Cosgrove really wanted to beat kids

As a Minister who helped, no doubt under instructions from her indoors that she currently will not be able to remember, make the anti-discipline S59 law last year, we now find that really Clayton wanted the beat the living daylights out of those kids.

Well that's what the headline screams, but when you read a little further, the comment is actually attributed to someone else.

So much for balanced reporting.

NCEA trained crowd counters?

As the Silent Voices march which took place in Auckland's Queen Street yesterday returned various crowd counts, I suspect the counters trained under NCEA.

A crowd of around 300 reported here,
a few at less than 50 here
and a day later, in the same organ, a veritable mob of 500.

Maybe the counters need further training with some 'sexed up' math?

Cindy Kiro 'a waste of space'

Definitely agree with that!

One Strike, You're Out

So the week has gone, little Nia is dead and still kids are daily arriving at A & E everywhere around the country with whanau-inflicted wounds. After 10 days of angst and handwringing, how further advanced are we at finding and fighting the child abusers and killers in our midst?

We are - precisely - nowhere.

Rather it is has been but more angst agony from the usual suspects, with all their words and wisdom summarised in just one sentence.

Um, maiming and killing kids is really bad.

Yeah, thanks for that. We would never have guessed. Nor did we realise - dammit - that if they'd only learned "te reo" then all the abusers might have been saved. Or that, according to the Maori Party, if their "Aunty initiative" had only been allowed by serial flagellist and Social Welfare minister Steve Maharey then the Kahui twins, Nia, Jhia, Lilybing and all those other Maori innocents would still be alive.

So, let's go back to Square One, shall we? Let's profile the average baby/toddler attacker and proceed from there. Because we now know exactly what they will look like. Their characteristics will be a combination of most, if not all, of the following;

They will be predominantly Maori;

They will be on welfare;

They will have no school qualifications;

They will be transient;

Mum will have shacked up with at least a couple of other guys in the past five years;

They will be getting regularly smashed on drink or drugs;

They will have a low IQ.

Oh yes, and one other thing. They don't give a shit what any government official or law-enforcement agency thinks. They'll look after their kids their ways, f--k off.

Literally thousands of New Zealand kids now live in the above Paradise. Soon it will be tens of thousands. They may not necessarily die at the hand of Mum's latest lover, or have the crap shaken or kicked out of them by the whanau's familial associates, but chances are that their young lives will be still be blighted. That they too will fail school and fail life, and end up perpetuating their parents' underclass upbringing.

None of the above is brain surgery. It is a simply profile of New Zealand's shameful toxicity - this merging of welfare, waste and ethnicity. Quite why Maori are grossly over-represented in all these worst statistics, no one can really say. All we know, is that they are. And that Maoridom hasn't got a clue what to do about it. Like soccer hooliganism was the English disease, and corruption the African disease, then child abuse has become the Maori disease.

Or rather that sub-cultures exist within those cultures that spawn and spew such vileness.

So what do we do? Except express this impotent rage every week when Starship Hospital meets the latest victim of toddler meets terror. Although not just Starship.

A senior journo from my local newspaper, the Wanganui Chronicle, asked me why Wanganui seemed to be so immune from the acid rot that was Rotorua's child abuse. Then his paper did some basic research, and discovered that 10 cases of serious child abuse are treated by local hospital paediatricians every month. I'll repeat that: every month.

Wanganui then is no different than anywhere else. There wouldn't be a city or town anywhere that does not have this dark stain writ upon it. We are all in the midst of this child abuse epidemic. And the time for talk is over.

So too is the inalienable right of people to have kids and raise them regardless. Because nothing less than direct and daily intervention will work or redeem the blasted lives of these young kids. And, yes, it will cost. Hell, it might even add a cent per dollar to your tax. But it won't cost as much as dead children cost this country's soul.

And, it is not a difficult solution. You profile and match all the above wasters and losers and you place them on a central register. That you don't provide them any government-funded benefit - DPB or state house - unless and until they are discharging defined obligations to the State.

Don't give second chances. One conviction and they automatically forfeit their chances to have children again. That they must prove their fitness, their sobriety, their changed attitude or every child they produce is whisked away for adoption.

And a sidebar: a drug conviction and you similarly lose your children. Automatic.

When you're clean, and proven clean - then we'll talk. But you must earn your way back into parenthood.

Identify particularly all at-risk Maori whanau using all the official information that is already collected and collated - through schools, truant officers, police, social workers, hospitals and Income Support.

Then admit the reality that there are a group of people who simply can't look after themselves, let alone any children that they might breed. The peculiarly white, middle-class concept that everyone is, really, just like us, must be the first victim in our war on child abuse.

Professor Jim Flynn of Otago University was right a couple of months back when he said the wrong people are breeding in this country. That is how we ended up with our underclass. We cannot afford their failure to infect the next generation, or the one after that. The time for draconian action is here.

And the solution is not rocket science.

From now on, their assistance is delivered by neighbourhood-based one-stop shops - food and hot meals, second chance education, parenting skills, free health and dental, community-based work and skill programmes. When they graduate -clean, responsive and aspirational -then they get the right to have and care for children. Until then children have the right not to be born to them and not to be killed by them.

Nia's death was an evil tragedy. It won't be the last. Because last night, the same trash got smashed off its face and their kids were their last consideration. This morning, those children's future dawns no different.

from Michael Laws in SST 5 Aug 2007

That didn't work, did it?

Predictably the anti child abuse bill by Bradford, 'I know what's best for you parents', has not worked.

I doubt if the lowlifes that have murdered (yes, sadly as of yesterday afternoon, it is now murder) young 3 year old Nia Glassie are even aware that such a bill exists. The frontline staff who have to pickup the pieces know full well what really goes on, yet we continue to deny any personal responsibility.

Hone, the chief bone pointer from that separatist party, continues to blame colonialism as the root cause and want to lock all Maori MP's up in another talkfest in Wiberia or somewhere similar to knock a few heads together. Get over it, NZ was colonised by the British, lost their sovereignity and the so called treaty was nothing but a useless piece of paper to keep natives pacified. Who cares about the past? As I now know, that same piece of paper continues to keep the activist natives quiet through the Waitangi handout gravy train being well oiled from my taxes, but that's another story.

Hone, I would suggest that middle NZ is not listening to your vociferous rants, you are written off as just another vocal stirrer looking for more handouts, like this other useless seeker of funds. You could do a lot better if you went directly to the Frank Streets of NZ and knocked a few heads together to put the message straight to these lowlifes that child abuse is not and will not be tolerated. If you think that native to native talk is the way to go, get down there and give the message directly. I definitely suspect that your methods of confrontational and vocal delivery would be well understood by any upcoming would be murderers.

There are some alternatives, to endless funding that is patently not acheiving any result, such as this guy here. His course on parenting, run by SKIP makes a lot of sense and maybe should be offered as say, a WOF, to be a parent.

I am sure with this murder we are still only seeing the tip of an iceberg that no amount of funding or state intervention will ever cure. Parents must take parenting as their prime role in life, nothing less.

Nia, At peace forever.

Take my kidz away CYFS

Once again the separatist party is making statements that their ilk have the situation under control and are dealing with the issue. Yes, we know. The talkfests, looking for ways to further screw funds out of the taxpayer trough is never ending.

Endless statistics, reports and daily events definitely show us otherwise, the beatings of children continue unabated. Along with a work for the dole scheme, which should be enforced immediately, the following should be actioned.

that beneficiary parents must contact welfare agencies to collect their money

Potential loss of surce funds might engender some personal responsibility for the wellbeing of their rugrats. The current case from Rotorua is soon likely to be a murder trial, judging by recent progress of the cruelly beaten infant.

Some would, such as Turia, bleat that many

might be too nervous to tell health professionals about abuse

I say, if they wish to partake of my taxes to fund their mostly self-inflicted lifestyles on welfare, the giving part comes with some basics. If they get a benefit for kids, those kids will be looked at by a health professional at say a minimum of monthly. So too, if they want the dole for being unemployed, that too comes with a proviso that real community work needs to be undertaken. Don't do the work, don't keep kids in touch with the appropriate agency - lose your access to my hard earnt taxes!

There are some who would use the following argument, forwarded by Turia

I know of constituents who have come to me, nervous that any approach to a government agency for help will end up with `CFYS is coming to take my kids away'

If they feel such a comment sums the state of their parental skills, then there is something definitely amiss, warranting immediate investigation. Hiding behind such a statement only continues to aid and abet the abusers.