Posts by Russell Brown
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If the police think Sam's a terrorist, they're mad.
They don't, or he'd have been arrested and charged.
The most likely explanation is that someone who is tied up in what they're investigating had lived at the house at some point. You saw the same thing in Christchurch, where they went to four different houses looking for one person.
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I'm not too impressed by the complete suppression of all information from the bail hearings either.
Me neither. Apart from anything else this is going to mean a whole lot of unanswered questions hanging over a general election.
My feeling is that there is some wilful determination on the part of the police to fit facts to a pre-conceived idea here. Russell and Bomber could be right with their hinting that something big has been uncovered and the police could still be screwing things up.
I think "big" remains to be seen. "Worthy of police intervention" is a better bet.
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For immediate release:
The mainstream media should ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for them, said Qantas Awards-winning blogger Russell Brown today.
"The Grey Warbler's astonishing surge to victory in the final days of the 2007 Bird of the Year vote underlines the crucial influence of the blogosphere in modern democracies," said Brown, the founder of the Public Address group blog website.
"Sure, the MSM might have tried to grab some of the glory with so-called 'news' stories when the Warbler took wing, but the story was done and dusted by then. The people had spoken, and they spoke blog."
An impassioned call to arms by broadcaster Graeme "Hill" Hill in the final days of the election sparked a swelling of popular sentiment that had changed history, said Brown.
"I'm deeply proud of Graeme," said Brown, "and I would like to emphasise that some rash comments made by Graeme after his blog post was published can be wholly ascribed to a pre-existing medical condition.
"But let us put that to one side, and drink in the full significance of the occasion. Today, we are all riroriro."
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but I find camp about as funny as constant sarcasm - a very low form of wit.
Camp itself isn't a form of wit. It's what you do with your camp, honey ...
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I bet you snorted cocaine off a supermodels belly, made some home made pR0n and got dropped off home in P-Diddy's Maserati as well!
Well, we did have a drink beforehand at a bar where I could have had my choice of Krug ($480) or Cristal ($530), and I assured those present that had I been P Diddy I'd surely have done so.
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Naturally ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_New_Zealand_anti-terror_raids
Had a wee edit. Be rude not to.
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The Taupo family have their computers back.
Apparently the connection was that the daughter's boyfriend was an associate of Iti's.
The search warrant contained what sounds the same, long list of Trade Me transactions for military clothing and equipment, hence the interest in the computers.
Are the police getting a tiny bit desperate to find some of these purchased items? I guess it's possible that the boyfriend was one of the traders.
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Interesting turn for the thread. I'm still really pissed off about the way Pita Sharples has looked to ramp this up without apparently knowing much in the way of facts. Quotes are:
"I can hardly believe that negative history is repeating itself," he said.
"These storm trooper tactics violating the cultural sanctity of kainga, kura, kohanga reo, let alone the whenua and papakainga within Tuhoe remind me of the atrocities committed at Pariihaka, and of the pursuit of Te Kooti Rikirangi."
Dr Sharples said he was disgusted.
"What is the real reason for the use of the Terrorism Suppression act in this orchestrated campaign against so-called activists?
"No charges have been laid under that Act since it was introduced in 2002 so what next – are we going to see charges and trumped up evidence to justify this very extreme police action?
"This action has violated the trust that has been developing between Maori and Pakeha and sets our race relations back a hundred years."
Has he Godwined himself with the "stormtrooper" reference? And shouldn't words like "atrocities" be saved for the really big jobs?
I really hope this sort of talk doesn't become a self-fulfilling prophecy.
I was wishing Ron Mark would join most of his Parliamentary colleagues and just STFU for a few days, but Sharples has blown right past him.
The Stuff readers' response doesn't fill me with hope either.
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I thought this was interesting, and somewhat amusing ...
Pakeha police gunmen botched their politically correct attempts at speaking Maori during the terror raids in Ruatoki.
A teenage girl said police clad in black uniforms wielding rifles stormed into a home on Monday morning then spoke in a broken form of Maori. "I had to say, 'Speak in English, I can't understand you'," the girl told the Herald yesterday ...
The Herald has been told the officers were ordered to speak in Maori after Prime Minister Helen Clark was briefed about the raids.
A police spokeswoman said there was no policy in place for officers on the raid to speak Maori.
It understandable that locals would think the police checkpoint being set up on the "confiscation line" was deliberately provocative. Given the above, it seems more likely to have been simple ignorance.
But it suggests that the potential consequences of the raid weren't lost on Clark when she was briefed.
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Pita Sharples has jumped the shark.
He's publicly compared Monday's police action in Ruatoki to the sacking of Parihaka.
In Parihaka, 1600 armed constabulary, acting outside the law, drove 2000 people off their land (many of them permanently), destroyed houses and burned crops.
Many people were imprisoned without trial, some for as long as 18 years. Two million acres of land were subsequently seized.
What happened on Monday might have pissed people off, and even made them feel scared, but to compare it to Parihaka is to grossly trivialise the memory of Parihaka itself.
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