Keep Archie Writing - and Free
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I am a journalist who writes the stories about the three codes of racing that others don't, and I publish them free both for readers enjoyment, and so that I might do my little bit to enlighten the people about some of the more controversial aspects of the administration and running of our sports.
Unfortunately this tends to make me unpopular with some powerful people in racing, and a trend seems to have emerged whereby those with vested personal interests who want to shut me up run off to the police and have me charged with all manner of outrageous offenses that I didn't commit. All of them of course are directly related to stories that I have written. Funny that.
The latest arrest was on Tuesday the 26 of June when I was rudely awoken by 4 gun-toting police officers who had rattled my sick dad's door waving a warrant in his face demanding entry to the Polo Club. Once inside they seized all my phones, computers, hard drives, iPads, documents and files, then arrested me on 5 counts of piffle and nonsense and dragged me off to jail, where I spent a most unpleasant 30 hours perched on a cold steel bench before I was - thanks to a great lawyer (cheers Jim) - fortunate enough to be granted bail on these charges alleging serious crimes that I've never committed.
In fact I'd never committed any sort of crime in nearly 50 years before being pinched during the raid with a bit of pot in my drawer for medicinal uses that are stupidly still illegal despite being legalised (go figure). And so sick people suffer and honest punters like me are turned into criminals. Great isn't it?
That's sad, but what's sadder for my many thousands of readers right now is that my bail conditions mean that I'd had to shut down your favorite website jeebung.com, and can't open it up again until I knock off these five new ridiculous freedom of speech squashing charges designed to shut me up and shut jeebung.com down (and trust me, no matter what spin you might hear these charges aren't fair dinkum at All, but are purely designed to put the fear of God into me, send me broke and shut me up. Luckily for me I don't believe in God and I'm already broke, so now we're down to just the shutting up. My teachers have been trying since I was 6 years old, so good luck).
The problem is that it costs money to defend charges no matter how little merit they may have - which of course is the idea here - and because I write and publish for free I don't have any dough. Lawyers don't work for nothing unfortunately so unless I can raise some funds for this fresh set of 'Shut Archie Butterfly Down' charges, then shut down I shall be, and without legal representation if I have a bit of bad luck maybe an outside chance of being locked up too.
Many kindly donated to the lawyers retirement fund last time I got hauled away in January, and their generosity was and still is greatly appreciated, but good lawyers don't come cheap and that dough is all but burnt up now and the every-hungry wig and robe wearers are, like Oliver Twist, demanding more.
So readers, is there any chance that you might me able to throw a few bucks in the hat to help keep a starving racing writer out of jail and still writing? I would be deeply grateful and promise to pay you back by writing heaps of fun and interesting stuff once the court allows me to get back to doing what I do best again.
Why, you never know, if we raise enough dough we might even run an application for a bail variation so that we can get back on the air before the 3rd Origin game kicks off at Lang Park. Now that'd be a beauty wouldn't it? So dig deep!
I hope you're missing my stories as much as I am missing writing them for you, and I can't wait to be back tapping them racing tales again soon. In the meantime stay safe and happy punting!
Cheers, Archie
P.S. Did I mention that I'm chasing donations toward my legal defense?
P.S.S. How much more of this bloody police harassment can a poor old Jeebung koala bear?
P.S.S.S. Just to be clearer than mud, I am talking here about a small cabal of non-uniformed promotion-seeking senior officers who spend most most of their time behind desks, not the good women and men of the broader Queensland Police Force who work their guts out and put their bodies on the line every day to keep our streets safe. They are the good gals guys, and want to sort out the bad bludgers as much as we do, not protect them like some do, and where would we be without these heroes in glue? Up the creek without a paddle that's where. The same place as I'll be if I can't raise some legal spondoolarama. Nudge, nudge, hint, hint sports fans. Over to you.
Unfortunately this tends to make me unpopular with some powerful people in racing, and a trend seems to have emerged whereby those with vested personal interests who want to shut me up run off to the police and have me charged with all manner of outrageous offenses that I didn't commit. All of them of course are directly related to stories that I have written. Funny that.
The latest arrest was on Tuesday the 26 of June when I was rudely awoken by 4 gun-toting police officers who had rattled my sick dad's door waving a warrant in his face demanding entry to the Polo Club. Once inside they seized all my phones, computers, hard drives, iPads, documents and files, then arrested me on 5 counts of piffle and nonsense and dragged me off to jail, where I spent a most unpleasant 30 hours perched on a cold steel bench before I was - thanks to a great lawyer (cheers Jim) - fortunate enough to be granted bail on these charges alleging serious crimes that I've never committed.
In fact I'd never committed any sort of crime in nearly 50 years before being pinched during the raid with a bit of pot in my drawer for medicinal uses that are stupidly still illegal despite being legalised (go figure). And so sick people suffer and honest punters like me are turned into criminals. Great isn't it?
That's sad, but what's sadder for my many thousands of readers right now is that my bail conditions mean that I'd had to shut down your favorite website jeebung.com, and can't open it up again until I knock off these five new ridiculous freedom of speech squashing charges designed to shut me up and shut jeebung.com down (and trust me, no matter what spin you might hear these charges aren't fair dinkum at All, but are purely designed to put the fear of God into me, send me broke and shut me up. Luckily for me I don't believe in God and I'm already broke, so now we're down to just the shutting up. My teachers have been trying since I was 6 years old, so good luck).
The problem is that it costs money to defend charges no matter how little merit they may have - which of course is the idea here - and because I write and publish for free I don't have any dough. Lawyers don't work for nothing unfortunately so unless I can raise some funds for this fresh set of 'Shut Archie Butterfly Down' charges, then shut down I shall be, and without legal representation if I have a bit of bad luck maybe an outside chance of being locked up too.
Many kindly donated to the lawyers retirement fund last time I got hauled away in January, and their generosity was and still is greatly appreciated, but good lawyers don't come cheap and that dough is all but burnt up now and the every-hungry wig and robe wearers are, like Oliver Twist, demanding more.
So readers, is there any chance that you might me able to throw a few bucks in the hat to help keep a starving racing writer out of jail and still writing? I would be deeply grateful and promise to pay you back by writing heaps of fun and interesting stuff once the court allows me to get back to doing what I do best again.
Why, you never know, if we raise enough dough we might even run an application for a bail variation so that we can get back on the air before the 3rd Origin game kicks off at Lang Park. Now that'd be a beauty wouldn't it? So dig deep!
I hope you're missing my stories as much as I am missing writing them for you, and I can't wait to be back tapping them racing tales again soon. In the meantime stay safe and happy punting!
Cheers, Archie
P.S. Did I mention that I'm chasing donations toward my legal defense?
P.S.S. How much more of this bloody police harassment can a poor old Jeebung koala bear?
P.S.S.S. Just to be clearer than mud, I am talking here about a small cabal of non-uniformed promotion-seeking senior officers who spend most most of their time behind desks, not the good women and men of the broader Queensland Police Force who work their guts out and put their bodies on the line every day to keep our streets safe. They are the good gals guys, and want to sort out the bad bludgers as much as we do, not protect them like some do, and where would we be without these heroes in glue? Up the creek without a paddle that's where. The same place as I'll be if I can't raise some legal spondoolarama. Nudge, nudge, hint, hint sports fans. Over to you.
Organizer
Jeebung Polo-Club
Organizer
Aspley QLD
