Mark Ron: Crimes (Drug Rape) Amendment Bill — Second Reading 
Mark Ron: Crimes (Drug Rape) Amendment Bill — Second Reading 
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RON MARK (NZ First) 
: 
 In addressing this bill what can I say. First of all I give my congratulations to Dianne Yates. She must be the luckiest MP I know in this House judging by the number of members’ bills she has had drawn in the ballot. I do not know whether records are kept as to who has the highest number of members’ bills drawn but I think Dianne Yates certainly has to be right up there. 
Hon Member 
: She should take a ticket in Lotto. 
RON MARK 
: That is the advice I would give her too particularly given that she is looking at leaving Parliament and adopting a more leisurely lifestyle. She might want to take a Lotto ticket because given the luck she has had here with members’ bills she is sure to win the big one. 
It was interesting listening to her speech. I thought for a moment that we were at an Oscars ceremony or maybe a beauty pageant; I was waiting to hear at the end of the long list of credits she was giving out to all and sundry who had been involved in research in promulgating the bill and in advocating the issue and fighting for it through thick and thin against dragons big tall and small a final pledge: “And I hope for world peace.” When that did not come it woke me up and I realised I definitely was not at the Oscars. 
Stephen Franks 
: Didn’t thank mum and dad. 
RON MARK 
: She did not thank mum and dad or the children or anybody. But to the victor go the spoils and Dianne Yates certainly has had a victory here of sorts. 
I say “of sorts” because her bill although it will not accepted in its pure form has been definitely incorporated as has already been explained in the Crimes Amendment Bill (No 2). Therein is a real issue because whilst all of us who sat on the select committee understood supported and agreed with the intent the objectives of this bill—we all accept that a dastardly crime is being committed out there; it probably is one of the most vicious and horrible crimes we can think of—the fact is this bill has now been absorbed into the Crimes Amendment Bill (No 2) which seeks to address a whole lot of sex crimes but more important purports that one of its main aims is to seek gender neutrality in respect of crimes of a sexual nature. But that bill fails at the very first hurdle and it fails—ironically—on an issue that Dianne Yates brought to the House in the form of this bill. It fails on the issue of rape. 
We on this side of the House find it amusing that the great PC party the politically correct Labour Party of the 21st century—which has got most truck-drivers rolling in their graves and looking for New Zealand First voting slips and membership forms—is totally incapable of putting aside its prejudices its sexism its female chauvinist pig attitude and accepting that in this day and age men abhor the rape of men by men as much as women abhor the rape of women by men. But oh no! Under this Government we have a Crimes Amendment Bill (No 2) coming forward that touts as its main aim achieving gender neutrality in the justice system in respect of sexual crimes except that rape can only be a crime committed by a man against a woman. Is it not amazing! Labour is the party whose feminists come from formerly such parties as the Communist Party. They come from all walks of life and support the feminist cause—and good on them—but they are behaving in a most chauvinistic sexist discriminatory manner that befits the men they have long campaigned against championed against railed against and expressed pure venom towards. Men-haters of the world unite! Labour is there to ensure that men are forever denigrated. 
We know now that if a young boy goes into a prison and is grabbed by some big gang member or whomever—or a sexual predator if he is unfortunate enough to be locked up with one—and raped then thanks to Labour that is not a crime of rape. In the paper just the other day there was a story of a man who was locked doubled-up in a cell with another man and was beaten and raped. But under the control of these feminists these sexists these female chauvinist pigs that is not a crime of rape. I find that bizarre—to be kind to be charitable. I cannot use that other word in the House. 
Brian Connell 
: What word? 
RON MARK 
: That word—it starts with “h”. But that is not right; it is not appropriate. We will sit here in time and debate the Civil Union Bill and we will discuss how this country has moved on and we will discuss how gay people homosexuals and lesbians have a right to be treated with equality. In the next breath out of the other side of their mouths the females in the Labour caucus will say: “Oh no except when it comes to rape; that is purely a crime against us women.” I ask them to look into their consciences. On the other side of the table the Greens United Future and New Zealand First and I know that a huge slice of National’s caucus thinks the same way say that the crime of rape is as abhorrent to men as it is to women. In this day and age when the Government and people are seeking to have homosexuality—gay and lesbian relationships—accepted as the norm should they not be accepting that the crime of a man in a homosexual relationship raping a man is rape? If they do not accept that the question is why not. 
There is a huge inconsistency here. In transferring all the issues pertaining to drug rape into the Crimes Amendment Bill (No 2) some of us had hoped that that crime would be subject to the purported aim of the Crimes Amendment Bill (No 2) to make the legislation gender-neutral. But now I know exactly where the line is drawn. Now I know that when certain people in the Labour Party stand up and preach equality they are seeking equality for those whom they approve of not for everybody. They are seeking equality of justice for only those whom they favour not for everybody. If it leaves men tarnished and stigmatised they do not give a toss. I just hope that every panel beater every truck-driver every shearer every labourer out there on every building site who formerly has been a staunch supporter of the Labour Party wakes up to what we really have. We no longer have a Labour Party that seeks equality for all; we have a Labour Party with a particular feminist agenda that it will pursue come hell or high water regardless of what anybody else wants. That makes those people precisely what on the hustings they have criticised men up and down this country as being: it makes them chauvinists it makes them sexist and it makes them discriminatory. 
That will help us a huge amount at the next election as New Zealand First hoovers up those former Labour Party voters. I thank Labour very much for that. I look forward to the challenge of the next election and I look forward to our coming back here with a damn sight more New Zealand First MPs than we currently have because that is definitely going to happen.