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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
Jun 223 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 53 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 43 min read
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Bring Back Shame
Shame works because it addresses the fundamental human desire for respect and acceptance. Bringing back shame as a consequence for wrongdoing is neither cruel nor archaic, it is a rational, proven strategy to reduce crime and strengthen social cohesion.
A society unwilling to shame harmful behaviour openly will soon find itself overwhelmed by it, paying the price in violence, disorder, and lost human potential.

Sam Wilks
Jun 33 min read
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Arrest the Excuses, Not Just the Criminals
We must reject the corrosive narrative that criminals are mere victims of circumstance. Every human being faces hardship, yet most navigate life without resorting to violence or theft. By refusing to indulge excuses and returning to clear standards of moral accountability, we can restore social trust and reduce crime.

Sam Wilks
Jun 23 min read
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Make Crime Painful Again
To truly reduce crime, deterrence must mean more than empty rhetoric, a flurry of new unenforceable laws, or it must carry genuine, predictable consequences. When criminality becomes reliably painful, society once again becomes reliably safe.

Sam Wilks
Jun 13 min read
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Can Canberra’s Migration Plans Work for Territorians?
Population growth is not a moral imperative. It is a logistical challenge. And when policies are made without listening to the people who live under them, the result is not harmony, it’s hostility.

Sam Wilks
Apr 285 min read
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Growing the Territory, Is Federal Immigration Policy Straining NT Infrastructure?
Immigration is not inherently harmful. But when used to mask economic stagnation or prop up GDP figures while ignoring infrastructure, it becomes a liability. Federal policymakers must stop treating Darwin as a checkbox on a diversity spreadsheet and start treating it as a capital with finite capacity.

Sam Wilks
Apr 276 min read
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A Blueprint for Change
This is not a call for perfection. It is a call for courage, the courage to speak plainly, act decisively, and govern with the people, not above them. If the Territory is to rise, it will be led not by those who pander, but by those who perform.

Sam Wilks
Apr 243 min read
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Practical Ideals
The lesson is clear. When people are paid to fail, they will. When they are rewarded for effort, they rise.

Sam Wilks
Apr 233 min read
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Respect Yourself, Walk away!
The moment an employer, client, or partner disregards the terms of engagement, they reveal their hand. They do not see you as an equal.

Sam Wilks
Apr 214 min read
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Integrating Economic Insight with Local Priorities
Public policy must be shaped by those who live with its consequences. Southern green activists neither build nor repair, they obstruct.

Sam Wilks
Apr 193 min read
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From Bad to Worse - NT’s Economic Balance Spawns Bloated Bureaucracy
The newly elected government had a chance to break this cycle. They rode into power on promises of change.

Sam Wilks
Mar 115 min read
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How Effective Are Zero-Tolerance Policies in Reducing Crime?
arguably criminal actions, obstructions and efforts by the judiciary and the NGO’s a predictable result.

Sam Wilks
Mar 105 min read
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Evaluating the Effectiveness of Security Measures in Loss Prevention
By empowering others, we empower the world.

Sam Wilks
Mar 98 min read
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The Psychology of Theft: Motivations Behind Shoplifting
The environment itself amplifies these impulses.

Sam Wilks
Mar 95 min read
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What type of target?
Understanding these classifications allows surveillance teams to tailor their operations effectively.

Sam Wilks
Mar 72 min read
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How Economic Growth Reduces Crime in Urban Areas
One of the primary drivers of crime is lack of opportunity.

Sam Wilks
Mar 74 min read
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The true cost of Aid
Good intentions cannot justify ignorance or overlook harmful outcomes.

Sam Wilks
Mar 65 min read
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Breaking the Cycle: How to Counteract the Cloward-Piven Strategy and Restore Economic Freedom
The choice is clear. Embrace the politics of dependence and decline or fight for the principles of freedom and self-reliance.

Sam Wilks
Mar 55 min read
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