We Need a New Law on the Statute Books - Call It Property Rage 22/8/2006

We Need a New Law on the Statute Books - Call It Property Rage

The Paul Sheehan article in the Sydney Morning  Herald of 14th August publicised a problem our State Government and police don't want to know about - racial harassment that is driving people out of their homes in some parts of Sydney.

The targets are typically elderly people in old houses that can be sold practically at land value which make the property  an attractive target.

The harassment is always verbal abuse, sexual epithets, racial jibes, cars parked across their driveways, stones thrown on the roof, rubbish thrown over the back fence or eggs thrown at the house, never actual bodily violence.

The police uusally  don't want know about it, don't want to get involved, say they can't do anything without witnesses or dismiss it as a neighourhood dispute.

This leaves the only effective method left to the victims being to apply for  an AVO against their harasser, which does work because the police take notice of AVOs, however that needs money to pay a barrister and the mental fortitude to face someone in court which the elderly victims don't often  have.

In most  case they decide discretion is the better part of valour at the time of their lives when all they want is peace and quiet and simply sell up and move out

Therefore One Nation's solution is to put a new crime on the statute books - Property Rage, which means calculated harassment of a person or their property with the intention of making them sell up and move out, just as we brought in Road Rage to deal with assaults on the road.

Multiculturalism was foisted on the Australian people without their consent and now they are paying the price of their silence. It's time Governments saw their error  and adjusted the legal system to protect
their citizens.