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Libertarianz Laments Another Drug War Casualty
12 September 2008
"The death of police officer Sergeant Don Wilkinson, who paid the ultimate price yesterday while fighting the government's War on Drugs™, is a tragedy," said Libertarianz Drugs Spokesman, Dr. Richard Goode. "No doubt the gunman responsible for his death will be justly punished," says Goode, "but those in government who authorise and continually escalate the War on Drugs™, and those who voted them in, must also shoulder some measure of blame for Sergeant Wilkinson's death.
Libertarianz Announces New Weapons In War Against P
02 September 2008
The Libertarianz Party agrees that P (methamphetamine) is a bad drug that nobody should be taking. "The P problem has caused me many a sleepless night," says Libertarianz Drugs Spokesman, Dr. Richard Goode. "P is widely known to lead to addiction, psychosis, and violent crime. It ravages communities, exacerbates the gang problem and destroys the aspirations of our young people."
Bring Back BZP
14 March 2008
"What will one man party pooper Jim Banderton ban next?" wonders
Libertarianz Drugs Spokesman, Dr. Richard Goode, referring to Banderton's
bill to ban BZP-based party pills passed yesterday by Parliament.
Banderton: Putting the P in BZP
02 July 2007
"Bad lessons always have to be learned anew," says Dr. Richard Goode, Libertarianz Drugs Spokesman. "And we're about to learn a bad lesson - that prohibition doesn't work - yet again. When alcohol was banned in the United States in the 1930s," he recounts, "organised crime stepped into the breach to meet the ongoing demand. With the impending ban on BZP-based party pills, exactly the same thing is set to happen here."
Save BZP Petition: Parliament, 12 Noon
14 June 2007
A petition calling for the party pill drug BZP to remain legal will be presented to Parliament today, Thursday 14 June, at noon. Heather Roy will receive the petition, which has been signed by approximately 2000 New Zealanders, from Libertarianz Drugs Spokesman Dr. Richard Goode. "This joint Libertarianz / ACT on Campus petition calls on the New Zealand House of Representatives not to ban or further restrict the sale of benzylpiperazine (BZP) and BZP-based party pills," said Dr. Goode today.
Libertarianz: Mind Your Own Business, Jacqui Dean
17 April 2007
Dr. Richard Goode, the usually placid Libertarianz Spokesman on Drugs, was today moved to extreme irritation after reading of National MP for Otago Jacqui Dean's plans to launch a private member's bill to ban the manufacture, sale and possession of BZP and reclassify the drug as class C, putting it in line with cannabis.
BZP Causes Adverse Kneejerk Reaction
16 February 2007
In the wake of a tragic incident in Greymouth which has left a young man in an induced coma in Christchurch Hospital after taking BZP, Libertarianz Drugs Spokesman Dr. Richard Goode reiterated his party's opposition to a ban on BZP-based party pills. He prefaced his remarks by saying, "No drug use is the safest option. No drug is completely safe, and adults should take drugs only if they are fully aware of the risks of doing so, and are prepared to take responsibility for the consequences of their actions."
Libertarianz launches Party Pill Petition
14 February 2007
"Today it is my pleasure to announce the launch of the Libertarianz petition to stop the banning of BZP-based 'party pills'." said Dr. Richard Goode, Libertarianz Drugs Spokesman. "The petition calls on the New Zealand House of Representatives not to ban or further restrict the sale of benzylpiperazine (BZP) and BZP-based party pills."
Illegal BZP not needed
27 January 2006
"We don't need another illegal recreational drug," says Libertarianz Spokesman on Drugs Dr. Richard Goode in response to recent calls to ban BZP, a mild stimulant drug found in most legal party pills.
Drinking age should remain at 18
06 September 2005
"All adults have the right to decide what they put into their own bodies, and that means the drinking age should remain at 18," announced Libertarianz Leader and Wellington Central candidate Bernard Darnton today.
Libz cannabis policy "common sense"
16 August 2005
"Vote Libertarianz for legal cannabis," was the message of Libertarianz Drug Deregulation spokesman Dr. Richard Goode today. "The Greens have dropped the ball on this issue," says Goode. "While Libertarianz promotes complete legalisation, the Greens have demoted their former cannabis legalisation advocate, Nandor Tanczos, to a precarious seventh place on their list. Tanczos is now proposing instead that cannabis smokers receive instant $100 fines for lighting up." Goode describes Tanczos' decriminalisation proposal as "one giant leap backwards for the Greens."
Drinking-Age Raise Inconveniences New Zealanders
09 June 2005
"While Progressive Party deputy Matt Robson is claiming that his new Sale of Liquor Amendment Bill is a victory for democracy, all he has accomplished is exposing many of the current MPs in Parliament as erratic and scatterbrained, and demonstrating the patronising 'Nanny knows best' attitude of the Progressive Party and 78 of this country's MPs," says Libertarianz Hamilton East Candidate, Robin Thomsen.
Drug prohibition is no laughing matter
06 May 2005
Christchurch businessman Dean Davies, who opened New Zealand's first 'nos' bar, has said he is prepared to be arrested and go to court in the name of nitrous oxide. He has found himself on the wrong side of chief government wowser, Associate Health Minister Jim Anderton.
Legalise Nos!
14 April 2005
Following the banning of the sale and possession of nitrous oxide for recreational use, Libertarianz Deputy and Auckland Central candidate Stephen Berry has pledged Libertarianz party support for the legalisation of recreational nitrous oxide use.
Government awards $168 million to criminal gangs
06 October 2004
$130,000 in compensation recently awarded to mistreated prisoners is "pocket money" compared with the $168 million industry the government has awarded to criminal gangs this year, says Libertarianz spokesman for health deregulation, Dr. Richard Goode.
Junk Science & Bigotry Over Cannabis
31 January 2004
Following the apparent "cannabis poisoning" of a 36-year-old Welsh man, otherwise-forgotten Progressive MP Matt Robson has reiterated his party's opposition to cannabis law reform, . Libertarianz Deputy Stephen Berry says, "Robson is willing to use any half-baked story he can to maintain his bigoted beliefs. In the entire course of human history, there has never been one single death that could be attributed to cannabis alone."
National Demands Injustice For Drug Suppliers
26 September 2003
"National's Police spokesman, Tony Ryall, is calling for an end to one of the fundamental cornerstones of our justice system," notes a disgusted Libertarianz spokesman Stephen Berry, "simply as another weapon in the failed and corrupt War on Drugs(TM)." Berry continues, "Vile Ryall' is suffering from 'P madness.' He is willing to trade away our fundamental legal protections simply to make life harder for those suspected of methamphetamine manufacture or supply. It's either a panic or a chase for headlines."
McDonald did not get Justice
11 September 2003
Libertarianz spokesman, Stephen Berry, today found himself
agreeing with United Future's Marc Alexander who has
disapproved of the sentence handed out to former newsreader
Darren McDonald, saying, "There is absolutely no doubt that
Darren McDonald did not receive justice when sentenced to
eight months in prison. McDonald should never have been
arrested for methamphetamine possession!", Berry declared.
ACT - Classically Illiberal Stinkers
18 June 2003
Libertarianz spokesman Stephen Berry was left picking his jaw up today after reading comments from ACT's Muriel Newman, who has attacked Labour again over their handling of the methamphetamine 'epidemic.'
ACT Illiberal on Methamphetamines
16 May 2003
"The Government's decision to reclassify methamphetamines to Class A
status - with support from the so-called 'liberals' of the ACT party, the
substance fascists of United Future, and the socialists of the National party - smacks of them once again believing that adults don't own their
bodies and can't make their own decisions on what to ingest," announced Libertarianz Deputy Leader Peter Osborne today.
Ban the Christians!
16 May 2003
"'Archbishop' Peter Dunne - 'the saviour of our young people' - accuses the Greens of being irresponsible for not playing ball over the re-classification of methamphetamine," notes Libertarianz Spokesman Russell Watkins, "but is seemingly oblivious to the fact that the War on Drugs is itself one reason for the increase in drug use."
Abolish Sin Taxes - Enjoy A Drink Instead!
08 May 2003
"Wowserism rules in the Labour, Progressive, Greens, and United Future parties," observed Libertarianz Deputy Leader Peter Osborne this morning as he reflected on the late night smash-and-grab on drinkers' wallets in Parliament last night. "By raising taxes on sherry, port, and other light spirits, MPs are getting a political two-for-one deal - they are pandering to the teetotalling, joyless ascetics who would dearly love all of us to stop drinking alcohol, and Cullen and co. get more of other people's money to spend," declared Osborne.
J. Day - Family Values? Whose Family?
03 May 2003
"'Family values' appears to be the reason that J-Day organisers have suffered a last minute eviction from Aotea Square," reports Libertarianz spokesman Peter Cresswell today, "whatever a 'family value' might look like," he mused. He said that he was happy to further report, however that J-Day organisers and participants enjoyed a successful afternoon of activism and amusement at their more traditional venue of Albert Park - "despite the best efforts of moral minoritarians to thwart the day."
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