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  Thursday, 17 May 2007


The Minister for Social Engineering, the Hon Ben Dover, announced today that the government would soon announce details of its child abuse credit trading programme. It is expected that under the plan those wishing to abuse children could purchase credits from individuals and organisations which care for and assist children. An official said: "it might work like this... a Plunket nurse could sell the credits accumulated over any financial year from the care of children to any individual or organisation without credit or with a shortage of credits to abuse children." The Ministry would be issuing a schedule of abuse, grading various activities and the number of credits required to carry them out under the scheme.

National's spokesperson on social engineering condemned the government's attempt to bring in the scheme and said under National child abuse would be regulated by individual hardworking New Zealand families. A Maori Party spokesperson said that gangs should be allowed to trade in the credits just like any other organisation. The Greens objected to the plan as being inferior to their own proposal to tax child abuse but said, nevertheless that they would support the government. Winston Peter's office said the Minister, presently touring refugee camps on the French Riviera could not be reached for comment.

(Written by my friend Ron Resnick as a letter to the editor of our local newspaper. Trying to get across the absurdity of carbon credit trading in 200 words or less is no easy task, let alone getting it printed. I think Ron nailed it with this and it's one of his best letter writing efforts to date.)


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