Mark You have probably seen the ads on TV encouraging us to vote for cannabis reform “on our terms.” Putting aside the obvious question of where the money is coming from to pay for these very professionally produced ads and the airtime it runs on, I’d like to critique
Minneapolis has been brewing this storm-in-a-teacup story of racist police long before George Floyd was murdered. Nine of the eleven councillors were primed and ready to outvote Minneapolis’s mayor, Jacob Frey, who would not commit to abolishing the police at a demonstration last Saturday where protesters shouted, “Go home,
Yesterday I wrote in The BFD about the impossibility of policing the multicultural chasm opened up by the Black Lives Matter movement. It was subsequently announced that the Minneapolis City Council intends to disband the Minneapolis Police Department altogether, and hand policing over to ‘community groups’. Nine of the 13
British Home Secretary Sir Robert Peel is regarded as the father of modern policing. His Metropolitan Police Act received royal assent in 1829, and the Metropolitan Police Service in London was formed in September of that year. The first modern and professional Police force in the world, its founding was
Nicole McKee Spokesperson Fair and Reasonable Campaign Here at COLFO, we’re still chipping away at the politicians and the Government in relation to the second round of law changes – that are still sitting on the Parliamentary ‘Order Paper’ waiting for what’s called the Committee of the Whole Stage
Dr Muriel Newman nzcpr.com The COVID-19 restrictions in New Zealand have become a farce. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern is now looking foolish after thousands of people took to the streets in protest action on Monday, thumbing their nose at her Level 2 lockdown rules, while the Police watched on
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Bernie McIntyre On 28 March 2020 we heard that there was going to be a Ngati Manu burial at Karetu, Te Tai Tokerau, at 11am Sunday 29 March. I’m a New Zealander and also Ngati Manu. I and many others disagreed with the gathering as it was NOT an
“Prejudice” is derived from the Latin term, praeiudicium. Literally, “prior judgement”. As it got handed down into English, it came to mean that pre-judging a case was a very bad idea. The American high school girls suing for the right of females to exclusively compete in female sports have recently
Parris Goebel culturally appropriated another country and people’s cause yesterday and in doing so gave the big middle finger to Jacinda Ardern and her “team of 5 Million.” How yesterday’s protest was handled revealed how real the threat against New Zealand lives from COVID-19 really is. The protest
Press Release: ACT Party “While the Government continues to restrict the size of social gatherings to 100, today’s protesters must play by same rules as the rest of us,” says ACT Leader David Seymour. “ACT believes New Zealand should be at Level 1 now, restrictions on the size of
The fake abuse compensation cases are starting to come out of the woodwork of the victim-industrial complex. Taxpayers are forking out enormous sums of money for “sexual abuse” that never happened. But this is much worse than a blatant scam defrauding the taxpayer – it’s causing massive damage. Both to
Andrew Torba news.gab.com According to reports the White House has a drafted an executive order to address social media censorship by targeting Section 230 of the CDA. If reporting on the current draft is correct then this is bad, very bad. It’s easy to get excited that
Dr Muriel Newman nzcpr.com In a speech in November 2000, the former Labour Party Prime Minister David Lange warned that if governments attempted to accommodate the increasingly audacious demands for sovereignty by the Maori tribal elite, they would end up threatening democracy itself. “Democratic government can accommodate Maori political
In a recent high-profile case, a former prison guard spent months behind bars for a rape which never happened. Now, taxpayers have forked out $10,000 for sexual abuse which multiple judges have ruled never happened. Taxpayers have paid out $10,000 to a girl as compensation for being a
