H J AMES J OHNSON

HUMAN RIGHTS § CIVIL RIGHTS § CORRUPTION § MEDIA

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Friday 25 September 2009 *** IMPORTANT COMMUNICATION

Ms Helen Szoke
Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights
Commissioner
Level 3, 380 Lonsdale Street
Melbourne Victoria 3000

By Facsimile: 9281 7171

And By Registered Post

Dear Victorian Human Rights Commissioner

UN TOLD 'FAMILY LAW COURTS ABUSING ONE MILLION AUSTRALIAN'S HUMAN RIGHTS
LAWYERS VERSUS LAWYER – BIGGEST HUMAN RIGHTS CASE OF THE CENTURY? -
VICTORIAN SUPREME COURT PROCEEDINGS 9665 OF 2007, 9263 AND 10222 OF 2008
AND 3731 AND 3366 OF 2009
1. I have received from you a grossly absurd and embarrasing letter. I am deliberately
pretending not to have received it for the following reasons.
2. First, I don't like the reasons for your decision not to intervene as an interested party in these
proceedings. In fact, I don't like that you have not provided me with reasons for your
summary rejection of your duties as, supposedly, this State's principal human rights advocate
and protector under the Charter of Human Rights and Responsiblities.
(a) Please provide me with the reasons for your non-decision;
(b) Secondly, please elevate my section 35 Notice to someone in your organisation with the
capacity to properly understand and deal with it according to the statutory duties and
responsiblities of your office.
(b) Thirdly, be aware, as I am aware, that there can be no justifiable reason for you, the
Victorian Human Rights Commissioner not to intervene in these proceedings. Have you zero
interest (and zero statutory responsibility) in seeing the introduction of basic human rights,
enforceable laws and practices in this State? How could you, of all people and all
organsaitions, not give a damn about any of the 32 questions of basic human rights, arising
under the Charter spelled out in my Section 35 Notice?
3. Your letter is grossly embarrassing for an organisation like yours and a woman like you.

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4. Should you not reverse your 'non-decision' you and your organisation are standing ripe to be
exposed in the Parliaments and in the Courts as derelict and hypocrite - a 'dandy' and a 'lip-
server.'
5. The cardinal rule for anyone or any organisation that proclaims itself to be a human rights
advocate is that it / you must practice what you preach. If you shut your eyes to human
rights abuses (especially as rampant as the ones I am complaining of) – well doesn't that
make you condone them, you are a fellow-traveller, you are guilty by association of the
crimes against humanity (the 2 to 20 per week suicide rate for displaced Australian dad's) of
the human rights predators and abusers?
6. Your letter brings to mind a passage from the introduction to Geoffrey Robertson's magnus
work 'Crimes Against Humanity' (© Penguin Books, 2006) where he comments on the 40
years of unactioned rhetoric surrounding the United Nations Twin Covenants on Civil and
Political Rights and Social and Economic Needs. According to Geoffrey:

'... The four decades between 1948 and the collapse of communism may be
characterized – and stigmatized – as the lipservice era for human rights, when
diplomats strove to ensure that they could never be meaningfully asserted against
a nation state ... But all that happened over those four decades was a series of
academic exercises, a honing and refining and putting in place international
conventions – most notably the twin Covenants on Civil and Political Rights and
on Economic and Social Rights – which were marvels of modern diplomacy: none
of the states which signed them intended them to work.' (page xxiii)

7. Does Victoria face a similar 4 decades of pure rhetoric before we get a Human Rights
Commissioner who actually actions the Charter of Human Rights and Responsiblities Act
and actually starts to introduce the practice and respect of basic human rights in this State?
8. Is it your job to be the diplomat, the lip-server, so that Government in this State can pretend
that it has, in 2007 given human rights to its citizens while '[not] intending them to work'
during your watch?
9. Your letter makes a jolly good show of suggesting this to be the case. I encourage you to
show if it isn't so.
10. Should you maintain this position I will have to challenge you in the parliaments and the
courts. You might become the first Victorian Human Rights Commissioner to be sued for
failing to comply with your human rights responsiblities under the Victorian Charter of

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 Human Rights and Responsibilities Act. Stranger things are already happening in the
Courts (as my Section 35 Notice under the Charter illustrates).
11. I encourage you to reconsider your organsations responses. I am more than happy that we
simply forget your two past mistakes and get on with the historic process of dealing properly
with my human rights situation (that is, identifying, quarantining, and over time managing the
human rights abuses that I have exposed by becoming one of the million innocent victims). I
strongly believe in giving second (and third) chances, in education and understanding rather
than heavy handed responses from the lawyers arsenal of litigation, regulatory complaints,
media, etc etc.
12. You can call me on 0429 859 519 to organise to meet up when you are ready to engage on a
proper level appropriate to the gravity of the situation.

Kind regards

JAMES JOHNSON

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