Deceptichum@kbin.social 11 months ago
Titles not super accurate.
He investigated a previous politicians connections with a crime family, his house mysteriously got firebombed.
Police charged one of the members of the crime family, but jordies and his team were still receiving death threats so they decided to take it down rather than risk being murdered in escalation.
The politician took him to court over defamation and was awarded $715,000. He’s still a massive corrupt piece of shit, but his political career has certainly taken some damage at least.
The video was up for a long period so it got lots views and a lot of people know about the whole fiasco so it did its job at least.
The whole situation is heaps fucked, but mad respect for FJ for sticking to his guns for so long.
Police charged one of the members of the crime family, but jordies and his team were still receiving death threats so they decided to take it down rather than risk being murdered in escalation.
I don’t think the title is inaccurate. They literally said they took the video down because of the terror attack. Nabbing the fall guy, and doing nothing else pretty much counts as “doing nothing” in my opinion.
The politician took him to court over defamation and was awarded $715,000. He (John Barilaro) is still a massive corrupt piece of shit, but his political career has certainly received some karma at least.
Wait…isn’t the martyr points from winning a defamation case the best thing that could possibly happen to the career of a piece of shit demagogue?
Aussie defo laws are fucked and conservative pollies sue people all the time.
In this case the pollie admitted to pork barrelling (unfairly favouring electorates based on political expedience vs merit for projects) in Parliament. The defo case was about whether he pork barreled. Because he said it in Parliament where privilege applies his own words weren’t admissible as evidence in favour of shanks’ case.
Just normal stuff.
Ah. Parliamentary privilege I think it’s called. They have that bullshit in the US and the UK afair, perhaps other places too.
Really helps public trust when parliamentary debate is exempt from the rules that us commoners must abide by!
It makes sense for stuff like whistle blowing. you don’t exactly want fear of prosecution affecting someone presenting evidence of wrongdoing.
But like, if reporting on how someone else described themselves in Parliament can get you sued because they can say “prove I said that” then that’s a bit chilling. Idk where the balance is, that’s something we all need to have a serious chat about, but it’s not here
Politicians corrupt cronies fund politicians party and get that party’s protection. It seems pretty obvious now that that’s what happened.
It’s almost literally the plot of the beekeepers If it took place in Australia and it was a shitty real estate company rather than scam call center.
FangedWyvern42@lemmy.world 11 months ago
No karma here. The bastard won.