By Jim O’Toole
The Victoria County Court will sentence Queensland man and veteran Mike Holt tomorrow for publishing an article on his CIR website about the unjust trial of Phil Galea in 2020 who was jailed under terrorism laws, ‘preparing for a terrorist act and making a document likely to facilitate a terrorist act’.
Rather ubiquitous charges on the face of it seemingly that do not amount to much but somehow a jury convicted Galea.
Holt said he did not know that a suppression order had been made by the court to protect police informants.
His story about Galea was on the site for a short time and was taken down when Galea’s solicitor told Holt the judge made a suppression order preventing the publication of the informant’s identity.
After numerous attempts to file an appeal in the Victorian Supreme Court his application finally has been accepted.
Throughout the more than four-year ordeal since he was first summoned to court, Holt and his family have suffered harassment and fear of arrest and incarceration. Holt was arrested and thrown in jail for six days for refusing to turn up for his trial originally scheduled for September 2022, because he relied on Constitution S. 80 which states, “The trial on indictment of any offence against any law of the Commonwealth shall be by jury, and every such trial shall be held in the State where the offence was committed…”
Holt claims that his right to publish is protected by the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights Article 19(2), which states, “Everyone shall have the right to freedom of expression; this right shall include freedom to seek, receive and impart information and ideas of all kinds, regardless of frontiers, either orally, in writing or in print, in the form of art, or through any other media of his choice.”
He said the Covenant is held to Australian law but Australia’s party political judicial system had become so corrupt that magistrates and judges routinely ignore the Constitution and the laws of the land.
“They clearly believe they are above the law and they obviously think they have to power to dispense ‘justice’ as they see fit,” he said.
Holt will appear before Judge M Sexton tomorrow. The maximum penalty for breaching a suppression order is five years imprisonment.
Holt is 76 years old and has recently been diagnosed with early-stage prostate cancer. Any term of imprisonment will put his life in peril.
Despite this, Holt is not giving up on his fight to defend his right to publish, as guaranteed by the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. He has filed and had accepted for a hearing, an appeal in the Supreme Court (S EAPCR 2023 0161 Holt, Michael Thomas vs DPP (Cth)).
Precedent would indicate the County Court should not continue with sentencing Holt until the higher Supreme Court hands down its decision on appeal.
Throughout his ordeal, Holt has been unrepresented. He said he cannot find a lawyer who will defend him according to Constitutional law. Instead, the only advice he has been given on approaching a number of lawyers has been to plead guilty and throw himself on the mercy of the court.
Holt said he is not prepared to do this. His case could have far-reaching implications for the future of freedom of speech and freedom of expression for all Australians.
Editor: Readers will certainly note that Holt has been arraigned in Dan Andrews’ corporate, communist regime of Victoria, Australia’s rogue state, consequently in legal terms, his charges should be dismissed as ‘ultra vires‘.
I FULLY comprehend Holt’s actions in NOT pleading “guilty”. And like him, I cannot find a constitutional lawyer. I don’t think they even exist any longer. All “law” students are taught by corporations for the benefit of the corporations and their agencies as well as the “lawyers” who are trained to harm their fellow man and woman. Before you even get to court with one of those corporate lawyers, they have already done a deal with the “judge”, the prosecutor and “lawyers” themselves to divvy up who will get so much when the case is run – and yes, they have already worked out from what each party wants, just how much they intend to skin you for.
We are definitely in the time of “lawlessness” where both state laws and the natural law including human rights, are contravened. It’s not a case of anything goes, but of whatever those who get their power straight from the devil himself decide they want.
crisscross767 and John Wilson
Both correct, BUT, the corporations calling themselves courts, and the corporations calling themselves governments, are playing “their” new game and use their own rules.
Rules that they change whenever they please, and to suit their purposes – not ours.
It is their game and we are not on any of their teams.
We are merely (planned for) collateral damage.
I want to be around when the type of game and the rules are placed back under the control of the Australian people.
That will be a game worth participating in – for us.
The Victorian County Court Facility was opened in 2002. It is privately owned, maintained and operated by The Liberty Group, a wholly owned subsidiary of Challenger Limited.
Project name
Victorian County Court Project
Value
$195m (net present value, as at October 2000)
Status
Service delivery commenced
Department or agency
Court Services Victoria
Private sector partner
The Liberty Group Pty Ltd consisting of ABN AMRO, NM Rothschild & Sons (Aust) Ltd (financiers), Multiplex Construction Ltd (construction), and Honeywell Limited (facility services).
https://www.dtf.vic.gov.au/partnerships-victoria-ppp-projects/victorian-county-court-project
Courts are corporations. Corporations can only deal with other corporations. The walking dead cannot communicate with flesh and blood living breathing beings. Courts are where we go to play. Remain standing, ask questions and do not obey a direction.
A free man can only be judged by a jury of 12 of his equals and not a judge or any other public servant. We must all Challenge the Jurisdiction of these kangaroo Courts.
tonyryan43, said: “Mike Holt is honest, law-abiding, honourable, and a patriotic Australian. If he goes down we all go down”
100% agree with your comment(s)
These days, our heroes are real Australians such as Mike Holt.
He has the realistic knowledge and methods to help fix this mess.
All that is needed is for Mike and others like him, to be supported by Australian Communities – the majority.
Crimes Act 1914 Cth, the law we the commonwealth united use against them. The Royal Assented version, not govcorps plagiarized version to coverup the Royal Laws they are bound to.
Since the author wrote this article, I have been denied access to the Supreme Court of Appeals. The Registrars guarding the gates of the courts refuse to let anyone like me into Court. However, I filed an Application for a Constitutional Writ in the High Court yesterday for the third time. Each time I have filed I have been rejected by the Registrar, but he always advises what I need to do to make my documents conform with their High Court Rules 24.01 and 25.01.1. I have made the changes and I believe my documents for filing are now in perfect order.
However, the Registrar is also refusing to allow me to summon the Chief Justice of the High Court, a Supreme Court Judge, and two County Court Judges to account for their crimes against me, stating that they have created their own rule to hold them immune from prosecution. This is wrong. EVERYONE in Australia is bound by Clause 5 of our Constitution, that states, “5. This Act, and all laws made by the Parliament of the Commonwealth under the Constitution, shall be binding on the courts, judges, and people of every State and of every part of the Commonwealth, notwithstanding anything in the laws of any State;”
Judges and Magistrates can be hauled into court in their private capacity if they are accused of any crime. The Judges I am summoning have all ignored the Constitution S 80 and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights 19(2), which protect our rights. Visit our website at https://commonlaw.earth, click on Meetings, and read the Covenant linked to on the right column.
No one is above the law. If the High Court Registrar will not allow me into the Court, then I will go to Parliament, the highest court in the land. But to do that I will need the physical support of as many Aussies as possible. I will fight for you, but you also need to back me. Are you ready, Australia?
I think they are going after all the Constitutional law experts.. He is not the first.
Perhaps it’s a question of implying the blame toward the animate and not the inanimate.
Joe Bogan said – “Should this say *corrupted* as in tainted, contaminated, polluted, adulterated.”
“Corrupt” is a verb. It is also correct to use it as an adjective, whereby an object IS corrupt.
The past tense of the verb, “corrupted”, is also correctly applied as a present-tense adjective, as in an item IS corrupted.
Perhaps there are other words with this behaviour. Can’t think of any, but undoubtedly someone can suitably refine the matter.
In any case, I’d wager the author’s use of the term is legitimate.
“He said the Covenant is held to Australian law but Australia’s party political judicial system had become so *corrupt* that magistrates and judges routinely ignore the Constitution and the laws of the land”.
Should this say *corrupted* as in tainted, contaminated, polluted, adulterated.
In the excruciating and it seems semi-unlawful transition from common law to maritime law perhaps magistrates ( who incidentally are probably all freemasons or similar ) are effectively required to come up with transitional rulings until the whole mess can be sorted out. Think of Telstra with its old copper network which has to keep running as they transition to 100% microwave towers. Everything is falling apart but some people for some unknown reason still want to make long distance landline calls. Will anything come of all this politeness, decency, civilised behaviour etc., I doubt it. Emulating the upper classes does not confer upon one, any improvement in class. After a sterling performance one will be invited to crawl back into one’s foul little hole. A variation, the Ned Kelly or Eureka stockade approach, also doesn’t work. Likewise, mass protest marches don’t work, they just define the current political limits.
Do they still have the bible as the ultimate authority in courts and parliament ? Referring to Leviticus 24:
19 And if a man cause a blemish in his neighbour; as he hath done, so shall it be done to him;
20 Breach for breach, eye for eye, tooth for tooth: as he hath caused a blemish in a man, so shall it be done to him again.
21 And he that killeth a beast, he shall restore it: and he that killeth a man, he shall be put to death.
I don’t know the context of this so it’s meaningless to me. Perhaps the lawyers know.
Mike Holt being a guiding force behind Common Law awareness and the formation of citizens Common Law Associations, is no doubt a target for the vindictive and corrupt unlawful usurpers of our original Constitution. Also the audacity to attempt prosecute Dictator Dan by the Upper Ovens Common Law Association probably imparted a special contempt for Mike by the corrupt Victorian apparatchiks.
I wish Mike success in the good fight ..and for all our sake too.
This will be a litmus test for all Australians; do we retain constitutional law in this country? or are we now subject to arbitary arrest and conviction, denied the right to trial by jury and in our own state of residence.
High court Justices Kirby and Gibbs knew the answer. I am hoping they were wrong but then I make pissing in the wind an artform.
Mike Holt is honest, law-abiding, honourable, and a patriotic Australian. If he goes down we all go down
HOW HORRIBLE THIS CASE IS – would make me quite loosing hope….
I CONGRATULATE HIM KEEPING TO HIS PRINCIPLES – and wish him good luck and better health.
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