Did Paul Goldsmith actually check with anyone before enabling vigilante street justice policy?
Ummmm, did Paul Goldsmith actually talk to anyone OTHER THAN the migrant exploitative tobacco guild when he decided to empower every redneck fuckwit with the power to play cop?
Citizen’s arrests: Retail group says ‘people will get hurt or killed’
Police Association slams beefed-up citizen arrest powers
Citizen’s arrest powers will put workers in harm’s way
…and then there is Brian Tamaki’s enthusiasm to use the law to arrest drag queens reading stories…
Brian Tamaki’s enthusiasm among many concerns with new citizen’s arrest law
Concerns ranging from Bill of Rights protections to potential harm have been raised over new citizen’s arrest laws, for which Destiny Church leader Brian Tamaki has expressed enthusiasm.
..and Stephen Franks threatening legal action against anyone offering gender treatment…
Wellington law firm defends letter warning gender care providers
A Wellington law firm is defiant in the face of complaints to police and the Law Society over a letter sent to practitioners of gender-affirming care earlier this month.
Franks Ogilvie director Stephen Franks said the letter was sent out to a list of more than 20 practices supplied to his firm by group Inflection Point NZ.
Earlier in the week he told RNZ the letter was “a warning” to practices that they may be held liable for future litigation if they were found to be lax in their processes when offering gender-related medical treatment.
Franks said yesterday he was unconcerned about the complaints made against the letter.
…look.
We all appreciate the position poor old Goldie has been placed in right?
The migrant exploitative tobacco guild poured tens of thousands into promoting this Government and they want pay back!
Here’s Big Tobacco stoking Dairy crime fear while ignoring that it’s their addictive product fuelling that Dairy crime…
The ‘corner dairy campaign’ quietly backed by big tobacco
A campaign to “save our stores” from a smokefree initiative looks like a grassroots effort. The truth is more complicated.
Since 1 August, ads have started showing up on Facebook urging people to support a petition to “save our stores”.
The ads, which lead to a website called Save Our Stores, ask users to sign a petition to repeal the Smokefree 2025 Act. The act includes a measure to reduce the number of stores selling full strength tobacco from 6000 nationwide to 600 by July 2024.
At first glance, the campaign appears to be an initiative from dairy owners. Under a headline of “who we are” on the website’s “about us” page, a dairy owner said to be from Lower Hutt is featured: “My name is Bhavesh. I’m a dairy owner in Lower Hutt. I’ve been serving customers for 17 years.”
However, smaller type at the bottom of the page says the website is “proudly supported” by tobacco companies BAT (British American Tobacco) New Zealand and Imperial Brands. The website’s privacy policy says the website is “provided” by the tobacco companies.
The website encourages dairy owners to get involved by printing out posters to display in their stores. These include messages in bold type warning: “This dairy is under threat of closure” with a QR code which leads to the website.
LOOK. AT. THE. POSTERS. AND. TELL. ME. THEY. ARE. NOT. POLITICAL!
The Tobacco Industry via the migrant exploitative tobacco guild want something in return (other than the hundreds of millions in subsidies that Casey Costello has gotten them) and so Goldie, in return gave the migrant exploitative tobacco guild a bullshit virtue signal to empower vigilante Shop owners with new citizens arrest powers.
The problem for Goldie however is that those rednecks who are turned on by performing citizens arrests don’t read the fine print (let’s be honest, rednecks don’t read at all), and none of the people excited by this will comprehend that it has to be for crimes punishable by 3 years in prison and what is being stolen has to be more than $1000.
This will lead to fuckwits stepping in to big balls a situation that will spiral into violence.
We should not be empowering ill trained bigots to start touching people under the false impression that they are the fucking law!
Normally National’s vacant virtue signals are all they need to do to pay donors off, but in this case the have empowered people like Destiny Church to be the new Sheriffs.
Such a bad faith policy that will lead to more violence in society.
Well played Goldie, well played.
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The permutations of this are many, random vigilantes chucking teen girls in the back of their van…”saw her take some stuff…” and the scenarios just go on, the cops are macho and violent enough but they do have some judicial oversight.
Pathetic.
How so Bob the illiterate?
Jesus your mind goes to a warped place.
I observe that people who use Jesus freely for emphasis in speech are already in a warped place, too high and superior for easy access, so there is little space for the pretenders.
Brian Tamaki is rubbing his hands in glee as he can now setup his own version of Morality Police similar to those found in Middle East.
If Paul’d checked with anybody this idiocy wouldn’t be proceeding but IMO he’s appeasing the Indian community for the National Party’s view that two Indians equal one Chinese. Also clueless that a whack with a hockey stick can be as damaging as the alcohol in question, if not more so.
A policy from a small sector of the retail industry made up by a local dairy owner paid $920 a day by Luxon .Talk about waste full spending .Now they will have to buy their cigaretts from the importer as they will no longer have the black market .
If there is a black market for cigarettes I think that you should prove this by listing all such places in the Wellington area, and maybe in Lower Hutt as well, to show that you know what you’re talking about. Thanks Gordie.
When questioned Goldstains said a citizen may arrest someone by “holding their arm until the police arrive”
hahahahahahahahahaha!
What planet is Goldstains live on, planet Key?
Be reasonable. Many people do have the time to stand around holding other people’s docile arms until the police arrive in another hour or two or three. Senior citizens do, the unemployed do, kids absconding from school do, stay-at- home mums and house-husbands shopping with their toddlers do, security guards not busy on their smart phones do, even buskers may pause and do it too.
dont live in welly mate
Thats why people are smuggling tobacco into the country every day just check with border control
I think Goldsmith’s as smug as looks, which is bad news. I think that he once trashed or disparaged his grandparent for some silly bit of self-advertising, and he should not have done that either.
Basically, Goldsmith has given people license to carry knives around, just as they do now in the streets of London and Birmingham and it seems Dunedin, and South Auckland. Goldsmith must know that nearly every assailant claims self-defence, and that not all businesses have cctv’s recording interactions as accurately or comprehensively as the eye of God.
Wise imbibers will buy all their alcohol online to avoid being caught up unwanted altercations, and booze barons forced to change their way of making easy money.