Originally Posted by
davereid
I didn't see the bit about being in convoy and excessive noise before.
I guess I'm just old enough to have watched NZ (and more so the UK and AUS), quietly morph from countries where its citizens had rights to countries where they don't.
Once upon a time there was a presumption of innocence, and an important principle that you don't get punished unless you are proven in court to have committed a crime.
We dumped that one with earlier boy racer legislation. Now you lose your licence and car if the policeman alleges you lost traction. No mucking around with the courts there !
In the UK you no longer have the right to remain silent, and a majority verdict in a trial will do !
I completely sympathise with the poor old residents of Christchurch, who quiet correctly have had enough. And I can't offer a better solution.
But a law like this could affect bikers on a group run, it could affect a group of motor-caravanners looking for a park, or a poker run car rally etc etc etc.
When we approve it by saying "yes we fit the definition sometimes, but they aren't looking for us, we are only on a poker run..." we have let our guard down, and may one day come to regret it.
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