Media Release - Candor Trust

Sensible Sentencing is Spot On

Candor Trust finds Nandor's conspiracy theory concerning the Sensible Sentencing Trust fundamentally flawed. The Greens have today claimed that the SST is not a truly representative victim's rights organisation, which is scurrilous.

Candor volunteer Urs Te Aho says "We refer many road offender's victim's to the Sensible Sentencing Trust, and there we feel confident they acquire the high level of support our organisation lacks the capacity to provide".

The Trust has had no complaints whatsoever from victim's of impaired driver's who've been referred to either the SST in the few years it has made referrals to the McVicar's organisation.

The SST is a professional organisation staffed by committed quality volunteers who've a deep concern for victim's rights, it's workers and Spokesperson don't deserve these mischievous attacks upon their integrity by Mr Tanczos.

Nandor would not be so aggrieved by McVicar's comment regarding the inaptness of loudly supporting abolition of the death penalty overseas, had he attended the recent SST conference.

His recent posturing shows he is out of touch and lacks awareness of the SST's basic humanitarian mission.

For any attendee of the recent conference in Napier would instinctively know the cause of McVicar's recent criticism of the P.M.'s big announcement (about death penalties).

Common sense tells us that it has to be quite out of order for a P.M. to be grand-standing about Justice issues abroad, at a time when so many victim's at home are sentenced to the death penalty.

A show of hands at the recent homicide victim's conference found that half of the crime dead represented by friends and family there (perhaps 40 in graves) were killed by offenders on early release parole.

This even occurs while Kiwi's are on bail for prior murders, which surely is distinctive among O.E.C.D. countries.

"New Zealand has the death penalty - but it is for innocent citizens," say Candor Trust in response to the pronounced trend revealed at the Napier conference.

Our Government's domestic Justice policies are pretty violent on the populace. Where is Nandor's moral outrage about that? And who are these victim's he appears to speak for?

Why is he frittering energy throwing stones at people who may or may not hold what he considers to be his highest ideals, epitomised it would seem by abolition of the death penalty abroad.

Why throw stones at people who don't spend time philosophising about abstract Justice proinciples which may cut short the lives of a few, far away?

At people who instead attend to what is under their nose - thousands of local victim's anguish - these people are doing fantastic work at the coal face. Do serial killers and snails matter more to the Greens than Nia's?

And why did the responsible Government Minister's and Green party not take sufficient interest to attend the SST conference, to discuss the death penalty being alive and well in Aotearoa and other matters?

Does Nandor support the death penalty for parolee's victims, or are foreign killers rights just way more interesting?

It may shock Nandor to know that during the 3 day conference held for New Zealand's many many homicide victim's the death penalty for cruel sadistic torturers who do horrific things even to children was not even on the agenda.

Restorative Justice - it's place in NZ and level of support among victim's of serious offences - was discussed. Ways to make the legal system more fit for purpose were discussed.

The weaknesses of the current parole system, such as lack of the type of skill and resourcing that enable effective parole systems overseas (unlike ours) were discussed.

Even stranger; the workshops were centred around learning from the victim's experiences and learning what the victim's think will work to turn this violent society around. Neither vengeance nor retribution were a part of this.

And Garth certainly was not acting as some Pied Piper cultish figurehead leading a pack of vulnerable emotionally disturbed victim's. This characterisation of conference attendees implied by Nandor's utterances is most offensive.

Nandor should take back his misfired arrows, and thank his lucky stars, as a Daddy, that the SST and all members are fighting to reduce the murder rate based on best evidence and a vision.

He might even do well to front up with an apology at the upcoming conference, for the "off" and unnecessarily aggressive manner in which he has defended his valued issue, against perceived opponents.

ENDS

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