So help me, Hone Harawira is right. It’s not the display gangs make of themselves that matters, but the reasons why gangs exist in the first place.
That a blue-eyed, pink-skinned, blonde MP, Todd McClay, tagging along after ex-Whanganui mayor Michael Laws, wants gang patches banned, illustrates the ignorance of even intelligent people when they demand draconian laws against whatever they dislike or don’t understand.
I don’t like what gangs do either, but I’d be tempted to join Harawira and wear a patch myself in protest against such a dopey idea if the law change ever happens. And when I link McClay’s mission to advertising man John Ansell, another pink person, who wants a referendum linked to his ‘Colour Blind’ campaign, I wonder what planet they live on. Read more
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