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Crooks go to town while poor eke out a living
JOHN TAMIHERE COLUMN - Sunday News Last updated 05:00 22/11/2009
THE big end of town is defined by the large flash houses with the big flash cars and the big flash boats.
It's defined by the annual holiday offshore to all the exotic places.
It is defined by people believing the big end of town provides our captains of industry, our leaders in business and our upholders of standards and ethics.
The little end of town is defined by people getting up very early to get to work or just arriving home from work. They have just finished cleaning up the mess left by those who live in the big end of town. They are just on their way to work for lower rates of pay to prop up the lifestyle of the big end of town.
This week we had confirmed what we always knew and that is we have two separate forms of justice dispensed in this country. One for the big end of town and one for the little end of town. If you are rich and famous you are seven times more likely to be able to defend any criminal action against you and nine times more likely to have your name suppressed regardless of the outcome of the case. If you are from the big end of town you more than likely will beat the charge. Even if the charge sticks you will not lose your freedom and more than likely get home detention. If you are a Maori or Pacific Islander living in the little end of town you are four times more likely to face multiple charges, seven times more likely to be found guilty and convicted and 11 times more likely to go to prison.
I recall going to school and seeing the first graffiti splashed on the wall stating "Jails, where all the big criminals send all the little criminals".
Over the last 24 months we have seen not hundreds, not thousands, not millions but billions of dollars fraudulently, by rort, by corruption, by stealth and by sharp practices ripped off thousands of hardworking and predominantly now retired Kiwis.
The big end of town oversaw this, mandated it and has their fingerprints all over it. The billions of dollars "lost" by finance companies and the like is a national disgrace on a magnitude of stupendous proportions. The number of lawyers, accountants, auditors, valuers and captains of industry involved is also huge and all from the big end of town.
Most of their lifestyles have not changed, few have been charged, few have been named and all have their liberty. In the little end of town our belief in a justice system that is fair and is equal is known now to be one of the greatest jokes perpetrated on this country. I
In the event the Mongrel Mob, Black Power or Hone Harawira got up to a smidgen of what these white collar mongrels have been up to, they would've been hunted down religiously, no stone would have been left unturned and the full forces of the state would have been brought to bear. The media would have had a field day.
There are a number of people in powerful positions who are shamed by their silence on this matter and in their silence they are no better than half these crooks.
JOHN TAMIHERE COLUMN - Sunday News Last updated 05:00 22/11/2009
THE big end of town is defined by the large flash houses with the big flash cars and the big flash boats.
It's defined by the annual holiday offshore to all the exotic places.
It is defined by people believing the big end of town provides our captains of industry, our leaders in business and our upholders of standards and ethics.
The little end of town is defined by people getting up very early to get to work or just arriving home from work. They have just finished cleaning up the mess left by those who live in the big end of town. They are just on their way to work for lower rates of pay to prop up the lifestyle of the big end of town.
This week we had confirmed what we always knew and that is we have two separate forms of justice dispensed in this country. One for the big end of town and one for the little end of town. If you are rich and famous you are seven times more likely to be able to defend any criminal action against you and nine times more likely to have your name suppressed regardless of the outcome of the case. If you are from the big end of town you more than likely will beat the charge. Even if the charge sticks you will not lose your freedom and more than likely get home detention. If you are a Maori or Pacific Islander living in the little end of town you are four times more likely to face multiple charges, seven times more likely to be found guilty and convicted and 11 times more likely to go to prison.
I recall going to school and seeing the first graffiti splashed on the wall stating "Jails, where all the big criminals send all the little criminals".
Over the last 24 months we have seen not hundreds, not thousands, not millions but billions of dollars fraudulently, by rort, by corruption, by stealth and by sharp practices ripped off thousands of hardworking and predominantly now retired Kiwis.
The big end of town oversaw this, mandated it and has their fingerprints all over it. The billions of dollars "lost" by finance companies and the like is a national disgrace on a magnitude of stupendous proportions. The number of lawyers, accountants, auditors, valuers and captains of industry involved is also huge and all from the big end of town.
Most of their lifestyles have not changed, few have been charged, few have been named and all have their liberty. In the little end of town our belief in a justice system that is fair and is equal is known now to be one of the greatest jokes perpetrated on this country. I
In the event the Mongrel Mob, Black Power or Hone Harawira got up to a smidgen of what these white collar mongrels have been up to, they would've been hunted down religiously, no stone would have been left unturned and the full forces of the state would have been brought to bear. The media would have had a field day.
There are a number of people in powerful positions who are shamed by their silence on this matter and in their silence they are no better than half these crooks.
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