A New Zealand tragedy

New Zealand tragedy

The New Zealand establishment close ranks as the emerging social statistics indicate a major tragedy has occurred at the lower social levels.

Hoping to reach the mainstream I described this tragedy, which I consider history will judge as a major New Zealand tragedy which I witnessed first hand over a twenty year period, in the Auckland High Court. In the case of Anthony George Ravlich versus the Ministry of Justice High Court Justice Lyn Stevens dismissed my appeal against being convicted and fined $200 in the Wellington District Court for ‘failing to file a election expenses return’ (Electoral Finance Act 2007) after standing as a candidate for the Human Rights Party in Auckland Central.

Justice Stevens, in his judgement on the 5th July 2010, stated that ‘it would frustrate the purpose of the Act and introduce uncertainty if the absence of news coverage of a particular party or candidate were to be construed as constituting a reasonable excuse for the filing of a return’.

However, Justice Stevens, referring to the social statistics, asked me why I was unable to inform society of this tragedy earlier. I explained that despite all my attempts I could not break into the mainstream.

With my book, ‘Freedom from our social prisons: the rise of economic, social and cultural rights’, Lexington Books, now on the United Nations website http://hrbaportal.org/?p=528) I have gained international recognition for my work. My research shows that New Zealand has been modeling itself on the British social class system with rights omissions in domestic and international law allowing the State to discriminate on the grounds of social class, prevent the State from being held to account while also seriously curbing independence resulting in a class-based society - see our submission to the UN Human Rights Committee, www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL1003/S00178.htm ).

Having promoted human rights for the past 20 years, living in poverty and experiencing many of the same human rights violations as the poor, I found many were left severely ‘crushed and isolated’ by this social class discrimination.

This tragedy explains the emerging statistics, comparing countries, which also show the extremes New Zealand governments went to implement the changes since 1984. There are very high rates of child maltreatment, poverty, and third world diseases, very high levels of mental illness and large numbers now ‘too sick to work’. In addition, up-ward social mobility and ‘bottom-up’ development, smaller businesses and major employers, have been subjected to this discrimination contributing to a mass exodus overseas (see website).

However I failed in the present court case, and also as a party candidate, to inform mainstream society with reports from major news outlets only reaching the internet and ignoring the tragedy (see attachments to ‘Freedom is not an impossible dream’ on above website).

Consequently, apart from the margins of society, the truth has also been a major casualty.

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