Justice Minister Simon Power is fast tracking new legislation creating some new offenses through Parliament.
One of the new offenses is
Actually I am a tad uncomfortable with this new offense - I know there are scuzzbags who use social media to try and seduce young people but having constables posing as a young person in order to catch these scuzzbags smells of entrapment.
My guess is most young people are way too smart to be taken in by these creeps and most of the conversations are creep to creep with neither being aware the other isn't what he purports to be.
But when the conversation becomes creep to constable well the creep is drawn into committing an offense, to wit - to sexually groom a constable posing as a young person,
I tell you its a sick old world out there and I don't really think this new bunch of laws will do much to make it better, I suppose it gives the impression of doing something though.
PostScript
Another troublesome feature in the rushed package is a tightening of the laws governing Self Defense. Such things should be subject to much public scrutiny and debate before becoming law.
National is behaving more like the last unlamented Labour Government every day.
The changes were originally intended to fall under a wider reform of the Crimes Act, but Power said he did not want to wait.Why?
One of the new offenses is
to sexually groom a constable posing as a young personCan you imagine trying to explain what this offense is to a world war 2 veteran just back from overseas? And when he had digested why this law was deemed necessary he may have thought,"is this the really world I was helping to create as I fought my way up through the mud of Italian Peninsula".
Actually I am a tad uncomfortable with this new offense - I know there are scuzzbags who use social media to try and seduce young people but having constables posing as a young person in order to catch these scuzzbags smells of entrapment.
My guess is most young people are way too smart to be taken in by these creeps and most of the conversations are creep to creep with neither being aware the other isn't what he purports to be.
But when the conversation becomes creep to constable well the creep is drawn into committing an offense, to wit - to sexually groom a constable posing as a young person,
I tell you its a sick old world out there and I don't really think this new bunch of laws will do much to make it better, I suppose it gives the impression of doing something though.
PostScript
Another troublesome feature in the rushed package is a tightening of the laws governing Self Defense. Such things should be subject to much public scrutiny and debate before becoming law.
National is behaving more like the last unlamented Labour Government every day.