01-11-2023, 06:23 PM
With regard to their idiocy around facial tattoos; the mob have hired lawyers. That might prove interesting - clearly Mark Mitchell & National are eager to appear tough, but perhaps they didn't consider that we already have one politician with a full Moko, nor that more & more Maori women are having Moko Kauae. Can they legally apply such a daft law to just one section of the commmunity or will that prove illegal....
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/kahu/mongrel-...BKJDDEV6Y/
"The Mongrel Mob has instructed a lawyer to look at National’s gang policy and threats that Foul Masks - members who have gang regalia tattooed on their faces - will be forced to use makeup to cover up.
Free speech advocates, meanwhile, said National’s policy was “bad and counterproductive”, likely to “push gangs further underground to fester”.
Tokoroa lawyer Arama Ngapo confirmed that she had been asked by the Mongrel Mob to investigate the legality of National’s election pledge.
“I can confirm that I have been asked for legal advice on that matter,” Ngapo told the Herald.
“If Mr [Prime Minister-elect Christopher] Luxon thinks the solution to gangs in Aotearoa/New Zealand is to ‘Thin Lizzy’ the problem away, he is ignoring over 100 years of colonisation and systemic racism which left Māori in a cycle of poverty that led to the creation of gangs.”
Last week potential incoming Police Minister Mark Mitchell announced that National - the majority party of the incoming coalition Government - may ban gang facial tattoos if its planned ban on gang patches does not work.
Mitchell said gang members will be made to apply foundation when they wake up in the morning or face arrest."
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/kahu/mongrel-...BKJDDEV6Y/
"The Mongrel Mob has instructed a lawyer to look at National’s gang policy and threats that Foul Masks - members who have gang regalia tattooed on their faces - will be forced to use makeup to cover up.
Free speech advocates, meanwhile, said National’s policy was “bad and counterproductive”, likely to “push gangs further underground to fester”.
Tokoroa lawyer Arama Ngapo confirmed that she had been asked by the Mongrel Mob to investigate the legality of National’s election pledge.
“I can confirm that I have been asked for legal advice on that matter,” Ngapo told the Herald.
“If Mr [Prime Minister-elect Christopher] Luxon thinks the solution to gangs in Aotearoa/New Zealand is to ‘Thin Lizzy’ the problem away, he is ignoring over 100 years of colonisation and systemic racism which left Māori in a cycle of poverty that led to the creation of gangs.”
Last week potential incoming Police Minister Mark Mitchell announced that National - the majority party of the incoming coalition Government - may ban gang facial tattoos if its planned ban on gang patches does not work.
Mitchell said gang members will be made to apply foundation when they wake up in the morning or face arrest."
in order to be old & wise, you must first be young & stupid. (I'm still working on that.)