Special Report Transcript Episode 46, Section 5, Time 18:27

The issue of amnesty raised many eyebrows and controversial opinions. // ‘We give them amnesty so what they can live here with these crimes in them and we have to rely on their conscience to bring about some sort of change within them, but if they had the guts and the facilities to do these things in the first place, how do we ever know that their conscience is ever going to get the better of them and know that they’re going to have true amnesty.’ // ‘No, no, no. Why can a person who has murdered a person get amnesty? Why? Why can a person who has done wrong to the people get amnesty? That is not fair.’ // ‘They don’t deserve it, because they killed. The Commandment says ‘thou shall not kill,’ but they killed. I’m created by God, but not by man like myself who turn himself into my own God. ‘Thou shall not kill.’’ // ‘If you do something wrong, you do it wrong. You should serve; you should take responsibility for your actions.’ // ‘You know what I say, let’s start with a clean slate. Let’s forgive everybody. If Robert McBride can be in Parliament as a MP, why not just scratch everything and let’s start as a country together.’

Notes: Benedict Motau; Public opinion

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