Is she too dumb to be a lawyer?

The Herald reports:

An activist opposed to Israel’s war in Gaza helped co-ordinate and carry out the repeated vandalism – via bright red paint “bombs” – of electorate offices belonging to National Party officials, including Prime Minister Christopher Luxon.

Now, nearly two years later, she has appeared in the Auckland District Court asking for a discharge without conviction so that the admitted crimes won’t stymie her career.

But a judge recently denied the request, noting that she should have known better.

After all, she is a practising barrister.

Hannah Lucy Swedlund, 28, came to court last month with letters of support from the senior lawyer who employs her and from Green Party MP Ricardo Menendez March.

The Judge was correct to deny the request. This wasn’t a one off moment of madness, but a campaign of damage over many weeks.

It says a lot about the Greens that they support someone who damages the offices of other MPs. They want our sympathy when people say nasty things about their MPs on social media, but they defend someone who doesn’t just mouth off, but actually damages MPs offices.

Police got a pretty strong indication of Swedlund’s involvement after analysing a press release in which the group said they targeted the MPs’ offices because the politicians had refused to condemn alleged war atrocities. 

“This incoming Government will be a coalition of complicity,” stated the press release, which included photos of the damage.

The release was sent out as a Word document, and police only had to look at the metadata to see the listed author: “Hannah Swedlund”.

She sent out a word document talking about the criminal damage they had done, and she didn’t remove her name as the author from the author tab. This makes me think she is possibly too stupid to be a lawyer.

Incidentally I don’t think she should lose her career over her actions. I think there should be consequences, but not to the level of being disbarred.