Michael Cook mercatornet.com In the wake of Cardinal George Pell’s successful appeal to the High Court of Australia, and his release from jail after 404 days, several books purporting to be “investigative journalism” have appeared about this astonishing miscarriage of justice. All of them have been hostile towards
Cardinal George Pell has broken his long silence since his exoneration by a unanimous vote of Australia’s highest court. The Cardinal confirms what was obvious all along to anyone not blinded by prejudice: he was framed. Of course, the list of figures and institutions lined up against Pell was
The “MeToo” movement has been dealt yet another blow, with yet another acquittal of a high-profile celebrity accused of predatory behaviour. In fact, contrary to the mantra of “believe victims”, very few MeToo accusations have passed the test of a court of law. Craig McLachlan has been found not
Yet more of the chickens of corruption are coming home to roost in Victoria, with the first high-profile acquittal following from the “Lawyer X” scandal. Jailed big wig Tony Mokbel has had his conviction quashed over a cocaine importation which led him to skip the country during his trial.
There was a piece of spray-painted graffiti I used to pass by regularly in Wellington, in the car park of a building on Tory St. It was a play on the words of French Enlightenment thinker Denis Diderot and proclaimed “We will never be free until the last politician
As the mainstream media have endlessly informed you, those wicked righties are violent maniacs who are forever one hate-speech law away from whipping out their white hoods and havin’ themselves a good ol’-fashioned lynching. Except that there hasn’t been an actual lynching in the United States for
As asked on The BFD recently, why can’t the media admit that they got it wrong on the Cardinal George Pell case? Australia’s taxpayer-funded media in particular, pursued Pell with a venom we hadn’t seen since they decided Lindy Chamberlain was too frumpy-looking to be
With Abdul Nacer Benbrika, the leader of one of Australia’s largest terror cells, nearing the end of his sentence, authorities are facing yet another instance of a growing problem: what to do with jihadis moving back into the general community? The government has cancelled Benbrika’s citizenship as a
Michael Dowling Chairman Council of Licenced Firearms Owners The Royal Commission report is now out. The part that covers how the terrorist was able to get a firearms licence and details how we were so badly let down is Part 5. Part 5 the Firearms Licence by Juana Atkins on
The Royal Commission of Inquiry Report into the Christchurch massacre has been released, and the Police have admitted, finally, what everyone one in the firearms community has known all along, that they failed utterly in following or even enforcing the law when it came to approving Brenton Tarrant’s firearms
R Umaima Ahmed globalvoices.org Pakistan’s government approved in-principle on November 24 tougher laws against sexual assault which will include chemical castration for repeat offenders. The laws, called the Anti-Rape (Investigation and Trial) Ordinance 2020 and the Penal Code (Amendment) Ordinance 2020, have been approved by Pakistan’
Michael Dowling Chairman Council of Licenced Firearms Owners I’ve been fielding a large volume of email the last few days asking about what we’re hearing on the Royal Commission Report and what we’ve been doing in recent days. This article is to update you on both fronts.
righttolife.org.uk An MP has urged the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office to call on the Chinese Communist Party to end their population control measures, including forced abortions and sterilisation, of the Uyghur community in China. Conservative MP Fiona Bruce, in a debate in the House of Commons on
Michael Cook mercatornet.com Michael Cook is the editor of MercatorNet In the logic of true believers, if he looks innocent, he must be guilty There’s a phenomenon in psychology called the “true believer syndrome”. The paradigm example is analysed in a 1956 psychology classic called When Prophecy Fails.
As I recently reported, Sydney’s recent “Transgender Day of Remembrance” hit a minor snag: it couldn’t actually find any murdered trannies to remember. On the other hand, there is no shortage of very real transgender killers and rapists. Not that you’d know that if you still pay
