http://www.alicespringsnews.com.au/2012/09/18/mills-sidesteps-coroners-recommendation/ The freedom of the press still furnishes that check upon government which no constitution has ever been able to provide - Chicago Tribune. Sun, 19 May 2013 02:14:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.alicespringsnews.com.au/2012/09/18/mills-sidesteps-coroners-recommendation/#comment-4341 Paul Parker Tue, 18 Sep 2012 23:57:39 +0000 http://www.alicespringsnews.com.au/?p=9896#comment-4341 Agree seen is failure to accept personal responsibility.
Need concentrate on changing behavior, on acceptance of responsibility with consequences.
Protective custody figures need publicly to be expanded.
How many these events repeats ?
Repeat figures need show many times in one year, two years, three years.
The more often individuals appear the more serious attention they need and deserve.
Does community feel persons included twice or more in one year need start receiving judicial and welfare attention?
Judicial attention may include them being placed on ban lists.

]]> http://www.alicespringsnews.com.au/2012/09/18/mills-sidesteps-coroners-recommendation/#comment-4335 Steve brown Tue, 18 Sep 2012 08:17:39 +0000 http://www.alicespringsnews.com.au/?p=9896#comment-4335 The whole orchestrated outcry about alcohol availability amounts to another paternalistic deflection of responsibility!
Somebody drinks more because there is more than one pub open? Apparently it doesn’t matter that if there was only one pub open for an hour a day you could still buy enough alcohol to drink yourself silly, it apparently doesn’t matter that a system that has seen someone picked up many many times supposedly for their own protection yet has never offered some kind of intervention, that wouldn’t have anything to do with the final outcome would it?
Nor would the fatigue the weariness of dealing with a constant revolving mass of drunks by an understaffed police force, over and over with no attempt being made made to head of the cycle, that wouldn’t have anything to do with it. Nor of course would the dehumanizing presumption that these people aren’t capable of taking responsibility for their own lives have anything to do with it, the constant reinforcement of victim hood, the disempowerment, the feelings of worthlessness bought about by paternal bureaucracy without any ability to empathize, that wouldn’t have anything to do with it, would it?
That would of course mean having to take some kind of responsibility for the outcome, wouldn’t it! Are we going to do that? Hell no! It’s easily blamed on the publicans! Bastards make too much money anyhow and we can just continue on our merry way. I mean who really cares anyway? The system’s a good system it’ll take care of it, won’t it? I mean look at the results so far! Outstanding! And the Banned Drinkers Register! Well it mightn’t have stopped anyone from drinking but it sure scared the crap out of them no good publicans. What a shame to let it go.

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