To feel total dismay about the frequent abuse of power….

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…which then gets covered up until it’s too late?

Not exhaustive but thinking Savile, Rolf Harris, Catholic Church and more recently church of England, Al Fayed etc etc etc

Not limited to individuals but institutions as well - post office scandal etc

Is there really any hope for the ‘little man” to ever get justice according to the law, against those who wield power, fear, money, networks and gagging orders?

Not sure why today in particular but it’s getting to me - I know humans are flawed but it feels like it’s difficult to trust those we expect to be able to anymore

these things constantly get covered up and then everyone ‘regrets’ and ‘learns lessons’ but is that just hyperbole - seems very much so.

It’s our own fault. While we are all too focussed on status and soundbites instead of integrity and truth. That is why morally vacuous dickheads rise to the top.

In the case of the ABC - it was a class thing. He resides over a club of weak talentless posh white boys and is propped up by monied Londoners. Fuck all to do with gospel values. Laughable really.

You're not alone.

I'm the daughter of a nuclear test veteran who served at Maralinga.

I've direct experience of oppression via various agencies that I couldn't officially prove, but outcomes suggest it was easier to quietly compromise rather than risk a public controversy.

I'm on the fringes of another potential scandal but can't do anything yet.

I don't believe I'm particularly unlucky. I think that it's naive to think only a few people come up against these things.

I also think that many people feel so defeated, especially when trying to highlight scandal and injustice quite often attracts personal attack and ridicule designed to discredit legitimate claims. I Don't blame those who don't campaign, and am grateful for those that do. It's a huge sacrifice that not many can make for practical and emotional reasons.

Interestingly, the word "Apocalypse" has origins in "revelation". I ain't Biblical in the slightest, but sometimes I wonder.....

The captain Tom moore stuff too.
The resignation of the children in need chief, suggesting corruption
And not even started on politics

It seems like every week there’s another exposé

@MistressoftheDarkSide As an Australian man f a certain age , I am well aware of Maralinnga. I send hugs.

But after a local priest killed himself in very odd circumstances , a very gentle type of man said to me “when will the priests stop?” I had to tell him that priests won’t stop because they are men and men damage women and children. And until men stop their behaviour, priests won’t.

I would point out that very few women are in gaol without a man somewhere in their life having an influence. Eg www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11-22/women-in-nt-prisons-growing-numbers-domestic-violence/104616748

Sorrry @MistressoftheDarkSide no, I am not a man but I do have fat fingers.

I know there are bad people.

But it’s the bad people disguised as good people, heroes even, which really disturb me. Their actions are only part of that. It’s the cover ups. Is society not fundamentally good anymore? does money and influence buy innocence, or at least protection until your dead and can no longer face the consequences?