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No Right Turn: Draconian And Barbaric
Wednesday, 5 January 2005, 12:02 am | No Right Turn
Though alternatively, it could be called a wishlist for the "hang 'em high" brigade. The policy includes abolishing distinctions between different classes of drugs; making drug dealers accomplices to the crimes of their customers; specialist drug courts ... More >>
Asset Forfeiture: The Dangers Of Settlements
Tuesday, 4 January 2005, 12:19 am | No Right Turn
In my previous post in this series I raised questions about the government's motives for introducing civil asset-forfeiture. An unhealthy emphasis on revenue led to settlements playing a key role in the system - despite the fact that this would likely reduce ... More >>
No Right Turn: 2004 - Our Year In Human Rights
Saturday, 1 January 2005, 1:31 pm | No Right Turn
With everyone and their dog doing retrospectives at the moment, I thought I'd add to the chorus - by doing one on the progress of human rights in our country over 2004. Unfortunately, the progress was almost all downhill. More >>
Asset forfeiture: "a means of revenue collection"
Friday, 31 December 2004, 3:49 pm | No Right Turn
As if the human rights concerns over the government's proposed asset forfeiture regime were not bad enough, there's also the fact that the government's own advisers do not think they will be effective More >>
No Right Turn: Asset Forfeiture
Thursday, 30 December 2004, 10:53 am | No Right Turn
Last month I ripped into Phil Goff (again) over his plans for a civil forfeiture regime which threatens to apply Ahmed Zaoui standards of evidence to those suspected (or even acquitted ) of criminal activity in order to seize their possessions. In ... More >>
No Right Turn: Danger For Labour?
Thursday, 23 December 2004, 10:28 am | No Right Turn
Writing in the Guardian, Tony Benn highlights six dangers for Labour which are progressively alienating its core supporters. He's writing about the British Labour Party of Tony Blair, but there is a similar trend at work here: in the struggle to hold the centre ... More >>
No Right Turn: Political Crimes
Thursday, 16 December 2004, 4:04 pm | No Right Turn
The man responsible for the axe attack against the Prime Minister's electorate office has been charged not just with criminal damage, but also with "seditious conspiracy" . For a taste of the dubiousness of this law, it was last used in 1914, to prosecute ... More >>
No Right Turn: A Victory For Us All
Thursday, 25 November 2004, 5:54 pm | No Right Turn
The Supreme Court judgement on Ahmed Zaoui's eligibility for bail again shows how the government is on the wrong side of civil liberties issues. The government's argument was essentially jurisdictional - that the relevant sections of the Immigration Act ... More >>
No Right Turn: Ahmed Zaoui Standards Of Evidence
Wednesday, 24 November 2004, 11:33 am | No Right Turn
Phil Goff has introduced his move in his struggle to pander to the "hang 'em high" brigade and be ever more vicious and vindictive towards criminals: a civil forfeiture regime . More >>
No Right Turn: Eleven Eleven
Friday, 12 November 2004, 11:15 am | No Right Turn
Today, 11 November, Armistice Day, we commemorate the end of the First World War , misnamed "the war to end all wars". More >>
No Right Turn: Reason To Be Suspicious
Monday, 1 November 2004, 12:26 am | No Right Turn
Many on the left are suspicious of the third way as providing semantic cover for a shift to the right, and after reading Anthony Giddens' latest article in the New Statesman , I can't blame them one bit. More >>
No Right Turn: Second-guessing the Reserve Bank
Friday, 29 October 2004, 6:11 pm | No Right Turn
The political kerfuffle surrounding the Reserve Bank's latest rate increase has reminded me of something I read earlier in the month, and which has been chewing at the back of my mind for the last few weeks. More >>
No Right Turn: First Thoughts On The Third Way
Friday, 15 October 2004, 12:08 am | No Right Turn
I've been reading a lot about the Third Way recently. For those of you who aren't familiar with the term, the Third Way is the name for the sort of nominally (but maybe not really) left-wing policies pursued in the UK or here. More >>
The Most Important Victory Yet For Ahmed Zaoui
Tuesday, 5 October 2004, 11:05 am | No Right Turn
Ahmed Zaoui has won another battle in the Court of Appeal , making it two-and-a-half out of three. But reading the full judgement , this may very well be the most important one of all. More >>
Iraq's Interim Says War In Iraq Is Defending NZ!
Monday, 27 September 2004, 12:26 am | No Right Turn
Iraq's Interim Prime Minister Thinks That The Occupation Of His Country Is Defending New Zealand. More >>
Savant Considers Liberal Internationalism
Monday, 27 September 2004, 12:08 am | No Right Turn
JustLeft has an excellent post on the growing ideological rigidity surrounding the war in Iraq, in which he identifies the "unspoken core of the debate" as two dichotomous worldviews: Should the West dominate the world, and seek to make ... More >>
No Right Turn: Tony Blair And Climate Change
Thursday, 16 September 2004, 11:42 am | No Right Turn
So, Tony Blair has given a major speech on climate change, and said that he is "shocked" by the scientific evidence. So am I. More >>
When Did NZ Start Supporting Torture?
Monday, 9 August 2004, 2:33 pm | No Right Turn
I've been generally supportive of the deployment of New Zealand army engineers to Iraq, on the basis that their primary task is rebuilding things rather than oppressing the locals, and they've never had to fire their weapons in anger . I've changed my ... More >>
No Right Turn: Tony Soprano Would Be Proud
Wednesday, 4 August 2004, 12:24 am | No Right Turn
So what's the difference between Maori Language Commission CEO Haami Piripi and the Labour Department executive forced to resign because she was a member of the Maori Party ? More >>
No Right Turn: Greens Damn Dams
Monday, 2 August 2004, 3:33 pm | No Right Turn
There was a minor kerfuffle last week in response to the release of the Ministry of Economic Development's report Identification of Potential Hydroelectric Resources . The Greens claimed that his meant that a dam was "coming to a river near you" ... More >>
