Lara and Bryan: You are responsible

Bob McMahon
The law is not always the law. Unscrupulous governments use the law as a weapon against the people. Section 11 of the Pulp Mill Assessment Act is a case in point. Snivelling wretches such as great upholder of the law, Green and ‘none of us is above the law’ Gidding passed the PMAA which excludes the people of Tasmania from access to their own legal system. Their intention was to make the people outlaws in their own land. Someone attaching themselves to a woodchip conveyor belt is as nothing compared to the criminal injustice of that legislation. And if the people act as outlaws when it comes to stopping the pulp mill dead in its tracks, Lara and Bryan, then that is because YOU MADE THEM SO.

Brian Walters SC
Sometimes breaking the law is consistent with respect for the law. As Martin Luther King Jr said: “An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.” Tasmania suffers under several laws that deny the rule of law – because they do not permit adequate scrutiny, and breed corruption. Forestry continues to be operated “under the counter” in a way which cuts the community out of even knowing the amount of the subsidy to companies like Gunns. Kim Booth made no threat of illegal action. However, the words of Bryan Green do suggest a threat – the threat of raw power against public protest. Such threats – designed as they are to silence the community – are the antithesis of democracy and the rule of law.
Read more, Comment here