In 1943, NZs Ambassador to America, Sir George Laking, reflected on the surprising ability of the NZ Government to pass authoritarian powers against the citizens of NZ with little to no resistance from Kiwis by saying, “Much that was accomplished in those early years was possible only because of the absence of any detailed or sustained public interest in the issues”.
We have become experts in a hyper laid back culture of turning a blind eye.
We never talk about what a fascist little police state NZ truly is.
We never talk about the abuse of Māori and theft of their land.
We never talk about the cruelty NZ meted out to conscientious objectors during the war.
We never talk about the cruel laws against Unions and the police surveillance of Unionists, Communists and Leftists in NZ.
Right now, NZ is drifting lazily towards a mass surveillance Police State….
Congestion charge bill passes: What does it mean for you?
A Government bill to bring in congestion charging passed its third reading in Parliament yesterday. Why is it happening – and how much could drivers end up paying?
Congestion pricing, or as it’s now often called, time-of-use charging, has been floated and debated for years between multiple governments.
If implemented, the scheme, already used overseas, could charge drivers a toll at busy times for motorists to enter a downtown area, or just target busy roads and corridors.
Momentum has built in the past several years across the current coalition Government and previous Labour government to introduce congestion charging.
…it was passed unanimously by our fuckwit politicians.
It will punish poor people and the disabled, especially when public transport is a joke.
But most importantly it creates a mass surveillance state that the deep state spiders could never imagine possible. You will all have to have bugs in your cars tracking you, or facial recognition software and licence plate recognition, all being rammed through with zero debate what so fucking ever.
We are a low horizon imagination people fixated on cow udders, undiagnosed alcoholism and a domestic violence rate that is civil war level. We hate anyone smarter than us, despise intellectualism and have our petty bigotries manipulated by the right with an ease and fission that is almost sexual.
That is who we is.
That is what we have become.
A nation of gauche hatreds and petty malice, ruddy faced with fury and confusion, wearing cow shit splattered slippers and banjo twanging cultural insulation.
We would gladly burn books if we had any idea where the library was.
I will continue to be a voice yelling at you that this is happening until it is too late for you to do anything about it, just so that someone can say that you were warned.
The ease with which you are led has become a cultural trait. We truly are a nation of sheep.
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This is so fucking bad where were the Greens in this and unfortunately we know TPM is missing in action.