Golly, Let’s Talk About Flags This Election. #Let'sNot.

Valerie chose to kill herself before the disease robbed her of all dignity. She wanted to take an overdose and die in her husband's arms.


But they discovered that the law forbade this. If he held his wife of 48 years while she lay dying he could go to prison for assisting suicide. So Valerie insisted that he let her do it alone. When he agreed, she said she'd do it the next day.


Joe Bennett, Press (29/1/14).

  

Stumbling out of work induced hibernation  to put one more post up before April.
 

A friend died 3 weeks ago, cancer, not nice circumstances, & no, there is not perfect pain relief with morphine, far from it. Another 1/2
— Mark Hubbard (@MarkHubbard33) January 29, 2014

 

@MarkHubbard33 ... friend currently dying, refusing treatment 4 her cancer. Imagine if an election was fought on important issues like (2/3)
— Mark Hubbard (@MarkHubbard33) January 29, 2014

@MarkHubbard33 ... #euthanasia & medicinal #cannabis, rather than banning FaceBook for not paying enough tax @MaryanStreetMP @DavidClarkNZ
— Mark Hubbard (@MarkHubbard33) January 29, 2014

If I’d had more characters that last tweet would’ve read ‘at the very least’ medicinal cannabis, given we’re also not grown up enough in this kindy of a country to discuss a civilised legalisation of same. No, we are children, so this election year let’s talk about changing flags and euthanising the economy, and with it our freedom, through the theft of taxation. Plus let’s not forget bribe birthing babies into dependency on the welfare state because our politicians, Left and Right, state theocrats all, are only capable anymore of emoting out legislation not thinking about consequences, hence, causes. And despite the cynical arrogance of the Left on Twitter asking if you would babysit a week for Labour’s new bribe of $60 per child, when you add this on top of Working for Families welfare for the middle class, it will indeed offer a viable income proposition for too many. Welfare begets welfare. I’ve not one skerrick of respect left anymore for the larceny and lolly scramble with my money that happens in the Fortress of Legislation at the hands of those wowsers who tax and tax and tax so they can run every aspect of my life. It’s certainly not what Charles Upham, VC and Bar, was fighting for; our lost legacy of liberty.

 

Forget the flags. If you’ve got a bit of time for the important matters of living, dying and basic freedoms we are denied by immoral busy-body monsters and cruel Christ fantasist mystics and their pathological cult of suffer little children, you won’t regret reading Joe Bennett’s wonderful, infuriating ‘my dear friend’s lonely death.’

 

Though if you want to know my contribution to the great flag debate:

 

A black flag with tax auditor & fascist salute would be apt as symbol of death of classical liberalism and the free society in New Zealand.
— Mark Hubbard (@MarkHubbard33) January 29, 2014

Oh, and as bad as is New Zealand MP David Clark's threat to ban FaceBook for not paying enough tax, they legislated a gagging law in England this week: it’s called a lobbying law, but Brits already know it was a gagging law as its first victims have been political parody accounts on Twitter.

Yesterday the government’s gagging law was passed by the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats – marking yet another nail in the coffin for freedom of speech in Britain.


And as if to celebrate the occasion, three parody accounts that were critical of coalition policies closed down on Twitter – at least one after complaints were made from government officials.

In this year’s election in New Zealand with the Libertarianz Party having deregistered, there is only the choice of Big Nanny State Leftists who support the tax surveillance state, or Big Nanny State Right wing conservatives who support the tax surveillance state. There is no choice between parties when all parties demand an individual is sacrificed to society, none that understand society only exists for individuals. With no choice to vote for a free, classical liberal, voluntary society, I will almost certainly not be voting in 2014.