On Thursday evening, I was just finishing up dinner with my two oldest kids. My wife was feeling unwell and feeding our four-week-old baby in bed. I had just gotten the icecream out for the kids when the doorbell rang. I opened the door to see a number of police
Press Release: Sporting Hunters Outdoor Advocacy The right to own a firearm, subject to safety checks, is part of the New Zealand heritage – no different from gaining the right to drive a motor vehicle – says a sporting hunters advocacy group. West Coaster Laurie Collins, a spokesman for the Sporting Hunters
Right Minds Laura Klassen, who made the seven anti-abortion videos that Family First publicised several months ago, posted a retrospective on Facebook on how 2019 changed the way she viewed abortion. I found myself in complete agreement with her seven statements and I think they should act as a wake-up
Ben Waimata In the mid to late 1980s, there were over 60,000 SKS and SKK rifles imported to New Zealand from China. I had one of these rifles, they were cheap and effective, and most of them will be still serviceable. This one half-decade of imported rifles 30 years
Before Stu Nash became a minister he consulted widely on matters. He gave the impression that he cared to listen, and that he cared about what voters thought. He often went out of his way to show that by posting promotional videos showing him being down with the voters. Since
Something is seriously wrong with our justice system when a brutal child rapist is released into the community after serving just seven years of his light ten year sentence despite an assessment of his likelihood of re-offending being described as “a high risk of violent offending and a moderate to
Dee J. Hall WisconsinWatch.org THE CANNABIS QUESTION In the spring, 12 University of Wisconsin-Madison students in my investigative reporting class set out to explore what marijuana legalization would mean to Wisconsin. I came up with the idea in the fall of 2018, thinking legalization was a sleepy topic. Boy,
Was the gun buy-back a success? Unequivocally, no. How do we know it wasn’t a success? Because not a peep has been heard from politicians or Police about how they achieved stunning results through the buy-back. Chris Geddis has his own thoughts on the buy-back in the Hawkes Bay
Oh the irony! Imagine if the first person criminalised under the new act was a senior cop in possession of an illegal firearm. I bet he won’t get 5 years imprisonment that the law abiding LFOs are threatened with, especially with an in-house investigation. The officer allegedly assaulted his
The Dutch Government climate hypocrisy has come home to roost. Like our benevolent CoL they thought enshrining climate action in law was a good idea, but the Dutch have now found that politicians can be held accountable for failing to meet fantasy climate targets. The highest court in the Netherlands
Blain To the Rt Hon, The Hon and all other Addressees I am writing to you to express my concerns about the use of Orders in Council which, without notification, are criminalising law-abiding citizens, and is against the concept of natural Justice and the rule of Law. I write to
NZ First We’ve got some great news. Public submissions are open for Darroch Ball’s Protection for First Responders and Correction Officers Bill. The Bill proposes a mandatory minimum sentence of 6 months’ imprisonment for those who assault first responders and corrections officers, and passed its first reading in
Michael Dowling Chairman Council of Licenced Firearms Owners (on behalf of the Fair and Reasonable Campaign) Over the last few weeks, we’ve had dozens of enquiries about how to comply with the 20 December amnesty deadline for those caught up by delays in the Police processing applications for endorsements
Hobson’s Pledge Trust hobsonspledge.nz There are two pieces of legislation wending their way through Parliament designed to further entrench the crazy notion that the Treaty of Waitangi created an obligation on governments nearly 200 years later to treat anybody with a Maori ancestor in some kind of preferential
Nicole McKee Spokesperson Fair and Reasonable Campaign With only five days left, the firearms buyback is turning into a total omnishambles. Firearms buy-back collects only 28% of banned firearms Yesterday we exposed that despite all of the media attention and advertising campaign by the Police, the firearms buyback has failed.
Press release: NZ First Darroch Ball’s Protection for First Responders and Prison Officers Bill, which toughens penalties for assaults on first responders and corrections officers, passed its first reading in Parliament this week. Every year, thousands of police, ambulance and corrections officers are assaulted. And it’s increasing. In
