| Wednesday, October 10, 2012 5:00 PM

ON LEGAL HIGHS

Legal high manufacturers are set to face some hefty bills if they want to sell their product.

Under law changes proposed today companies will have to pay around $200,000 in application fees, and up to $2 million in testing costs for each product they want to sell.

This move puts the onus of proof back onto the manufacturers and sellers.

If it's not proven to be absolutely safe then it won't be able to be sold.

Sure, some of these products might move underground but it is patently ridiculous to allow untested products on the market where nobody knows what they are made of.

Its a sensible move.

ON GREECE

The protests on the streets of Athens says it all about Greece.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel who is visiting Athens for the first time since Europe's debt crisis was greeted by tens of thousands of morons protesting her presence.

Merkel is the person who of course could have cut Greece off at the knees. Instead Greece has got bailout packages worth over 200 billion euros. Her thanks is Greeks dressed in Nazi uniforms on the streets of Athens.

Merkel must be tempted to pull the plug. She probably should. Greece has a culture of entitlements. Nothing much will change. Cut them loose and see how they get on.

ON TYSON

The Associate Immigration Minister Kate Wilkinson will have to rule again on Mike Tyson's visa application.

The Manakau Urban Maori Authority is supporting the application. Willie Jackson thinks that Tyson will be able to speak to disadvantaged youths in South Auckland. I'm guessing there are bucks in there for the Authority for their support.

If Jackson thinks that Tyson is going to make a difference, well OK, fine. If that's what he thinks. Its a strange kind of thinking.

The reports are now showing Tyson for what he really is - a mongrel.

The reviews are that Tyson peppers his audience with stories of referring to women, including his victim, as 'whores, bitches, and tramps'. That there is a 'relentless misogyny and trivialization of rape and domestic violence'.

Willie Jackson says that out on the street the community support is tremendous.

Sure there is.

ON CHILD SEX ABUSE

They don't muck around with child sex abusers in the US.

A former assistant AFL coach at Penn State University has been found guilty of 45 counts of child sexual abuse, convicted of molesting 10 boys over a 15 year period.

Jerry Sandusky, 68, has been sent to prison for 30 years.

Actually the judge handed down a 30-60 year term.

There is no truth to the rumour that Sandusky said in his statement to the court said he wished he'd committed the crimes in NZ because he would have been out in a few years. That everyone deserves a second chance and in NZ you get that. And you also get a group cuddle.