I’ve no idea if my comment on DPF’s post, Goldsmith gets It, will make it through moderation over at Kiwiblog so here it is.
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“It’s ok folks. I just fired that terrible guy Yezhov and replaced him with a smarter guy. Somebody called… Ber….Beria. Yes, that’s him: Beria. Can’t wait to see what happens”
No. No. No. No. Fucking No!
FFS! This is exactly what I expected from a National-led government. Fire one guy but leave the institution in place and hire a “better” person.
Who will, at best, last no longer than when a Labour-Green-Te Paiti Maori government takes power in 2029 or 2032 and appoints another Paul Hunt, or more likely someone worse.
Not to mention all the little minions who will keep their heads down, keep their jobs and be ready to service their Leftist masters and Leftist ideology – all the Identity-Politics-Intersectional-Oppressed-Oppressor shite that is, in their minds, the new core of “human rights” – the moment they get the chance.
If you cannot convince such people that their ideas are terrible and that they should not be using them to fuck over their ideological and political enemies – and there is no evidence that you have or will convince them – then the only solution is to disarm them of their weapons like the HRC.
The problem was not Yezhov or Beria, or their distant successors like Andropov. The problem was the Cheka / NKVD / KGB.
Destroy it and you’ll never have to worry about this again.
But National won’t wipe out the HRC. They don’t believe they need to. Bigger fish to fry and all that.
No Minister 
Agreed, this was a chance to make a mark to reduce wasteful spend with a whole three years for the voter to forget all about it.
The HRC was an abject failure while That Woman and CHipkins walked all over any rights some considered the had to decline an experimental mRNA invasion of their person.
Total abdication, a chance missed, anything the lackeys might do, any half ased lawyer should be able to accomplish in their lunch hour.
“What did “The Romans” do for us”?
Frankly I couldn’t give a fuck about the wasteful spending in this case because it’s a rounding error in the State budget.
What I care about is the fact that a State organ continues to exist even as it is slowly weaponised against the “enemies” of the State. Something most clearly shown during the Chinese Lung Rot Pandemic when the HRC was largely missing in action because its ranks are filled with Statists who, when push came to shove, abandoned the concepts of individual freedoms and civil liberties for the usual Great Collective wheeze.
“The HRC was an abject failure while That Woman and CHipkins walked all over any rights some considered the had to decline an experimental mRNA invasion of their person.”
Don’t be fooled Nat/ACT and especially Seymour and the fool Christopher “get boosted” Bishop agreed with and supported every terrible thing Labour did enthusiastically.
This current lot care as much as Labour did about the little peoples human rights.
Things appear to be in a state of flux. My interpretation of the events of recent days is that the pointless HRC is to be demolished. What points to the contrary?
Sorry Tom … we agree to disagree. Dissolve the HRC and to whom does Joe citizen complain to when they feel their human rights have been infringed … or does the hard right not care about human rights? Shades of the extreme left in that sort of reasoning. What I will say is that if there are 80 employees of the HRC then those numbers need to come under the microscope. One looks at their website and much of their work appears of the ‘make work’ variety. Goldsmith is clearly signalling that the status quo is not acceptable and good on him for that.
You’re right Vet, we will agree to disagree.
If the HRC actually fulfilled their function, then yes I would agree. However they’re so under the woke jackboot they’re just another bureaucratic waste of space.
Where were they when New Zealanders were having their human rights usurped by Jacinda?
I guess if its not doing its job on human rights, and or being selective of human rights then it is not a Human Rights Commission.
Ergo: There is no need for a HRC.
If you disbanded , then by the above definition of its function, we would not be any worse off.
But I am sure its days and nights are filled with petty little complaints, from petty little people, who have nothing better to do, and or who have imagined slights. Turning the other check is often the better choice, or getting on with your life.
If its worse than that, we have a court system and a police organization who both operate moderately well, and a semi functioning media. I guess even a claim in the Small Claims Court may be possible too
Disbanded? Would we be worse off, I suspect not. Would we better off ? Yes a case could be made for a net present value benefit. Saving 80 employees from a life of pettifogging would have immense value to the country, and to these individuals.
Mesides at an average salary of $250,000, plus rent and travel, accommodation, lunches, powhiri’s and other tokensim to Maori, would save at least $25M pa.
Most could be retrained in traffic management around our new highway construction schemes, or as cone pick up and cone put down people.