Our chief law interpreter, our referee in legalese, Christ Porter, shows he’s more than prepared to corrupt both what he calls law, and the principles that it is supposedly built upon. Yes, he’s a lawyer, and yes, as we all know, law is a grand game .. to be played to win, a dance upon the primrose path. This is the major problem with so called modern society, neoliberal society, the game itself has no rules. The winners make the rules .. and it appears they may do so retrospectively.

He has warned us – because that is after all how his gang dignifies their utterances to us. Us, who he pretends to have a concern for; the entirety of the population called Australia – that having “retrospective application of an incredibly low definition of corruption, with the application of the most severe enforcement and compulsive powers including the effective abrogation of the longstanding right in Australia of legal professional privilege, under the model that was put before the house today, would be a terrible step backwards” – and that it would after the years they’ve spent under mining due democratic process.

This model he refers to, is by popular definition a ‘body to regulate and to eliminate parliamentary corruption’. Porter shows both his ignorance of the requirements of a Democratic people to get what is our due in the way of equity of law and its processes, and his utter contempt for the will of the people by whom he, in his privileged position, is paid. He plays games. He demeans our intelligence and forgets that he only has his job so that we, Australia, can get on and live our lives without petty hinderence. We do not expect to have to watch he and his ilk at every step nor should we be satisfied to take them at their word – They have set their own precedents.

Corruption, Mr Porter, includes the corruption of ideals and the language one uses to promulgate those ideals. Corruption, Mr Porter, includes holding the people of Australia in contempt. You did not rise to your exalted position through your special wisdom, nor through past deeds Mr Porter. You have your position through deceit, through hereditary lineage and by minority appointment.

You and your party of Divine Right have shown your true colours repeatedly, through the deep contempt you hold for Democracy and through your preparedness to hold the public in dark ignorance for personal gain. The common baseness of your Divine Right ideology supposes that we must be held in chains so that you – you wise and rich judges – may shepherd us through time as you believe we need to be.

Ideals, Mr Porter, are corrupted by those who corrupt those Ideals. And you Mr Porter are an arch corrupter of ideals. That you have the position of Attorney General in a supposedly democratic government, despite the wishes of and in antagonistic opposition to the processes of parliamentary government – appointed to your position by unelected divine right usurpers of pressumed power – is a travesty. It is a slap in the face to the free, law abiding and democratic peoples of Australia. You corrupt our lives with wanton coercion and by presumed wisdom .. in the name of your rule by fear of law. You take us all for fools.

We know what we mean by corruption and it is not for you to tell us that what we mean by corruption, is not so.

“If the point is to enhance public confidence in Australian politics creating a body with such an incredibly low definition of corruption with massive coercive powers … would simply invite the politicisation of complaints of corruption. You would invariably get point scoring, political agendas being run and public advocacy on political issues put before a body of this type under the guise of complaints of corruption because the standard, the definition of corruption is so low.”

Mr Porter, you here tell us, that the corruption that we wish to stamp out is exactly the process and procedure that you and your government use in your attempt to guide us through our lives. You are not here to guide us through anything. You are here to enact our wishes. Your government holds our wishes, our desires for the future, in utter contempt .. and have done so for the past five years.

We wish the definition of corruption to be as low as it is possible to make it. Parliament is a Public Office. It is our office, Mr Porter, and not a Corporate boardroom. Should you want to have more laxity in your definitions of corruption then get out, and make your way in the Corporative World that you uphold as the highest definition of progress in the World of Man. Publicly paid representatives to a democratic enabling body don’t get to tell the public just where moral boundaries lie nor where they are crossed. You don’t get to tell us, that what we feel is corrupt is not corrupt because you find it to be in your own, or your partys interests, or that perhaps, you judge it to be for our own good. We tell you. And you don’t get to tell us that sometimes it’s okay to engage in corruption because in your view it is in the public interest. It’s what’s in our view that matters.

We are not interested in the bodies that you and your fellow thieves have set up, say you have been working on. We most definitely don’t want to hear that you have it all under control and for us to just get on with our lives. We have been labouring under your government’s protection of our morals and our principles for too long. Your morals and your principles are not those of the People of Australia. In fact I would venture to say that from where most of us view your world Mr Porter, it appears that you have no morals, and that your principles contain much too much fluidity for you to be judges of the public interest. They come across as very private and petty things Mr Porter, they come across as protection of narrow and bigoted self interest. We are the judges of just what is in the public interest and your private interest political games would appear to be detrimental to the values of an inclusive and democratic Australia.

So, for the edification of the referee;

We should not like to see any degree of turpitude when you exercise your scruples, no double-standards. At all times we would abjure sententious and licentious avoidance of debate on our behalf, or in our name, nor should we tolerate dissolute and divisive machinations for political gain from our representatives. Our interests cannot be enhanced by libertarianism, nor by dissolute deontology. We should not be satisfied with venal defilement of democratic process. In short, though we may only frown upon free fiscal enhancement of our members bank accounts; we shall have zero toleration of the corruption and suborning of the process. Profess your ideals by all means but do not conceal them from us. Describe your outcomes so that we may judge by what means they may be acceptable, because it does matter who we kill and what we destroy for gold. We want no perception of venality, no hint of greed nor graft. Please tell, oh Mr Porter .. is this bar too low for you to creep under? Because if it’s not, then we can lower it still further. As a paid community representative Mr Porter, there should never be an occasion when any excuse should be offered up to us for the undermining of the bar.

Ps, Mr Porter, why is that you will not fix your signature to a copy of Fitzgerald’s principles .. he is a lawyer just like you?

“A man may have the faculty of concealing his resentment but he must and ought to feel it. Nay, he ought to indulge it, to cultivate it. It is a duty. His person, his property, his liberty, his reputation are not safe without it. He ought, for his own security and honour and for the public good to punish those that injure him … it is the same with communities, they ought to resent and to punish.”