“It’s like carrying the power on my back.”
Summarised by Centrist
A 12-year-old in Mt Wellington was stopped by police on Christmas Day for wearing a boxing gym shirt featuring a logo resembling Black Power’s insignia. Officers claimed the shirt breached NZ’s gang patch ban, confiscating it despite the boy’s insistence it was a uniform. “It’s like carrying the power on my back,” he said. The gym denied any gang affiliation, sparking misuse-of-law concerns.
“A comprehensive and consistent view of the flood risks across the country.”
“Serious and repeated failures...”
“Some children as young as 12 were commenced on puberty blockers, with others on testosterone, without adequate documentation of assessments or monitoring.
“The next move looks more likely to be up than down.”
This is what I’d call the government spending spiral – a self-reinforcing doom loop where each dollar spent justifies even more spending. PepsiCo alone spent $2.8 million last year lobbying to keep their highly processed junk food eligible for food stamps.
We can’t recapture the $16 trillion wasted on a false crisis. Sunk costs are, alas, sunk. The one sliver of good news is that it appears the climate change neuroses have finally started to subside.
There’s nothing stopping the government banning ‘ISIS brides’ – except the will to do it.
Can we stop pretending there is no correlation between transgenderism and dangerous mental instability?
