Friday, March 24, 2006

Tariana sounding tired on "gangs"

Maori Party co-leader, Tariana Turia, has got nothing new or original to say about gangs. She is no doubt right that banning patches in Wanganui won't make any difference but....

She said gang criminality and violence were linked to issues of unemployment, poverty, alcohol and drugs.

We aren't going to get employment any lower than it is; gangs are not poor and prohibition would play into gang hands. Which only leaves drugs. Legalise them and deprive the gangs of a major reason for their existence.

2 comments:

Oswald Bastable said...

That and depriving them of oxygen...

Anonymous said...

Oswald is right - deprive them of oxygen and they have no useful alternative. However if you deprive them of their illegal drug trade, they will simply turn to other criminal activities - extortion, robbery, burglary etc.

Thats the problem with cockroaches - they tend to adapt quickly.