If you have a settler cracker get tough on crime redneck in your whanau, reach out to them and give them a cuddle, because post the Royal Inquiry into abuse in State care, it’s been a hard week to be a NZ Right Wing Tough On Crime redneck dickhead. It’s the suburbs rarely impacted by crime who fear it most and scream ‘something must be done’. The mainstream media love crime stories because viewers react emotionally, that emotion has been manipulated by tough on crime politicians into ever increasing draconian counterproductive social policy. The tragedy of how we’ve collectively allowed this get tough on crime mind set to infect justice, healing and redemption should shame us. Military boot camps don’t work, banning gang patches won’t work, 3 strikes won’t work.
