It is important that this precedent is not allowed. The State are trying this on when they don’t think anyone is looking. Secret trials and secret evidence require enormous checks and balances which the Human Review Tribunal has been too underfunded to enable.
Sorry comrades, no updates on TDB today, as I am in Wellington for my hearing against the NZ Police at the Human Rights Review Tribunal to fight the State gaining the power to hold secret trails.
Is it a bird?
Is it a Plane?
No, it’s Adrian Orr, Captain Socialism!
The Right have exploited Chinese immigration to prop up the speculative property bubble so the middle classes felt like millionaires and to enable the sale of cheap milk powder to China which has trapped our Dairy Industry with intensification debt while the Identity Politics Left attacked anyone criticising Chinese immigration as racist xenophobes.
Shane Jones says that Shane Jones is one of the greatest NZers Shane Jones has ever known and Shane Jones says that Shane Jones is angry at dirty filthy urban liberals who attack his cherished Fishing Industry.
…the real reason why there has been a scalp here, unlike the other screw ups, is that in the other examples it’s normally poor brown people suffering so Wellington Bureaucrat’s don’t get punished if they can pronounce Te Reo correctly, but in the Census issue it impacts vast amounts of public spending in white rich places, so someone must be punished.
Our current political spectrum can not respond fast enough to the radical cultural, economic and societal adaptation required to prepare us for the realities of the climate crisis, we need to be on a war footing, instead we are drunk on the couch chilling with Netflix.
If Bridges and Hosking have their way, they would demand Police remove the protesters, the protests would swell beyond the ability of the local pigs to control and Bridges would need to send in the army with Hosking cheering from the sideline.
Does humanity grasp this: the brutal, but inescapable, reality that lies at the heart of the problem within the problem of Climate Change? That to come through the next 100 years, the human species will, somehow, be required to reduce its present population by nine-tenths?
Fascinating news tonight that businessman John Palino has decided to step down from the Auckland Mayoralty race and instead run as a Councillor in the Franklin Ward…