Lyndon Hood - mad anyway, Lower Hutt
Wednesday, June 01, 2005
I can't bring myself not to post about the Greens - conditional - support of Goff's prisoner compenation-that-you-can't-actually-have bill.
No Right Turn points out that they're basically stopping things getting any worse. Guess he's right. Good on them.
I want to be all like, Grr, politics. But I think I really mean, Grr, social and political climate.
And I don't think it's a climate that's actually conducive to work on victim's issues (as distinct from just punishing prisoners) or rehabilitation. These somehow don't seem compatible with the hang-em-high approach.
So I can't see much progress being made before the Green's sunset clause kicks in.
No Right Turn points out that they're basically stopping things getting any worse. Guess he's right. Good on them.
I want to be all like, Grr, politics. But I think I really mean, Grr, social and political climate.
And I don't think it's a climate that's actually conducive to work on victim's issues (as distinct from just punishing prisoners) or rehabilitation. These somehow don't seem compatible with the hang-em-high approach.
So I can't see much progress being made before the Green's sunset clause kicks in.
