Posts by Rich of Observationz
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branding an entire technology that I personally work with and I believe can and will do tremendous good for the planet as evil.
You mean GM?
How is this policy:
Supporting the development of genetic technologies based on ethical screening and the precautionary principle on a case by case basis, so long as they are contained within the laboratory and are not applied to food production.
branding GM as evil?
Or is it something else, like nerve-gassing babies and little puppy dogs??
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...putsch might be as simple as actually showing up to the AGM with 100 others and voting Hide et al out
I think they have dollar weighted voting, don't they?
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If they try that on in Wellington, I'm gonna be advocating for a rate strike. Or a take back, where the community gets together and runs its own services using the withheld rate money.
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The people of Te Aro neither work, nor have families.
The somewhat dull paperwork I'm doing right now must be for fun then. Odd, i thought it was work. Think I'll go and spend the afternoon in Midnight's instead then..
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having skillfully avoided any comment on my comment
What comment? I can't be bothered reading all your foamings..
let me ask you a question: have you any idea at all how many guns came into ANZ after the 2 major wars our service-people were involved in? Or the 3 (minor - only to those not involved) ones? You will note I own 2 heirloom guns: there are literally 1000s & 1000s of these weapons/tools out there - most held benignly.
Both my parents served in the forces, my mum during WW2 and my dad for most of the cold war. Neither of them felt any need to hoard illegal firearms afterwards.
There is *no* way your greatuncle is going to say, "O look, I've got a Luger in the roof. Bit of ammo too" and go through the legal hoops.It falls upon the families to do something about this sort of stuff after greatuncle has died.
Why not? Wander down to the cop shop and fill some forms? Or give the thing to a museum and have a nice plate with your dad's name on it? Isn't that better than risking a kid finding the gun and shooting his mate?
Registration of individual firearms does NOT work.
Repeated assertion does not a logical argument make. Why do almost all countries apart from NZ and the mad Americans have such a system?
And kindly dont tell registered gun-licenced owners how the system works. We do actually know, and rather despise your kind of comments.
You know, I find it really worrying that somebody who's allowed guns has such an attitude to democracy. For your reference, the way it works is that *everyone* is entitled to an opinion on what laws we have. And I'm just as likely to be shot by a crazed gun nut as anyone else, and would like the government to take appropriate countermeasures.
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Since Goldstein is both lovable and getting the jump on his boss by continually extending his fact-finding mission to NZ, I'd consider it a positive depiction and not anti-anyone. Maybe fat American managers.
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completely irrelevant fact that she wears - gasp - women's clothing!
She's pre-op? (I've only lived here six years and don't know all the NZ backstories).
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Gun registries won't work immediately. Over the years though, most guns will fall into the hands of people that don't want to go to jail for the sake of a bit of paperwork. After all, a register gun kills possums just as well as an unregistered one.
If you get your guns pinched, you're obliged to immediately report that and the cops will be round. If it turns out you actually sold them then (like people who pretend their partner was driving teh car to get off speeding tickets) you'll be in jail.
There'll always be some number of illegal guns around, but this would diminish them.
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What would a registry achieve?
If the registry showed you had nine guns, the cops could drop by to verify they were in the locked cabinet where they were meant to be.
If they weren't and you had no reasonable excuse, you would be prosecuted. I think that just as most people rego their car, most people would register their guns. Particularly if you faced a five year sentence, as in the UK.
I don't think it's any more of an imposition for people to register guns than register cars. In much of the less civilised areas of NZ (i.e. not Wellington), a car is a neccessity, but you still need a license and rego. A gun is never a necessity in the modern world, so why shouldn't people have to go through the same process for guns as they do cars.
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So has anyone who goes there noticed one of the Kiwibleargh commenters disappear as of about last Friday? Possibly accompanied by a post such as:
OMG Helengrad corrupt cops come to take my guns. I'm gonna deal to them ok. Bring it on!