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interpreting the void as SamV
Larry Baldock, the guy behind the $9m waste of taxpayer money called the citizen's initiated referendum, offers this hogwash.
Let me tell you why you are wrong and why your argument is flawed from the very beginning.
Oh, I can't wait.
Firstly, some adults can hit others without breaking the law. They are called police and we give them this authority because we know that in some circumstances someone must use reasonable force to correct the unacceptable behaviour of some adults in our society. If I were to throw a wobbly and begin to refuse to submit to the laws of this country, and act in a threatening manner to persons or property, the police could hit me with a baton, taser me with 50,000 volts of electricity, handcuff me, and backed by the justice system, even enforce my timeout in a correctional institution if necessary for a number of years.
Larry Baldock your argument is fucking moronic.
The first hole in your small-minded argument is that the police have very specific situations which they are allowed to do those things and none of them are correction. Do the courts sentence people to beatings and being tasered? No, you retard, they don't.
It is probably widely known in NZ that you have disliked this authority that is entrusted to our police ever since your early protesting days when you sought to assault some of our good men in uniform.
Devoid of any real case to make, Larry lowers himself to the level of ad homineum attacks on his opponent.
Your second error is made when you constantly bleat on about how children should be treated the same as adults in law because this neglects that fact that sec 21 & 22 of the crimes Act has always treated children differently by giving them specific exemptions from prosecution for any criminal activity they may commit.
So wait. Because youths are not criminally culpable, you need to hit them. There's no other option, is there Larry? When your kids make you angry, you just hit them until they stop making you angry, right?
In Larry Baldock's universe, there is no alternative to ruling over children by keeping them in a constant fear of authority. They must learn that they must not because otherwise someone who is bigger and stronger than them will stop them.