Hi everyone!
The SST is now on Facebook and Myspace.
For Facebook, click here for the group, or here for the cause.
For MySpace, click here for the cause.
Thank you for your support!
Posted on May 5th 2008 by Chris. No Comments ».
Increasingly, over the last few years, it has seemed to me that New Zealand has a very great deal of the former and a definite lack of the latter. We’ve all seen it in the news - criminals breaking the law with impunity, while the Crown slaps them on the wrist and sends them home. Murder, rape, random violence, vandalism, burglary, theft and general anti-social behaviour are all that New Zealand seems to be good at these days, and I think it’s high time we did something about it.
As it stands, we have a ‘humanitarian’, socialist, warm-fuzzies system which treats criminals like Kings and victims like scum. Recent events have finally compelled me to get off my lazy backside and join the Sensible Sentencing Trust (SST). I’d heard of them before, of course, but until I visited their website I had no idea that their goals and mine had such a close correspondence.
I’d highly recommend that everyone take the time to visit the site and, hopefully, make a donation. Their cause is surely worthy, and the only way it to get through to politicians is, apparently, by lobbying en masse. The dedicated people of the SST do that work on our behalf, and all we need to do is show them some support. Every Kiwi has a vested interest in the achievement of the SST’s goals and, at a time when it isn’t safe to walk the streets of our cities in broad daylight, the least we can do is put our money where our mouths are.
Let’s hope that in the future we see a lot less crime as a result of better punishment.
Posted on May 2nd 2008 by Chris. 1 Comment ».