Julia Dehm, convicted of viciously assaulting and permanently injuring a police officer at the G-20 riots, is still employed by the Victorian Government, in Legal Aid. Its head says he plans on keeping her on too.
The West Brunswick lefty hot-head with a violent streak is not exactly rebelling against society's cruel imposts on her. Dehm has enjoyed a life of immense privilege, attending elite private school Mandeville Hall in Toorak where the fees run to $16,000 a year for the hard-working parents. It is said to be one of the most magnificent settings of any educational institution in Victoria, in a beautiful old Gold Rush era mansion.
TONY PARSONS PASSES JUDGEMENT
The Sunday Herald Sun has extracted a confession from Tony Parsons, employed by Attorney-General Rob Hulls to run the state's system of Legal Aid that he plans on keeping her in her position of privilege as an Articled Clerk at the government agency.
Parsons' reasoning was so outrageous as to be beyond comprehension:
"Firstly, while she has been found guilty and been punished for a serious offence, her criminal behaviour was not the kind of conduct that would automatically exclude her from the legal profession (such as) an offence involving dishonesty," Mr Parsons said.
Nor would mass murder or gang rape offences either apparently. This is not about rules of legal ethics, it's about how public monies are applied and the public confidence in Victoria's system of Legal Aid.
It employs a lawyer with criminal convictions of a very serious kind, with one of her offences attracting a penalty with a maximum of ten years imprisonment.
BUT SHE PWOMISED
"Secondly, she has given me a solemn undertaking that while employed at VLA she will scrupulously avoid any situation which might bring her into conflict with the law."
A solemn undertaking, eh? Is he taking the p*ss or what?
So she won't be doing drugs any more when clubbing with her fellow West Brunswick leftards? Won't be going to any more demonstrations? Whatever. It's not about what she'll do from now on, it's about what happened when she attended the G-20 protests, in which many thousands of stupid but non-violent lefties participated entirely peacefully, where she and her coterie donned masks and other clothing designed to obscure their identity and launched pre-meditated attacks with missiles on the working people of the Victoria Police. One police officer was permanently injured and left unable to work as a result of Julia Dehm's actions.
Is such a person deserving of a cosy job on the Victorian Government payroll?
It beggars belief.
SHE COULD BE BASHING OLD LADIES, RUNNING OVER DOGS OR STREAKING AT THE G AND STILL KEEP HER LEGAL AID JOB // NICE ONE
"Thirdly, she has been punished for her offence by the courts. It is not VLA's role to impose an additional punishment on her."
She was indeed very lightly punished with a non-custodial sentence for bashing the police officer, riot and related offences for criminal damage and causing injury. By the same reasoning if she was a Minister in the government, she would not be expected to resign from that position of privilege despite being involved in this serious crime. It's laughable. By the same reasoning, she could have committed any crime of violence and got away with keeping her job.
Can you imagine if Dehm had have been involved in Cronulla riots about which all decent Australians were very angry? Her feet wouldn't have touched the floor, she would have been suspended the moment she'd been charged and sacked and denounced by her politically correct boss when convicted.
Because Dehm's crimes of violence were directed at "imperialism" and "world finance" (it's all very German 1930s stuff they carry on about isn't it?) at protests against a meeting of the G-20 group of finance ministers at the Hyatt in Melbourne, then that's somehow different.
There was no difference to Senior Constable Kim Dixon who had a barricade thrown at her by Dehm, permanently injuring her and leaving her unable to work and unable to push her baby son's pram, hang out washing and other routine tasks without suffering from intense pain. She cannot drive a manual patrol car or use a keyboard, essential skills for any police officer.
Dehm has got away with costing the police officer her job while Dehm keeps hers. It's not right.
UNDERMINING AN IMPORTANT PUBLIC PROGRAMME
It is the Victorian Legal Aid's role to ensure that all Victorians can get the legal assistance they need, even if they can't afford a lawyer. That's why we have legal aid and it's one of the areas of public spending we can enthusiastically support. If the state is good enough to bring people before the courts and accuse them of crimes, it should also ensure funding is available for their defence if the defendants cannot afford it.
But this whole arrangement requires the maintenance of a certain amount of public faith and support. The public pay tens of millions of dollars a year to maintain Legal Aid. It needs to be apolitical, uncontroversial and quietly do its job of protecting those without the resources to hire sleazy mob lawyers like Leslie Glick. Employing convicted cop bashers and serial rioters is not consistent with that role.
What Tony Parsons is risking here is not just his reputation but the public confidence in Victoria's system of Legal Aid.
Dehm must go.
Game on.
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