $700,000 settlement negotiated in secret with the Victorian (Bracks) government.
The Fitzroy Legal Service even offered pre-demonstration advice on provocative behaviour designed to garner a reaction from the police. That’s why there is so much video footage of these events. To be used as evidence against the lawful authorities if they react.
Andrew Bolt explains it well here where he points out:
As the ActivistRights website, sponsored by the taxpayer-funded Fitzroy Legal Service says, suing police allows “protesters to challenge the lawfulness of the use of force during demonstrations”, and also “attracts media attention, and can help raise public awareness.”
#65 El Cid
Sure, alcohol keeps you warm, but is quite dangerous in cold weather. I know someone who had a student die last winter. The student passed out drunk on the way home and was found dead three hours later. I caught a cold last week making sure that an extremely drunken Norwegian got a taxi to his hotel instead of collapsing and freezing to death somewhere. During this, because I too was drunk, I left my jacket in the bar and was only wearing a tshirt on a -13 night.Posted by flying pigs over mecca on 2007 03 09 at 08:34 AM • permalinkRent-A-Cop Hassles Punk
Eric Idle’s son?
Posted by Mystery Meat on 2007 03 09 at 08:40 AM • permalink#66 Muzzie, You are right there. I once walked two miles at night in -25C with coat open and no tuque because I was plastered and didn’t feel the cold.
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2007 03 09 at 09:00 AM • permalinkThis really stinks
How does a top Lawyer of all people claim to be ignorant of the activities of Mokbel, who was already a gangster star in 2000!!!
Not only that but he had to have knowm him for eight years to have written the reference!
This needs a FULL INVESTIGATION. it may be that mokbel was blackmailing him. But it looks as if the resignation may suffice to sweep everything under the carpet.
even incompetent admin does not explain this away. And another point- how come a star crim like Mokbel was granted bail ?Muzzie Zapper
I left my jacket in the bar and was only wearing a tshirt on a -13 night.
I hate when I did that. Good jackets, even then, were expensive. These days, my wife makes sure I’m dressed the same, going in and coming out. Although there is a question, as to how long that treatment will last.
Dangerous in warm weather, too. Had the occasion to witness a student on Spring Break, when I lived on the beach, fall off a 4 story balcony. The pisser part, the local cops where chasing a few of his friends, that had stolen the emergency vehicle that was on the scene to help.
Needless to say the student died, while the joy riding students got their well off mommies and daddies to pay for defense attorneys, pleading them to lesser charges and fines.
Good that a taxi was had, as we in the States have some evil cult taxi drivers, that still can refuse those with alcohol, regardless how it is carried.
#72 I didn’t actually lose the jacket, I was only away for 10 minutes. I did, however, forget the homemade scarf given me by my gf when I left, so had to travel all the way back once I’d reached home.
Posted by flying pigs over mecca on 2007 03 09 at 09:39 AM • permalink#51 Garrgh, you’re right!
[After putting on Dr. Kissinger’s glasses, found in a men’s room toilet]
Homer: The sum of the square roots of any two sides of an isosceles triangle is equal to the square root of the remaining side.Man in stall: That’s a right triangle, you idiot!
Homer: D’oh!
(This quote is accurately transcribed, notwithstanding the other errors it contains in describing Pythagoras’ Theorem, lest I be accused of screwing up twice)I sat here watching that video feeling my blood pressure rise by the second and asking myself, when are the cops going to just beat the shit out of this guy. I have to say the restraint was admirable as that was just the sort of reaction they were trying to get. What the cops should do is be videotaping these fuckwits and showing up at their Mum’s house in the early hours with an arrest warrant (when the camera isn’t rolling).
Posted by alien kiwi on 2007 03 09 at 02:07 PM • permalinkThe Brazilians are so uncivil. I don’t understand it either, especially since they are Fora Bush.
#80 El Cid, I’m guessing in Brazil the pre and post protest legal advice is not taxpayer funded.
Posted by alien kiwi on 2007 03 09 at 02:47 PM • permalinkThink Brazilians are uncivil? Ha! Priests to purify site after Bush visit
Mayan priests will purify a sacred archaeological site to eliminate “bad spirits” after President Bush visits next week, an official with close ties to the group said Thursday.
“That a person like (Bush), with the persecution of our migrant brothers in the United States, with the wars he has provoked, is going to walk in our sacred lands, is an offense for the Mayan people and their culture,” Juan Tiney, the director of a Mayan nongovernmental organization with close ties to Mayan religious and political leaders, said Thursday.
George Bush, the Rodney Dangerfield of presidents.
Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2007 03 09 at 03:12 PM • permalinkIt’s more like he’s regarded as Satan himself. Which, now that I think about it, is what Chavez called him.
Hmmm. I always thought Karl had that role.
Posted by wronwright on 2007 03 09 at 03:24 PM • permalinkThe real Satan would probably get a better reception.
Posted by alien kiwi on 2007 03 09 at 03:38 PM • permalinkThe Maya began their Long Count on what they referred to as the ‘Birth of Venus.’ Scholars have never been able to determine what the Maya were referring to and neither have alternative researchers. Nevertheless their sacred calendar, the Tzolkin, placed the synodic cycles of Venus in a central role. The 104-year ‘Venus Round’ cycle (2 Calendar Rounds of 52 years each), was a very important ceremonial event as this was the point in time when the solar and sacred calendars realigned with the cycle of Venus.
I need to insert an important numerical progression at this point to provide a basis for the rest of the article. The number thirteen was a root number for the Maya. It is both a prime number and the eighth number in the crucial Fibonacci series that is one source of the Golden Ratio, 1.618.
If we use 13 as the root of the Mayan calendar system we find the following sequence: 13, 26, 39, 52, 65, 78, 91 and 104, which are achieved by simply adding 13 to each succeeding sum. These are the key numbers in the Mayan calendrics and they have a solid scientific footing. Venus was the central component of the Mayan cosmology. It is for good reason that our nearest planetary neighbor is called earth’s sister planet. They have a phase-locked orbital cycle that is based on a 13:8 ratio. That is derived from the fact that Venus revolves around the sun 1.6 times faster than Earth so that 13 Venus revolutions is equal to 8 years.
Why is this important? By establishing Venus as the key component of the sacred calendar they automatically built the Golden Ratio (1.6) into the system since that ratio defines the difference
My God, 1.618 could be a Mayan
Wait until Tim Tam, sees this, huh?
Re: Whiny Mayans
“Contrary of what has often been claimed, the Classic Maya practiced human sacrifice on an extensive scale; torture followed by decapitation was most common on the evidence of pictorial ceramics, but heart sacrifice has also been depicted on the monuments.”
Bush is bringing bad vibes to your ritual human sacrifice sites, eh?
Bummer for ya.
Posted by Dave Surls on 2007 03 09 at 04:20 PM • permalink#88 rbj1, I could almost bring myself to vote for that ticket just so these moron BDS sufferers could enjoy the real deal.
Posted by alien kiwi on 2007 03 09 at 04:44 PM • permalinkComing soon to CBS 60 Minutes the latest White House scandal…. widespread persecution of migrant Mayans. And this one goes all the way to the top.
Posted by alien kiwi on 2007 03 09 at 04:51 PM • permalinkp.s. You know how my brother is a pilot?
Well, there are lots of definitions going around in emails about what Qantas now stands for.
He says, Feinnes flighty is not the last and will not be the first to do the mile high in the sleeping quarters at 35,000 feet!
I don’t know if the Blair Helicopter has enough room, kinda like the Porsche car (It’s small but you’ll get a lay after you’ve gone for a drive!).
“...widespread persecution of migrant Mayans.”
You have to, lest they start hacking people’s hearts out of their chests while the victim is still alive.
Nasty boys, those Mayans.
Posted by Dave Surls on 2007 03 09 at 05:38 PM • permalinkYou got it Dave, thats why we have to give them free education for their kids, free medical treatment at the emergency room of their choice and a B of A credit card. Not forgetting amnesty. Now thats what I call persecution.
Posted by alien kiwi on 2007 03 09 at 05:56 PM • permalink# 13
Tones is also another fine example of multiculturalism and dual citizenship at work, being a son of the Levant.
The ALP has had to pay dearly for their shameless tarting for the ethnic constituency.
[url=“http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/deportee-had-support-of-iemma/2005/11/17/1132016927239.html>As you’ll recall</a>, the now Premier of New South Wales, Morris Iemma, wrote a reference back in 1999 for an associate of some pretty high profile terror suspects.
<a href=“http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200511/s1510529.htm”]Interesting to note[/url] that said person of interest, later deported, did not have residency status let alone citisenship, yet he was a ‘paid up’ member of the Australian Labor Party.
By the way, if anyone’s really bored, you can visit my temporary blog - it’s been getting on average “0” hits a day.
[url=http://www.monaro.blogspot.com]http://www.monaro.blogspot.com[/url]
#96 Francis H. Near Nakajima Koen? I know of it, but have never been there. I sometimes go to the other bar he owns, Gaijin Bar in Susukino.
Posted by flying pigs over mecca on 2007 03 10 at 04:10 AM • permalinkNot sure Muzzie. I remember that you walk down a narrow flight of stairs (seemingly between garbage bins) to a small crowded room lined with posters, beer bottles etc. A fooz ball game and darts down there i think. I remember the beer well though. Belgium, German, Australian etc. He was a nice guy. We had a great time there. My only trip to sapporo.
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