New Zealand Conservative

The Latest Technology I haven't had time to fully appraise Paula Bennett's proposed new laws, but if they are half as bad as what I'm hearing, then it is entirely appropriate that I pronounce on them without full evidence. For that seems to be the way these proposed laws are going. National seem to be saying that this whole "presumed innocent until proven guilty" is a medieval concept, and no place in this rational, evidence based, scientific society* And therefore, the new, advanced, pedophile detecting screening test is just what we need to pronounce people guilty if they manage to prove otherwise in a court of law. Well, bravo. So what is this new, advanced screening test? Apparently, you need a deep pond and a "float meter" that accurately measures the extent a person is floating or sinking. *And it was a medieval concept, founded in Roman Law and documented as part of a codex of laws around 533.  The phrase we know today was ev...

If you are large and have large children the State can take them from you to raise as the State seems fit. Four obese children are on the brink of being permanently removed from their family by social workers after their parents failed to bring their weight under control. In the first case of its kind, their mother and father now face what they call the ‘unbearable’ likelihood of never seeing them again. Their three daughters, aged 11, seven and one, and five-year-old son, will either be ‘fostered without contact’ or adopted. "Fostered without contact or adopted"? With whom or to whom pray tell will these children go? Do we even want to contemplate who might want children such as these. Anyway read the story for yourself - England has gone, it is history - writhing in its death throes and crushing its poor citizens under the jackboot of over Government as it dies.