Election by Deception - the lunatics are in charge of the asylum, part one.

A Judge recently ruled that Carterton Mayor and local bully Gary McPhee had no authority to evict me from a Council meeting. For asking for the return of my electoral deposit (which the thieving bully is refusing to refund), among other things, including the long called for inquiry into the illegal takeover, mismanagement and closure of the former Carterton Community Centre by a group comprising mainly ). It is ridiculous that some academic in Auckland (or anyone else for that matter) thinks that Carterton's last local body election was democratic, or even legal.

Firstly, Gary McGoofy's idea of a democratic election involves making sure that only half the town can vote for any one candidate in the first place, by refusing to have an "at large" ward. Carterton only has an a rural ward and an urban ward, unlike most places which have an 'at large' ward enabling any person in the electorate to vote for a candidate, unlike the other two. So only the voters in the rural ward could vote for me, but there wasn’t much chance of that anyway, because McGoofy made sure they were sent the candidate information for the Central Otago elections instead. I understand this ward system may have been illegal, it's been recently changed (after publication of this blog, following all my correspondence being fobbed off) and the Carterton District Council now intends having eight at large ward seats instead of five urban and three rural. Another win for Transparency NZ!

Secondly, McGoofy’s corrupt Council decided to appoint a private company from Christchurch to run the Carterton elections. This company distributed the candidate information for the Central Otago elections to the voters of Carterton. TV3 rang and asked to interview me about it on the news, it was good little clip. TV3 knows a scandal when they see it.  This video clip has now disappeared from the TV3 website, both the video and photograph, news manager Gordon McBride says it can't be reposted on the site because it's in a different format or some such excuse, I don't believe that for one minute. Mr McBride has been openly hostile on previous occasions when we've attempted to discuss other serious matters with him, such as the ongoing scandal regarding hundreds of child abuse files police threw away and lied about, and the corrupt inquiry into that matter which has seen the ringleaders promoted, and the Det Sgt, Mark McHattie, who threw the files away and lied "hand on my heart" about it, was never even spoken to by anyone associated with conducting the inquiry!  - A matter which Georgina Beyer, Gary McPhee, Ron Mark, and John Hayes have all refused to even acknowledge, let alone express any concern over.

Thirdly, that very same incompetent private company who sent the voters the candidate profiles for the Central Otago electorate was then employed by McPhee and his corrupt Council to count the votes, and they decided to count them in Christchurch, a decision which prevented at least fifty per cent of the mayoral candidates having a scrutineer present, because we lacked the financial resources to send our scrutineer to Christchurch and accommodate them there for the duration of the process, pay for transportation, refreshments, etc. And why should we indeed! It is outrageous to count the votes in Christchurch using a company which has already demonstrated extreme and totally unacceptable incompetence. Why should candidates be forced to pay for travel to Christchurch, accommodation, meals, etc, if they want to have a scrutineer oversee the counting of the votes? This is just outrageous. The votes should have been counted in Carterton like they have been for every election in living memory!

Fourthly, it is an insult to democracy and a travesty of justice that McPhee was able to stand in the first place. His much publicised boast on the front page of the local paper (half way down the page at that link) about the drunken home invasion and assault on the innocent occupants of a local flat amounted to a confession of an extremely serious crime, and established a clear prima facie case against him and his accomplice. This accomplice, who also worked for the Council, left town soon after, but the Council is still riddled with corruption.

Ron Mark is simply continuing to try and cover it up and protect the offenders, and join in the pigfest himself.

It is completely unacceptable that the police continue to refuse to charge Gary McPhee and his accomplice with the violent attack. This was a vicious, violent, unprovoked attack on harmless people who were minding their own business, cooking their dinner, and not bothering anybody, when Gary McPhee and fellow Council officer Chris Keegan smashed their way drunkenly into their home and assaulted them with a weapon. One of the occupants had only got out of hospital the day before after suffering a stroke, and either one of the drunken bullies would have weighed more than all of the occupants put together.  McPhee later made up a story about a noise complaint - no evidence of any such complaint exists, it appears to have been nothing more than a comment from one of his drinking buddies.  Besides which, neither Gary McPhee OR Chris Keegan was ever the noise control officer.

Gary McPhee has a history of violent offending. Shortly after I arrived in Carterton he turned up at my home on his Harley soliciting votes for his mayoral campaign. I asked him why I should vote for him rather than any of the other candidates and he proceeded to boast about how he had recently been drinking in a local pub when some ‘trouble’ arose, and so he roared home on his Harley and got a big sword, roared back to the pub, and attacked one of the patrons, another harmless, light hearted fellow who weighed less than half what McPhee weighed, and smashed all the glasses off the bar and threatened all the patrons. I thought he was mad, and dangerous, and that anyone who voted for him must be completely mad too - I couldn't believe he was serious about standing, he seemed to be a lunatic. Turns out the ‘trouble’ was caused by McGoofy anyway, wearing a ladies kilt to the local pub and carrying on like an idiot. Nobody in their right mind believes either Gary McPhee OR Georgina Beyer (Beyer the Liar) was ever lawfully elected!

It needs to be clarified that Gary McPhee's brother Greg McPhee, who has a very similar name, stood for a position on the Wellington City Council, he is a completely different person, a fine upstanding citizen, a good husband, father and community role model, a professional firefighter, it's important not to confuse the two.

Gary and the local journalists made vague slanderous and misleading allegations against the victims of his drunken, violent home invasion, which the police endorsed, saying that "the flat had been the subject of police inquiries for some time." - what the hell does that mean?  

This bears remarkable similarities to the home invasion committed on 11th February 2009 at 13 Brooklyn Road, also involving Gary McPhee, and also characterised by refusal of the police to take any action against the violent offenders, and instead pursue a slanderous and defamatory character assassination of the victim, and a cover up of the crime and refusal to charge the offender.   Gary McPhee has a long, and well documented history of violent offending, and the victims are always tiny little people, often women.

Council employees, electoral ‘officers’ Julie Hallam and Milan Hautler have refused to refund my election deposit of $400 and trespassed me from every Council building in town to try and prevent me accessing resources and sharing information about McGoofy and the corrupt Council.

Julie Hallam’s involvement in these matters is legendary. She and fellow Carterton District Councillors Elaine Brazendale, Jill Greathead and Ruth Carter (and local nit wit Rob Harris, who has been branded “unethical“ by several universities - Wairarapa Times-Age 23 June 2003 - “Ethics concern in edit service” by Lisa McCauley), “trustees” of the Ron Wakelin Health Centre Trust which housed the Centre, ordered Council community recreation manager Jerry Rotman to change the locks of the Carterton Community Centre in order to illegally seize the funds and assets, and financial and legal records, of the former Carterton Community Centre. Link to those records on this site, under the heading Financial Literacy 101 at the top of the page, Hallam then perverted the course of justice by advising the police and New Zealand Post that members of the Group she was involved with who were purporting dishonestly to be the committee, when they were never legally elected and were guilty of serious fraud etc, were not acting ultra vires as was the case, as confirmed by letters from several lawyers and police which are on this site also, and that they had lawful authority over the affairs of the Carterton Community Centre. She specifically endorsed John Crawford, Community Centre administrator Bev Thomas and fellow District Council employee Martyn Preece, knowing full well that Preece had left his wife and family and shacked up with Bev Thomas and her sister, and that Bev Thomas was guilty of gross incompetence at the very least and serious corruption and theft, most likely. All three left the country shortly after for a bit of an overseas holiday, honeymoon etc. Hallam specifically endorsed the theft of the mail and lied regarding who had lawful authority to access the Post Office mail box, and the lock on the Post Office box was illegally changed to facilitate the theft of the mail to conceal the extent of the fraud and mismanagement. The Postmaster should be charged with theft of the mail and it is outrageous he never has been!

Fellow Council employee Ewen Hyde then appointed himself Head Librarian of the Carterton Facility Focus Group and promptly got hold of lots of funding money to go on a big trip around the country conducting a feasibility study into whether we should build a new community “facility” and what it should be like. There was public outcry regarding his self appointment (Wairarapa Times-Age “Chairman under fire”) There were also two substantial community petitions against this Event Centre.

This is like something out of Monty Python or Alice in Wonderland! The local paper published seriously misleading information in the statement of District Councillor and Community Centre Committee member and Facility Focus Group member and Ron Wakelin Trust member Elaine Brazendale, that Council librarian Ewen Hyde’s “election” was democratic - of course it wasn’t, the meeting was not advertised, and not open to the public, like lots of the so called ‘community’ meetings in Carterton, there‘s nothing democratic about that whatsoever!

On 18th April 2001, at the last legally held meeting of the Carterton Community Centre, a motion was passed calling for the affairs of the Centre to be audited because there were matters of serious concern to the members, and to the funders.

The books have never been audited, for very good reason, because the Community Centre was operating mainly as a trough of free money for the people running it. There was evidence of two large “personal grievance” payments made with no authority or justification - at least one of these payments was in the order of ten times what would have been awarded by the Employment Tribunal if the matter had even gone before the Tribunal (let alone been awarded) which it hadn’t. The payment of over $11,000 in cash and assets was made on a purely arbitrary basis, and against legal advice (the good advice of Ivan Young Gough, lawyer, which cost several hundred dollars). Several other lawyers have also written letters to the police, etc, regarding these matters, all supportive of my allegations except for the corrupt lawyers at Wollerman Cooke and McClure, whose complaint to the police about me was not upheld in any way. The police have consistently refused to acknowledge my own complaints or those of many other people in the community. A bit like how the Board of Trustees of the South End School have ignored the many complaints it’s received regarding the letter sacking me because of the lie that I have been charged with any offence involving a child, which I have not, as I‘ve told them repeatedly.

There has been a corrupt cover up of the fraud and mismanagement at the former Carterton Community Centre, and what can only be described as a witch hunt and a campaign of corruption and lies against me, and there is widespread support in the community for a full inquiry into these matters, it is well overdue.

There is no support for the proposed ‘community facility’, or for the “Heart of Carterton Trust”, formed to bulldoze the plans through regardless of public opinion. This so called ‘Trust’ is made up of slippery slimy lawyers and people who don’t even live in Carterton in the case of the supermarket owner - and given the public scandal when the previous supermarket owner’s wife ran off with a boy from the vegetable department about a third her age, being the local supermarket owner does not automatically confer any respectability or public standing. This is a community facility apparently, the community didn’t elect these people, they were appointed by the corrupt Council.

The vast majority of people in Carterton, and every single one of the well informed members of the community, do not want a “facility” they want an inquiry into the illegal takeover and closure of our Community Centre and the involvement of people associated with or employed by the District Council, major funder of the Centre.  That's why they signed the petition saying that.

Perhaps it’s a good time to remember the words of Neil Roberts, written on the wall of the Wanganui Police Computer Centre: “We are maintaining a silence closely resembling stupidity.”

In spite of two substantial community petitions against the $6 million "Event Centre" and well documented overwhelming negative response from the community, the Centre was built, by "professional politicians" like Gary McPhee, Georgina Beyer and Ron Mark, and the first thing they did was put on an R16 production of "The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas." Oh, and suddenly conjure up several thousand dollars for it which should have gone to the Phoenix Theatre. Watch this post, plenty of links will be added soon.

Police breach Privacy Act and slander innocent Community Worker

On the left is a copy of an article which appeared on the front page of the Dominion in August 2008 describing the arrogance with which the local police flout the very laws they are paid to enforce, by 'sharing information' with all the unprofessional people running the local 'community organisations'. on the right is a letter to me from the Board of Trustees of the South End School in Carterton, which says:

"The Board of Trustees were distressed to hear of you recently being charged by the police. Whereas your previous court incidents did not have any risk the present one involves a child. This does present a risk and therefore a problem for the Board.

With this charge over you the Board requests that you stop your work in the school gardens.

Should you be found guilty of the charge the Board could not permit you to resume your work in the school garden.

As a Board we hope that either the charges are withdrawn or you are found not guilty as this would remove our problem. We appreciate the work and enthusiasm that you bring to the school garden and hope that we can be in a position to resume this work in the near future. [signed] Gavin Kennedy, BOT Charman"

As I've told everyone from the moment I heard of this preposterous allegation, there never WERE an charges involving a child, and I have been acquitted of any other charges which were not withdrawn. Rod O'Leary never turned up for Court and should be charged with wasting police time and making a false complaint. He didn't turn up because if he had repeated what he said in his complaint under oath he would be guilty of perjury as he well knows.

I was wrongfully sacked from my job as Boarding Matron at St Matthews College in Masterton too after the police rang the principal twice to complain about "Mrs Raue's behaviour and manner in dealing with matters in the community", referring to publicity in the newspaper about the petition I started, calling for an inquiry into the allegations regarding the illegal takeover, mismangement and closure of the former Carterton Community Centre, and calling for the affairs of the Centre to be investigated and audited by a lawyer and an accountant. There is nothing wrong with that. The principal of St Matthews made notes of these conversations, they will be uploaded shortly, and the records which the Ombudsmen ordered the school to release showed that there were NO complaints from anyone else, or matters of concern even. Police refused to charge anyone regarding the blatant fraud and other offences, home invasions, etc, but they were worrying about a petition calling for an inquiry into the Carterton Community Centre - why? Because local 'artist' Jo Roffe was creaming wages of over six hundred dollars a week through the Centre, using it as the 'funding umbrella', for her part time disaster of a craft course for at risk youth, and having it off with Constable Steve Wakefield, who was and still is famous for his sleazy corrupt behaviour, taking advantage of vulnerable women. His son, Constable Mike Wakefield is not much better, just as corrupt but maybe not so sleazy. They used to write letters in support of her funding applications ;)

Shortly before the takeover of the Carterton Community Centre, in October 2000, the committee of the Carterton Community Centre, who were nearly all associated with the Carterton District Council - major funder of the centre - conflicts of interest all over the place - attempted to close the Community Gardens, because they had committed the fraud involving the fake 'personal grievance' - which I can talk about with impunity because it never went anywhere near the Employment Tribunal, the committee just decided to gift one of their mates eleven thousand dollars, which they stole and defrauded from the bank accounts of several other organisations that they had access to and signing authority on, and then they could'nt get any more funding because we wrote to the funders and showed them the indisputable evidence.

Mainstream media reported on whether Solitaire Robertson was Adrienne Staples illegitimate daughter, deeming that to be in the public interest, but they won't investigate whether Mrs Staples is related to Helen Staples the recipient of this fraudulent payment.

A friend and I formed an organisation called Friends of the Carterton Community Gardens and proposed to the committee that our organisation take over the Community Gardens and run them voluntarily. This was refused, but after publicity in the local newspaper, the committee gifted the Gardens, and “everything on the site” to Oasis 'Trust', a Masterton based church, apparently founded and run by local cult leader, Masterton District Councillor and ex policeman Jonathon Hooker.

Oasis made it clear from the start that they didn't want anything to do with our Gardens, and their own Gardens consisted solely of a small plot at Jonathon Hookers house and another small plot at the home of Oasis's administration manager, gardens which certainly did not benefit the community, they benefited the Hooker family (any "community garden" should have been on the land his trust owned in Lincoln Rd, where the poor people could access it!. They promised to apply for funding and “act as an umbrella for funding purposes” if our organisation did all the work at the Gardens.

So Friends of the Gardens took over the running of the Gardens, with great success. For the next few years we worked hard to develp the site, an old rubbish dump, which had been condemned by the Council years earlier as unfit for use due to the state of the section. We weeded and dug, planted seeds and cuttings and grew heaps of vegetables which we provided to people in need, we also assisted many local people to complete Court ordered community work sentences, and used this opportunity to interact construtively with those people and assist them into jobs, drug treatment programs, and generally improve their lives and improve their relationships with the community. We achieved enormous success in the area of attitude adjustment, gardening does that, it strengthens families, keeps people busy, and improves their self esteem. We helped people realise that they actually liked working. There were apple trees, grape vines, a lemon tree, a feijoa tree, and plum trees, including one that had the biggest reddest most delicious plums imaginable.

We helped people establish gardens at their own homes, and provided ongoing support, after they finished their community hours. We've been doing this ever since, and the benefits to the community cannot be overstated. Attitude adjustment results in a new outlook, new view of life, new goals, new habits. Give me the boy till he's seven and I'll give you the man the Jesuits say, well give us the wounded, the scarred, the wayward, and in 40 hours or so we'll give you a way better person. Give us the children during the holidays and we'll give you better young people when they go back to school.

In about 2006 the Council drove a digger through all our vegetables and smashed a row of new fruit trees we'd planted and changed the lock on the gate later granting grazing rights -for free - to one of their mates, the brother of the Council officer who accompanied disgraced ex Mayor Gary McPhee on his drunken home invasion, he put sheep in and the Council cut down all the fruit trees, the grape vine, ripped out all our edible plants and replaced our garden with a bleak, unimaginative, uninviting "Passive recreation reserve" - nobody goes there, it's horrible.

We simply continued the Gardens at the property I rented up the road, a farm house owned by Mr Tubby Rose, bless his soul. Friends of the Gardens are indebted to Mr Rose and his family for their kindness and support over many years. They made it possible for us to raise chickens and keep horses, hawks, fish, and other animals, and grow a reasonable quantity of fruit and vegetables, which we used to achieve great results with troubled young people in particular, and to teach relationship skills, trust, courage, risk management and many other useful skills, as well as continue our conventional work in the Gardens. Mr Rose had put goldfish in the cattle trough years ago and visitors to the Gardens used to greatly enjoy feeding the fishes and the hawk and chickens and other animals, especially children. Older people used to also enjoy coming to the community garden at Rose Farm. We taught cooking and preserving, quality, marketable arts and crafts, music (if neighbours in town complained about students of the drums they used to bring their drums out to the farm where we didn't have neighbours), and all sorts of other things, useful life skills, work skills.

Sadly Mr Rose passed away peacefully on the morning of Christmas Eve 2000, in his 90th year, and the farm was eventually sold.

Friends of the Gardens then approached the principal of South End School, Mr Rod O'Leary, and asked if we could establish and develop a Garden at the school with the children. Mr O'Leary was very supportive, and for over twelve months I worked hard to develop a vegetable garden with the children, adjacent to the swimming pool. We also weeded and planted the beds outside the school gates, and around the office block and planted many fruit trees. We liaised with two teachers in particular and worked with a group of children on Wednesday afternoons in the gardens. The sessions were really popular with the children, who worked hard to plant and grow a variety of vegetables, a peach orchard, etc, and thoroughly enjoyed it.

Suddenly, I received the attached letter from Mr Gavin Kennedy on behalf of the Board of Trustees.

I was shocked and distressed to put it mildly, because I'd received a visit from the Deputy Principal a few weeks beforehand to tell me that the police had informed the Board of Trustees of this allegation and that I would be receiving the letter, at which point - PRIOR to actually receiving the letter(!) - I immediately told her I had definitely never ever been charged with any such offence, and expected that to be the first and last thing I would ever hear about the ridiculous allegation - especially after I'd made it perfectly clear to the Deputy Principal, Dallas Powell, that I had never been charged with any such thing in my life, let alone recently.

Immediately after receiving the letter I met with the principal to discuss the matter and inform him that I certainly had not been charged with any such offence involving a child, either recently, or ever for that matter. The meeting was perfectly pleasant and civil because I had always had a very good relationship with all the staff at the school, including Mr O'Leary, as typified by the social call from Dallas Powell to discuss her concerns about the actions of the police and the Board in the first place - she couldn't believe it any more than I could.

I asked for an immediate meeting with the Board of Trustees to discuss the matter, and copies of all information regarding the matter, particularly the source of the false allegation. The Board has continued to refuse to communicate with me at all regarding this matter, but has since made matters much worse.

At one stage a Statutory Manager was appointed, he didn't meet with me either, because I was accused of being delusional for allegedly imagining that Rod O'Leary's new car was somehow a payoff for corruption - according to 'Dr' Brenda Sally Rimkeit. There is a clear link between these events and a violent attack on me in my home on 11 February 2009 by Michael Francis Murphy and another person. Evidence such as text messages, the Mayoral Diary, police documents, witness statements, it all stacks up into a mountain of evidence that there HAS been corruption, which is ongoing and worsening, but that it had very little if anything to do with Rod O'Leary's car. If anyone is delusional it is whoever made up the allegation that I had been recently charged by the police with an offence involving a child! And Constable Peter Cletus Cunningham, who has written an Offence Report regarding the attack which is an orchestrated litany of fabrication and fiction, waffling on for the first five pages about what some woman was cooking for tea and some soap opera script of some conversation that didn't happen at some completely different address, then goes on about some 'incident' - non specified, ALLEGED 'incident', at the supermarket - which also didn't happen. because I requested the camera footage like I did the time Murphy threatened and abused me in front of a local real estate agent in there on another occasion and it was subsequently deleted and the request refused.

Unfortunately, the matter of the South End School has still not been resolved, and it needs sorting out because we can't put up with bullying in schools and especially not bullies running schools.

The letter sent to me clearly states: "

As a Board we hope that either the charges are withdrawn or you are found not guilty as this would remove our problem. We appreciate the work and enthusiasm that you bring to the school garden and hope that we can be in a position to resume this work in the near future. [signed] Gavin Kennedy, BOT Charman"

This is the remedy I seek.

It is required to make up in some small way for the damage done to my reputation, humiliation and hurt, loss of standing in the community, disapproval and censure of others in the community - there's nothing worse that being charged with child abuse round here, we've got a very big problem with it involving the police, the IPCA, and the government.

There is no evidence whatsoever to support any allegations of any alleged 'incidents' at all, according to the information released under the Privacy Act, the school has admitted it.

The allegations of Rod O'Leary that I called him a thieving crook, amounted to wasting police time, which is why he didn't turn up to Court, because I was waiting for him with a Summons! The charge brought by Rod O'Leary was dismissed, there never was any "charge involving a child", I've been acquitted of 99% of the charges brought against me by local police since 2004 (Bill Sticking, for advertising a public meeting to discuss the takeover and closure of the Carterton Community Centre and the lawyers letters about the fraud, the evidence of it, etc, a civil matter and nothing to do with police), and I had virtually nothing to do with police prior to suffering the misfortune of coming to Carterton, the Crown failed to front up with any evidence, and wrote an equally fanciful work of fiction to try and explain it away - an absolutely laughable attempt if it wasn't for the fact that it is tax payer funded corruption, and we've got bullies and liars running schools and teaching kids, and setting that kind of example.

In Wairarapa we regularly have double the national rate of suicide, this is a country with some of the highest rates in the world, and this is why. We need those gardens, our communities need them, our children need them. Our staff are properly trained and work with reputable community organisations, with tangible and visible results, to achieve our mutual goals and help children and others in the community reach their full potential through our community gardens and school gardens.

A witness and went to the garden I established at the school and found it in a state of abandonment, as it was all throughout the school holidays, nobody attended it, or harvested what pitiful specimens the birds didn't get. The compost bin clearly had not been used, like other donated equipment like the water tanks and related equipment as confirmed by an email from Ms Powell, we compared the photos of the gardens prior to me receiving the letter with the current state of affairs, and the other information released by order of the Ombudsmen relating to the recent funding granted to the school, which has clearly been wasted and misappropriated, because the evidence speaks for itself!

The Board of Trustees of the South End School needs to honour their letter to me:

"As a Board we hope that either the charges are withdrawn or you are found not guilty as this would remove our problem. We appreciate the work and enthusiasm that you bring to the school garden and hope that we can be in a position to resume this work in the near future. [signed] Gavin Kennedy, BOT Charman"

This makes a mockery of the claim that "Raue's manner caused concern among some staff and attempts to sever ties with her were made" or whatever Rod O'Leary's statement said - which confirms that his statement to police was an attempt to pervert the course of justice. He knows this perfectly well, his girlfriend is a lawyer. which has perhaps got something to do with his three recent heart attacks and his sudden retirement. He knows perfectly well I never told him I'd been charged with an offence involving a child or anything like it - he knows perfectly well that the story was cooked up at one of these little "information sharing sessions" the Area Commander boasts about! This is nothing more than a witch hunt and it has to stop!

Unfortunately, it doesn't stop there, it get's worse. There is the matter of the school secretary, who had to apologise to a young student for saying to her "you're just a lying little bitch".

Then there is the matter of the letters to and from the groundsman, very similar to the letter sent to me. This man is also the ex manager of the community gardens, and a decent and honourable person. The letter was given to a friend of mine by her son, who had been given it at school - a total breach of the poor man's privacy and of the Privacy Act! The man feels he, like me, was unjustifiably dismissed and humiliated and generally treated appallingly by the Board and staff of the South End School!

That was bad enough, but it get's even worse: I delivered the letters to the groundsman, and told him of the breach of privacy, and an apology was requested from the school, whereupon Emily Brown of the Board of Trustees took it upon herself to make a visit to the home of a friend of mine while I was visiting there and launch a verbal attack on me in front of my friend. I had asked Emily to please convey to the Board my request for a meeting as requested in my letter to them which had been ignored like the previous requests, but instead of responding to the requests she launched into a nasty verbal attack on me in front of my friend, accusing me of being a thief who had stolen the letters about the groundsman out of her letterbox (delusional and in denial - I told the school how I came by them and the witness will confirm it - the school simply needs to face up to it). Emily Brown then, after falsely accusing me of being a thief, said she had called the police and the mental health service about me. I asked her why she had done that, she had no explanation, and it seemed to me that she was the one in need of their assistance, not me. I don't steal things out of letterboxes (or anywhere else) and I'm not delusional, or in any way defective mentally, as has been recently confirmed by experts in the field.

Emily's mother committed suicide some time ago and her brother did the same more recently, she left her husband recently after having an affair with her husbands friend and the coach of her son's soccer team, the break up was messy and involved the police and violence, and she is not a fit and proper person to be on the Board on the basis of her behaviour at my friend's house alone! She went on and on, right in front of my friend, with all this rubbish. The police confirm that she made this false complaint to them in spite of me offering to disclose the name of the witness to the Chairperson of the Board of Trustees! The police wisely ignored it, but unwisely, and corruptly, conspired to have me locked up for a while during their failed attempt to corruptly prosecute me for perverting the course of justice, etc, which the corrupt psychiatrist tried to justify with some ridiculous fairy story about the Principal of the South End School. The evidence of the conspiracy is totally indisputable which is why expert psychiatrists stated that I was "not suffering from any mental illness whatsoever and in particular, not suffering from the onset of paranoid delusions."

As a great kiwi icon once said, "It's the putting right that counts." The Board of Trustees needs to put this right and admit that the allegations made about me are without basis and honour the letter they sent me. And that's just the start of the putting right that needs to be done.

Financial Reports, Community Gardens: Beyer resigned for covering this up.

These are the financial reports of the Carterton Community Gardens.  It can be seen that there was the April Fool audit in April, then in May there was a payment of $6000 cash from this account, which lawyer Ken Daniels relates to the grant from the Tindall Foundation.  Then note that over $5000 of income is accounted for as "Miscellaneous", in June, August and September  these were the payments from the accounts of the other groups referred to in the documents below.

The Minutes of the Carterton Community Centre show that money was stolen from several bank accounts, several different organisations which held no liability for the personal grievance whatsoever.  That's fraud.  There is further information about these transactions on these sites and it is indisputable evidence of fraud, incompetence and corruption.  Georgina Beyer was forced to resign from parliament for her part in it.

More evidence of the book keeping regarding this matter:

This was apparently a regular occurrence:

Neither of these matters went anywhere near the Employment Tribunal, the committee just decided to pay them, after holding secret meetings.  Tony Feinson, Chairperson, punched me in the face in the office of the Carterton Community Centre and he and a small group of people changed the locks and took over the Centre illegally.  At a public meeting on 18th April 2001, on this site, a motion was passed that the affairs of the Centre were to be audited.  The group refused to appoint an auditor or to forward the information to the auditor mentioned in the minutes of one of their meetings, R G Thompson.

And all this is what Georgina Beyer corruptly tried to cover up.  Beyer had to resign from parliament in disgrace and has never been able to get a job since - or hold one down for longer than six weeks or something (in the case of the recent stint at Michael Hill).

More Blatant Lies from South End School and Privacy Commission:

Here's the latest lies cooked up by the staff and Board of Trustees of the South End School in Carterton, and condoned by Dawn Swan, the 'investigator' at the Privacy Commission.  The original article about these matters is under the heading "South End School Shame - What they're teaching kids in Carterton these days"

at this link.

Aren't you ashamed of these blatant lies Rod O'Leary, Gavin Kennedy, and you others?  You should be, I set up a Garden for the children, and an orchard, I didn't get any funding.  I worked at the school every week, teaching the children, and the letter from the Board was a deliberate lie, because you had obtained funding on the back of the work I did, and wanted to take over everything I had worked for, and slander me as well, for political purposes.

Rod, you should resign before you have another heart attack, you know perfectly well that I am telling the truth and you are deliberately lying.

Here is the orchestrated litany of lies received at 11:57 on 25th March 2010:

Dear Ms Raue

I refer to previous correspondence concerning your complaint that the South End School has not provided you with personal information as requested.

I have now had a response from the School. It advises that the only personal information it holds about you comprises emails you have sent; a supporting letter the principal Rod O'Leary wrote on your behalf on 9 November 2006; a letter from the Board of Trustees dated 25 March 2009 explaining its concern over an incident; and a copy of an incident report sent to Carterton Police on 5 February 2010.

As you sent the emails to the School you will have copies already. You also have a copy of the Board of Trustees letter as you have provided us with a copy.

The School says that you also have a copy of the supporting letter and received a copy of its complaint (or incident report) to the Police during the court process. As such, it does not have to provide this information to you again. If you have not received this information please let me know.

As I have told you previously, you are not entitled to information about the school garden under the Privacy Act as this is not 'personal information' for the purposes of the Act.

The School has also told me that it did not collect any information about you from the Police. I understand you had a meeting with Mr O'Leary at which you told him about being charged by the Police, and which is also referred to in the Board of Trustees letter. As you disclosed this information to the School, and it did not collect any further information gathered from Police, there is no privacy issue for us to investigate.

You are welcome to provide your comments which I would appreciate receiving by 9 April.

Regards

Dawn Swan | Team Leader, Investigations (Wellington) | Office of the Privacy Commissioner | PO Box 10094 | Wellington 6143 

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At 14.20 on 25th March 2010 I wrote:

Diane Swan:

The penultimate paragraph of your letter in particular, is an orchestrated litany of lies.
I didn't disclose any information to Rod O'Leary.
No such information existed.
There was no such meeting.
The first I knew of any allegations of me being charged by the police was when I was warned by a senior staff member that I would be receiving a letter from the Board, sacking me from my job because of an allegation that I had been charged by the police - which I had not been, which makes a mockery of your letter claiming I disclosed something that had not happened.
There is no evidence of any such meeting, and if there had been, O'Leary was obliged to make notes, because of the seriousness of the allegations, so where are they?
On what date was this meeting alleged to have taken place and where is any evidence of it?
Katherine Raue

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The above message was resent five days letter - there has still been no response._________________________________________________________________

On 1st April 2010 Diane Swan wrote:

Dear Ms Raue

When I contacted you on 25 March I set out information which the school held about you.

I also asked whether you had received:

- a copy of a supporting letter Mr O'Leary wrote on your behalf on 9 November 2006; and

- a copy of the school's complaint to Police. The school said you would have received this as part of the court process.

You have not yet responded to these questions. Please let me know as soon as possible if you have copies of this information.

Regards

Dawn Swan

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I responded:

AND I TOLD YOU THAT THE SCHOOL HAD RECEIVED SEVERAL LETTERS OF COMPLAINT FROM PARENTS ABOUT THE TREATMENT OF ME, AND THAT I WANT THEM PROVIDED IMMEDIATELY BECAUSE THE SCHOOL IS DISHONESTLY PRETENDING THEY DON'T EXIST.

I REQUESTED THE INFORMATION FROM THE SCHOOL AND THE SCHOOL IS OBLIGED TO PROVIDE IT, INCLUDING THE COMPLAINT TO THE POLICE.  IT IS OVERDUE, PROVIDE IT IMMEDIATELY - THE FACT THAT i MIGHT GET IT AS PART OF THE COURT PROCESS IS IRRELEVANT I REQUESTED IT FROM THE SCHOOL AND THEY HAVE AN OBLIGATION TO PROVIDE IT - SO PROVIDE THE TWO PIECES OF INFORMATION REFERRED TO IN YOUR EMAIL, AND THE COMPLAINT TO POLICE IMMEDIATELY, ALONG WITH AN EXPLANATION FOR WHY THE SCHOOL'S REPRESENTATIVE IS LYING AND TRYING TO CONCEAL THE COMPLAINTS FROM THE PARENTS ABOUT THE ACTIONS TAKEN BY THE BOARD AND STAFF AGAINST ME.

FORWARD THIS TO THE OMBUDSMEN IMMEDIATELY AS A FORMAL COMPLAINT ABOUT THE SCHOOL REFUSING TO ACKNOWLEDGE THE PARENTS COMPLAINTS IN SUPPORT OF ME. 

Katherine Raue

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Then I wrote:

Open letter to Dawn Swan, Ombudsmen, John Key, Anne Tolley

To recap:

1. Deputy Principal Dallas Powell came to my home in early 2009 and told me that she had seen written notes made by the staff representative on the BoT referring to the allegation that I had been charged by the police by an offence involving a child, and that the allegation was being discussed at the school.
2. These written notes are information about me which the school is trying to conceal, along with the complaints from the parents about the actions of the Board and staff.  
3. This was the first time I became aware of the allegation.
4. I immediately asked for my request to meet with the BoT and the Principal to be passed on.
5. I immediately told the Deputy Principal the allegation was untrue - weeks before the letter was even written.
6. I went to the school immediately after receiving the letter, made an appointment with the Principal, and again made it very clear that the allegation in the letter was untrue. 
7. Dawn Swan, like Tara Sewell at Police National HQ, is being paid a lot of tax payers money to TELL LIES to cover up gross misfeasance.  She's talking rubbish, there's nothing in the letter from the BoT about any meeting with me because there never was one!
8. The cover-ups by Dawn Swan and Tara Sewell are enabling bullies and manipulative liars access to positions of influence in our schools.  
9. Principal Rod O'Leary is lying to the Privacy Commission now.  The meeting was a result of the letter, not the cause of it - what lies, no wonder O'Leary has so many heart attacks, it's a wonder lighning doesn't strike him down - the most overlooked commandment (for the religiously inclined) is YOU SHALL NOT BEAR FALSE WITNESS AGAINST YOUR NEIGHBOUR.
10. Tell the truth Rod, and Dallas, these lies are pathetic.
11. The Mayoral Diary for January and February 2009 (will be up soon), and the abusive text messages on my phone, show that McPhee met with Murphy, came to my home and intimidated and bullied me more than once for no reason,and days before Murphy returned and smashed the door in and assaulted me.
12. It shows clearly the meetings at the same time with police and Rod O'Leary,  
13. I have seen copies of some of the recent letters from parents, protesting and complaining about the letter sent to me from the Board, and the refusal to acknowledge the existence of these letters is a blatant attempt to lie to the Office of the Privacy Commissioner.
14. I cannot access documents because of the corruption of the local police regarding my illegal eviction, and bail address, etc, and request copies of all the information.  
15. This would not be necessary if O'Leary and Kennedy were honest, but they are not, and should not be running a school.  It is imperative that the Board is removed immediately for the safety and well being of the children.  
16. A local District Court Judge recently highlighted the huge backlog of uninvestigated child abuse allegations n the Wairarapa.  One of these is the one I made, which is very closely related to the false allegation spread by the BoT and staff and police, for that reason it is important that there is a full and open investigation into these matters immediately, because there are children in our community who are at risk, while this absolutely corrupt and incompetent cover up by Dawn Swan, Tara Sewell and other incompetent and corrupt public servants is encouraged.
17. Deputy Principal Dallas Powell has apparently taken a year off rather than face all the people who want to know if what I am saying is true - she knows it is, and will be subpoenaed in Court, along with O'Leary, to give a character reference for well known local criminal Aaron Brook later this year when I face the corruptly laid charges of perverting the course of justice and escaping custody.
18. Just like to remind everyone that the matters referred to in the previous paragraph were set down before Judge Behrens on 8th December last, I was threatened by Michael Murphy in the supermarket and the police refuse to do anything about it, saying he was allowed because he was anxious for the hearing to go ahead and thought I might not turn up and would "waste everyone's time."
19. The police, and Murphy, were the ones who didn't turn up, applying for leave 2 working days before the trial - WASTING TAX PAYERS MONEY YET AGAIN - because they know Judge Behrens isn't corrupt like Judges Susan Thomas or Bruce Davidson (I left Ronald Young out because I think he got the wrong end of the stick from old Appleby, I wasn't there, and am STILL waiting for the transcript, which Appleby won't give me).

Deterioration of Police Standards Plagues New Zealand Force

Headlines in the Wairarapa Times-Age on May 19th and 20th 2010 read:


19th:  NATIONAL SHAME: CORE POLICE SYSTEM UNRELIABLE
          CHILD ABUSE DEBACLE.


 20th: CHILD ABUSE DEBACLE 
          Top Cop: I have no reason to resign


Police in the Wairarapa are corrupt from the top down, and huge amounts of money are wasted every day covering up corruption and incompetence while they cry our for more "resources".  Gary McPhee petitioned for a glorified tea lady at Carterton police station, Acacia Simpson, the little friend of Constable Cunningham, because Cunningham and McPhee said all victims of crime need is a shoulder to cry on and a cup of tea.  Tell that to all the victims of child abuse.  Police conspire with the media to further abuse victims and trumpet the virtue of the offenders, and making out that the offenders are the victims.


Here is an interesting article I just discovered hidden away on Kiwisfirst site (link below):


By Vince Seimer, MBA - on Kiwisfirst NZ's Top Independent News Website - 10 March 2008 

Less than a generation ago the New Zealand Police endeavoured to increase the quality of its ranks by recruiting more educated and morally conscious constables.  The impetus in thought was that moral and educated cops make moral and educated decisions.  The consequent recruit-marketing stressed honour, as well as pride in accomplishment.

The big problem with this plan was emphasizing the role of Police in promoting and maintaining a civilised and just society actually had new cadets believing this would be their objective.  Within a few years resultant friction developed within the organization as the idealistic crop of new cops began resisting unlawful orders from superiors and, in some cases, set about exposing their fellow cops and superiors for unlawful misconduct.  As a result, the New Zealand Police found itself in the throes of a significant morale problem.

We all want to believe that good conquers evil and that the new cops won the battle.  Unfortunately, the new cops did not have the power.  They were doomed.  Many resigned.  Others parked their ideals at the Station door and considered their job as merely the means toward a paycheque to fund life's more pleasurable purposes.
                                                                                                         
Fast track to the 21st century in New Zealand.

The year of Our Lord 2006 found the Police in the heat of a major new recruitment drive.  New Zealand First leader Winston Peters had used his influence as a coalition partner the Labour Party needed for a ruling majority after the 2005 election to negotiate an increase in existing corps numbers.  Cops from afar as England and South Africa were enticed as part of the world-wide recruiting, with the promise of a more laid-back lifestyle and more personally-rewarding beat.

Learning the lessons of 1990, the Police no longer sought to recruit educated and morally conscious recruits.  The marketing focus was now on being part of a team and being able to share with their mates over a beer all the intimate details of what a cop's daily life is like in New Zealand.  "Need Better Work Stories?" was the brilliant, brain-storming marketing ploy.  Certainly this would prove a winning formula.  Good work stories are not typically borne of 'honour' in a country where the public are largely law-abiding and the daily routine of a civilised people is considered mundane.  The new Police message would attract those individuals desperately wanting to experience the seemly part of life.

The result was the New Zealand Police made a conscious decision in 2006 to appeal to people of low self-esteem who have nothing better to do with their lives than tell stories about what happens in other people's lives.  The intrigue of now being able to tell what colour underwear a rape and murder victim was wearing when her body was found on the side of the road and how much sperm was found on her body was now being sanctioned as accepted practice within the New Zealand Police (Yes - you should be appalled by the telling of this Police work story).  Teamwork would prevail.  It was well-known that sharing work stories creates a certain camaraderie among the troops.  Hermann Goering built the entire Nazi Police force around such esprit de corps.  No longer would the Police of New Zealand have to concern themselves with new cops who were driven to protect the rule of law and expose corruption.  Better work stories could only be obtained in the gutter of life.  The message was clear.  Gossip was the new Coke.  The future of the 'Force' would be assured through the sworn allegiance of committed vagabonds.  

The important question yet to be answered in all this is how average law-abiding New Zealand Citizens will be forever changed by this fundamental shift in our national psyche.  Perhaps this would be less of a concern if the national news media were reporting the situation.  But they are not.  Think about it.  In the last year alone, scores of New Zealand Citizens have been targeted by the Police as terrorists and the public are additionally oblivious to the fact that, every day in New Zealand, a dozen search warrants are being executed on a hope and prayer that the Police will find something - anything - of value.  The New Zealand Courts have already ruled that a Police roadblock and search can result in an unrelated charge for items found in the search.

Of course, the honest folk have nothing to fear.  As law-abiding citizens, the vast majority take comfort that - no matter what the Police stop and search us for - we have nothing to hide.  Until we get stopped a couple times without provocation we tend to think nothing of it.  Many New Zealanders who initially felt this way have already paid a tremendous price.  Like citizens of pre-World War II Germany, we simply do not hear about these cases.  Moreover, we are led to believe that questioning our police force and Courts is an affront to our national pride.

The simple truth is that when Police looking for work stories know they have power over everyone else, they tend to exercise their wrath over people who they consider do not talk nice enough to them.  Lord Acton noted more than a hundred years ago "Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely".  If history has taught us nothing else it is that liberties are hard earned and easily lost.

Do we want a Police force whose paramount goal is to obtain better work stories?  These posters are all over town and on TV without any media questioning the troubling message.  But as we plan our weekends at the beach, Police ranks are filling and one thing is certain.  In the end, we will get nothing more than the Police force we demand.


- By Vince Seimer, MBA, on Kiwisfist - New Zealand's top Independent News Site, bringing us the real news, for free, for freedom.
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Now compare the damning IPCA report into systemic dysfunction and failure within the NZ Police regarding the huge backlog of uninvestigated child abuse cases, with the glowing picture of denial painted by the police themselves, the IPCA tells us things are black, and the Police issue a media release saying "Oh no, we are whiter than white."  


Other examples of this conspiracy with corrupt local journalists to spread blatant propaganda can be found at this link.


Area Commander Jack Johnston arrogantly gets to trumpet across the front page of the Wairarapa Times-Age that he is not going to resign following the damning report - just like that arrogant bully Gary McPhee gets to boast about his drunken home invasion and spread slander about his victims (Wairarapa Times Age 25 May 2005).


The insidious, corrupt, manipulative, politically motivated tactics of the Wairarapa police are also evidenced in the utterly damning front page article in the Dominion Post (October 2008) in which Johnston boasts that he arrogantly ignores the Privacy Act and makes the files ol individuals like me available to anyone who wants to see them.  I've been told by a number of people that the police showed them my file, including the lying principal of the South End School.  Police got carried away and told him, and a lot of other people, that they had recently charged my with an offence involving a child - a nasty despicable deliberate lie!  I was sacked from my job at the school because of the lie, but people who kill their own sons by forcing them to drink a yard glass of beer are considered fit and proper people to care for other people's kids at the other school where I was also sacked from for writing a note saying a girl's room was tidy after two phone calls to the principal from local police - that's a sackable offence in the Wairarapa apparently, while this culture of abusing alcohol is considered normal.  The people of the Wairarapa need to join the dots before it's too late.


It's time people stand up and demand that Police Area Commander Johnston be stripped of rank, and superannuation and bonuses, and his pay stopped immediately, and he be sacked in disgrace and forced to get his greedy, dishonest, corrupt snout out of the trough and try and get a real job.  Michael Hill might need another "sales professional" - like Beyer, Johnston's good at selling himself.  Oh, he might get a job as a lawyer, like good old Clint Rickard, or a slimy amicus curiae like Bryan Yeoman.

Wollerman Cooke McClure sneaky mediation hypocrisy

This letter on the left is dated 16 May 2001, from the Employment Relations Authority, after I had been punched in the face by Chairman of the Carterton Community Centre about a month earlier in response to legitimate queries regarding the gross malfeasance and fraud, bullying etc at the Centre, made in my capacity as elected Secretary and Finance Officer of the Centre:

"Dear Kate,

Further to our discussion yesterday, I am writing to inform you that the Carterton Community Centre Committee have turned down my offer of mediation assistance.

Sophie Lucas."

The letter on the right is from Wollerman Cooke and McClure, the corrupt law firm who deliberately made the false complaint to police against regarding the Carterton Community Centre and it's assets - a complaint police soundly rejected after a thorough investigation. It's dated 14 June 2001, just a month later. It's addressed to my lawyer at the time, and it says:

"Dear Madam,

Re:: Katherine Raue: Carterton Community Centre Inc.

We refer to our telephone conversation and while the writer is still awaiting formal instruction from the Society in response to your communication, it is our belief that mediation can only proceed if your client releases to the Committee the material which she removed from the Society's offices so that the duly elected Officers of the Society could consult and then consider her claim relative to the Society's financial and administrative records.

We would obtain instructions that, subject to receipt of, and reasonable time to consider those records), the Committee would meet Ms Raue at mediation regarding her alleged personal grievance. We believe this view is consistent with what would be ordered if the matter went to the Employment Court.

We suggest that the material and records be available at your offices, for the writer or a member of his staff to collect.

Yours faithfully

Mark Hinton"

What a joke! I instructed the lawyer, Ainslie Hewton (Kamil Lakshman), to instruct the writer forthwith that he was taking instructions from people who were not authorised to issue them and his letter would be treated with the contempt it deserved!

On the post titled "Police cover up for Georgina Beyer and their other mates" is a copy of a letter dated 11 June 2001 written by Snr Sgt Reid of the Masterton Police.
On the second page of the letter it states that "on the 5th June a representative of the Carterton Community Centre (Elaine Brazendale) advised Senior Constable Wakefield that the Carterton Community Centre had declined to meet with Raue." More accurately, they declined to meet with, or even appoint, an auditor. Because of the FRAUD and gross malfeasance! This letter from Sgt Reid to Ainslie Hewton states (in response to Mark Hinton of Wollerman Cooke and McClure's accusation of theft against me):

"On 8th May 2001 Mark Hinton, solicitor (Wollerman Cooke and McClure) complained to police on behalf of the Carterton Community Centre about Katherine Raue possessing property belonging to the Carterton Community Centre.

The complaint has been investigated by Senior Constable Wakefield of the Carterton police.

Raue does not dispute possession of property belonging to the Carterton Community Centre.

Possession does not necessarily constitute theft, or any other offence.

In order to obtain a search warrant to seize property, police must establish that an offence punishable by imprisonment has been committed.

the police investigation has not established that Raue has stolen or fraudulently dealt with any of the property, therefore Police cannot obtain a search warrant to seize the property.

Kamil Lakshman, solicitor acting for Raue, has confirmed that Raue is taking legal action regarding personal and industrial disputes she has with the Carterton Community Centre and claims that the property is relevant to the disputes..

Lakshman has confirmed that Raue is willing to hand the property over to an independent person as opposed to the Carterton Community Centre.

Senior Wakefield had facilitated a meeting between Raue and the Carterton Community Centre to arrange the return of the property, [to meet with the auditor appointed, R G Thompson] but on 5th June a representative of the Carterton Community Centre (Elaine Brazendale) advised Constable Wakefield that the Carterton Community Centre had declined to meet with Raue.

Please do not hesitate to contact me or Senior Constable Wakefield should you require further information regarding this matter, or should further information come to light."

On the 16th May 2001 the Mediation Service advised that the group who had taken over the Carterton Community Centre had turned down their offer of mediation assistance in the dispute regarding the Community Centre. This clearly makes a mockery of this letter from Wollerman Cooke and McClure above, dated 14 June, a month later, doesn't it!

The so-called "duly elected officers of the Society" were not legally elected at all, they simply appointed themselves, at a meeting they had in May, without a quorum of committee members -- they had no authority whatsoever regarding the Centre or its funds, assets or affairs, which they took control of illegally. At another meeting in May the group falsely claiming they were the 'committee' recorded in the Minutes a motion was passed to appoint RG Thompson of Masterton auditor. Mr Thompson indicated a view consistent with that of the lawyers who found there was fraud and gross misfeasance committed by the group, so the audit was abruptly cancelled by Councillor Jull Greathead! Contrary to the claims of Georgina Beyer, Gary McPhee, and others, the financial records and affairs of the Carterton Community Centre and the ten organisations it was administering have NEVER been audited because of the blatant fraud.

Councillor Bill Knowles accused me of theft of the records and claimed that to be the reason no audit took place - this is a lie. Sleazy Constable Wakefield came to my home and demanded them and I told him I would meet the unlawfully 'elected' committee at the office of any auditor they cared to name and we could all hand over the information we held to the auditor, because as Knowles knows perfectly well, copies of every single piece of information I have are still in the possession of the 'committee' and always have been!

The letter from Sgt Reid makes it perfectly clear that the claims made by Wollerman Cooke and McClure are a deliberate attempt to pervert the course of justice and an insult to the intelligence!

What kind of so-called community representatives refuse mediation, and refuse an audit? People who refuse mediation and audits should not be on the Council, or in any other role in the community. Let them go and try and get a real job in the real world, it's time for these incompetent and corrupt 'professional politicians' to get their snouts out of the tax payer funded trough and stop thieving.