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Re: Grant Kelly’s libellous letter and it’s defamatory title

Letters desk editor

Will you be running this letter soon?
Or should I begin drafting a Press Council complaint?

Cheers
PC

On Tue, Feb 6, 2024 at 6:14 AM Peter Campion <petercampion2@gmail.com> wrote:

The Editor
The Cairns Post

“Qanon” is an extreme-left conspiracy theory: “Q’s” followers were called “anons;” they were never an organised group, (Letters, 06/02).

Extreme-left conspiracy theorists want “Qanon” to be real; they need a focus for their hatred and division.

Real-life extreme-left conspiracies are everywhere: socialists are very social; conspiring in secret is what they do.

They have to conspire secretly; no sensible person wants socialism, so it must be injected stealthily.

The extreme-left conspiracy that’s affecting you most is their one about gas physics; it’s quadrupled your power bills in 24 years and strapped your cost-of-living to a skyrocket.

You know what’s revealing? Their abject terror that I might win an election. They know I’d use parliamentary privilege to expose their many conspiracies that are harming us so greatly.

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Peter Campion
Tolga

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LtE's 7/2 - Wednesday Edition, Updated Feb 7, 2024 7:22:23 GMT 8 NFA and Struth like this

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Re: ‘We’ve got a long way to go’

The Editor
The Cairns Post

The core premise of free-enterprise capitalism is that ordinary people can achieve any objective far more effectively than can governments.

This premise is evidenced by the effectiveness of the local volunteers at the Holloways Hub relative to the abject failure of government-run agencies, (‘We’ve got a long way to go’, 07/02).

Locals can react quickly to an immediate problem and apply practical solutions – something that is impossible for governments due to their mass and inertia.

Governments deliver services through bureaucracies and bureaucracies are process-driven instead of outcome-driven.

The processes are necessary to limit systemic abuse by bureaucrats but that means governments cannot react quickly or effectively to unexpected events.

This is why centrally-controlled economies, such as ours is increasingly becoming, always lead to poverty and societal collapse.

If you want a brilliant economy, you need to limit government: in Australia’s case, that horse bolted at Federation.

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Peter Campion
Tolga

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LtE's 7/2 - Wednesday Edition, Updated Feb 7, 2024 7:23:18 GMT 8 NFA and Struth like this

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Re: Renters feeling squeeze

The Editor
The Cairns Post

“The size of Queensland’s rental pool has more than halved in less than four years, and Cairns’ vacancy rate is even lower than Brisbane’s,” (Renters feeling squeeze, 07/02).

“The tightening comes after Queensland’s population increased by more than 138,000 people in 2022/23 alone, with record overseas migration accounting for 84,000 of those new residents.”

The influx of southerners was largely due to the Covid-era tyranny of Victorian Labor and the NSW Liberals.

That tyranny was enabled by the federal Liberals and their unconstitutional, cartel-like “National Cabinet.”

The influx of foreigners came courtesy of the federal Liberals and was ramped up by federal Labor.

The cause of the rental squeeze is the Labor and Liberal parties, who build on each other’s policies as if they were one organisation pretending to be two.

Fixing the rental squeeze requires Net Zero migration and the reversal of Lib-Lab development and tenancy rules, and you know they won’t do that, right?

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Peter Campion
Tolga

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Re: Real cost of crime on agenda

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The Cairns Post

“Youth Empowered Towards Independence” argues that “detention centres that are not therapeutic are effectively crime factories and make our communities less safe,” (Real cost of crime on agenda, 07/02). Let’s unpack that.

The primary reason for detention centres isn’t “therapy,” it’s to protect the community from the criminal.

Calling detention centres “crime factories” is bizarre. How do criminals mass-produce crime while locked up?

If they meant “crime schools,” where did the criminals get the knowledge needed for their first crime without ever having attended crime school?

The main point of incarceration is to remove the criminal from the community to reduce that criminal’s impact on the community.

Leaving criminals free to roam lets them rack up more offences and cause more misery for innocent law-abiding citizens.

“Criminals' rights” is an exaggerated issue: criminals leave their rights at the door when they disregard the rights of others.

YETI seems to be another taxpayer-funded organisation whose continued existence relies on not solving the problem its mission is to solve.

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Peter Campion
Tolga

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