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Joined: Nov 16, 2005 Posts: 443 Location: New Zealand
Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2008 3:13 pm
steveoh wrote:
Bold type is what was edited.
Dear sir,
Friday afternoon, Marion Wearing was reported by radio National as saying: "All parties will not want the pedicoat raised too high around the issue of political donations. I myself know and have heard scuttle-bug, on all the parties." This was said in relation to what's farce-ly becoming a political fiasco.
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The Press 01/09/08
Was that Marilyn Waring? She probably wouldn't mind at all seeing a petticoat being raised too high. It's scuttle-butt. Can you find someone handy to proof read your stuff before it is sent out for publication?
Joined: Feb 19, 2004 Posts: 1346 Location: Nelson area
Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2008 9:07 am
You are so right Paul it is scuttlebutt, not scuttlebug I put that in to see who'd be jumping on the grammar/spelling bandwagon.
. scuttlebug
verb: - the act of placing or attempting to place one's testicles inside the anus or vagina of a female sex partner.
Which is different meaning than "scuttlebutt" but its hard to tell with politicians don't you think.
Dear sir,
On Friday afternoon, Marilyn Waring was reported by radio National as saying: "All parties will not want the petticoat raised too high around the issue of political donations. I myself know and have heard scuttlebutt on all the parties." This was said in relation to what's farcically becoming a political fiasco.
What has our political landscape come to? Is it time to seriously look at State-funded "only" election campaigns, when all parties that have been registered, and contested four consecutive elections, receive equal funding?
I personally would like to see Aotearoa Legalise Cannabis Party have the same amount of funding as Labour, to get its message heard by all New Zealanders. I think we would have to be living in the land of "La La" to believe that New Zealand First is the only guilty party.
I say want something done? Vote for it. Because being allowed to "pay for it" makes the process unfair.
We all have one vote, and wealth should not be not a privilege. Doesn't a democratic country needs to be democratic in it's process, not manipulated?
Steven Wilkinson
Nelson Mail 04/09/08 _________________ Regulation will set cannabis free
Freedom's just a TICK away - VOTE Aotearoa Legalise Cannabis Party 2008 then everyone's a winner
Contact me: steven@alcp.org.nz Party website http://www.alcp.org.nz
Joined: Feb 19, 2004 Posts: 1346 Location: Nelson area
Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2008 3:41 pm
Dear sir,
Helen Clark said of New Zealand First; "They are a small party, with a rather amateurish organisation."
I find it hard to believe that a party that has been part of the governing force for the past few terms relies on volunteering senior-citizens and work-experience students. Just as hard to believe that New Zealand First is alone in this "oversight" in the reporting of finical donations.
If I become the representative for West Coast/Tasman, I promise to push for an audit of all parties' donations. Parties receiving "hidden" donations does not sound too democratic.
Being a small country with a small economy, we need a political process that will protect the rights of the people of New Zealand, not sell us off to the biggest donator.
We should be voting in people to govern on our behalf, disallowing foreign interests whose gaze is fixed only on the market force, lubricating their way with cash.
Helen Clark has promoted state-funded elections. Will she make that a promise if her party is re-elected?
If we continue with this obscenity where money makes favour, then New Zealand will become not a country, but a market. Free for the picking. Ignore the poor.
Steven Wilkinson
Aotearoa Legalise cannabis Party
Takaka
nelson Mail 18/09/08 _________________ Regulation will set cannabis free
Freedom's just a TICK away - VOTE Aotearoa Legalise Cannabis Party 2008 then everyone's a winner
Contact me: steven@alcp.org.nz Party website http://www.alcp.org.nz
Joined: Feb 19, 2004 Posts: 1346 Location: Nelson area
Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2008 10:46 pm
Dear sir,
The headline "Dead inmate's treatment 'barbaric'" is the understatement of the year. The barbaric behaviour began long before Mr Cleary's inexcusable death.
Abraham Lincon said "Prohibition goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a mans appetite by legislation and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes." If a guy dead for more than 150 years can see the failings of prohibition, what's our excuse for not trying to end this abhorrent law?
Drugs in society need to be managed. Prohibition isn't managing anything, except the gangs bottom line.
Regulation will better protect young people and people at risk, and stop organised crime from profiteering from cannabis.
Stephen Cleary was a man who shouldn't have been in jail. So where does the barbaric act start? An educated person would have to admit, prohibition is a barbaric way in dealing with a basically benign drug.
This election, we have the power to ensure that in the future, there are no more Stephen Clearys. The law should not be killing people in the name of protecting them. We must ask, protecting us from what? Show us the facts or change the law.
Steven Wilkinson
Nelson Mail 8/10/08 _________________ Regulation will set cannabis free
Freedom's just a TICK away - VOTE Aotearoa Legalise Cannabis Party 2008 then everyone's a winner
Contact me: steven@alcp.org.nz Party website http://www.alcp.org.nz
Joined: Dec 01, 2003 Posts: 3082 Location: Christchurch, NZ
Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2008 8:56 am
Darn good Steven, I'm glad they published it. There was a longish article about Mr Cleary in The Press recently, his coroners report I think. I haven't been able to sit and type it up (muscle strain in back has reoccurred, DAMMIT, this is what I look like sometimes: )
Basically from memory the report said major factors in his death were ; unheated and cramped condition in Nelson police cells & cramped in van to Chch, plus what sounds like an utterly useless prison nurse.
Joined: Feb 19, 2004 Posts: 1346 Location: Nelson area
Posted: Fri Oct 17, 2008 4:26 pm
GIVE US THE WHOLE PLANT
cool heading!
Dear sir,
The Aotearoa Legalise Cannabis Party applauds the Governments move to allow Satevix to be used in this country. But with only three applicants being accepted, this smells not of compassion but rather a political manoeuvre to regain the support cannabis law reform has gained in the last couple of years.
Once people understand the concept of regulating rather than using prohibition as the way to control cannabis in society, they then see through the thin veil of lies. Sativex is a relatively expensive way to deliver T.H.C. There are much cheaper ways to do that job without having to revert to smoking.
Sativex is the result of the pharmaceutical industry trying to control natural medicines.
T.H.C. is one of over 60 chemicals in cannabis that have medicinal potential, Sativex may be good for some, but the whole plant would be cheaper and better.
The Government's move is a country mile away from dealing with the real problem, the problem that's doing the harm: prohibition.
They will see this election that Aotearoa Legalise Cannabis Party will receive more votes this than ever before, because people are sick of the lies, the inaction, and the hypocrisy of it all. Without fear we vote.
Steven Wilkinson
ALCP candidate for West Coast/Tasman
Nelson Mail 17/10/08 _________________ Regulation will set cannabis free
Freedom's just a TICK away - VOTE Aotearoa Legalise Cannabis Party 2008 then everyone's a winner
Contact me: steven@alcp.org.nz Party website http://www.alcp.org.nz
It might be worth us finding out the name of the (sub-editor?) who gave your letter that title... we might have an ally in the media... _________________ This is our year - TICK THE LEAF: www.alcp.org.nz
Joined: Feb 19, 2004 Posts: 1346 Location: Nelson area
Posted: Wed Nov 05, 2008 2:43 pm
Another letter not cannabis related but one of my non-cannabis polices
BASIC NECCESSITY
Dear sir,
I agree totally with Ian Marshall (Mailbox 01/11). I find it ludicrous that companies that supply our core infrastructures are allowed to make us pay through the nose for what is a basic necessity. That is why, if I am elected as the West Coast-Tasman representative in Parliament, my promise to the electorate is that I will put forward a bill that will force power suppliers to buy power generated by domestic customers at the same price that power is sold by the supplier. Through interest-free loans customers can purchase solar-voltaic panels and an inverter capable of generating power into the grid. While at work your power meter will be registering a credit amount, come home, turn on the lights, cook tea and your meter will turn the other way, registering a debit. At the end of the month if you have generated more power than you have used then you'll receive a credit.
This bill will put money back into the pockets of all New Zealanders. If the power companies don't like it, well tough, go sell power in India or China, this is our country and we shouldn't be sent to the poor house for a basic necessity.
Steven Wilkinson
Nelson Mail 05/11/08 _________________ Regulation will set cannabis free
Freedom's just a TICK away - VOTE Aotearoa Legalise Cannabis Party 2008 then everyone's a winner
Contact me: steven@alcp.org.nz Party website http://www.alcp.org.nz
Joined: May 05, 2008 Posts: 24 Location: Between cars
Posted: Wed Nov 05, 2008 3:36 pm
Steve, reading your letters shows what sort of person you are and that you make a stand where it counts. Thank you for the time you spend writing such wonderful pieces of information.
People like you are needed to run this country, not some 50million to his head air bag or some nasty witch/wizard (whichever way you look at it).
Letter to OUSA after 4.20 bust Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2008 7:54 am
Letter of Solidarity from Auckland University NORML
Hey there,
Nick Spencer here, I am a long term member of NORML and was involved in AU NORML throughout the 90s while at Uni. I am just writing to offer my support to all your student members at Otago Uni, I am back at AU myself now!!
As far as I can see, the best option is to rally the students and lobby OUSA for support through their legal services. Get OUSA to get a legal opinion on whether the Undercover Ops Laws are being followed i.e. is it necessary to have 5 or more undercovers breaching the University students privacy to arrest students in a political lobby group for a minor crime.
If it was supply, I would consider the police might have a chance at justifying their level of resources i.e. a group of students selling Class A on campus.(such as heroin) Possession of a Class C drug for personal use is a minor crime and police should be focusing their 5 or more offices on serious violent crime and theft!! There has also been the issue of freedom of political expression at University. It is a place for the free exchanging of ideas, and that is why OUSA should make the police justify their actions in regards to student rights and freedom being trampled on!!
I have talked to the General Manager of AUSA early this year about police on AUSA property. He stated to me they have to still be invited in by AUSA, are there for serious crime only, and was assured they would not be arresting anyone for smoking a joint. AUSAs policy is to get police to know the geography of the Student Union Buildings for emergencys like gun rampages, but smoking a joint? I'd be tearing the ear out of David Do(real good guy..hard worker!!) the student pres if he decided to change this policy.
The problem lies with OU management inviting the undercovers onto campus. This is a serious breach of student's civil liberties and human rights, as is cannabis prohibition. OUSA should get straight on to them. I'm going to write an article for Craccum today if I haven't missed the deadline. Kia kaha, stand strong.
Above is an archived letter, obviously. Trying to track down the NZ Herald letter I wrote about Judge Gittos ruling on Chris Fowlies vase..it was "letter of the week"..good outcome.
I'll track it down in the next few weeks..peace out!!
Joined: Nov 16, 2005 Posts: 443 Location: New Zealand
Re: Letter to OUSA after 4.20 bust Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2008 8:21 am
5HTPot wrote:
Letter of Solidarity from Auckland University NORML
Hey there,
Nick Spencer here, I am a long term member of NORML and was involved in AU NORML throughout the 90s while at Uni. I am just writing to offer my support to all your student members at Otago Uni, I am back at AU myself now!!
As far as I can see, the best option is to rally the students and lobby OUSA for support through their legal services. Get OUSA to get a legal opinion on whether the Undercover Ops Laws are being followed i.e. is it necessary to have 5 or more undercovers breaching the University students privacy to arrest students in a political lobby group for a minor crime.
If it was supply, I would consider the police might have a chance at justifying their level of resources i.e. a group of students selling Class A on campus.(such as heroin) Possession of a Class C drug for personal use is a minor crime and police should be focusing their 5 or more offices on serious violent crime and theft!! There has also been the issue of freedom of political expression at University. It is a place for the free exchanging of ideas, and that is why OUSA should make the police justify their actions in regards to student rights and freedom being trampled on!!
I have talked to the General Manager of AUSA early this year about police on AUSA property. He stated to me they have to still be invited in by AUSA, are there for serious crime only, and was assured they would not be arresting anyone for smoking a joint. AUSAs policy is to get police to know the geography of the Student Union Buildings for emergencys like gun rampages, but smoking a joint? I'd be tearing the ear out of David Do(real good guy..hard worker!!) the student pres if he decided to change this policy.
The problem lies with OU management inviting the undercovers onto campus. This is a serious breach of student's civil liberties and human rights, as is cannabis prohibition. OUSA should get straight on to them. I'm going to write an article for Craccum today if I haven't missed the deadline. Kia kaha, stand strong.
Its on the OUSA NORML website, and the letter was sent after the 4.20 arrests of Abe etc at Otago University this year. I sent the letter to Abe and he asked if it was OK to put up on the website.
I'd check the Otago Uni NORML website under the letters section, if you wish to..
Letter Writing all the time.. Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2008 2:34 pm
I write a lot of letters to a lot of people advocating CLR..hope thats OK with you Paul!!
Combined with a $5 per week donation to NORML NZ from an Invalids Benefit, and recovering from 8 years of cancer treatment(which is why I'm lobbying for medpot), I think I pull my weight for NORML pretty well.
I'm discussing writing an article for MedPot for next issues NORML News..been to the Hemp Store today. Its a positive reaction in there, hope thats acceptable. Thats how i assist in CLR.
After 8 years of cancer treatment, you realise MedPot is an invaluable tool in your medical practioners armoury. So thats the story mate..cancer took me out for 8 years, and know I'm back to activism. I hope thats OK with you brother!!
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