‘Workforce crisis’: The real reasons the Defence Force didn’t want to run boot camps
- As late as May, ministers were discussing whether to have the Defence Force run new military-style boot camps for serious young offenders.
- The Defence Force argued strongly against running the boot camps, saying it was ill-equipped and already dealing with a “workforce crisis”.
- Defence bosses said ministers must concede that the Armed Forces may be unable to assist with Antarctic research and respond to emergencies if it was tasked with running boot camps.
The absurdity of this right wing Governments Military Camps and how the NZDF wanted NOTHING to do with it are laid bare in embarrassing detail here.
The Military Boot Camps (which all the academic research shows do not work) is a $5million dollar virtue signal by the ACT Party for their reactionary voter base who have zero interest in helping heal these children and simply want the glee of punishing them.
The recent decision to allow external 3rd parties to have the power to physically harm these children exactly at the same time as the Government is apologising for abusing children in State Care highlights the hypocrisy of this.
We don’t want to heal these children, we want to punish them because they have the audacity to shame us with their actions generated while being abused in our care!
How dare these children who we have abused in state care then go out and cause crime highlighting our abuse of them in public!
We demand as a society that these dirty secrets of our under funded youth prison system remain dirty secrets so as to not interrupt the good times at our dinner parties and BBQs.
This is who we is now, this is what we have mutated into.
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I can’t think of any reason why the military would have or want to have any part of this.
Like the police and under the instruction of this government, won’t support health staff in mental health escalations due to stretche’d resources bought on by a government that, as Tony stated above, know the value of nothing.
Is this the same as Glorivale where the old white men the leaders of a commune commit crimes against their own and get government funding Stephen.
Is this the same as Glorivale where the old white men the leaders of a commune commit crimes against their own and get government funding Stephen.
Rename them Beehive Boot Camps, and relocate them to the Beehive, where the Act party can run them, if they want them so much, unless Act are too busy treating the treaty of Waitangi as a political piñata. Has Act even heard of the abuse in care inquiry? Have they heard of commonsense?
Cheers Trish – great comment. Pinata with macron is so right, (sincerely).
‘Insure’? Who can get insurance these days. Good on you Killer T, keep the home fires glowing.
ACT Party for their reactionary voter base who have zero interest in helping heal these children and simply want the glee
You have hit on a good idea Martyn – glee singing played at the Beehive on the ACT-offices side, as smart old wotsisname Duck did to annoy the protesters. I give you great glee –
Seemaw would love this one? Seems weird but…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fygAeAjK78Y
David S. could be the star in this one, so alike it is uncanny!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVAacS8gns4
No one joins the military to play security guards at hotel or babysitters for young offenders, so why would they want to be involved?
You would get better value for money & better results putting young people through actual Outward Bound or similar courses, especially if the courses weren’t segregated so people got to interact with a wide variety of people, from various walks of life.
Idea bulb bright! Mix and mingle, instruct, offer opportunity to strengthen competence, personal wellbeing; keep them concentrating on task is a problem. Many never have. I can get frustrated and speak up – did when at a Polytech course with yapping behind. Turned and said firmly “Will you keep quiet I am here to learn – I don’t know what you are here for.”
I was right to do so. It is important that we try to concentrate, that we try to utilise opportunities offered – if they will have outcomes positive and not too many things close to our being, abandoned in the involvement. Not every learning is going to be okay when outcomes are considered. Brainwork is required, consideration, then commitment when building competence is decided on. But most important if helping – don’t patronise in a smug middle-class manner. Respect the qualities of the people you work with, ask them their opinions, get them to think about the question, discuss thinking patterns.
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