The road to Hell, as the saying goes, is paved with good intentions. And it’s paid for and laid out and maintained by ‘kind’ and ‘well-meaning’ busybodies who think it’s their state-given right to pry and interfere and impose their own, bigoted version of morality on
January 11th 2021 A happy new year to all my readers (both still in the North Island). Well, what has happened since my last letter on Christmas Eve? Brexit came and went, and the UK has a trade agreement with the EU. The apocalypse promised by the remainers failed to
On Monday night, Australia-New Zealand time, Amazon made good on its threat to purge Parler from the internet. In doing so, Amazon not only showed a glaring double standard, it also broke the terms of its own contract with the fledgling social media company. On Monday, Parler filed a
We are told that the Government will create a secure database of gun owners, despite the fact they can’t even manage the existing register. Also despite the fact that they seriously breached privacy due to a data breach during the gun confiscation process. And despite the fact that Police
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
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
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
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’
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
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
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
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,
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
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
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
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
