We will never know the names of the odious, capricious monsters who bullied #Lattouf for the same reasons we will never see the names of the odious, capricious monsters in the sealed section of the #Robodebt RC.

Even though the reason for sealing that section, criminal prosecution, did not happen.

Rich, powerful, well connected. That's how the system works in #Australia

The Lattouf unfair dismissal case is another reminder we live in a society where access to justice for the average punter is a long, costly, public, damaging and tedious process, full of risk, esp if you have been wronged by the powerful. It changes you.

The powerful? Those moral vacuums engaged in bad-faith harassment, offended at factually accurate reporting about another country?

Why, they are gifted privacy, of course, by a system that applies different standards to the rich and connected. And there will be no consequences for ABC management, naturally.

#auspol #israellobby #justice #abc

Contempt proceedings by pro-Israel lobbyists against Nine in Lattouf case β€˜probably doomed’, lawyers argue

Lobbyists allege newspaper editors Bevan Shields and Patrick Elligett are among eight individuals who broke name suppression order

The Guardian
@MarkDeasy As odious & craven as the ABC's management & Ita's misbehaviour was, i continue to feel my strongest contempt for the disgraceful #zionist #israellobby that did all the shocking astroturfing complaints against AL. Anyone & everyone who propagates the lie that antizionism is antisemitism, that complaints & protests about the horrific Israeli govt is antisemitism, deserve unending criticism & rejection, IMO.

@msdropbear42

I see your point and do not (overly) disagree. But to paraphrase the eminent psychologist Professor George Costanza, "Is it a lie, if you believe it?" πŸ€”

The extremist Zionist fash and their ideological fellow travellers no doubt hold their beliefs to be 'true'. OK. Have you ever tried to argue with a Collingwood fan, or a monarchist? Its their truth and there is nothing you can do about it.

So as entitled, racist and terrible as they are, they could have been whinging into a vacuum for all an ethical ABC management was concerned. But that did not happen, for the ABC is not ethical. It was a choice of the ABC management to go along with the Zionist bullshit - supported unanimously by the Board - and so responsibility remains with them. We have all sorts of dreadful fuckwits in in this country calling on the ABC and others to do all sorts of things. The ethical failure to placate extremists remains with Ita, the management and the Board of the ABC.

But we need to know who the extremists are. Especially those practising as lawyers, FFS!

@MarkDeasy Whilst i persist in calling bullshit to bullshitters no matter how much of their own exhaled air they inhale, you make an extremely good point & i defer, & concur. Onya! πŸ’―βœ…πŸ‘

@msdropbear42

Thankyou comrade Droppie! πŸ‘