25 May 2005
RMA Surely Don't Impress Shania Much
"Shania Twain's proposed home doesn't impress Queenstown's busybodies, but their personal views should not be the
business of law," says Libertarianz spokesman to deregulate the environment, Peter Cresswell. "Unfortunately the RMA has
given them that power. It doesn't say to property owners 'Come on Over,' instead it screams 'I'm Gonna Getcha Good'!"
"The Resource Management Act (RMA) has given unelected power to busybodies who now consider they have rights over other
people's property," says Cresswell. "It seems nothing will allow Twain's house past Andrew Henderson, the planning
stickybeak from CivicCorp who rejected the application and Julian Haworth, head busybody from the Upper Clutha
Environmental Society, who between them have decided that 'the complex would not be in harmony with the surrounding
landscape,' and 'man-made mounds to screen the house' were 'not appropriate.'"
"I guess even a camouflage net wouldn't have satisfied these meddling arseholes," says Cresswell. "Remind me again how
the RMA is "permissive" as Owen McShane has called it, and "far-sighted environmental legislation" as Nick Smith has
described it. The RMA is neither," says Cresswell. "It has destroyed property rights in this country, and it is time
that the RMA itself were now destroyed."
As author Ayn Rand once observed, when the productive have to ask permission from the unproductive in order to produce,
then you may know your culture is doomed. "Time to put a stake through the heart of the RMA," concludes Cresswell.
The Libertarianz advocate abolition of the RMA, replacing it with common law protection of property rights and the
environment.
"It's Enough to Make You Vote Libertarianz!"
ENDS