STANDING COMMITTEE ON LEGAL AND CONSTITUTIONAL AFFAIRS

26th June 2007

Statement by John Murray to “Public Hearing” on Monday 4 June 2007 regarding inquiry into older people and the law, and recorded in Hansard.

I come from Ireland. I am an Irish Sinn-Feiner. I come from Northern Ireland, which is under British rule. You have the same Westminster legal system there as we have here in Australia. I am just on 81 years of age. I belong to several Australian organisations – for example, Law Watch, Whistle-blowers, Debit Tax organisation and a few others. These are Australian organisations.

Under Australian law we are the only country in the world, that I know of, where Gestapo Union Officials and their Labor politician comrades in crime can bash and rob 60 year old workers of their basic human rights and liberties to work to provide for their families. These criminals have tortured the sick mothers of workers children and stolen the money out of children’s piggy banks. I am a victim.

All laws passed by Australia’s parliament are lawyer framed. For example, our lawyer framed laws empower the banks to rob the people, and that is just one example. I feel that the legal system is the whole problem in Australia. Australia is run by lawyers and lawyers control our parliaments. The previous speaker here from the medical profession was talking about lawyers framing laws to protect people, but what the medical profession should do is frame the legislation themselves and give it to the parliament for the parliament to adopt! because if you leave it to the lawyers the lawyer framed laws will be full of loopholes to benefit the lawyers!!!

As far as I am concerned, and I can prove this – my leaflet is there, and I will give you all leaflets – lawyers are the scourge of society and should be ostracised. Jesus Christ condemned the lawyers, Christ said of lawyers: ‘Woe to you lawyers! because you load men with oppressive burdens’. Under our lawyer-mafia system that we have in Australia you are not innocent until proven guilty; but only innocent until proven broke.

So the answer is to - - - - ostracise the lawyers and treat them for what they are – robbers, rorters, looters and torturers and the dregs and scum of society.

Lawyers are in parliament not to frame laws and legislation to benefit the people; lawyers are in parliament to frame the laws and legislation that benefit the lawyers. I will discuss this with any lawyer, any top lawyer. These are the facts of the situation. I know one lawyer from the Springvale Legal Service, and he himself referred to the lawyers as the ‘lawyer mafia’. When you belong to the lawyer mafia, you are an agent of poverty, because poverty breeds crime and without crime there would be less work for lawyers. So that is how it will be until we get all the lawyers out of parliament.

In the popularity stakes, lawyers and Union Officials are judged by the public to be in as low a category as used-car salesmen and drug pushers, yet Australia is the only country in the world that I know of where you are compelled by law and – under threat of a fine to go out on election day to the polling booths and vote to give these thieves of all persuasions a mandate to continue their policy of robbing, rorting and looting.

At the present time the Federal Government, I believe, has got $20 billion for pork-barrelling for the forth coming federal election. That is money that is stolen from the poor, stolen from pensioners, and we cannot get that money, and you lawyers are the cause of it!!

John Murray