One small step in getting rid of the vile RMA
Liberty
Eco-Fascism in NZ-Beginning of the End?
Lindsay Perigo
July 6, 2012
http://www.solopassion.com/node/9203
If the Green Party calls them "a major assault on the [Resource Management] Act and on sustainable
development," then, sight unseen, I'm for them.
The advisory group set up by the government after the Canterbury earthquakes to examine
quake-related issues relevant to the Act has apparently exceeded its brief in a most edifying way.
It has proposed a significant rewrite of this singularly fascist legislation, under which property
owners have been viciously persecuted and prosecuted for some 20 years now.
It has recommended the removal of the mandate to local bodies to protect coastal areas, wetlands,
lakes and rivers, and indigenous flora and fauna.
Section 6 of the Act currently instructs local authorities to recognise and provide for the
protection or preservation of the natural character of the coastal environment, wetlands, lakes and
rivers when considering RMA applications.They must also provide for the protection of outstanding
natural features and landscapes and areas of significant indigenous vegetation or wildlife.
The advisory group wants the terms "preservation" and "protection" dropped from S6 altogether.
Hallelujah!
Under this section, little Hitlers once hounded and fined a fellow $25,000 for turning a bog into a
duck pond.
They have routinely prohibited farmers from developing large tracts of land because of some mangey
tussock that's on them already.
They fined one Onehunga developer $100,000 for cutting down a single pohutukawa without permission.
They have effected a de facto nationalisation of land, rendering private ownership nominal and
irrelevant.
They have been able to behave like the verminous wannabe-totalitarians that they are, and get away
with it.
Now, the end of their micro-tyranny may be in sight.
Green Environment Spokesman, Eugenie Sage, says, "The proposal to drop the requirement for decision
makers to provide for the preservation and protection of landscapes indigenous vegetation and
habitats as matters of national importance ignores Environment Court case law built up over the last
20 years. Changing these fundamental parts of the RMA will cause unnecessary litigation and tilt the
playing field heavily towards development.''
Let's hope!
What should also happen is for property rights to be sanctified in the Bill of Rights. That would
cut any "unnecessary litigation" off at the pass-and represent a rare blow for freedom in this
authoritarian backwater.
Ideally, the RMA would be dumped altogether, and the Common Law principle repaired to that you may
do as you please on your property as long as you don't damage anyone else's.
For now, let us hope that the government will act on the advisory committee's recommendations. It's
unlikely, however, that the National Socialists will have the will or guts to take on the Greens,
who will be backed by Labour and the Apartheid Aotearoa Party. Today's news that the NatSocs have
just assigned $1.5 million of taxpayers' money to new "environmental initiatives" doesn't bode well.
Among the nauseating lowlights: "The Piha wetland restoration project receives $50,000 to restore a
wetland area and create an outdoor classroom for Auckland's school students. Students will help the
restoration by planting flax and native plants, while learning to identify and study the plants in
the wetland."
Regardless, e-mail the Environment Minister,
amy....@parliament.govt.nz, and/or her Press
Secretary,
nathan....@parliament.govt.nz.
Lindsay Perigo:
li...@lindsayperigo.com
SOLO (Sense of Life Objectivists): SOLOPassion.com)