Principled or attention seeking?

I admire a blogger taking a principled stand on name suppression laws, I get the feeling that the current stance of Cam Slater at WOBH is going to end in tears.

I wish to state that this blogger does not support what on the face of it appears to be criminal action. I do feel here are other ways of getting message through without breaking laws, however tenuous the claim the publishing of cryptic pictures might be as not breaking name suppression laws.

Mr Plod is out to make an example. It may temporarily make Cam's blog number one in New Zealand, but any gain will be short-lived if jailed as a scapegoat. How is Twitter coverage in the depths of Mt Eden these days?

It will be an interesting case to follow, bound to be fully tweeted and blogged blow by blow. No precedences that I know of. Who knows he might get lucky and get off on a technicality. God help us if that happens - Whale holier than thou, in our faces as the blogger hero.

Natives get soft separate justice system

I open the Herald online and what do I see?

Bloody unbelievable!  The natives have been given their own justice system.  

Tamaiti [a boy] can stand in front of his family and be accounted for - it's easy to go to a Pakeha court and go ae, ae, [yeah, yeah] and give the fingers and go out

So, if you are one of the 'normal' New Zealanders, ie one with skin colour of a certain shade, you will get to bimble off down to 'da meeting house to get weighed off.

For those with no connection to their roots, this intervention would hopefully be the start of an end to reoffending

As if.  If there is no connection currently, do you really think that the criminal will have an epiphany in da meeting house?

victims would not be left out of the picture as they would have to agree to it

And do you really think that Hohepa Criminal will care any more about their victims in that setting?  I know, if I was a victim, that I would not want be going to some meeting house to see justice done.

60 per cent of those in custody were Maori - was unacceptable

And why?  Because you keep pissing in criminals pockets.  Victims have no rights in the current system.  And you keep taking the soft options like this farce along with the farce that is home detention.  One day you might realise that the only way to deal with a criminal is to lock them up.


God help us.  This country has gone to the dogs since National got the reins.  Come back Winston, all is forgiven.

Last of the cabal awakes

The last high priestess of the feminazi triumvirate that has infested this country over the past decade is making an epic stand.

statutory changes to bring down the parole component of the sentence ... and early release amnesty.

Are we ready for solutions such as these?

Some might say her last utterances as a public figure.

rise of popular anxiety about crime".

There needed to be "better communication about why alternatives to prison are in the public interest ... to counter community scepticism".

It is plainly evident the message on Joe Public having had a gutsful of crime is not getting through.

significant safety and human rights issues

The ultimate in arrogance from a government stooge who believes criminals actually have rights.

Greedy bitch gets slapped with a wet bus ticket

this defendant still has a sense of entitlement and perhaps a lack of appreciation of the wrongness that has been done

The fake certificates had been used "so you could obtain sickness benefit at a time when you were ineligible for the unemployment benefit because there was plenty of work out there if you chose to do it", he said. "So, in other words, it seemed easier to you to go on the sickness benefit than to go and do the work ...

"The offending could be described as greedy and lazy ... It's got the added characteristic of involving getting stuck into public funds put aside for people who are in real need.

No doubt, a succinct summary of the typical WINZ client living off my taxes redistributed by Liarbour to the 'needy'.

Should have been locked up, not given a soft sentence.

Well, that didn't work

What else did he expect?

As Crusader Rabbit says 'where next'? Like trusting Winston not to take us to places unknown, where will this world-beating first step Internet censorship take us? Something really stinks here.

Her indoors, with her lapdogs, the Judiciary have been watching too much of the five ringed circus and decided they too need a Great Firewall.

And no, for those of you wishing to make a point, do not publish the names on my blog. Thank you.

They just don't learn...

Like the corrupt government, the Judiciary and others do not learn.

Justice Lang said today the affect of the shooting on the hostages, the police and others was significant, but gave Hall a discount on his prison term for his guilty pleas and the mental condition he suffered during the incident

Fancy giving this piece of filth a term discount for his mental state he suffered. What about the state the victims will be in for the rest of their lives?

And, whilst on the matter of not learning. Like in a recently blogged item, it is obvious the Herald Editor is not affected by what his scribes publish.

Own goal by Judge

Lindsay Mitchell discusses the own goal scored by the head honcho down at the bureaucracy that is the Yoof Court.

About 38 per cent of all police apprehensions of youth offenders now resulted in diversion, compared to 55 per cent two years ago.

Along with

"This is a great provision," he said. "There's no other youth justice system in the world that has a provision like that ... that instructs authorities: don't charge."

Linsday rightly suggests the answer is

Try rephrasing it. New Zealand bends over backwards to avoid holding young thugs and thieves to account.

My view is that use of diversion is dropping, as noted in the article, because of the increasing violent nature of iced up yooves who do not show any regard for life limb or property. From the Police

"the changing face of youth offending, which appears ... to be more violent".

The Police have obviously got the message from Joe Public loud and clear, no diversion, present them to the courts for weighing off. Diversion is a once only option and the 38% reflects that those being caught are repeat offenders who do warrant being held to account.

One can only wonder when the judiciary might do the same and properly lock these thugs up, without parole. Community sentences are not an option.

Retiring?

A judge, with an apparent history for telling anyone who cares to listen, has suggested that Mr Blair, were he to stand trial for war crimes, with out the current immunity he enjoys, he just might be found guilty.

Now, as usual, all sorts of people are running for cover and muttering things like 'Hey chap, that's just not the done thing!". Others like Keith Locke, are saying good on him for saying what need to be said.

Seems like all sorts, upon imminent retirement, or having announced their retirement, start frothing at the jawline. Tana did a very good example the other week upon his departure, muttering something about useless refs. I would suspect that this judge will soon be drawing on his no doubt very large government pension.

It is a pity that these people while in office do not consistently push the envelope with such comments, instead opting to keep quiet, protecting their large paypackets!