The Media party went into full crim-hugging mode over the Kawerau shooting of four Police by Rhys Warren.
They pandered to the criminal’s scribble-faced family who were quoted endlessly in the media. It was full on anti-cop rhetoric ignoring the fact that their scumbag relative had just shot and severely wounded four police officers.
The mother stated:
He had been in trouble with the law previously, she said, but not for some time.
David Farrar asked “This week? This month?”
Well it turns out that “not for sometime” is less than two years ago. We know this because in 2014 he was a party to the proceeding against the government by prisoners over the removal of their right to vote.
So he was a prisoner, in jail, demanding a right to vote. Less than two years later he is out of prison and shooting four police. All the grandstanding and carry on from the scribble-faced “whanau” spokesperson was to cover up the fact that this guy is a hardened criminal who has served time with another criminal scumbag, Arthur Taylor.
Veteran criminal and prison bush lawyer Arthur Taylor has lost a High Court bid he hoped would enable him to vote in next weekend’s election.
Arthur William Taylor, who is held in the maximum security wing of Auckland Prison at Paremoremo, was one of six prisoners seeking interim orders so they could vote in the upcoming general election.
He was joined by Joel Twain McVay, Rhys Warren, Hinemanu Ngaranoa, Sandra Wilde and Maritta Matthews.
They were trying to argue that the Electoral (Disqualification of Sentenced Prisoners) Amendment Act 2010 was inconsistent with the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990.
Under the Amendment Act, all people in prison on election day are unable to vote.
In a High Court decision released today, Justice Rebecca Ellis dismissed the prisoners’ application.
So the Monty Python-esque claim from “whanau” that he was once a naughty boy was stretching the truth, but the gullible Media party, pandering to Maori, soaked it up. He was in Paremoremo, and you don’t get there for stealing lollies from the dairy.
Here is the thing that is being missed here. What would happen if the gunman was any race other than Maori and they’d shot four cops? In this case we had special liaison people, informing and speaking with “whanau” and all the rest of the carry on.
If a European person shoots four Police officers and then has a stand off, would the Police and Media party have entertained listening to family waiting outside the cordon demanding a European person’s liaison officer to handle things the European way?
Or would the perp be shot to pieces in a heartbeat by the Police?
I suppose we could ask the guy in Meyer Park…oh hang on.
This demand for special treatment of criminals, use of tikanga Maori and pandering to “whanau” with an agenda is showing cultural bias and racism (against every other race), not just by Police but by a complicit and compliant Media party.
Police must treat everyone the same.
Don’t get me wrong, the Police have handled this well in getting a scumbag who shot four of their mates into custody. But would they have handled this differently if it was someone who wasn’t Maori? I suspect, sadly, that they would have.
I guess now we will have to watch the Media party attempt to lay the blame on Police, as the “whanau” have, when the only person responsible is Rhys Warren.
– Fairfax
