The Ministry of Social Development’s  - te fucking purongo oranga tangata - Social Report for 2008 is out.

One of the Ministry’s desired outcomes is that, ‘everybody enjoys physical safety and feels secure.’ And we all know how well New Zealand is doing at achieving this result, don’t we?

 But just to be sure that you are clear, the report states that, ‘39 percent of New Zealanders aged 15 years and over experienced some form of criminal victimisation in 2005.’ 39 per cent! T  H  I  R  T  Y   N  I  N  E   PER CENT!

It would of course be too much to expect anyone within the ministry or the government to connect this disgusting statistic with this news headline from the same day: ‘New bid to get rid of “neighbours from hell.”

These neighbours have been, among other things, vandalizing property, and assaulting and firing fireworks at people. They have been doing so for some time.. There is more than ten of these scumbags living in the one house; a state house- one that you and I have paid for. So given that the government’s stated aim is to ensure that we feel secure and safe, why don’t they protect the neighbours and evict these people? That would because Housing NZ must first go to the Tenancy Tribunal, a tribunal that makes its rulings in favour of the tenant over any landlord at any opportunity it can. And that is exactly what this Labour government sought to ensure.

 Of course, should these ungrateful spongers finally be evicted the government will simply reward them with another state house so they can begin a crime spree somewhere new. It’s just a further example of their support for the criminals and the losers- whom we must all chip in and house- while they ignore the victims.

Yet, the solution would seem simple. Tip these people out onto the street. All of them. Let some church or charity, should they see a value in it, look after them. Not me. Or, better still, ship them out to the Minister of Social Development, Ruth Dyson’s house. She can take them in. I insist.