Helengrad’s Speech Rationing
The papers are reporting this morning that Helen Clark is pushing forward with her plans to limit anti-government speech at election time:
Stuff: Clark favours campaign law reform
NZ Herald: PM sure of support for election financing reform
The newly released December/January issue of The Free Radical carries my story of Labour’s stifling of anti-goverment speech as its cover story and now that story is reproduced here at FreeSpeech.org.nz: Goskomizdat comes to Helengrad.
UPDATE 6/12/06: National, in their newly discovered role as cheerleaders for the Labour Party, have just put out a press release saying, “We are happy to support moves to outlaw third-party advertising that attacks political parties.”
This filth comes from the mouth of the same Bill English who said, just a month ago, that we are living in “an atmosphere where criticising the government is becoming pretty hazardous“. At the time, I didn’t think he meant it approvingly but you have to wonder.
December 5th, 2006 at 11:25 am
I wrote an post on my blog about this. I added a link here to the post. Also I am writing a short story that satires Labour’s anti-freedom crap in recent times, this included, for submission for the next issue of The Free Radical. It is entitled Freedom RIP 2006.
June 25th, 2007 at 11:22 am
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