Senator Thorpe, the rebel bikie, Adam Bandt, and theist-megacult delusionals in parliament.
- Informationist Magazine
- Oct 20, 2022
- 4 min read
So Senator Thorpe has resigned her post over a sort-of-kind-of-undisclosed relationship with a former bikie who has (according to ABC reports) no criminal record. The whiterati are all aflutter. Barristers and talking heads (and some actual investigative journalists) are opining and warning and posturing and advising and tut-tutting all over the place.
It could be a bit goofy that the fiery and unconventional Senator was on a law enforcement committee when she met the former-not-current bikie with no actual criminal record. However - that's a far cry from the worst judgement we've seen from a member of Australian Parliament in the last 18 months. Just look at former PM Scot Morrison's record! Read on. This won't take long at all...
I'm not sure whether there have to be rebervevervbbre-verby-berations unless he has outstanding criminal citations or is/was actually doing crime? Martin apparently has no convictions at all (unlike Brian and Frank Houston), and wasn't affiliated when he and Thorpe met:
This staffer said Senator Thorpe had come into the office after Question Time that day and told the staffer she had just been with Mr Martin in the park across the road.
The staffer perceived a risk in Senator Thorpe receiving confidential information while being in an undisclosed relationship with Mr Martin, with whom she had been with just hours earlier.
In a work diary entry dated August 25 last year, the staffer wrote of the confrontation with Senator Thorpe: "My advice to Senator is that she must speak to leader's office, that she is at extreme risk of being extorted, particularly if someone finds out".
The entry continues: "Senator (has been) advised that the risks are catastrophic and that she would have to resign. I advised that it was absolutely necessary that I record the fact that I have given her this advice, and that ultimately it was up to her to take it or not.
"She has chosen not to take it … I highlighted the huge, real, risk. She assured me the relationship was no longer underway."
The staffer says Senator Thorpe said she and Mr Martin were using encrypted communications app Signal, "[that] they clear their conversations once a week, that they never meet at their respective homes … and that she was being really careful".
Senator Thorpe acknowledged to the ABC that one of her staff "did raise how my friendship may be perceived by others who were not aware of our shared interest in advocacy for First Nations peoples".
Unconvinced that the concerns about the relationship had been addressed, this staffer was alarmed when in February this year Senator Thorpe appeared in her electorate office with Mr Martin, where the staffer says the pair spoke privately in a room for 15 minutes before leaving again.
Senator Thorpe said this was a scheduled meeting "to discuss issues related to deportation of First Nations people including his brother [Shane]", who had died in New Zealand at the end of last year.
The ABC does not suggest Senator Thorpe shared confidential information with anyone unauthorised to receive it, nor does the ABC suggest Mr Martin has any continuing association with outlaw motorcycle gangs.
It really does sound like - whatever other facts might obtain - the 'staffer' perhaps does not much like the senator. Just saying, as the Gen-Z kids like to say:
The staffers say they are speaking out because they believe the Greens leadership has not followed its own rules for handling complaints against senators, and that the party must hold itself to a higher standard.
One told the ABC: "The thing with being holier than thou is that you have to live your values, there's no option for you but to do the right thing."
The assertion in the last paragraph is questionable, emotive, and culturally puritanical. 'Holier than thou' is hardly how one should describe someone who's simply - and correctly - opposing the structural genocide of First Nations people.
Moreover, we can hardly claim Senator Thorpe is out of touch with the people of her constituency - the good, the outcasts, and the rebellious included. Better Martin - who has no criminal record and might give the Senator information about drug crime - than Brian and Frank Houston. Right? It's presumably difficult to produce wellbeing policy and social policy if you have not the slightest exposure to - you know - actual people in society.
How Adam Bandt was kept out of the loop is a bit of a puzzler. Perhaps it serves to remind us all that one of the most enduring properties of politics is shitshowism. Just spend five minutes watching what comes out of the cake-holes of people like Trump, Pompeo, and Lauren Boebert. Gods save us all! Political shitshowism is everywhere. Often.
For example, at least Senator Thorpe's nutty megacultist Pastor wasn't protecting a known pedophile:
MPs cannot all be prissy Euraussies with no cultural rough edges and with lots of delusional, nutty Church pedophile-networks for best Holy pals. The MAIN problem in parliament is still theist-megacultist-schizophrenics with imaginary friends and all of the glorious accompanying pathological internalising and externalising symptoms - like paranoid and grandiose delusions.
All that being said - if Martin is involved in any serious drug crime then throw the book at all of them.
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