WHAT I WANT
Since the demise of the scumbag many commentators have started listing what they think should be the future direction of New Zealand.
This is my (incomplete) list:
Government: A second level of representation in the House.
This second level should have one purpose, to review all legislation passed by Parliament and, if they vote so, delay that legislation until the next general election.
This group should be elected by nett tax-paying individual citizens only, it being those who supply the money needed to enact legislation.
Local Government: Councils MUST be made to address core services (roads, sewerage, water, general street cleaning and maintenance, parks (but not recreation) etc.) only. All other services (electricity, airports, ports, museums etc.) should be contracted out. Councils to be made to divest themselves of all assetts that fall outside the description of "core services" within ten years. Any council holding such assetts or investments are, in fact, thieving from their rate-payers in that that money should be used for core services before taxes (rates) are levied
Racism: Racism should be permitted as individual expression BUT no person performing any form of genuine racism should receive any taxpayer money or assett.
Denying part of your heritage or claiming only part of your lineage as your race (eg, a person with one caucasion, one black parent claiming they are black) should be added to the definition of racist for legal purposes.
Elections : Recall elections, national, electorate or local should be forced by a petition (vetted) of 15% of the electorate.
Law Enforcement: An immediate return to innocent-until-proven-guilty and the banning of any instant fine not agreed upon by the miscreant.
This should be accompanied by a policy of not prosecuting mistakes and genuine accidents. (NOTE: This should offset the extra court time needed with the abandonment of instant fines.)
Any question around whether a mistake, accident or a deliberate act to be decided, at the State's cost if found to be not deliberate, by a senior judge at the earliest possible convenience.
Law: All laws needing interpretation should be interpreted with the assistance of the writer of that law, that writer's interpretation to be paramount.
Any judge attempting to make law or comment on law should be imprisoned (general population of that prison only).
Traffic law and enforcement: All traffic laws to be based solely on safety and enforcement personnel to be instructed that driver stops to be made only for safety reasons. Prosecuters will need to prove a driver's actions were unsafe to others (or other's property) to proceed with prosecutions.
This measure must not prevent stops for crime prevention, criminal detection or arrest or for an enforcement officer to offer friendly advice on driver behaviour.
