I saw our State lie to steal a baby – I don’t trust them with Euthanasia
This won’t be about personal freedom, this will be about the State culling the weakest amongst us.
This won’t be about personal freedom, this will be about the State culling the weakest amongst us.
Dear Gun nuts, your time of unrestricted glee to arm yourself with machine guns is over. Time to simply man up, accept that and move on, but if you want to dig your heels in and throw tantrums and refuse to hand the guns back in, that’s fine, the Police will catch you at some stage and you will face punishment for that.
Our top spook agency has misled the only civilian oversight they are forced to comply with and actively attempted to prevent that only check and balance from seeing the full scope of evidence over an alleged war crime. This is an extraordinary abuse of power, yet the opportunity paint Hager out as a liar seemed more important to news producers.
Can we all just universally agree, as New Zealanders, that if Trump gets tricked into a military conflict with Iran – we point blank refuse to get dragged into it.
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We know that the Ministry for Vulnerable Children was a simplistic neoliberal solution to the complexity of poverty and child abuse. Focusing on rescuing children from environments that big data predict are abusive rather than the wrap around services a whanau requires to keep their child is a cost cutting measure.
There has been a lot of discussion recently on Stuff.co.nz about the 25 year history of Once Were Warriors, that quintessential New Zealand film that went beyond the shaggy dog antics of Goodbye Pork Pie and Came a Hot Friday or the dystopia of the Quiet Earth or Sleeping Dogs or the pure creepiness of Vigil and The Navigator to enshrine itself as a chapter of our cultural history that to this day still resonates with all the fury of its opening night.
Iran is not our enemy. American foreign policy is.
I don’t think our gun nut community have appreciated how the rest of us have tolerated their fetish and that after the white supremacist atrocity in Christchurch, we aren’t tolerating it any longer.