WHAT’S WRONG WITH THE VLAD ~ • Fails to keep the powers of the parliament and the court separate. • Its making saw due process ignored when the VLAD bill was not reviewed by a relevant committee, as recommended by the Fitzgerald Inquiry. • Turns free association in society into a crime. • Treats people in society differently, depending on the group that they are associated with. • Makes any citizen liable to arrest and automatic incarceration through association. • Turns incarceration from a reform process into a form of humiliation and torture. • Has resulted in motorbike riders generally being harassed and intimidated because they are riding a motorbike. • Has created confusion in society about what is legal. • Has increased fear in the community of being arrested without warning, found guilty and incarcerated. • Has increased public fear of and disrespect toward the Police, the Parliament and individual politicians. • Has increased tensions which could trigger nervous reactions by citizens and or Police. • Has generated an environment where Police are at greater risk because of increased tensions. • Has created the possibility of a violent back-lash by citizens, which would then be read by politicians as the need for even harsher laws. • Has opened the way toward Australia becoming a Police State with authoritarian and dictatorial government. • Has limited the employment prospects of citizens in the target group. • By limiting employment options, the prospect of generating crime is increased. • Has seen a number of organisations labelled by the government as criminal gangs, when only some members of the organisation are involved in crime. • Puts a fair trial under a cloud, as a jury may be influenced by the automatic assumption of guilt, as the defendant has already been found to be guilty before they can be found to be innocent. • A fair trial may also be lost, should the defendant be driven mad in the harsh conditions suffered in solitary confinement while on remand. • Interferes with a fair trial for interstate offenders in their own State, by labelling them as guilty before they might be found to be innocent. • Places Queensland at risk of returning to the political and law environment that existed before the Fitzgerald Inquiry.
Posted on: Thu, 23 Jan 2014 10:22:47 +0000
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