This is from the Friday working group on MagicTalk radio. I figured I might as well get this up as a followup to the last couple of videos concerning New Zealand police officers checking in on citizens based on their online postings. I reckon it’s good for people to be aware of.
‘Free speech for me but not for thee’ – using government force to shut down unwanted voices – will result in free speech for no one. And once it is gone, it will not be easy to get back.
A good man is going to die in a Hong Kong prison for believing in freedom and democracy. His name is Jimmy Lai.
Transforming the revenge fantasies of anti-immigrant populists into enforceable public policy will not be easy.
You’re much better off visualising how you’re going to get there. But then that would mean actual work.
Tamatha Paul is responsible for the positions she advocated, the amendments she moved, and the prioritisation she helped secure. That is the level at which accountability properly sits. And insisting on that level of accountability is not racism. It is politics.
Opportunity will not make it. It never does. The only history it is writing is another chapter in the long book of parties that confused media hype with voter support.
