We never talk about what a fascist little police state NZ truly is.
The NZ Police grew out of the Mounted Constabulary who were a thug force put together to protect white settlers from unruly Māori at the edge of the settlement.
The unspoken deal was white settlers would turn a blind eye to their heavy handed tactics and that mentality has remained with a Police force with no true oversight.
We turn a blind eye to lots of things and hide that behind a laid back culture.
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.
The NZ Police spied on ‘Newsquote’, The Vegetable Club, The Howard League for Penal Reform, The Esperanto Society, The Rationalist Society, The Council for Civil Liberties and the Nuclear Disarmament Movement.
We never, ever, ever talk about what a fascist little Police state NZ truly has been.
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.
Right now the NZ Police are gaining the powers of mass surveillance and there is no debate about that whatsoever…
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.
The Police scramble in the wake of the McSkimmings scandal to tell us it’s just a few bad apples and not a systemic problem.
There is no depression (or corruption) in NZ – we don’t know how lucky we are!
Hush now and pray for your house prices to rise.
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