The Tasmanian Gov’t made a big play the other day of throwing open the Budget Review process to the media. Of interest was the crime statistics produced by the Police Commissioner. These show that domestic violence is a crime that has produced an hysterical response by the Government.
4116, or 823 such ‘crimes’ per 100,000 of the Tasmanian population per year, crimes of raising a voice, calling someone a rude name, buying a child a present without consulting one’s partner, are responded to by our ex AG, the Femonazi booze artiste Judy Jackson with an overturning of Habeus Corpus, no-bail jailing of people and an increased special force of police.
37000 crimes of all types including murder, armed robbery, stealing cars, having sex with a ‘sex-worker’, speeding, not buying a ticket on the Spirit out of Sydney, we are told are committed in Tasmania each year. What a bad lot we must be. But lo ! 92.5% of Tasmanians are clearly law abiding citizens. Most people it seems don’t commit any crime whatever. Zounds!
It sounds so bad that 11.1% of these ‘crimes’ are ‘Domestic’ though. But remember, the criteria are now so broad that one partner – the male, of course - disagreeing with a female partner is criminalized. Even then, 99.17% of the population it seems do not commit any DV at all. They refuse to play the government’s game of ‘let’s you and him fight’. Yet, it is an EPIDEMIC. !!
The police have set up a special squad to find DV. Thjey have got extra 'manpower'. OK. Empowered women power. They are going to need dogs to sniff out the invisible menace that seems as rare and unseen as the famous tassie foxes.
Mind you, another thing is that these are reported crimes, not convictions. Same old story. Now a dead body or a car missing from where you parked it, or even a broken arm happening in a night club scuffle with witnesses present, may be jolly good indications that a crime has been committed somewhere but most of the DV reports are just accusation. ‘He says, she says’. No evidence whatsoever. But they are treated as heinous crimes needing immediate jailing without bail. Of the man of course.
The ones accused of car theft get bail. The accused murderers get bail. The chap who is accused of raising his voice to his poor, long suffering wife – no bail. Wife raising her voice. I hear you ask? He was asking for it.
To get us all going in the right direction we have a nightly tirade on our televisions showing men as dangerous, unthinking, thick, excuse-ridden brutes and women as cringing victims. Our Police College teaches the untruth that 25% of Tasmanian women suffer DV every third day and 95% is committed by men, presumably by the 0.8265 of 1% of men who seem to be involved. Gee whiz these few must be at it 24 hours a day, even with the neighbours and random passers by. Set 'em on the foxes, I say.
Women of course never commit DV. Who ever heard of a woman hitting a man? OK. Don’t mention the Glasgow University study which show that 50% of a random sample of women at the University say it is OK for a woman to hit a man. They aren’t Taswegians they’re Glaswegians. (BBC. Survey finds approval of male abuse More than half of women questioned at a Glasgow university said they approved of wives hitting their husbands.)
When will the ‘Safe at Home’ legislation get consigned to the dustbin? If 99.17% of Tasmania’s population get by nicely together, why have we overturned our legal system of innocent until proven guilty and habeus corpus?
