More bans
Phil at Pacific Empire has a depressingly long list of recently proposed bans:
* Billboards in downtown Auckland
* Onselling of tickets
* Wearing of gang colours
* Sugary drinks in schools
* Driving while using a cellphone
* Smacking of children
* Hunting the great white shark
* Party Pills
Sometimes it seems to me that Governments have only two responses to issues. To ban or to tax, or both!!
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December 20th, 2006 at 2:07 pm
The government should minesweep old legislation to get rid of totlatarian regulations passed their use-by date.
GWS hunters can go get f*&*&&*% but – I hope the government uses some of our lovely money to inforce that one!
December 20th, 2006 at 6:13 pm
Why not ban living, save getting out bed in the morning. This country is slowly been suffocated in legistration but I would like someone to tell me anything that this government has baned in recent years has meet with total compilance. Yeah why not ban all the above, it’s not like the people will take a scrap of notice. The sad thing is these noddys in power have not yet realised the more they try to regulate people’s lives the greater the rejection of all rules by society.
December 20th, 2006 at 7:06 pm
So, Mr. Farrar, you think that National won’t continue banning things and in fact, increase the rate if they get into power, like they have always done? Why don’t you support a party that won’t keep banning things and supports school vouchers like you do? That party would be ACT.
December 20th, 2006 at 9:32 pm
1)..taking out the billboards..a good idea..
2)..ticket scalping..pure capitalism..?..or gross exploitation/gouging..?..
3)gang colours…o.t.t.
4) sugar drinks in schools..?..take em out..!
and the crappy fatty food too..!
5)..cellphone/driving..?..dunno..!
6)..smacking of children..?..stop it..
7)..hunting white shark..?..stop it..
8)..party pills..yep..!..ban them..!..
on the grounds they are crap substitutes..
and are one of the great marketing scams of our times..
and once again..demonstrates how people will take anything to get out of their normal state/condition..
so you’d be for the legalisation of cannabis..?..eh dpf..?
phil(whoar.co.nz.)
December 20th, 2006 at 11:24 pm
Mike Readman – plenty of ACT MPs in the past have been banners also. And I prefer to support a party which actually will be able to implement centre-rught policies.
December 21st, 2006 at 5:56 am
but david….key is labour-lite…
isn’t he…?
he’s so wet..(how wet is he..?..)..
i’ve been told the ‘drys’ in national won’t physically go near him..
‘cos they are so afraid of ‘sogging-up’…
an if he gets there….whatever ‘centrist’ coalition partners he has will stop any of the excesses dreamed of by you and yours..
does it take you back david..?
to those halcyon days you sat at shipleys elbow…urging her on as she gutted the social welfare system…and spread misery throughout the land..?
(those were the days..!..eh david..?.)
but those days are gone for you now david..and won’t be coming back…
phil(whoar.co.nz)
December 21st, 2006 at 9:11 am
Party pills are a safer, cleaner, healthier and lower taxed alternative to alcohol. Each time a youth takes 3 pills to have a good night they deprive the government of $40 in alcohol tax. Party pills will be banned so the governments revenue from destructive, harmful, unhealthy drinking is maintained. Our government has maximised the market for alcohol, by lowering the drinking age and making it easier for 16 yo.s to purchase, and is taking steps to criminalise a safer alternative.
Of course they will say that they are protecting us, and that they have our best interests at heart.
December 21st, 2006 at 9:13 am
Party pills are a safer, cleaner, healthier and lower taxed alternative to alcohol. Each time a youth takes 3 pills to have a good night they deprive the government of $40 in alcohol tax. Party pills will be banned so the governments revenue from destructive, harmful, unhealthy drinking is maintained. Our government has maximised the market for alcohol, by lowering the drinking age and making it easier for 16 yo.s to purchase, and is taking steps to criminalise a safer alternative.
Of course they will say that they are protecting us, and that they have our best interests at heart.
December 21st, 2006 at 9:13 am
Party pills are a safer, cleaner, healthier and lower taxed alternative to alcohol. Each time a youth takes 3 pills to have a good night they deprive the government of $40 in alcohol tax. Party pills will be banned so the governments revenue from destructive, harmful, unhealthy drinking is maintained. Our government has maximised the market for alcohol, by lowering the drinking age and making it easier for 16 yo.s to purchase, and is taking steps to criminalise a safer alternative.
Of course they will say that they are protecting us, and that they have our best interests at heart.
December 21st, 2006 at 9:18 am
Party pills are a safer, cleaner, healthier and lower taxed alternative to alcohol. Each time a youth takes 3 pills to have a good night they deprive the government of $40 in alcohol tax. Party pills will be banned so the governments revenue from destructive, harmful, unhealthy drinking is maintained. Our government has maximised the market for alcohol, by lowering the drinking age and making it easier for 16 yo.s to purchase, and is taking steps to criminalise a safer alternative.
Of course they will say that they are protecting us, and that they have our best interests at heart.
December 21st, 2006 at 9:23 am
Party pills are a safer, cleaner, healthier and lower taxed alternative to alcohol. Each time a youth takes 3 pills to have a good night they deprive the government of $40 in alcohol tax. Party pills will be banned so the governments revenue from destructive, harmful, unhealthy drinking is maintained. Our government has maximised the market for alcohol, by lowering the drinking age and making it easier for 16 yo.s to purchase, and is taking steps to criminalise a safer alternative.
Of course they will say that they are protecting us, and that they have our best interests at heart.
December 21st, 2006 at 9:55 am
Each time a youth takes 3 pills to have a good night they deprive the government of $40 in alcohol tax.
Firstly, party pills and alcohol are not mutually exclusive. In fact, quite the opposite.
Secondly, how on earth did you get the $40 tax figure. If a kid spends $5.99 on a bottle of Marque Spue, how can that result in $40 to the government in tax?
Thirdly, you might want to lay off the party pills yourself. You hit the “post” button 5 times.
December 21st, 2006 at 12:00 pm
Banned cause they might make you sick. LOL. I certainly did get a slightly icky feeling from couple of times I tried them. But nothing like what I’ve had from our friendly neighborhood legal drug, piss. I’ve seldom encountered a drug more likely to make you puke yourself inside out, get in a fight, drive dangerously, act like a general arse, piss constantly, cause blackouts and memory loss, burn up all your spare cash, as a girl to make you vulnerable to sexual encounters you wish you’d never had, to make you feel sick for the whole next day, and worst of all, taste yucky.
Ah well, no one ever said that law was logical, or that legislators could learn from history. Goodbye party pills, hello P and piss for all our kids. So progressive.
December 22nd, 2006 at 10:00 am
A thought for Christmas
I heard Christmas Messages from two of the Party Leaders on morning radio today. The first was from Aunti Helen, who very carefully said “do this, do that and do the other”, all in all, exactly what you would expect from a Maiden Aunt who, having no children of her own and no pets, hates it when she has to interact with other m,embers of the family and likes to have every one do things that suit her life-style irrespective of theirs. The other was from the Key to tomoorw (as someone introduced him). Who said, in the way of the jovial uncle with kids of his own as well as dogs galore, “go have fun with your family and friends, relax and get ready to make 2007 a great year for you and everyone you know.”
(Clearly both the above are paraphrased – who makes notes on the motorway!!)
I think I know which I prefer, as a family member, and as someone to spend some quality time with over the next few years.