The Government, Police, Corrections and Mental Health, - just who is in La La land ?
Tamatha Pauls’ interview and the comments from the political parties are well addressed in the following clip.
It is very clear that the reactions to the comments either are from a place of ignorance of her full comments or a straight out denial of the behaviour of front line police towards homeless people despite this same behaviour by police demonstrated towards the anti vaccine protesters. The 11 year old girl who was forcibly detained and injected twice was not a one off occurrence as I recently met a woman who was treated exactly the same in the mental health system as a young girl. Her complaints were subject to a deliberately lengthy and stressful process which amounted to no responsibility taken by mental health services.
My own experiences with the police both when I was in the midst of psychosis and in incidents afterwards is that they lacked any understanding nor skills in dealing with unusual behaviour and tend to overreact when other less draconian options were available to them. Whether this is because of overly risk averse individuals or because of a designated policy. Since my hospitalisation, any legitimate request for assistance from the police in cases of threat has been met with avoidance and dismissal seemingly because they are unable to conceive of the idea that people recover.
The people living rough on our streets are people with significant mental health, trauma and addiction issues and removing what little possessions they have is tantamount to emotional abuse and the misuse of power in the same way as vandalising people’s property in evacuation of Parliament grounds was. That only 2% of all complaints against Police are investigated signifies a significant attitudinal problem within the Police management structure of entitlement to do whatever they feel like particularly with people they consider are unlikely to be believed ie the mentally distressed, homeless people and prisoners. But with people willing to pay or have political support, why they can literally get away with murder… good one David Seymour.
Another organisation that sheds light on the misuse of power through complaints by vulnerable people against Government Departments and agencies is that of the Ombudsman. And in this interview it is clear that Te Whatu Ora, which has over arching control of mental health services and Department of Corrections have been completely resistant to recommendations made by the Ombudsman.
What the former Ombudsman does not point out is that our society deems punishment to be the loss pf liberty NOT the permission to treat people inhumanely. He raises concerns about the high level of remand prisoners, which is a function possibly of over policing with Tamatha Paul’s example of a female prisoner imprisoned for shoplifting a $12 item and the glacial speed of the justice system to deal with remand prisoners. All of which appears to be quite possibly a deliberate policy against particularly Maori.
Is it unreasonable to re consider the involvement of the Police in dealing with vulnerable mentally distressed people especially given the recent example of the 11 year old being unnecessarily traumatised and medicated ? Is allowing Maori organisations who have a much wider understanding of mental distress and therefore a much more respectful attitude than the disdain of Pakeha organisations, not a constructive step forward ?
Is it reasonable to be imprisoning people for dishonesty charges given that most arise from addictive behaviour which in turn ususally stems from significant trauma. Wouldn’t a more constructive alternative be to offer addiction rehabilitation that addresses childhood trauma, particularly sexual trauma as an integral part of healing.
Is it reasonable to accept the random tweet as evidence for the Coalition’s attempt to say violent crime has reduced because of their policing “policy” but to ignore specific examples which demonstrate their policing policy is increasing crime ?
Is it reasonable to expect that Government’s should not tolerate lengthy remand periods ?
Is it reasonable for 2 Government Departments, both dealing with vulnerable people controlled by authority figures, both with significant historical evidence of misuse of power, are allowed to ignore Ombudsman recommendations ? Perhaps it is time to start making the management of these organisations individually accountable financially and criminally. Such as a criminal charge against Jeremy Lightfoot, CEO of Corrections for choosing to leave staff and prisoners for 6 and half hours in a toxic smoke filled environment at risk of being burnt or asphixiated before finally evacuating them. Or a financial cost against individual psychiatrists who fail to undertake their duty of care and harm people, a cost that is passed on to the victims.
Those politicans that responded to Tamatha Paul’s comments indicated that they are quite content with how it is all going and as with all narcissist perpetrators lambast the whistleblower. However anyone with half a brain would have to see that they are the ones in la la land.
Tamatha Paul who is listening to her constituents, not just the wealthy political benefactors who deal them backhanders, who clearly knows the resources in her community and is prepared to speak out about what is going on, is in fact doing the job she is paid for.
Here are some examples of your psychosis. They come from your Substacks as well as public records, like those of the Tenancy Tribunal; or from observations made by people who are part of the Kiri Arnold Collective.
1) You write on Substack that after you'd worked for Corrections, over a decade ago, a drone flew over your home and wiped your staff file after you'd requested it. (Why would you request the file? I guess you'd been let go. After you'd done that trite MA with Massey, for which in 12 years five people have viewed your thesis, you were not offered any more work by Corrections, presumably because you'd bad-mouthed them in the thesis, which they'd sponsored, and made outrageous claims about your own 'professional' behaviour.)
At least five times on Substack, you mention that your electronic devices have been tampered with, and your data destroyed. This has been done by landlords, a real estate agency, or others. Of course I, and most readers of your Substacks, have a big belly laugh every time you declare this; but it's a serious matter. Any medical professional to whom you mentioned this electronic interference would immediately consider your involuntary hospitalisation for psychosis.
2) (My personal favourite): While you were living on King Edward Pde in Devonport in 2023, you told the Tenancy Tribunal that you believed your landlady had trespassed on your flat because you'd left icing sugar on the floor, and she'd disturbed it. Your flat was so disgustingly messy and disgustingly dirty that cockroaches were the most likely candidate for any track marks in icing sugar. But no one in their right mind would lay down icing sugar, and then tell this to the Tenancy Tribunal. How anyone listening to you kept their cool, I do not know! In Dunedin, last year, you pulled a similar stunt, saying that hotel staff in your transitional accommodation had entered your unit while you'd been away. Of course they had; a cleaner came once a week! A cleaner, nonetheless, because you were not to be trusted to be clean yourself! You accused your Cable-Bay landlords of trespass, your Devonport landlady of trespass and theft, your Dunedin hotel manager, AND the Salvation Army volunteers who helped you move to Port Chalmers FOR FREE, of theft. That is a pattern of deeply psychotic behaviour. It is also extremely malicious and traumatic for those wrongfully accused.
3) You have exhibited features of erotomania, often paired with psychosis, by announcing on Substack that your former flatmate, Brian Henderson, had romantic feelings for you. You were equally adamant that you'd been 'love-bombed' by Ilchi Moon, a Korean cult leader you spent time with as a devotee in Kerikeri. There is almost no evidence that these men had any interest in you beyond extracting your money.
You mention on YouTube that while working for Corrections as a group therapist, Maori gangster inmates under your care had strong connections with you, and were making more progress with you than with other therapists, but that Corrections moved these men on. No surprise that that would happen! You would set any client back with your bizarre pro-Maori position when a therapist is meant to be neutral. Your adoration of all things Black is akin to a non-Jewish woman falling in love with a Jewish man. There's a highly derogatory term for that: 'shiksa'. No doubt those Maori inmates had a slang term for you; you who are entirely white, and entirely mono-cultural.
4) You refer to your garbled adolescent Substacks as 'a column' or 'essays'! You contacted the editor of The Flagstaff (the Devonport newspaper) about your discoveries of local wrongdoing. He considered these so hilarious he dined out on them for weeks. He printed not one word of your egregious claims. You are NOT a whistleblower who is gaslit as you say time and time again. You are a PSYCHOTIC NUISANCE.
5) Then there's the whole C-PTSD bullshit. You accuse your mother, recently dead, of maltreatment when you were an infant, adding that hospital records about this were lost. These unverifiable claims have been embroidered so you can fake a history for a Supported Living Allowance. That is psychotic behaviour. Beyond any doubt, you are ill, but you have found the benefit that pays the most, and coerced GPs and others into accepting your fairy story.
No wonder at your parents' wedding anniversaries, your siblings ignored you. They were horrified that you'd denigrated their mother. Ditto at your father's funeral. Haven't heard about your mother's yet, but I shall in time. (Remember: Kiri.Arnold@gmail.com for those with information.)
6) In your bizarre YouTube videos, you exhibit the facial expressions of a person suffering from psychosis. You stare into space; you smile randomly; you purse your lips and screw up your face (particularly fetching!); you are indifferent or totally numb to any trauma that you cause. You continually bat your hands at viewers as sufferers of Anti-Social Personality Disorder do. You likely suffer from multiple disorders.
7) You write that it's hard for addicts to admit their addiction before making any changes. It seems impossible for you to admit any transgression even though they are pointed out to you by many, many people all over the country. You care not one iota for all the damage you do to all the people around you.
You insist prisoners benefited from your group therapy; meanwhile, you consider yourself above any form of intervention: either medication or therapy. That being the case, you will doubtless return to a locked psych ward.
Good luck in your tacky little Council complex off Currie Street, Port Chalmers. There'll be lots of drug-induced psychotics there just on your wavelength.
You write: 'Since my hospitalisation, any legitimate request for assistance from the police in cases of threat has been met with avoidance and dismissal seemingly because they are unable to conceive of the idea that people recover.'
You most likely suffer from a serious persecutory disorder. This means that you nearly always call the police when there is no threat to you, but when you hope to intimidate another person whom you label as threatening. This was certainly the case in Devonport in 2023 and in Dunedin in 2024.
The police would have a very long record of your unnecessary calls. Several times the police have not even come when you have called due to this record. There is no indication that their behaviour is related to your sectioning for psychosis in Whangarei around five years ago. Unless you, yourself, have told the police of this psychosis, they would not know of your hospitalisation.
You infer that you have recovered from psychosis. In fact, you took medication only under community treatment order, and then refused it. You loathe any form of cognitive behavioural therapy, which could work in your case. Therefore, unmedicated, and without therapeutic intervention, you have made almost no recovery. You could be in a worse condition than when forcibly hospitalised. Those people who have witnessed your rants in public, or followed your incoherent Substacks and your bizarre YouTube videos would confirm this.
Instead of writing these lame pieces, Carole, why not spend your time contributing to your new community, or - even better - apologising to those people you have grievously wronged in the last five years. Those people include: three sets of landlords; numerous neighbours; social workers, medical staff, and volunteers tasked with attending to you in your great need; as well as the police who, according to a previous Substack, did come to your aid in December last year.
You are a vicious wastrel with no self-awareness. Get off your hobby horse, and do a good, honest day's work. If that is impossible, do something useful, like serving meals to the homeless, since you are so very enamoured of them.