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During their investigation of the purchase of a large estate in New Zealand by Peter Thiel, Matt Nippert and Anne Gibson, reporters for The New Zealand Herald, noticed that certain processes required by the Overseas Investment Act had not been followed. The explanation: Peter Thiel is a NZ citizen and hence wasn't required to follow the procedures for an overseas investment.
If Thiel is so sure that Trump will deliver, why does he need a bolt hole and more importantly, citizenship in another country?
One question being asked was why Mr. Thiel became a New Zealander in 2011. Close behind that was how it happened.
If you like New Zealand enough to want to become a citizen, the country's Internal Affairs Department noted on Wednesday, one requirement is "to have been physically in New Zealand for a minimum of 1,350 days in the five years preceding the citizenship application." Another requirement is that you "continue to reside" there after becoming a citizen.
Mr. Thiel, 49, does not appear to have done either.
[...] If Mr. Thiel was not a resident in New Zealand for the necessary amount of time, an exception must have been made. The government has not responded to questions about whether that happened and, if so, what the reason was.
(Score: 2) by Wootery on Wednesday February 01 2017, @11:39AM
Can't get much further left then having the government stay out of the peoples business.
That's nonsense. Leftism wants government to actively intervene to make society a better, fairer place. Decidedly not minarchistic.
(Score: 2) by dry on Thursday February 02 2017, @04:02AM
That may be true of what Americans call leftist (not quite as far right in most of the world) but just as there are various types of rightists, there are various types of leftists. Originally it was pretty simple. Left equaled for the people or workers and right equaled for the aristocracy or rich.
There's other political axises as well, libertarian vs authoritarian, which are independent of right vs left. To many people get mixed up, it seems all right/left wingers are authoritarian, depending on your view point, mostly because they're the loudest, so they blame it on right/left. Just to confuse things more, there's also the conservative vs progressive axis. You can have a conservative leftist who dreams of going back to when unions were powerful or a progressive rightist who doesn't mind advancing human rights. Here in Canada, our right wing party for the longest time until they killed themselves with NAFTA and the GST were the Progressive Conservatives, probably closer to the Clinton/Obama Democrats then not.
(Score: 2) by Wootery on Friday February 03 2017, @10:30AM
None of that strikes me as wrong, but it's still silly to in any way equate modern leftism with minarchism. Left libertarianism is a pretty tiny niche.
In the USA today, the left aren't minarchist, and neither are the mainstream right, even if they like to pretend they are.