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No Fear, No Order
Restoring order demands reestablishing consequences as central to justice. This means resisting judicial activism that prioritises ideology over deterrence, ensuring law enforcement is empowered and supported, and recognising that fear of punishment is not cruelty but a necessary condition for liberty and security.

Sam Wilks
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The Cloward-Piven Strategy
That’s the Cloward-Piven Strategy. Not a mistake. Not mismanagement. A plan. One that replaces responsibility with resentment and freedom with a leash. And like all utopian schemes, its path leads not to equality, but to ruin, and inevitably death.

Sam Wilks
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The Consequences of Leniency
Leniency in regional towns is not kindness but a costly failure. It fuels repeat offending, fractures communities, and saps faith in justice. The solution lies in restoring accountability through firm, consistent application of the law, a principle rooted in cause and effect, personal responsibility, and practical wisdom. Without this, regional towns risk becoming battlegrounds for unchecked crime and enduring social decay.

Sam Wilks
1 day ago4 min read
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From Patrol Cars to Paperwork
Restoring balance requires political will and leadership that understand policing as a practical application of cause and effect, not a managerial exercise in form-filling. The answer to crime is not more forms but more foot patrols, more patrol cars, and a judicial system that delivers swift, certain consequences. Anything less is a concession to chaos and fear.

Sam Wilks
2 days ago3 min read
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Silent Streets, Loud Crimes
Passive policing in remote townships is a strategic failure with profound consequences. It enables crime, undermines community trust, and destabilises society. Restoring order demands a return to policing that understands crime as a rational choice, one that can be deterred only by visible, decisive, and unwavering enforcement of the law. Anything less consigns these communities to a future where “silent streets” are a hollow euphemism for abandonment and lawlessness.

Sam Wilks
3 days ago3 min read
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When Youth Crime Becomes a Career Path
When youth crime becomes a career, the cure is not diversion but deterrence, a principle grounded in clear cause and effect, personal accountability, and the unyielding enforcement of law. Anything less condemns society to ongoing cycles of victimisation and disorder.

Sam Wilks
4 days ago3 min read
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Stop Hiring Based on Diversity, Start Hiring Based on Courage
The marketplace doesn’t care about your pronouns. A violent offender doesn’t pause for your DEI credentials. A fire, a fight, or a failure of policy doesn’t ask how many boxes your hiring team ticked. It demands competence and character. And too often, we’ve traded both for cosmetics.
It’s time to stop hiring for traits people were born with, and start hiring for what they choose, integrity, fortitude, accountability. Because when the crisis comes, and it always does, it w

Sam Wilks
5 days ago3 min read
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Don’t Blame the Tool, Blame the Intent
We don’t build safer societies by stripping tools from the innocent. We do it by confronting the guilty, before they strike.
Because the problem was never the tool.
It’s always been the hand that wields it.
And what is the point of giving weapons to the taxpayer funded who seldom turn up in the first place.

Sam Wilks
6 days ago3 min read
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Criminals Profile Victims, So Why Can’t We Profile Criminals?
Psychologically, pretending everyone is equally likely to offend is absurd. Human beings aren’t blank slates. They carry patterns, preferences, and predispositions. Criminals exploit these truths. So should we, if we want to stop them.
The irony is brutal, the same society that tolerates criminals profiling victims often seeks to criminalize police professionals who profile criminals. The same justice system that tracks gang behaviour, repeat offending, and psychological m

Sam Wilks
Jun 153 min read
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If You Can’t Enforce It, Don’t Write It, The Failure of Toothless Laws
The solution is brutally simple, stop passing laws to feel good. Start enforcing the ones that matter. Tie legislative output to enforcement capacity. Prioritise laws that can be upheld with consistency. And if something can’t be enforced, scrap it, before it becomes another brick in the wall of institutional decay.
Because once the law becomes optional, safety becomes impossible. And when words replace action, it’s not order that prevails, it’s entropy.

Sam Wilks
Jun 143 min read
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De-escalation Training Doesn’t Work on People Looking for a Fight
Public safety isn’t improved by indulging the myth that all violence is preventable through kindness. It’s improved when the violent are stopped early, firmly, and lawfully. We don’t keep communities safe by speaking softly to the violent. We do it by ensuring they know, without doubt, that violence will be met with greater force and zero tolerance.
In the real world, peace isn’t maintained by those who talk best. It’s maintained by those who stand firm.

Sam Wilks
Jun 133 min read
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No, They Weren’t ‘Turning Their Life Around’
Justice requires judgement. That means distinguishing between the genuinely reformed and the manipulative. Between youthful mistakes and chronic menace. Not everyone deserves a second chance, some squandered their fifth.
If someone dies while committing a violent act, the tragedy isn’t that they didn’t get to finish their ATAR. The tragedy is the life they took, the family they shattered, or the community they endangered.
We do not build safer societies by rewriting the

Sam Wilks
Jun 123 min read
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One Broken Window, One Thousand Crimes: The Domino Effect of Disorder
Public safety isn’t restored with speeches or slogans. It’s restored by fixing the window, stopping the shoplifter, ejecting the loiterer, and arresting the violent offender. It’s a chain reaction, and like all chain reactions, it starts with the first spark. Or the first broken pane of glass.
The lesson is simple, tolerate the small, and you inherit the large. Ignore the crack in the system, and the whole structure collapses. Because when one window breaks without consequ

Sam Wilks
Jun 113 min read
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Secure the Soft Targets
Soft targets are not natural. They are engineered through bureaucratic indecision and cultural delusion. Reverse that, and you reverse the trend.
Because in the end, the hardened target isn't heartless. It's responsible. And in this world, responsibility is the only real defence.
And as we have all learnt the hard way, those elected and appointed seldom accept responsibility for anything.

Sam Wilks
Jun 103 min read
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The More You Excuse, The Less You Prevent
Every excuse given to a criminal is a burden shifted to a law-abiding citizen. Every time the system explains away a carjacking, a stabbing, or a home invasion, it quietly invites the next one. The moral equation is simple, the more you excuse, the less you prevent.
And eventually, when the excuses run out, all that’s left is fear, and the shattered remains of what used to be a civil society.

Sam Wilks
Jun 93 min read
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Rogue Judges, Repeat Offenders
It must end. Judicial appointments must reflect a commitment to law, not ideology. Sentencing should reflect the crime, not the identity of the criminal. Parole should be a privilege, not a political gesture. And most importantly, public safety, not judicial self-actualization, must return to the centre of the justice system.
Because a society that prioritises the rights of criminals over the safety of its citizens is not compassionate. It’s suicidal.

Sam Wilks
Jun 83 min read
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A Case Study in Government Enabling Lawlessness
he solution doesn’t need to be invented, it needs to be allowed. Let police do their jobs without bureaucratic muzzle. Let courts apply swift, predictable punishment instead of activist leniency. Let public safety take priority over political narratives.
Until that happens, crime will not just persist, it will escalate. And every dollar spent on programs that excuse rather than deter will continue to subsidise the very lawlessness they claim to fight. In the NT, the real p

Sam Wilks
Jun 83 min read
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More Police, Less Excuse
Policing must return to its proper function, deterrence through dominance. That doesn’t mean brutality or injustice, it means clarity. It means the certainty that those who offend will be caught and punished without delay. It means police who are trained to win confrontations, not avoid them. And it means a judicial system that supports enforcement, rather than undermining it with activist rulings.

Sam Wilks
Jun 53 min read
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Criminals Don’t Care About Intentions, Only Outcomes
It is outcomes, not intentions, that define the effectiveness of policies against crime. Moral vanity and ideological narratives offer scant protection against violent crime and theft. Real safety demands policies that criminals understand clearly as reliable, swift, and severe. If we truly aim to protect communities, we must accept the hard truth, criminals will only respect consequences that clearly outweigh the perceived benefits of crime.

Sam Wilks
Jun 43 min read
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Fences Work! Whether It’s Borders or Back Alleys
Fences are not just barriers, they are statements. They clarify, protect, and stabilise. In a world of uncertainty and complexity, clear boundaries provide essential order, reassuring citizens that society will actively defend the rights, property, and safety of the law-abiding majority.

Sam Wilks
Jun 33 min read
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