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What does McSomebody have over Costly that made them both try hiding activity?
Nothing.
See, Peters?
It’s ‘only’ Love.
RESIGN.
Good on you Labour – doing your bit and good reporting on what is buzzing out there
in the beehive – do they behave?
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/578772/question-time-directs-rare-query-to-non-ministerial-mp
…But Question Time isn’t limited to just quizzing ministers. Any MP can be asked a question as long as it is related to their responsibilities, and this week’s Question Time involved a question to a chairperson of a select committee.
Questions to a chairperson of a select committee must relate to a matter before the committee and a process or procedure for which the chairperson has responsibility.
Labour MP Rachel Brooking put forward a question to the chairperson of the Environment Committee, National MP Catherine Wedd, on the how much time the public would have to submit on the Fast-track Approvals Amendment Bill.
“Why did an advertisement go out in her name allowing only 11 days for submissions on the Fast-track Approvals Amendment Bill when there was no instruction from the House for a report deadline under six months?” Brooking asked….
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/578745/how-a-violent-possessive-stalker-became-a-killer-the-story-of-nathan-boulter
This is the sort of man against whom women need to take action – not just men in general.
And women deserve to have lives where they aren’t being stalked and menaced by such as this. A lobotomy or a death sentence for him should be considered against strict criteria by a panel of judges. The concerns of women being bandied around of late, do not relate to doing something about the real problems that other women have. Cool minds need to be brought to the situation. And further the upbringing, the influences on this man when he was a young vulnerable child that imprinted onto his brain and attitudes and behaviour should lead to definite changes in kind supportive assistance to all parents, treating them as important leaders in the building of a decent society. Also when action is needed it comes from trained social workers not religious or ideological, judgmental bullies as is apparently often the case.
So a large flaw in so-called good civilised NZ society shows up in this news item, and should have outcomes that follow suggestions and improvements, requested, even achieved but dropped, decades ago. But money-oriented governments don’t care about ordinary people, they have nothing to offer the financially absorbed in the top strata, they use the lost humans to sell to private interests to play with in their ‘corrections’ concentrations camps, to use as raw meat for their mincing machine that spews out profit from one exit and waste material from the other.
Good points here:
https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO2511/S00058/hdca-lessons-ignored-as-government-pushes-new-online-restrictions.htm
PILLAR Executive Director Nathan Seiuli warns that the proposed “Under-16 Social Media Ban” risks repeating the same mistakes as the –
Harmful Digital Communications Act (HDCA), which he says has become “a weapon of surveillance and censorship.”
Following the headlines surrounding top cop Jevon McSkimming, PILLAR is calling on leaders to think carefully before pushing through laws that sound noble on paper but in practice are clumsy, invasive, and easily weaponised.
“The HDCA was sold as a way to protect children from harm online,” said Seiuli. “A decade later, it’s used to silence political opposition, bully outspoken individuals, and muzzle victims. The new B6416 ban is just the HDCA all over again. It won’t protect children, but it will expand government control over private life”….
Background: PILLAR (Protecting Individual Life, Liberty, and Rights) is a civil society organisation dedicated to defending fundamental freedoms in New Zealand. Through research, advocacy, and education, PILLAR works to ensure that responses to modern challenges remain consistent with democratic values and the protection of individual rights.