“We are writing to inform you of sickening political crimes perpetrated against one of Australia’s most talented and ethical human rights lawyers, whistleblowers and playwrights, Mr James Johnson.
As a former member of the Melbourne office of law firm Maurice Blackburn, you probably don’t have the same top-tier constitutional or legal knowledge and experience as Mr Johnson. But even so, as a fellow legal practitioner, and a lady who knows basic right from wrong, you too must be truly horrified at the corrupt underbelly of the legal profession – of government and law that is engaging in these criminal reprisals against Mr Johnson. We can only sit back in admiration, and rush forward to defend and support, Mr Johnson, for so valiantly blowing the whistle on them, “in their own backyards” and demanding that lawyers be brought back under the proper laws and independent regulation that they were subjected to (the same as non-lawyers) until as recently as 2004-2005.
Small wonder that Mr Johnson’s supporters are describing him as “the Simon Wiesenthal of Australian law”, the “Baltasar Garzon of Australian law” and drawing favorable comparisons between Mr Johnson and other world figures such as Julian Assange, Aung San Suu Kyi and the late Amercian civil rights activists such as Martin Luther King Jnr and legendary US civil rights lawyer William Kunstler, to name just a few.”
Friends of James Johnson
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EXTREMELY URGENT (YOUR RESPONSE NEEDED BY MIDDAY TOMORROW 25 JANUARY)
24 January 2013
Hon Ms Nicola Roxon Federal MLA for Gellibrand Attorney-General for Australia 1 Thomas Holmes Street Maribyrnong Victoria Australia 3032 By Facsimile: +61 (03) 9317 7477 (21 pages) (Telephone: +61 (03) 9317 7077)
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Dear Ms Roxon
All the Attorney-General’s Men – VCAT Political Show Trial and Crime Spree – VCAT Matter J134/2011 – Final Costs Hearing on 30 January 2013 at 2pm (55 King St, Melbourne)
We are writing to inform you of sickening political crimes perpetrated against one of Australia’s most talented and ethical human rights lawyers, whistleblowers and playwrights, Mr James Johnson.
As a former member of the Melbourne office of law firm Maurice Blackburn, you probably don’t have the same top-tier constitutional or legal knowledge and experience as Mr Johnson. But even so, as a fellow legal practitioner, and a lady who knows basic right from wrong, you too must be truly horrified at the corrupt underbelly of the legal profession – of government and law that is engaging in these criminal reprisals against Mr Johnson. We can only sit back in admiration, and rush forward to defend and support, Mr Johnson, for so valiantly blowing the whistle on them, “in their own backyards” and demanding that lawyers be brought back under the proper laws and independent regulation that they were subjected to (the same as non-lawyers) until as recently as 2004-2005.
Small wonder that Mr Johnson’s supporters are describing him as “the Simon Wiesenthal of Australian law”, the “Baltasar Garzon of Australian law” and drawing favorable comparisons between Mr Johnson and other world figures such as Julian Assange, Aung San Suu Kyi and the late Amercian civil rights activists such as Martin Luther King Jnr and legendary US civil rights lawyer William Kunstler, to name just a few.
We note that your predecessor, Mr Robert McClelland regularly expressed the same views as Mr Johnson has put in his whistelblowing reports – “Lawyers let you down” is one memorable headline of Mr McClelland’s via The Australian, from late 2009. We are confident that as an ethical and competent lawyer that you will hold the same views as Mr McClelland and Mr Johnson on these important legal / political / social matters and needs for urgent parliamentary attentions (at State and Federal levels).
We attach to this 5 page letter a further 15 pages of materials, being:
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a copy of Mr Johnson’s covering 8 page letter of 20 January 2013 to Victorian Attorney-General Robert Clark which describes the sickening nature of what these corrupt “judicial members” of this unconstitutional government (ie “non-judicial”) body known as VCAT have conspired with Victoria’s crooked (and self-confessed) “less than 10% of” Legal Services Commissioner Michael Keith McGarvie, to do to Mr Johnson;
- a copy of Mr Johnson’s 2 page media release of June 2012 titled “Whistleblower aims to restore justice to the law” (with its 3 point plan and extensive further reading links)
- a copy of a distressing 5 page memorandum from the senior member of the three citizen non-lawyer defence team who represented Mr Johnson in VCAT (on limited basis) after it became too dangerous for Mr Johnson to contemplate parleying in person with these corrupt officials after 6 July 2012 in their corrupt, armed, unconstitutional citadels;
During a series of most irregular and drawn out VCAT hearings in May and July 2012, and climaxing over September, October and November 2012 Mr Johnson was handed a purported 2 ½ year ban from practising law by an unconstitutional VCAT, without a trial, without proper charges, on false allegations and false documents dismissed 2 ¾ times previously by the prosecuting Legal Services Commissioner, with no witnesses or evidence ever produced against him or made available for cross-examination. In fact VCAT actively conspired with the Legal Services Commissioner and several other government agencies to ensure that none of Mr Johnson’s false accusers would be required or compelled to give evidence or be exposed to cross-examined – even after Mr Johnson demanded they be produced and had summonses issued to compel them to testify against him. And in the background to all this, all four of Mr Johnson’s false accusers in VCAT, including the Legal Services Commissioner are the subject of multi-million dollar Supreme Court counterclaims Mr Johnson filed against them and 10 others (mostly lawyers) over 4 years ago – on grounds of professional / public misconduct, negligence, fraud and (criminal) defamation.
This is a Victorian Legal Services Commissioner whose corruption and incompetence was roundly condemned by the Victorian State Government Ombudsman’s 2009 Annual Report to Parliament. A failed legal regulator who is in defiance of a pair of 2008 and 2009 Victorian Supreme Court rulings to the effects (a) that he has a statutory duty to police 100% (not just 10%) of the Victorian legal profession; and (b) that he should investigate Mr Johnson’s substantial complaints of fraudulent family law solicitors and barristers, going back to 2008 and 2009 (rather than seeking a lifetime ban against Mr Johnson in circumstances where the regulator not only has no regulatory powers but there is nothing to justify any form of discipline against Mr Johnson – not even a caution.
This false conviction would make Mr Johnson the first lawyer in Australian history to be struck out for being a litigant, not a litigator, at a time when he was not even practising law – an absolute farce made all the worse given that the court transcripts that VCAT refused to allow into evidence prove there was never any impropriety in Mr Johnson’s behaviour in the Federal Magistrates’ Court hearing in October 2008 on which these false allegations have been retrospectively fabricated.
This rubber-stamping in VCAT of these turgid false allegations against Mr Johnson has also come about after an absolute failure of the VCAT and LSC bureaucrats to even pretend that they were following due process. You can read about this in Mr Johnson’s attached 8 page letter. So bad has their conduct been, so self-incriminating on their own VCAT records of proceedings that they have resorted to refusing to issue proper audio recordings of the proceedings and using armed security guards and secret hearings without notice to Mr Johnson to keep the public from witnessing the spectacle. And to avoid further self-incriminations (and possibilities of being prosecuted or being held accountable in other ways for their corruption) in late November 2012 VCAT announced they would no longer make cost effective audio recordings available to tribunants “effective immediately.”
Demonstrating that he truly has one of the best legal and political minds of his generation (he says he is “48 going on 1984”), only a man of Mr Johnson’s rare intellectual and ethical talents and good graces could keep his composure while under such massive and sustained attack from criminals on the benches inside and outside of the legal / government system, all the while living under violent attacks and enduring years of forced interstate exile and extreme economic poverty.
These corrupt bureaucrats deny reality by declaring “Mr Johnson is not a whistleblower” (by the way he blew the whistle on this entire VCAT process in a letter to key government officials way back in January 2009 – a fact and letter (a red folder of a 100 pages of materials). He terrified these bureaucrats in VCAT with it on 6 July 2012 simply by mentioning it. Mr Johnson stays cool, waiting to see “the whites of their eyes” before stating the obvious, “VCAT is not Constitutional” and “VCAT has never been anything but an unconstitutional and invalid Star Chamber.”
As you can see in even his brief 8 page overview letter Mr Johnson not only keeps his composure, but reports the corruption against him (and the hundreds of other Aussies he has helped, free of charge, over his four plus years pilgrimage) in its broader, sweeping historical context by references to Australian witch-hunts against Scientologists (in the 1970s), Communist Party members (of the ALP) in the 1950s, the history of White Australia Policy / Apartheid, Germany’s Nuremberg Trials of the 1950s (where most of those prosecuted were, apparently, bureaucrat-lawyers), the British civil services corruptions of the British White Raj (as impacted upon Mohindas Gandhi and the “Bengali Bapus”), the “Bleak [Law] Houses” and “Circumlocution Offices” of Westminster of Charles Dickens’ days, and Franz Kafka’s German Weimar Republic, along with impressive Justice / Professor Richard A Posner style analyses and estimates of the macro- micro- and meso- economics of the whole dirty business and its social costs and misery to the broad Australian community.
The corruption against Mr Johnson resumes next Wednesday 30 January 2013 at 2pm at VCAT, 55 King Street Melbourne with a scandalous final “costs hearing.” These power-drunk and corrupt bureaucrats want to draw every inch of blood out of Mr Johnson’s stony composure by ordering him to pay alleged costs of a secret all-government hearing held on 17 May 2012 (“a day [and a half] before the trial began” as Mr Johnson describes it for effect) where corrupt VCAT officials ruled that Mr Johnson would not be allowed to bring any evidence into VCAT to defend himself (never mind “best evidence rules etc”) – seemingly didn’t even deserve an opportunity to explain why the documents and people that he had had summonsed were relevant and material to the issues in the case. We are sure you will see the corruption and constitutional violations inherent in this staggering bureaucratic claim. We hope you are as appalled and drawn to action, as we are.
We are sure you will recognise in these documents, and in James a “kindred spirit.” We hope that you are motivated to assist him. Neither Mr Johnson nor ourselves believe there is much chance that Victorian Attorney-General Robert Clark will even comprehend, let alone appreciate the “Doc Evatt Moment” that Mr Johnson has afforded him through this process of appointing him as erstwhile representative for this final 30 January 2013 VCAT witch hunting. History suggests that his lawyer-bureaucrats on staff may well go as far as hiding all this correspondence from him.
We understand that you, along with several other top Australian Queens’ Counsellors and barristers, have accepted a brief from James, in the context of the flotilla of test cases James has organised to take to the High Court of Australia to have it revisit and repeal the crooked decisions that Legal Aid Victoria / Legal Practitioners Liability Committee purchased in D’Orta-Ekenaike v Victoria Legal Aid and another (a barrister), subject of course to your usual fee of $11,000 per day being met. Mr Johnson is endeavouring to compel legal aid funding, the engagement of top tier national law firms as your instructors and private philanthropic sources to fund these multi-million dollar High Court proceedings on behalf of all Australians (point 1 of his June 2012 media release). Mr Johnson’s role will be 100% non-lawyer in these proceedings – that of organiser, fund-raiser and paymaster.
Should you wish to read more about the circumstances of this extraordinary political crime spree against Mr Johnson, we have posted the full 40 pages of documentation on our website http://FriendsofJamesJohnson.com and on James’ http://LawyerocracyOnTrial.com website (which we are now managing for him). We have also posted copies of the full text of Mr Johnson’s letter to Victorian Attorney-General Robert Clark of 31 December 2012 and (by way of a background ‘fact sheet’ to the underlying fraudulent State and Federal court proceedings against Mr Johnson) the text of his 31 December VCAT appeal document. These are (2) and (3) in the links that follow. We highly recommend these as important background to Mr Johnson’s story of corruption:
(1) http://jamesjohnsonchr.wordpress.com/2013/01/21/all-the-attorney-generals-men-vcat-political-crime-spree-show-trial-j1342011/ and mirrored at http://lawyerocracyontrial.com/2013/01/20/vcat-political-crime-spree-show-trial-j1342011/
(2) http://friendsofjamesjohnson.com/2013/01/20/all-the-attorney-generals-men-corrupt-vcat-show-trial-j1342011/ (apologies for the colouration problem) and mirrored at http://lawyerocracyontrial.com/2013/01/20/all-the-attorney-generals-men-corrupt-vcat-show-trial-j1342011/
(3) http://friendsofjamesjohnson.com/2013/01/01/get-some-drugs-and-have-a-laugh-theyre-not-real-lawyers-anyway/ and mirrored at http://lawyerocracyontrial.com/2013/01/01/get-some-drugs-and-have-a-laugh-theyre-not-real-lawyers-anyway/
(4) http://friendsofjamesjohnson.com/2013/01/17/these-aussie-lawyers-need-nuremberg-style-trials-and-punishments/ and mirrored at http://lawyerocracyontrial.com/2013/01/01/these-aussie-lawyers-need-nuremberg-style-trials-and-punishments/
(7) http://friendsofjamesjohnson.com/2013/01/07/wow-james-johnson-is-still-alive-a-huge-achievement/ and
(8) http://jamesjohnsonchr.wordpress.com/legal-credentials/
We are sure you will agree that is one impressive professional resume – way beyond the achievements of any of the 100s of government-salaried-for-life lawyer-bureaucrats witch-hunting him.
We ask you to consider the morality and ethics of Mr Johnson’s situation and the overwhelming unconstitutional misuse of power, and resources of the state, the unbelievable conceited corruption of the Victorian bureaucrats and government legal agencies. If Mr Johnson is not good enough to be a lawyer (bearing in mind that in 20 years he has never stolen a penny, never cheated his taxes, never had a client complain about him etc etc), how soon will the government strike off the 99.99% of lawyers who don’t even measure up to a quarter of his professional standards and achievements?
We ask you to do what you can to raise legal, political and media exposure of these crimes against Mr Johnson, which are crimes against all Victorians and Australians, and to garner as much support for Mr Johnson for 30 January 2013 as we can collectively muster.
Putting it bluntly, neither Mr Johnson nor ourselves have heard from your Victorian Counterpart, Attorney-General for Victoria whether he is prepared to intervene in this scandalously corrupt hearing of his unconstitutional VCAT (Wednesday 30 January 2013 at 2pm at 55 King Street Melbourne), taking up a “Doc Evatt moment”. By this, Mr Johnson is referencing (see attached) the famous Communist Party Case that former shaddow Attorney-General the great HV (Doc) Evatt took as a free brief on constitutional / free speech / human rights grounds to defeat the (illegitimate) Menzies era Communist Party Dissolution Act of 1951.
Given your respective political persuasions, and that you now hold the office, in Government, that HV (Doc) Evatt held in the 1940s and 1950s (both in government and then in opposition) it would seem ideologically and party-wise appropriate for you to accept a free brief to represent Mr Johnson on Wednesday afternoon as his representative under alleged 62 of the alleged VCAT Act of 1998.
Given the close proximity to the long-weekend. And that this VCAT hearing is scheduled for the second day back after the Australia Day public holiday Monday, we request a response from you by midday tomorrow (Friday) as to what assistance / representation you are prepared to give to Mr Johnson to protect him from further criminal abuse from these Victorian bureaucrats.
Blessings to you dear Lady from
Terry and Sue, on behalf of
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