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NZ National/ACT government wants option to commit war crimes

Sep 9, ’09 7:13 AM

No Right Turn on the NZ National/ACT government’s oppos­i­tion to a new bill that would make it a national crim­inal offence for any New Zea­l­and polit­ical leader to “plan, pre­pare, ini­ti­ate or execute an act of aggres­sion” in viol­a­tion of the UN Charter.

… when Wayne Mapp says he doesn’t want our for­eign policy to be sub­ject to a UN veto, what he is really say­ing is that he wants to wage war in con­tra­ven­tion of inter­na­tional law and the UN charter — in other words, he wants us to be a rogue nation, just like the US…

Which seems to me to be a per­fect example of why we must pass the bill.

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NZ National/ACT government snouts in the trough

Sep 9, ’09 6:57 AM

No Right Turn on the NZ National/ACT gov­ern­ment giv­ing them­selves a pay rise dur­ing a reces­sion and refus­ing to jus­tify it.

It’s much the same situ­ation here in the UK. Politi­cians have a deep sense of enti­tle­ment and non-accountability when it comes to rais­ing their income and expenses levels, but are quite happy to spend mil­lions of taxpayer’s money on aggress­ive advert­ising cam­paigns demon­ising low-income bene­fi­ciar­ies as a bunch of fraudsters.

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