GUEST BLOG: Arthur Taylor – Is Public Safety being endangered by Parole Board/Corrections Failings?
Arthur Taylor is The Daily Blog’s Prisoner Rights Blogger who is currently serving time inside prison.
Similar Posts
The Bradbury Group with Minister of Defence Chris Penk on NZ military in time of conflict; Green MP Huhana Lyndon on climate change + Political Panel: Hooton, Dita De Boni, Maria Slade, Tukaki
A Marxist, A Government Cabinet Minister, a Green MP, a Newspaper columnist and 2 business journalists all walk into a…
Shane plays to petty ‘tsunami of butter chicken’ bigotry while Labour defines the real issues behind free trade deals
Shane Jones throws red meat to the worst instincts — but the real danger is slipping through unnoticed. An India trade deal pushed by corporate interests, signed before the public ever sees the fine print.
Luxon claims support, then 5 traitors, then total support again – he’s becoming as credible as a non-orange Trump
Five disgruntled MPs… or total support? Luxon can’t seem to decide — and that contradiction is starting to look a lot like a leadership crisis National can’t contain.
What a Labour, Green, Te Pāti Māori, TOP Government could achieve
The numbers are shifting — and suddenly the left has real options. A four-party progressive government isn’t just theory anymore. The question now is what they’d actually do with it.
MEDIAWATCH: Why the BSA complaint against Sean Plunket is such a waste of time
Sean Plunket has said far worse than this, which is why the BSA complaint feels less like principle and more like bureaucratic theatre with a funding problem underneath.
Political Caption Competition
Winston is confused that he’s an opposition MP and not actually part of the Government
It’s ok…I found your record on the Radio NZ website:
“After spending 38 of the last 44 years in prison, amassing 152 convictions along the way for fraud, burglary, aggravated robbery, kidnapping, firearms offences, drugs offences and escaping from custody”.
Your human rights seem very important to you. You ever consider the human rights of the people you offended against?
What are you in for?
“If it was a business that was succeeding that would be OK…”
It is – and it’s playing a long game with very deep pockets.
Should you ever fall alive into the clutches of WINZ, you’ll find that your experience with the parole board will be invaluable. They’re just the same.
It’s all about pleasing the spiteful, righteous segment of the voting community that raves about throwing away keys – until they’re caught with sticky fingers in the till.
I hope there’s still honour among thieves because there’s damn’ all out here.