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Terrorist attack: https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/450750/new-zealand-counter-terrorism-legislation-outdated-law-experts
Today, on RNZ’s special coverage of the attack we heard from law experts, a politician, the Muslim community and witnesses from the scene of the attack.
Otago University law professor Andrew Geddis told Kim Hill on the show that if the proposed bill were to pass, it would be “quite an expansion of New Zealand criminal law”.
“It would be saying you are guilty for thinking about doing something not actually going out and starting to do it, but even just thinking about doing it will be an offence for which you could go to jail for up to seven years….
Geddis said the man was put under a sentence of supervision and a whole series of conditions to try to break him from the path he was going down, but police decided independently to surveil him.
“It’s not quite the case that the law was unable to deal with this guy, he was caught, he was charged, he was convicted of actually a more serious offence.
“It’s just that at sentencing [in July 2021] the judge decided that it was important to try to rehabilitate him and gave a sentence of supervision – that’s the reason he was out in the community.”
Tuhoe was given a bad time for thinking and saying violent things. It was not right to punish them for that.
We need to be careful what we legislate for. The desire to rehabilitate in the community in this case seeems to me to be a pious hope, unrealistic and dangerous.
Further – a big query from Buchanan which requires a big answer.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/450769/new-lynn-terror-attack-failure-to-use-mental-health-act-criticised
The Sri Lankan national was released from prison and all legal avenues were explored to keep him detained, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern told a news conference this afternoon.
In May 2021 she sought advice on whether prevention orders could be used and whether the man had been psychologically assessed.
“I was later advised that prevention orders could not be used and that he had refused psychological assessment.”
It was unclear why the man could not have been detained for an assessment using the Mental Health Act, said former counter-terrorism advisor Paul Buchanan.
“He could have been, upon his release, immediately committed to an institution under the Mental Health Act in order to undergo that psychiatric examination. And he could have been held indefinitely until psychiatrists determined that he did not pose a threat to society.
Instead the police have had to dog his heels and follow an unfortunately common practice with violent offenders, of letting someone loose in the community to see if he/she will offend again; so 7 people were attacked and traumatised.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/programmes/in-depth-special-projects/story/2018811013/terror-at-the-shopping-mall-a-timeline-of-the-lynnmall-knife-attack
Meanwhile the family of the perpetrator also suffer. Others from war-torn countries have influenced him, and they have no doubt been traumatised by events in their original countries. The poison from invasions and fighting anywhere spreads out – we need in the future to try to reduce violence.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/450786/lynnmall-attacker-brainwashed-by-neighbours-mother-says
https://www.rnz.co.nz/programmes/in-depth-special-projects/story/2018811013/terror-at-the-shopping-mall-a-timeline-of-the-lynnmall-knife-attack
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/450739/lynnmall-terrorist-s-name-suppression-revoked-but-remains-secret-for-now
If you’re bored, have a listen to this:
https://www.rnz.co.nz/programmes/the-detail/story/2018785124/jake-millar-an-extraordinary-life-and-a-disappearing-act
I’m not sure why I missed it back in February – I needed a laugh back then.
When you drink the neoliberal cool aid, you do find “the End of History” and nothing can be learned from it from then on.
Children of “The Class of ’87”; Hawaiian Princes and ripped off government agencies
Couldn’t happen to nicer people.
I imagine Jake Millar is now a Sapeur in Brazzaville, although he might find he shouldn’t cross any one of them.
Listening to Millar talk at speed brings to mind Bertrand Russell:
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
Bertrand Russell https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/bertrand_russell_121392
This from the Raw News Feed makes a good point. This entity could come up with some good ideas to balance the hotchpotch that have driven us ino our present near-ponzi schemes.
https://thedailyblog.co.nz/2021/08/31/reserve-bank-toolkit-missing-an-essential-item-positive-money-nz/
In a recent Bulletin the Reserve Bank trumpeted its additional monetary policy (AMP) tools which work by changing the interest rates faced by borrowers and savers. Interest rates are at a historical low and the items in this toolkit provide billions of dollars to the banks on the premise that the money will be lent into the productive economy. The problem is the money is not getting into the productive economy, while a lot of New Zealanders are doing it tough.
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