“Our most basic freedoms are threatened by an outrageous attempt to shut down peaceful activist magazine NORML News,” declares Libertarianz Drugs Spokesman Luke Howison. Three issues of the popular cannabis activism magazine NORML News have been submitted to the Office of Film & Literature Classification for ‘classification’ – which is potentially a precursor for a [...]

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On Saturday April 24th 2010, Phil and I went along to the Wellington protest against the Search and Surveillance Bill, which proposes: Sweeping powers to spy, bug conversations and hack into private computers could be given to a web of state agencies as diverse as Inland Revenue and the Meat Board. The Human Rights Commission [...]

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John Key’s official holiday in Niue has so far included dancing, feasts and drinking kava. When Michael Jones described Noni juice as leaving ‘a bad taste, despite being good for you’, Key apparently said this was ‘A bit like raising taxes,’ according to The Dominion Post. Hopefully that was just the kava talking, John. Raising [...]

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The Dominion Post reports this morning that a coastal access road near Cape Kidnappers has been half-destroyed by coastal erosion. The astounding thing is, nature didn’t do this – the RMA did. Nearby land-owners identified the problem three years ago and tried to protect the road by building a barrier, at a cost of $10,000. [...]

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Cannabis law reform campaigner and Cannabus driver Dakta Green has been arrested and charged twice for minor cannabis offending and breaking bail conditions. Libertarianz notes with alarm that these arrests coincided with the Aotearoa Legalise Cannabis Party’s announcement that Dakta Green would be standing as their candidate in the Mt Albert by-election. Libertarianz supports the [...]

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Wellington Photographer John Lake is opening a new photo exhibition called The Candidate, featuring photographs of many Wellington candidates taken during the 2008 election. Phil and I, and fellow Libz candidate Bernard Darnton, are among the people pictured. Exhibition Details: Start Time: Thursday, March 5, 2009 at 5:30pmEnd Time: Friday, March 27, 2009 at 7:00pmLocation: [...]

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Tumeke breathlessly asks: and what was the article that John Key wrote in the far, far, far right Libertarianz magazine just after he came to Parliament that was only revealed for the first time today on Eye to Eye? Phil and I are proud to answer with John Key’s article Creeping Communism, available online for [...]

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Clearly, freedom-loving New Zealanders will party vote Libertarianz on Saturday (Bernard Darnton provides a great explanation why). But in some areas, your electorate vote will have to go to one of the other parties. To assist you in your decision, Phil and I would like to point freedom-loving voters to a great candidates voting guide [...]

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Here’s a few pictures from my time on the campaign trail with the Libertarianz today … Rongotai Candidate Mitch Lees looking slick before a candidates meeting in Hataitai. A rival billboard totally cut to pieces in Petone. Phil Howison‘s billboard in Petone: knocked over, but A-OK. Absolute carnage in a Wadestown billboard area. Bernard Darnton‘s [...]

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I issued two extremely important Libz press releases this afternoon.  They form a two-pronged plan to combat the upcoming recession and ensure that such a dramatic economic downfall can never threaten New Zealand again. You can read them on Scoop: Finally: A Credible Economic Plan Economic Correction Needs Political Correction And on the Libertarianz website: [...]

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