Posted on 14-10-2003
What
Does Green Mean?
by Jon Smyth
While Labour and the Greens were busy ideologically re-weaving
the fabric of New Zealand's legal system so that it is immediately
compromised by its inbreeding, I witnessed would be G.E. protesters
abandoning train platforms in droves because the train never
showed or sailed right past them without stopping. OK, I know
that some of you will fight to the death for your right to have
toad genes in your breakfast cereal, and good on you! I will
defend to the death your right to poison yourselves out of the
gene pool (just keep your food out of my environment while you
do it) but this is not my point. Having finally managed to catch
a train I witnessed, as I have on many journeys to and from
Aucklands suburbs, critically overcrowded carriages, toddlers
standing next to doors that signs warned us could fly open at
any time, people packed so immobile that were there a collision
or fire, many - children included - would die trampled, burned
and asphyxiated.
Laws such as those governing Health and Safety are being
ignored daily, routinely, right in our faces and no one is held
accountable, no one is prosecuted. What good can Helen and Margaret,
Rod and Jeanette's inbred Supreme Court system do for us when,
as our elected representatives they are unable to guarantee
the maintenance of the fundamentals of our legal system? Following
the example of S.O.E.s that spend more on branding and P.R.
(ideology) than their usefulness to the public is worth, they
are fiddling while Rome burns (Yes, I know two Italian metaphors&).
While Helen and Margaret, Rod and Jeanette are fiddling about,
I have heard that upwards of 20% of New Zealand's workforce
is functionally illiterate. One state owned enterprise has to
distribute their staff newsletters on video because vast swathes
of their employees cant read right here in this in the country
that once trumpeted the quality of its education system. What
good can Helen and Margaret, Rod and Jeanette's inbred Supreme
Court system do for countless numbers of New Zealanders who
cant read let alone understand the pompous ideology that Labour
and the Greens are foisting on us with the slimmest of parliamentary
majorities?
And ideology, not democracy, is at the core of this political
boil. The Green Party's - Standard Reply - (sic) to questions
about their support of Labour is that New Zealand's highest
court should be in New Zealand and not half a world away. It
is on that basis that we have supported the Government's Supreme
Court legislation.Here in their own words is the proof that
the Greens are putting ideology in front of democracy. The wafer
thin majority with which the Greens and Labour are forcing this
erosion of our rights is too small to afford even a veneer of
democracy.
The Green's half a world away xenophobia is just a smoke
screen to the real issue which is this: The Greens are going
to subject this country to the self regulating control of a
clique of elite rich professionals with little or nothing in
common with the average, or poor, or Maori, or P.I., or Asian
New Zealander upon whom the legal system is foisted most autocratically.
If you have any complaint over the conduct of this clique, they
themselves will decide whether or not they have been proper
and you will have no appeal against their decision. Your right
to the impartial independent revue of their autocracy has been
taken from you. Nothing substantial has been given to you in
return for this deliberate erosion of your basic rights.
While the Privy Council may not have been the ideal or
even a desirable foil to this, it is better than none at all.
Coming from Catholic Irish stock, I have no desire to have the
English sitting in judgment on New Zealanders, but I am not
so daft that I would use an ideological saw to cut off the branch
I was standing on! If the Greens think that the new legal order
that they are creating, an order immune to true independent
and impartial scrutiny, will be a level playing field in matters
of Green concern, then they are truly living in Foo Foo Land.
My flabber is gasted. Between them Labour and the Greens are
going lickity split to complete our transformation into a Genetically
Engineered Banana Republic. Here's an idea for National Party
strategy. Repeal the abolition of the Privy Council, enshrine
the Queens Chain in law, stand firm on nuclear free and ban
GE. I've been a lefty all my life but no matter what other right
wing policies they had, they'd have my vote.
PS:Crooked Science: NZ's Minister of Science, Marion
Hobbs failed school C science. Now she holds sway over
a scientific technology that many international cutting edge
scientists claim holds the potential to wipe out life-on-earth.
Marion demonstrated her moral ineptitude and corruption concerning
her sham accommodation claim; and now she is putty in the hands
of the wealthiest and most corrupt multinationals on earth:
Transnationals who are beholding to no one and who hold sway
over the USA, the most powerful nation on earth. For
example, Monsanto's (GE Food manufacturer), Bill Clinton's
(while he was president of USA) and Tony Blair's chief PR executive
is the same person.
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