{"id":10150,"date":"2017-06-29T12:44:19","date_gmt":"2017-06-28T23:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/?p=10150"},"modified":"2017-06-29T12:44:19","modified_gmt":"2017-06-28T23:44:19","slug":"no-to-p-and-no-to-executions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/?p=10150","title":{"rendered":"No to P and No to Executions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10151\" src=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/AvatarLM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"147\" height=\"147\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/AvatarLM.jpg 147w, http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/AvatarLM-30x30.jpg 30w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 147px) 100vw, 147px\" \/>\u00a0 MANA President \u00a0Lisa McNab<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Crystalmeth.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10152\" src=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Crystalmeth.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Crystalmeth.jpg 620w, http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Crystalmeth-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Crystalmeth-123x70.jpg 123w, http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Crystalmeth-570x320.jpg 570w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nobody quite grabs the public attention like Hone\u201d said MANA President Lisa McNab when asked about her party\u2019s position regarding Hone\u2019s comments about \u2018executing Chinese drug smugglers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFighting the devastation caused by meth in M\u0101ori communities is something Hone has been doing since he got out of Parliament and we are seeing the fruits of his work in the \u2018Fight the P Fight Night\u2019 held recently in Kaitaia, his work with the rugby league community across the Far North and with the gangs, and his Open the Curtains initiative which is helping bring people together to build a park for their kids in one of the toughest parts of Kaitaia\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHone is working across all sectors of society on this, including the police, the District Health Boards, gangs, lawyers, sports clubs, doctors, unemployed, drug users, drug reformers,\u00a0hospital administrators, army personnel, criminology students, teachers, social service providers, community activists, churches and judges.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe has seen up<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>close<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>how P destroys people\u2019s ability to think rationally, the friction it causes within whanau, and the breakdown of trust in communities when addicts start lying, stealing, borrowing, bullying, bashing and bludging off those closest to them to feed their habit, and he\u2019s been to\u00a0tangi where his nephews have died because of P.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe understand the rationale behind Hone\u2019s comments about the execution of those caught smuggling meth or its precursors into NZ &#8211; stop the drugs at the source and you reduce the harm that those drugs can cause to all NZ citizens, including Maori &#8211; but the MANA Executive does not support capital punishment\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHone\u2019s comments have dragged the Fight against P into the public arena, and they match the energy and the commitment he has brought to his work in the community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe support\u00a0Hone&#8217;s\u00a0\u00a0call for political action to halt the importation of drugs into Aotearoa, and we call on\u00a0other politicians \u00a0to start attacking the\u00a0devastation being caused by P.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 MANA President \u00a0Lisa McNab Nobody quite grabs the public attention like Hone\u201d said MANA President Lisa McNab when asked about her party\u2019s position regarding Hone\u2019s comments about \u2018executing Chinese drug smugglers. \u201cFighting the devastation caused by meth in M\u0101ori communities is something Hone has been doing since he got out of Parliament and we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":10152,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10150"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10150"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10153,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10150\/revisions\/10153"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mananews.co.nz\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}