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I, too, will remove my post.
Don't want to upset anyone
Ask Cindy - she knows all the answers or if not, she will have her multitude of communications staff come up with a spin.
Like going on the offensive against the power generators after the power outage.
Oops - had you swallowing her spin hook, line and sinker, didn’t she? :D
And the market is saying that it wants NZ food products as well. So why are we hammering our farmers when they produce these products efficiently? Here a cattle beast eats grass in a paddock, over there grain gets trucked to some massive barn full of cattle beasts.
We don't have a dome over NZ : the world is an inter-connected place.
It's the same mentality that has us closing coal mines here, and importing shiploads of coal from Indonesia. Are we really going to kid ourselves that this makes us 'cleaner & greener'?
Here's a headline I never thought I'd see....
Nevermind this https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/crime-...SXCQ2DTVQKNDM/ and police offers being knocked unconscious, just don't forget to pay the gangs their Koha.
Between actually calling the Police racist and funding gangs, this administration is really doing its best to prevent violence. :t_down:
Brutalisation of parts of the NZ society is clearly a problem - it feels like there are these days more braindead idiots running around than ever - and too many of them quite happy to injure or even kill others as well as themselves - don't forget the "poor" lads who killed themselves last weekend in Timaru, demonstrating the fastest method to turn a dangerous boy racer into an innocent angel.
Having said that - the reasons are complex and I don't think that politicizing the subject is any helpful. I don't think either that any single government could do a lot about that but making things worse with further polarization of the society by playing the tough guy.
Locking up still more people clearly won't help - hey we have in NZ already one of the highest incarceration rates in the western world (from memory competing only with the US for place one - another quite brutalised society torn apart by hate).
Fighting gangs would be like fighting a measles epidemic by surgically removing the red spots of sick people. You don't fight an illness by attacking the symptoms, but by removing the causes.
What our society needs would be again more time for each other, healthier families with one of the grown ups staying at home to look after the children. What we need is people looking after each other and caring ... and yes, given that churches are on the way out we might need some sort of replacement to give people support and direction.
The only way to solve this problem is by having all parts of society working together, not by attacking each other.
We all can start in our families to make things better ... blaming the government won't change anything.
I 110% agree we need to remove the causes and that there is some huge issues in our society that need to be addressed at the root/cause (ie child poverty etc), but my point was more about Labour + Greens actually enabling this behaviour with their donations, funding, calling cops racist etc. No wonder the gangs have zero respect or fear of the law.
Of course the police will not have analysed the asssault figures to see if any particular ethnicity stands out. To even think about that is racist these days.
It's a wonder census-takers are still allowed to collect such data.
Here's an article from the good ol' U.S of A.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/us-ce...b0454ed70b6ed5
You have an amazing ability to turn complex problems into simple slogans which don't fit.
Did you borrow this tool from the populists you so much despise?
Having said this - being kind (and firm) is much better than being a tough a***hole destroying any last spark of goodwill in other people.
But hey - brutalisation and increased polarisation are problems which are currently plaguing the whole world.
Just give us a handful of examples for countries in which you would want to live in which are dealing in your view better with this problem than NZ currently does.
Amazon packing up and future LOTR series being done in the UK
After how many zillions in subsidies and favourable law changes and quarantine spots
The path to a viable film industry doesn't turn on tax credits and government hugs