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RODNEY HIDE (ACT NZ) 
: During the last debate on this bill we heard an amazing contribution from the Green Party member Keith Locke. I have to say it is a good thing that under an MMP Parliament all views are represented. We heard the view of the hard-left in New Zealand from Mr Keith Locke. We heard the views of the MPs that this Government relies on for its vote because Mr Keith Locke stood up in this House and delivered an embarrassing diatribe against the United States of America. His problem with the United States of America was that the State might be snooping on people in the interests of capturing monitoring and exposing those who would make war against us those who would commit violence against us and those whom we have come to know as “terrorists”. I do not understand how that view can sit with a man like Mr Keith Locke. I could understand it if one were a hard-core libertarian or an anarchist but not if one were a person who supported the Soviet regime in the USSR who supported KGB operations and who said in 1975: “Victory for humanity: Phnom Penh falls”. We all know what happened then. Pol Pot came along and 1 million people lost their lives in the terror regime of the State on the people of Cambodia. 
Mr Locke is a man who has written articles telling workers of Aotearoa to support the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan and the terror regime that the USSR inflicted not only on its own people but on the satellite States of what Ronald Reagan called the “evil empire”. What sort of warped thinking is it of the Green Party and of Mr Keith Locke that complains about the intelligence network of the United States of America—where people have civil rights individual rights a free press a Congress and what we understand as a parliamentary democracy? That man in the very next breath supports terrorist States without check and police States without check—where the University of the USSR is a gulag and where political dissent is not voted on in Parliament or allowed to stand on the steps of a Parliament to be heard but rather is shipped off to the salt mines of Siberia. That is the sort of regime that Keith Locke has spent his entire adult life supporting. It shows through time and time with the Greens because they are people who do not want to protect the environment but to control people. They want to dictate to people; they want to tell people how to live their lives. It was the same airy-fairy Moonie-type approach that saw the rise of the totalitarian dictatorships that thankfully the world is beginning to rid itself of. 
I say to Mr Keith Locke and the Greens that if they are going to sit in this Parliament then sure they should have the debates but they should ask themselves about all the peoples of the world who do not have a vote who do not have free speech and who suffer from arbitrary arrest and detention because of their political views? Is it not about time that Mr Keith Locke came to this Parliament and asked whether it is not a wonderful thing to have a democracy to have a Parliament to have free speech to have individual rights and to be a citizen of a free society—and to say that he apologises to all those people of Cambodia the USSR Afghanistan North Korea Communist China and Cuba for his support of regimes that held them down and inflicted terrible fear on them? 
Do members know what Mr Keith Locke said to me at the end of his speech? He said “I’m not a Stalinist; I am a Trotskyist.”—as if that were some excuse to walk into this Parliament and say “Oh I never went as far as Josef Stalin did only as far as Leon Trotsky did.” That just means that the State tells one everything: what one can eat how one can think and what one can do. Let us be very clear about one thing—that is what the Green programme is. It is not about protecting the environment; it is about controlling people and removing their freedom because the Greens know best. They do not want people to be able to drive their cars where they choose. They do not want people to be able to live where they choose. How ironic it is that they worry about the State having the minimal powers needed to protect us from terrorist activity yet they want to tell us when our cows can let off wind whether we can chop down a tree that we had planted and how Maori people are supposed to live. In their ideal world they would be sitting atop a miserable socialist society where we all lived in caves and worked in the sun with no tractors or machinery—nothing—but just hoeing in the hot sun for a dollar a day and the only thing we had to look forward to courtesy of Nandor Tanczos would be a nice puff of marijuana at the end of a hard day’s work. 
That is the only fun the Greens would allow New Zealanders to have. They do not like us driving our cars they do not like us earning money and they do not like us zooming around in a jet—unless we are a Green. They do not like us using our cellphones. They do not even like us putting our shopping at the end of a hard week in a plastic bag. They want us to get one of those flax-woven shopping bags and carry that—looking like some 1970s retard—walking home with our shopping and morris dancing after a hard day. To the Greens plastic is wrong. I say that Keith Locke— 
David Benson-Pope 
: What about the bill? Has the member read the bill? 
RODNEY HIDE 
: David Benson-Pope does not like it does he? He knows he has to come across to Keith Locke and get his vote. I want to tell members something else about the Labour Party—compared to the Labour Party I like the Greens. At least the Greens tell us what they stand for. David Benson-Pope does not disagree with one thing that Keith Locke says. See! What he does not have is the intestinal fortitude that Keith Locke has to say it. Keith Locke—and that is why I support him—came into this Parliament and I said “Let’s hear what you have got to say. Let’s hear what the people have to say.” The ACT party supports the bill because we do not want to be supporting the friends of Keith Locke who are the enemies of freedom.