No earth for meek?

Ruapehu Bulletin, Volume 10, Issue 404, 21 July 1992, Page 4

No earth for meek?

• I read with interest the letter of our local Police Sergeant, published in last week's Bulletin. I understand the difficult in policing under present economic conditions but come on Sgt Evans, history is full of the poor and the weak getting hit by the law. Don't tell us laws apply equally to "all its residents, all groups of any community no matter what their occupation". If a group of unemployed Mongrel Mob gang members had done to the Waikune Prison what the Justice Department did, those unemployed would have been dealt to by your people in five minutes. We once had a local up | for disturbing and mo-

lesting pigeons (he shot four) but could you people touch the forestry firm that cleared the bush that those same pigeons lived in, (about 12,000 hectares of native rain forest)? Come on Sgt Evans, its one law for the powerful and another for the weak. I don't blame the police for that. They do their job to the best of their ability and simply enforce the law. But let's be honest at least. To you fella's dispossessed by changes in society at the moment I understand your frustration in trying to live from week to week being cold in winter, the kids getting sick, not having the money to buy warm clothing or decent food and seeing nothing in the future but more of the same. Coming from a large family I went through the same; saw my father hit the grog because of it and as time has passed have come to see my mother as the finest person that ever lived, but I don't believe the meek and the humble will ever inherit the earth.

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