Three Labor MPS spewing forth the illusion of truth
“REPEAT a lie often enough and it becomes the truth,” is a law of propaganda often attributed to the Nazi Joseph Goebbels.
Among psychologists something like this is known as the ‘illusion of truth’ effect.
In Townsville it is known as ‘our crime policies are working syndrome’ read out from the script handed to our local MPS to recite as truth, all while our city has been reduced to anarchy.
Unfortunately, if you must listen to one of the media press conferences you will hear this rehearsed line repeated time after time like it was our national anthem.
But behind the veil of deceit is our kids that are going to soccer training are forced to run and hide as criminals try to run them over in stolen cars and post it up on social media like they have been training for this moment for years.
Old ladies are bashed and robbed trying to go the shops for their groceries and every night several families lose their car that allows them to get their kids to school and to go to work in.
The truth is always the truth and no matter how many times you tell a lie it will never be anything more than that. A lie doesn’t become the truth, wrong doesn’t become right, and evil doesn’t become good just because it’s accepted by the majority.
This city is awash with criminals that have been handed the keys to the city since the youth justice amendments in 2015 and that is an indisputable fact.
When our local MPS repeat their scripted spiel handed to them from the state government spin doctors it would be more believable if they at least wore balaclavas like the criminals they have been grooming into this life of crime.
Townsville people deserve to have this illusion exposed and this government needs to be held accountable for the hundreds of millions of dollars lost to crime every year in North Queensland. We deserve better.
MIKE ABRAHAM, Bohle.
CRIME OUT OF CONTROL
I REFER to the article on the front page and pages 4 and 5 of Friday’s Bulletin: ‘Under siege’, ‘Top cop in call for parents to step up’; ‘Terror as cars target kids soccer’.
Firstly, I would suggest that if the inept Palaszczuk government had put in place any form of meaningful deterrent to deter individuals/groups of people from committing such crime as reported unabated the situation we find ourselves in would never have happened.
All of the individuals involved fear nothing as there is nothing to fear so crime just goes on and on and who knows the criminals may even be rewarded on release from the holiday camp or even make a reservation for a revisit sometime in the future.
I am surprised the government does not have some form of a loyalty
program awarding points to the individual for each visit at the centre
Secondly, I refer to the heading ‘Top cop call for parents to step up’. Sir, the police and public have been making that comment for the past seven years to no avail.
I would suggest that it is the state government that has to step up and put in place a meaningful deterrent to deter individuals contemplating such acts to think twice, and I do not mean flowered shirts.
If criminals in the Cleveland
Youth Detention Centre cannot be controlled, how can the parents be expected to control their wayward offsprings at home?
The senior officer also remarks that the police are doing everything in their power to hunt down the lunatics, which I would suggest goes without question but it is what happens after the police have done their part that counts, which obviously whatever it is does not appear to be working.
All one has to do is ask the question why do the criminals do what they are doing and we all know the answer because there is nothing to stop them, that is not rocket science.
One has to ask the question while all of this mayhem was going on at the sporting field – where were the police?
Surely they all could not have been dealing with other issues at the time and how many police were sat in speed camera vehicles at the time of this mayhem?
The crime figures mentioned are
also of interest. Operation Nano netted 61 people on 128 charges – sounds impressive.
So let us see how many convictions have been recorded against the offender/s name and how many of the 61 individuals are now walking or more to the point driving stolen vehicles around the streets after breaking into people’s property to gain access to the owner of the vehicle’s keys.
What we have seen and read lately in the media is that certain crime is totally out of control in any man’s language.
It is total unabated anarchy in our midst and what is the Palaszczuk government doing about it?
What new strategies have they been told to adopt by academics experimenting with different ideas instead of dealing with the situation finally once and for all.
DAVID THOUMINE,
Cranbrook.
DRIVERS CAN BE TRUSTED
LAST Wednesday, the power in parts of West End was cut for about four hours.
This cut was well advertised and caused little inconvenience. The traffic lights became non-functional thus causing major chaos and mayhem you would expect.
Not on your Nelly.
There were no long queues of traffic at the intersections of Stagpole and Bundock streets and the intersection of Hugh St and Ingham Rd was without any congestion or ‘tailbacks, all without police intervention while I was there, on several occasions. The average licensed driver is more than capable of anticipating and judging traffic conditions to avoid accidents at a lot of Townsville intersections, and do not need Big Brother’s very expensive and at most times frustrating and time consuming interference.
Every time a vehicle stops and starts it uses a lot more fuel than when cruising, this is additional to brake and tyre wear, all major pollutants to the atmosphere and waterways.
The people responsible for the synchronising of Townsville’s traffic lights, most on dual carriage ways, should be pilloried.
STEVE KEATING,
West End.
THREAT TO AUSTRALIA
VLADIMIR PUTIN has emphatically demonstrated just how impotent the United Nations and the West is.
There can be no doubt that
China’s despot Xi Jinping is watching with interest and that he can now be assured he can send a Chinese invasion force into Taiwan with total impunity other than the threat that the West will stop buying chopsticks from China. Next stop Australia.
If the UN and Western nations are too gutless to lift a finger to help more than 40 million Ukrainians, what hope have 25 million Australians got?
PAUL FYFE, Annandale.