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April 20th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda MARK COLVIN: The New South Wales Government has reacted to a significant spike in drive-by shootings by strengthening laws and devising new ones which specifically target members of outlaw motorcycle gangs.
From next week, it will be illegal to wear bikie colours in about 60 bars, pubs and licensed premises in Sydney’s red-light district, Kings Cross.
And as soon as legislation can be drafted and passed, the O’Farrell Government plans to stop bikies having any association with tattoo parlours.
Our reporter Simon Santow was at the late afternoon announcement in Sydney.
Simon, Sydneysiders won’t need any backgrounding on this because it’s in the news everyday but to people outside Sydney, in other parts of Australia, may need to know a bit more about it before we start.
SIMON SANTOW: That’s right, Mark, I mean drive-by-shootings have been almost an every second day occurrence in Sydney. They involve basically often a red suburban brick home being shot at.
No-one is normally killed or injured but everyone is given a fright and tales of near misses are told the next morning.
MARK COLVIN: Have there been deaths and woundings?
SIMON SANTOW: No there haven’t been any deaths but there have been 60 such drive-by-shooting events in Sydney and we’re only in April.
MARK COLVIN: Has there been a bit of sense that this is just a bikie war and it hasn’t involved, killed or injured any other member of the public so it doesn’t matter too much?
SIMON SANTOW: There has been although police…
MARK COLVIN: Not among the police obviously.
SIMON SANTOW: No, police are getting more and more frustrated because they tend to appeal for witnesses to come forward and often they say they’re met with absolute silence; that they’re either dealing with somebody who’s related to a bikie or to somebody involved in the drugs trade and there’s a disincentive to speak.
MARK COLVIN: There’s fear and there’s a code of silence possibly.
SIMON SANTOW: Yeah which inhibits the truth being told and that’s led to an enormous amount of pressure on politicians to say, well you know what we can do about it? And police have said, well, finally said today, at a press conference late today that they want some more powers and that they’re going to get some more powers and this is a little bit of what Barry O’Farrell had to say at the press conference.
BARRY O’FARRELL: This is about sending a clear message that if you’re wearing bikie colours it doesn’t make you beyond the reach of the law. Wearing bikie colours doesn’t make you a superhero that protects you from the long arm of the law and, equally, this is about the New South Wales Government giving the police the tools they need to tackle the shooting spree that’s affecting our city.
MARK COLVIN: The New South Wales Premier, Barry O’Farrell. Now Simon Santow, exactly what are the tools that the police want?
SIMON SANTOW: From next Friday all they need to do is change some government regulations and they’ll be allowed to simply ban anyone wearing bikie colours from 58 different late trading night spots in the inner Sydney suburb of Kings Cross.
And on top of that they’ll also be legislation specifically targeting tattoo parlours which is where a lot of bikies make their living.
MARK COLVIN: And there have been fires and explosions at tattoo parlours?
SIMON SANTOW: Absolutely. And so these tattoo parlours, if you work in one of them or you own one of them or you manage one of them, you’ll now have to be judged a fit and proper person by the police in the same way as tow truck industry, casinos, that sort of thing.
Andrew Scipione was asked specifically how can police be sure, and he’s the New South Wales police commissioner, how can they be sure they’re targeting a bikie because they don’t always wear colours.
ANDREW SCIPIONE: Let’s not focus on outlaw motorcycle gangs let’s talk about fit and proper persons. So we’ll make that decision based on the information we have, the evidence that’s before us and you know we make that call regularly in terms of firearm licences, security industry licences.
So that’s not something that we’re not accustomed to.
MARK COLVIN: The New South Wales police commissioner, Andrew Scipione.
Now Simon other governments and New South Wales, state governments have previously tried to crack down on bikies with laws that stop them associating with each other and things like that; they’ve had a lot of problems with those in appeal courts and so forth and they’ve been struck down some of those laws.
By just using regulations have they got around that?
SIMON SANTOW: Well I think that’s going to be a test and that’s why beyond just the regulations there’s actual legislation that they’ll be introducing once state cabinet has ticked it off on Monday and that legislation will have to meet the tests and then it’ll have to get through Parliament.
Not a difficult thing in New South Wales with a thumping Coalition majority but in the Upper House they have to deal with the crossbenchers, the Christian Democrats and also the Shooters Party.
And they may trade off and they may ask questions and of course it’s then going to be tested in court when police start to use these laws.
MARK COLVIN: Simon Santow.
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