(Politics) Petition to Governor General - No Royal Assent to Electoral Act Violations

[riffer]

Passing on this email message to other like-minded individuals:

This situation has just unfolded in Parliament today and it scares the hell out of me personally.

What’s next on the Labour radar??

Our beloved leader Helen and the Labour party is about to ram through tonight’s sitting of parliament a law that validates all currently “illegal” expenditure from 1989 until now and makes the culprits immune to prosecution. Wouldn’t we all love to see retrospective legislation in other fields?! They have bullied all the small parties into line except for our green friends who have chosen to abstain from voting.

This is a gross abuse of power by an increasingly dangerous, albeit minority government.

Please digitally sign the petition if you don’t like living in a neo-socialist state where the incumbent does whatever the hell they want. Please spread this far and wide. In my view this is really really bad for a supposedly democratic nation.

http://www.petitiononline.com/nzgg/petition.html

[placidfemme]

They ask for electorate... what does that mean? your area?

[Sniper]

Done mate. :niceone:

[riffer]

They ask for electorate... what does that mean? your area?

That's the electoral area. I live in "Rimutaka" Electorate.

[placidfemme]

That's the electoral area. I live in "Rimutaka" Electorate.

Thanks :) I just put "Auckland" as a wild guess lol

[ManDownUnder]

Thanks :) I just put "Auckland" as a wild guess lol

Done.

Also check http://www.election.org.nz/electorates/index-2.html to see which electorate you're in. I expect an invalid electorate will invalidate the signature

[Swoop]

All done!:yes: :rockon:

[placidfemme]

Done.

Also check http://www.election.org.nz/electorates/index-2.html to see which electorate you're in. I expect an invalid electorate will invalidate the signature

oh... I'm Northcote... can I sign it twice?

[ManDownUnder]

oh... I'm Northcote... can I sign it twice?

Dunno - but I doubt it.

[Indiana_Jones]

Says here i need to be a citizen, I'm out I guess.

Damn labour Govt.

-Indy

[SARGE]

online petitions are not worth the paper they are written on...


viva la revolution....

[riffer]

They're a lot more reliable than Diebold voting machines ... :mellow:

[jeremysprite]

wow 1408 signatures...

[placidfemme]

Says here i need to be a citizen, I'm out I guess.

Damn labour Govt.

-Indy

Did you vote? If so then sign it... if not... then sign it anyway... I doubt they will check each and every signature... and whats the worst that can happen... they check it and then don't add it to the total count...

[Dai]

Did you vote? If so then sign it... if not... then sign it anyway... I doubt they will check each and every signature... and whats the worst that can happen... they check it and then don't add it to the total count...



Voted for the petition

[Indiana_Jones]

Did you vote? If so then sign it... if not... then sign it anyway... I doubt they will check each and every signature... and whats the worst that can happen... they check it and then don't add it to the total count...

Good point, I could and did vote, so I have every right to sign a petition.

Done.

-Indy

[Lias]

Done 10 chars

[Skyryder]

I'm not about to disagree with everyones concerns, but before slagging Labour I understand that this legislation lets National off the hook also.

Realistically there was never going to be a prosecution of any kind and with this in mind the legislation is a political 'no go.' National will strumpet about making all sorts of high moral noises but that's about it. Seems they have been as guillty as eveyone else.

Skyryder

[sAsLEX]

I'm not about to disagree with everyones concerns, but before slagging Labour I understand that this legislation lets National off the hook also.

Realistically there was never going to be a prosecution of any kind and with this in mind the legislation is a political 'no go.' National will strumpet about making all sorts of high moral noises but that's about it. Seems they have been as guillty as eveyone else.

Skyryder

Ahh but National can see that it is corrupt and are voting against it, last I heard anyways.

[Skyryder]

Ahh but National can see that it is corrupt and are voting against it, last I heard anyways.

Yes that is correct. But remember if there was any possibilty of National being prosecuted their position would be 'very' different.

National are grandstanding. They can afford to take the moral high ground only because they are secure in the knowledge that there can be no prosecution. It's one of the reasons I have concerns with the National Party. They claim to have integrity but in reality there is only hypocrosy. In that, they have much in common with Labour.

Skyryder

[Lou Girardin]

Labour's history. What we see now is the twitching of it's corpse.
They could spend $5,000,000 of a golden pledge card and they'd still get tipped out of the trough in '08.

[Postie]

From todays Herald

Online protest at election spending

8.00am Friday October 20, 2006


An online petition protesting against the validation of unlawful election spending has won the support of more than 12,000 people in 48 hours.

The petition, started by National Party member Blair Mulholland, calls the legislation an attack on democracy and asks Governor-General Anand Satyanand to withhold the royal assent.

The retrospective legislation was rushed through Parliament on Wednesday night after Auditor-General Kevin Brady's much-awaited report into the use of taxpayer funds for the 2005 election.

[placidfemme]

more than 12,000 people in 48 hours.

And the sad part... it proberly won't make an ink of difference...:angry:

[terbang]

I'm not about to disagree with everyones concerns, but before slagging Labour I understand that this legislation lets National off the hook also.

Realistically there was never going to be a prosecution of any kind and with this in mind the legislation is a political 'no go.' National will strumpet about making all sorts of high moral noises but that's about it. Seems they have been as guillty as eveyone else.

Skyryder

Labour, National Maori or anyone should not be allowed to change the law in order to cover their tracks..

[riffer]

National are grandstanding. They can afford to take the moral high ground only because they are secure in the knowledge that there can be no prosecution. It's one of the reasons I have concerns with the National Party. They claim to have integrity but in reality there is only hypocrosy. In that, they have much in common with Labour.

Skyryder

Actually, what they all are is traitors to our country.

I say we take them all out the back of parliament, and shoot them all for treason.

25234 Total Signatures and counting ...

[Skyryder]

Labour, National Maori or anyone should not be allowed to change the law in order to cover their tracks..

I am not unsympathetic to your sentiments but the difference between politicians and ourselves is that they can change the law......we can not.

Skyryder