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Wine cask to go up to $27 "to curb "alcohol-fueled" violence.

 http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/australian-national-preventive-health-agency-calls-for-volumetric-tax-on-cask-wine/story-e6frg6n6-1226507812197

 

I see obvious nonsense going on, write in to have an opinion in The Daily Telegraph " YOUR SAY "  letter's page, and the whole point of my letter is left out, sometimes I wonder if it's worth the trouble?

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From: Hans Stephens [mailto:stephens1510@optusnet.com.au]
Sent: Thursday, 1 November 2012 8:42 AM
To: 'yoursay@dailytelegraph.com.au'
Subject: Acohol fuelled taxes

 

 Dear sir,

 

To help curb alcohol-fuelled violence “cheap” wine will be taxed, so a cask will cost $27. Pre mixed drink prices went up for the same reason, and the drunken mayhem continued. Will upping the price of my flagon of sweet sherry (imbibed at home at the rate of one small glass nightly) help keep law and order on the streets, I think not?  What will work is to arrest anyone out in a public place that’s drunk and disorderly, (use taser if necessary,) lock them up and when sober, before release charge them $600 for the use of the cell.   After this experience the average person may think twice before going out to get wasted, and causing trouble. Why punish the majority for the actions of the irresponsible few, or is it all just a smokescreen for extra tax revenue?

 

regards

Hans Stephens

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AS YOU CAN SEE AN EXTRA LINE MAKES A DIFFERENCE.

 

On Monday there was another article that caught my eye.

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/police-launch-nationwide-crackdown-on-alcohol-related-violence/story-e6freuy9-1226528420989

 

 

 I emailed my thoughts

From: Hans Stephens [mailto:stephens1510@optusnet.com.au]
Sent: Monday, 3 December 2012 8:10 AM
To: 'yoursay@dailytelegraph.com.au'
Subject: Police respect

 

Dear sir

 Alcohol –fuelled violence is on the rise and police operations like “Unite” that clamp down on drunken behaviour shouldn’t be something  special, but the norm. (“Cops take hard line on booze” Dec 3)  If you’re drunk and disorderly out in public, and don’t obey a lawful direction from the police the next step is the back of a paddy wagon. It’s also obvious by the increasing number of police that are assaulted while just doing their job, that old time respect for the police is gone, maybe a mandatory six month’s jail for any person that assaults an officer may send a clear message that this sort of behaviour won’t be tolerated.

 

Regards

Hans Stephens

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My letter never made it into the paper.

 

Looking again at the photo it seems the young couple pictured have made more than one somewhat ordinary lifestyle choice

#1 smoking

#2 tattoos

#3 He for one, doing something that required being handcuffed.

 

But maybe one day they'll take out the newspaper clipping of this article,  look at the  photo and say;

 

                                      "They were the good old days"