Martin Gilmour: Here is a quick lesson …

Martin Gilmour in the Sunday Examiner 22- 12- 2013 – under the spurious title “Whistle Blower” – proves that he is indeed the bosun still whistling to our community that “A Pulp mill is more vital than ever” ( Here ) while heading in the same direction as the Titanic.

Gilmour, here is a quick a quick lesson on the real world; these are facts that have occurred on your watch as the public Whistle Blower:

A top 100 Australian company – now bankrupt and in liquidation – has spent 8 years bending the rules and corrupting the system to gain dubious political support … while being run by a man now banned as a company director with a criminal record who pleaded guilty to, and has been convicted of, insider trading. All that is is left from this debacle is two permits for a “substantially commenced mill” but no sign of that legally-challenged construction.

Why is this unworthy of editorial comment by our self-appointed Whistle Blower in this, your corrupt Tasmania?

The pulp mill fiasco has failed.

Meanwhile, the ‘Future’ is companies such as Ta Ann – to whom our Pollies have just passed over 26 million dollars of taxpayers’ money under the TFA … for surrendering logging permits gifted to Ta Ann by its current CEO while he was CEO of Forestry Tasmania.

No Whistle Blowing comments here from you or your beloved Examiner.

Ta Ann has a great and long-time supporter in the Legislative Council – one Paul Harriss – now standing as a Liberal for the Tasmanian Lower House (without giving up his Upper House seat just in case?), to whom you gave an A Grade in your recent end-of-year assessment.

Will you back him and hence Ta Ann when he becomes Minister of Forests in a Liberal State Government?

Will you as their public voice spell it out for Giddings and Abetz how this corrupted pulp mill process can be further facilitated by our money and their brilliant, incisive, business-trained minds?

How much more of our money will be thrown at a pulp mill so as to advantage a private company over the interests of the people in a misguided effort by both parties to get themselves elected?

It is over … read the gum leaves … nearly everybody in your beloved Tasmanian Forestry industry is bankrupt; all of their own volition.

I suggest we vote for Scruffy, whose catch-phrase is: “If you are going to vote for a dog, vote for a real one.”

Gilmour … is this a subject for your next Editorial under a new slogan – The Dog Whistler?