The rhetoric around child abuse is getting quite deafening. What better time than to throw my own rhetoric into the mix?

• Christine Rankin’s group called for three minutes of silence, including drivers on the roads (!)
• Transit said that drivers had better not stop and get out on the motorway, because that wouldn’t be safe (!)
• A Maori group, Awa, said engaging in korero (talk) and singing songs was a more appropriate approach (!)

Um – what the hell? Neither ‘minutes of silence’ not talking and singing songs (!) are going to help here. It reminds one of the Muliaga saga – singing songs and praying instead of taking action.

• Actress Greer Robson, carrying two-year-old daughter Sienna, called for “a shift from viewing the child as a parent’s possession to saying it’s the community’s responsibility”.

Bullshit! It’s time to say: NO! It is not my fault that these children are being abused. My money is being stolen from me and given to these people to support their lifestyles. This has got to stop.

I’ll leave you with Peter Osborne, who tells it like it is:

Gang warfare, youth crime, drug abuse and extremely high suicide rates are a logical outcome when people are paid systematically to do nothing; to aspire to nothing. Life is altered, often irreversibly, from a future of possibilities and aspirations to an easy option of subsidised nothingness. The life of nothingness that is fostered by welfarism could only ever serve to degrade one’s self value. It cheapens all of our lives.

It is time to dismantle this horrific social welfare system we have, and to repeal the idiotic drug laws which fuel gangs and make many Maori into criminals.

Posted by Luke H on Friday, August 10th, 2007 at 3:41 pm.