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I spoke at the Humanistic Society Wednesday (22nd inst. -10 Shepherd Street, Chippendale).

The talk was about the pipeline support invention* and it's treatment by the NSW and Federal Governments and the relevant government authorities (principally the ASIC) and the NSW legal system.  All I'll say is that the evening was a real eye-opener and I've learnt to be a little more accommodating!

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I've had a newspaper clipping from last Wednesday's (May 15th - page 47) The Daily Telegraph scanned and placed on the web-site.  The reporter for the Bottom of the Harbour feature in the Business section of the Telegraph noted that the BHP Billiton spokesperson refused to comment when asked if BHP Billiton was taking any legal action.  Apparently this "A Tangled web" article was read out on the 2SSR radio Station that morning too!

I was placed on a training programme (Introduction to Computers at Wollongong Tech) by my Job Network Provider a couple of months ago and the very same person who placed me on this computer training programme wanted to remove me mid-session onto another course which would consume more time.  She mentioned that protesting about the loss of the rights to my invention was likely to scare would-be employers away.  (You're not supposed to insist on your rights in this country now just like what was occurring in Russia.)

This attempted re-direction of my training occurred after I drove the truck advertising BHP's corruption around Sydney CBD for a week!  A photograph of this truck has been placed on the web-site too.

Most people cannot understand that once someone's rights are interfered with everyone's rights are affected.  By the way the personnel at the Job Network Provider act the situation with myself and BHP is well understood and although I think that these personnel are reasonable people people they have certainly gone along with what would suit BHP.  The only problem with this sort of philosophy, where it is hoped that someone else will perform the duty or that the problem will go away, is most go along with the regime and therefore the regime flourishes - no matter how crazy this regime is!

"First They Came For"....... by Reverend Martin Niemoeller

"In Germany, the Nazis first came for the communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then the came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics, but I didn't speak up because I was a protestant. Then they came for me, and by that time there was no one left to speak for me."

Reverend Niemoeller, a German Lutheran pastor, was arrested by the Gestapo and sent to Dachau in 1938. He was freed by the allied forces in 1945.

There are matters which the NSW state politicians should be addressing such as the behaviour of the solicitors and barristers which were engaged.  The fact that the national manufacturing ($80 million per annum) for the invention could be located in this state and NSW politicians have failed to take any interest in securing this work is another thing.  I tell people that the Illawarra region is penalised because it is unlikely that BHP (Billiton) would choose to manufacture anywhere near myself and as I do not plan to leave therefore the Illawarra is penalised!


To me this whole mess is about whether or not the Australian population accepts what has happened.  I tell people that if a murder is committed and the relevant authorities do nothing and the electorate does nothing also when there is an obvious perpetrator then the electorate therefore accepts murder as the standard!  I'm not talking about a lynching party though - I'm talking about taking an interest in matters of community concern and letting the politicians know about your concern(s).

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