re: further to Prime Ministerial error

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From: John B <cabaction@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 6:57 PM
Subject: re: further to Prime Ministerial error
To: governor-general@gg.gov.au


Her Excellency Ms Quentin Bryce AC
Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia

Your Excellency Ms Bryce,

I wrote the following which I felt  may be helpful in showing more of this. I strongly believe it is a matter which needs to be urgently addressed.

wit regards

John A Brown



I do not believe the Prime Minister has the right to pass the responsibility of my sexual abuse over to the Catholic Church.

What gives him that right. It certainly is not a right or responsibility of his as Prime Minister as his words show.

It is an act familiar to any with an understanding of the effects of sexual abuse committed on children although it is in those circumstances seen as abandonment and an inability to parent effectively. It simply is an abuse of his authority or his position to turn responsibility for my sexual abuse over to the Catholic Church that is completely inappropriate and particularly offensive.

The fact that my abuse:

    was by what is estimated to be the world record holder for the number of children sexually abused by a single priest in the guise of Catholic priest, Father Kevin O'Donnell.
    [ Father Kevin O'Donnell has been credibly assessed and publicly acknowledged to have sexually abused up to 2000 children - a possible world record holder for any pedophile anywhere - priest or no priest and that fact should properly become a part of our folklore This figure has never been challenged by the Church or by The Independent Commissioner of the Catholic Church established Independent Commission into Sexual Abuse. A commission which is answerable only to the Catholic Church and is solely funded by the Catholic Church. An independent commission which refuses to act on behalf of victims.]
    was by a man who belonged to a particular religion or church
    [not that that should come into it, however it appears to be so. If this man was a Muslim Mufti I believe he would need protection due to the possibility that he may be stoned to death by the people for these unspeakable crimes against our children.  Discrimination on the basis of religion against individuals who have had the unfortunate experience to have become the target of a sexual predator is in fact carried out when that is the determinant in the case of those sexually abused by Catholic priests specifically. This simply cannot be determined on the basis of the perpetrators religion or the status he holds within that religion.]

I simply believe that there is no Constitutional right and no supporting legislation which provides the Prime Minister whether in his role as Prime Minister of Australia or simply as Kevin Rudd the person to pass responsibility for my sexual abuse to anyone outside of the Constitutionally established law and The Commonwealth.

I believe that the Prime Minister has acted incorrectly and inadvertently caused these human rights abuses. That Mr Rudd did not understand this may simply be due to him having a great deal of knowledge but did not have a full understanding of the effects of his actions. The is a great deal of evidence today, in fact the evidence appears to be overwhelming that these types of actions are are do cause harm to those individuals and the families of those affected by these abuses and the evidence shows that this is poison in a society. It seems that the Government itself has never had a full understanding of the causes and effects of the abandonment victims feel  - is it any wonder they feel re abandoned and re-abused.

I believe the Prime Minister does owe an apology and does have a responsibility to make up for the losses over so many years for those people affected and to protect the rights of each and every one of its citizens including those of us who have been sexually abused by one or more Catholic priests.

I believe the wrongs this has permitted to occur should have an assisted path through our legal system. Our Health and Policing systems should jointly bring their understanding on these issues up to date by including the real experience of those discriminated against by systems maintained under the result of such abhorrent discrimination.

Kevin Rudd, Prime Ministers and Premiers do not have the right in the same way that Attorney Generals, Policing and Health do not have the right to determine the right of an individual to obtain justice on the basis of the religion of the perpetrator.

No matter how long it is argued and no matter what is argued it is a fact that no-one has the right to pass the responsibility for the sexual abuse of any individual in the country to anyone other than the legal system of the country. To do otherwise would be to bring the entire country into disrepute.

JohnB