“It’s like carrying the power on my back.”
Summarised by Centrist
A 12-year-old in Mt Wellington was stopped by police on Christmas Day for wearing a boxing gym shirt featuring a logo resembling Black Power’s insignia. Officers claimed the shirt breached NZ’s gang patch ban, confiscating it despite the boy’s insistence it was a uniform. “It’s like carrying the power on my back,” he said. The gym denied any gang affiliation, sparking misuse-of-law concerns.
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John Locke said: ‘When law ends, tyranny begins.’ New Zealand should keep this in mind. Its legal system is now deeply divided.
We must be willing to question accepted thinking, defend our convictions and engage openly with those who disagree. That is the sort of education we want to provide and the sort of freedom we ought to defend.
