juvenile legislation could be
laughable if it was not so serious.
The most vociferous
opponents appear to be the judiciary. Yet it is the
judiciary, through its total disregard for community
demands for protection from thieves and thugs, that forced
the Government's hand in introducing this three-strikes
legislation.
In WA a juvenile can commit
20, 30, 40 or more burglary offences, with devastating
results for many of the victims, before being convicted
and reaching strike three and receiving a minor jail
sentence.
Is it fair that people
should live in fear behind barricaded doors and windows,
unwilling to set foot outside after dark, while these
thugs receive all the sympathy and support of a small army
of do-gooders and welfare parasites?
The academic solution is to
let thugs run wild in the community while their
counterparts spend million of taxpayers' dollars on
useless feel-good and reward programs. It is also the
academic solution to continually treat those thugs as
victims and pander to them, while the real victims are
devastated and live in fear.
It is gross negligence to
allow these thugs to continue a criminal lifestyle. The
soft approach does nothing to help these juveniles, some
of whom have been neglected, abused and in some cases
encouraged into crime by their families and peers.
The laws are not
discriminatory. They apply regardless of race, creed or
gender. If there is a high number of Aboriginal youths
involved in these crimes, then it is time to address the
problems in the communities that are causing this
unacceptable behaviour.
Perhaps if those feeding
off the Aboriginal industry, and particularly the white
parasites, were to redirect their vast taxpayer-supplied
funds into improving conditions such as health, education
and employment for needy Aboriginal people, it might halt
the slide of the youth into the abyss of crime.
These vast sums of money
spent on inventing reports on so-called "stolen
generations", sorry days and other divisive matters
could be put to far better and more constructive use than
at present.
So, to all the academics
and politicians who have reached their use-by dates, take
your interference elsewhere and butt out of WA.
I am reminded of the words
Cicero wrote 2000 years ago: "Do not let academics
into government with their obtuse theories and unrealistic
ideas, otherwise madness will seize mankind." I
think, 2000 years later, Cicero was right.
PETER MONEY, Geraldton -
February 25, 2000
My street is a war zone.
I have lived in a State
house in the North-West of Australia for 10 years. In that
time my house has been robbed or broken into more than 57
times. On these occasions my garden is damaged, pets
killed, lizards and birds killed and vehicles damaged.
I have had things
stolen from next to my head while I have been sleeping. If
I water the back garden, the front of the house has to be
locked up. While I watch television, thieves come through
bedroom windows.
I lock the house up but
thieves dismantle windows and anything else moveable. I
can’t keep anything of value on the verandahs or in the
carport. Paint was stolen from the carport and obscene
graffiti sprayed all over the street.
Most houses in the
street have the same problem. We have caught 10 per cent
of the offenders and in each case the police could not act
because they were under age. If we speak to their parents
we are abused and called racist.
Young children are
assaulted and chased in the street, in their front yards
and on the playground (both black and white kids) by gangs
of indigenous kids. I find empty purses and credit cards
in the back garden that have been stolen from other houses
in the street. Clothes are stolen off the clothes line.
A neighbour sells water
melons. In daylight, nine young children took them from
his trailer and smashed them everywhere. Another neighbour
caught them and received a barrage of filthy abuse from
kids under 10 years old. That night more came and smashed
hundreds of dollars worth of water melons over three
streets.
Our street has been like
a war zone for 10 years and no one can do anything. Every
offender we have caught, seen or chased has been
indigenous. When these offenders are 16 or 17 they are
going to be criminals, thanks to the do-gooders. Why
isn’t there an outcry by the United Nations about what
is happening to us law-abiding citizens trying to live
normal lives.
The do-gooders are not
going to be happy until crime is legalised and we change
from a democracy to anarchy and then, when their homes and
property are stolen and smashed, they will bring in
mandatory sentencing.
The situation is out of
control and someone needs to do something about it. If
they steal, they have to pay the price. If that depresses
them and they want to kill themselves, that is their
decision, not ours. We get depressed about our property
being stolen, but we don’t kill ourselves. Half the
victims in my street are indigenous law-abiding citizens
– the same as everybody else.
JOHN KERNOT, Broome. -
March 18, 2000
