I think we need to remind the Queensland citizens that this issue isn't one of NOT addressing the criminality of the OMCG's (Outlaw Motor Cycle Gangs), it is one of excessive unnecessary promulgation of statues and the associated tax payer funded costs of that promulgation process. The legislation and power to do what is required to address the current surge in criminal activities by OMCG's already exists at both state and federal levels. The Qld government is wasting your money by doing this and their ill conceived statute is merely creating bigger problems for the other jurisdictions within Australia by forcing the OMCG's out of Qld into other areas. If the Qld government was truly interested, and took and actual educated and informed approach to addressing the criminality of these OMCG's they could have done the honourable thing and led the way Nationally by forming a Joint Task Force between Qld Law Enforcement and the Australian Crime Commission (ACC former NCA) who have specific charters for the investigation of Organised Crime. This statute is nothing more than a vote winning self interested megalomaniacal strategy, more than likely directed by the former Commissioner of the AFP - Commissioner Passion Flower Keelty. If the Qld government were truly interested in pubic safety they would have approached the ACC developed the joint task force and had available to them the resources and legislative framework to do the job needed properly. This would also have established the capacity for every other jurisdiction (State & Territory) in Australia to follow suit and for us to develop a National solution to the criminality of OMCG's. Campbell has fed bullshit by someone and my hypothesis on that someone is former AFP Commissioner Passion Flower Keelty. Happy to develop that hypothesis further, however on the facts available this is my hypothesis as of this date. You as Qld tax payesr are being ripped off an conned into believing that this new statute is the answer to the threat posed by OMCG's to public safety in Qld. It is not the answer.
What the Queensland Government has done could have been achieved at a fraction of the price by announcing a JTF with the ACC and providing the necessary human and physical resources to make it a reality. They could have put the funds expended on the promulgation of a useless grandstanding statute into the actual operational costs of a solution; a JTF. They've merely displayed their ignorance of the existing capacity of our system of justice to deal with this issue. This new statute is an embarrassing reminder of the idiots we elect to govern the management of our limited resources and the unsuitability of those we entrust to manage our public safety. They could have the same if not greater affect on this issue of the criminality of OMCG's, not only in Qld, but nationwide and have some leadership on addressing this issue. Instead they wasted Qld tax payer monies and have egg on their faces for being ignorant megalomaniacs.
http://www.smh.com.au/national/australian-crime-commission-to-launch-national-bikie-crackdown-20140920-10jobk.html
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