The Daily Blog Open Mic – Wednesday 3rd July 2019

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  1. On the topic of how migrants get lesser sentences in the justice system…. in particular if you are rich.

    Jail sentence

    19 yo Russian migrant Rouxle Le Roux killed a 15 yo boy in a hit and run after while drinking wine and smoking cannabis before she got behind the wheel of a Mercedes.

    She got 11 months’ home detention.

    The 19-year Rouxle Le Roux then posted a photo to Instagram wearing an orange jumpsuit with the caption: “Hide your children”.

    On February 20 it is alleged she failed to respond to two visits where probation officers knocked repeatedly on the door of her home.

    (not sure what she was sentenced to for breaching parole, but lets face it does not sound like this wealthy migrant teen is going to get a jail sentence for a very similar crime that other’s get jail time for, without rubbing the victims nose in it on social media.)

    vs, today’s sentencing of

    19 yo Aizaeah Tarawa who was drunk got 4 years jail for the deaths she caused of a mother and child.

    The posting of migrants on social media after committing a crime shows some of these migrant youth have zero remorse for their crimes in NZ, in fact seem to like to get notoriety out of it. They just don’t take NZ laws seriously and why would you, when you see the lesser sentences they get even when they kill someone in hit and runs or create the ability for hundreds of other criminals with false license to operate like the case below.

    https://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/365583/punjabi-singer-gets-home-detention-for-drivers-licences-bribes

    Time we had a justice system that was fair for all and not giving a free ride to new arrivals and their offspring who seem to think committing crimes in NZ is one big social media opportunity for them, and not to be taken seriously!

    • That’s amazing savenz. I hadn’t caught onto this anomaly. I know that the poor are treated severely when they err, but not of the swashbuckling kids of the wealthy treating anything that happens to them as a source of drama with themselves echoing Johnny Depp in a production of Pirates of the Pacific – that angers me greatly.

        • Personally I’m very concerned with the dual justice system we seem to be operating in NZ!

          If you are local and even worse poor, you will get a much harder sentence..

          If you are well known and a sportsperson you will get name suppression and in the case above not even charged by police!

          if you are a migrant involved in fraud or manslaughter or drugs, you seldom get jail time, probably not even charged for it and the fines are less than they steal in frauds so it’s like sending the message that crime pays, while similar crimes for locals will have fines and jail time.

          We are turning into a very unequal society in our justice system and it’s getting worse, not better because the criminals are getting more of a hold on the system itself and corrupting it.

  2. As time goes by under this new government who is attempting to balance the books while fixing our crumbling infrustructure, watching our roads/rail/ city sewer services and all other esential services are failing as we speak.

    Winston Peters spoke to the 230 folks who turned up to his last ‘pep-talk’ meeting prior to the last election and I was there it was a good talk he was right on the button there.

    Winston touched on this issue of national spending nothing on our crumbling infrustructure during the last national Government’s nine long years who always used the term “deferred maintainence” to justify cutting costs all over NZ to make their books look fine for the election.

    Now we witness what national set the next Government up for and boy is oit showing now with a sewer pipe collapsing into the taupto lake today and the freight train de-railed in Wairarapa, all in just one day.

    Government needs to heed Winstons words he spoke that Gisborne night about our crumbling infrustructure as he said “we need to follow what Michael Joseph Savage did in 1935 to get NZ infrustructure back into operation after the 1931 depression by enacting the “Reserve Bank Act” and print the funds needed for restoring all NZ’s essential services.”

    Otherwise we as a country NZ will fail, as another examle of what happend to Greece.

  3. I hope climate change isn’t going to be NZs nemesis. We have been crushed down by neo liberalism that has succeeded in its desire to drain us of ability to become settled anywhere comfortably and work for years at what we know, having an enjoyable family life and weekend in our own time.

    Now it is a constant war of words; competition for our minds with candyfloss brightly lit television screens taking us away from our real problems and replacing our thought with visions of heroes and sex, danger, precariousness, rejections, narrow escapes and sudden disaster.

    Meanwhile climate change – don’t go away, won’t go away.
    Scientists eating their hearts out as they see their predictions of problems proved to be correct.
    July2, 2019
    https://www.stuff.co.nz/environment/climate-news/113946213/more-than-50-of-new-zealands-top-scientists-call-on-government-to-declare-climate-emergency

    and on Rural Life Know-all Jane Smith down on-my-farming-patch (will you offer to set up a well-funded welfare post to help those left bereft if you are wrong)?
    https://www.odt.co.nz/rural-life/rural-people/nz-should-declare-emergency-political-stupidity
    “I just think now is the time to be working together in a calm and rational way – and I’m not a climate change denier at all. It’s just that this is a long game, and we actually need to be thinking about it together and building that plane while we’re flying it I guess”….

    Another issue bugging Smith at the moment is millennials being diagnosed with climate change anxiety over the “looming anticipated threats about what might be happening in the future”.

    As a farming person Smith spells out the rural line about NZ:
    “We just seem to have a lot of one dimensional thinking” said Smith.

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