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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