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Not in Canada, unfortunately. Australia. But hey, it's a start.
Like the deranged Dominion's Jennifer Lynch, Marcus Einfeld was a respected QC and head of the federal "human rights" commission. And then his choo-choo jumped the track:
The path to Einfeld's personal destruction began on January 8, 2006, when his car was captured by a speed camera doing 60km/h in a 50km/h zone along Macpherson Street in Sydney's Mosman. It was minor traffic offence that attracted a $77 fine and three demerit points.
He would sign a statutory declaration saying he had lent his car to an old friend, Teresa Brennan - a professor from Florida who had died after returning to the US.
When he gave evidence to that effect at the Downing Centre Local Court in August, the offence was found to be "not proved" and was dismissed by the magistrate.
He was then confronted by a Daily Telegraph reporter with the fact that Brennan had been dead for three years. Einfeld offered that another academic, also named Therese or Terese Brennan, had borrowed his car on the day of the offence. He said she too had died after returning to the US.
Prosecutors were soon asked to prepare a brief “confirming the evidence given before the court”'. Einfeld would hire a public relations firm and call a press conference to insist the "living” Professor Brennan would provide a statement that would clear him.
“I was not driving my car which was photographed by a speed camera on the day in question. I stand by that,” he said.
But mobile phone records showed he was in the area at the time and was driving a companion, former SBS journalist Vivian Schenker, home from lunch at Pilu, a upmarket restaurant at Freshwater.
He again changed his story and claimed he was driving his mother's Corolla on January 8. However, security footage taken at Mr Einfeld's mother's apartment block in Bondi Junction allegedly showed her vehicle did not leave the car park at any time on that day.
As his story unravelled so did his CV... It emerged that he had bought degrees from American "universities”, had not been a director of Marks and Spencer and that his judgements adopted others' work without attribution.
The public was reminded that his presidency of the Human Rights Commission came to an end soon after he was challenged for allegedly twice claiming compensation for the same property - an overcoat - lost on an overseas trip.
Wow. Cashiered for double-dipping on coat expenses. If that standard prevailed at the Canadian HRC, where they don't lose coats but they do lose evidence, Warman, Steacy & Co would have been long gone.
On the other hand, the pattern of using "imaginary friends" seems common to both of the senior Dominions. In Canada, Lucy and Dean pretend to be Internet Nazis "pogue mahone" and "jadewarr". In Australia, Commissioner Einfeld pretended to be visiting motorists:
He had also falsely used the "I wasn't driving excuse” on three previous occasions, blaming friends who were visiting from overseas. It would become known as the Einfeld defence...
Another figure to emerge in what rapidly became a legal circus was prostitute Marie Christos.
One of her clients was Einfeld's first solicitor, Michael Ryan. While rifling through his rubbish bin for proof he was lying about having an affair with another woman, Ms Christos found documents relating to the Einfeld case. She then took them to police - and the media.
Ms Christos announced she would wear a new dress for every day Einfeld was in court and once confronted him with TV cameras rolling and announced: “Hello Marcus, I'm Marie Christos, Michael Ryan's prostitute.”
Not a lot of that on the Canadian "human rights" scene - at least until Jason Kenney turns up and says "Hello, I'm Khaled Mouammar's 'professional whore'." But, taken in tandem with the behavior of former "human rights" commissioner Jim Jones, there does seem to be an emerging correlation between the psycopathic personalities of HRC "professional moralists" and a full spectrum of criminal behavior from dangerous driving to mass murder. It's certainly more compelling than flailing "controversy entrepreneur" Pearl Eliadis' linkage of me and the Rwandan genocide.
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