Wednesday, June 23, 2004
Crap headline of the week...
From The Herald, "Officials back killer boxer". For gods sake - it makes it sound as though this guy is a known psychopath that was let of on a technicality, he is not. He is a guy who made a horrific mistake, fronted, did his time and then went about sorting himself out.
We should be making him the poster boy of rehabilitation (god knows they could use a success story), instead we get Queen Helen requiring him to shed a tear in front of all of us just to make us feel better about him going.
My Right can't help but wonder similar treatment wasn't applied to a certain rugby player every time he was selected to play Sevens for New Zealand? "Killer driver leads haka"... It didn't happen, and it shouldn't have - nor should it be happening now.
Anyways, good luck to Mr Pownceby, bring me home a gold medal and I hope you continue to enjoy a clean, constructive and lawful life. Hat's off to Boxing New Zealand for not destroying the guy and leaving an angry young man on the streets of New Zealand looking for the fight that he should have been having elsewhere.
