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.