The lack of authenticity of Byron Councillor, Mark Swivel, does not come as a surprise from this side of the fence. A well-to-do lawyer from Sydney, spruiking himself as some sort of counterculture legal eagle; different, enlightened, barefoot, affluent… effluent. What side of the see-saw would one assume he rides once the dots are connected?
Mark Twain proposed, ‘A good lawyer knows the law, a clever one takes the judge to lunch’. What about the inverse? Have any secret meetings taken place? What does Swivel gain from the position he is taking? Is he an acolyte or a henchman? The former acts out of faith, the latter for reward.
Twain part two: ‘The law is a system that protects everybody who can afford to hire a good lawyer’. Low-income earners, people between homes, the terminally homeless; all living between the hammer and the nail of increasingly greedy landlords and uber-rich investors. One side can afford the law, the other cannot.
The image Swivel has cultivated has been shot down. The truth is out; he is actively making moves against the people!
For four decades The Echo has printed the stories some people loved, some people hated, and some pretended not to read. If you want us to keep telling the truth, the real truth, not the sugar-coated version. We’ll need your support to keep the presses rolling. 
