Well damn…
I confess, I didn’t have David Crisafulli sporting the biggest balls in Australian politics on my Bingo card, but here we are.
According to the ABC, a pair of human rights experts ‘penned a scathing assessment of the Queensland government’s latest youth crime measures, labelling them incompatible with basic child rights.’
Those offences committed by ‘children’ include rape, sexual assault, attempted murder, torture, and arson.
You know, usual ‘kid’ stuff.
Apparently, ‘This would have an especially negative impact on the lives of Indigenous children, who are already disproportionately represented in the criminal legal system.’
That argument no longer works on a state tired of law-abiding families being preyed upon. At some point the state has to say, sorry, you’re going to jail to keep innocent people safe.
‘Children are suffering undue harm to their safety and wellbeing, as well as to their educational and life prospects as a result of short-sighted approaches to youth criminality and detention,’ said the letter.
No. If you rape, murder, torture, and torch, you are not the victim and your life prospects should be a long stint in a small cell.
Crisafulli put it best.
‘Here’s my message to the United Nations,’ he declared, standing in front of the cameras with a steely look. ‘You don’t control me and I don’t answer to you.’
My first thought was, deep fake.
That was my second and third thought as well, but the original video came from the Premier’s blue tick X account.
‘I answer to Queenslanders. I answer to a whole heap of those people back there who’ve had their lives torn apart.’
And then he unleashes.
‘I say to the United Nations, we make laws to deal with one of the biggest issues this state has ever faced, and it’s a generation of repeat hardcore youth offenders who were created by weaker laws. So I say to the United Nations, you focus on the things you control and I’ll look after the things that I control.’
Finally, Crisafulli said: ‘I am accountable to Queenslanders, not to the United Nations.’
With all the violence, oppression, and human rights violations going on in the world, why would the United Nations be interested in an Australian state cracking down on youth crime?
It is a fair question.
The good news is Crisafulli doesn’t need to answer it because he has rendered the United Nations irrelevant.
Meanwhile, his government is in the process of passing the next stage of the Adult Crime, Adult Time laws which sensibly state that if you’re old enough to commit serious and terrifying acts of criminality, you’re old enough to be punished for them.
Crisafulli is focused on justice for victims, and prevention to stop new victims from being created. And it’s working. No surprises there. Deterrence has always been the best solution to criminal behaviour. The present criminal nightmare in Queensland, which ultimately led to the people electing Crisafulli, was created by Labor’s soft-touch on crime because they wrongly framed perpetrators as poor, innocent children rather than young dangerous thugs.
‘My message to the young crims and the Opposition is, with or without you, we are going to be passing these laws and there will be more to come in the future.’
That is not to say that the Queensland government has forgotten about kids living in difficult circumstances. They have announced a Commission of Inquiry to find out what went wrong with the Child Safety System. ‘This is an inquiry we must have if we are serious about community safety,’ said the Premier.
Take note, other state and federal Liberals.
This outburst from Crisafulli, which runs against the Woke narrative, has attracted his highest social media approval from the blue ribbon base shouting, Hell yeah!
