The Daily Blog Open Mic Monday 7th December 2015

1. On my wall in front of me are six pieces of law that are supposed to protect vulnerable people and common citizens from harm.

   Crimes of Torture Act 1989 Section 2
   INTERPRETATION
   Act of Torture – means any act or omission by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted on a person: (b) for any reason based on discrimination of any kind.

   Crimes Act 1961 Section 116
   Conspiring to defeat justice
   Everyone is liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 7 years who conspires to obstruct, prevent, pervert or defeat the course of justice in New Zealand…

   Section 150A
   Standard of Care applicable to persons under legal duties or performing unlawful acts.
   (1) This section applies in resepct of the legal duties specified in 151-157.
   (2) A person is criminally responsible for omitting to discharge or perform a legal duty (ACC etc) to which this section applies only if, in the circumstances, the omission or unlawful act is a major departure from the standard of care expected of a reasonable person to whom that legal duty applies…

   Section 151 – (my favourite & one I scream at police about)
   Duty to provide necessaries and protect from injury
   Every one who has actual care or charge of a person who is a vulnerable adult and who is unable to provide himself or herself with necessaries is under a legal duty –
   (a) to provide that person with necessaries; and
   (b) to take reasonable steps to protect that person from injury.

   (My flatmates victimize me and rip me off, I’m not safe and I can’t afford to live in a house on my own at $250 pw when I only get $400 and that’s with extra extra help that I have to reapply for all the time.)

   Section 157
   Duty to avoid omissions dangerous to life
   Every one who undertakes to do any act the omission to do which is or may be dangerous to life is under a legal duty to do that act and is criminally responsible for the consequences of omitting without lawful excuse to discharge that duty.

   Pretty sure under the Electoral Act any MP who gets convicted of any crime where they can get two years jail is removed from office. As John Key and all his Ministers are committing these crimes against NZs most vulnerable then me getting the police to act on my complaints could bring down the government. Which is why they are refusing to help me.

   What I need now are people to make complaints of harm and failure of ACC and NZ govt to provide necessary safe housing for me to police (or anybody vulnerable who has housing issues). I’ve made a complaint, my counsellor has made one, now if I could get 1000 people to do the same, maybe we could win this war of housing and welfare through the legal system. (yeah right – but gotta try)

   Kia kaha to us all. How I wish I had a lawyer to talk to about all of this.

   • My greatest sympathies…vulnerable people are under terrific pressure from this jonkey nact government which is all about greed and the denial of New Zealanders their fundamental basic rights…

     (The opposition Labour Party by taking the Mana Party out of parliament has not helped either…. There must be a strong left wing party to replace Labour and effectively counter jonkey nact and provide for those most vulnerable)

     Two ideas:

     can you start a petition?

     can you find private board?

2. Complicated battlefield

   https://www.rt.com/shows/crosstalk/324717-uk-syrian-conflict-battlefield/

   The plot dangerously thickens – with the UK voting to officially join the Syrian conflict, the battlefield and airspace are now precariously crowded. And since the U.S. and its allies are unwilling to cooperate with the Syrian-led coalition, do one and all sides risk miscalculation? Maybe this is what Washington want.

   CrossTalking with Ammar Waqqaf, Akin Unver, and Daniel Lazare.

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