Comments on: Police Powers Promises http://www.civiltonguesaustralia.com/2009/08/24/police-powers-promises/ A civil discussion of policing, libertarian thought, civil liberties and the media Tue, 27 Jul 2010 02:07:37 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Police raid dingo activist & writer http://www.civiltonguesaustralia.com/2009/08/24/police-powers-promises/comment-page-1/#comment-9 Police raid dingo activist & writer Thu, 27 Aug 2009 03:48:40 +0000 http://www.civiltonguesaustralia.com/?p=3#comment-9 [...] if it wasn’t so disturbing. Perhaps the Anna Bligh should include dingo-photograhers in her proposed new bikie [...] [...] if it wasn’t so disturbing. Perhaps the Anna Bligh should include dingo-photograhers in her proposed new bikie [...]

]]> By: Tony http://www.civiltonguesaustralia.com/2009/08/24/police-powers-promises/comment-page-1/#comment-8 Tony Thu, 27 Aug 2009 02:16:26 +0000 http://www.civiltonguesaustralia.com/?p=3#comment-8 At the risk of sounding like a broken record (CD? MP3?) pollies are all too quick to jump in and introduce new laws which inevitably become unworkable because they either havent been thought through and are too hard to enforce or because they overlap with existing laws and create a conflict of law. Brumby's "swarming" sounds like a big overlap with the affray/riot/in company type offences - wouldnt it be easier to just toughen up the penalties for those offences? Not as spectacular I suppose. At the risk of sounding like a broken record (CD? MP3?) pollies are all too quick to jump in and introduce new laws which inevitably become unworkable because they either havent been thought through and are too hard to enforce or because they overlap with existing laws and create a conflict of law. Brumby’s “swarming” sounds like a big overlap with the affray/riot/in company type offences – wouldnt it be easier to just toughen up the penalties for those offences?

Not as spectacular I suppose.

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