User pays uber alles and why private prisons are next

Yesterday it was privatisation of public health…

Health NZ urges Govt to consider privately-run public hospitals

The health agency is suggesting the Government to consider allowing private companies to build – and potentially run – the country’s public hospitals.

today it is the privatisation of Education assets…

School property management: Government to consider stripping Education Ministry as inquiry finds ‘inefficient’ system

…tomorrow it will be private prisons!

I don’t believe that most Kiwis understood just how radical this Government’s anti-worker, anti-environment, anti-renter, anti-Māori, anti-Treaty, anti-public services would be.

They have manufactured an economic crisis by underfunding public services despite population growth and then proposed privatisation and deregulation that benefits their donor class and not the common good.

To fund the tax cuts and landlord loopholes, National are slashing public services and then proposing privatisation as the solution

They are proposing it with roads, they are suggesting it using a neoliberal welfare experiment  and it is only a matter of time before  they propose private prisons to handle the enormous jump in prisoners this Government are proposing.

National are so ideologically hateful they will add 10,000 into NZ prisons for minor offences…

Ministry of Justice warns NZ First-National coalition commitment risks doubling prison population

• The National-NZ First coalition agreement committed to ending concurrent sentences for offences committed while on parole, bail, or in custody.
• The Ministry of Justice estimated this could double the prison population, so the Government has opted to ‘encourage’ ending concurrent sentences as a first step.
• Justice Minister Paul Goldsmith has previously said the Government would still honour the coalition commitment during this parliamentary term, but last night he said: “We’ll see.”

Honouring a National-NZ First coalition commitment could put an additional 10,000 people in prison for mostly minor offences, more than doubling the prison population in what Ministry of Justice officials describe as “not a feasible option”.

The estimate is contained in the ministry’s regulatory impact statement (Ris) on the suite of sentencing reforms that Cabinet has now signed off, with a bill enabling them to be introduced to Parliament this week.

Measures include capping sentencing discounts at 40%, limits on discounts for youth and remorse, a sliding scale for pleading guilty, and “encouraging the use of cumulative sentencing for offences committed while on bail, in custody, or on parole”.

In NZ we have angry Māori and Pacifica youth attacking dairy’s and service stations fighting exploited migrant workers from China and India while the white suburbs clutch their pearls and scream ‘something must be done’

The Political Right want a war on crime because their fearful reactionary voting base are always terrified by the Media’s lust with crime porn for click bait.

Their toxic cocktail of tough on crime policy will see our prison population explode by 10 000 for mostly minor crimes which will cost billions more while creating all the conditions for a massive prison riots and mass prison privatisation.

In NZ we are not interested in rehabilitating criminals or healing broken men, we want them to suffer and this desire to make the prisoners suffer is leading to counterproductive social policy that will only make issues worse.

To put 10 000 more into our broken prison system and think that is a solution gives you real insight into how ideologically hateful the Political Right have become.

But it gets so much worse.

As National are planning to double bunk our entire corrupt and violent prison system with an extra 10 000 convicted of minor offences, Justice Minister Paul Goldsmith is plotting to reduce access to Jury trials…

Government considers raising threshold for getting a jury trial

The government is considering raising the threshold for a defendant to choose a jury trial, in a bid to speed up the court system.

The number of active jury trials climbed from about 2000 six years ago to about 3400 last year, Justice Minister Paul Goldsmith said in a statement. The average duration of a case climbed from 349 days to 498 days over the same period.

Currently, defendants can choose to face a jury – rather than a judge alone – when charged with a criminal offence carrying a maximum prison sentence of two years or more.

Goldsmith said he was seeking feedback on a proposal to increase that threshold, saying jury trials were one of the biggest drivers of delays.

…you’ll tell yourself it’s just the crims, that you don’t need to worry about a Prison Industrial Complex, that removing Jury trials is prudent, you will slavishly spit any lie to hide the Police State you are worshipping.

Human Beings have intrinsic human rights.

Abusing people in prison to make them suffer all to scratch your itch of anger and fear is a sadism, it isn’t law and order.

Removing Jury Trials for those we despise so we can blow the prison population out by 10 000 is not social policy, it’s a revenge fantasy.

This is what we are now, this is who we have become.

Get used to many more double bunk murders and rapes.

Remember when all the mainstream media pundits claimed this Government was ‘moderate’ when it was first elected?

This is a hard right, racist, climate denying, beneficiary bashing, disabled abusing Government using an anti-renter, anti-Treaty, anti-worker, anti-environment, anti-Māori and anti-beneficiary agenda to further the interests of. their donor class.

Ain’t it funny how the factories doors close?
‘Round the time that the school doors close?
‘Round the time that a hundred thousand jail cells
Open up to greet you like the reaper?

System of a Down – Ashes in the Fall

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