Luxon’s confidence of starting confrontations with Gangs is truly delusional

FFS!

Luxon defends practicality of National’s public gang patch plan

National leader and Prime Minister-elect Christopher Luxon said his plan to ban gang patches in public will be enforceable.

Passing a law to ban gang patches in public is part of National’s 100-day plan once it’s in government.

Gang patches are already banned in schools, hospitals, courts and other premises managed by either central or local government.

Pressed on what a gang patch is to him, Luxon told Breakfast this morning: “A gang patch, an insignia on the back of someone’s jacket and everything we’ve talked about, is well understood in New Zealand.”

“It’s happened in Queensland, it’s happened in Western Australia, we’ve done it already in New Zealand about banning gang patches in public places like hospitals and schools and courtrooms. All we’re doing is expanding it into public places.”

He said the National Party is “confident” police will be able to enforce the law.

Ok.

There is so much wrong with this, I don’t know where to begin, but let’s start with the main lie that National are using to justify becoming a Police State, which is ‘but it’s worked in Queensland and Western Australia’ because that’s the main deception National are using.

Because most Kiwis and National Party MPs can’t tell the difference between the Black Power, Head Hunters, Comancheros, Mongols and Rebels they think the same gang patch ban laws in Australia  will work here, when of course they can’t!

This ban ‘works’ in Australia because only active members of those organised crime gangs get targeted, in NZ – because of the very different nature of our gangs – those insignia and patches mean vastly different things to many different members of that gang and have a very different culture to Australia.

Don’t believe me? Here’s Queensland gang expert, Queensland University of Technology’s Mark Lauchs, explaining why the gang ban won’t work here…

But thinks it may be a different story for gangs like the Mongrel Mob.

He says the Mob has a different type of status like a family organisation and even having Government funding for community projects, there may be more difficulty.

…what works in Australia won’t work here. The culture is different and the gang patch is worn by vastly greater numbers of people than simply members.

Additionally, a patched member can never willingly hand over their patch, so what Chris Luxon is demanding is a law that breaches the Bill of Rights and demands Police beat gang members unconscious to take their patched jacket from them.

Luxon has already puffed himself up to argue that he will send the Police into the next Gang Funeral to take patches off gang members.

Can you imagine the fucking riot that will break out if the Police are sent into a gang funeral?

Look, there will be some of you who have an almost sexual fetish for police brutality against gang members, and there will certainly be those arguing ‘about time’ and won’t be phased in the least that this is a breach of human rights and to be honest will feel gleeful at watching gang deaths meted out by the State, but the worst angels of our nature shouldn’t direct social policy debate because those ghouls only make things worse.

Of course we need a crack down on gangs, but that happens by ensuring paths out of gangs and good paying jobs.

It’s the 501 inspired elements that are causing the current chaos inside the criminal underworld over the meth trade.

The smarter policing needs to be aimed at the organised crime gangs, not gangs per se.

That Luxon can’t distinguish between the two is deeply worrying, especially as he intends to pass Police State powers that breach the Bill of Rights.

The litmus test on how crazy National intend to go will revolve around Police Commissioner Coster’s position.

Because National have put so much political capital on bashing the gangs and because they can’t do anything to enact any of their other policy (other than bashing beneficiaries), they will green light Mark Mitchell to go romper stomper and if he sacks Coster and replaces him with some Police Thug who will implement a heavy haded response for the media, that will be the real warning sign that Luxon isn’t just regurgitating tough on crime rhetoric for the frightened electorate, but is utterly delusional and has started something he can’t control.

Watch for Coster’s position to know if Luxon is paying lip service to scared voters or if he’s dangerously taking us down a Police State path.

 

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