Wasted Youth

More young New Zealand youth have gone to jail, this time for killing a little girl, Nia Glassie. They are all victim's of New Zealand's slack attitude and failure to protect the heart's and mind's of our most vulnerable. From conception you can be sucked out with a suction machine and if you are one of the chosen generation you might get to be born into a house where your mum prostitutes in the same bedroom you sleep in, she shoots- up drugs using needles supplied by governmnent agencies, dad is 'out of it' on home distilled gin or whiskey or just literally out of it, away in another country...all totally legal in New Zealand. Then there's your bro's and bro-like sister's who are 2nd or 3rd generation out-of-it's and they too have some terrible pastimes too. When you wake up and when you go to bed/school/kohanga reo, there's killing and cursing and beating and robbing and maiming on the life-like sized television screens and there's more of it on free-to-air government TV stations when you can't buy it, and sex between two men or two women if that's what you're into or accepting as norm...The Green Party, Labour, Progressives, National, Act parties, and well all the pollies think it's all good, well they must do, none of them ever puts a stop to it! The young men who have just gone to jail look just like my own sons. Young, athletic, and with so much potential. My heart goes out to them because if they'd had a better start in life, loved in a good Christian home or been brought up religiously in say a muslim country, they wouldn't have killed Nia would they....
People who had the power to make a difference to the moral fiber of our country didn't and people who will now have the power to change hopefully will.