Demise of "nowhere man" Carpenter

Isn't he a nowhere man, living in a nowhere land, making up his nowhere plans, for nobody.
Doesn't have a point of view, knows not where he's going to .....

Did youu have the misfortune of watching Alan Carpenter's retirement announcement on ABC TV last night?

The interview was marked by immaturity and superficiality.

The ALP Caucas gave Jim McGinty the failed former minister a free hand to pick leading lights for safe seats and Carpenter was his fifth choice after five knockbacks.

No person can claim to be grown up if they don't take responsibility for their own decisions. Carpenter blamed everybody except himself for his demise. He followed his own well trodden path of scoring off his colleagues.

When asked to make some comment on his term he could say nothing more profound than he "had a wonderful vision" and he "got rid of Brian Burke, for which he deserved a big tick".

His lament at the loss of superannuation was a far cry from his high profile sanctimony when he self righteously campaigned for its abolition in the first blush of his Parliamentary term. He told some of his colleagues including Kim Chance, that it was" the biggest mistake of my life".

The Desert Rat knew Alan Carpenter and saw him as an abject failure, bereft of ideas to contribute to the ALP and Parliament.

Graeme Campbell got him right, from day one, two decades ago, when he told me he was a pissant.

Archer Charges "Baseless" - More Humiliation for CCC

Roberts-Smith, Silverstone and Ingham disgraced by latest CCC fiacso.

Shelley Archer gave Brian Burke, a copy of a letter that was already public. The letter was given openly by the Shire of Broome and was publically available on the Shire of Broome website. All pealing companies received it except Brian Burkes client - who engaged him because he thought he was being victimised by the Fisheries Department..

The incompetent Corruption and Crime Commission ignored the fact that the letter was publically available and dishonestly claimed the letter was “confidential” – how ignorantly quaint or is the breathless incompetence of the CCC on display again?

The Desert Rat and many others suspected these charges should never have been brought against Shelley Archer and that she should never have been subjected to the ordeal that she has had to face. The DPP conceded in his short press release that there was “no clear evidence that there was any actual benefit to Mr Burke”. That didn't stop her enemies in the Labor Party who have no regard for natural justice.

The CCC ruined Shelley Archer’s political career and reputation; McGinty and Carpenter turned caucus against her and the rest, mostly to their dishonour, followed suite and she was forced out of the Labor Party and out of Parliament by her gutless colleagues.

Labor MP John Ford’s comments on ABC TV the night the charges were dropped that he had no sympathy for her were just disgraceful. The smacked of old fashioned Stalinism. Her secretary Shelley Eaton disowned her and grabbed her seat in Parliament. It would be interesting what Shelley Eaton now thinks about her behaviour to Shelley Archer. Archer was stoically confronted an array of malignant forces and maintained her loyalty to her friends and was ready to take the CCC head on in Court. The CCC denied her the chance to completely demolished the CCC’s credibility.

The Desert Rat holds with contempt these unthinking and spineless types who hunt in packs; like the follower of Stalin or Hitler who did their bidding. These camp dogs and confederates would never be found among the ranks of the partisans standing up and fighting for what is right. They would sell their principles to the lowest bidder. Thirty pieces of silver would be extortion.

The whole episode reflects poorly on those members of parliament that joined in and cheered the public "flogging and hanging" of Shelley Archer. Some of them may well be the next victims of the precedent they have allowed; they have created a flawed system that will consume other innocent people and politicians.

Although these matters did not relate to Smith’s Beach investigation directly, they were a part of the CCC clumsy and dishonest attempt to find evidence of corruption by Brian Burke and Julian Grill, n the sworn enemies of CCC architect the abject failure Jim McGinty. After $50 million wasted by the CCC on the Burke Grill vendetta, it is clear that Grill and Burke most often achieve good for the State in situations where many parliamentary incompetent were too visionless and indolent to aspire.

CCC humiliated again on Smith’s Beach

CCC's Phony Brabazon Charge - Exposed as Grubby Politicking

The grovelling but unreserved apology by Major General Len Roberts-Smith to senior public servant Mark Brabazon underscores the abject failure of the Corruption and Crime Commission and its inability to objectively investigate the Smith’s Beach matter.

It was a case of verdict now and gather the evidence later, even fabricate it if necessary and destroy and “prosecute them through the media. A conviction is just “icing on the cake” to these modern day Beagle Boys.

Parliamentary Inspector Christopher Steytler QC found the reasoning and the “material” (Steytler doesn’t give it the dignity of evidence) in the report did not support the opinion expressed about Mark Brabazon.

Len Robert-Smith’s apology was immediate and he withdrew the CCC’s opinion that Mr Brabazon “acted with a lack of integrity” in his dealings with Mr Brian Burke.

That makes six people against whom the CCC has launched cases, where the CCC charges have been unceremoniously tossed out of Court.

Mike Allen. Was acquitted on two count of giving false evidence in testimony. The CCC lied and omitted facts that didn’t suite them in their report.

David McKenzie. Two charges of giving false evidence dismissed.

Paul Frewer. A concocted misconduct finding was rejected by Parliamentary Inspector Malcom McCusker QC.

Julian Grill. He was acquitted on two charges of giving false testimony in evidence. The Magistrate said he was a witness of truth.

Wally Cox. A misconduct finding was rejected by a Public Service inquiry. The CCC's only win was when Cox (probably on poor legal advice) challenged the CCC right to make a finding. Cox lost. The Judges said the CCC did have the right but stressed the judgment did not reflect on whether the finding was right or wrong. These was no vindication there for the CCC decision - only that they could express it i.e could tell lies.

The prosecutions following the Smith’s Beach inquiry were based on a dishonest investigation involving gross misconduct, of which the Desert Rat is now aware of evidence.

The Brabazon inquiry and report was a Stalinist sham to damage Brian Burke and Julian Grill. Trail by media – hoping the courts would follow suite.

The House of Cards Inquiry into Smiths Beach has already collapsed. The CCC case is in its dying throws – a death tryst of a morally bankrupt organisation that is a weeping ulcer on the justice system of Western Australia.

The Desert Rat’s opinion is that Premier Colin Barnett and the Parliament should give it the last rites.

Meanwhile back at the ranch, Julian Grill's phone is still being tapped six years later, by the Robert -Smith and Silverstone entourage. They are still being spied on and photographed. Their mail is being tampered with; email and faxes are examined back at the CCC's own headquarters reminiscent of the Smolny Institute (after it was a school for noble maidens - see picture and statue of Lenin in foreground).

All in the hope that they can find some minor breach that will help justify the $50 million spent on the political witch hunt, curiously targeted at the enemies of McGinty.