Government officials get power to force entry to your home and make you strip

**davereid** · 17th February 2008, 09:04

Yes its true.

Our freedom loving government has given officials the power to use force to enter your home, and remove your clothes.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/4404868a11.html

The government will have wide powers to make sure the 2011 Rugby World Cup is "clean".

Government "Enforcement officials" will be able to enter private property during major events like the 2011 Rugby World Cup and seize advertising material or force groups of people to remove clothing carrying it...
..Officials will be allowed to enter private land and buildings if they are clearly visible from a clean zone...

..Government enforcement officers can obtain search warrants to enter private property during clean periods and seize or cover up offending advertising. Police or enforcement officers accompanied by police officers can use any force that is "reasonable in the circumstances" to gain entry or break open any article...

...An Economic Development Ministry spokesperson said it was likely groups wearing clothes advertising a rival company would be asked to leave a clean zone although they could be told to remove their clothing if they refused...

**James Deuce** · 17th February 2008, 09:16

Really simple folks and we can start organising it here.

Lets start up a line of clothing, with the label "Rugby Sucks", and make sure there are always 2000 to 3000 people in every clean zone during a game. You will get arrested, but I think the time for decent levels of Civil Disobedience have arrived.

I'm serious about this and intend to start organising .

**Trouser** · 17th February 2008, 09:53

FFS.

I'm all for organised civil disobedience. This is just rediculous but it does show you who really is running this world.

We need to organise like French farmers. Blocked roads. Signs up and down state highway 1. Spray painted writing on roads. General disorder. Nothing violent but plenty of annoying things for the organisers and sponsors.

I'm serious too. This is too much like a George Orwell bad dream. What next?

If you are from Tangimoana or Echelon and are reading this I don't give a fuck. Bite me, you comms dickheads.

**Steam** · 17th February 2008, 10:09

Wow that's pretty disturbing. How did that get through parliament without being questioned by National or the Greens?

**rainman** · 17th February 2008, 10:28

First thoughts were that this was an early April 1st story, but no.

Looks like it passed in August. Here is the page that links to all the bits you need to know. Superficial browsing shows National and Labour in support, Greens/Maori agin. So much for free speech, eh? Now what's that word starting with an H that means someone who says one thing and does another?

Not surprised to see the word Mallard at the top of that page either...

**McJim** · 17th February 2008, 10:34

The answer is simple really. Don't watch the sporting events and boycott the official sponsors' products. Big corporations will not want to buy into something this unpopular.

**Skyryder** · 17th February 2008, 10:54

Another storm in a tea cup. Personally anything that removes any type of advertising I'm for it. We are subject to too much of it as it is. KB is one of few sites that is add clean. Good one.

Skyryder

**Bikernereid** · 17th February 2008, 11:17

I have been advocating this line of action re the cheese cutter campaign too. Thank God someone else sees the benefit of getting off your arse and doing something active!!

Originally Posted by Trouser

FFS.

I'm all for organised civil disobedience. This is just rediculous but it does show you who really is running this world.

We need to organise like French farmers. Blocked roads. Signs up and down state highway 1. Spray painted writing on roads. General disorder. Nothing violent but plenty of annoying things for the organisers and sponsors.

I'm serious too. This is too much like a George Orwell bad dream. What next?

If you are from Tangimoana or Echelon and are reading this I don't give a fuck. Bite me, you comms dickheads.

**Usarka** · 17th February 2008, 11:35

Originally Posted by Skyryder

Another storm in a tea cup. Personally anything that removes any type of advertising I'm for it. We are subject to too much of it as it is. KB is one of few sites that is add clean. Good one.

Skyryder

It's not making it advert free, its removing anything that doesnt belong to an official sponsor.

This is a ridiculous law.....Eg, if a car maker sponsors the cup then residents in the "clean zone" may be forced to park their holdens out of site.......

Having a beer on the balcony? No youre not, not unless its a heineken.....

**Bikernereid** · 17th February 2008, 11:37

For the love of God has your country gone completely INSANE???

Here was me wating to live there cos it was saner and less dogmatic than the UK. Maybe I was very mistaken!!

Originally Posted by Usarka

It's not making it advert free, its removing anything that doesnt belong to an official sponsor.

This is a ridiculous law.....Eg, if a car maker sponsors the cup then residents in the "clean zone" may be forced to park their holdens out of site.......

Having a beer on the balcony? No youre not, not unless its a heineken.....

**Grub** · 17th February 2008, 12:28

I would be very surprised if an action under the Bill of Rights could not override this, particularly if you are on your own property

**Ocean1** · 17th February 2008, 12:33

Originally Posted by Bikern1mpho

For the love of God has your country gone completely INSANE???

Here was me wating to live there cos it was saner and less dogmatic than the UK. Maybe I was very mistaken!!

Could have sworn there had been a World Cup in Europe fairly recently, who paid for that?

**James Deuce** · 17th February 2008, 12:37

Originally Posted by Usarka

It's not making it advert free, its removing anything that doesnt belong to an official sponsor.

This is a ridiculous law.....Eg, if a car maker sponsors the cup then residents in the "clean zone" may be forced to park their holdens out of site.......

Having a beer on the balcony? No youre not, not unless its a heineken.....

Absolutely. Freedom of choice removed. Imagine working for TelstraClear and accidentally wearing a Ferrari T-Shirt to work, just across from the Stadium. "Sorry boss I can't fix that problem because I'm in jail."

Grub, I know what you are saying, but the Bill of Rights isn't worth the paper it was printed on and hasn't been since most of the "Western" world decided they weren't "safe" from "terrorism" anymore.

**Okey Dokey** · 17th February 2008, 12:54

There really seems to be no end to invasive legislation here in NZ! The government just makes law after law after law, most of which remove personal privacy as well as individual responsibility.

Shades of "Homeland Security" or whatever the knee-jerk legislation in the USA was called, I'd say.

**Ocean1** · 17th February 2008, 13:00

Originally Posted by Jim2

Absolutely. Freedom of choice removed.

It wasn't just removed.

It was sold.

The major sponsors insisted on "clean stadiums" (fuck "stadia" it's way too clever), a condition the NZRFU couldn't supply even withing the grounds.

The only bleating I heard when the Gubmint announced they would underwright this one was from angry tax payers who don't like rugby, eve though the event would be profitable at a national level.

I heard not a jot, at the time from the freedom-of-speach or any other "rights" lobbyists, was it not obvious what, in fact, was on the table?

Legislation already existed to handle overt ambush adveretising, the guys with the purse strings just (rightly) felt that litigation after-the-fact wasn't going to stop it.

What do you suppose caused the flurry of activity culminating in the grand Auck waterfront staduim proposal? Votes. This place will remain a circus until we define what is and is not for sale at election time.