Andrew Bolt: It’s stupid to ignore an obvious truth about gang crime
FORMER minister Kevin Andrews was smeared as a racist when he warned about Sudanese gangs nine years ago. But how right he was, writes Andrew Bolt.
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THE truth about Sudanese refugees is now so obvious that even the ABC admitted to the danger this week.
“Growing youth crime rates, with carjackings and home invasions doubling in the last year, … have revealed a growing trend of out-of-control South Sudanese youth,” its 7.30 programconceded.
So where are the sorries to Kevin Andrews, who warned nine years ago this would happen?
Where are the apologies from the journalists, Labor politicians and senior police who slimed him as a racist?
It was in 2007 that Andrews, immigration minister in the Howard government, said he was cutting back on refugees from Sudan and Somalia.
“Some groups don’t seem to be settling and adjusting into the Australian way of life as quickly as we would hope,” he said.
The problem was a clash of cultures and the crime rate among the Sudanese was too high.
All true and Andrews was punished for it, even though he stressed that many Sudanese were indeed settling in well.
The ethnic lobby predictably denounced him as a racist, as did Labor politicians.
“It has been a long time since I have heard such a pure form of racism out of the mouth of any Australian politician,” sneered Queensland premier Anna Bligh.
We had a “leadership which allows divisiveness”, stormed the Victorian Equal Opportunity and Human Rights Commission.
And the elite media pack-attacked.
The Age accused Andrews of making “unpleasant and inflammatory” comments to provoke “a predictably base reaction from those sensitive to immigration on racial grounds”.
But worst was the reaction of Victoria Police, led by Labor-appointed Christine Nixon.
Nixon claimed Andrews was wrong about Sudanese crime rates: “They’re not, in a sense, represented more than the proportion of them in the population.”
A police multicultural liaison officer agreed: “There’s an under-representation of the Sudanese in crime stats.”
Those police claims were false. Figures let slip by Nixon the following year revealed crime rates for Sudanese youth at least four times the state average.
So what do we see today, nine years after Andrews was crucified?
Victoria is now suffering an incredible crime wave involving some children of African refugees, especially Sudanese. This should have been obvious for years, but the media ignored even a huge brawl by Africans in the middle of Melbourne on New Year’s Eve three years ago.
Victorians woke up only with the very public brawl at this year’s Moomba Festival between Africans and Pacific Islanders, terrifying families who were out for the show.
Now there’s near panic in some suburbs, particularly after a string of home invasions, including one in which six Africans smashed into a home where an elderly woman was minding her great granddaughter.
In the past six weeks alone, Melbourne has also seen African youths smash up a jewellery shop in Toorak, rob four Officeworks stores, stage an attempted carjacking, and burgle several homes.
Others were arrested after a car chase on the West Gate Bridge and a Sudanese refugee was jailed for breaking into a home and molesting a woman sleeping next to her husband.
And now media outlets, which a decade ago abused Andrews, are repeating what he said.
On Wednesday even the ABC quoted Kot Monoah, chairman of the South Sudanese Community in Victoria: “We have an influx, all of a sudden, of young people offending at an alarming rate.”
The ABC report hinted at the reason — that clash of cultures that once made you a racist if you dared to notice.
It quoted a Sudanese refugee explaining why so many Sudanese youths were turning to crime: “They feel like they can’t really fit in … so in order to fit in they have to do something so they can stand out.”
Another refugee said this culture clash made her send two of her children to school in Uganda to avoid ending up like some of her sister’s children here — on drugs or in jail.
Of course, she blamed Australian culture rather than her own: “A lot of children from Africa (are) now in jail … because of the freedom. Australia gives them freedom.”
This not the first time our politicians have imported people whose culture leaves some struggling to fit in.
Forty years ago the Fraser government brought in Muslim Lebanese immigrants who were largely unskilled and illiterate.
We have paid a price. Our Muslim Lebanese community has high levels of gun crime, jihadism and welfare, and low average income.
With the Sudanese we’ve repeated that mistake and the reason is obvious.
Our cultural elite has made the truth about ethnic crime too dangerous to tell. Ask Andrews.
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