What would Jesus do? Criminalising homelessness after causing the homelessness is an obscenity
Critics say the Government is attempting to criminalise the visible consequences of its own social policy failures — cutting housing support, tightening emergency housing access and slashing frontline services before turning police powers onto the people left stranded by those decisions.
Isn’t there something sick about a man as rich as the Prime Minister, who has accessed every single subsidy and tax break he can, even personally benefitting from capital gains taxes he changed, criminalising the homeless?
What’s extra delicious is how the tsunami of homelessness we are seeing is a direct result of National Party policy.
Every single agency who deal with the dispossessed told this Government that their redefinition of who was eligible for emergency housing would result in the exact situation we are witnessing now.
This is the direct result of cutting public housing, cutting transitional housing, cutting welfare, cutting benefits, cutting mental health services, cutting emergency housing, cutting outreach and cutting food banks.
So, what’s the Government’s response to very situation their policies have manufactured?
Why? We are going to arrest the homeless.
It’s either three months in prison or a $2,000 fine.
Punishing homelessness solves nothing
Firstly, how is a homeless person going to pay a $2,000 fine?
Secondly, wouldn’t the promise of a roof, a bed and three meals a day actually make the homeless want to break this law?
Isn’t things so bad that three months in prison is preferable to being abused on the street?
Why is National (led by such a wealthy and selfish Christian) being allowed to arrest the damaged individuals that their policies have created?
Shouldn’t you and I, as we walk through our cities, be confronted by the appalling poverty this Government’s policies have generated?
Shouldn’t we be forced to be confronted for the consequences of the last election?
Why do this Government and their rich boy God Botherer get to abuse those their policies have failed?
What would Jesus do?
The moral hypocrisy at the centre of the debate
Would Jesus criminalise the homeless?
Would Jesus have cut the outreach programs, cut the food banks and cut the transitional housing?
Would Jesus have changed the emergency housing rules, create the homeless problem and then arrest those homeless?
I just don’t think Jesus would do that.
I think it’s disgusting that a right-wing-prick Government, led by an offensively wealthy Christian hypocrite can create more homelessness with their policies and then gloss over the reality of their actions by merely arresting the homeless.
Who have we become for this to be a solution to any of us.
People who agree with this decision are the ones who need to see the poverty the most.
How spiteful and ugly of us.
Mt 25:31-46 agrees with your article that Christians should be kind to those in need so maybe Luxon has not read that bit yet or he’s so dimwitted that the idea that it applies in his life has not occurred to him yet.
Seems being rich and sorted is very insular and Luxon takes no responsibility for his policies forcing record numbers of businesses to close. The latest is just another sad case of a very poor government that has crippled the economy…
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/auckland/iconic-auckland-restaurant-to-close-harbourside-ocean-bar-grill-no-longer-commercially-viable/O2EGTCLIZBDC5F5HJAC2SO3ZXY/
I think Luxon should offer every home less person the chance to buy a Tesla by giving them each $8,600 as an incentive…and another $ 8,600 for their wives too ….and and yes also ….also… a $500,000 tax free windfall on their next property purchase just to help them along…aaaannnd finally ….give them $ 50,000 dollars a year for sleeping on a park bench whilst waiting for their taxpayer funded newly refurbished accommodation is to be completed.
Fair’s fair…
NZ’s smug, self-absorbed, self-entitled PM has again shown his true ‘Christian’ self and it’s all about HIM and what HE can milk the country for. He is the greediest, most vainglorious, despicable creature we have ever had to endure as a PM. He sickens all decent folk to the core with his draconian and cruel policies. How in hell did Key get this so wrong?
A 10% rise in energy prices is equal to a 10% reduction in GDP. Add to the high interest rate guess work mid 2029 easily 15% inflation you have no idea what’s coming.
luxon’s a dangerous narcissist and we should be very careful of where he’s trying to lure us to. Look this up.
American Psychiatric Association. ( Who else would know better? The home of a self aggrandising liar who has his face painted orange who’s tipped the world on its head while doing little dances in front of adoring crowds of people with all the maturity of day old chickens. )
What Is Narcissistic Personality Disorder?
https://www.psychiatry.org/news-room/apa-blogs/what-is-narcissistic-personality-disorder
You lot. Yes, you. You must reacquaint yourselves with the understanding that it is YOU who are in charge of OUR democracy. Not luxon, peters, seymour or any of the other power-zombies grasping at any opportunity to CONTROL us all.
They’re not the Boss, We are, and we must remind the narcissists of that fact.
This is what I reckon.
Mandate our vote. We must all vote.
Deconstruct MMP because it’s neoliberal scam then return to first past the post voting after mandating the vote.
Request a public, royal commission of inquiry up and into every dollar earned then spent since the vile rise of National in 1936.