Posted by
Jonathan on Thursday, February 01, 2007 5:14:31 PM
Australia has a problem. Over the past six months there has been a
spate of rape cases involving taxi drivers and their fares. Here is the
full text of an article describing these crimes that appeared last week
in the newspaper Adelaide Now. See if you can spot what’s missing:
Taxi sex alert on migrants
IMMIGRANTS may have to wait a year to get a taxi licence after police
revealed that almost all of the suspects in 24 reported driver sex
assaults since June were newcomers to Australia.
The Taxi Council of SA also wants to educate immigrant applicants about
"the Australian way of life" before they get behind the wheel, amid
fears that cultural differences are linked to the problem.
In the latest incident, a woman aged in her 20s told police she was
sexually assaulted by a driver in the city early yesterday. She said
she had caught a taxi from Sugar nightclub in Rundle St about 3.30am
and had been taken to Waymouth St, where the assault had taken place.
Since June, five drivers have been arrested for sex offences. Officers
from Operation Console, established to investigate the increasing
number of reports and complaints, are looking at several more cases.
Police also revealed that 90 per cent of suspects had overseas
backgrounds. Taxi Council of SA chief executive Peter Johns said
yesterday his organisation was considering a proposal that recent
immigrants hold an unconditional licence for at least a year before
being permitted to drive for a living.
"We are talking to multicultural organisations within the industry so
we can get better information to (drivers). They have to be aware of
the Australian way of life," he said.
Sexual harassment education is already a mandatory component of driver
training courses "but no amount of training or psychological training
will determine what an individual will do", he added.
Detective Superintendent John Venditto, of the Sexual Crimes
Investigation Branch, said the 24 assaults since June were believed to
have been committed by different people. He said media reports of one
sex assault that month had generated 86 calls to police, including
reports of 11 sexual assaults.
So just where did all of these “newcomers” come from? Well, we know
that they are “immigrants” from “overseas.” That leaves a lot of
possibilities. A few come to mind, but without more concrete statistics
I wouldn’t want to cast any aspersions.
You can bet that the Australian police have these statistics. The
problem is that they won’t release them and most media outlets
won’t report them. We don’t want to stir up any trouble in
multicultural paradise, do we?
Since 2001, Australia has in general been a beacon of sanity in a world
afflicted with politically correct madness. But even Australians are
not immune to the cultural rot eating away at the rest of the
Anglosphere.
Words to live by: If you can’t name the problem, you can’t fix the problem.