Tuesday, May 19, 2009



Penny-pinching

How much will Justice Minister Simon Power's plans to deny New Zealanders a fair trial save? A paltry $20 million. Talk about penny-pinching. If it costs us $20 million to have an effective bullshit detector in our court system, an effective check on police and prosecutorial abuses, and for people to be able to have faith in the outcome because they collectively participated in it, then that is money well spent. And it would be nice if we had a "justice" Minister who cared enough about justice to agree...