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		<title>By: Brian</title>
		<link>http://larvatusprodeo.net/2009/12/23/tower-of-hope-or-vale-of-tears/#comment-118524</link>
		<dc:creator>Brian</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jan 2010 16:16:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;ve put up a &lt;a href=&quot;http://larvatusprodeo.net/2010/01/11/peter-spencers-protest-50th-day/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;new post&lt;/a&gt; and closed comments. Please place any further comments there.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;ve put up a <a href="http://larvatusprodeo.net/2010/01/11/peter-spencers-protest-50th-day/" rel="nofollow">new post</a> and closed comments. Please place any further comments there.</p>
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		<title>By: half</title>
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		<dc:creator>half</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jan 2010 06:04:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>James Darby,

            great reply.

Changing world where words and reason count for nothing when people like Spencer want plain justice.
Then the system and others are offended when a person jumps up and down at the injustice.
For me i see defensive behavior on the part of the &quot;system&quot; instead of negotiation and the pursuit of justice.

When nothing works all you have left to do is jump up and down?
System clearly fails to provide justice, accountability and a fair go for those who are not rich and well-connected.


Half</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>James Darby,</p>
<p>            great reply.</p>
<p>Changing world where words and reason count for nothing when people like Spencer want plain justice.<br />
Then the system and others are offended when a person jumps up and down at the injustice.<br />
For me i see defensive behavior on the part of the &#8220;system&#8221; instead of negotiation and the pursuit of justice.</p>
<p>When nothing works all you have left to do is jump up and down?<br />
System clearly fails to provide justice, accountability and a fair go for those who are not rich and well-connected.</p>
<p>Half</p>
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		<title>By: FDB</title>
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		<dc:creator>FDB</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jan 2010 03:11:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;I also refer to Peter Spencer as a Protestor. You call him a ‘complainant’ So you can see that I hold you with the same contempt that I hold for Bob Carr.&quot;

WTF?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;I also refer to Peter Spencer as a Protestor. You call him a ‘complainant’ So you can see that I hold you with the same contempt that I hold for Bob Carr.&#8221;</p>
<p>WTF?</p>
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		<title>By: James Darby</title>
		<link>http://larvatusprodeo.net/2009/12/23/tower-of-hope-or-vale-of-tears/#comment-118521</link>
		<dc:creator>James Darby</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jan 2010 02:57:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>#322 Peter Spencer Sceptic

PSS In #321 I made comments about you that go against your credit as person who is likely to use truth in debate. I shall tell you that when you who make a statement:- To quote you &quot;Spencer increasingly appears to be a troubled but typical vexatious complainant.&quot; The use of the word &#039;but&#039; divides the sentance into two parts divided by the word &#039;but&#039;. Socialists, apologists, and &#039;it should not food on the lowlands&#039; people use this word &#039;but&#039; as a contradiction to truth.
Truth does not exist for the likes of you. If it did you would have responded to my criticism of your lack of foundation in your #321 statement.

Had you listened to Peter Spencer&#039;s last verbal transmission even you may not have claimed him as &#039;Vexatious&#039;. You will find no other to agree with you. Even describing Peter as &quot;typical&quot; has as much sense as describing Ramboo as &#039;typical.&#039;

Now that you have taken up the name &#039;Sceptic&#039; I sincerely hope the Climate Change Sceptics will change their name to Climate Change Realists (or Actualists) as you demolished any credibility that the unfortunate word &#039;Sceptic&#039; may had had.

So amongst you appauling advice to me by yourself about how I should conduct myself with regard to Peter Spencer I have seriously looked for something of value. After all I called and begged for advice. Peter endeavours to extort nothing. Peter is the one who has been extorted. I agree that there are aspects of desparation in the whole circumstance. As there is no extortion attempt the desparation aspect can only refer to the current horror. It is truely pathetic how a man such as Bob Carr with the credientials that he has and the cemetary that he has in his wardrobe could have the pathetic people of NSW vote him in to enact such Nationalisation Leglislation.

I am a member of Sea Sheperd (Interventionists), I feed fish, I don&#039;t eat them. So I have the credit to ask you this. Do you refer to an anti-whaler person as a &quot;Complainant&quot; or as a &quot;Protester&quot;?

Seriously that is a rhetorical question on my part. As you do call them protestors. I also refer to Peter Spencer as a Protestor. You call him a &#039;complainant&#039; So you can see that I hold you with the same contempt that I hold for Bob Carr. (And his supporters and appologists. That contempt also extends to Rudd and Turnbull and their supporters).

And then you blatently and with malice aforethought refer to me as being part of a groupe of supporters who are &quot;frauds, brigands and charlatans&quot;.

Carr &amp; Kyoto, Rudd and Turnbull supported by Heffernan have been party to the fraud of removing Peter&#039;s control over his &#039;own&#039; land. A rip-off is only a rip-off if it compulsory. A bandit and highwayman a robber and a looter is what Robin Hood is. Robin Hood took from the rich, bribed the poor and partied with the rest. Sums up Rudd well. Bob Carr laughed like a charlatan (See him on youtude) as with slight of hand he rudded (robbed) NSW landholders, with consent of the likes of Heffenan.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>#322 Peter Spencer Sceptic</p>
<p>PSS In #321 I made comments about you that go against your credit as person who is likely to use truth in debate. I shall tell you that when you who make a statement:- To quote you &#8220;Spencer increasingly appears to be a troubled but typical vexatious complainant.&#8221; The use of the word &#8216;but&#8217; divides the sentance into two parts divided by the word &#8216;but&#8217;. Socialists, apologists, and &#8216;it should not food on the lowlands&#8217; people use this word &#8216;but&#8217; as a contradiction to truth.<br />
Truth does not exist for the likes of you. If it did you would have responded to my criticism of your lack of foundation in your #321 statement.</p>
<p>Had you listened to Peter Spencer&#8217;s last verbal transmission even you may not have claimed him as &#8216;Vexatious&#8217;. You will find no other to agree with you. Even describing Peter as &#8220;typical&#8221; has as much sense as describing Ramboo as &#8216;typical.&#8217;</p>
<p>Now that you have taken up the name &#8216;Sceptic&#8217; I sincerely hope the Climate Change Sceptics will change their name to Climate Change Realists (or Actualists) as you demolished any credibility that the unfortunate word &#8216;Sceptic&#8217; may had had.</p>
<p>So amongst you appauling advice to me by yourself about how I should conduct myself with regard to Peter Spencer I have seriously looked for something of value. After all I called and begged for advice. Peter endeavours to extort nothing. Peter is the one who has been extorted. I agree that there are aspects of desparation in the whole circumstance. As there is no extortion attempt the desparation aspect can only refer to the current horror. It is truely pathetic how a man such as Bob Carr with the credientials that he has and the cemetary that he has in his wardrobe could have the pathetic people of NSW vote him in to enact such Nationalisation Leglislation.</p>
<p>I am a member of Sea Sheperd (Interventionists), I feed fish, I don&#8217;t eat them. So I have the credit to ask you this. Do you refer to an anti-whaler person as a &#8220;Complainant&#8221; or as a &#8220;Protester&#8221;?</p>
<p>Seriously that is a rhetorical question on my part. As you do call them protestors. I also refer to Peter Spencer as a Protestor. You call him a &#8216;complainant&#8217; So you can see that I hold you with the same contempt that I hold for Bob Carr. (And his supporters and appologists. That contempt also extends to Rudd and Turnbull and their supporters).</p>
<p>And then you blatently and with malice aforethought refer to me as being part of a groupe of supporters who are &#8220;frauds, brigands and charlatans&#8221;.</p>
<p>Carr &amp; Kyoto, Rudd and Turnbull supported by Heffernan have been party to the fraud of removing Peter&#8217;s control over his &#8216;own&#8217; land. A rip-off is only a rip-off if it compulsory. A bandit and highwayman a robber and a looter is what Robin Hood is. Robin Hood took from the rich, bribed the poor and partied with the rest. Sums up Rudd well. Bob Carr laughed like a charlatan (See him on youtude) as with slight of hand he rudded (robbed) NSW landholders, with consent of the likes of Heffenan.</p>
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		<title>By: anthony nolan</title>
		<link>http://larvatusprodeo.net/2009/12/23/tower-of-hope-or-vale-of-tears/#comment-118520</link>
		<dc:creator>anthony nolan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jan 2010 01:35:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Spencer needs to have his attention brought to the idea that it takes more courage to live in the face of adversity than it does to kill himself. That is by way of assisting anyone who may be trying to talk him into ending this hunger strike. That is the best I can do to aid, for what it is worth.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Spencer needs to have his attention brought to the idea that it takes more courage to live in the face of adversity than it does to kill himself. That is by way of assisting anyone who may be trying to talk him into ending this hunger strike. That is the best I can do to aid, for what it is worth.</p>
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		<title>By: Ian Hampton</title>
		<link>http://larvatusprodeo.net/2009/12/23/tower-of-hope-or-vale-of-tears/#comment-118519</link>
		<dc:creator>Ian Hampton</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jan 2010 01:15:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>still at 326

See also below open Email letter from Professor of Public Law Suri Ratnapala dated 3rd December 2009 http://loveforlife.com.au/content/09/12/03/peter-spencer-hunger-strike-driven-drastic-measures-australian-government-and-banks.

&quot;Dear Peter,

I am in the US and then in Europe until the end of February on my sabbatical. I sincerely hope that you will not come to any harm and that the authorities will meet your just terms.

Your cause is the cause of many thousands of honest and productive persons on whose lives and labour the prosperity of Australia was built and whose property the government has now stolen.

Your cause is the cause of every Australian who cares about the rule of law, constitutional government and political morality.

Your cause is the cause of every decent human being who values fair play. Your cause is Australia’s cause.

I look forward to contributing to your cause when I return to Australia.

Hoping that you will have a Happy Christmas,

Kind regards,

Suri

Suri Ratnapala, LLB; LLM; PhD
Professor of Public Law
Centre for Public, International &amp; Comparative Law
T C Beirne School of Law
University of Queensland
CRICOS Provider No 00025B&quot;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>still at 326</p>
<p>See also below open Email letter from Professor of Public Law Suri Ratnapala dated 3rd December 2009 <a href="http://loveforlife.com.au/content/09/12/03/peter-spencer-hunger-strike-driven-drastic-measures-australian-government-and-banks" rel="nofollow">http://loveforlife.com.au/content/09/12/03/peter-spencer-hunger-strike-driven-drastic-measures-australian-government-and-banks</a>.</p>
<p>&#8220;Dear Peter,</p>
<p>I am in the US and then in Europe until the end of February on my sabbatical. I sincerely hope that you will not come to any harm and that the authorities will meet your just terms.</p>
<p>Your cause is the cause of many thousands of honest and productive persons on whose lives and labour the prosperity of Australia was built and whose property the government has now stolen.</p>
<p>Your cause is the cause of every Australian who cares about the rule of law, constitutional government and political morality.</p>
<p>Your cause is the cause of every decent human being who values fair play. Your cause is Australia’s cause.</p>
<p>I look forward to contributing to your cause when I return to Australia.</p>
<p>Hoping that you will have a Happy Christmas,</p>
<p>Kind regards,</p>
<p>Suri</p>
<p>Suri Ratnapala, LLB; LLM; PhD<br />
Professor of Public Law<br />
Centre for Public, International &amp; Comparative Law<br />
T C Beirne School of Law<br />
University of Queensland<br />
CRICOS Provider No 00025B&#8221;</p>
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		<title>By: Nana Levu</title>
		<link>http://larvatusprodeo.net/2009/12/23/tower-of-hope-or-vale-of-tears/#comment-118518</link>
		<dc:creator>Nana Levu</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jan 2010 00:38:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description># 328 From what I saw Peter was running cattle in the mid 1990s.  Don&#039;t know when or if he stopped.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p># 328 From what I saw Peter was running cattle in the mid 1990s.  Don&#8217;t know when or if he stopped.</p>
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		<title>By: CJ Morgan</title>
		<link>http://larvatusprodeo.net/2009/12/23/tower-of-hope-or-vale-of-tears/#comment-118517</link>
		<dc:creator>CJ Morgan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jan 2010 23:07:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Thanks to all for the most informative discussion that I&#039;ve found on this issue.  One thing that I&#039;ve been wondering is why Peter Spencer doesn&#039;t simply run cattle on that part of his land that he&#039;s not allowed to clear, and continue to raise his sheeep on the cleared portion.

I mean, isn&#039;t that what his parents did, which was supposedly his motivation for acquiring so much marginal land in such an environmentally sensitive area?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks to all for the most informative discussion that I&#8217;ve found on this issue.  One thing that I&#8217;ve been wondering is why Peter Spencer doesn&#8217;t simply run cattle on that part of his land that he&#8217;s not allowed to clear, and continue to raise his sheeep on the cleared portion.</p>
<p>I mean, isn&#8217;t that what his parents did, which was supposedly his motivation for acquiring so much marginal land in such an environmentally sensitive area?</p>
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		<title>By: still@downfall</title>
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		<dc:creator>still@downfall</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jan 2010 23:01:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Another important aspect of vegetation managent laws is how the laws were written. The shift away from fundamental principles of how our laws have been structured in the past should be of concern for all Australians.


The follow quote, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.abc.net.au/rural/news/stories/s812799.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Tree clearing laws infringe rights&lt;/a&gt;, by well known civil libertian, &lt;b&gt;Terry O’Gorman&lt;/b&gt;, was made in 2003 just before the Qld vegetation management laws were passed.

&lt;blockquote&gt;But the President of the Australian Council for Civil Liberties,says the laws take away some basic rights of landholders.

He says it includes allowing Government officials to &lt;b&gt;obtain criminal histories and enter properties without consent, and also takes away the long standing defence, of an honest and reasonable mistake.&lt;/b&gt;

&quot;We acknowledge that there is a problem with illegal tree clearing, &lt;b&gt;but you don&#039;t deal with a serious problem by throwing fundamental civil liberties principals out the window, so it clearly is the thin edge of the wedge&lt;/b&gt; and we&#039;re asking the country members from both the government and the national party to stand up and be counted and defeat these &lt;b&gt;objectional&lt;/b&gt; parts of the bill.&quot;&lt;/blockquote&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Another important aspect of vegetation managent laws is how the laws were written. The shift away from fundamental principles of how our laws have been structured in the past should be of concern for all Australians.</p>
<p>The follow quote, <a href="http://www.abc.net.au/rural/news/stories/s812799.htm" rel="nofollow">Tree clearing laws infringe rights</a>, by well known civil libertian, <b>Terry O’Gorman</b>, was made in 2003 just before the Qld vegetation management laws were passed.</p>
<blockquote><p>But the President of the Australian Council for Civil Liberties,says the laws take away some basic rights of landholders.</p>
<p>He says it includes allowing Government officials to <b>obtain criminal histories and enter properties without consent, and also takes away the long standing defence, of an honest and reasonable mistake.</b></p>
<p>&#8220;We acknowledge that there is a problem with illegal tree clearing, <b>but you don&#8217;t deal with a serious problem by throwing fundamental civil liberties principals out the window, so it clearly is the thin edge of the wedge</b> and we&#8217;re asking the country members from both the government and the national party to stand up and be counted and defeat these <b>objectional</b> parts of the bill.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
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		<title>By: Nana Levu</title>
		<link>http://larvatusprodeo.net/2009/12/23/tower-of-hope-or-vale-of-tears/#comment-118515</link>
		<dc:creator>Nana Levu</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jan 2010 21:01:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>A new SMH article by Chris Berg of IPA in SMH online.  Wonder if ii will git published in the print version on Monday?
http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/society-and-culture/lost-property-home-in-deed-but-not-in-fact-20100109-lzs0.html</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A new SMH article by Chris Berg of IPA in SMH online.  Wonder if ii will git published in the print version on Monday?<br />
<a href="http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/society-and-culture/lost-property-home-in-deed-but-not-in-fact-20100109-lzs0.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/society-and-culture/lost-property-home-in-deed-but-not-in-fact-20100109-lzs0.html</a></p>
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