Luxon’s feeble Gang Tangi demands highlight how dangerous National’s get tough on crime rhetoric really is

This is a sad joke…

PM warns gang members of ‘responsibility’ after large Wellington tangi

…yeah, they’re going to listen to you Chris.

He doubled down with this insane suggestion…

Christopher Luxon’s openness to discussing Nazi language

…only National would ban the Nazi salute so they can arrest Māori!

What’s most concerning here is that Luxon is clearly wanting to use the Gang Patch Ban as a means to send the cops into Gang Tangi to rip the patches off members.

During the Paddy Gower election debate last year, Luxon bragged about sending 500 armed police into Gang Tangi to rip patches off gang members as a tough symbolic gesture, the problem is that tough symbolic gesture will be met with an armed response by the gang members themselves because using tactics like this will only generate legitimate grievance form those being targeted.

National want to radicalise gangs into terrorist groups so they can expand their Police State powers. Luxon is playing a dangerous game because he’s thick and can’t see where this is all going.

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