Firstly, they are issued by those who prefer the former government, and who had no problem with the absolute power wielded by them. Some would say in this case the irony of the complaint is that the Labor party have been thrown out after they abused their absolute power, but that’s another blog post. At the end of the day, whoever wins the election weilds absolute power.

Now where I really think this argument is silly is that the parliament only runs for three years. That’s not absolute power, thats a temporary grasp which can be taken away if you don’t behave yourself. So Queenslanders who prefer a Labor government have nothing to fear, if Campell’s team get up to no good, it is a sure thing Queensland will throw them out in three short years.

Now I must go back and watch the coverage.

I’d be interested to know who was taking care of the couples five children while the parents were off burglarising homes in the middle of the night. What are these people teaching their children, that it’s okay to steal, and okay to leave the kids alone all night while you do it? Not good.

But the real rub is the work of the judge in question. He says he recognised that Perry had no real history of dishonesty. Okay, but then why was he on PAROLE? If his prior offences were not matters of dishonesty, then perhaps they were violence related, so we have ourselves a dishonest violent thief, and judge lets him off with a suspended sentence.

It’s high time our esteemed government looked at sentencing options for crims like this Matthew Perry character. I have no problem with minor offences not getting jail time, especially if they have kids to look after, but we need to do more than send them home and wait for them to offend again.  Lets start by ensuring people on parole are wearing tracking bracelets, and lets at least give them curfews so they somewhat restricted in what they can do.

And then, when they offend again, lets throw them in prison so they can’t. Once is a mistake, but twice is intentional.