What a mess of a time we live in when a state police department and national broadcaster act with such impunity.
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Holy shit. Thats getting intense, maybe the cops and ABC should pull their finger out their arses.
Man way more than that needs to happen. Like multiple people in all involved orgs need to be sacked and investigated. Anyone who allowed a former criminal to be hired into the ABC. Anyone in NSWPol who sat on this or didn’t actively pursue further arrests re the firebombing. Furthermore, threatening to kill people is a crime. One which ABC has abetted and another the police have neither investigated nor charged. If someone were to make these threats against a politician (or burn their house down), they would immediately have a very bad time.
Let’s not forget Jordan was followed by a state surveillance team (FPU) for making YouTube videos about politicians. Dude gets his house burned down and a crime family, well integrated into real estate (and now the ABC by extension, apparently) gets crickets. Our tax dollars have paid for this outcome thus far.
Edit: Oh and an even more terrifying prospect. Had Jordan burned to death in that firebombing, he wouldn’t be alive to point out the extent to which this has been ignored and it would be forgotten by now. One person might have gone to prison for murder tops and that would have been the end of it.
Yep!
Only thing i’d say is just because someone is a former criminal, it shouldn’t on that alone, preclude them from being hired by the ABC.
Heres an interesting side by side
- Friendlyjordies gets crickets when someone fire bombs his house, was there even police lrotection after that?
And,
- Woodside CEO gets two dozen cops as ‘protection’ when four Disrupt Burrup protestors plan a morning protest at her house.
Different States, sure, but begs the question, are cops in this country deploying their resources in the most effective ways to bring down crime? Or are there other motives like protect the powerful?
I know its an old example, but its never sat well with me that they needed ~24 cops for some protestors they already had under surveillance, had a fair idea of their plans, and were known to be peaceful but disruptive.
A fair point, I should have specified former member of organised crime. Especially since they still seem to care about their standing with current organised criminals.
Oh yeah fishy shit is happening in multiple states. Never mind in NT the attorney general has a relative get off with a slap on the wrist for running someone down and then bragging about it after the fact; is now trying limit freedom of information request on politicians. Nothing odd there.
A fair point, I should have specified former member of organised crime. Especially since they still seem to care about their standing with current organised criminals.
Your second sentence is what’s important. It doesn’t matter whether he was previously a member of an organised crime gang and if you’ve seen his reporting you’ll know his stories are very unique within Australian journalism because he has so many contacts and so much trust. The ABC was right when it said, “Mahmood Fazal does extremely challenging, impactful and important public-interest journalism for the ABC…”. He’s not a reporter than can just be 1:1 replaced by some generic journalism degree graduate.
The real problem is that it seems like he still has more than just connections to that world, which is putting himself and others at risk and compromising his professional integrity as a journalist. You definitely can’t have an active participant in the crime world working at the national broadcaster. However, it’s important to remember the guy making all the accusations is untrustworthy so we will need to wait to see how much is true.
I agree somewhat but only for former members where it’s apparent they no longer have ties to that world. Like those videos you see of former professional criminals explaining how stuff works. Usually it’s because they’ve been arrested and given evidence against their former “colleagues” and/or have long been away from that life. This doesn’t appear to be true for Mahmood.
However, it’s important to remember the guy making all the accusations is untrustworthy so we will need to wait to see how much is true.
What Jordan? How is he the is guy untrustworthy in this? The same crime family that attempted to have him killed is the family this “journalist” still has ties to??
What Jordan?
I’m fairly sure he means the other crime linked guy on that podcast jordan references in the video
Ah that’s my bad then.
Correct!
Man foi is continually being rolled back. Ots the kind of thing that i’m not sure politicians should have control over. A bit like elections, or monetary policy.
I suppose one difference is that its sonewhat self policing, no Party should want to get rid of it completely, because they rely on that mechanism to attack the Party in power. But wheres the line on that, and if overwhelming majoritys/senators are convinced to make a reduction in access its almost impossible to see it rolled back.
