Three MPs all talk but no action where it’s needed

I REFER to your page 1 “Crisis talks” article ( TB, 30/ 12). Is it a coincidence our three illustrious MPs requested a meeting with the Premier after reading the many letters and articles this paper has published?

Well done for publishing these. When we look back at recent letters and comments, I for one do not have a warm glow about the meeting.

On December 28, Aaron Harper’s letter told readers he has spoken to thousands of electors. Are we to believe that not one of those thousands of electors complained about crime in Townsville, because if they did what has he done about it?

From the tone of the letter I would suggest Mr Harper is feeling a bit of heat from the electorate and the paper.

If that’s the case he should heed the old saying: “If you can’t stand the heat get out of the kitchen.”

Then we have past com- ments made by Coralee O’Rourke about her many audiences with the Premier, especially in Ms O’Rourke’s role of Minister Assisting the Premier in the North.

One has to ask was the subject of crime in Townsville ever raised with the Premier?

If it was, nothing ever came of it as the crime wave has just escalated.

In the electronic media recently, Scott Stewart reiterated his government’s line of “you can’t arrest your way out of the problem”.

If a person is incarcerated in a detention centre/ jail how can that person break into a house, steal keys and the family car?

The police advise us there is a hard core of people who have no respect for other people, other people’s property or law and order or safety. The group causes most of the carnage.

I would suggest the police know what they are talking about. As such, part of the solu- tion is to advise the individuals who make up the so- called hardened core of the consequences of their actions and go from there.

They make their own choices and if it’s the wrong choice then they should suffer the consequences.

I would also suggest it’s time to dump the feathers and flog the criminals with something else. DAVID THOUMINE,

Cranbrook.