High
Court Decision
Clearly the
UMCQ is disappointed with the decision of the High Court, and see it as another
nail in the coffin of the ‘no-longer’ right to see the evidence against you. We
believe this decision goes against principals of law dating back to the
Magna-Carta in 1215.
38. No bailiff for the
future shall, upon his own unsupported complaint, put anyone to his
"law", without credible witnesses brought for this purposes.
This from the Magna-Carta states ...without credible
witnesses... If you have no knowledge of the witness or evidence, how can you
prove or disprove it to be credible or not? The Police no longer have to prove
their case “Beyond Reasonable Doubt”. This removes one of the fundamental
principals of our Legal Justice System; with every step taken we are on a
steeper and steeper slope to complete loss of freedom. When the big banks can
be deemed too big to prosecute as in just recently with HSBC paying a fine
equivalent to only a couple of months profit for Laundering Drug Money, Dealing
with the Enemy (Iran) breaching embargos, we the people will be jailed for
minor breaches of unjust laws, yet NOONE from HSBC was jailed for Trillions of
Dollars of Fraud and Illegal dealings.
There has over time been an erosion of the right to examine
the evidence put against you. Without the ability to test the evidence brought
against you or to test the “credibility” of the witness, will lead to a
travesty if not today, sometime in the future, of this there can be no doubt.
The increased use of Secret Evidence (Criminal Intelligence) has been widely
criticised. The following is a link to Justice UK’s document on their enquiry
into the growth of Secret Intelligence and the problems it creates within our
justice system http://www.justice.org.uk/resources.php/33/secret-evidence
The UMCQ will be meeting to discuss the outcome of this
decision and the possible legal channels open to us. Although the Police
propaganda machine has done a good job of selling the Criminal Organisations
Act as “Anti-Bikie Laws”, remember there is nothing in these laws that say
Motorcycle club, Bikie or anything similar. These laws can be used against any
group the police feel free to use them against.
The NRL, AFL, Australian Institute of Sport, these sporting
bodies can have these laws used against them. The Catholic Church, the Anglican
Church, the Exclusive Brethren can all have these laws used against them.
These laws are for all Australians, except as in the Media
reforms proposed, the Government and Police.
I would like to say ride free etc, but I feel today that the time will
come where that will no longer be possible. I always knew this fight would go
on forever, but too many people within the Biking community thought that after
the SA Finks win it would be a lay-down Misere. Well for those that have not
been contributing to the fight, are you happy with the result?