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• Published date: 04 February 2021

We can no longer continue to have this underlying tacit approval of gang’s existence in our society. Community safety should be the priority, not the freedom or ‘rights’ of gang members.

This unprovoked attack on an innocent man in Christchurch by a coward, thug, Mongrel Mob gang member shows how far we have let gangs rule the roost. Enough is enough. Society is sick and tired of these out-of-control, violent, intimidating, lawless gangs, who seem to make our law enforcement look like fools.

How can our law enforcement watch and stand idly by as hundreds of violent and dangerous Mongrel Mob gang members venture down to Christchurch and just wait until something happens? Law enforcement is helpless, as this government’s soft on crime policies allow the gangs to flourish and allow violence to spread through our communities unchecked.

It’s time to ban gangs altogether.

Darroch Ball

Sensible Sentencing Trust

Sheer folly

Where is the thinking from politicians? Are they that desperate for a vote that they abandon clear, logical thought?

The no doubt Greens-motivated proposed moves re gas installation in new homes and push to electric-powered vehicles, without any thought to the country’s ability to generate the extra power required, is sheer folly.

By all means propose feasible alternatives, such as hydrogen production from the likes of Manapouri. Maybe tidal energy in the North Island at the major harbours, perhaps Cook Straight, where tidal flows are enough to produce smaller plants for distribution. Sure there will be huge set-up costs, including piping distribution, but the benefits of freedom from fossil fuels and the benefits of lower costs and no exhaust contamination has to be a major boost.

Some may have seen a recent screening of ‘Whichcar’ on TV, entirely based on electric vehicles. Of the three types, all dedicated electric vehicles by Hyundai, fuel cell technology, producing electric power to drive the vehicle, vastly outweighed the others.

Safe storage has been proved. Fill up at service stations was a mere three minutes, the range of the vehicle was 720km, and the performance was mind boggling, 0 to 100km/h in less time than a Ferrari.

Politicians, get a bit of gumption and stop this nonsense of crippling our primary producers and aiding the world’s major polluters with their lower costs because they don’t have such overheads created by their governments.

None of the decisions regarding carbon footprints and the like will influence any of those polluters or the ravagers of the world’s major rainforests. Unless we revert to a slow down to horse and buggy transport we are committed to polluting industries in the production of...