The wit and wisdom of Susan the Libertarian.
As narrated by Leighton Smith.

02/07/09 — Caller Henare: "The white man ruined everything for Maori!"

Henare is talking through a hole in his head. How does he explain the Maori success stories? Accidental? How insulting.

Stop being a collectivist, Henare. Stop dumping everybody into the Useless basket. Start encouraging individualism and you might get somewhere.

Oh, and do away with welfare and govt largesse. Because if you want to talk collectivism, there's no other group of people who've received more of it than Maori.

And based on the bad stats, it hasn't done a blind bit of good.

01/07/09 — Disclosure of Education 'League Tables'.

Only a communist would disagree with the public right to know how the very schools for which they are forced to pay, rate.

01/07/09 — Auckland University Economist: Child Franchise (via a parent) from birth.

Glad you've raised this topic. I heard that incredibly silly cow last night on Susan Wood's programme while driving home. Didn't hear the whole thing, but enough to know that this woman -- as you've confirmed this morning -- derives her income from the taxpayer. Nobody in private enterprise would have somebody like that on the payroll. I was swearing out loud at her nonsense.

Child franchise is, of course, insane for the same reason that children do not procreate. For the same reason that children do not pay their own way. This madness is something right out of the Book of Bradford.

And you know what's really scary? This sort of nonsense is precisely the sort of thing that can end up on the statute books.

We should be shrinking the state, not increasing it exponentially. I'd like five minutes with this "economist" -- but I can categorically tell you that she wouldn't!

29/06/09 — Referendum: 77% opposed, says poll.

I heard the results of the weekend's poll -- that the media was so quick to tell us about -- saying that 77% reckon the upcoming referendum is a waste of money. And then I heard that fewer than 500 were polled.

Boy, the anti-Antis must be worried if all they can focus on is the cost. It'd be the first time the Nanny Staters ever gave a toss about the taxpayer.

Perhaps they should take Helen Clark to task for not holding the damn thing last year on Election Day? It wouldn't have cost an extra cent, then. Oh, but she's gone now, hasn't she. How bloody convenient.

I repeat: the anti-Antis must be worried.

29/06/09 — Defining a right.

Someone said that having children was a right. Bollocks. The source of many current problems arise from misunderstanding the definition of a right.

A right is something that demands nothing from another. Eg: my right to free speech demands nothing from you, or vice versa. My right to worship God (or not) demands nothing from you or vice versa. My right to liberty demands nothing from you or vice versa. And my right to the pursuit of happiness demands nothing from you or vice versa.

Socialists like Sue Bradford talk about the right to education and the right to housing. She, too, is talking bollocks.

Because that means that if I can't or won't find housing for myself, I naturally demand it from you. You are forced to provide a house for me. Same with education. And health. And having children.

And that is the simple difference between a right and a privilege. Beware the language revisionists .. they are always up to no good.

25/06/09 — Education, literacy & the state.

You have to laugh. Earlier this morning, Mike spoke at some length to an earnest young teacher -- female, of course! -- who's off with several others to teach in Zambia for a while.

"They like the way we do things", she said. Presumably she wasn't talking about the teachers who are sworn at and attacked by their students ...

... and then the first ad after the interview was the one your station's currently running for Literacy Aotearoa -- never NZ -- stating that "one in four New Zealanders" can't read and write! Maybe the Zambians won't "like the way we do things" for long!

You've got to love the state "one size fits all" policy, don't you. Demanding this and that for the tiny tots, and to hell with the results of their half-baked theories. Education urgently demands liberating from these state fools.

24/06/09 — Nannying from a former MP.

Deborah Morris Whomever entered Parliament as a NZ First MP.

I consider that to be an appalling lack of judgement on her part. As such, her opinions verge upon worthless.

Deborah Morris Whomever should mind her own business and leave us to do the same

16/06/09 — Referendum on anti-smacking bill.

According to repeated polls, more than 90% of New Zealanders did not want Sue Bradford's bill, nor did they buy her rhetoric. Yes, some people used Section 59 as a defence in the past -- and they were taken to court where a jury decided the situation. I'd much rather a jury do that sort of thing than be forced to accept blanket legislation.

(Abridged).

11/06/09 — Basil Wakelin from Prison Fellowship.

Did you hear Basil Wakelin’s comments in the 9 o’clock news bulletin? It was a story about prisons, with there being a “lack of beds” apparently. It’s sounds like a hotel story, doesn’t it. And then he went on to say that the situation has arisen because public pressure was forcing the govt to take the “so-called” rise in crime seriously.

Well, pardon me for taking my security seriously, Mr Wakelin. Pardon me for expecting people who break the law and hurt other people, to be punished.

The state exists to do one thing: protect the rights of its citizens. Those who break the law are incarcerated to keep them away from the rest of us.

What a pathetic little apologist.

04/06/09 — Richard Worth.

Richard Worth is no loss to the Nats; he was of bugger all use in the first place. I never had any time for him – but then I have little time for National, period, so that’s no slur on him, per se.

The man clearly has no judgement: he fancied a socialist, for heaven’s sake! ;)