Willie is right

Newshub reports:

A 57-year-old woman has been arrested over wilful damage at Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s Mt Albert electorate office earlier on Thursday. Ardern’s office was left with a shattered window and what appears to be a samurai sword was lying nearby.

A spokesperson for the Prime Minister said no one was at the building at the time. She had no further information to provide.

Jackson said on a Facebook post, the woman argues she had “long-standing grievances” with the Prime Minister.

“That doesn’t justify symbolic destruction and smoke bombing her electorate office,” he said.

“There has been a violent change of political debate in this country that has gone from the normal and vigorous disagreement a democracy requires to unhinged conspiracy theories which justify political violence.

“Attacking the PM’s office with a sword and smoke bombing it are not legitimate responses in a democracy, they are the unacceptable actions of a fragment of society who have ended up believing conspiracy theories that are deeply harmful.”

Not only are they not legitimate responses, they are deeply criminal responses. If found guilty, a short prison sentence as a deterrence would be appropriate.