Ixion
29th November 2009, 21:16
Public meeting with ACC Minister Nick Smith. He didn't invite us, busy man, things get overlooked, so we've invited ourselves. We're helpful like that.
Meet up at Okahu Bay (by the toilets) 6:30pm. Hed to the Yacht Club at 7:00.
We will have some mufti bikers there to confuse the cahiman
If we get enough riders we'll station a squad outside, but inside has priority.
I will ahve some questions printe dout for distributuon, and of course bring your own.
Tyr to avoid them being the ones that have been around the loop several times, he'll have his answers pat for those.
OBJECTIVES
What do we want to achieve:
To show the Minsiter as either domineering or not in control of his ministry (depending on his replies)
To suggest to the public that THEY'RE NEXT. And highlight that the government has an agenda that is a lot bigger than bikers.
To remind the public that it's not only bikers that are getting levy increases. Every wage earner is going to have the levy that is taken out of his pay packet each week increased. Most people will be paying between $500 and $1000 more a year. It's just that we pay TWICE. Joe Q is going to pay more too.
To highlight the unfairness of the ACC levy system for multi vehicle owners (be they car or bike)
To highlight that the proposal to split bikes by size is stupid, based on no rational facts, and flies in the face of the ACCs own figures
And, since the SUnday Star has leaked that ACC are going to stick to their original levy sizes, to suggets that there is more to it than bean counting and that John Judge is using his position to indulge in social engineering, trying to force motorcycles off the road (I think we can run with this now, JJs stubbornness makes his motives questionable)
Akahu Bay. 6:30.
Meet up at Okahu Bay (by the toilets) 6:30pm. Hed to the Yacht Club at 7:00.
We will have some mufti bikers there to confuse the cahiman
If we get enough riders we'll station a squad outside, but inside has priority.
I will ahve some questions printe dout for distributuon, and of course bring your own.
Tyr to avoid them being the ones that have been around the loop several times, he'll have his answers pat for those.
OBJECTIVES
What do we want to achieve:
To show the Minsiter as either domineering or not in control of his ministry (depending on his replies)
To suggest to the public that THEY'RE NEXT. And highlight that the government has an agenda that is a lot bigger than bikers.
To remind the public that it's not only bikers that are getting levy increases. Every wage earner is going to have the levy that is taken out of his pay packet each week increased. Most people will be paying between $500 and $1000 more a year. It's just that we pay TWICE. Joe Q is going to pay more too.
To highlight the unfairness of the ACC levy system for multi vehicle owners (be they car or bike)
To highlight that the proposal to split bikes by size is stupid, based on no rational facts, and flies in the face of the ACCs own figures
And, since the SUnday Star has leaked that ACC are going to stick to their original levy sizes, to suggets that there is more to it than bean counting and that John Judge is using his position to indulge in social engineering, trying to force motorcycles off the road (I think we can run with this now, JJs stubbornness makes his motives questionable)
Akahu Bay. 6:30.