The anti-smacking bill has just been passed with an overwhelming majority in parliament, despite being opposed by the majority of New Zealanders.
God save New Zealand. I don't think anyone can at this point.
God save New Zealand. I don't think anyone can at this point.
Your headline is a little hyperbolic perhaps but I share your sentiments.
ReplyDeleteIn effect we have an elected dictatorship.
Next year we get to elect another one and judging by what we have just seen it will be little better than the one we have now.
Little difference between National and Labour - at last, something we can agree on!
ReplyDeleteOn the plus side, it always has been an elected dictatorship, so it's not like we've lost anything...
If truth be known Milt we probably are in agreement on most things including the future we want for our kids.
ReplyDeleteIts the best way of achieving it is where we frequently part company.
PS we have been on the same page in blogworld before.
But even more amazingly I have found my self on the same page as Ackers once or twice.
I find it totally depressing, and I don't think that is overstating the fact that democracy has been totally disregarded.
ReplyDeleteAlthough in reality, I think it has for quite some time. I remember the quote that some were saying that 911 was the day the world changed. Other, more wise people were saying it was the day people realised the world had changed.
I suspect today is one of those days.
I've been beating the devil out of my kids for years. I was keen to preserve my right to invoke reasonable force as a defence. So, understandably, I was anxious about the repeal of s59. I think the clarification on discretion is only slightly better. But it's still a long way off endorsing my God given right to beat my children or to even kill them if they curse me. I can't see what all this legal mumby jumby is about. The Bible is the inerrant word of God. In Leviticus God tells us clearly that we must kill our children for cursing us. No mere temporal law should impinge on this Divine OBLIGATION. I think most of the Christian advocacy on s59 was the worse kind of backsliding. TRUE Christians should be demanding that S59 was bolstered to align it with fundamental Biblical Truths.
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ReplyDeletenice collection of prejudices you have there. Why don't you go back to your straw house and your straw wife and beat your straw children. If you have any, that is
Come now Peasant - where would any thread be without some anonymous moron arguing with the delusions in its head?
ReplyDeleteAndrei wrote "If truth be known Milt we probably are in agreement on most things including the future we want for our kids.
Its the best way of achieving it is where we frequently part company."
Seems a fair assessment. Re the anti-smacking bill going through, I don't like seeing crap law being passed, but when it comes down to it, it's just one more law I won't be obeying. CYF and our Corrupt Force don't hassle nice middle class people like me, so I can afford not to give a toss. Too bad for Labour's core constituency though...
I thought anon was being satircal?
ReplyDeleteI had actually wondered where the devil had got to, and it has been traced back to residing in his children. Every time he beats it out of them, Sue Bradford speaks.
Again, we learn the lessons of cause and effect.
We will soon learn that this bill is not about police discretion, but CYF indiscretion. We can also expect Foster Care to be one of New Zealand's fastest growing economies. Coupled with Labour's 20 free hours of dawn to dusk child care, we can once again call ourselves the "lucky country".
"CYF and our Corrupt Force don't hassle nice middle class people like me, so I can afford not to give a toss."
ReplyDeleteThe police force maybe Milt, but CYFS will take every opportunity to have a go at the middle class. Its them their top policy and admin people love to hate. The lower class, viz a viz Kahui's, just tell them to F*** off.