Thursday, August 6, 2009

Ferret is Right

Yesterday, "Ferret" a member of the Finks Motorcycle Club criticised the state based anti biker laws in a speech to the National Press Club.

He said: "I’m not trying to say all bikers are saints, just like not all politicians or police are squeaky clean. But I would say that there is more organised criminal activity every day in Australia’s governments and police services than you would find at your local biker clubhouse".

Criminology expert Paul Wilson from Bond University said that biker related crime is small.

"Gang-related violence represents just 0.6 per cent of all crime in Australia and biker groups represents about half of that. OK some of it is horrific, but it’s a very small proportion".

So according to the expert, non biker crime accounts for 99.7% of all crime in Australia. And yet some states are ignoring that and pursuing the 0.3% that relates to bikers - with draconian legislation.

What on earth is that all about?

Simple really - this is about those State Governments desperately trying to shore up their untenable positions - diverting attention from their own failures by being seen to be "tough on crime".

And by the way, the real criminals roam free and do what they like while the state police agencies target those dreaded bikers.

As everyone knows bikers are the scourge of the nation, responsible for organised crime - and loads of bad stuff - and they probably also kidnapped the easter bunny and tortured father christmas - blah, blah, rhubarb, rhubarb and other irrelevant nonsense.

It’s simply a diversion - one that is often used by unscrupulous state politicians to gather more power and keep themselves and their mates on the gravy train.

It seems to me that it is about to backfire.

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