THE OTHER CHEEK // Andrew Landeryou's Blog of Freedom: Monday, 12 May 2008

Monday, 12 May 2008

MUTUALLY ASSURED DESTRUCTION: A Looming Thermo-nuclear Email Leaking War Could Engulf Both Major Liberal Factions // And This Is Just The Beginning

A YOUTUBE TUNE FOR WORRIED LIBERAL PATRIOTS

If you were advising Ted Baillieu about how to damage control a situation, would you have encouraged him to authorise the release of private work emails to the public via The Age's Paul Austin?

Baillieu media strategist Simon Troeth is said to be very smart but this was the act of a desperate and stupid man. Some were forced to wonder whether he'd left party animal and booze-hound Paul Price in charge of strategy.

Why paint the two former senior party officials into a corner where they are left with little option but to strike back and hard? Makes no sense.

We know from the Ted Baillieu Must Go website that Paul Austin enjoys special status in Ted Baillieu's office for reasons that defy imagination.

The decision to give Austin a number of former deputy state director Simon Morgan's private emails was extraordinarily stupid.

It appears to have provoked an immediate reaction in the form of the leaking the shameful racist emails of Ted Baillieu's faction-buddy Susan Chandler who at least had the decency to know she had to resign before she was terminated with extreme prejudice (racial prejudice).

WHO WILL BE THE VICTIM OF DEAD TED JIHAD

Many Liberals are left wondering who will be the next casualty in the Liberal nuclear war. State Party President Kemp has set parameters insisting that no state or federal Liberal MP will be expelled.

The fact that he even needed to say that shows just how out of control things have become.

It's such a patently absurd proposition to say that anyone should be drummed out of the Liberal party for expressing private or anonymous concerns about Ted Baillieu's leadership. There'd be very few left if that was the catalyst for purging them.

But people in the Baillieu camp are insisting - and their mouthpiece Paul Austin at The Age made it very clear this morning - that there will be disciplinary action taken against many others.

A LOOMING CATASTROPHE

Do they imagine that those being targetted have only one embarrassing email to shoot at the Baillieu forces?

We hear that there are more emails and even audio recordings that paint a very bleak picture indeed of life in the Liberal Party in Melbourne in 2008.

We hear that there is a gathering storm of payback and retribution that hangs over 104 Exhibition Street and Ted Baillieu's bunker.

We hear that lawyers are being briefed by all sides today, in anticipation that any expulsion proceedings will be vigorously contested in the courts as to fairness in light of Liberal party rules and common law free speech rights.

From the OC's point of view, we welcome carnage on both sides of politics and do our best to generate as much as we can by shedding light in dark corners. But no good can come of this for the Victorian Ted Baillieu led jihad against some of those whose only crime was to privately or anonymously express concerns about his leadership and his policies.

As one Liberal patriot despairing in conversation with the OC about the blog and the bizarre response to it put it well:

Sir Robert Menzies must be spinning in his grave.

Game on.

EMERGENCY UPDATE:

Below is an extract from the Constitution of the Victorian Division of the Liberal Party of Australia which shows how the planned expulsion process will work:

4.1 GROUNDS AND PROCEDURES

(a) Any Member may be expelled, or suspended, for up to 12 months, on the grounds that such person has:

(i) been guilty of disloyalty to the Party, this Constitution or the Platform of the Party; or

(ii) been guilty of conduct gravely detrimental to the best interests of the Party.

(b) The Member's Branch or the Federal Electorate Council for an Electorate within which the Member's Branch is situated, or the Administrative Committee, or the Federal Executive of the Liberal Party of Australia, may submit a motion to the Policy Assembly charging that the Member has:

(i) been guilty of disloyalty to the Party, this Constitution or the Platform of the Party; or

(ii) been guilty of conduct gravely detrimental to the best interests of the Party.

(c) Where the Administrative Committee submits a motion to the Policy Assembly as aforesaid it may, by resolution carried by a two-thirds majority of the members of the Administrative Committee present and voting, suspend that Member until the next meeting of the Policy Assembly.

(d) Such motion as aforesaid shall not be determined by Policy Assembly unless not less than 21 days notice in writing has been given to the members of Policy Assembly and to the Member against whom such motion has been laid.

(e) Before any vote on such a proposed resolution is taken the Member shall have the right to be heard. Otherwise the procedures to be followed shall be determined by Policy Assembly.

(f) (i) The motion as aforesaid shall be determined by a secret ballot and shall not be carried unless by a two-thirds majority of the members of Policy Assembly present and voting thereon.

(ii) Upon Policy Assembly passing the motion as aforesaid that the Member has been guilty then Policy Assembly shall determine by motion, which shall be voted upon by secret ballot and carried by two-thirds majority of its members present and voting, what shall be the appropriate penalty by way of expulsion or suspension for up to 12 months.

(g) A period of suspension may be terminated by resolution of the Policy Assembly by secret ballot carried by a two-thirds majority of its members present and voting.

(h) Where the Policy Assembly takes any steps pursuant to this clause it shall inform the next State Council accordingly.

OC ANALYSIS FROM A LIBERAL INSIDER PATRIOT:
In summary, for a member to be expelled or suspended a two-thirds majority of Policy Assembly is required.

The currently Policy Assembly is overwhelmingly dominated by Kroger/Costello types, who despite current quibbles over Peter Costello's successor in Higgins, would unite to ensure that any expulsion motions of prominent faction members are defeated.

Policy Assembly is made up of approximately 140 members, the main blocks being the 20 members of the Administrative Committee, the 32 delegates from State Council, 74 delegates elected by Federal Electorate Councils (2 each), Victorian Senators, 6, and a handful of other ex-officio members:

14.1 MEMBERSHIP
There shall be a Policy Assembly which shall consist of:
(a) the members of the Administrative Committee;
(b) the Deputy Leader of the State Parliamentary Party or nominee;
(c) two members of the Legislative Assembly and two members of the Legislative Council elected by and from the State Parliamentary Party;
(d) all Victorian Senators who are members of the Federal Parliamentary Party;
(e) one Victorian Federal Member of Parliament elected by and from the Federal Parliamentary Party;
(f) the male and female delegates elected by each Federal Electorate Council;
(g) the 32 persons elected by the State Council, and
(h) all Victorian non-parliamentary members of the Federal Executive of the Liberal Party of Australia.

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GRUB GOES: Victorian Liberal Official Susan Chandler Quits Over Anti-Semitic Slur

Proven anti-semite Susan Chandler who described Liberal party candidate for Melbourne Ports Adam Held as a "greedy f*cking jew" has resigned rather be dismissed following the revelations of her disgusting anti-semitism.

Game on.

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TED'S HIT LIST: We Name The Names That Ted Wants To Maim

Sources close to the office of Liberal leader Ted Baillieu have provided the OC with a list of suspects who are primary focus of the investigation being conducted by incoming Liberal state director Tony Nutt for crimes against the leadership of Ted Baillieu:

■ Tony Barry - Senator Michael Ronaldson's chief of staff;

■ Simon Morgan - Former deputy state director of the Victorian Liberal party and alleged author of anti Ted site, whose emails were given to Paul Austin by Baillieu's office, in an astonishing act of tomfoolery;

■ John Osborn - Former campaign official of the party said to be close to Barry;

■ Senator Michael Ronaldson - Liberal Senator known to fiercely oppose Baillieu's leadership;

■ Julian Sheezel - Outgoing party director who dropped Morgan and Osborn in it from a great height in one of the most cowardly displays the OC has ever seen;

■ Matthew Guy - Upper house MP who some think has what it takes to be party leader one day;

■ Helen Kroger- Senator-Elect and matriarch of the Costello/Kroger faction;

■ Scott Ryan - Also a Senator-Elect and factional warrior;

■ Sandra Mercer-Moore - Metropolitan Female Vice-President;

■ Mitch Fifield - Liberal Senator;

■ Ross Fox - former Chief of Staff to Ronaldson, major player in Kroger/Costello faction; and

■ Luke Tobin - Works for Fifield and was very involved in State Council factional activities.

To those concerned about the amount of bloodshed, the Baillieu faction say "this is a once in a lifetime opportunity" that they cannot let go.

Their various high crimes and misdemeanours include opposing Baillieu's rule, his left-leaning policies, performance and personnel decisions.

It is clear that the inquiry against them is not just directed at those knowingly concerned with the Baillieu website but as Ted put it a "cell" operating against his interests. That means pretty much the entire leadership of the Kroger/Costello faction will be attacked by means of purge.

Chillingly, we are told that the list "is not exhaustive" and there are many other who will be subject to the probe of Red/Dead Ted.

Game on.

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VALUES IN THE GUTTER: Ted Baillieu Stands By Anti-Semite While Seeking To Expel Those "Disloyal" To Him

Liberal leader Ted Baillieu stands accused of covering up far more disgusting conduct among staff at his party's secretariat than merely opposing Baillieu's policies.

WHAT DID TED KNOW AND WHEN DID HE KNOW IT?

He and his office have had possession of emails, at least one of which reveals a Baillieu loyalist Susan Chandler is a filthy, foul-mouthed anti-semite grub, as we reported earlier.

Even worse, we understand when confronted on 3AW by Neil Mitchell with the claims of anti-semitism against the Liberal party official, he refused to say whether she should be sacked.

As one very angry Liberal told the OC:

"If you privately or anonymously denigrate Ted Baillieu's performance, personality or policies, you will be purged from the party. But if you profanely denigrate one of the world's great religions with anti-semitic filth from their Party Secretariat it's covered up by the Party leader. Where are Ted Baillieu's values? What drives him?"

The OC understands that Baillieu has had these emails for nearly a month and that his staff have been slowly trawling through them.

Baillieu allies tell the OC they have been closely reviewed to help them detect all those acting disloyally to the Liberal leader.

ANTI-SEMITES OPERATING WITH TED'S CONSENT

But it seems they had turned a blind eye to vastly more despicable misconduct than dissing their boss. It seems they were happy to tolerate racism and the free expression of a despicable anti-semitic statement, as long as the person making that statement was loyal to Ted Baillieu.

And doesn't that perfectly show the pure folly of the bizarre course of factional grudge-settling and his pursuit of a "hit-list" of targets in an opposing faction.

Liberal leader Ted Baillieu is conducting a personal jihad against those in his party who he says are conspiring against him. He has every right to pursue vendettas, should he feel that's the best thing for him to do. The fact that it's complete madness is more amusing than anything else for our point of view.

He will be cut down as Liberal leader, it's just a question of when. It probably won't happen this year but it will certainly happen prior to the next state election. Few doubt it other than those who are blinded by their belief in Baillieu as a "good bloke".

Well a good bloke doesn't tolerate anti-semitism. Not for a second.

So he can settle all the scores he wants but the community has every right to expect him to root out every demonstrated anti-semite from the Party's ranks.

And what emerged this morning is that Ted Baillieu's office has had possession of a lot of emails to and from the work email accounts of former Liberal staffers Simon Morgan and John Osborn.

A select number of those emails were leaked on Baillieu's personal instruction to The Age Paul Austin.

It was an extraordinary thing to do for a range of reasons not least of which was the massive political risk Baillieu was taking.

THE DAY AFTER

The tactic has massively backfired from his point of view. And Liberals of all persuasions are left wondering what's next for them.

Who will be expelled?

Who will Party President David Kemp be tapping on the shoulder to resign?

Who will be revealed for engaging in all sorts of misconduct as a result of the party's investigations into disloyalty ?

The OC had a good story about two bright young blokes who were sacked for telling the truth about Ted Baillieu's leadership. Julian Sheezel made it into a much bigger deal than it would have been with a pre-emptive strike/statement that named and shamed the two and vilified them.

Ted Baillieu and his crew of supposed "moderates" in the Party are now embarked on the kind of paranoid witch-hunt which would leave the Stalinists in Labor's Socialist Left quite impressed.

The Victorian Liberals are a party in crisis and they have only Ted Baillieu to blame.

Game on.

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104 EXPLODES: Baillieu Loyalist Susan Chandler Wrote "That Greedy F*cking Jew" When Slagging Jewish Liberal Candidate Adam Held

The OC has learned - and apparently 3AW has reported - that trusted Ted Baillieu operative in 104 Exhibition Street, state campaign director Susan Chandler denigrated Liberal Melbourne Ports candidate Adam Held as a "greedy f*cking Jew" in an email to work colleagues.

The email attack responded to a request by Held of the campaign head-quarters for more campaign material.

Her response - sent to a number of work colleagues in the Liberal party secretariat - apparently was "That greedy f*cking Jew".

It's normal enough for campaign workers to disparage their demanding marginal seats candidates but this is clearly outrageous.

If they sack two kids for a cheeky website, you'd hope new State Director Tony Nutt would be giving Madam Chandler her marching orders to the nearest League of Rights office where they might be able to find her some work more in keeping with her mental state.

UPDATE:

Courtesy of a patriot journalist we have obtained a copy of John Osborn's statement:

Re: State Liberal Leader Ted Baillieu's and State Director Julian Sheezel’s internal investigation and revealed anti-Semitic email remarks made by State Campaign Manager, Ms. Susan Chandler.

“As the State Campaign Manager, Ms. Chandler works closely with the State Parliamentary Leader’s Office and is a known factional associate of Mr. Baillieu.

“I am comprehensively appalled at the clearly anti-Semitic nature of Ms. Chandler’s email. There is no place in the Liberal Party for that sort of base prejudice. I call on the State President to terminate her employment immediately.

“The so-called investigation initiated by the State Leader is seemingly a complete sham. By releasing selected internal Liberal Party emails to the public, Mr. Baillieu and Mr. Sheezel have demonstrated at best incompetence and at worst a disingenuous cover-up.

“Furthermore, Ms Chandler’s involvement as an investigator has tainted the process irrevocably and her involvement in the Federal by-election campaign for Gippsland is a concern.

UPDATE:

We have also obtained a copy of the emails in question:

From: Adam Held [mailto:Adam.Held@vic.liberal.org.au]
Sent: Friday, 19 October 2007 11:03 AM
To: John Osborn
Cc: Susan Chandler
Subject: more flyers, please...

John,

We intend letterboxing with the "Liberals' strong economic team" DL in Melbourne Ports this weekend. With around 10,000, that's a good start!

We intend doing the same each weekend from now on, subject to availability. Will we be able to get another 10,000 of the "70% Union officials" DL from last night, if there are some left over?

Adam

From: John Osborn
Sent: Friday, 19 October 2007 11:18 AM
To: Adam Held
Cc: Susan Chandler
Subject: RE: more flyers, please...

There are none left Adam, however I will let you know if any more common material becomes available.

Regards,
John

________________________________________________
John Osborn
Campaign Unit (Federal)
Liberal Party of Australia (Victorian Division)
Level 3, 104 Exhibition St, Melbourne Vic 3000
phone: 9652 3109 fax: 9652 3143

From: Susan Chandler
Sent: Friday, 19 October 2007 11:21 AM
To: John Osborn
Subject: RE: more flyers, please...

greedy fucking jew

----- Original Message -----

From: John Osborn

To: Simon Morgan ; Alex Deane

Sent: Friday, October 19, 2007 11:33 AM

Subject: FW: more flyers, please...

Not smart to write down, even to me.

Regards,
John

Game on.

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THE LIES OF LAWRENCE MONEY: Court Sources Reveal Money Formally "Acknowledged To The Court Responsibility For The Offence" of Two Counts of Child Endangering And Was Ordered To Pay Victim's Charity Ten Thousand Dollars

The Age's geriatric gossip grouch Lawrence Money denied last week that he behaved criminally in that he was guilty of child endangering by identifying a party to an intervention order involving children. His false denial could land him in serious legal trouble, following a complaint about it being a contempt of court being made to Magistrate Ross Betts of the Melbourne Magistrates Court.

In a cowardly and despicable attack over two days last week, Money threw childish muck at former Labor Senator Robert Ray who had named and shamed the criminal in Parliament.

The OC concedes that there have been many good journalists caught up in these kind of offences quite unintentionally, but Money is neither good, nor a journalist nor did he commit these offences without knowing exactly what he was doing.

That's why he was charged with the crime of child endangering. It was no innocent mistake. He'd been warned by the victim's lawyers and did it any way.

The OC can reveal for the first time in any Australian media outlet what happened to the case.

MONEY'S SECRET SHAME REVEALED FOR THE FIRST TIME BY THE OC INVESTIGATIVE UNIT

Money denied pleading guilty to the offence. Not really true, is it Lawrence?

There is a provision in the Magistrates Court Act in section 128 which allows some criminal defendants, usually first-time offenders like Money to "accept responsibility for the offence" and be punished via a "diversion programme" designed to keep people out of jail and the criminal justice system.

And that's exactly what he did.

It seems like a perfectly reasonable penalty to impose on him in this situation.

The diversion programme, according to well-placed insiders, mandated that Money apologise in full and unconditionally to his victim. Money did this.

The Diversion Officer of the Magistrates Court further ordered that Money pay the sum of $10,000 (five times the maximum available penalty under the Act for the crime itself) to a charity of the victim's choosing.

In this case, the victim chose Ronald McDonald House, a charity deliberately chosen by the victim and family because it helps kids who are gravely ill.

SOME STORIES ARE WORTH TELLING TWICE

So in a nutshell:

■ Money committed the offence on no few than three occasions in 2001 on June 7, July 8 and July 15. Ordinarily we would publish the clippings we have obtained from The Age at the State Library but there's not much in the clippings that wouldn't identify the victim which obviously we cannot do for legal reasons;

■ Money was charged with two counts of child endangering, namely publishing information that identifies a person involved in proceedings under the Crimes (Family Violence) Act, where the family member is a child;

■ In late 2002, Money "acknowledged to the Court responsibility for the offence", an effective plea of guilty that first-time offenders can make to avoid jail and the criminal justice system (see s.128A Magistrates' Court Act); and

■ Money like other first-time criminals in this situation was then interviewed by the Court's diversion officer, assessed as to his chances of re-offending. The officer also spoke with the victim. They then required that Money pay $10,000 to the victim's nominated charity, Ronald McDonald House. Money also had to apologise to the victim

Those are the facts. Lawrence Money is a criminal who "acknowledged to the Court responsibility for the offence" and was forced to participate in a court-ordered diversion programme which required him to pay a very large fine and apologise to his victim.

Money is a strange one. He is clearly tortured and tormented by the circumstances of this crime. It was as we understand his first offence and he hasn't appeared to re-offend since. But denying committing the offence you've accepted responsibility for is, according to legal insiders, a blatant contempt of court.

Because of this, complaints have been made to the Magistrates Court which could see Money landed in hot water considerably warmer than that dispensed as McDonald's coffee.

Game on.

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DENIAL IS A RIVER IN EGYPT: Will Julian Sheezel and Tony Barry Accept The OC's Offer of a Public Lie Detector Test To Establish Their Innocence // Or Are They As Guilty As Sin?

Outgoing Liberal party state director Julian Sheezel has emphatically denied being knowingly concerned in the creation of a website critical of his leader Ted Baillieu's performance and policies.

The OC stands by our assertion that he knew about it prior to Ted Baillieu's office insisting he take action against it.

We have decided to give him and Tony Barry a chance to clear their name, using the latest in lie detection technology. The testing would be conducted by an independent expert mutually agreed by Sheezel and the OC and would be made available online on a pay per view basis.

Game on.

Here's his denial:

Statement
Julian Sheezel, State Director

I have today advised the media of the Party’s ongoing investigation of contributions to the blog site hewhostandsfornothing.blogspot.com.

On 14 April the Party President and I became aware for the first time that two Party staff members had been active contributors to the offending blog site. We acted immediately to terminate the employment of those two staff members involved and advised Ted Baillieu of the terminations.

There is no evidence that other Secretariat staff members were involved or had any knowledge of contributions to the blog site.

I was not aware of the identities of any contributor to the blog site before 14 April, and was not aware that contributions were being made from 104 Exhibition Street. Because it had not been the practice of the Party to monitor the electronic activities of staff members I was not aware until 14 April of the involvement of the two offending staff members in the blog site. Any assertions to the contrary are malicious and wrong.

The Party’s investigation of the blog site and contributors to the site has continued from 14 April. As a result of this investigation there is evidence that a small number of other Party members were contributors or provided information for the site to damage Ted Baillieu or other members of parliament. Once the investigation is complete a report will be given to the State President and State Leader.

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