Human rights abuse!

I wonder if the Commissioner spotted anything in the text that protects the long suffering ratepayer from continued human rights abuse such as wallet rape.

According to this gem by LGNZ (see pdf here with detail), rates over the next decade are set to rise 60% to cover the grandiose schemes already mooted by councils and in Waitakere's case more plaques.

I wonder how much these plaques and pictures with Bob's name on them have cost the ratepayer? Really, if any one needs to abuse their own human rights by wading through the UN charter - it is far easier to look it up on the interweb thing! Ratepayers do not need tiddly pictures, with a plaque and a poem by some no doubt handsomely paid iwi in the Mayors mausoleum.