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Legalising Smack - A Speech by Mitch Lees Submitted by Julian Pistorius on Sun, 2007-08-05 10:58.
At the Libertarianz conference last weekend, Mitch delivered this great speech. It is Mitch's account of his (leading) role in organizing a very successful, nation-wide protest against intrusive legislation. The protest (and Mitch) enjoyed a high profile and had tremendous popular support. Listen for yourself, and find out from the horse's mouth how it happened.
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noticed in the New Zealand Herald that Eb Leary has been readmitted as a Lawyer.
Gosh...that is so funny, when I first read it I laughed and laughed! ...(indeed, I laughed so much I almost bought a round of drinks!)
For those who don't know, he had a highly lucrative career as lawyer to the 'Mr Asia' drugs syndicate back in the 1970s.
He came to grief when he started insulting the intelligence of the Royal Commissioner into Drugs Trafficking, Justice Robertson, with his explanations for various financial transactions.
The most notable of which was the house he bought, (coincidently across the street from where John Key now lives) paid for with a suitcase full of cash and a mortgage provided by...
...Peter Fulcher.
Leary's hilarious explanation for this transaction rather brought about the end of a glittering legal career, as declaring under Oath you "cannot remember" who lent you money to buy a mansion in Parnell is simply taking the piss...(if you know what I mean?)
After being struck off as a lawyer 20 years ago, he bought a Hunting and Fishing Lodge in the Far North with money (ahem) from a lottery win *cough* *splutter*
Surely this is a subjective
Surely this is a subjective viewpoint, not based on reason, but based on opinion?
edit: Also, can it not be both?
Good on ye all
as this quote points out
"It is not the function of our government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error."
-- Justice Robert H. Jackson
I admit that reason is a small and feeble flame, a flickering torch by stumblers carried in the starless night, -- blown and flared by passion's storm, -- and yet, it is the only light. Extinguish that, and nought remains.- - Robert Green Ingersoll