Anti-Discrimination Day Disgrace
Today's celebrations of the international Covenant for the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination are deeply
insincere - New Zealand has not observed it for years, ACT Justice Spokesman Stephen Franks said today
"The noble intensions and expectations when the Covenant was signed were simple: that race distinctions would become
illegitimate, and that all humans would be judged on their individual merits - not the colour of their skin or inherited
ethnic status," Mr Franks said.
"New Zealand bound itself to comply, but politicians have since decided that colour-blind law does not suit their
purposes. Building race distinctions for political gain has been deliberate policy of the entire Labour clique in power.
"New Zealand is in direct breach of the Covenant's requirement, that even laws or positive discrimination must have an
expiry plan. Taking the past three months alone, no expiry plan was even discussed for the race discrimination
provisions in the Trademarks Act, the Television New Zealand Act or the Local Govt Act.
"The Government has hand-picked Human Rights Commissioners, who tour the country with vague slogans about the Treaty.
New Zealanders should ask them why they have not protested the open-ended discrimination provisions in so much recent
law.
"Helen Clark uses UN obligations when it suits her to whack our traditional allies and express her student-level
anti-Americanism. Meanwhile, she quietly ignores - and puts New Zealand in breach of - the UN convention rule that would
interfere with her own legislative racism," Mr Franks said.