Marokopa manhunt, the pursuit of fugitive Tom Phillips and his kids
- The detective spearheading the search for Tom Phillips and his three children has revealed what he believes Phillips’ motive is.
- Phillips sparked a search operation after disappearing with his children on September 11, 2021, and went on the run again on December 9.
- The Herald spoke with the lead detective inspector on the case for its mini-documentary, Marokopa manhunt: The pursuit of fugitive Tom Phillips and his kids.
Exactly like we told you, this has always been about the custody dispute!
We are a nation of fatherless children raised by embittered solo mothers.
An Empire of broken Fathers and fractured Men holding on by a thread in these Shaky Isles with the cold embrace of an infinite loneliness the only road.
The Daughters of Kate Sheppard swipe right.
They have hollow homes but better careers.
As middle class spinsters de-center men from their joyless knitted baking sourdough lives, two old souls go slowly mad.
Labour Mum and National Dad.
We are not allowed to talk about Russell John Tully.
He is the nameless horror outside the rattling windows whistling gaps from underfunded maintenance.
WINZ and MSD are sociopathic organisations staffed with burn outs who grow to despise the vulnerability and weakness of their ‘clients’.
It is an ocean of petty tyrants who enjoy the power sadistically and take great joy in declining requests while lecturing.
Russell John Tully was a fractured man at the end of that tether and he shot up and murdered WINZ Staff in an act of violence that freaked the entire bureaucratic establishment out.
The deal between the neoliberal welfare agencies and the Government of the day that underfunds them is that they are not held to account for the harvest of bitterness their spite produces.
Russell John Tully’s violent defiance threatened to overwhelm the barriers put in place to dehumanise and belittle the poor, and that is why he is made invisible while every single WINZ Office is now staffed and manned by burly security guards who intimidate the moment your shadow darkens the door.
We are not allowed to talk about Russell John Tully any more than we are allowed to talk about Neil Roberts who blew up part of the Wanganui Police Computer Centre. His graffiti just before he attacked the Police Computer was driven by a realisation of what mass surveillance allowed the State…
…we know their anger is righteous but we turn away in fear at their snapping point.
Just like many are doing by providing Tom Philips and his children protection.
The Empire of broken Fathers that the Family Court has produced alongside the punitive child support sanctions has generated a subterranean culture that has poisoned the ground water of masculinity into a fervent bitterness that pushes a father to flee with his children and go on the run.
To even examine the issue from that perspective is Russell John Tully and Neil Roberts level cultural offensiveness that demands total James K Baxter level censorship.
Tom Philips is just another fractured Man in an Empire of broken Fathers.
When the Police finally corner him, they will shoot him dead because just like Tully and Roberts, he must be erased.
This is NuZilind and we only care about destroying the symptom, we will NEVER examine the disease.
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Well had they asked I would have told them that 3 years ago .This is the result of the failure of the family court to recognise that kids need a dad in their lives .The mum abandoned them ,turns up 3 years later and expects to be given custody with out question .
Then the court says yep full ya boots love lets fuck this guy over .
NOT ALL MEN ARE ARSEHOLES .Some are and there are also a lot of mums that fall into that description as well .
From whats going on in my own whanau I can see the same mistake being made time and time again .The lawyer for child in all 3 cases is not listening to the kids .One has set out with the mothers lawyer to completly undermine the dad because he drinks .Yet the mum drinks ,smokes weed and meth in front of the kids and makes them watch while she has sex with her dealer .The family court sees her as a better parent for the kids even after womens refuge rang the father to rescue one of the kids because she was going to stab him .
One of your good ones, Martyn. Needs repeating.
If they catch him he’s gonna lose those kids which is sad! He will be charged with a number of crimes especially the alleged armed robbery and imo he could take extreme action if cornered like take himself out with his kids? Hope not though because his whole motive was to be the defender of his kids.
The motive has been obvious from the start,unfortunately the children are the abused.
Yes
Martyn – Something is odd about this case…the locals openly support the Dad…why?
thats because they know the whole story ,but the media wont report the whole story because than will reflect badly on the mum whom they have spent the last year pretending she is a perfect parent and a saint .
gordon walker – That’s how I see it too…I would like to see those kids back into wider society safe and sound.
By their actions shall you know them.
“The mum abandoned them ,turns up 3 years later and expects to be given custody with out question . Then the court says yep full ya boots love”
That’s the first time I read that reported.
The only previous insight to the family dynamic from msm was the flakey names the kids had been burdened with.
flakey names from flakey mum says it all
Me too .Tom should be offered a safe passage out and at least 50/50 care of his kids .Clearly he is capable of looking after them and they are in fact being home schooled in the skills of daily living .Many home schooled kids are getting the same non main stream education which the ministry says is ok .
Tom will no doubt have to answer some questions around the unproven crime that has been blamed on him which local knowledge is saying he did not commit .Going on some police cock ups being high lighted recently I would not be suprised if the locals were correct .Lazy policing has been a feature in a lot of policing in NZ resulting in people doing time for crimes not commited and the real perp continuing on their crime way .
A little off topic, but I know that some of those in the force would be following this particular blog piece.
The proceeds of crime laws that police applied here:
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/457017/high-court-rules-against-police-in-unprecedented-proceeds-of-crime-case
Should have been applied here:
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/531984/a-family-betrayal-dunedin-woman-stole-almost-1m-from-elderly-mum
There need to be more blind Freddy’s in police, because blind Freddy would be able to see this. Would it have been a different story, if the EPOA fraudster had been a gang mum instead of a public servant? Does no one in NZ have authority to scrutinize the actions of EPOA’s, or do they become asset lolly scrambles? If public servants are supposed to set the example, shouldn’t there be greater police scrutiny when they transgress, instead of less? It’s a question of fairness apart from anything else. If you let off public servants, then police don’t have the moral authority to even issue a parking ticket.
WE HAVE MAINTAINED A SILENCE CLOSELY RESEMBLING STUPIDITY – Neil Roberts.
Just wait until AI is amalgamated with the fiber telephone and internet networks, and every word we utter into a phone anywhere in NZ will be voice matched to us. And every word we type online will be matched by IP. And an unseen mechanical intelligence will analyse all of us, every second of the day, for so called enemies of the state – the terrorists, the communists, the non conformists, the free thinkers, the Lebetters. A maximum security stasi country for the greater good, as society becomes ever more unsafe, and lone wolf random mayhem abounds. And we won’t be told anything, and we will be lied to our faces, and it will only slip out when some whistleblower gets a conscience. It will roll out silently, maybe a decade from now, or maybe it’s already here, watching our every move and listening to out every word. Who’s to know? Who’s to warn us? Erick Blair is gone and Snowden is in exile.
The Police will shoot him because he has bested them at their own game.
This is bigger than ‘gender wars’ over children but the break point where 30+ years of neo liberalism meets consequences.
Wouldn’t it be weird if the government ( Which is we lot lets not forget. ) stepped in and said ” How about we organise a safe place where you and your kids, with the help and guidance of independent professionals, can negotiate a peace agreement with their mother? In the meantime the government will give you $10K cash to make you and your kids more comfortable and safe without prejudice then we’ll move on from there. Lets give kindness, generosity and non judgmentalism a go rather than enforcement and punishment shall we? ”
Yeah right. Like fuck we will. Traumatise the kids, give dad the bash and mentally damage the mum for life. That, is the Kiwi way.