Indeed I did point that out from Smith
Three sets of convicts or alleged criminals have so far escaped NZ this year heading to all sorts of destinations.Why give new powers if the incompetent State apparatus can’t even utilise perfectly working and existing laws already in place to protect its citizens.
Key in typical one dimensional thinking is looking for solutions to a problem that is only there owing to State incompetence. Meaning the solution Key wants is the wrong solution. The actual solution is a rather simple one and rather effective as well; that is a nice big rocket or even better a nuke under the State’s backside and actually press the button.
New laws dont deal with existing incompetence, only gut outs at the top and proper funding to the agencies responsible for enforcing perfectly working existing laws do.
John Key says the Government needs to give Police, SIS et al sweeping new powers to ensure the safety of citizens.
“Would you rather be free and dead or heavily surveilled and alive?” seems to be the choice being put in front of Kiwis these days.
Ben Ross from Talking Auckland rightly pointed out on Twitter that for all of the hoopla around our spy laws, Philip John Smith was able to leave prison, fly out and get all the way to Brazil before being apprehended by the police force of a “developing” nation.
Kiwi authorities do have a responsibility to keep citizens safe, but the number of people killed in terror attacks on NZ soil is zero. The number of people killed by domestic prisoners in the first 14 years of this century is much higher than that. Karl Kuchenbecker, murdered by Graham Burton who was on parole, Liam Ashley…
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