Do the Crime, Don’t Do the Time

Part 2

I wrote recently about doing the crime and not doing the time. There are no deterrents that are meaningful, especially if the crimes are committed by children: murders, ram-raids, assaults, you name it. It seems we wake every morning to yet more reports of violent crime. This morning police “confirmed seven shootings happened in the suburbs of Otara, Papatoetoe, Flat Bush, Papakura, Henderson, Mt Albert and Te Atatu”. (Stuff)

Seven shootings overnight in Auckland. Police said they “were taking it very seriously”. These are apparently turf wars between the Killer Beez and Tribesman gangs. But it is all fine. The police are taking it very seriously so the affected communities can relax instead of living in fear for their lives. These gang shootings happened less than “24 hours after homes in Northland and south Auckland were shot at”. The Government’s support for gangs is partly to blame for this outcome. Whoever would have imagined all those years ago when we grew up knowing right from wrong that headlines like this would be the norm, no longer the exception?

The recent spate of ram-raids is carried out predominantly by kids under 17 initially targeting dairies but then moving on to more lucrative venues such as malls and department stores. And they do it not just for the goods but also for the social media exposure. (NZ Herald) Under 17 years these toerags get lenient community sentences: they don’t go to jail. They get away with it. They do it again.

And the 12-year-old Dunedin treasure who stole eight cars in a little over 24 hours. I hope his parents are proud of him. The chaos he has caused is significant in terms of destruction and the financial impact to his victims. The case will be followed up by Youth Aid. (newstalkzb) So no consequences, no punishment, just a great training ground for him to go on to commit bigger and more lucrative crimes. What penalty do his parents face for having an out-of-control child for whom they are responsible? None.

And also we see “Demio Bandits”. (newstalkzb) Kids out at night stealing vehicles and joyriding. One precious 10-year-old darling is a multiple offender. It is again said that social media exposure and notoriety is a factor. Police say, “The reasons young people are involved in this type of offending [are] complex. There are several factors that can contribute including the influence of social media. It’s not an issue police can address alone.”

Of course the police can’t deal with it alone and neither should they have to. It is the lack of parental responsibility and the dearth of effective parenting that sees society at the mercy of these scumbags. And from these joyriding crimes at 10, what do they move on to? Ram-raids? Voting at 16?

Socialism is a destructive force and one that this Government is hell-bent on instituting. The family unit is hated by socialists. It represents strength and unity and they do not want that. They wish to break the family and to have everybody a single entity dependent on the state. How do they do this? Among other things, they:

1. Control our ability to provide. Think of the Budget 2022, that so-called Wellbeing Budget that now makes 81 per cent of us beneficiaries. Eighty-one per cent of us now reliant on the government to a greater or lesser degree.
2. Control essential services like power and water – or in our case Three Waters – without competition.
3. Make it easier for single parents to access benefits. As a couple shows a higher household income, it is more advantageous to remain single. With a socialist agenda the family unit suffers the most.
4. Destroy the ability to create your own wealth. Increasing taxes to ‘redistribute wealth’ says it all. Under the socialist model everyone must be equal in a race to the bottom.
5. Make sure we are controlled, not that we create wealth and become self-sufficient while contributing to society. That just won’t do. Social and financial engineering ensure that we must only survive, if that, and certainly not thrive as the cost-of-living becomes ever more difficult for households. The further increase in the OCR by Adrian Orr and the Reserve Bank adds yet another burden.

And what does this have to do with rising crime rates? The family used to be a stable, responsible and socially mindful unit, but once income is linked to dependency and welfarism, that responsibility goes. Thousands of jobs are available, but the government plays juvenile games with us and creates various categories under which to conceal the reality of unemployment. Job-seeking benefits may be all very well and good but in the absence of actual job-seeking they are pernicious and damaging. Kids grow up without a work ethic, so it is no surprise that their role models do a great job of simply perpetuating the jobless, welfare dependent state as being the norm.

In America, as reported Michael S Rozeff on 30 July 2019,

[S]tatistics on family breakdown, drug use, divorce, single-parent families, out-of-wedlock births, struggling and poor single-parent families, higher crime and delinquency from progeny of fatherless families, and dropout levels of children of single-parent families all attest to the destruction of stable nuclear families.

One factor explaining this is the welfare state. The deterioration of families coincides with its presence and expansion.

Is this what leftists and socialists wanted and still want? Do they intend to enact legislation to destroy the family? Or are they mistaken in thinking that their legislation helps people and in overlooking the actual effects? Or are both intent and blind ignorance operating together?

LewRockwell

Sound familiar?

We read about the latest school massacre, also in America, by an 18-year-old. This is but one of many such incidents in the US; how far are we from this terrifying situation becoming a reality in New Zealand schools? We already have the drive-by shootings resulting in terrified and traumatised households in our communities, and a massacre in Christchurch. The PM is again preaching her ‘excellent’ gun control to America, and yet her so-called control simply removed guns from the good guys and left them in the hands of the gangs. And she gave the gangs our money. On the Late Show with Stephen Colbert she said, “We have legitimate needs for guns in our country for things like pest control and to protect our biodiversity, but you don’t need a military-style semi-automatic to do that.” (msn) So the Killer Beez and Tribesman turf wars are about pest control (that may be correct) and biodiversity? This from Ardern was slipped in between talking about Neve and the PM’s upcoming sometime never nuptials.

When Henry VIII first saw Anne of Cleves, the Flemish princess shipped in to forge a political alliance, he famously said, “I like her not,” and after their marriage, commented, “Now I like her much worse.”

We can use this as an analogy for this arrogant, self-serving PM. “I like her not,” we said in 2017. And now we can say: “Now I like her much worse.” Very much worse.