Up Front: The Up Front Guide – How to Make a Stupid Law
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Bravo Emma.
I particualrly like the bit about emotional screeching. So true, so true.....
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Meanwhile, if you want to try your hand at making non-shit legislation, or fixing existing shit legislation, then you can join the New Zealand Progressive Bills Project. But you'll need to create your own moral panics.
(Well, its marginally relevant).
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I particualrly like the bit about emotional screeching. So true, so true.....
Yup. Sums up the Sensible Sentencing Trust (and the ACT party) in one.
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It helps if the major opposition party is desperate to seem tougher on lawanordah.
Cause then you've only got the Liberal Democrats or Greens to oppose the substance. And who's going to listen to Keith Locke?
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Once the legislative process starts and people can see fine detail in your stupid law...
Please note that this step is purely optional and can be avoided with a liberal application of Parliamentary Urgency.
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Please note that this step is purely optional and can be avoided with a liberal application of Parliamentary Urgency.
It also helps if you don't give the politicians time to read it before they vote. This way, any tendency to logical analysis they have hiding deep within their souls will be overriden by the emotional screeching.
I also suggest that your shit law should always punish someone for something, preferably with a long jail sentence. If you're not punishing people, you're not doing it right. Any talk of rehabilitation is right out. Muttering about the sad demise of capital punishment gets you bonus points.
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Yup. Sums up the Sensible Sentencing Trust (and the ACT party) in one.
And where would the Greens be without Sue Bradford saving all New Zealand children from child abuse?
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Speaking of moral panic, check out this house:
http://www.open2view.com.au/Property/76263?key=91c7eacbfaf7c619c5a8&search_id=957568
There should be a lwa aginst taste like that!
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Speaking of moral panic, check out this house:
Now, how could one possibly justify a moral panic around a house? Oh, that's right, you move to Queensland:
THE height of a proposed high-rise development has been slashed because parents fear pedophiles will be able to spy on children from the top storeys.
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Oh, there should also be a law against my typing.
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Speaking of moral panic, check out this house:
Take my haaaand, I'm a stranger in paradiiiise...
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Good post again Emma; thought provoking, coherent, relevant and yet scary.
I imagine this has been happening in some form since the first town meetings in Athens, has anyone worked out suitable counter strategies?
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And where would the Greens be without Sue Bradford saving all New Zealand children from child abuse?
Where would we be without those moral crusaders, out to save innocent parents from prosecution?
But lets have that debate again some other time soon :)
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"Yup. Sums up the Sensible Sentencing Trust (and the ACT party) in one."
"And where would the Greens be without Sue Bradford saving all New Zealand children from child abuse?"
Or Jim Anderton from BZP
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Take my haaaand, I'm a stranger in paradiiiise...
Bwah!
Also: ya-ha-ha-HOWZA. That is SOMETHING. I mean, sorry for shouting, but the Botticelli Venus reproduction on the ceiling? And that bathroom! And the ACTUAL LION HEAD rug?
Cannot. Process.
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I wonder if the $15 million price tag gets you the furnishings as well.
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I think I realised that it was truly the house that taste forgot when I got to the photo of the bar.
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Excellent post, Emma.
Re the house. Two things stuck out to me.
1) Poo coloured marble bathroom? Excuse me??
2) How do big game hunter, italian renaissance, and especially the country distressed kitchen go together??? Was it designed by 4 different designers who never talked to each other?? -
THE height of a proposed high-rise development has been slashed because parents fear pedophiles will be able to spy on children from the top storeys
That's... I... But... Good Lord. Do pedophiles only operate effectively more than 60feet in the air? -
And the ACTUAL LION HEAD rug?
Reminds me of that picture opf Governor Palin reclining on a dead kodiak bear.
I leave dead animals lying around like that & I get hell, I can tell you.
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THE height of a proposed high-rise development has been slashed because parents fear pedophiles will be able to spy on children from the top storeys
That's... I... But... Good Lord.
And see, this is one of the reasons it works. Because the sheer bat-fuck crazy just leaves you completely incoherent.
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Poo coloured marble bathroom? Excuse me??
One can finally use the phrase "peccable taste".
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How do big game hunter, italian renaissance, and especially the country distressed kitchen go together???
What made me giggle was the name of this, er, palace. Madison. They go all out for "originality" on the decor, and then settle on a name unique to, oh, every other girl under five?
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Oh, Giovanni, touché! Forgive them, for they know not what they do.
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So can we start a moral panic about stupid laws and get them made banned (any MP introducing one considered stupid will be jailed)?
Think of the effect the bad laws have would have on the children!
Can you use their own weapons against them?
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