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Yet Another Reason Not to Trust Police with an Arms Register

Yet Another Reason Not to Trust Police with an Arms Register

Ever since March 15 2019, the Police have been on a jihad against licensed firearms owners. They have also pushed for an arms register  in the mistaken belief that criminals will start registering their firearms. They already maintain an arms register for prohibited firearms, pistols and collectors, yet it seems

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What Is Section 230 and Why Do Trump and His Allies Want to Repeal It?

What Is Section 230 and Why Do Trump and His Allies Want to Repeal It?

Hannah Cox fee.org Hannah Cox is a libertarian-conservative writer, commentator, and activist. She’s a Newsmax Insider and a Contributor to The Washington Examiner. Section 230 simply says that only internet users are responsible for what they write, not the private companies whose websites host the commenters. In 2020,

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Facebook Gets Zucked in Court

Facebook Gets Zucked in Court

Sometimes, you just gotta quit while you’re ahead. To add another well-worn platitude: a leopard never changes its spots. The wisdom of both these truisms was on show recently, when an Italian court upheld a ruling against social media titan, Facebook. From its very beginnings, Facebook has been based

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Summer Poll #2: Nah, That’s Definitely Not ‘Hate Speech’

Summer Poll #2: Nah, That’s Definitely Not ‘Hate Speech’

Bob McCoskrie Family First National Director Here’s the result of our second Summer Poll, which again confirms that there’s still a load of common sense amongst Kiwis! (Our first one – released last week – is shown at the bottom ). Views on Marriage & Gender Identity Aren’t ‘Hate Speech’

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Spanish Lower House Votes to Legalise Euthanasia
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Spanish Lower House Votes to Legalise Euthanasia

righttolife.org.uk Spain’s Congress of Deputies, the lower house of Spain’s legislative body, has voted in favour of legalising euthanasia by a vote of 198-138. On Thursday 17th December, the Spanish Parliament took the country one step closer to making euthanasia and assisted suicide legal. The legislation

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Have You Heard about the Second Buyback?
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Have You Heard about the Second Buyback?

Michael Dowling Chairman Council of Licenced Firearms Owners This will be the last update from COLFO this year. Let me say first, thank you to all of our supporters who make our work possible, and I wish you a relaxing summer break. I am emailing to flag a number of

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This Will Cost Way More Lives Than It Saves

I’m not a member of the firearms-owning cohort, but having just read this document: I certainly sympathise with their concerns about law enforcement’s rapidly escalating demonisation of their community. New, or renewed, firearms-license applicant’s now have a compulsory requirement to name their ‘health practitioner.’ Their practitioners are

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Queenstown. Adventure, Ecstacy or Both?

Queenstown. Adventure, Ecstacy or Both?

An interesting article popped up in the local Queenstown weekly paper this week. Titled “Drug Warnings“, I expected to read about people getting busted for selling drugs in the town and I wasn’t disappointed. Apparently a major bust has gone down which targeted bad guys from Whangarei and Queenstown,

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Police Abandon the Catch Part of Catch and Release

Police Abandon the Catch Part of Catch and Release

In an effort to stop having to incarcerate criminals only to have them released under this Government’s criminal friendly law and order policies, the Police have now abandoned the catch part of their catch and release strategy. Police will no longer pursue drivers who are speeding, acting suspiciously or

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I Was Framed: Cardinal Pell Speaks Out

I Was Framed: Cardinal Pell Speaks Out

Cardinal George Pell has broken his long silence since his exoneration by a unanimous vote of Australia’s highest court. The Cardinal confirms what was obvious all along to anyone not blinded by prejudice: he was framed. Of course, the list of figures and institutions lined up against Pell was

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More New Laws to Hedge in Tech Giants

More New Laws to Hedge in Tech Giants

Last week, the Australian government tabled world-first laws to force tech giants like Google and Facebook to start paying for news content scraped from media outlets and to meet minimum standards, including giving notice of changes to their algorithms. The government says that its mandatory news media bargaining code was

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The Dictator’s Temptation and the Tyrant’s Technique

The Dictator’s Temptation and the Tyrant’s Technique

Bruce Logan The Prime Minister, in the wake of the Royal Commission report on the Christchurch terror attack, would have us believe that hate speech legislation will protect Islam and other minorities from racial and religious disharmony. There is a worm at the root. Hate speech law must always have

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First “Lawyer X” Gangland Figure Walks Free

First “Lawyer X” Gangland Figure Walks Free

Yet more of the chickens of corruption are coming home to roost in Victoria, with the first high-profile acquittal following from the “Lawyer X” scandal. Jailed big wig Tony Mokbel has had his conviction quashed over a cocaine importation which led him to skip the country during his trial. Mokbel

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Hate Speech Laws Are Attacks on Democracy, Free Speech

Hate Speech Laws Are Attacks on Democracy, Free Speech

Daphna Whitmore rdln.wordpress.com It is clear from the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Christchurch massacre that Brenton Tarrant had easy access to a firearms licence. The police failed abysmally in their duty to prevent semi-automatic weapons and ammunition from getting into the hands of a psychopath. In

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