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1,000+ join ‘Kill the Bill’ rally on May Day in London
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1,000+ join ‘Kill the Bill’ rally on May Day in London

rt.com More than a thousand people have taken to the streets of the British capital on May Day to defend their right to protest, which is endangered by a bill that vastly expands the powers of the UK police. A huge crowd gathered in Trafalgar Square on Saturday and

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New Zealand: The Country Where Killers Can Walk Free

Darroch Ball Co-Leader/Spokesperson Sensible Sentencing Trust Sentence discounts for serious and violent offences must end, says Sensible Sentencing Trust. “New Zealand’s justice system has completely lost its compass, now seeing regular cases of innocent people losing their lives at the hands of others and their killers walking free,

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New Police Pursuit Policy an Utter Failure

New Police Pursuit Policy an Utter Failure

Last week I had occasion to chat with a couple of detectives whom I had had the pleasure of working with back in the day. They were executing a warrant to search a vehicle that had been impounded following a short pursuit after it had managed to get away from

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Free Speech Coalition Responds to Court of Appeal Judgement

Free Speech Coalition Responds to Court of Appeal Judgement

Jordan Williams Free Speech Coalition Responding to the judgement of the Court of Appeal on the Free Speech Coalition’s legal action against Regional Facilities Auckland Ltd, Coalition spokesperson Jordan Williams says: “Today’s judgement represents a significant improvement on that made by the High Court.” “We won on the

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Will You Be Happy with the Government Tracking Your Every Kilometre?
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Will You Be Happy with the Government Tracking Your Every Kilometre?

National started looking at it a few years ago, Phil Twyford worked on it in 2019 and Michael Wood has been continuing the work to date. It seems that everyone is trying to figure out how to keep the cash flowing from the long-suffering cash-cow, the motorist. Stuff advises that

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You’ll Know It When You Hear It

You’ll Know It When You Hear It

Information Satire Some readers may recall that your intrepid eyewitness has, on several occasions, crossed metaphorical swords with two police officers, Officers Rawsprat and Hagar, both of whom represent the new woefully woke and unfortunately increasingly prevalent wing of the police farce. As it had been some time since my

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ACT’s Protect Free Speech Petition Reaches 10,000 Signatures

ACT’s Protect Free Speech Petition Reaches 10,000 Signatures

ACT Party ACT Leader David Seymour “ACT’s petition to protect the free speech of New Zealanders and oppose the Government’s proposed hate speech laws on Saturday reached 10,000 signatures,” says ACT Leader David Seymour “Our ACT caucus has been travelling the country with our Free Speech Tour.

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Government-Ordered COVID-19 Lockdowns Are Actually Unethical, and Here’s Why

Government-Ordered COVID-19 Lockdowns Are Actually Unethical, and Here’s Why

James Sikkema McMaster University James Sikkema is a teaching-award winning philosophy professor at McMaster University specializing in the history of philosophy, metaphysics, ethics and applied ethics. In the last few years he has become increasingly active in public intellectual work, whether through doing philosophy with/for children, hosting public philosophy

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America’s Black Klanswoman Cracks the Whip

America’s Black Klanswoman Cracks the Whip

In the long-gone days of the Jim Crow South, racist Democrat voters and their demagogue politicians used to intimidate juries by parading outside courthouses in their pointy hoods. In the new era of Jim Snow, racist Democrat voters and their demagogue politicians show up in hoodies and face-masks. Throughout the

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Let’s Play the Hate Speech Game

Let’s Play the Hate Speech Game

PM Jacinda Ardern says we will know ‘hate speech’ when we see it. Whilst her government is very keen to impose hate speech laws on us it is not so keen to define what ‘hate speech’ actually is. The government’s hate speech game is therefore Russian roulette. You spin

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