The thoughts of Mark Taylor

ABC reports:

In 2015, the US Government declared Taylor a global terrorist after he encouraged attacks in Australia and New Zealand and appeared in an IS propaganda video.
He also posted a YouTube video telling followers to “commence your operations, even if it means you have to stab a few police officers, soldiers on Anzac Day and so be it.”

Surely that by itself should see him jailed if he returns.

He says one of his regrets while living in the so-called Islamic State was being unable to afford a Yazidi slave.
“I would have like to have one, but I never got to,” he said.

Yes this is his big regret. He couldn’t afford a slave!!! I vote we skip the trial.

Taylor said he believed if he owned a slave he was entitled to do whatever he wanted, and he didn’t care that the women were taken forcibly as slaves.

He just needs a bit of kindness and he’ll be rehabilitated right.

“I’m sorry for causing too much trouble and being a bit hot-headed and flamboyant in my approach… I don’t know if I can go back to New Zealand, but at the end of the day it’s really something I have to live with for the rest of my life.”

He thinks supporting ISIL is just a bit flamboyant!

But he does of course have people who want to help him get home. The Greens! Stuff reports:

Green Party Justice spokesperson Golriz Ghahraman says if New Zealand is presented with the opportunity, we should cooperate in bringing home the Kiwi being held captive in Syria by Kurdish forces, Newshub reported.

The Greens want Canadian speakers banned from NZ, but think we should help a guy whose major regret is he couldn’t rape a female slave from returning home.

New Zealand should do the bare bare minimum under international law with regard to Taylor. We are not allowed to refuse him entry, but we certainly should not assist him.