Power Shifts, Crank Shafts and Bloody Stands

Ethan Switch - Friday, 17 October 2003 - 05:29:40 - print it raw

Insanity, culpability and responsibility were on order for the week. Brain tumours ran amok, toddlers with the power of adults and imported ethnic gang warfare.

Dour and quiet, Rene Rivkin brought forth another façade to his court proceedings. His issue of appeal tried to claim that the brain tumour that was present during the initial trial period for his insider trading charge affected his behaviour.

This as well as the fact that he had a prior relationship with the presiding judge who he thought was biased against him. Driving around in his BMW days before the removal operation was certainly fine form for a lunatic suffering the ails of a disfunction. Meaning he didn't know what he was doing.

Bleeding into the revelation that aspiring home owners in Victoria were getting a head start on their mortgages. The problem with this was that it was a good twenty or so years ahead. Toddlers were signing up for the first home buyers grant and putting their future in good stead until someone uncovered the loophole. Meaning they knew what they were doing years ahead of their time and the government weren't sure how to take it.

Which ends with NSW Premier Bob Carr issuing a statement that was taken kindly into the bosom of the Lebanese community. One that stated that the warring gangs and feuding drive-bys should be taken back home where they belong, offshore. A government that wasn't sure how to take it and a community who calculated to take a strangle hold on all the ethnic flavoured violence of late. Thus branding their "home turf" as one of a tight knit community generating a healthy amount of violence.

Do as we say not as we do.