Friday, May 22, 2009

Torture or tortured logic?

Speaking on behalf of the Maori Party;

"We agree with the UN when its says that the severe pain caused by tasers could be seen as a form of torture and could even kill someone," Mr Harawira said.

"The last time I checked the job description of this country's police force I didn't come across any duty to torture people.

"We realise there are dangerous people out there, but we also know there are innocent people out there and therefore we don't want tools of torture in the hands of police or anyone else for that matter.

So there are dangerous people out there, and there are innocent people out there. And yes, we do all know that. We also know it is the job of the police to protect the innocent people from the dangerous people. In the pursuit of fulfilling that expectation the police are given tools like batons and dogs. We don't make a song and dance about the possibility of innocent people falling foul of batons and dogs, both of which could kill inadvertently. Both of which are capable of inflicting severe pain.

I just don't get Hone Harawira sometimes.

1 comment:

James said...

Hones thinking that if tasers had been around in his younger,more radical days his arse now would glow in the dark with the amount of voltage he would have rightly recived.