Posts by Kumara Republic
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And, it needs to be said, this is an issue of race. Half of NZ's prison population is Māori, who are imprisoned at almost 7 times the rate of the rest of the population. "Getting tough on criminals" means getting tough on Māori... easy to see why it's a popular game in NZ.
The stats also say that a further 11% of the inmates are of Pacific Island descent. I agree it's not so much a race issue as it is a class/rank issue that happens to be racialised. Interestingly, the same stats also point out:
"On the other hand, as a group, Pacific offenders have a lower average risk of reconviction than do Māori or European offenders."It could equally be a war on the poor, for instance - "tough on crime" policies invariably originate from the portion of the political spectrum that is either not interested in delivering social justice, or that devolves that task to the market and free enterprise.
* Private Prison Riot at New Castle, Arizona - from a libertarian viewpoint
* Dallas News 7/2/2009 - West Texas riots renew debate over private prisons
* Delco Prison: “Too many deaths”
* The Southern 5/6/2007 - State police join Pulaski County in detention center riot investigationAll the above are managed by the GEO Group, which is the infamous Wackenhut Corp in different clothes. More from this rap sheet and the American corrections union.
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They did a similar thing a few years back when RIANZ touted the number of blank CDs being sold in NZ every day as lost sales.
Sounds like the argument waged by Universal Pictures during the Betamax case of 1983.
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It won't reduce crime.
It will restrict judges ability to apply experience and knowledge to sentencing.But most impotantly it will get politicians in the news - sigh.
You could say that Laura Norder keeps fixing the match.
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And so too are the pics. I'd say image embedding should be the next thing on the To Do List.
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We're on WikiPedia now... edit away!
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If the Your Views spouters really want to practice what they preach, then why don't they grab some M16A3s and form a militia? Then the AOS would have a handy excuse to do a Waco on them.
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I'll still browse the website first thing in the morning, but that seldom takes up more than five minutes, and it's much cheaper in this time of Global Economic Crisis (tm). :)
Cheaper still if you're running NoScript. ;D
Hang on, I hope I haven't blown my cover...
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Where's McVicar and his outrage at parole for violent offenders? Oh, that's right. It's flip-flop man and his rubber "principles".
I'd wager it's not so much flip-flopping, but rather bare-faced rankism.
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I doubt anyone's going to come to their senses anytime soon, unless things go DEFCON 1.
I.e., the BOPE Fan Club should be careful what they wish for, because they might actually get their wish... -
Matt P:
Was discussing it with one of them last night, and he said the sentence is a joke. McVicar's remarkably silent on the topic. Bad case of double standards, perhaps? It's hard not to believe that he'd be railing something awful if it was a brown man who'd killed a white boy, regardless of the activities that lead up to the stabbing.
By joke, did they mean Emery should have gotten a longer or shorter sentence? And McVicar has openly spoken out in Emery's favour; he also disses the Cameron family's grief as "misdirected guilt".