Protection for First Responders Bill
June 3, 2020
By NZB3
The ‘Protection for First Responders Bill’ is an abhorrent pulling apart by The State of some of the vestiges of Kiwi citizenship.
Rather than being equal before the law, it elevates certain government workers above others so that it will be more of an offence to hurt them than a mere citizen.
The premise is that the nature of any violent crime is automatically more aggrieved if it happens to a ‘special’ person rather than you or me. It’s the legal principle that some of us are ‘more equal than others’.
The timing for the NZ First sponsored bill could not be worse. Trying to legislate for special victimhood treatment for our paramilitary, our police, at a time of mass protest against police brutality? This is going to be a hard sell but that’s why the special protection is being wrapped up as being for other groups than just police.
“New Zealand protests: Thousands demonstrate over George Floyd killing, Black Lives Matter”- NZ Herald
Including nurses in the list of special people lends this Bill a much needed Trojan Horse Blanket. In the post-COVID-19 world our health professionals, nurses, have much social capital and appreciation that can be leveraged into special rights for them and whoever else Darroch Ball can smuggle in on his list of Specials…
“The members bill, introduced by New Zealand First Spokesperson for Law & Order Darroch Ball, is currently at select committee and is seeking to introduce mandatory prison sentences for those who assault paramedics, police, firefighters, and corrections officers.”- Mirage News
Rather than a news headline showing resistance to such a constitutional change, today’s propaganda features a scramble for the other groups who would love to be designated ‘special’ and protected too. ‘Why not us too?’ say the nurses.
Darroch Ball, the sponsor of the Bill, is a Statist military drone who has been trained to think in terms of unequal hierarchies.
“He was an army officer and then became a science teacher at Waiopehu College. He is on the board of trustees of Linton Camp School”- wiki
Naturally, his ideal is to codify that in law and perhaps even prepare the way for politicians and public servants to also be included among those ‘special’ people whose blood is more sacred. This New Zealand First MP probably owes his proposed law’s chances to the shonky coalition deal between his party and Labour 6.0. If it were not for our broken democracy we wouldn’t get such broken laws.
As economics teaches us, the true affect of codifying human behaviour into law will be the opposite of the intended consequences. By forcing people to love and respect Special People, like the Police, people will stop doing so internally. Natural, spontaneous, authentic respect and esteem are crowded out and replaced by force. Why should we bother feeling obliged to individual recognise what is special when that role is being performed for us by The State in the form of legislation?
Why would we give as much, or anything, to charity when The State forces us to or takes that role on itself? Why would we put out fires or act to stop crime or buy insurance or pay to have our children educated when we’re already being taxed to pay for The Government to perform those tasks? Why would we internalise our civic obligations if The Government forces us to vote? It’s the same with respect. The more The State tries to artificially mandate behaviour the less of it there will be. The end of this process is in the total replacement of humanity with mechanical analogues- systems rather than communities.
The slippery slope was set when Maoris got special ‘Citizens Plus’ status in New Zealand with extra political rights. Once one group can have that, any group can. The precedent is already in place to arbitrarily set up civically superior categories and give them political and legal privileges. Darroch Ball, of course, is a member of one of these categories he is creating because he is a military officer. How long before a politician or a public servant becomes part of the expanded definition?
If you were to have an altercation, perhaps a road rage incident or confrontation in the street, with one of the Special Citizens they would be at a legal advantage. They could push you around and antagonise behind the protection of knowing that a Normal Citizen could not risk the extra charges they would face for injuring a Special.
It’s Anarchy or bust.
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Image ref. Policemen; Libcom
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