Criminal law enforcement has become a joke in Melbourne. The police always seem to have resources to be cracking down on jaywalkers or running a blitz on speeding, but while they’ve been fiddling, Melbourne has transformed into a city where news articles like this are just another daily occurrence: Another home invasion by a pack of ferals, another car stolen to be used in other crimes, another assault on decent and law abiding people by the feral and reckless, and even while the criminals are still at large the police can’t bring themselves to give a description that might help to bring them in.

Notice how anyone with ‘information’ should call crime stoppers… how very nice. (sarc) Maybe that terrified family hiding behind a flimsy bathroom door with nothing but a slide bolt between them and four violent men should have called crime stoppers! Eureka! If only victims called crime-stoppers, or even better, the police, then all of a sudden these problems would be solved… (/sarc) We all know that when seconds count the police are minutes away at BEST. And that assumes we manage to call for help in the first place, something that it’s very dangerous to count on.

Here’s the catch 22 that each and every one of us law abiding citizens is trapped in:

1. The government tells us we don’t need home defence weapons, or changes to self defence laws, because we have the police to protect us. (That’s as dumb as saying we don’t need fire extinguishers or fire blankets in our homes because we have a fire department…)
2. Reality dictates that the Police cannot protect us and are at best minutes away when most violent crimes take less than 45 seconds, and home invasions only 2-3 minutes.
3. The Police cannot be legally held liable for failing to protect you. You may be dead, or raped, or stripped of all your earthly possessions, but the police you were supposed to rely on for protection will never be liable for your losses due to their failures.

Net result? No one is ‘responsible’ for the fact that you are defenceless in your own home. If you’re raped or murdered they’ll go looking for the perp, and maybe even find him and lock him away for a year or two… unless he has a sad sob story about his upbringing in which case he’ll get a suspended sentence or community corrections order, and then when he re-offends the clever defence attorney will use his previous brushes with the law as a whole new sob story to explain his sense of alienation and how really none of this is his fault…

And all the while good, peaceful, law abiding people are left in the middle, trapped between laws which disarm them, and ferals who ignore the law.

And if you think calling them ‘ferals’ is a bit harsh, hear it from one of the founding members of Apex.

‘We have drinks and take pills to lose ourselves, so we don’t give a f***,’ he said

‘Then someone will come up with an idea for a thrill and we will go do it.’

According to him, there’s 4-500 of them in just this one gang, and whilst they don’t go out specifically to commit acts of violence, ‘It can happen’. You bet it can, it happened to my neighbor who lives in my building in the South East of Melbourne… Bashed and hospitalised by a pack of ferals, because they wanted (and got) his car.

So back to that article I linked to first… how about giving that father a better option to protect his family than the flimsy lock on the bathroom door? What if he hadn’t had time to gather the whole family before those ferals came whoop-de-doing into his home in search of valuables and keys? What if it had been the home of an attractive professional woman, instead of a family with multiple men in the house? What other ideas might the attackers have come up with when presented with that scenario?

And to those who insist that it’s not so bad because ‘no one was hurt’, I ask why you would wait for someone to be killed before standing up for basic law and decency? How big will the body count / rape count / hospitalisation count need to be before enough is enough? Right now the outcome of these encounters is entirely up to the criminals. These crimes will turn deadly on the whims of the worst people in our society. That’s not a good place to be. And given the hysteria around ‘one punch’ attacks, some people are astonishingly cavalier about thugs using hammers. The potential for a fatality at any moment from these attacks is crystal clear.

But you’ll be delighted to know that the Police are making lots of arrests, such as the arrests after this violent home invasion / carjacking in which people were threatened with death:

“They opened the door and they threatened to kill everyone. This is just brazen. These guys are just thugs, they are terrorising our community neighbourhood,” one of the victims told Ten News.

Victoria Police says it has escalated its response to a string of brazen car thefts and aggravated burglaries across Melbourne, arresting more than 75 people since launching “Operation Cosmas” in May.

But before you start to feel safer, consider the fact that the court system seems to be operating on a ‘catch and release’ strategy with some offenders being arrested up to six times according to the report pictured below, and in most cases they are back on the streets within days if not hours, feeling like they got away with it (what do they care about a future court date?) and now with ‘hero’ status among their trouble making posse. If you don’t believe me, read the first column of this report published today in Melbourne’s Herald Sun. (I couldn’t find an online version of it so I took a photo)

And whilst some people happily call me ‘paranoid’ for being concerned about the safety of my family in this city, I call those people ‘in denial’. If you don’t believe there’s a violent crime spike happening right now, see the graph halfway down this article, which shows a more than doubling of car thefts involving robbery or assault. It’s important to note that robbery and assault both require a human victim to be present at the time, as opposed to ‘theft’ which may mean an unattended vehicle. In other words, the crimes on that graph are directly human-to-human, with the violence or threats of violence that that requires. 600 a year… that’s over 10 per week just in Victoria. Read the article, look at the graph, then stop and let that sink in. And that’s just the carjackings. Add the assaults, robberies, and home invasions to those numbers and ask yourself again; Am I paranoid? Or are others in denial?

If the government can hit us with a vision for a Zero road toll and use that as an excuse for over-policing our roads and heavily punishing meaningless infractions that harm nobody, then lets hold them accountable to a Zero ‘feral’ toll!

If we are supposed to trust the police with our lives and property, then they need to be legally liable every time they let us down! Lets make politicians liable for the damages to every person who is harmed whilst obeying our strict weapons / self defence laws. And if the police and our politicians won’t accept liability, then they MUST accept allowing ordinary people to prepare for home and self defence. They cannot believe the current situation is ok! They cannot both disarm law abiding people on the promise of government protection, and fail to protect without being held legally liable! It’s insane!

And if they insist on continuing to disarm us, then lets make the security at government buildings and the police who protect our politicians abide by the same laws we have to… let them fight off attackers with umbrellas and chairs instead of the guns and tasers and pepper spray that we’re strictly banned from having. Oh, and private security guards who protect money for a living, they shouldn’t have guns either. How can money be more valuable than the lives of law abiding civilians? If we take the guns away from the politicians and the banks, you’ll suddenly start hearing them singing a very different song about the virtues of private firearm ownership and the need for self defence!

Unfortunately, it’s only when the law makers start to feel the same vulnerability that we feel, when that same thought crosses their mind that ‘that could be me and my family stuck in that bathroom’, that they’re finally going to stop disarming the rest of us.

How big will the body count be before then? Well that’s up the to ferals…

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