http://thescrivenersfancy.com/scarcely-relevant/2009/07/01/same-name-fever.aspx

The Age reported recently that Godwin Grech attended the Catholic St Paul’s College in North Altona. Grech is a Maltese name. Malta is a 100% Catholic country.

That is not, of course, evidence of a conspiracy.

But it suggests that Godwin Grech has a connection to the Catholic Church, which, to a journalist with access to resources, could be followed up. But then, it would be silly to imagine religion could play a part in national affairs/intrigues. There’s no Liberal branch stacking in Phillip Ruddock’s electorate. Connie Fierravanti-Wells did not thank the explicitly Opus Dei David Clarke for attending her maiden speech, and Tony Abbott doesn’t even like George Pell.

The ultra right is like a cult. If it is the case that Godwin has been involved with them, he would by now have been cut adrift. People thrown out of cults can crash. They can even end up in a psychiatric hospital.

It’s a well known fact that no-one above kindergarten age ever conspires, especially near the centres of political power. Never happens. No point in discussing it. Move along!

I gather GG hasn’t been charged (from Tom’s comment). True? Why not? Isn’t forging an email - (on the surface) to frame a PM & Treasurer - an offense in this country? Especially if you work at senior level in the public service? It seems odd to me. Where I live, people still get arrested for a gram of marijuana or being wobbly on their feet if of dark complexion. Canberra culture is a clearly much more ‘liberal’

I was interested in Kate Mannix’s comment. If GG is an agent of conniving right-wing Catholic conspirators, along with Tony Abbott, then we should certainly know about it. A Royal Commission might be in order.

But is it true? Is there evidence GG is a Catholic at all? Do we know anything about this man or his connections? Did he really just live for his work, taking breaks only for occasional leaks?

From a distance the whole show looks very much like a deliberate set up, with Malcolm Turnbull as the intended victim. Turnbull may well have acted too fast. He accepts that now, of course. But the entire hyped-up atmosphere of Parliament when it’s sitting is designed so blood-sports run fast and furious. If Turnbull (or other opposition leaders) don’t react quickly and pursue leads with vigor, they get accused of wimping out, lacking ‘edge’ etc.

I also wonder: could someone have put Godwin up to this? If so, who? Whoever it was, they certainly seem (to me) well-connected in the Canberra press corp, who to this day are mainly spinning the story as a disaster for Turnbull.

The saga has been a disaster for Turnbull in a sense. It’s a disaster that so many people in the media keep reporting it as a disaster; it’s a problem so many in the general public consider it a disaster.

But why is that? The Masters of Spin seem to me to have played a significant role. An example was provided Malcolm Farr and Chris Ulmann on Australian Story. Their commentaries were overlaid to help the viewing public decide what to think and they did not seem unbiased to me. and came across as applying a rather blatant anti-Turnbull spin.

The attempted destabilization of Malcolm Turnbull reminds me of other cases in recent Australian history. It makes me wonder whether Malcolm is not being sufficiently compliant with powerful vested interests.

Kate Mannix appears to believe those interests are right-wing Vatican types. Is the Holy Grail involved? How about Tim Fischer? I think this is called a ‘conspiracy theory’.

Anything’s possible, I suppose, but I’d like to see evidence.

The Catholic ultra right is entirely looney. Google around and you will find Catholic appeals to reinstate the French Monarchy. Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite -
that’s when the rot set in!

Why would Godwin, a man who appears, for all the world, to be a person of a grandiose rectitude, ‘concoct’ an email lie?

For money?

Or for the Faith?

There could be an election next year, Godwin, we must dislodge that lefty convert and position the one man who can be a leader of real conviction. Godwin: it must be done now. Gain Turnbull’s confidence. Leak him material. When the time is right, you strike. Turnbull’s famous lack of judgement will cause him to make outrageous allegations in the Parliament. He’ll be lost. He’ll have no alternative but to resign.
Then, Godwin, THEN, a Real Catholic, a man of Faith, will be our Hope. He won’t win the next election. But he’ll win the election after, Godwin, and YOU are the one who can make that happen. You will be the contemporary John the Baptist.
Only you, Godwin, only you can make Tony Abbot Prime Minister of Australia.
Abbott in Canberra, Clarke and Smith in NSW.
Godwin, we’ll show that goddamned Europe what it is to be a Catholic nation, we’ll piss all over them.
And the beauty of it all, Godwin, is that should it ever fall apart, everyone - especially the press - will blame the Liberals - Treasury - Wayne Swan!! Everyone but you, Godwin.
Help us, Godwin Grech. You’re our Only Hope.

BERNARD. Have you checked whether there is any connection between Tony Abbott and Godwin Grech? Do you know which church each man attends?

Might be worth your while.

But then a rare report today that Treasury IT broke down 3 times in February 09 is also quite worrying too. Possibly the Auditor’s finding.

And GG continues to not be charged by the AFP - why is it so?

The Charlton figure is absolutely absent and silent from any media scrutiny. Not a whisper really. Convenient for the ALP that.

And then over arching is the timing of Costello, or for Treasury officials, perhaps we should say HMV, increasingly shaky postures over this timeframe.

And given the Howard Machine’s record of selective corporate welfare, one suspects a sense of projection in the Coalition in accusing the federal ALP of corporate bias. The great irony is that the ALP are very very biased to corporate mates on any number of sleazy areas of policy. But not proven in this case.

Another great irony is Chris Bowen saying Malcolm Turnbull has no credibility. Oh please, Felix my sides are aching.

Lastly, Turnbull’s ambition clearly clouded his judgement. Like Brogden self destructing after running Bob Carr’s polling into the ground, the thrill of Costello bailing out surely made him drunk on natural opiates.

If only he had raised questions as an effective Opposition, rather than seek to pre empt the democratic choice against Howard, which he effectively did by calling for the PM to resign on prima facie evidence. That’s 20 handy polling points gone, all gone.

On the other hand seeing Rudd squeal in Parliament early on was fun. Watching him white as a ghost hemming and harring on that first Friday night abc tv news update was choice too.

Kevin ‘science’ Rudd, as if.

Well done BK!
I am also writting a book or essay whatever ‘The Toxic Public Servant’ describing the crimes they have perpetrated against me which leave this lot for dead.
My expertise has earned me the nick name ‘psychology, psychology, psychology is everything’.
This Utegate is a plot sporned in a psychopath detention centre.
Even psychopaths deserve compasion, believe it or not, and you have also demonstrated sweet kindness showing such to Godwin.
But he, just as the other two (however very seriously less robust and with profound pathos in his delusion) was cruising through the process with a knife up his sleeve looking for a juicy back in the name of self interest.

Frank Campbell (4.19pm), not sure who was slagging you off but you would not have been the only one with that interpretation. Here is my relevant post:
#7….Michael James Posted Tuesday, 30 June 2009 at 5:41 pm |
[….]How long do we have to wait for the AFP to put us out of our misery? Because assuredly they must know who wrote that email; or at the very least which computer/email account it came from [……]Here is another bit of speculation: if Godwin Grech really was innocent why would he have the need for a hospital bed? If someone completely unconnected to himself originated that email why would its discovery cause such consternation? Would it not have been proof of his innocence?