On the eve of the sentencing of the Christchurch White Supremacy Terrorist, there has been some discussion that the cost of imprisoning this abomination is an insult to us and that maybe we should simply ship him off to Australia, especially when you consider the appalling manner in which Australia dump their criminals on us.
I can not disagree more passionately.
The most likely sentence that is going to be handed down to this obscenity is going to be life inside prison with no parole.
His early guilty plea and the possibility of mental health issues will not stop the court imposing the most extreme sentence possible and in NZ, life without parole is that most extreme sentence.
The desire to demonstrate to any other white supremacist that you will face the harshest of sentences for this kind of monstrous violence outweighs any technical considerations for mercy.
This tumour of a human being will be treated humanly, will have their rights respected, will be fed, housed and looked after medically for the rest of his natural life.
That is NZ mercy.
But NZ punishment? It will be until he dies.
We pay that life long imprisonment cost as the price of a decent progressive liberal democracy.
99% of the time, I am the first to call for prison reform and am the greatest advocate for redemption you will find. I have argued endlessly that our incarnation industry is counter productive and the worst social policy we have.
I advocate leniency and mercy in all things and believe radical prison reform is necessary.
However.
There are some actions that go beyond the individual. There are things so perverse, so wretched and such an anomaly to the values we hold dearest as a society, that nothing short of the most severe sentence is acceptable.
This most evil of mass murder is that exception to the rule, and we have no obligation higher than seeing him imprisoned for life and treated with the basic dignity all human beings intrinsically have.
We will show mercy while showing our total repudiation to his deplorable act.
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Concur fully, Martyn.
Never thought I’d be writing this, but throw the key away on this character.
And thank you for pixilating out his face.
Don’t agree that he should stay – long – in a NZ prison. Send him back to the poisonous place he came from as he will just stir up trouble in prison. I understand the inmates have a pecking order and admire the big showy crimes and he will come out of it more a s..t than he went in and have influence on too many. Some woman will probably try to save him, and they will get married or something that works for the yellow press. Sick-making.
Explain to the poor bereaved what you are doing and why. Also FGS introduce a visa scheme for the borders so we know about who is coming here and their little idiot-syncrasies. People who want to come and see us will now not be in short supply, so just do it will you you bunch of bums on seats.
Not meaning to be glib @ Grey, but maybe we should send the bill for his stay (at Madge’s pleasure, and courtesy of NuZull’s Tex Pay-ya) to Peter Dutton with a copy to the international media
Even if just a symbolic gesture, it’d be worthwhile seeing the reaction on Dutton’s pig-like snout.
Or maybe not – he probably wouldn’t get it. Evolution seems to have left Dutton behind as it does with other freaks of Mother Nature
You seem to not like Peter Dutton OwT. I wonder why? /sarc
And why pick on him – there are such a lovely bunch of bananas over there in the Oz Parliament? Oh it hurts that we should lose John Clarke so early. I’d love to hear him voicing his smooth sarcasm as an old guy with creaking joints. Was not to be.
By rights he should stay in the jurisdiction where the offence was committed. The problem is that ASIO want him back, and the precedent of Alain Mafart and Dominique Prieur is not exactly in the distant past. So let us see what transpires in this case.
I agree. With the prison population here being mostly Maori and Pacifika, his chances of being released into Gen Pop are nil.
In Australia, with its unabashedly racist culture, his chances of eventually being released into Gen Pop are much better. Then the chances of his being able to release his poisonous ideology online increase.
Keep him here. Whether we want him or not, it is our duty to make sure none of his ugly rhetoric, after incarceration, becomes more public bile on the internet.
Our duty – you must be joking. The world is awash with hate and gripes and woke and …..Nothing that we do can prevent horrible things happening. We can only do our best. Our best would be to send him back to Oz where they can supply their own medicinal treatment. We have good people here who can’t get help with their lives, and those are ordinary citizens, and the citizens that were shot and injured and suffered loss and trauma need help. It is dopey to take some high line about securing him, there are dozens who could come along and copy him.
We might have to do a givealittle page to keep him here. Why should we be lumped with millions to keep him here we cannot afford that costs. And why do they keep calling him a terrorist, when he is white supremacist and we have a few of our own in our own country.
I see our NZ made white supremacist have been busy defacing Maori political hoardings with words like ‘coon’.
So Tarrant has heaps of mates in our country.
I am not surprised that quite a few on the left want Brenton Tarrant to be sent back home. After all, it was a Labour government that decided to do send Prieur and Mafart back to a hero’s welcome in France. But whereas Prieur and Mafart killed only one of us, Tarrant killed 51, including women, children and some of my own close personal friends. Sending him home would also send a message to our people that the New Zealand state sympathizes with the perpetrators rather than the victims of the Al Noor massacre.
It is interesting to read such racist and offensive comments about Australians while condemning this racist criminal
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