Queensland, Australia is not the only place where in the implementation of so called law there is an abuse of process.
The only difference there is that there was much attention drawn to this abuse of process by the 'authorities'.
ANY
real honest lawyer should be able to tell you that apart from the fact that the laws put in place are unlawful, they are in breach of a document that the government does not want the masses to know about called the Constitution.
See: Larry Hannigan's - Voice of the Australian Constitution at:
http://larryhannigan.com/VOC.htm
Some people may say that the 'Constitution' (
Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act 1900 (UK) ) is not valid, but it is listed as a currently valid Commonwealth Act at:
http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/cth/consol_act/coaca430/
There is also a place called the High Court of Australia, which you can take you matter to with regards to law according to the Australian 'Constitution'.
In any event there are many unlawful Acts enacted by the people in government, but the masses are asleep.
It was only through the drawing of attention and chalenging the (unlawfully enacted) law all the way to the High Court that the criminals in government has to conceed.
The bikies are not the criminals, but rather the people who enacted the laws 'illegally'.
See article from 5 April 2016 by news.com.au of the headline:
Queensland Police have everything the need to beat bikies, says expert, despite repeal of anti-gangs law
Critics have said the repeal of Queensland’s anti-bikie laws could have a devastating effect.
QUEENSLAND’S
anti-bikie laws, which the Government says it will axe by 2017, were an
“abuse of process” and their dumping can’t come soon enough, a
motorcycle gang expert has told news.com.au.
However,
supporters of the laws say any watering down of the legislation gives
the violent gangs the green light to resume operations.
On Monday,
Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk announced the state’s Vicious
Lawless Association Disestablishment act, or VLAD laws — introduced by
her predecessor Campbell Newman — would be scrapped following a report
from the Taskforce on Organised Crime Legislation.
The laws, the
most stringent in Australia, came into place in 2013 after a massive
bikie brawl in Broadbeach, on the Gold Coast, a hotspot of Queensland’s
outlaw motorcycle gangs.
The VLAD laws primarily prevented three
or more members from criminal motorbike gangs, such as the Finks, Rebels
and Bandidos, from meeting up.
Bikie clubhouses were also closed down and gang members stopped from wearing their club colours into licensed premises.
Police
said the laws allowed them to make headway in operations targeting the
gangs and the lack of clubhouses and colours had made the bikies far
less visible.
But critics said elements of the legislation were
far too broad and, ultimately, they had little effect in curbing the
gangs’ criminal activities.
Police
Minister Bill Byrne, Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk and Attorney-General
Yvette D'Ath announce the repeal of the VLAD laws. Picture: Mark
CranitchSource:News Corp Australia
MAYHEM ON STREETS
Last
August, a case against five alleged bikies, who were arrested while
buying ice cream on the Gold Coast, collapsed with the men’s lawyer
remarking, “The biggest controversy was whether it should be a choc-top
or a vanilla ice cream”.
That hasn’t stopped the laws backers from furiously trying to keep them in place.
Last
week, a Gold Coast police officer, who was one of the key players in
attempting to break up the gangs, said any watering down of the
legislation would lead to a bikie turf war as different groups sought to
dominate.
Superintendent Jim Keogh said it was important to remember the way things were before the VLAD laws.
“It was mayhem on the streets and the tough laws were what had to happen.”
“Surfers
Paradise was always the Finks’ turf but they’re going to face a fight
for it if the bikies return to the Coast,” he told the
Courier Mail.
“Many Finks patched over to the Mongols before the VLAD laws and they are going to want Surfers Paradise.
“The Hells Angels have made the internal decision to expand, with their sights set on the same patch.”
Lawyer
Zeke Bentley (centre) with bikies Mick Kosenko (Rebels) and Terry
McCormack (Hells Angels) after the announcement of report’s findings on
the VLAD laws. Picture: Mark CranitchSource:News Corp Australia
WAITING AT TWEED HEADS
Jarrod
Bleijie, who was the architect of the laws when he was attorney-general
in the Newman Government, said “The minute that deterrence is gone —
i.e. the repeal of the legislation — the criminal gang members are
waiting at Tweed Heads to come back over the border into Queensland,
where they can again start their illegal operations.”
Gold Coast
Mayor Tom Tate even went so far as to say any changes to bikies laws
should be with the aim of making them “even tougher”.
But
responding to the review’s recommendations Ms Palaszczuk said, “The VLAD
laws only got two convictions, I repeat, only two convictions.”
Ms
Palaszczuk said new laws would be introduced later this year. But
although the offence of gang members meeting would be scrapped, they
would be replaced by new legislation that would be “tough, workable and
enforceable”.
“There will be no let-up from police or prosecutors, we will be giving them more resources. I want more convictions, not less.”
Bond
University’s Terry Goldsworthy, a former detective inspector, is an
expert in bikies. Dr Goldsworthy scoffed at the idea that bikies were
revving their engines on the NSW side of the border ready to head back
into the sunshine state.
“They’re not waiting to reclaim the Coast,” he told news.com.au.
“People
think there are no bikies in Queensland. The bikies are here but they
have been forced underground and don’t wear their colours in public.”
Dr
Goldsworthy said the lack of convictions suggested the laws were a
reaction to a “moral panic” about bikies, were more about a war of
attrition against the gangs and as such an “abuse of process”.
“The
Queensland Police Service has all the resources and capabilities to
deal with criminal elements of the bikies and I think the effect of VLAD
laws has been vastly overstated,” he said.
“If the laws were
removed would the police be able to do what they’ve been doing for the
last two years? The answer, of course, being yes.”
Acting Opposition Leader John-Paul Langbroek says removing the laws is a mistake. Picture: Mark CranitchSource:News Corp Australia
STITCH UP
The
review found that recruitment by criminal gangs had continued since the
2013 laws, albeit with a reduced public profile. Meanwhile, the vast
majority of people charged under the laws were not gang members.
Dr
Goldsworthy said police already had much of the legal clout they needed
to beat criminal activities but they had to “maintain focus and
maintain adequate resourcing levels” within those parts of the force
targeting bikies.
One change, which the Queensland Government
looks likely to make, is to adopt a NSW-style consorting law which would
see groups of gang members broken up — but only if they had criminal
convictions.
“The way it’s done is much more targeted and much
more successful than up here and one of the problems [in Queensland] is
they’re just not winning in court,” said Dr Goldsworthy.
Acting
Opposition Leader John-Paul Langbroek said the laws were working but he
criticised the taskforce’s terms of reference, which ordered it to
advise the government how best to repeal or substantially amend the
legislation, meant the review wasn’t credible.
“The review is a stitch up based on a false premise.”
A
group of motorcycle gang members and their lawyers said they expected
the new laws would be challenged in court because elements would still
remain in place.
“They’re chasing us for high handlebars and noisy
pipes, making out like we’re some sort of smart criminal organisation,”
Rebels Brisbane chapter president Mick Kosenko said.
“They should be tackling real crime and get rid of these laws.”
- with AAP.
Benedict Brook, news.com.au
