Government threaten funding to Rape Prevention Group

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Rape prevention group ‘told not to speak out’

Rape Prevention Education executive director Dr Kim McGregor said the comment came in a phone call from a public servant and she was shocked by it.

And she says that she and national sexual violence survivor advocate, Louise Nicholas, toned their comments down after they discussed what had been said.

“I had a phonecall when I was at RPE and our funding was threatened because we were being advocates, we were speaking out against Government and that was quite shocking to me at the time.”

The level of intimidation this Government use is more mafia than democratic institution.

National spy like Nixon and threaten like Putin.

Threatening the funding of a Rape Prevention Group at a time when the Roastbuster fiasco is occurring and real debate over rape culture is happening is disgustingly not the only example of this government using the State to threaten dissident voices.

  • National killed off Problem Gambling funding when they criticised the SkyCity scam.
  • Paula Bennett released information about beneficiaries who criticised cut backs.
  • National used the PMs Office to run smear campaigns via far right hate blog Whaleoil.
  • PMs Office colluded with the SIS to smear Phil Goff months before 2011 election.
  • National misrepresented the ratings of TVNZ7 to kill off public broadcasting.
  • National overthrew the democratically elected water board in Canterbury to stack it with farming industry interests.
  • Environmental stats are being manipulated to underplay our increase in climate changing gases.
  • National are kicking Teachers off their governing council so Charter School Privatisation becomes easier.
  • National threatened Northland infrastructure promises wouldn’t occur if Winston won.
  • National threatened local groups in Northland to stay silent over unsealed roads.
  • Mass surveillance lie after mass surveillance lie after mass surveillance lie.
  • Trying to force sick people back to work with threats.

Threatening groups who are at the frontline of National’s idealogical blitzkrieg  is not the way a functioning democracy operates, it’s more like Corporate Feudalism.

The wounding part is that this is what NZers voted for.

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  1. “The wounding part is that this is what NZers voted for”

    Vote for and then complain about.

    Had a National voting Facebook friend posting about legislation banning growing own food in New Zealand. Well, if you don’t like it, don’t vote National.

  2. While you are making lists about the underhand methods of the Government, what about the ongoing fiasco about Mike Sabin. I read that he is now the CEO of a luxury hotel on Northland, which has just been bought out by a Chinese group, which claims that it intends to build it into the biggest hotel in NZ, yet no-one in the media sees anything strange about this, or worthy of comment. Isnt it strange that:
    1) any business would want to have a CEO who is under police investigation for possible offences so severe that he had to retire as an MP.
    2) the police have said nothing about the Sabine debacle since the election. (Are the police still investigating? If not what was the outcome?)
    30 10days after the Government claims it will do whatever is needed to win back Northland, this offer to build NZ’s best hotel is announced, already planned to the extent of determining the number of rooms – yet no hint of it in the elections.

    This smells of collusion between the police and the government and a back room deal between the developer and the Government. If so things dont get dirtier than this.

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