The injustice system

Justice Minister Andrew Little displays gross illogicality in his latest press release.

If, as he claims, there are mass failures in the country’s legal system, it is a clear indictment of not only law enforcement agencies and the judiciary but mostly of the government and politicians for permitting these injustices to continue. He further states that Ma¯ ori have “a justifiable level of anger” at 51 per cent of prison inmates coming from 15 per cent of the population.

Logic would suggest that the lawabiding population has a better right to be aggrieved for having to pay for the 51 per cent Ma¯ ori internees.

Mr Little, innocent people do not get imprisoned. If they do it is high time you and your parliamentary mates did something about it, because the public can’t. What makes you think that turning the problems over to Ma¯ ori agencies will be more successful than their failure to do so in the past?

The public should be deeply concerned about what New Zealand’s justice system and race relations can expect from such a tendentious minister.

BRYAN JOHNSON

Omokoroa