Racism rears its head again

Most organisations, councils and even national governments have rules, by-laws and laws that at are out dated and should have in some cases never been legislated and in other cases were perfectly appropriate at the time  but events caught up on them and there time is done. I remember while on the University of Otago student executive the president asking if I would back him in dumping our 300 page policy document and try and get in a 3 page policy document that reflected the realities as student face them at that time. A great example would have been our opposition to apartheid in South Africa, a great policy but rather odd given that President Mandela was running South Africa.

Yesterday the New Zealand Police came up with a racist disgusting plan

" Police are looking at using Maori wardens on streets throughout the country during the Rugby World Cup.

They are regularly used throughout New Zealand to monitor cultural events and assist police.

The law which established the wardens dates back to 1962 and contains a provision enabling them to order bars to stop serving "drunk and quarrelsome" Maori.

Today, MPs on all sides of the political spectrum acknowledged it was out of date. Parliament is currently reviewing the law which was last year considered by the Maori Affairs Select Committee."

I am bloody struggling with this what the fuck were the police thinking.

" Today, MPs on all sides of the political spectrum acknowledged it was out of date. Parliament is currently reviewing the law which was last year considered by the Maori Affairs Select Committee.

Committee member and National MP Tau Henare said the law was archaic and an embarrassment. The select committee recommended the provision be wiped from the statute books in a report in December 2010.

"It wasn't urgent, it most probably is now, that we take it off the books. Can you imagine a day before the World Cup final and a Portuguese man, who may look like a Maori, is turfed out of the pub."

Prime Minister John Key said only drunks and under-aged people should be thrown out of bars. The 1962 law was antiquated and "felt a bit" racist.

"If someone's removed from a bar it should be because they're under-aged or they're intoxicated, ethnicity's got nothing to do with it."

I am glad that politicians left and right have condemned this but it still doesn't answer what the bloody hell the NZ Police were thinking ? The Minister for Police should be asking some very hard questions  today.

" Police Minister Judith Collins said she did not support the "attack" on the wardens. "There is nothing wrong with the work Maori wardens do."

Asked if she was concerned the wardens would target Maori during the Rugby World Cup, Collins said they should continue to work with police.

"Their focus is always going to be about trying to prevent crime, prevent Maori becoming victims of crime, and to keep the peace."

WTF. Judith Collins also needs a bloody good kick in the arse, nobody is attacking Maori wardens, hell I have pointed out often in my blogs that you just can't tell who is Maori and who isn't in New Zealand. We have been shagging each other for so long it just isn't possible in many occasions to tell. Maori wardens are great and trust me  in Dunedin in the deep south they took the attitude that all obnoxious teenagers were Maori. I got my fair share of talking's to and trust me you don't bloody argue back to a Maori warden because if you do you might well be giving your details to police and then having to explain to your parents  the reason for a Maori warden making a visit to them.

The law which established the wardens dates back to 1962 and contains a provision enabling them to order bars to stop serving "drunk and quarrelsome" Maori."

I have a better idea lets give them the power to deal with drunk and quarrelsome kiwis. My point, if I went out and behaved badly and a Maori warden decided I had crossed the line, and I wouldn't co-operate with the warden and was compelled to give my parents contact details so the warden could call them well I am not sure I would be looking forward to the next phone call from Mum and Dad and I am in my mid forties.