PUBLIC LAW: PARLIAMENTARY SOVEREIGNTY, LLB STUDY WEEKEND 2011

Rob Jago provides a lecture on Public Law and parliamentary sovereignty at the 2011 University of London International Programmes LLB Study Weekend.

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COALITION MUST WITHDRAW REFERENDUM SUPPORT - OR BE COMPLICIT IN RIGGING DEMOCRACY

"The federal Coalition must immediately withdraw its support for the local government referendum. If it does not it will be complicit with the Gillard government's plans to rig Australian democracy", said John Roskam, Executive Director of the Institute of Public Affairs.
Mr Roskam's comments follow the announcement by the federal government on Monday that $10 million of taxpayers' funds will be given to the 'Yes' campaign, but only $500,000 will be provided to the 'No' campaign.
"The Gillard government is abusing public money in a cynical and desperate attempt to change the Constitution. It's not enough for the Coalition to just be outraged that there's disparity in public funding. If they don't withdraw their support they're complicit in rigging Australia's democracy", Mr Roskam said.
"Defying the convention that both the 'Yes' and 'No' case in a referendum get equal funding sets a dangerous precedent. The government and the opposition must reveal why they believe this constitutional change is such a good idea given they are too afraid to give the public all the facts about it.
"If such unfair and lopsided funding goes ahead, the result of the referendum will be illegitimate.
"The cynical and manipulative way this referendum has been handled, first by rushing it through, and then by giving one side twenty times as much money as the other should set alarm bells ringing with the electorate", Mr Roskam said.
For media and comment: John Roskam, Executive Director, 0415 475 673
http://www.ipa.org.au/publications/2187/coalition-must-withdraw-referendum-support---or-be-complicit-in-rigging-democracy

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TOP SUCCESS IN AUSTRALIAN COURT :: INTERVIEW WITH ROBERT FLETCHER

Published on 18 May 2013

OPPT Courtesy Notice and Invoice used in Australian Court. "Magistrate" gets flustered, drops all charges and dismisses the case. Robert Fletcher recounts the story of BEing & DOing.
The story of Brandon's legal case begins at minute 6:20.
Audio file mp3 available here : http://ge.tt/67yGL0h/v/0?c

*****The bloke being interviewed DID NOT ATTEND THE PLACE OF BUSINESS THAT TRADES AS A QUASI COURT. His testimony is hearsay, and his claim is that he advised the couple who did does appear genuine, though, this clip is truthfully more of an 'OPPT Promo' with the Magistrates Court serving as a hook. It is probably because Robert has 'Opted in' and at times seems to have some evangelical fervour about him. Unfortunately, no paperwork, or case numbers etc has been provided so if you are consuming, decide for yourself if it is relevant info for you or not.

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SANTOS BONACCI WITH DEAN CLIFFORD - CREATING AN ALLIANCE AGAINST CORRUPTION

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THE LEGACY OF CHATTEL SLAVERY: PRIVATE PRISONS BLUR THE LINE BETWEEN REAL PEOPLE AND REAL ESTATE WITH NEW IRS PROPERTY GAMBIT

Monday, 04 February 2013 By Christopher Petrella, Truthout | News Analysis

Berrydale Forestry Camp farm squad prisoners harvest collard greens at the University of Florida West Florida Research and Education Facility in Jay, Florida, February 7, 2011. (Photo: Meggan Haller / The New York Times)"All servants imported and brought into the country ... who were not Christians in their native country ... shall be accounted and be slaves. All Negro, mulatto and Indian slaves within this dominion ... shall be held to be real estate. If any slave resist his master ... correcting such slave, and shall happen to be killed in such correction ... the master shall be free of all punishment ... as if such accident never happened."
-Virginia Slave Code of 1705, Virginia General Assembly
Although many criminal justice activists are quick to denounce the most egregious race-based expressions of prison privatization, ranging from involuntary prison labor to racially disparate sentencing policies, few, if any, have attended to the deeply racialized, yet somewhat arcane, relationship developing between the private prison industry and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). Curiously, one of the best ways to understand exactly how the private prison industry views itself and its fundamental mission is to analyze changes in the IRS corporate filing status of private prison companies.
In July 2012, the GEO Group - the nation's second-largest private prison operator behind Corrections Corporation of America - sent a letter to the IRS requesting a conversion from a typical "class-c" corporation to a Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT).
At the time, the Florida-based company specializing in "correctional detention and residential treatment services" billed its potential REIT conversion as a way to increase long-term shareholder value, lower the cost of capital and attract a larger base of potential shareholders.
According to the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), an REIT is an entity that annually distributes at least 90 percent of its taxable income to shareholders in the form of dividends in exchange for a zero federal and state corporate tax liability. GEO estimates a $50 million annual tax savings), invests at least 75 percent of its total assets in real estate, and - here's the key - derives at least 95 percent of its gross income from real estate-related sources.
Over the last six months, the GEO Group has assiduously lobbied the IRS claiming that it meets REIT eligibility criteria. "Fundamentally, GEO is in a real estate intensive industry ... and GEO has attractive real estate characteristics," reads an excerpt from its most recent investor presentation - one that leaves out all mention of rehabilitation.
On January 18, the GEO Group announced it had received a favorable private-letter ruling from the IRS in connection with its previously announced intention to convert to a REIT. Hours later, the company's shares hit an all-time high. (Corrections Corporation of America, by the way, is still awaiting its own REIT conversion ruling from the IRS.) Based on the receipt of the private-letter ruling, GEO's board of directors authorized the company to elect REIT status retroactive to January 1, 2013.
According to the AP, George Zoley, GEO's chairman, CEO and founder, said:

We are very pleased to have received a favorable private-letter ruling from the Internal Revenue Service. This important milestone validates the decisive actions taken by our bBoard and our management team to position GEO to achieve REIT status effective January 1, 2013 and enable our shareholders to begin enjoying the benefits of REIT status as soon as possible.

Lobbying for and achieving a REIT corporate filing status with the IRS demonstrates that the GEO Group primarily sees itself as a real estate firm that incidentally dabbles in corrections, not an agency whose primary objective is rehabilitation, safety, or community restoration.
Mark Twain once said that although history doesn't repeat itself, it sure does rhyme.
The GEO Group's newly-minted REIT status calls attention to the relationship between historical forms of race-based, profit-making and racialized expressions of prison privatization. The language of "real estate" firmly codified by REIT status is deeply troubling in light of the reality that African-Americans - a racialized group once legally "held to be real estate" according to Virginia's 1705 Slave Codes - are vastly over-represented today in GEO's only Virginia-based corrections facility. GEO-operated Lawrenceville Correctional Center is a 358,000-square-foot corrections center located about 65 miles south of the state capital in Richmond, which houses around 1,500 inmates.
Whereas African-Americans comprise roughly 20 percent of Virginia's population and 61 percent of the state's total correctional population, they account for a full 75 percent of all inmates housed in GEO's for-profit Lawrenceville facility.
The striking overrepresentation of African-Americans in the only private, for-profit facility in Virginia operated by a REIT suggests that the containment of African-Americans - and people of color more generally – in that prison still functions primarily as a source of profit extraction, rather than as a resource for rehabilitation. In this scenario, "real estate" serves as a proxy for blackness. What's worse is that this trend extends far beyond Virginia. In a first-of-its-kind study recently published by The Society Pages, my colleague, Josh Begley, and I found that people of color are overrepresented in private prisons relative to their public counterpart institutions in states like California, Texas and Arizona.
Whereas the primary objective of public corrections agencies, ostensibly, is the promotion of public safety and personal growth through rehabilitation, private prison firms - which house around 8 percent of the prison population in the US - are first accountable to their shareholders. Companies like the GEO Group are legally obligated to increase shareholder value, an imperative that inherently compromises any deep commitment to rehabilitation, social re-entry or recidivism reduction.
GEO's successful conversion to a Real Estate Investment Trust ultimately proves that for all of its vainglorious depictions of high quality "residential treatment services," its unquenchable pursuit of profit erodes the difference between people of color - particularly African-Americans - and property, between real people and real estate.

Copyright, Truthout.

http://truth-out.org/news/item/14255-the-legacy-of-chattel-slavery-private-prisons-blur-the-line-between-real-people-and-real-estate-with-new-irs-property-gambit  

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