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The World Celebrates Capitalism!
Thursday, 28 November 2002, 11:35 am | Libertarianz Party
From Colorado Springs To Caracas - From Anchorage To Alaska - We're Cheering Human Creativity! More >>
Who’s to Blame for Witchdoctors and Taniwhas?
Wednesday, 27 November 2002, 1:32 pm | Libertarianz Party
“The Welcome Bay landowners who have had their rights usurped at the hands of tribal witch-doctors and worthless bureaucrats are deservedly angered,” says Libertarianz Leader Russell Watkins, who says that their anger should not just be directed at ... More >>
Put Down the Old Dog
Wednesday, 27 November 2002, 12:13 am | Libertarianz Party
"Julie Pettett wants to add a dose of fleas to an education system that is already a dog," said a Libertarianz spokesman today. Speaking in response to a proposal put forward by the President of the Aotearoa Tertiary Students Association (ATSA) for ... More >>
Brash Not Brash Enough!
Monday, 25 November 2002, 2:54 pm | Libertarianz Party
Libertarianz Employment Deregulation Spokesman Warwick Malone cautiously congratulated Don Brash today for the former Reserve Bank Governor’s conclusions that so-called 'equal pay for equal work’ will be the next barrier to growth. More >>
Privilege? Who Needs Privilege?
Thursday, 14 November 2002, 4:21 pm | Libertarianz Party
Responding to Pete Hodgson's challenge to Deborah Coddington to repeat her accusations of Industry New Zealand cronyism outside the house, Libertarianz leader Russell Watkins says, "It doesn't take much courage to call benefiaries of taxpayer loot crony scum! ... More >>
Tawdry Peters 'without brains or breeding'
Monday, 11 November 2002, 6:10 pm | Libertarianz Party
Responding to the weekend’s immigrant-baiting by headline-hogger Winston Peters, Libertarianz spokesman Peter Cresswell described Winston Peters as "Enoch Powell, with neither the brains nor the breeding - and without any sense of regret." More >>
Turning Over the ACT Party Credentials
Monday, 11 November 2002, 4:27 pm | Libertarianz Party
"A tongue with two forks," is how Libertarianz leader Rusell Watkins descibe’s Richard Prebble, following The Preb’s weekend speech to the ACT conference in Wellington. More >>
Libz Back Turia Declaration of Independence Call
Thursday, 7 November 2002, 10:54 am | Libertarianz Party
"Finally Tariana Turia has got something right"! exclaimed Libertarianz Leader Russell Watkins. "She is absolutely right," he says agreeing with Turia, "the Government has no right to tell Maori how they should cope with family violence, health and ... More >>
Police Squander Resources Charging Man
Thursday, 7 November 2002, 10:00 am | Libertarianz Party
"Police frequently complain they have insufficient resources to fight crime," notes Libertarianz Leader Russell Watkins. "Yet, with their decision to charge Northland farmer Paul McIntyre with a firearms offence, the Police are showing New Zealanders ... More >>
Business NZ Takes 'Neville Chamberlain Approach'
Thursday, 7 November 2002, 9:59 am | Libertarianz Party
"Business New Zealand's Simon Carlaw is spot-on in saying that private early childhood centres have been unfairly treated in a research paper released by the New Zealand Council for Educational Research. However, once again Businesss New Zealand is too ... More >>
Libz Support Labour on Tariffs!
Tuesday, 5 November 2002, 6:17 pm | Libertarianz Party
The government move to remove tariffs on clothing, textiles and footwear has been met with support from Libertarianz Leader Russell Watkins. He says it is something to celebrate that, after 70 years of denying it, the old-school Marxists of the Labour ... More >>
Voodoo Doodoo Stops Mooloo Highway
Monday, 4 November 2002, 2:27 pm | Libertarianz Party
"The halt to work on State Highway 1 between Mercer and Long Swamp because, quote "a Taniwha is causing the road to sink" is plainly idiotic", said Libertarianz Leader Russel Watkins, wiping tears of laughter from his eyes. More >>
Northland Farmer ‘Right’ to Defend Himself
Thursday, 24 October 2002, 3:52 pm | Libertarianz Party
Act MP Stephen Franks' defence of Northland farmer Paul McIntyre drew cautious support from Libertarianz Leader Russell Watkins, who said today he is "encouraged to see ACT beginning to understand what it means to advocate the rights of the individual, ... More >>
Who’s Life Is It Anyway
Friday, 18 October 2002, 2:06 pm | Libertarianz Party
“The true wishes of university students will never be represented while we have a system where decisions are made by a select few,” said Libertarianz Education Deregulation Spokesman Peter Osborne today. This was in response to a proposed National Party ... More >>
‘Overripe’ Political Posturing on Childbirth
Wednesday, 16 October 2002, 3:17 pm | Libertarianz Party
"I notice that nobody politically has noticed that porn star ‘Nikki’ has any rights in relation to her body being filmed during childbirth, and it’s about time somebody looked objectively at what is going on," announced Libertarianz Leader Russell Watkins ... More >>
Engineering an Underclass
Monday, 7 October 2002, 1:06 pm | Libertarianz Party
New Libertarianz Deputy Peter Osborne says that a forthcoming Social Policy Conference, welcomed by Steve Maharey, "will further advance Labour's quest to maintain an underclass - and to do it without the public realising that they are being socially ... More >>
Maxim STILL Means Maximum Government
Thursday, 3 October 2002, 3:19 pm | Libertarianz Party
Replying to a Maxim Institute attack on his party for supporting the decriminalisation of prostitution unrepentant Libertarianz leader Russell Watkins says that "the Very Reverend Paul McMahon is right: my calling Maxim 'Marxist' was a misrepresentation. ... More >>
Whatever Happened to 'Caveat Emptor'?
Thursday, 3 October 2002, 12:29 am | Libertarianz Party
"Owners of leaky homes identify responsibility for their predicament about as well as they identify houses to invest it," says Andrew Bates, a spokesman for the Libertarianz Party. "I have any amount of sympathy for people who have found ... More >>
MAXIM means MAXIMum Government?
Thursday, 26 September 2002, 1:59 pm | Libertarianz Party
"A cross between Marx and the Moral Majority," is how Libertarianz Party leader Russell Watkins described a submission on prostitution by Jenny Horst of the Maxim Institute. "It was an Orwellian nightmare of twisted words." Horst demanded that in a 'free ... More >>
Prostitution - where's the crime?
Thursday, 26 September 2002, 1:51 pm | Libertarianz Party
"The Maxim Institute and the Society for the Promotion of Community Standards (or, one might suggest, of 'theocracising sex') should both give up trying to prohibit adults engaging in voluntary transactions for sex, and ask themselves who benefits ... More >>
