And what are we the people going to do about this injustice, before "you may
be next" Philip Madsen.
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> Seems John Wilson won't be bothering us as much for a couple of years...
>
> Sydney dentist jailed for throwing yellow paint over judge
>
> Source: AAP | Published: Tuesday November 9 2:40:23 PM
>
> A dentist was jailed for two years today for hurling yellow paint at a
> judge who had dismissed his case attacking the legal system.
>
> After Justice James Wood imposed the sentence, 57-year-old John Wilson
> was immediately handcuffed in the New South Wales Supreme Court and led
away.
>
> The judge accepted Wilson, of North Rocks in Sydney's north-west, who
> has no criminal record, genuinely believed in the injustice of the legal
> system but said the contempt of court was most serious.
>
> Wilson, who repeatedly told Justice Wood he was entitled to be tried by
> a jury rather than the judge, said he regarded the paintbombs as a
> harmless gesture.
>
> 'It was a deliberate attempt to put issues of bank fraud, which have
> caused untold misery and hardship to people of Australia ... and judges
> lying to protect that crime,' he said.
>
> Wilson was found guilty of two counts of contempt after he threw plastic
> bags of paint at Acting Justice Brian Murray, who had just handed down a
> decision in the NSW Supreme Court, on September 5, 1997.
>
> The yellow paint splashed onto the judge's suit, the court reporter's
> dress, the carpet and the bench.
>
> The plastic bags were concealed in a hollowed out ringbound folder.
>
> Justice Murray had dismissed Wilson's claim against seven judicial
> officers whom he alleged were parties to lies and conspired to pervert
> the course of justice when they presided over his dispute with a bank.
>
> Wilson, who acted for himself at today's contempt hearing, repeatedly
> said Justice Wood had no jurisidiction over him and he was entitled to
> be heard by a jury.
>
> 'I have found judges are liars, criminals and traitors,' he said.
>
> 'I have no confidence in you or the system as it stands, it must be
> rebuilt, it must be dismantled.'
>
> He denied being in contempt of court, saying he had great respect for a
> court when it administered truth and justice, but he said Justice Murray
> had administered injustice.
>
> Further, he said the Supreme Court concealed bank fraud and conspired to
> protect the banks.
>
> In finding the contempt to be very serious, Justice Wood said it was a
> case of premeditation rather than a spontaneous outburst.
>
> In rejecting his call for a jury trial, the judge said it was well
> established the court had the jurisdiction to deal with contempt matters
> through judge-alone hearings.
>
> Fellow member of FLAC (For Legally Abused Citizens) Raymond Lovett told
> the court his friend Wilson was an honest, decent citizen.
>
> 'I just wonder whether paint, to some people, is sufficient,' Mr Lovett
said.
>
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