Ned Kelly survives today in a number of guises. Politicians who squander taxpayers’ revenue on idiotic schemes such the pink batts rort. Faceless bureaucrats in Departments such as Fair Trading, the RTA and DOCS who use the full force of the ‘system’ to crush ‘dissenters’. Eastern Suburbs spivs who can afford the greasiest lawyers to avoid justice and buy ‘respectability’. Oil industry executives who manipulate the price of petrol. Big banks and monopoly grocery chains. The list goes on.
Australians tend to cheer for the battler who takes these rorters on and their patron saint in this regard is Ned Kelly.
In reality, the people we rely on to protect us from law-breakers are the police. And their job is getting harder and harder in our emerging nanny state. The recent hysteria directed at the police who pursued a serial lawbreaker that resulted in the death of a young family was pathetic. What if Anita Cobby had been in the back of that car and the police had called off the chase? It’s a fair bet the whingeing wallies would have just opened their mouths, changed step, and attacked the police from a different angle. (more…)

