Monday, March 17, 2008
VENGEANCE SHALL BE HIS
Historically sensitive to having his own face appear on the internet - and weirdly eager to conceal the identities of his friends - budget lawyer Jeremy Sear now publishes the full name and photograph of an airport parking officer who booked him. Vows Jeremy: “Instant karma’s gonna get you, son.”
UPDATE. On the subject of lefty bloggers:
What right do you or your readers to pass judgement on the legal system of a sovereign nation? Imposing your values upon them is a sickening example of eurocentric racism. You must learn to accept the paradigm og the other.
Posted by: David Heidelberg of Bundaberg 9:26am March 21, 2007
This must be a new lefty David Heidelberg of Bundaberg; the old lefty David Heidelberg of Bundaberg was meant to have died in 2006. Heidelberg’s site is now presented in Japanese.
UPDATE II:
1. Lawyer Jeremy attacks a supermarket for not allowing lowly-paid employees to park wherever they want. Solidarity, worker pals!
2. Lawyer Jeremy attacks a lowly-paid employee - naming the chap, identifying him by photograph, and describing him as a “miserable bastard”, a “vindictive twerp”, a “petty tyrant”, a “prick” and an “arsehole” - for not allowing him to park wherever he wants. To hell with you and your stupid rules, working scum! I’M JEREMY!
UPDATE III. Jeremy’s attack on the Sunshine Coast Airport services officer was only launched once Jeremy was safely home in Melbourne, some 1800 kilometres from his target.
UPDATE IV. Jeremy on privacy: “It’s probably worth reminding people about the fact that if they’re on the electoral roll it’s very easy for someone armed with their name to find their address ... It is never a good idea to turn someone’s (lawful) private life into a public issue ... I’m not generally in favour of people’s real identities being exposed ... there’s some danger in having your own real details publicised so every nutter out there can see them.”
But give him one parking ticket and Jeremy will reveal your name, face, employer and job to the world.
UPDATE V. Anticipating a Jeremish response along the lines of “by linking to me you’re revealing the parking cop’s name and photograph to a wider audience”, here’s a solution: remove his name and photograph.
UPDATE VI. Andrew Bolt asks: “Is this appropriate behavior for a lawyer? Will the Victorian Bar Council police its own?” Make the punishment fit the crime - they should publish Sear’s name and photograph at the VicBar website.
UPDATE VII. Jeremy and his anonymous friends discuss the matters of the day. The cancer jokes kick in near the end of the podcast.
UPDATE VIII. “Professional misconduct includes ... conduct of an Australian legal practitioner, whether occurring in connection with the practice of law or occurring otherwise than in connection with the practice of law, that would, if established, justify a finding that the practitioner is not a fit and proper person to engage in legal practice.”
UPDATE IX. Jeremy has a history of selfishness when it comes to transport issues. And everything else. Some on the left are trying to talk the lad around:
• “Jeremy’s use of that man’s ID pass photo seems to me to be a case of online vigilantism, which, like any form of vigilantism, is unacceptable ... If you can’t see that it’s wrong (and helps create a potentially dangerous slippery slope) to put people’s photos up on your blog in such a situation, well, nothing anybody is going to say is going to change your mind. It beggars belief that you think that way, though.”
• “You’re in the rather invidious position of the gander, vis-a-vis the sauce, old chum.”