[Lightspeed]

You seem to have mistaken my intention. I'm not discussing foreign policy. I'm discussing how the current government takes cue from the worst aspects of the US, I assume because they want to enjoy the results those aspects generate. That is the concentrating of economic and political power at the expense of liberty and justice, not to mention our environment which still looms as large as ever.

The economic crises, the wholesale collection of Internet traffic, any number of historic atrocities perpetrated and whitewashed by Western powers in the Middle East and elsewhere in the last couple of decades, particularly post-9/11, all these things are outcomes of the choices and the values behind these choices of those our current government is trying to emulate. This is the kind of shit NZ should be standing apart from, not with. It's from these values that you get a health and education system like in the US, where you can to go bankrupt trying to access either.

I'll not fucking relax when so much is at stake.