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

[Grahameeboy]

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!!

Don't worry about it. This kinda of stuff has just been invisible for years but NZ projects this 'relaxed' image which is not quite true.

But like many things that get raised as silly, they don't really affect most people so can be ignored.

[Ocean1]

How you going to do that Ocean1? What's for sale at election time is the same old shit from the same old parties... You can pick party 1 or party 2 (with some largely meaningless options around the edges with respect to minor party support) but they're both fecking useless and will cause similar issues, just slightly shaded by their prevailing ideologies...

Both of them voted in favour of this particular piece of shit legislation, f'rinstance. Seems only the Greens opposed it. (Even then I'm not sure of their motivation, from reading Keith Locke's speech at the third reading).

And you'll vote for one of them again?

Because you can't find an option that promotes less government?

Look again.

If anyone objects don't watch the cup and boycott the product. That's what I do. Savesgoing on a diet and a great way to save money.

Skyryder

Yes.

Would be really cool if we had the insight and constitudinal fortitude to decline to buy the "product" en mass though. "No thanks, we don't want professional sport at that price, we'll stick to amateur provincial stuff. Good luck with the cup thing though, I'm sure you'll manage just fine without us."

[Swoop]

*makes mental note* "Must not have advertising on the aircraft when it is used to flower bomb the stupid pointy-ball-game".

[roadracingoldfart]

Ok so who really gives a toss about the RUGBY anyhow ????

What a waste of time, resource's and money.

Moan by never going to it a release these guys to do a real days work out and about where they should be. Not babysitting a bunch of half pissed rugby fanatics.

Ok ill now.

[Hitcher]

One wonders what Westpac Stadium and AMI Stadium will be called for the duration of the World Cup. And who's going to tell the publicans in a 5km radius of the Cup venues that they can only serve Heineken?

[rainman]

And you'll vote for one of them again?

Because you can't find an option that promotes less government?

Look again.

After the next election, there will either be a Labour coalition or a National coalition, or Labour will have screwed things up so badly that National can govern alone. Who the specific coalition parties are obviously involves much discussion about rolling over and playing dead again, and baubles, or whatever, but NZF, Greens, Maori, Act, Alliance, Progressives are the likely candidates. The Libz, ALCP, DDP, Republicans and assorted other fringe parties aren't likely.

So, either you candidate vote for someone you think will win, (or against someone you want to lose), and party vote for a minor party to ensure what little balance can be achieved, or you waste your vote to a greater or lesser degree.

Anyone who believes otherwise is deluded.

[Skyryder]

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 .

Yep with T shirt with monster boobs. Actually you will probly find that such a slogan would not be in breach of the act as it expresses and opion and not a product.

No what you need is a bottle shaped Heinken Dildo with a T shirt. SUCK ON THIS. Plenty of Photoshop types on here run a competition and use the best one................Good luck


skyryder

[Ocean1]

After the next election

Sad ain't it?

God forbid we vote for what we want.

[Coyote]

The government helping business?


What?


Surely not...

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 .

I'm keen. Here's some photos that'd be good for the shirts

[Skyryder]

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

This has nothing to do with property rights. The issue is the so called 'clean zone.' Does the Government or local body councils have the right to declare an area of the public domain an exclusive 'promotional zone' for the use of 'official sponsors?' That is what the clean zone is an area of the public domain that includes visibility (air space) both of private and public land for the purpose of advertising or promotional activities. It's an interesting question that suggests that business that are in the clean zone may have to remove their signage or be in breach of the law. Somehow I think any business with a permanent address within the zone would be excluded.


Skyryder

[Bikernereid]

People start boycotting sports events or stop buying official sponsor products at said events. If everyone just took their own non-lablled food and drink and stoppped buying Mc D (evil fookers anyway) or whoevers stuff then it would soon hit thier pockets.

Hit them where it hurts!!