A mere donation of $50,000 to a political party can buy foreigners a citizenship?

A Minister of the Crown contacts the police on behalf of a foreigner, not for a delicate technical point of law to be clarified.

Not even just for some misunderstanding, but for one who is under investigation for a criminal act.

I am not aware of the business or wealth this person supposedly has brought to this country in return for citizenship.

However, in this case I would think that for $50,000, this country would be over-run by now with emigrants all contributing $50,000 to the economy.

We have to ask: Would a $50,000 donation to a political party cause a minister of the crown to overstep the mark? No way.

I'm thinking there must be a greater covert reason for the minister's involvement than just a particular foreigner bringing business and a donation to the country.

Voters are not all brain dead; some of us maintain a certain amount of savvy. You can't fool all of the people all of the time. So it is up to us to air our thoughts at the ballot box in September.

And I have to ask. Haven't these synthetic drugs already been tested enough on humans to be able to analyse their effect without trying them on animals?

Ray Jones, Otumoetai.