SOLO-NZ Press Release: Lock up the PM, Fire the Ombudsman's Arse!
December 5, 2007
National and Labour Governments have long made a habit of covering their bloated backsides by setting up inquiries into
disasters they have caused, observes SOLO Principal Lindsay Perigo.
"The latest such inquiry has just gone a step further and recommended .. another inquiry! This would be comedic if the
taxpayer weren't funding the whole shoddy charade, and if the matter under investigation were not so life-and-death
serious.
"In January, after the murderous rampage by paroled killer Graham Burton—a parole-rampage made possible by this
government's love affair with child-killers and killers of all kinds—the Prime Minister asked the Ombudsman to
investigate the justice system. That was Helen Clark covering her arse. Mel Smith's investigation has recommended a
Royal Commission of Inquiry be held, as 'rational debate on it was almost impossible.' That's the Ombudsman covering his
arse.
"Mr Smith should speak for himself. Rational debate is entirely possible ... it's the enactment of rational solutions by
butt-covering politicians and bureaucrats that is utterly impossible under this regime of rotten-to-the-core parasites
and power-lusters.
"Mr Smith estimated crime and the criminal justice system had an economic and social cost of $9.1 billion in 2003. He
opined, in an astonishing outburst of courage, originality and perspicacity, 'These are significant costs that demand a
comprehensive and high level examination of all of the issues and the development of approaches that produce a better
system and reduce this huge economic cost. Probably a Royal Commission is necessary and appropriate.'
"Mr Smith is paid hundreds of thousands of dollars by the taxpayer to do his job," Perigo reminds us. "Yet seemingly the
best this lickspittle can do on this matter of gravest import is recommend an inquiry that will cost millions, when all
that is necessary is for politicians and police to do what they're supposed to do—protect, not violate, our rights.
"Mr Smith should be fired forthwith, and politicians like Helen Clark locked up next to the Graham Burtons they have
spawned, subsidised and succoured," Perigo concludes.
ENDS