Thread: Protesting Confiscation Events

Originally Posted by ebf

@PommyMcPomFace, "parroting it on their behalf" REALLY ?!?

there are very specific rights - go read the NZ Bill of Rights Act

If you want to argue about implied rights, good luck with convincing the courts in NZ that you have a case

Not trying to change anything. There's people that call it a right, there's people that call it a privilege. I argue that functionally, it sits somewhere in the middle as it's not really defined as either.

Which means that yes, I think the phrase "privilege not a right" is quite unhelpful, because a) it confers less protection than the alternatives and b) legally might not be the case.