Kent Parker is very predictable and taken to acting and speaking rashly. Some will recall that Parker first blogged about a 'settlement conference' due in May as something of a victory. He portrayed it as the 'first time' that Joe Karam was finally showing some responsibility regarding the defamation charges brought by him against Parker and Purkiss. Indeed Parker had convinced himself that it might be 'all over Rover' and that his position, multi-positional as it has been, was vindicated. That Joe had perhaps recognised the validity of 'free speech' on an important case and so on as Kent prefers to delude himself.
A more experienced campaigner than Parker, someone with more smarts, could have realised that the case against Parker is very strong and that any negotiations toward a settlement would necessarily reflect that. A more experienced campaigner, realising that they'd been on the back foot through out, would have sought to make some advantage from the opportunity - made a range of offers, that at least could be used later to show a willingness to appease the plaintiff's position. But Parker has faced these solutions for 3 years and each time turned away from them and become more firmly mired in his own trap. None of us should forget that Parker had a cease and desist letter which he ignored, and after which he continued to defame Karam. He didn't have the good sense to change tack even when confronted by the first step of the proceedings that were potentially about to be brought against him if he didn't stop. He had a chorus of idiots chirping in the back ground about what Karam 'wouldn't dare do, because we get the chance to re-try David' and other such nonsense from another planet.
Parker could not pause, perhaps he has some psychological difficult that prevents him from comprehending reality, whatever, something causes him to walk the wrong way against arrows of direction. Something which is certainly a delusion of some sort. So he has never been able try and cut his losses, despite having had fair warning to stop. So, on what do I speculate that the preparations for the conference are not going well? An outburst from his Lordship that once again rails against Joe Karam. What clearer sign could there possibly be but an 'opinion' piece that attacks Karam in conjunction to the Legal Aid costs recently published? I imagine that Parker has been offered the chance to publish a full and frank apology, to meet costs to date and another amount for the damage inflicted upon Joe's international reputation - a fully warranted and reasonable set of conditions. Conditions likely to be viewed by any potential Jury as further evidence of the aggravation and public humiliation that Parker and Purkiss has sought to bring upon Joe Karam even after proceedings were commenced.
As the message sinks into some of Parker's former 'supporters' that David is in fact innocent, and that "Trial by Ambush" establishes that without question, he loses more support. But even to this point he does not seem capable of accepting that his various comments against Joe Karam could never be sustained as fact or informed opinion, and that is why the settlement process is so unpalatable to Parker. One could ask doesn't Parker get anything? Is he so far gone that he can't follow simple facts and processes that have obvious and predictable outcomes, the answer is no. An absolute no. That being the reason why his support case has simply evaporated apart from a few sickoes characterised by their hate and psychopathy.
If nothing else, Kent can be counted on to have a meltdown monthly. If I were one of those he is railing against I would probably see it differently, but from where I sit he is certainly entertaining.
ReplyDeleteIt is also easy to see the unease with which Kent's few remaining supporters view the length of time it is taking Justice Binnie to recognise the "mountain of evidence against David". Even they know that the longer he takes, the more likely he is to find in favour of David's innocence. It has been 5 months so far, if the case was as open and shut as they and our system would have people believe he would have made his finding by now.
I think the inquiry has now gone to identifying where the investigation failed. I look forward to a constructive analysis of the factors that led to the police choosing to charge David when Robin's suicide was obvious.
DeleteYes, that's how I see it. I also look forward to hearing his full findings.
DeleteHe doesn't 'get anything' apparently. He has already morphed David saying (at the Perth conference) that he was thinking about making his mother a cup of tea to him having said he had made her a cup of tea.
ReplyDeleteParker's outrage at the amount of money spent on the Bain case is probably a result of his fear at the amount of money his own legal battles are costing.
But it IS outrageous. It's outrageous because Justice is supposed to be a basic right. Yet it so clearly depends on having money. I hope that Colin Wthnall and Joe Karam and all the others who put so much of their own time and resources into this also have a total totted up and are recompensed. We, the public, should get to see the true cost, and questions should be asked about how much access to justice we actually have.
Of course, David's inheritance could also have been used to support his case. It wasn't, so presumably when his family realise what they have done and make steps to remedy the situation, at least that will have been protected for him. Or is it too much to hope that a decent family couls decently admit that they have been party to a cruel miscarriage of justice, and have wrongly profited by their cruelty?
In Kent's strange world making a cup of tea is a mechanical process of numbers. You fill the jug, watch it boil, put tea in the pot and so on....all things, one at a time - much like a burger that I had ordered being made in Apia near Otto's bar. The patty was cooked, then the egg, then the cheese prepared, the buns toasted - each step after the former was completed. That's the nature of Kent's disordered mind.
DeleteI don't think David will look to his relations to return, or compensate, for his lost inheritance. Rightly, that should be put in order by the Crown that created this disaster, if it's not - we've already seen David moving on, working, coming to terms with the disaster that beset him from the cruel minds of the Dunedin Homicide squad that failed in its duty all those years ago.