- The Government has outlined plans to broaden citizen’s arrest powers, following feedback from a Ministerial Advisory Group for Victims of RetailCrime.
- The aim is to expand and clarify the powers, which would deter retail crimebecause shop workers would be less hesitant about what they could do and how much force they could use.
- Ministry of Justice officials questioned any deterrent effect or public safety benefit, and raised concerns about escalating violence.
Ummmm, did Paul Goldsmith actually talk to anyone OTHER THAN the migrant exploitative tobacco guild when he decided to empower every redneck fuckwit with the power to play cop?
Citizen’s arrests: Retail group says ‘people will get hurt or killed’
Police Association slams beefed-up citizen arrest powers
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Citizen’s arrest powers will put workers in harm’s way
…and then there is Brian Tamaki’s enthusiasm to use the law to arrest drag queens reading stories…
Brian Tamaki’s enthusiasm among many concerns with new citizen’s arrest law
Concerns ranging from Bill of Rights protections to potential harm have been raised over new citizen’s arrest laws, for which Destiny Church leader Brian Tamaki has expressed enthusiasm.
..and Stephen Franks threatening legal action against anyone offering gender treatment…
Wellington law firm defends letter warning gender care providers
A Wellington law firm is defiant in the face of complaints to police and the Law Society over a letter sent to practitioners of gender-affirming care earlier this month.
Franks Ogilvie director Stephen Franks said the letter was sent out to a list of more than 20 practices supplied to his firm by group Inflection Point NZ.
Earlier in the week he told RNZ the letter was “a warning” to practices that they may be held liable for future litigation if they were found to be lax in their processes when offering gender-related medical treatment.
Franks said yesterday he was unconcerned about the complaints made against the letter.
…look.
We all appreciate the position poor old Goldie has been placed in right?
The migrant exploitative tobacco guild poured tens of thousands into promoting this Government and they want pay back!
Here’s Big Tobacco stoking Dairy crime fear while ignoring that it’s their addictive product fuelling that Dairy crime…
The ‘corner dairy campaign’ quietly backed by big tobacco
A campaign to “save our stores” from a smokefree initiative looks like a grassroots effort. The truth is more complicated.
Since 1 August, ads have started showing up on Facebook urging people to support a petition to “save our stores”.
The ads, which lead to a website called Save Our Stores, ask users to sign a petition to repeal the Smokefree 2025 Act. The act includes a measure to reduce the number of stores selling full strength tobacco from 6000 nationwide to 600 by July 2024.
At first glance, the campaign appears to be an initiative from dairy owners. Under a headline of “who we are” on the website’s “about us” page, a dairy owner said to be from Lower Hutt is featured: “My name is Bhavesh. I’m a dairy owner in Lower Hutt. I’ve been serving customers for 17 years.”
However, smaller type at the bottom of the page says the website is “proudly supported” by tobacco companies BAT (British American Tobacco) New Zealand and Imperial Brands. The website’s privacy policy says the website is “provided” by the tobacco companies.
The website encourages dairy owners to get involved by printing out posters to display in their stores. These include messages in bold type warning: “This dairy is under threat of closure” with a QR code which leads to the website.
LOOK. AT. THE. POSTERS. AND. TELL. ME. THEY. ARE. NOT. POLITICAL!
The Tobacco Industry via the migrant exploitative tobacco guild want something in return (other than the hundreds of millions in subsidies that Casey Costello has gotten them) and so Goldie, in return gave the migrant exploitative tobacco guild a bullshit virtue signal to empower vigilante Shop owners with new citizens arrest powers.
The problem for Goldie however is that those rednecks who are turned on by performing citizens arrests don’t read the fine print (let’s be honest, rednecks don’t read at all), and none of the people excited by this will comprehend that it has to be for crimes punishable by 3 years in prison and what is being stolen has to be more than $1000.
This will lead to fuckwits stepping in to big balls a situation that will spiral into violence.
We should not be empowering ill trained bigots to start touching people under the false impression that they are the fucking law!
Normally National’s vacant virtue signals are all they need to do to pay donors off, but in this case they have empowered people like Destiny Church to be the new Sheriffs.
Such a bad faith policy that will lead to more violence in society.
Well played Goldie, well played.
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