PRESS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Human Rights Act Enshrines Wrong Rights
"If a principled government was to amend the Human Rights Act, "says Libertarianz Spokesman Cass Hewitt-Reid, "they
should begin by renaming it the Human Wrongs Act, and end by gutting it!" This parliament instead merely tries to avoid
the Act's oppressive provisions being applied to itself.
The Act in its current form enshrines bogus rights rather than true rights, and has selectively harassed working New
Zealanders with its bullying provisions. Reminds Hewitt-Reid: "Golf clubs have been told who can and can' t play on
their course; hairdressers have been told what they should be charging for haircuts; employers have been told whom they
may advertise for, whom they may hire - and for how long. This act," she says, "is a discriminatory joke!"
"True rights demands nothing of a person other than that they leave others alone to get on with their lives. This Act's
bogus rights instead demand that some working New Zealanders provide others with special benefits- whether those working
new Zealanders like it or not."
"Laughably, the Human Wrongs amendments were to apply these same meddling measures to MP's, and to Parliament, but these
amendments have no support in the House. "This means that the Houses of Parliament are still free of the dictatorial
nannying of the Act - the Beehive still the freest workplace in the land!" Laughs Hewitt-Reid: "How ironic that
parliamentarians are uncomfortable with applying to themselves the same restrictions they so happily impose on the rest
of us."
ENDS
For more information contact:
Cass Hewitt-Reid
LIBERTARIANZ SPOKESMAN ON EMPLOYMENT DEREGULATION
Contact Libertarianz Media Coordinator on (025) 861 927, e-mail: organon@ihug.co.nz
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