Written By: - Date published: 4:20 pm, February 13th, 2009 - 108 comments
Categories: crime, racism -
Tags: bruce emery, garth mcvicar, pihema cameron, sensible sentencing trust
Bruce Emery’s sentence of just four years and three months on a reduced charge of manslaughter for chasing 15 year old Pihema Cameron 300 metres down the street and stabbing him to death with a knife is a stark reminder of the institutional racism that still exists in this country.
Let’s not pretend for a second that Emery would have got off so lightly if he was an unemployed Maori and his victim a middle class Pakeha child, tagger or not.
And he certainly would not have gained the enthusiastic support of the so-called Sensible Sentencing Trust, whose spokesman Garth McVicar defended Emery as “a decent hard working citizen [who] is facing a murder charge because of his frustration over this issue” and argued he shouldn’t have to serve any time at all.
Some will no doubt baulk at the use of the term ‘racism’, New Zealanders don’t like to believe that such a thing exists in this country. But really, there’s no other way to describe what happened in the Emery case.
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hey fuck you. spel chek tht bahtch..
i’ve seen heaps of spelling mistakes on here. so fucken what. the message was spot on. so spell check it and put it back on.
[lprent: Sure there are spelling mistakes, they aren't performed as a style. Your efforts are unreadable, make me wince and generally qualify you as an eyesore to a sysop. You are heading to being classed as a public eyesore, a sub category of bloody nuisance. There are sites that like that type of self-expression - this isn't one of them - because I have to read it.]
Ok I read the policy. So I apologise for my personal attacks towards those fuckwits. But you should put the non-offensive part back up because its true.
[lprent: You'll have to write it again. When I kill something it stays dead. You don't have to apologize - just do it with more finesse]
Well dickhead, I was basically saying that the lowest form of life is a Pakeha. And its maggots like BD and SB that prove that statement.
IrishBill: and you’re banned for a week for insulting the blog owners.