The people have spoken: now to stop the violence
OPINION: If there is one thing that Friday’s anti-smacking referendum will never influence it is those morons who believe that a corrective smack on a child’s bottom constitutes child abuse.
The country has rejected this absurd correlation. But it remains a favourite of liberal pressure groups who agitate that any physical punishment equates to assault.
The Plunkets, Barnardos and Greens honestly think that preventing white middle-class parents from smacking their kids on the bum for being naughty will somehow save poor, brown kids from being killed by their feckless whanau.
As all the child beatings and deaths of 2009 prove, the anti-smacking legislation has failed. It hasn’t stopped one beating, one abuse, one death. And it never will. You can’t reason with drugged, drunk, violent parents, acting out their inadequacy, with an act of parliament. If you could, we would all be living in Utopia.
In the past fortnight, three toddlers have been killed two in Northland and one in Manawatu. At least two of the alleged killers fit the ethnic and socio-economic stereotype of your typical offender. At time of writing, the third offender is unknown. What’s the bet?
This simple fact has escaped the intellectual grasp of the “Yes” campaigners. It seems self-evident to me indeed to the entire nation but not to the zealots whose faith blinds them to reason. As an air-blown kiss is not a prelude to rape, neither is a corrective smack a prelude to Nia Glassie.
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85% of 54% equals less than a majority of voters
And…?
How can you make references to “the entire nation” when less than 50% of them have “spoken”?
In the same way that Key used it on election night.
What kind of answer is that? Are you saying if Key says something it must be right?
Of course not. We totally disagree with Key over this issue. The questions is, why is he blatantly ignoring the vast majority of Kiwis on this issue?
And back to the beginning again. As I pointed out, it’s not the “vast majority” of Kiwis. It’s not even a bare majority.
Oh don’t be so silly Tim. If it was “your” issue, you would be crowing from the hill-tops at 80%.
If this was my issue I wouldn’t be submitting the taxpayers to an $8 million pointless referendum. There were so many problems with it, it was never going to change the law. The question was ambiguous and misleading. No serious lawmaker was ever going to use it as the basis to make law. Everyone knew that in advance. So why waste the money?
For $2 per person, it was a cheap price to pay to put a buzz in the beehive.
So what was so confusing about the question. It seemed obvious to me…
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