Advice for Arthur Taylor on how he can get to vote

Narelle Hansen writes in the Waikato Times:

News had also just broken that the criminal Arthur Taylor was fighting for prisoners’ rights to vote in the High Court. …

… here is a man who has broken the law 150 times appealing to the law for the opportunity to choose the lawmakers. It’s like a comedy. Why on earth does he care who makes laws? If his past is anything to go by he won’t be a huge fan of keeping the laws his chosen politicians make anyway.

That, really, is the core problem he has, poor bloke. An argument about rights always sounds so soulless when one refuses to uphold the responsibilities that go with them. Arthur wants cake when he has already eaten it.

The very simply way for him to have the right to vote would be to stay out of jail.

Bravo.

No-one would get in the way of his “fundamental freedoms”, by virtue of the fact he wasn’t getting in the way of theirs. After all, that is what committing a crime boils down to; stealing rights from our fellow citizens. We steal their right to life when we murder, we steal their right to own property when we take things not lawfully ours, we steal their right to the truth when we commit fraud. Having stolen the rights of his fellow citizens, Arthur wants more. That’s just greedy.

Labour and Greens are vowing to restore the right to vote for some, possibly all, prisoners.