Shrinking democracy
Local body elections coming up and already the shenanigans
have started in Rotorua.
Council member and resident snowflake Tania Tapsell was ‘referenced’ as a Pied Piper by Reynold Macpherson, who is campaigning for mayor. Stevie Chadwick, the present mayor, and her cohorts see Macpherson as a real threat after she only scraped in against him last time around, and after a secret meeting of council they decided to take this to the police as hate speech.
After the horrific events in Christchurch it is becoming plain to see that hate speech is being used as a tool against anyone who has a different opinion than the Nanny State we are slowing being taken over by.
The only claims to fame Stevie and her minions have to campaign on in the coming elections are bringing race-based council to Rotorua after being told by locals they didn’t want it, and a green corridor running through the CBD that cost hundreds of thousands of dollars and was never used, now being torn up.
How corrupt are the race baiters going to get? Trying to hobble opponents with accusations of hate speech because they have no merits to stand on.
Get out and question the people who are running for your council, ask them what their motives are. We don’t want people pushing their separatist ideology or pinko socialist ideas down our throats.
Spend our money wisely keeping the roads clean and in repair, make sure the rubbish is picked up. This is not China, North Korea or Russia. Well, not yet anyway. REX ANDERSON
Lower Hutt Duck shooting season is mostly finished; it’s time to turn the guns on the UN. Global warming, a.k.a. climate change, is no longer a ploy by the anti-mining lobby, it’s a scam by the UN to justify its existence.
That seemed to be the claim made by two correspondents last week. There seems little purpose in continuing to debate the number of climate change angels that can dance on the head of a pin when there are hosts of other angels queuing to dance on that pin.
The foul-water angels have convinced us to urbanise so that our stormwater runoff can deposit lifeless silt in our harbours and bays. They urged us to industrialise, and to externalise the adverse effects by poisoning our rivers and seas. Intensifying our farming by increasing stocking rates and heavy use of artificial fertilisers would be good for our export balance sheet, don’t mind the eutrophied rural lakes and rivers.
Unfortunately some renegade farmers have found destocking and sensible oldfashioned crop rotation is giving them healthier pastures and an easier lifestyle, without much of a dent in their personal nett income.
In 1957 Linus Pauling conjectured that a 25-micron layer of polythene [polyethylene] over the surface of the Earth would cause all life to cease within 30 days. At that time we had already made enough polythene for a layer three times thicker than fatal. But over the last 60 years the plastic angels have made sure that polythene is in small enough pieces to blow in the wind and wash out to sea. Or even smaller to be easy for fish and fowl to eat.
The plastic angels have been to the bottom of the deepest ocean, the Mariana Trench, to tidy up the lolly wrappers into neat piles. They buried in the sands of Cocos (Keeling) Island (population 600) 300,000 toothbrushes and 900,000 shoes. One may ponder on their motive for introducing the manmade phthalate molecule into the yolks of Arctic seabirds.
The extinction angels observe our transgressions and remove more species from the biosphere. At first it was small, unnoticeable creatures. Now their attention is on cuter, cuddlier species. Of particular concern should be the vanishing of 30 per cent of pollinating birds and insects in the past century. These will be essential if we heed the call for a plant-based diet to save the planet.
I think I can feel Gaia preparing to cough. PETER KERR
Okaihau