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A contractor, former Hells Angels
Motorcycle Club patch holder and Muay Thai champion named Scott “The
Cannon” Bannon (above) is running to represent a district south of
Brisbane, Queensland Australia in the Australian state’s Legislative
Assembly.
Queensland has been trying to outlaw
membership in motorcycle clubs since 2013. That year, the state’s
government, with the assistance of the American Bureau of Alcohol,
Tobacco, Forearms and Explosives, passed the Vicious Lawless Association
Disestablishment Act, or the VLAD Law. Among other things, the law made
added 15 to 25 years to the sentence of anyone who was an “associate”
of a motorcycle club, forbid motorcycle club patches in bars and forbid
three or more club associates from congregating in public. Last year,
Australian judge Alan Wilson ruled the law was “excessively harsh.”
Australia has no Bill of Rights.
Politicians in Queensland have struggled to replace the VLAD Law.
Earlier this month Tim Mander, a law and order member of the Queensland
Parliament, bragged, “The results of our laws were the gangs disbanded,
crime reduced and Queensland was a safer place to live, work and raise a
family.”
One Nation Party
Bannon was selected to run by a
conservative political party called the One Nation Party. The party is
widely described as “right wing.” “populist,” “nationalist” and
“anti-immigrant.” It was founded by a politician named Pauline Hanson in
1997. Hanson has responded to objections about her party’s platform by
saying “criticism is not racism.” In a recent election, the party earned
about four percent of the vote throughout Australia and about nine
percent of the vote in Queensland.
The party has endorsed 51 candidates for
the next election. No date has been set for the election, which must be
held on a Saturday between now and New Year’s Eve.
A One Nation Party leader named Steven Lance “Steve” Dickson called Bannon “one of those top blokes.”
He called Bannon a “motorbike enthusiast” and “a family man” who has “”never been charged with anything.”
“The guy’s as straight as the days come,” Dickson said.