Listening To Gangs???

While Tariana would have us believe that we should listen to gangs, no doubt patched gangs with predominately Maori membership, an unscientific online poll taken by the Herald over the last few days suggests that 93% of about 3000 readers think otherwise.

She says there is a continuing moral panic re the recent murder of a toddler and is concerned that

All that such tactics do is to [provoke] more resentment and rage from those who already feel positioned on the outskirts of society

The criminal antisocial lifestyles of those same gangs do nothing, but provoke the same resentment and rage, for those of us living inside society. Tariana further gets on her high horse suggesting

the consistent response to the challenge of the gangs is focused on the sharp end of social control

The gangs need nothing but full frontal challenging by reinforcing the moral panic to combat their insidious national reaches in crime. Anything less is unacceptable, talking to gangs only promotes their mostly illegal causes. Yesterdays action in Whakatane being a prime example of why.