PARIAH
members believe that mandatory sentencing is a racist and politically
corrupt regime which will only increase the social problems that lead
to theft and property damage.
PARIAH members also believe that the greatest victims of crime in
the Northern Territory are the Aboriginal people, not the non-Aboriginal
people who are responsible for the worst excesses of crime in the
NT.
The idea of punishing
anti-mandatory sentencing protestors by robbing and trashing their
homes and using their lounge-room floor as a toilet, demonstrates
the attractiveness of these unjust laws to vigilantes, racists and
other ignorant hypocrites.
Aboriginal people have more right to be angry, than anyone in the
NT, but they are not punishing non-Aboriginals in reprisal, as Mr
Poulton (Opinion,Letters, NT News, Tuesday, March 14, 2000) suggests.
The function of
the NT News as the 'damage control rag' for the
Country Liberal Party is also demonstrated, by this reckless promotion
of unlawful reprisals.
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In 1995, three white,
armed, vigilantes robbed everything I owned, from my home on the
Cox Peninsula and threatened to “blow my f…ing head
off.”
I told the Supreme
Court I did not want the vigilantes imprisoned, just my belongings
returned.
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The 9mm automatic
pistol pointed
at my head was registered to one of the thieves.The hire truck used
to remove my possessions was hired in his name.
Despite (or because
of ) the testimony of four Aboriginal eyewitnesses, the jury of
‘Territorians’ acquitted the armed thieves. None of my
possessions were ever returned.
In
1998 while publicising the blatant racism on the Cox Peninsula (at
the PARIAH stall at Mindil Beach Markets) two more home invasions
occurred.
One
PARIAH members home was ransacked and his bed urinated upon and
on another occasion my home was trashed and food and bedding thrown
onto the ground outside.
PARIAH
continue to protest the racism on the Cox Peninsula, despite a campaign
to exclude, discredit and silence us. PARIAH continue to protest
the NT’s racist mandatory sentencing laws.
PARIAH’s
“squeals of outrage” are firmly focused on the people
responsible for the social injustice that causes “anti-social”
behaviour - the corrupt and racist Country Liberal Party.
Mick Lambe: Co-ordinator PARIAH
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