Posts by Russell Brown
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Watched this last night -- it's brilliant.
Interestingly, Steve Maharey used Charlie Brooker in his speech to the recent digital broadcasting conference in Wellington.
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Treaty Crimes Investigation Unit?
Treaty Crimes Investigation Authority, actually.
They looked like the kind of people you can imagine joining Zenith Applied Philosophy, actually: weird middle-aged men.
Not exactly where I'd look first for life coaching ...
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Bomber mulls over his starring role in today's news story.
Check out the first comment. I'm really struck by the arrogance of some of the people in the "activist" movement, but I suppose I would say that, being a bourgeois enabler and everything.
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__It is no coincidence that this happened between the first and second reading of the ammendment to the SoTA.
Think about it.__
Ok, I did. For 2 seconds. From what I have read this bill is going to be passed by about 110 to 10. Given its negative nature and the support of National why the hell would the Government/Cops contrive an event to bring unwanted attention to the bill. That claim is nonsense.
Think about it.
What seems more likely is that those opposed to the bill are using this incident to bring more rigorous attention to its content.
Yeah, I thought about it too, and came to the same conclusions as you. The amendment bill is is going to pass with a majority of 100 and until this week's events would have done so largely without controversy. Now, everyone's talking about it.
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But once you put the T-word out there (and don't ask me to believe that the Police haven't been strategically leaking like mad), you've gt to not only make a case that will stand up, but be seen to do so.
Of course. And just quietly, I think the police are gagging to present evidence. I would think it was relatively unusual for them to have 18 months' surveillance to draw on. There'll be emails, texts, videos and photographs. Whether that means convictions, or even charges, under the SoTA remains to be seen.
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Dunno if you saw the TV3 news last night, but they spoke to Lockett's supporters outside the court after he had his bail denied.
VERY strange lot.
The "Treaty Crimes Investigation Unit", apparently. With very official looking ID cards and everything.
Weren't they!
The video is on the TV3 website.
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And The Press ...
Police raids in Christchurch on Monday were aimed at finding an activist who had attended one of the militant training camps in the Bay of Plenty, a source close to the man says.
The man attended the camp in the Urewera Ranges after an invitation from Tuhoe activists, but only went once after being "overwhelmed" and "a bit freaked out" by their military-style practices, the source said.
The man was not in Christchurch when police called and visits to four houses in the city were aimed at finding him, a fellow activist said.
And freaked out four households full of people, no doubt.
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And in the Herald this morning ...
Those charged after the investigation into paramilitary training camps include a dancer, a labourer, a musician and a community worker.
No street theatre then?
The story also says that the police coughed up some additional evidence that prompted the High Court to cancel Lockett's bail. It was suppressed by the judge.
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ok, it's post-a-rama from me here.
but...bomber is backing the police, and ross meurant is agin them.
we are thru the looking glass on this.
They might both be right. Bomber knows quite a bit about what was said and done, and has been saying that the police were right to get involved. Meurant says the actual operation was overkill. Mind you, he's guilty of that himself ...
Mr Meurant, who lives in Prague and described himself as involved in investment analysis of business opportunities in former Eastern Bloc countries, compared the police actions to those of the Bush Administration invading Iraq with supposed evidence of weapons of mass destruction.
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The Dom Post's lead story, apparently based on police evidence provided to the defence, says Iti and his mates were working off the IRA Green Book manual.
The source describes the group as "comical" and "amateurish". On the other hand ...
Iti is alleged to have purchased shotgun ammunition from an Auckland gun shop and tried to obtain grenade launchers.
It is not clear from the documents whether he succeeded.
But a document does suggest the arms dealer was willing to obtain grenade launchers.
No mention of targets is made in the documents, but it is believed the only explosives to which the group had access were Molotov cocktails.
It would seem that if a "target" is cited by police, it'll be in Auckland on Friday, and it won't be Clark.
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