Hard News: The Exploding Banana Scandal
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What's stopping the NZRU from just revoking the SST's press credentials on the spot? That I'd like to see.
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Jonathan is going to grow up into Bill Ralston.
And then be mistaken for Russell Brown.
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The reason we don't get many bombs in NZ is twofold:
- nobody has sufficient of a grudge to risk jail/death (or indeed to court it with a suicide attack).
- it's quite hard to obtain/make explosives and detonators, and to fashion them into a viable deviceNo doubt one day, we'll get some nutter like David Copeland who will combine madness with the ability to make a bomb. Like Copeland and Timothy McVeigh, it's statistically likely they'll come from the Whale Oil end of the spectrum.
But I don't think that justifies giving up our freedoms, even if placing DPF's commentators in perpetual preventative detention is quite attractive.
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we'll get some nutter like David Copeland
(Sorry, perhaps that joke is only relevant to anyone in Wellington who's ever worked in web because they've probably worked there)
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Boom Town rats...
Well we did have Neil Roberts in Wanganui
and the Wellington Trades Hall bomber
and Those Damn French Rainbow Warrior bombers
but that was the '80s...
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Like Copeland and Timothy McVeigh, it's statistically likely they'll come from the Whale Oil end of the spectrum.
You can also add Eric Rudolph and Scott Roeder to the list.
Closer to home, there was the Graeme White affair, although thankfully he was caught napping.
Even the NF didn't want these two in their ranks.
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and Those Damn French Rainbow Warrior bombers
but that was the '80s...
things are different nowFor starters, the French are very unlikely to need to resort to terrorism to spoil the rugby world cup for us.
(Also, if we're indicting people for misuse of the word "hysteria", I have a nomination.)
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Well we did have Neil Roberts in Wanganui
and the Wellington Trades Hall bomber
and Those Damn French Rainbow Warrior bombers
but that was the '80s...Someone also left an explosive device in a dunny at Christchurch Airport during the '81 tour, if I recall correctly. Crazy days ...
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There was also an explosion at the Wellington Railyards on the morning of the Athletic Park test in 1981.
It wasn't early escavation work for the replacement stadium either.
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Bombs in Christchurch was part of the turf war for bars & brothels during the 1980s.
The Firehouse & Route 66 were both bombed, Crazy Horse was torched.As for the tour bomb, I put it into the same file as Polish aggression causing the Nazi self defence programme.
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Bombs in Christchurch was part of the turf war for bars & brothels during the 1980s.
and don't forget the suspicious fire that destroyed Moby Dicks formerly the fabulous Majestic Theatre
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The reason we don't get many bombs in NZ is twofold:
Threefold: Through some combination of culture, climate and blind luck, even our crazy people are fairly benign, by global standards. Whale Oil may make you wish you were dead, but the odds of him actually killing anyone are pretty long.
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Never fear though, bombs coming to NZ sometime soon. The best measure NZ could take to ensure the security at the RWC is stop fighting the wrong war for the wrong side. Makes for great news fodder though.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/middle-east/3509267/CIA-party-for-suicide-spy
Maybe winning the cup could make up for losing the war. It must be a blow when your side takes yet another hit. That would be, if you were still feeling anything.
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