182. This 'DEVELOPED', quasi Democratic, NATION = F-$$#@*&-D

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I actually thought I would take respite from another posting for a while!
But listening to the Duffy Senate opening defence motivates me to respond.

YES! Is the answer! YES! Ring the bells > LOUD AND CLEAR!

If it isn't: "DE PLANE; DE PLANE" (For those of you old enough to remember Fantasy Island phrase; I think I remember correctly)
It is now: "DE RULES; DE RULES!"  

Your Honour, Mr. Duffy was merely doing what all other Senators have been doing for years... After all, it's a well-deserved position, given seasoned elders, honoured for their contributions over the years, while helping to fill the coffers of our 38% majority government. Surely you are not suggesting, your honour, and I mean your 'HONOUR', yourself put in place by the present conservative government, you would question these well-established, statutory allowances of clearly acceptable partisan activities. "Under the circumstances"?

With all DUE RESPECT YOUR HONOUR, Mr. Duffy fully complied with existing allowances; allowances that gave Senators free range to entitled reimbursements, in order to collect for any and all of their myriad government related expenditures... like flights to visit family, and dinners at the you-know-who and where.

After all, your UNTOUCHABLE GRACIOUS PILLAR OF ALL KNOWLEDGE AND DEMOCRATIC RIGHTS, what would YOU have done "Under the circumstances?"

This UPRIGHT and NOBLE CITIZEN, our Mater Duffy, is NOT GUILTY, your honour!
 NOT guilty of ANY of the some 31 trespasses he is being accused of.  

Poor Senator Duffy was merely following and applying the ample Rule allowances enjoyed by his fellow haves!

SHAME on you for setting him up as a scapegoat!
and SHAME on you for destroying Mr. Steen's and thousands of other citizen's rights!
Rights they thought they had, but at great costs discovered were a cover up SHAM of ill-defined rules, and collusive system manipulates. constructed to take advantage of naive, vulnerable and mostly upright plebeians.

Notwithstanding, Mr. Prime Minister,
I can envision your political connectives with your global cousins.
I understand your aspirations towards a possible historic legacy.
I accept your trying efforts as the chosen representative of a malfunctioning, quasi wayward democracy.
I fully comprehend you are NOT to blame for your trespasses either, SIR!

SINCE WE PUT YOU IN TO POWER! 

WE, THE RELUCTANT, WHO COULD NOT BE BOTHERED TO GET IT SUFFICIENTLY TOGETHER  TO PUT ANOTHER LEADER IN YOUR POSITION. 
YOU, SIR, together with all your APPOINTEES, are NOT to BLAME - for anything!

Like Mr. Duffy, SIR, Your government, Your Rules, all are as clearly defined as they are practiced! WHY SHOULD YOU BE responsible for taking full-out advantage of what is in place?

HOWEVER, what IS in place, under the guise of 'CIVIL PROCEDURE,' under the guise of 'JUSTICE,' is a scandalous PRETENCE, an ignominious rendition of a super-self-controlled system. It continues to function, beyond any sensible comprehension, as the foundation of our legal system, there to take advantage of the paying, innocent masses.   

THIS  is where 'OUR DEMOCRACY,' in practice, falls apart, SIR, and your multiple appointees. This is where the human disgrace is bred  > SIRs and Madames in power.  

Whether we, as feudal plebeians, can ever make a dent in the controlled affairs of the chosen few, is the $60,000 question? (Or has inflation upped this amount)?