OPINION
I came to New Zealand in the 1980s, and it was a very decent place to live back then.
At a time when Britain was starting to deal with race riots due to immigration, New Zealand was a broad contrast. The people were great, the culture was familiar and, above all, there didn’t seem to be any major racial issues.
Crime rates were low, even compared to the UK. People left their keys in the car when they went to the dairy and left their houses unlocked. It was a lovely, safe place to live.
So what went wrong?
I guess it all started back in the 1980s, with the Lange Government, which introduced the behemoth of Treaty settlements, creating a culture of grievance. Frankly, it has been all downhill from there. The entitled class stuck their hands out, and have not retracted them since.
Never forget the many everyday Maori people though, who want to live like the rest of us in peace and harmony. Their voices need to be heard too, but no one is listening.
So where am I going with this?
Well, here is where I am going.
A prominent Mongrel Mob president claims National’s gang policies are devastating, a breach of their human rights, and will create a “psychological war”.
Speaking exclusively to the Herald, Waikato Mongrel Mob Kingdom leader Sonny Fatupaito said after reading up on the proposals, he believes they will cause chaos.
“I think that punishing everybody actually feels like it’s a prison.”
After 6 years of the worst Labour Government in our history, mostly under Jacinda (be kind) Ardern, our mainstream media are publishing articles that tell us that the gangs are lovely guys really: they are just misunderstood, and the world and the country would be a much better place if we just let them be… them.
How wonderful. Cue fairies and unicorns.
And then there is this.
A senior Mongrel Mob member has warned there are “dangers” to special police powers meant to tackle gang violence, expressing concern over potential overreach and saying they could cause “a reaction”.
https://www.1news.co.nz/2023/10/24/mongrel-mobs-harry-tam-member-warns-of-dangers-to-special-police-powers/
In October 2023, two mainstream media outlets published articles sympathetic to gangs. They appear to have forgotten that gangs are mostly populated by criminals. Gangs peddle drugs, attack total strangers in the street for wearing a sweatshirt in the ‘wrong’ colour, and hold communities in total fear when they take over a town to hold a funeral. And no one, including the police, has the moral fortitude or the guts to stand up to them.
And certainly not the state-funded media.
Hell, the gangs even campaigned for Labour during the election campaign. The gangs are terrified of a government that might return to enforcing law and order. And our media are trumpeting this like it is something bad.
Sure, the media pack is full of left-wingers, but we are talking about law and order here: the backbone of civilised society – and the media are cheering for anarchy.
With Labour’s policy of emptying prisons while crime increases, the country is becoming more and more lawless. Yet the media, who claim (rather laughingly, I must say) to represent the people, place themselves on the side of the gangs. To hell with their victims. It is the criminals who matter these days.
It is the stupidity that gets me. Our media personnel are not afraid of gangs, because they think they will never come up against them, but the more they allow the gangs to roam uncontrolled, the more chance they have of being caught in the fray. The gangs won’t care whether the media luvvies are on their side or not.
I’ve been on the Cook Strait Ferry, observing a “No Gang Patches” sign on the lower deck, only to find Mongrel Mob members, in full array, wandering around on the upper decks. Fortunately, on that occasion, there was no trouble, but why did no one in the crew apprehend them?
What happened, New Zealand?
On the instructions of the last Labour Government, police stormed the grounds of Parliament in March last year, blasting peaceful protestors with water cannons, leaving some of them badly injured, and yet, when a gang takes over a town, terrorising law-abiding citizens, police do nothing. Worse than that, police and other officials say that these criminals are ‘part of the community’ and ‘have the right to be heard’.
But it seems that law-abiding citizens have no right to be heard. No right at all. The anti-mandate protest at Parliament taught us that.
Nowadays, it seems that we herald the criminals and punish law-abiding citizens: not just the Parliament protesters, but also those who went to Albert Park to hear Posie Parker speak, and were left to the mercy of the mob while the police stood by and Parker herself was almost trampled to death in the fray.
Nobody cares. Law-abiding citizens count for nothing.
Why is that?
This is the breakdown of our society; a world that seems to have lost the power of understanding the basic difference between right and wrong. Our society seems to have lost its moral compass and today is held to ransom by thugs.
And it is the government, the public service, the police, the judges and a huge number of left-wingers who seem to have joined up with the ranks of the ‘disenfranchised’. They pretend to care about the ‘deplorables’ (Hillary Clinton’s word, not mine), but they don’t. They see themselves as elite. They love being elite. They don’t live in the communities the criminals come from, so they don’t have to worry for themselves. The parties that used to stand for the working man now look down on the great unwashed with ill-disguised disdain.
But now the underclass seems to have control. This brave new world has law-abiding people who are not allowed a voice, but gangs, LGBGT+ activists – and lately Hamas supporters – are allowed free rein, can roam the streets, hold banners advocating ethnic cleansing, and be treated as if they are the good guys.
But just try holding up a banner saying “I Stand with Israel” and wait to see what happens.
I used to believe in the claim, “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing” (attributed to Edward Burke), and I think we saw this in the 1930s; ordinary Germans must have had a fair idea of what was going on, but chose to do nothing, probably to save their own skins. But modern society seems to have gone even further than that. Modern society seems to perpetrate evil: to encourage and support it. Women are often scared to use a changing room or a public toilet in case there is a man, with full genitalia on view for all to see, wandering around in there. But ask for safe spaces for women and we are all transphobic. Trans supporters form a mob, and punch elderly women in the face, and the police look on, unconcerned.
I don’t know what has happened to the lovely, peaceful society that I joined back in the 1980s. Sure, it wasn’t perfect, but compared to society today, it was paradise. I hate to think what the world is going to be like for our children and grandchildren. Because when the media place themselves firmly on the side of criminals, we have lost all vestiges of a civilised society, and I’m not sure how we get it back. Maybe another world war is the only thing that will bring people to their senses.
Lest we forget…