by Russel Norman
And now National and Act have voted down Maryan Streets bill to ban the import of products made from slave labour. Do these people have any bottom line?
Published in Environment & Resource Management by Russel Norman on Wed, July 29th, 2009
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on the trolls and those who are unable to keep on topic
Perhaps they are planing to make inmates in our prisons earn their keep?
tch! tch! tch!
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this is (almost) becoming a black comedy..
..the masks are well and truely off..
..and f*ck..!
..two and a half years still to go..
phil(whoar.co.nz)
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um..!..how about a general thread..?..frog..?
..it’s been awhile between drinks..
..eh..?
phil(whoar.co.nz)
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phool, is the huge cash payouts to select Maori Treaty of Waitangi kiwis a “black comedy”? Hehe bro got another billion John Boy Wee.
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d4j..!..you’re back..!
..where have you been..?
..did you do a lag..?
did you hear the good news about whoar..?
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how cool is that..?
phil(whoar.co.nz)
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“All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing”. national helped evil triumph tonight, and they should hang their heads in shame.
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i/s; fact is, they don’t know what they’re doing – their heads are held in direct proportion to their Bank Balances – no more, no less.
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jh; Yes we’ll have slavery here – and a much bigger jail population as a workforce too – is that a reason to celebrate somehow?
A shift to the 17th century.
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Did Labour support it?
It seems a bit hypocritical if they did, considering how keen they were to get us into trade agreements with China and Myanmar.
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“It seems a bit hypocritical if they did, considering how keen they were to get us into trade agreements with China and Myanmar.”
Are you objecting to people’s right to buy products produced by forced labour overseas? How xenophobic!
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jh; Yes we’ll have slavery here – and a much bigger jail population as a workforce too – is that a reason to celebrate somehow?
A shift to the 17th century.
but some people like prison Mark they go in for a “catch up” so maybe they will stop committing crime when prison starts to act as a deterrent
http://www.radionz.co.nz/audio/national/ideas/2009/05/ideas
[listen from 18:00].
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I remember back in the late eighties, importation of South African agricultural products were banned on the basis that we had signed up to some international agreement regarding slavery and prison labour. Perhaps our signature on an agreement actually meant something in those days, perhaps the idea that trade was a sacred good above all ethical considerations wasn’t so established, or maybe it was just that the lobby was stronger.
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# Sam Buchanan Says:
July 31st, 2009 at 10:39 am
> Perhaps our signature on an agreement actually meant something in those days, perhaps the idea that trade was a sacred good above all ethical considerations wasn’t so established, or maybe it was just that the lobby was stronger.
or maybe it was an easier gesture to make because agricultural imports from South Africa weren’t as big a part of our economy as imports of cheap plastic stuff from China are now
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My word I’m outraged……. can’t even vote against slavery. This is why I could never be a right-winger.
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Am I looking at the right thing? I can only find information about a bill to prohibit the import of goods made by child labour. I can’t find the bill which deals with slave labour.
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Oh dear Wilberforce must be turning in his grave – - – - – -a very sad day indeed.
In history there has always been a class of people who wish to enslave others Dickens novels and Marx “the Working Day”, this tragic streak in human nature is all to well documented.
In the 1990′s I had a suspicion that organisations such as the World Trade Organisation, Business Round Table, National Party and the ACT Party and their affiliations supported slavery.
Now circumstantial evidence is coming to light: (1) Roger Kerr(BRT) has always been pushing for no ‘basic wage’. (2) National and ACT have been in agreement there. (3) In the US the Yes Men have revealed that members of the WTO rather like the idea of people owning paople. Now: – -
(4) National refuses to supports a bill to ban products of the slave trade, therefore National clearly supports the slave trade.
Is this just one of my pet conspiracy theories? or what?
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