CRIME'S THE BIG ISSUE, NOT LOAFERS LODGE

To comment please open your gmail account or use my email address, FB Messenger or Twitter.

• 
  

• 

  Loafers Lodge: a human rights issue? Really?
  
  

• 
  

• 
  

• 
  

  Two angry, not-so-young men - Cam Slater (the BFD) and Mike Hosking (Breakfast Show) rip into this disgracefully dishonest, inept, immoral Labour Government on two issues that have most New Zealanders hopping mad: human rights and crime rates.

  • Let's face it: in a country that denies its citizens the most basic of all rights - the right to life - a Human Rights Commission is one pretty sick joke. And a Police Minister who spent nine years on "action plans to reduce the harm of gangs, organised crime and methamphetamine" with such rubbish results, is another. (Ah, but Ginny Andersen studied Te Reo at school and university. Say no more.)

  • It follows that the priorities of the Human Rights Commission and the New Zealand Police are going to be illogical and irrational, not to say insane. Here's Cam Slater's dyspeptic take on Loafers Lodge and its tragic demise.

  • 
    

  

  Paul Hunt with Dame Patsy Reddy: a bit cock-eyed 

  
  
  

  You’d never have known that we had a Human Rights Commissioner during the excesses of the Ardern regime. Ardern illegally locked us up and down, illegally banned Kiwi citizens from entering their own country and illegally sacked them from jobs because of her vaccine mandates which were demonstrably against the Bill of Rights.

  Paul Hunt, the keffiyeh-wearing apologist for violent regimes, was utterly silent even as Police assaulted and stomped on peaceful protestors in Wellington.

  Now because a few people living in a boarding house had the misfortune of having had it burn down on them, he is all of a sudden incredibly concerned about the human rights of those few people.  

  
  

   

  

  Paul Hunt: in 2021 he got dewy-eyed over the Mob 

  
  

  NEWSHUB NATIONThe Chief Human Rights Commissioner says calls for his job - and entire department - to be abolished are "unfair and unkind".

  Paul Hunt appeared on Newshub Nation defending the Human Rights Commission's recent donation of $200 to the Mongrel Mob which triggered calls for his sacking. 

  
  

  The Human Rights Commission is hitting out at the Government saying New Zealand has let profit become more important than providing a decent home.

  The Human Rights Commission says housing is “critical to wellbeing” and is calling for an independent accountability body to hold governments on track for “this fundamental human right”. 

  “The tragic fire at Loafers Lodge highlighted just how many people are harmed by the housing crisis,” says Te Amokapua Chief Human Rights Commissioner Paul Hunt.  

  “We let our values deteriorate when it comes to housing. We let profit be more important than the human right to a decent home.   

  “Many have had no option but to live in unsafe and precarious conditions as a result.”

  Newshub

  
  

  It is a fundamental human right, enshrined in our Bill of Rights, that people are free to choose not to undergo medical treatment. But you were silent on that.

   

  

  Dewy-eyed about bullying: except it's really about LGBTQ

  
  
  

  It is a fundamental human right, enshrined in our Bill of Rights, that people are free to choose not to undergo medical experimentation. But you were silent on that.

  It is a fundamental human right, enshrined in our Bill of Rights, that people are not to be subjected to torture or cruel treatment. But you were silent about MIQ.

  It is a fundamental human right, enshrined in our Bill of Rights, that people have the freedom of peaceful assembly. But you were silent about the Police attacking peaceful protestors in Wellington.

  It is a fundamental human right, enshrined in our Bill of Rights, that people have Freedom of association. But you were silent on lockdowns.

  It is a fundamental human right, enshrined in our Bill of Rights, that people have Freedom of movement. But you were silent on lockdowns and internal borders being created.

  It is a fundamental human right, enshrined in our Bill of Rights, that people have Freedom from discrimination. But you were silent on the creation of two classes of citizens.

  Do you know what is NOT in the Bill of Rights?

  Housing. It isn’t in the Bill of Rights but now you are flapping your gums and describing housing as a “fundamental human right”. Are you suggesting that Sir Geoffrey Palmer got it wrong when he passed the Bill of Rights Act in 1990?

  Here we have the Human Rights Commissioner, whose job is to protect the human rights of New Zealand Citizens (with the exception of unborn NZ citizens - ed), squawking about a human right that isn’t even mentioned in the NZ Bill of Rights Act, and who was utterly silent when rights protected by that very Act were trampled on by the Labour Government and its agents of the state including the Police and the NZ Defence Force.

  You know what Paul Hunt, why don’t you just STFU.https://thebfd.co.nz/2023/05/24/oh-so-now-human-rights-are-important/

• 
  

• 
  

Police Minister Andersen, Prime Minister Hipkins: stuffed up and they know it 

Now it's Mike Hoskings' turn:

Did we have a breakthrough of sorts on the programme today with the Prime Minister, or was it more gaslighting?

Ginny Andersen, who is so out of her depth it's embarrassing, has insisted for weeks now that crime isn't up and it's just being reported more. We all feel safer because of the 1800 police they have delivered.

 

self-explanatory

 

Chris Hipkins, who is clearly at the more retail end of the political spectrum, knows that that level of BS could not continue and so he acquiesced and said what we are seeing is unacceptable.

No kidding, Chris.

His problem is what to do about it.

The magic bullet of 1800 more cops isn't magic, or a bullet. It's clearly not enough.

Where it has all come unstuck for them is in their ideology that has driven six years of soft-on-crime theory

By emptying the prisons, by appointing Poto Williams, by appointing Andrew Coster, by not arresting kids, by not getting people in court, by the courts not throwing books at them, you have emboldened the thugs.

And the thugs are running rampant.

For the first few years they could debate all of this. They could run that Ardern programme of kumbaya and keep telling us that being nice would lead to better people taking new pathways in life.

It was, of course, all idealistic crap as Police Minister after Police Minister came and went. The only one left to stick their hand up was Ginny Andersen as no one else would touch the portfolio, because they knew they had blown it and the reputational damage was too great.

And could Andersen just possibly be seizing the opportunity of positioning herself - Te Reo and all - to take over as Labour leader when they lose in October?  

By being soft on crime and by treating the police portfolio the way they have they have sown their own crisis. By believing that thugs are decent people who just need a hug, they have blown it.

Crime now is the number two concern, only because the cost-of-living crisis is so astonishingly bad.

If we weren't all so broke, crime would be the election issue.

What Hipkins might just be starting to understand, is that when people close businesses because the thugs have won, that's not the New Zealand we want. When the beatings and the violence and the wanton criminality is affecting every single one of us, either through theft or aggression or fear, that is not the New Zealand we want.

Not every single one, Mike. Not everyone who's not affected by theft or aggression is affected by fear. z

And to make it worse by gaslighting us the way Andersen does, treating us like idiots with falsity and lies, is the reason you lose elections.

 "Fear is not in charity": Perfect charity, or love, banisheth human fear, that is, the fear of men; as also all perplexing fear, which makes men mistrust or despair of God's mercy; and that kind of servile fear, which makes them fear the punishment of sin more than the offence offered to God. But it no way excludes the wholesome fear of God's judgments, so often recomended in holy writ; nor that fear and trembling, with which we are told to work out our salvation. Phil. 2. 12.

 

Come, Holy Spirit