Peter Debnam: Stupid Name, Bad Politician

1. Peter Debnam, you are no John Howard. Seriously, leave social engineering for those in your party that are actually good at it. From the Herald:

Mr Debnam said in yesterday’s Herald that there were “200 Middle Eastern thugs” in Sydney connected with revenge attacks on beachside suburbs after the Cronulla riots in December.

If elected next year, “at dawn … on the 25th of March, my instruction to the police commissioner will be to take as many police as you need and charge them with anything to get them off the streets”, he said.

2. I’m going to give him the benefit of the doubt, and interpret this as a clumsy way to manipulate the stupid and the ignorant. I sincerely hope that the leader of a major State political party was not idiotic enough to seriously consider ordering police to arrest people based on racial profiles. Really, doesn’t he have a PR guy?

3. Even better though, here’s the Police response:

But Assistant Commissioner Graeme Morgan said that could not happen. “Fortunately we live in a society that is guided by the rule of law,” Mr Morgan told 2UE.

4. Touche.

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