Dozens of U.S. strikes on Iran. Dunno what to say now other than my thoughts are with the Iranian civilians under fire. What a nightmare.

#OtD 14 Oct 1897 worker-organiser and anti-colonial activist Elma Francois was born in Overland, St Vincent. She organised sugar workers, socialist and anti-war groups and was tried for sedition by the British workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e75-...

Too real. American libertarians did a really good job of exporting that co-opted meaning worldwide too. But tbf there were way too many AoNZers waiting, ready, and happy to jump on the bandwagon. Now they won’t stfu about how legislating indigenous protections means we live in apartheid actually.

And they’re proud of it too!

Just a a couple of days left for the first deadline then a few days for the other two! Remember, these 3 Bills materially affect all our lives. AoNZ, have you written your submissions yet?

Right-wing libertarians aren’t libertarian. It’s neoliberal-tarian. The “less state, more free market” ideals only go to the extent of abolishing public spaces. Then they use the state to bail out failing corpos & protect state apparatus that mete out state-sponsored violence like the police.

Thank you for sharing this!

This seems to be a common theme with the consultations from this government.

Yet another form of norm breaking that's as bad as the bills themselves.

"Consultations" that push the view of the government

A screenshot from Twitter in which the account for the group ‘Peace Movement Aotearoa,’ has replied to the Twitter counterpart to this thread. This is their reply: PeaceMovtAotearoa @PeaceMovementA Kia ora, with "consultation" documents like this with dodgy questions, it's best to write your own submission outlining your concerns with the proposal and the way the submission questions are framed - this is a proposal for a Bill, not the Bill itself ... yet... 7:04 PM

(20) UPDATE: I’ve been informed that for the RSB, the best thing to do is to go for the second option, which is writing your own submission & emailing it to them. You can explain in it your grievances with the leading questions in the other forms.

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(19) General guide for submissions to Parliament:

www2.eit.ac.nz/library/Online…

(18) Guide on making a submission for the Bootcamp Bill:

papa.org.nz/2024/06/12/par…

(17) Guide on making a submission for the Treaty Principles Bill:

honourthetreaty.org.nz/make-a-submiss…

(16) Thank you for reading. Please, please remember to submit. It doesn’t have to be an essay - it just has to come from the heart. Don’t cuss, don’t explicitly insult people, and don’t use AI. Ngā mihi nui.

(15) I’ll add any updates or more info to this thread as they come. They’re all incredibly important. I just spent longer on RSB bc I haven’t seen any social media discussion of this absolute shamble of a submissions page and I didn’t want it to fall through the cracks.

(14) Bill 3: Just one more thing about this Bill. The page says it closes 13 Jan (no specific time given) but other sources say 8 Jan. To be on the safe side and not miss this deadline, try to do this one as early as possible.

(13) Bill 3c: So please be careful with this one, pay close attention to the details of the questions and don’t fall for it bc the whole submission is full of pitfalls and traps like this. It’s somehow still better than the “discussion document” (3a) though

(12) Bill 3c: It forces you to have to either agree with a false statement or say you’re against something good (“good regulatory stewardship”? Anti-reg ppl don’t say they’re pro bad regulatory stewardship. They just think good regulatory stewardship is NO regulatory stewardship)

(11) Bill 3c: - and this is the submissions page that is supposed to be the place to contest those statements. The fact that it’s framed as a “yes/no” without a place to state your views or contest the question is also purposeful.

A screenshot of question 14 of the public submissions page on the government website for the Regulatory Standards Bill. The text reads as follows: 14. Do you agree with the focus on... rights and liberties? • Yes • No good law-making processes? • Yes • No good regulatory stewardship? • Yes • No

(10) Bill 3c: Take for example this screenshot of Question 14. The premise of the question is false. It operates on the assumption that this Bill is “focusing on rights and liberties”, “good law-making processes,” and “good regulatory stewardship” when none of that is true -

(9) Bill 3c: third way is the actual submissions page. I’ve looked through this & have noticed the questions are very leading and manipulative. They’re framed in a super calculated way. More on this below:

consultation.regulation.govt.nz/rsb/have-you...

(8) Bill 3b: Second avenue is to a submission and email it to RSBconsultation@regulation.govt.nz

Or post it to
Ministry for Regulation,
PO Box 577,
Wellington 6140

(7) Bill 3a: first is a “discussion document” written by Seymour where there are 8 pages of narrative distortion before the first questions, and questions are interspersed between text after text of Seymour’s crafted primers. I’m not linking this one but you can find it on the main page

(6) Bill 3: The Regulatory Standards Bill. The way they’ve presented this is very tricky and darksided (purposefully imo) so I’ll spend some time on this one. There seem to be 3 different avenues for submission:

(5) Bill 2: Oranga Tamariki (Responding to Serious Youth Offending) Amendment Bill aka The Military-Style Bootcamp Bill. The deadline is 11.59pm on Thursday, 09 January.

www.parliament.nz/en/ECommitte...

(4) Bill 1: the Treaty Principles Bill. The closing date for this is 11.59pm Tuesday, 07 January. Toitū te Tiriti! ❤️🖤🤍

www.parliament.nz/en/ECommitte...

(3) So without further ado, here are some important Bills whose submission deadlines are very soon. I urge you to please make these submissions, because our future quite literally depends on them. If there are others I have missed, please let me know and I’ll add them too.

(2) This is what some might call a “pusillanimous move” bc while they tout free speech and public debate & participation, they know these Bills are v unpopular. This strategy exploits our post-holiday stress and exhaustion to pass laws while we’re unable to pay attention.

(1) Kia Ora AoNZers, hope everyone’s been having a good NYE and New Year’s Day today. Unfortunately, we need to get right back into organising bc this govt has, very cowardly, scheduled the deadlines of several important submissions for right after the holiday season.

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