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From: Quadratic Entropy <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 1:23 PM
Subject: Court of Internet Jurisdiction - Yourself (2)
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Hi Col. Lourents -
The further email, promised, follows.
All the events that occurred after Sydney passed on to his afterlife at age 79 in '97, already told, put together - in a broader perspective, with depth perception - reveal a deeper explanation why Liberty Life never got around to tracing me.
First, here's a precis of the previous email.
Precis
My jealous siblings were tempted to see me as so gullible they could hide my life insurance payout - weaken me - deem this legal (amongst themselves) and get away with it.
·They had grave doubts about being able to hang onto my share of the family trust, unless they did.
·Exploited Peta's stroke in '99 that robbed her of the ability to talk: to delay me from prosecuting them for 12 years.
·This undermined her rehabillitation; our ability to communicate; and frustrated her and me immensely.
·They mistook our open-heartedness for gullibility.
They have also sought to weaken us further by withholding the support normal, healthy family members would have provided to help us regain custody of our son.
Zane was wrongly placed in foster care when we couldn't afford a contradictory psychiatric opinion - because they hid these benefits.
Despite knowing this they play-acted false concern that "the authorities" here are being unsympathetic and/or counseled us this might be happening for Zane's own good. I.e. by making Peta's frustration out to be an indication she's not a good mother.
She's a great mother!
Elements of their crime
1.Negligently causing Peta's brain damage by concealing these life insurance benefits - owing to said doubts.
2.Dressing up contrition (inadequate compensation) for contributing to said damage, as ex gratia payments: in place of letting either Zane or me get our share of the trust.
3.My sister Caroline frustrating and outwitting me (or others) into thinking there's been a different cause for all my problems. Namely, I'm a beneficiary who can't manage, invest, or spend money.
4.Caroline, Roger (and others) coaching their co-trustees to go along with their contention I'm a spendthrift. [In order to do this they and Standard Bank (owners of Liberty Life) failed to comply with clauses in the FICA legislation requiring the identity of all beneficiaries to be ascertained: when a bank opens up an account, for a trust.]
5.Playing this trump card repeatedly - merely because the legal jargon used to keep my ex wife from taking my share of this trust, is termed "a spendthrift clause" - made it too weak to trump anything, or anyone, any longer.
6.Their hoax that says they never took these benefits (they merely hid them) depended on operating the trust with the wrong deed to prevent legitimate trustees reinvesting me with my share of it.
7.Since concealing life insurance benefits is also a criminal act, as much as stealing them, their hoax no longer works!
8.Magistrate Faber is involved because Peta, and Zane, are victims of cruel behavior I've acted out - on them - because we're all victims of my birth family's domestic violence (economic abuse.) Though I'm not proud of this, I am disclosing it.
I really want you to see this is a serious, ongoing crime all three of us continue to suffer under. There is no other way, than prosecuting them, to make it stop! These aren't rich people who made a tiny miscalculation or slip up in one of their schemes to continue making profits while they contribute to society or the greater good at the same time.
They are relentless, unrepentant, heartless criminals - who happen to also be offspring of a rich man. They will go on protesting their innocence right up until a guilty verdict is handed down.
Liberty Life / Edcon
I've had to expand my grasp of reality to grow as a person in the time that's passed since Zane's birth - in October '97.
Although this hasn't been the growth of insight into reality I originally sought to develop in myself, it's what I have gleaned from experience: and the CIJ concept is a pragmatic way to apply it.
Peta deserves a lot of credit for skillfully helping me outgrow personal insecurities that used to make me so paranoid I literally doubted the willingness - and therefore the ability - of law enforcement authorities to grasp some of the facts released below.
Her maiden name is Rodin, and Isaacs was her late mother Pam's maiden name. The Isaacs family operated the accounting firm where the founder of Liberty Life, Donald Gordon, did his articles. In the early 50's, Donald asked permission to date his boss's niece - Pam. But I never learned this piece of family history til 2008.
As you read on from here, please keep in mind the saying: two wrongs don't make a right. My siblings are teamed up in an underhanded, undercurrent way with a couple of guys whom have more power than them. This doesn't place any of them above and beyond the law.
A.In the early 80's Sydney invited Mr Gordon onto the Edcon Board. Liberty had invested in 10% of the Edcon stock. But Sydney never confided in me - even after the raid on Edcon by South African Breweries in 1982 - that he and many other prominent businessmen knew Donald Gordon and Meyer Kahn had plotted it. The head offices of Liberty Life and SAB sitting side by side atop the same ridge in Braamfontein opposite the Wits Campus are a symbol of the publicly known fact (kept out of the newspapers at the time) that these two are a mentor and protege duo.
B.Instead Sydney engaged in mystery talk when he returned to South Africa from the USA, after the raid, telling journalists he knew who had betrayed him but chose not to make it public. Thus implying he would confront the treacherous sneak in private. I.e. the member of his board whose corporate espionage revealed the date of his pending open heart surgery (in Cleveland) to SAB in advance. So they could plan their raid to coincide with it.
C.I guess he played his cards this way because the combination of: - the cunning criminality of this thieving duo to use my brother Clifford's belligerence as an excuse to turn Sydney's own handpicked successor, Adrian Bellamy (and other senior management) against him (in secret talks held in advance of the infamous day); together with his heart condition; and simultaneous divorce: totally overwhelmed him.
D.Before he died Sydney confided in me how much it meant to him to uphold his good name among other winners of the Sunday Times "businessman of the year" award. He advised me to also stay on good terms with his peers. The "mystery reason" that explains the logic behind this advice - HIS paranoid behavior - is: - he felt obliged to remain on good terms with Donald Gordon and Meyer Kahn so that other members of the business elite in their shared sphere of influence, couldn't be placed (by Gordon and Kahn) in the position of choosing between staying friends with him - or them. This strangely distorted version of public-spiritedness (unity behind a shared front) contains the explanation to many unanswered questions people have been asking about the role of big business in preserving the status quo - for a long time!
E.I learned about the longtime close association between Donald Gordon and Meyer Kahn shortly after Sydney died. But at the time of the Hearing in the George Children's Court (in '98) this news hadn't penetrated yet. When I look back today on this cognitive failure of my mind to use the information available to it then, thoroughly, the explanation hindsight supplies is: I was overcautious; intimidated; and underfunded... (lacked the resources to do further research) when Meyer Kahn's High Court applied, in June 1998, to set aside his subpoena to give evidence at the Children's Court Hearing in George about our son.
F.Therefore the logic behind my side of this case - which Mr Acting Justice Weincowe never gave me the chance to even state (while trying to provoke me by constantly referring to Mr Kahn as "Meyer", presumably because they know each other) - was, primarily, that I was resorting to this defense owing to my lack of funds to afford a contradictory psychiatric opinion. By "this defense" I mean: the argument that Zane's removal had to do with the knock-on consequences of the raid on Edcon that had caused our family to disintegrate. But I could afford... to pay a sherriff to subpoena Kahn. In other words I sought to argue at the Children's Court hearing in George that the reason for sending Peta and me to Valkenberg - to facillitate Zane's removal - had to do with a family feud, and not with our alledged psychiatric illness.
G.By "disintegrate" I mean: the Press Family was held together by a shared belief system; fierce pride in our identity and achievements; and confidence in our ability to make our way in the world.
H.The only part of the Press Family that still retains this fierce pride and confidence, today, is Peta Zane and me. We're not even sure what Zane has got left, either. BUT IT HAS TAKEN ME ALL OF THE PAST 14 YEARS TO FACE UP TO THIS FACT. Up until only a few months ago I still held out hope of resurrecting the belief system I now have to admit my siblings no longer share. Caroline - and maybe our sister Jane, as well - were the last persons I held out hope for. Before giving up on them too. I have been very reluctant to face up to the reality (swallow the bitter pill) that there's little difference between the mentality of my brothers and sisters, Meyer Kahn, and Donald Gordon. All of them - including Caroline - who was once a staunch ally with me in solidarity with our father (when Clifford and the others sued him) think it was OK to rob Sydney - as well as me, a beneficiary of the trust that owned the controlling block - of the control: Sydney rightfully held and was meant to keep; over the company, Edcon, he majorly helped to create. They didn't rob him at gun point but at knife point: with a scalpel. I admit to a sense of humor that recognizes stating it this way almost makes it sound funny. In terms of my interpretation of Justice though: Gordon and Kahn's actions were very serious; unprincipled; unconscionable; morbid; and criminal. They should be held acountable, after all this time.
I.Sydney Press, the primary victim, unconsciusly betrayed himself: when he chose not to see he was the victim of a crime. This made him more loyal to the business elite (he joined thanks to his success) than to his own family and wife. [In his mind: like a soldier willing to lay down his life for a greater good - service to his country.] He was a self-confessed workaholic. Thus when my mother divorced him - for adultery - it was primarily because he cheated on her with Edcon (more than with other women.) She's even said it. He was hooked, addicted. He couldn't give up the lure of the power, authority and adulation he received as Chairman of a massive company. My comment is: even if this was the case, my Mother has never looked closely enough at how her eldest son Clifford, egged her on to her divorce because he saw better prospects for him to access money in the Trust - if his parents split up. When they did split up: this is, also, exactly what he did. Thus he never had to wait for and earn his father's blessing, and trust, before starting to spend his father's money. But even if Sydney was ashamed of his treacherous and disloyal eldest son: this doesn't make what Kahn and Gordon did less criminal.
J.When I look back on these same events (the Hearing in George and Meyer Kahn's High Court application in '98) with hindsight that INCLUDES THE KNOWLEDGE I GAINED AFTERWARDS, in '99, of the concealment of the Liberty Life insurance policy: I am entitled to, and (in the best interests of my son who's still a minor, Zane) must correct the explanation for why I failed to incorporate the knowledge of the close link between Donald Gordon and Meyer Kahn I already had, then, into my affidavit opposing the application (to set aside the subpoena.) Beyond the fact that I was overcautious; intimidated; underfunded... (and taken for a fool by Mr Acting Justice Weincove) I was also the victim of the crime detailed in Caroline's email confessions; and Webber Wentzel's correspondence with Liberty Life.
K.I resorted to this defense owing to my lack of funds because I had been robbed (of the life insurance benefits) and therefore couldn't afford the contradictory psychiatric opinion I eventually obtained in 2000. The welfare agency supervising our son's foster placement, Jewish Community Services (JCS) have ignored the positive (exonerating) results of the battery of tests I took to obtain the psychiatric evaluation (I obtained later) - ever since. But the Children's Court in George would have acepted this opinion and returned Zane to our custody if I had it then.
L.The concealment of Sydney's life insurance policy was a malicious criminal act (also constituting domestic violence) on the part of Caroline Press - and others. As also: the role of Clifford Press in persuading Dr Werkman to fill out a reception order and send us both to Valkenberg. But the evidence that HAS come to light (subsequent to said Hearing, and High Court application) also shows Meyer Kahn and Donald Gordon are "other persons whose help has been enlisted to commit the acts of domestic violence" as defined in paragraph3.1.2.1; of the FORM 4 INTERIM PROTECTION ORDER that complies with Regulation 6 of Act number 116 of 1998.
M.Sub-Sub-Sections 1(vii)(c) and (d) of this (Domestic Violence) Act state "domestic relationship" means a relationship between a complainant and a respondent in any of the following ways: ... (c) they are the parents of a child or are persons who have or had parental responsibility for that child (whether or not at the same time); (d) they are family members related by consanguinity, affinity or adoption. By this definition: the foster parents are in a domestic relationship with Zane by affinity, and with us - by being persons who share parental responsibility, for him. This definition almost makes it confusing for you to accurately perceive the genesis of our problem. In THIS specific inverted domestic violence scenario... it's actually the foster parents whom have been recruited (by JCS, acting as agents for their sponsor and philanthropist, Donald Gordon) as: "other persons whose help has been enlisted to commit the act of domestic violence" him and Meyer Kahn wish them to perpetrate.
N.It took me a long time, until I turned 54 (the approximate age of Donald Gordon, when he plotted the Edcon raid) to wake up to the likelihood Kahn and him still want to prolong Zane's placement in foster care - if they can (which they definitely can!) in order to try and sanitize Gordon's reputation (indefinitely, or... at least until he dies.) Just to show the side to Peta and me that makes us pragmatic parents I wish to add: we may be disappointed but will not be surprized if you don't agree with us. We're cut from a different cloth to most people. We're actually proud of this. We just don't agree our being "different" in our outlook on what constitutes innocence and guilt gives you the right to discriminate against us: on the grounds of our belief. (1) The likelihood of complicity between Gordon and Kahn to scheme the Edcon raid (an open secret) has to carry a higher probability factor than the likelihood (which borders on certainty) Caroline - via Mr A Addison - clandestinely conspired with SOMEONE (possibly Gordon) at Liberty Life: to conceal the life insurance. (2) The likelihood Gordon knew about or carried out this concealment has never been investigated. (He hasn't been exonerated either.) (3) JCS have gone to excessive (incriminating) lengths to convert this into a cruel and unusual foster placment [e.g. never follow the normal protocols when extending it every two years, and compel other social work agencies, including the Dept.of Welfare, to go along with them on this.] (4) They - and the foster parents - even make it impossible for us to get photos of our son or access his academic, medical, and dental records. That they have come up with implausible denigrating justifications for this regime of denial (attempt to promote alienation and hatred between us and our own son) hardly tips the scales of probability in favor... of exonerating their sponsor, now Sir Gordon.
O.According to the workings of justice in South Africa, as Peta and I have come to know and understand them, the law of the land here continues to allow some public secrets to go undetected, unreported, and unpunished. To avoid the charge of plagiarism(!) I acknowledge: we got help to express this insight from the message/statistic placed on-screen, at the conclusion of the film Inhale. ["It's conservatively estimated that 15 thousand victims per year are trafficked for their organs by organized crime... These illicit operations are often done under the eye of local and national governments, ministries of health, and professional medical associations.... As a result organ trafficking is a public secret that often goes undetected and unreported." ]
P. The ruthless and criminal raid on Edcon in 1982 is exactly such a public secret. At the time it was condoned because Mr Gordon initially acted the part of a loyal Edcon board member. He bought enough shares on the day of the raid to give Liberty Life, together with the Edcon stake owned by the Lincolnian Trust, a 51% majority. After making sure the media fooled the public by reporting only this (and keeping his complicity with Kahn out of the Press) he waited a few weeks. And then... sold Liberty Life's stake to SAB. Justifying this act of cowardice and cruelty as a business decision. It was also condoned because of the judgments Sydney held against himself. These... opinions, led him to believe, perhaps perceptively, since he gauged the instincts of his peers pretty well, it wasn't feasible - or else it wasn't "right" - for him to lay criminal charges. Doing so, in those apartheid times, would have embarrassed him. Especially since he was getting divorced at the same time. If I may reiterate: Gordon was also very skillful in the degree of treachery he used to carry all this out. The timing of the raid was only one ingredient of this personal invasion. By then he had also used his position as an Edcon board member to approach senior management and turn them against my father. Thus Sydney literally could not cope, physically, with (a) the strain of continuing to keep Edcon going, as a public concern with 4000 employees depending on him for their jobs; (b) with disloyal management, and; (c) recovering from drastic surgery: all at the same time. In the twisted mentality of those apartheid times Gordon's skill to pull all this off: counted for him; magnified his power; and made him appear masterful. In a criminal trial, today: these same "traits" will count against him. You know it.
Q. In our view he should have applied for amnesty during the Truth and Reconcilliation Commission. On the grounds: his secret plotting of this vicious public personal attack on Sydney could only succeed because the mores and business ethics during those Apartheid days appeared to make it legitimate. And since he did not apply for amnesty: he's not immune to prosecution. Please check this link. http://free.financialmail.co.za/report05/donald05/bdonald.htm Even when Gordon staged a flattering interview with himself on the occasion of his retirement at age 75, the journalist put some questions to him, about his participation in this raid, which show: many members of the business community are still disgusted by his behavior, even today.**
R.Gordon and Kahn came up with their own strategy to obtain immunity - without disclosure - not by buying it but by doing something that smacked of insurance to them. In 1997 Meyer Kahn put himself forward as the representative of Big Business, and role-model, who humbly volunteered an entire year of his life and professional career, for free(!): to share his expertise with the Police. To thus help them implement the superior management techniques SAB uses to distribute alcoholic beverages efficiently; thoughout the length and breadth of its monopoly. He donated his entire salary to the widows and orphans fund. To orchestrate this Kahn and Gordon activated the consensus response in their sphere of influence (the one I think retired Archbishop Tutu is always appealing to, for more compassion and generosity) to the post-Apartheid status quo. The consensus they chose was: everyone from ALL sectors of society coming together to combat crime. According to the PR behind this 'initiative': it would make the entire country safer for everyone. For Kahn and Gordon though: safer especially for them (safe from prosecution.)
S.Since hindsight reveals former police commissioners like Selebi and Cele haven't been immune to prosecution and charges of corruption, their ploy hasn't been so smart! At any rate my inference is they (may have) sought by this move to establish close links with the top level of the police force they could possibly use to quash an investigation into their raid on Edcon - and its aftermath.
And... possibly not.
Thanks to the help Peta has given me - to overcome my paranoia - I no longer think they can. While stating this I'm also formally requesting you, a Colonel police detective, to go about your investigation, if any, in such a way that it protects Peta, our son, and me: from becoming objects of the wrath of these two "gentlemen".
Gordon is so immensely wealthy he can afford to have kept a small task force employed to monitor and report on my activities all these years. [In the States it's termed "a sluch fund".] Thus - if officials in the Master's Office were bribed to make it difficult for me to get my share of the family trust - how will I ever know if this was members of my family, or him?
Although I admit to having no hard evidence, over the years I've noticed some strange things. E.g. in 2005/6 I heard a trustee of the Lincolnian Trust who sold our family farm was planning to repurchase a portion of it to build a casino there, with a consortium consisting of top level Liberty Life staff. I sent out a few emails about this. Lo and behold: Myles Ruck, then CEO of Liberty Life, suddenly chose this specific moment to resign. Business commentators were perplexed.
In my opinion something like the CIJ interface would have stirred up a storm of outrage, protest, and calls for prosecution, if Facebook and the Internet had already been invented (or even imagined) at the time of the raid on Edcon in 1982.
Please hold this thought
I have told you about this other "Donald Gordon" dimension to my allegation that the actions by my siblings constitute a crime, to convey, that were it not for this - let's just say - unethical raid on Edcon in 1982: it could have been me, instead of Mr Kahn, who was seconded by Big Business to impart the management skills to the police force that Sydney is known to have pioneered in South Africa.
Now I have no other choice but to pioneer the CIJ as the program whereby the Internet overhauls the law enforcement and judicial system throughout Africa. Possibly giving our continent the edge to overtake its erstwhile colonizers.
Some recent issues trumpeted by the Press illustrate why our judicial system is in need of overhaul:
· The Dalai Lama's visit. If Tutu and the Lama truly wanted to put their money where their mouth is they should have applied to a competent Court for an order directing the Government to issue a visa.
· The legislation the media are shouting about they claim will shut down freedom of expression, being voted on today. If this act violates the constitution: the answer is to challenge it - in the Constitutional court.
Since Donald Gordon has purchased a lot of influence with his philanthropic foundation which is the major contributor to non-profit organizations in the RSA: I can't get the media to tell our story.
But the law is still the law and... universal laws, like the one which says we reap what we sow, operate at full throttle throughout time. Regardless of what Courts of limited jurisdiction say.
When she briefly met up with Donald again later in life, my mother-in-law Pam found the person he had turned into repulsive and disgusting: by comparison with the young man she knew in their youth. Although it was a trial for her that Dave, Peta's Dad, never earned enough for her to rejoin the upper classes she was born into: they stuck together for over 50 years of marriage.
Sir Gordon on the other hand divorced Peggy, his wife of almost as many years, because: this is what he WANTED to do. On this same logic, I put it to you: he also WANTS to be prosecuted for the crime of vicious pre-meditated involuntary attempted manslaughter Meyer Kahn and him perpetrated against my late father. Assuming their defense will be: that when they pre-meditated it they never realized (hence involuntary) the combined shock of open-heart surgery and this raid on his company could kill him. Alternatively: armed robbery (their weapon - the surgeon's knife.)
To understand why these men CAN be charged and successfully prosecuted for this crime you need only look at THE FACTS already in the public domain THEY CAN'T DENY.
As the continent of Africa awakens from its slumber people all round the world increasingly WANT to experience the true object of their hearts' own desires. Even people whom are heartless WANT to pay the spectacular, operatic, price of their own downfall. Consider the case of Dominique Strauss- Kahn, who used to run the IMF. According to our informal research based on studying the trend in films: this is how the human heart is. Now: in 2011.
Given the consequences of greed the general public has to face - daily - in supermarkets planetwide: the tide is turning against corruption globally, and this is not healthy for plutocrats.
Hitler would be pleased.
Next steps:
When we talk again I hope you will have noticed: the parallell I've drawn between my brothers and sisters resorting to hiding life insurance benefits to try and get away with robbing me of my share of a trust, and Gordon and Kahn timing their raid to coincide with open heart surgery - to give THEM a higher likelihood of illicit success.
We're offering you the opportunity to help make this subtle yet very effective (and also pervasive?) version of crime end. The standard of life for everyone in society will improve tremendously, when we succeed. This is how the Rainbow Nation and this entire continent can genuinely become: an open society, free of the fear of crime.
Hope you choose to be part of this!
Regards,
Peta and Gregory Press
**excerpt from said interview:
"When I ask about one of the great causes celebres of the time, the sale of control of Edcon to SA Breweries while its chairman, Sydney Press, was seriously ill, he's silent for a while, as if straining to recall an insignificant incident. Finally he responds.
"It was no big deal in my life [though it occupied a 16-page chapter of its own in Ken Romain's 1989 biography, Larger than Life]. SA Breweries made an offer and bought control through the market. Nothing I could do could fight them off, but I managed to push the price up.
"In any event, there was a good chance Sydney wouldn't recover, and I certainly wasn't going to run the company. In later years, Sydney thanked me for what I did." [bold lie]
Well, they must have been much later years, as Press undoubtedly carried a grudge for a considerable while. Having said that, it's equally true that Liberty's intervention put the price of Edcon to SAB up by R22m, of which R9m accrued to the Press family. And Liberty's consequent acquisition of a significant share investment in SAB was to have major long-term consequences for that company."