Imagine coming home to this on your lawn: it’s 1000 knives! No this isn’t something from the “only in America” files it is Bob McCoskrie’s front lawn covered in knives, complete with threatening note related to Bob’s political activities! How did they get his address? Compliments of the Electoral Finance Act; law abiding critics of […]
Entries Tagged as 'Jurisprudence'
Electoral Finance Act Threatens Privacy and Family Home
October 7th, 2008 10 Comments
Tags: Bad Policy · Bob McCoskrie · Elections · Electoral Finance Act · Freedom of Speech · Personal Abuse
Labour Erodes More Human Rights: The Criminal Procedure Bill
June 20th, 2008 4 Comments
I was absolutely horrified to wake up this morning to hear that Parliament had passed the Criminal Procedure Bill last night. While there were some good things in the Bill (as there usually are) such as the district courts being able to hear P cases, I am most appalled at the attack on double jeopardy; […]
Tags: Bad Policy · Double Jeopardy · Due Process · Labour Party
Home Education
June 18th, 2008 Comments Off on Home Education
Recent reports of parents being jailed for home schooling their children in Germany have made me think how greatful I am for our government (a rather rare moment). Six years ago we removed our children from school and began home educating them. We did this because at the time our eldest son who has Aspergers […]
Tags: Aspergers Syndrome · Home Education · Parental Rights
When Trust is Destroyed
November 23rd, 2007 4 Comments
In the last 24 hours I have been following the debate over the father convicted for assaulting his son. Predictably I have heard differing views from many people whose sense I respect. On the one hand I have heard that he was only prosecuted for delivering three smacks. On the other I have heard that […]
Tags: Bad Policy · Child Abuse · Due Process · s59 · Smacking
What we can learn from the police raids
October 19th, 2007 3 Comments
The recent raids on various anarchist, environmentalist and Maori sovereignty activists of this week have thrown up some issues which its worth reflecting on. The police allege that several activists up and down the country were involved in some kind of armed insurgency against the government. (Given the far left ideology these people hold this […]
Tags: Due Process
That Is Soooo Unfair
September 13th, 2007 1 Comment
Frequently when my six year old son tries to take something from his siblings, something that belongs to them and he has not asked for, he attempts to justify his actions with the phrase “but I want it” said in an annoying whiny, loud, self-pitying tone. An important part of moral education is to teach […]
Tags: Moral Discourse · Personal Responsibility · Role of the State · Statist Mindset
A common objection to belief in the God of the Bible is that a good, kind, and loving deity would never command the wholesale slaughter of nations. In the tradition of his popular Is God a Moral Monster?, Paul Copan teams up with Matthew Flannagan to tackle some of the most confusing and uncomfortable passages of Scripture. Together they help the Christian and nonbeliever alike understand the biblical, theological, philosophical, and ethical implications of Old Testament warfare passages.
