Our prison system has proven beyond any reasonable doubt that all they are good for is producing human beings more damaged than when they went in, we desperately need prison reform in this country.
Soz Gerry, what were you saying about Genet never asking for extra funding and attacking them for daring to challenge you in public?
Imagine if Morgan launched a damning attack on the State, held up the horror that is CYFs, held up the abomination that is Housing NZ, held up the appealing manner people are treated by WINZ and he did it with intemperate and inflammatory language.
Let’s be clear.
There is no budget surplus for tax cuts!
Prime TV and Sky TV deserve to take a bow. Their courageous Pike River Mine doco on Monday night was riveting, full of drama and finally gave NZers a chance to understand the abomination that our insanely under regulated safety standards allowed to occur.
What? John Key is lecturing Facebook on paying tax?
…a 1000 homes a year for a decade? How the hell does that actually deal with the 41 000 homeless people we currently have? It’ll take at least half a century for the Greens to house the homeless under this policy, as long as no one else becomes homeless in the next 40 years that is.
And while we are talking about bloody Auckland Transport – how appalling is their vandalism of K Rd?
Sure, Hillary Clinton was a neoliberal war hawk whose platform wouldn’t do anything for the white working poor, but she was no fascist.
The new mass surveillance state using Government Agency big data was first aimed at the gangs, then beneficiaries and now the Government is swivelling its Eye of Mordor upon the children of the poor…