rt of a host of other large special interest groups with targeted special funding. Many of these groups would sell their own souls for an extra $10, let alone sell their vote. Now, I think the figure "borrowed" from the New Zealand taxpayer was around $874,000. At $10 a shot, that amounts to 87,400 votes "purchased" with that pledge card. Half that number of votes would have swung the election towardDid you think the New World Order agenda of control and dis-empowerment couldn't possibly take root here in New Zealand?

Well, I've got news for you. It's already here. The last election was bought and paid for by those already in power-with your money. And the Labour government that bought the election (with taxpayers' money, no less) is now drafting legislation to legitimize this blatant power grab. The Helen Clark Labour Government spent nearly $900,000 of taxpayers' money distributing a "pledge card" (ala "bribe") to nearly every residence in New Zealand. And now, rather than call a new election after this fraud was discovered and ruled upon, they are set out to make it right by passing new laws making it all okay.

In another age, and in another place, their heads would be rolling from the guillotine. But in modern New Zealand, we now have a government that is blatantly using fraud-and condoning fraud-as the means of cementing-in their hold on power (which really amounts to a squeeze on your personal cheque book). This is the same Prime Minister who forged her signature on someone else's painting, who put hundreds of lives at risk in a high speed convoy dash to a national emergency (a rugby game), and doggedly supported a fellow Minister who abused his position by preying on would-be immigrants.

Now, to be a little more specific, it is common knowledge that a large part of the New Zealand political constituency is relatively poor and needy. This Labour "pledge card" promised to reward all those on a benefit, borrowing money for education, raising a large family, or part of a host of other large special interest groups with targeted special funding. Many of these groups would sell their own souls for an extra $10, let alone sell their vote. Now, I think the figure "borrowed" from the New Zealand taxpayer was around $874,000. At $10 a shot, that amounts to 87,400 votes "purchased" with that pledge card. Half that number of votes would have swung the election towards

grab. The Helen Clark Labour Government spent nearly $900,000 of taxpayers' money distributing a "pledge card" (ala "bribe") to nearly every residence in New Zealand. And now, rather than call a new election after this fraud was discovered and ruled upon, they are set out to make it right by passing new laws making it all okay.

In another age, and in another place, their heads would be rolling from the guillotine. But in modern New Zealand, we now have a government that is blatantly using fraud-and condoning fraud-as the means of cementing-in their hold on power (which really amounts to a squeeze on your personal cheque book). This is the same Prime Minister who forged her signature on someone else's painting, who put hundreds of lives at risk in a high speed convoy dash to a national emergency (a rugby game), and doggedly supported a fellow Minister who abused his position by preying on would-be immigrants.

Now, to be a little more specific, it is common knowledge that a large part of the New Zealand political constituency is relatively poor and needy. This Labour "pledge card" promised to reward all those on a benefit, borrowing money for education, raising a large family, or part of a host of other large special interest groups with targeted special funding. Many of these groups would sell their own souls for an extra $10, let alone sell their vote. Now, I think the figure "borrowed" from the New Zealand taxpayer was around $874,000. At $10 a shot, that amounts to 87,400 votes "purchased" with that pledge card. Half that number of votes would have swung the election toward

from the guillotine. But in modern New Zealand, we now have a government that is blatantly using fraud-and condoning fraud-as the means of cementing-in their hold on power (which really amounts to a squeeze on your personal cheque book). This is the same Prime Minister who forged her signature on someone else's painting, who put hundreds of lives at risk in a high speed convoy dash to a national emergency (a rugby game), and doggedly supported a fellow Minister who abused his position by preying on would-be immigrants.

Now, to be a little more specific, it is common knowledge that a large part of the New Zealand political constituency is relatively poor and needy. This Labour "pledge card" promised to reward all those on a benefit, borrowing money for education, raising a large family, or part of a host of other large special interest groups with targeted special funding. Many of these groups would sell their own souls for an extra $10, let alone sell their vote. Now, I think the figure "borrowed" from the New Zealand taxpayer was around $874,000. At $10 a shot, that amounts to 87,400 votes "purchased" with that pledge card. Half that number of votes would have swung the election toward

ency (a rugby game), and doggedly supported a fellow Minister who abused his position by preying on would-be immigrants.

Now, to be a little more specific, it is common knowledge that a large part of the New Zealand political constituency is relatively poor and needy. This Labour "pledge card" promised to reward all those on a benefit, borrowing money for education, raising a large family, or part of a host of other large special interest groups with targeted special funding. Many of these groups would sell their own souls for an extra $10, let alone sell their vote. Now, I think the figure "borrowed" from the New Zealand taxpayer was around $874,000. At $10 a shot, that amounts to 87,400 votes "purchased" with that pledge card. Half that number of votes would have swung the election toward

rt of a host of other large special interest groups with targeted special funding. Many of these groups would sell their own souls for an extra $10, let alone sell their vote. Now, I think the figure "borrowed" from the New Zealand taxpayer was around $874,000. At $10 a shot, that amounts to 87,400 votes "purchased" with that pledge card. Half that number of votes would have swung the election towards a National/Act coalition government. 90,000 extra "party" votes would have given National an overwhelming majority, and the authority to govern without compromise. Don't get me wrong. I don't think things would be much different with a National government equally hell-bent on gaining power at any cost. But at least we could still cling on to the notion that we mere citizens had a say in who pulls the strings in the Bee Hive. Now, even that illusion is gone.

Maybe it's best this way. Maybe this will cause a few more people to wake up and start asking the hard questions; questions like "Who really creates our money supply? Why do we let the private banks issue all new money? And why is it that the banks are able to create new money out of thin air, and our government is forced to steal from private citizens?" The sad fact is, if we keep electing the same ignorant shmucks into government, or even different ignorant shmucks; and those in government continue to rob, steal, and extort from the citizenry through taxation; those who control the private banking system will continue to enslave you and I in a web of high interest debt. We can only hope and pray that the Governor General, the last remaining "check and balance" against governmental abuse, eventually sees the light and calls for a new election.