“They’re Drunk on Power”: Crenshaw Blasts Coronavirus Restrictions
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Are Australia’s Restrictions Constitutional? Who Knows?
As exposed by The BFD, leaked Crown Law advice to New Zealand Police was that they had no legal basis on which to enforce the Ardern government’s panicked, draconian lockdown edicts. Which leads me, on this side of the Tasman, to wonder whether any Australian government or police force
Camo Ardern: Time to Run & Hide
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Barry Soper on the Government’s Spin on Illegal Lockdown
After Thursday’s release of previously secret Crown Law advice the government has hit the spin cycle. On top of that they have been trying to bully media organisations to remove the story, and have even set some journalists on the trail of trying to identify the leaker. Barry Soper
Reason Number Three: Cannabis Will Be More Than Just Smoking a Joint
saynopetodope.org.nz JOINT GUMMI BEAR When you think about “marijuana”, you probably immediately think about a joint. But legalising marijuana will be far more than that. People will be popping it between classes, sucking on it while driving, drinking it before work, chewing on it while they talk to
Blasphemy Revisited
Justice Minister Andrew Little declared back in March that a review of New Zealand’s hate speech law was in its final stages. It is only the COVID-19 outbreak which has prevented it from being enacted. In order to usher in any new religious blasphemy legislation the old must
The BFD Video: What NZ Needs To Understand About The Marijuana Debate
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LEAKED: Crown Law Advice to Police
On Monday we published emails leaked to us that showed that the Police had sought and obtained a Crown Law legal opinion on precisely what they could and could not do under the Governments pandemic lockdown edicts. The emails showed that Police believed, on the advice from Crown Law that
Judicial Review for Lockdown Rules?
An application for a judicial review of the draconian lockdown laws was filed last night. It seems that someone has taken the original application that was dismissed and applied proper legal processes and thoughts to it, coupled with the revelations we broke on Monday about the Crown Law advice to
Reason Number Two: We Have Been Lied to Before
saynopetodope.org.nz Tobacco companies lied to New Zealanders and the world for more than a century about the dangers of smoking. They based their market on addiction. They deliberately targeted kids. They even had doctors promote cigarettes as medicine. And today we are paying the price. The conversation is
COLFO Versus Minister of Police: Day 1 & 2
Nicole McKee Spokesperson Fair and Reasonable Campaign Day One: I’m now out of our first day of hearings and a “Zoom” meeting with our lawyers. Of course a result is impossible to predict, and I make this observation as a non-lawyer, but it appeared Justice Cooke really engaged
Say Nope to Dope
saynopetodope.org.nz Potency: Today’s marijuana is a different, harder drug. Let’s be blunt. 2% THC weed of Woodstock era has been replaced by popping a handful of gummy bears containing 10 times the legal limit of THC per serving, or a 90% THC dab. It was just
Court Case Will Test Limit of Govt Power
Press Release: NZ Council Of Licensed Firearms Owners In a time when the Christchurch shootings and the COVID-19 pandemic have allowed the Government to take the opportunity to increase its power, a case in the Wellington High Court today will test the Government’s right to ban property without
The Path of Least Resistance: A Response to Chris Trotter
Yesterday Chris Trotter’s Insight: Politics article, ‘Why Aren’t Those People Being Arrested?’ looked at iwi checkpoints, the reaction to them by the public and the context of the actions of the iwi who set them up. THE CLAMOUR for the Government and the Police to “do something” about