Thursday, March 01, 2007

Oral PQ today

11. SUE BRADFORD to the Minister of Police: Is it police policy to arrest and prosecute people for every technical offence committed, for example, when parents keep their children out of school to take them on a family holiday?

What kind of a mickey mouse question is this?

She's looking for a negative answer in order to prove that when smacking becomes a 'technical offence' the police will not, as a matter of policy, arrest and prosecute people for it.

It seems to me that smoking dope is a technical offence that the police have long been turning a blind eye to. Yet the Greens would argue that as a reason for decriminalising dope. See the muddle-headed hypocrisy?

Oh, what the hell. Let's just have oodles of de facto laws that mean diddly squat.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Parents give their children holidays with agreement of the school.

So I guess she is suggesting that light smacking should happen by mutual agreement with the child.