Darroch Ball MP

Acting Spokesperson for Police

Spokesperson for Social Development
22 MAY 2016

For Criminals Like Tony Robertson Prison Must Mean Prison

New Zealand First says a politically correct view that crime is a disease, means that people like Tony Robertson will continue to be released while innocents like Blessie Gotingco and her family will continue to suffer.

“There are some truly bad people out there who must be imprisoned to protect society from them,” says Darroch Ball, New Zealand First’s acting Police Spokesperson.

“Politically correct governments and a liberal bureaucracy hold onto the notion that crime is some sort of correctable disease. Look at the terms we use – a Department of Corrections, Correctional Facilities and Correctional Officers.

“For people like Tony Robertson and that monster who raped a 3 year-old child, it is society which needs to be protected from them. There’s something wrong when no one in government grasps the need for a publicly searchable child sex offender register

“New Zealand First not only backs a publicly searchable child sex offender register, but we have a Bill before Parliament that would give paedophile victims the right to request the removal of their attacker’s name suppression.

“Monsters like Robertson shouldn’t be released into society unless they represent no threat whatsoever. For them prison must mean prison. We don’t care a jot for their civil liberties because they lost them the moment they took a life, or a child’s innocence,” Mr Ball said.

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