Michael Laws: The liberal shame

"At such times you can appreciate the sensibilities that drove Sue Bradford to intrude on family life."

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THE SICKENING trial of the feral Curtis/Kuka coupling ended with guilty verdicts for the torture and murder of beautiful three-year-old Nia Glassie.

For the past year I have repeatedly asked the question whether those guilty of Nia's torment are really members of the human race. Or simply evil strained into inadequate vessels.

But neither should we forget another innocent brown face recently added to the long list of infamy that is New Zealand underclass child care - seven-year-old Duwayne Pailegutu. Killed by his stepfather, Johnny Pukerua Joachim, for leaving his school jersey in the playground. Beaten mercilessly and then subjected to ice cold and then scalding baths.

In both cases, their mothers were present but had the maternal instincts of a sadist. One is guilty of manslaughter and another with failing to provide the necessaries of life. What twisted world is fashioned to create a child that a mother refuses to protect?

Nia and Duwayne had similar home lives. Part of a chaotic, brown underclass with their step-fathers creating an especial hell. This morning, literally hundreds, and perhaps thousands, of children awake to the same bleak pretence of family life and inclusion.

And yet under existing policies and departmental practices, nothing will stop this abuse.

Not public education programmes, not increased welfare benefits, not social agencies sharing information and not the return of all white people to their ancestral home. There remains a group of people devoid of any human sensibility other than self-gratification. Kids are the enemies because they require a level of self-sacrifice that is beyond the ability of their parents or whanau.

So what to do?

At such times you can appreciate the sensibilities that drove Sue Bradford to intrude on family life. Her aims were laudable even if her aim was execrable. Pursuing the indecent, she attacked the decent. She targeted the wrong people believing parliament and policy-makers can make a difference by fiddling instead of excising evil. But again that question: what to do?

First, let's reintroduce the death penalty for child murder and life sentences for child abusers. Not as a deterrent, but as the appropriate punishment for these people. The wilful murder of a child is the ultimate defiance of humanity: as such, these people do not deserve the protection of our sympathy. Wiremu Curtis, Michael Curtis and Johnny Joachim deserve death. They have earned its release.

Second, let's admit that child abuse cannot be resolved by letting Maori find Maori solutions. Any more than Pakeha can solely be relied on to deal with white-collar crime. Again, if they could have, they already would have. It is not colonial exploitation that kills Maori kids - it is twisted adults who care as much for their cultural heritage as they did for the life they snuffed.

Third, let's admit that most of the underclass cannot be trusted with children. Ever. They may have the ability to procreate, but possess no sensibility to accept the responsibility. They are the underclass for a reason. And their idea of best parenting is to create someone like them - uneducated, pig ignorant, welfare-dependent, addicted and violent. And we want a new generation of such people. Why?

Raising children is a privilege, not a right. Child, Youth and Family is starting to station staff in delivery rooms but not enough and not often enough. No person connected with the Kahui, Glassie or Pailegutu cases should ever have been allowed to breed. They forfeited those rights, the moment they conducted or condoned such abuse. Their children will be just like them - malignant and feral.

Fourth, make it a criminal offence for persons who notice and witness child abuse to then turn the other way. Those neighbours who testified in the Nia Glassie trial should be on trial, too. They witnessed the abuse, and observed it over days and weeks. But did nothing. Their inhumanity deserves legal reproach.

Fifth, if you're a gang member, a gang associate, a recidivist criminal (generally the same thing) or an addict, you automatically lose your child. There are no good gang members - they are all reprobates, white or brown. When they have left the gang or addicts have cleaned up then their children can be returned. Maybe. Being born to a Hell's Angel or a Mongrel Mob member or associate is to condemn a child to infamy and idiocy. Allowing kids to stay with such parent(s) is state-sanctioned child abuse.

Sixth, stop buying the liberal excuses. Every blame-shifter, every apologist, every politically correct naysayer is, in reality, part of the problem. They are the pimps of abuse - they condone ill-treatment because they make excuses for the perpetrator.

And I include defence lawyers in that retinue because they whore their intelligence to protect the evildoers. As a rule, criminal defence lawyers have no soul.

And last, but definitely not least - excise these modern shibboleths of political correctness and cultural sensitivity. They are the refuge of the scoundrel and exist solely to excuse infamy. They preclude the application of commonsense in combating child abuse and place children in harm's way every day.

The liberal policy-makers have had their day and their way - and they have failed.

Nia Glassie and Duwayne Pailegutu are dead because of them and their policies. There is blood on their hands - and it is children's blood. They protect the feckless, criminal, stupid underclass by encouraging them to breed, refusing to hold them to account, assuming that "education" is the answer, and thinking that placing at-risk children in the wider "whanau" is a solution.

Now is the time for this country to get serious about protecting its children, and all of them. Not just the white ones. And not just the ones who get a corrective smack from their mums and dads.

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