No Problems?
For some reason the people running for re-election come up with strange proposals for non-problems.
In Canada you have this: Stephen Harper vows to outlaw travel to ‘places that are ground zero for terrorist activity’. Every government issues travel warnings designating places that are not considered safe for their nationals, so why waste time and money criminalizing people who are stupid enough to go despite the warnings? All this would do is put the burden of proof on individuals, i.e. people would have to prove they weren’t terrorists, rather than the government proving they were.
In New Zealand when he was running for re-election, John Key, brought up changing the country’s flag. Well, he is doing it, and these are the candidates. This is expensive. This takes a lot of time and resources to organized all of the elections that are anticipated. It is hard to believe that New Zealand doesn’t have better uses for the funds that will be spent on this.
August 10, 2015 11 Comments
