Of men, balls-
- and the playing with thereof. The mystique of air safety has a lot to answer for; this ball has, for many overs satisfactorily serviced the needs of the authority and has been cynically and ruthlessly hammered to death. We'll take the new ball now, thanks Ump.
I can't see that the Senate has any option but to call in the DPP and closely examine the events subsequent to the ditching. Even if it is only to eliminate the possibility that breaches of not only the TSI Act, but of the AN Act, Regulations and Orders on through to misleading the Senate were committed – by CASA; if only for self preservations sake. That aught to take care of the ball – but what of the men, how should we play them?
The current CASA outfit has demonstrated, when it suits, no mercy when it comes to playing the man; not just Davis, Aherne, Quinn, James, Quadrio etc. etc. there are many. Perhaps the DAS is misinformed as to whom exactly is, universally, perceived as the confused minority group. Hint; it ain't the industry.
CASA have not scrupled to 'bend' Acts, facts, statements and words to a sole purpose – has that not been self evident throughout the Pel Air inquiry? The 'authority' seemingly has not hesitated to reverse course from a full on doing over of Pel Air to a full blown "nothing to see – move on" report being generated, served up under the tattered remnants of the cloak of mystery. This is what they are so desperately arguing through the Senate inquiry. James ? a bone thrown to the rapacious wabbit – hells bells, Chambers should be fired, out of hand, simply for gross abuse of the English language, never mind the rest.
The 'system' is designed to allow for 'personalities'; as group, we tend to fix up a SOP or COM system glitch first (our end); dealing with 'offender's' for the most part, in house. It is a good system and has served well for many years. But for CASA, those days must be numbered, it's time; distasteful and unnatural as it is, to play the man. The systems when not abused work fine (ish), perhaps it's time for a few CASA operatives to have 'tea and biccy's with the CDPP, or someone's legal team under civil law, (up close and personal like).
Once we have the system working, maybe we can tackle the essentials: like why Hempel crashed, why DJ ran out of motion lotion. etc. etc..... Crikey, we may even get some educated, qualified recommendations about how to avoid such unpleasantness. But, as Grandpapa used to say – "if you want a rabbit pie, first, you must catch your rabbit."
Last edited by Kharon; 25th Mar 2013 at 20:24.
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