I read the story in the paper this morning over breakfast of the 3 year old girl whom neighbours reported being spun on a washing line until she fell off, being stuck on to a roof while the adults laughed at her and being put into a tumble drier.
What is it with people that can watch that sort of thing and do nothing?
Related Link: NZ Herald
What is it with people that can watch that sort of thing and do nothing?
Related Link: NZ Herald
We're looking at the end result of years of welfare dependency, drug use and courts which give young offenders a virtual free pass.
ReplyDeleteThat, and the reluctance of people to face the fact (or at least admit publicly) that child abuse is predominantly a Polynesian problem.
John Howard had the courage to finally do something about it. Helen Clark won't.
Anyone who screams "racist" at me for the above comment is free to visit Crusader Rabbit and win a bottle of fine wine.
ReplyDeleteGee, and after all that hard work by Sue B. to ban smacking, and this has to happen.
ReplyDeleteAnd I agree it is truly sickening, especially from the sound of it that several people were involved. They really need to throw the book at them.
ReplyDeleteI think the neighbours were labour voters.
ReplyDeleteThere's been a long discussion over at Kiwiblog about this. Some people blamed the welfare system as being part of the problem, and then others attacked that idea. A lot of people who disagreed with welfare abuse playing a role in this tragedy provided no solution themselves, and that is the problem. Why should someone provide a solution if another person attacks it and decides not to provide their own ideas, so that another girl or boy is not tortured? It just proves to me that the left don't actually care about how to stop this problem, they just care about keeping their ideas in power. Whether their ideas work or not is not the issue. The issue is how to prevent torture from happeneing again. And the "left" over at Kiwiblog failed to provide any ideas.
ReplyDeleteMeanwhile a little 3 year old girl lies in Starship tonight, after 3 weeks of torture. Let's keep her in our prayers.
Amen to that, Mathew.
ReplyDeleteThere are solutions, although no easy ones and no quick fixes.
I guess the point I was trying to make is that until we as a society face the problem squarely and name the causes and the culprits, nothing will happen other than more useless feelgood band-aid programs.
KG,
ReplyDeleteI agree with you. The problem is that the pattern goes that people on the right make suggestions, people on the left tear them down, and the debate goes nowhere. So I for one want to see the left come up with their own ideas for how to stop this particular example of abuse, but James Cairney declined to do so. Why? I believe it's because then his ideas will be attacked and he might loose the debate. It's tragic that loosing the debate is more important then the girl's life.
So I wont put up my ideas in such a forum, the reasons are self evident. But I will discuss them with those who are willing to try and work with them. I say that because I am just passing the ideas on, they are not my original thoughts.