Patel enquiry shot in foot

Never underestimate the likelihood that the "golden thread" of British (and American, Australian, etc) justice can be eroded -- vide the USA and Guantanamo.

Australia's recent offering under this head: the Patel enquiry. For starters, the media have relentlessly called this Jayant Patel bloke "Dr Death". Of course, if Australian journalists could even hold crayons they would know that that name has longed been booked by Jack Kevorkian. They would also know that they are jeopardising a fair trial and thus the chance of a guilty man, if such Patel be, getting his just desserts. And of course, to call an alleged person guilty undermines your civil rights and mine.

Now the head of the commission appointed by the Queensland government to look at the Patel matter, Tony Morris, has wasted six million dollars of taxpayers' money by showing prejudice. In fact, the dope even walked down from the bench and warmly shook hands with one of the witnesses. The commission has been disbanded by the government, and Patel is sunning himself somewhere in the USA.

D'oh! Aussies!

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