Posted September 21st, 2009
“Well done, John!”
…….I hear aunty Helen shouting from New York and I am sure our Prime Minister John Key will get a few encouraging pats on the back at the UN Meeting this week, when he also meets Helen Clark, who is now heading the UN Development Program, after faithfully, albeit against the will of most Kiwis, introducing UN laws and policies to New Zealand.
“Well done, what?” – you may ask. Well done for finally coming out and adopting Labour’s (and the Greens’) position on the Anti-Smacking Bill.
Despite stating only 2 years ago, while in opposition, that “The Labour Government has shown utter contempt for New Zealanders and the democratic process with its plan to railroad the anti-smacking bill through Parliament, ..” he now uses the same misleading rhetoric the likes of Helen Clark, Phil Goff or Sue Bradford have used before to justify this unwanted law. At last week’s NZ Forum on the Family he defended the law by saying: “…the 2007 ban on any use of force against children for “correction” was important to “send a message” that violence against children was unacceptable.” Never mind that 87.4% of New Zealanders don’t agree with you and want you to change the law, Mr Key, you now have officially attained the same level of “Nanny-State-Arrogant-Politician” that was your predecessor’s downfall! Mind you, being promoted to the post of UN Head of Development Program (UNDP) for your “good work” can hardly be called a “downfall”, can it?
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We need to challenge the Nanny State strongly before we become a Police State. Without getting paranoid, the introduction of the new Search and Surveillance Bill potentially gives NZ government legislation that can be used to criminalise political activism and dissent. This has gone far beyond the anti-smacking debate! The powers of this Bill must relate to an alleged criminal offence, but that is not a difficult threshold to reach. Imagine that a member of “Kiwis 4 Democracy” commits a minor trespass offence in the course of their protest against the tyranny of the State. It will be relatively easy to repackage the monitoring and collecting of intelligence on political activities of Kiwis 4 Democracy as ‘criminal surveillance’.
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