In searching on-line for information about the Gourvenec family, I found something of some interest: Several of them seem to be involved in the financial industry. This could be taken as an indication of an interest in making money. Indeed, one of the Gourvenecs, in his profile, lists first in the section on "interests" , "making money". People who work in the financial sector are known for their single-minded focus on making money to the exclusion of other considerations such as the environment or the lives and well-being of the general public. It is a field that by it's very nature, attracts psychopaths.
It could also indicate a relatively conservative ideology on other issues. Now, in my conversations with Eve Martin, the Gourvenec relative who alleges she was forced into virtual slavery and conscripted as a child to serve their projects in the Middle East, she stated that she was brought up in a very conservative way for present-day England. She said she was not allowed to dress in a moderately revealing manner, for example. And when she was involved as a teenager in a relationship with a young man, the family insisted they undergo a religious ceremony to "bless" the relationship, despite her being too young for a legal marriage to take place.
So it was no great surprise to find that a member of the family, Dr. Susan Gourvenec, Ph.D., an engineering professor in Western Australia, works for the oil industry, and in numerous published articles urges more and more oil exploration and development, rather than placing her scientific standing at the disposal of some more worthy cause. Her apologetics for off-shore oil-drilling and her cold indifference to the welfare of other species, combined with her unbridaled enthusiasm for economic growth and development and the constantly expanding exploitation of resources reveals a mentality that could best be described as the exact opposite of that of an environmentalist and certainly not someone you would want as a next-door neighbor or to take care of your children. In fact, her apparent enthusiasm for off-shore drilling confirms her cousin's claim that the Gourvenec family deliberately bring up their children to become psychopaths.
( For the case against off-shore drilling see Committee Against Oil Exploration )
Such a conservative outlook is not without relevance to the question of the family's criminal activities on behalf of the British government. People who are very conservative in their social values and attitudes are likely to be on the far right in their political ideology as well. To such people, "patriotism" and "loyalty to one's country" are likely to be transendental values and could justfy almost anything done in the name of the Crown.
Including the conscription of children.
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