The recent Narkle case before the courts in Western Australia prompted the government to suggest it may change the law so that anyone suffering from DSPD or dangerous and severe personality disorder, could be incarcerated BEFORE they commit a crime.
It was suggested that traits shown in this disorder include anti-social behaviour, not being involved in the community, transience, or generally unacceptable attitudes. The blue rinse set must now rethink their nomadic retirement plans bringing the expectation of a decline in motor home sales. The lone golfer will be forced to actually join the golf club and for the recluse there is not much hope at all.
There is no expectation of opposition to the change and therefore unlikely to be much public debate.
So if at sometime in the near future you are picked up and thrown in jail for the protection of society without committing a crime as such, but for simply choosing not to take part in the P&C meetings at your local school, you might begin to question the validly of the law makers in this country. This law will give the power to decide a person's fate determined not on the behaviour but their probable future behaviour based upon a psychiatric report of the governments choosing. Well known eccentrics are searching the world at this moment seeking a more palatable homeland. The law will open avenues of easy disposal of unwanted personality traits. When in place, Western Australia will be the only area in the world where everyone is the same and the streets have no ‘down and outs'. It will become a paradise for Jehovah's Witness's for who but the constantly smiling could survive in a group without diversity, without eccentricities and a population modeled on the government of the day? When asked why there has not been more exposure to the topic in local media, a government spokesperson suggested, "What's the point in discussing it? The people are too stupid to understand it anyway!" And in a sad reflection on the state of the nation - he is probably right! On a brighter note it should not be all that hard to get rid of unwanted visitors, neighbours or argumentive customers once the new law is in place.
