Posts by Russell Brown
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How about they read their own reader feedback columns?
I'm pretty sure the Herald doesn't run threats to kill in 'Your Views', Craig.
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I don't know much about Bomber - but isn't he always full of sh*t?
Do you seriously think he invented conversations so as to point the finger at people he knows?
Read the comments, where someone's telling him to keep his mouth shut.
He may well be right in saying that what the police are responding to are empty threats that were never going to be acted on, but I don't doubt his sincerity.
Any show of you acknowledging that there just might have been matters of legitimate police concern here, Michael?
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The Herald are running the above 'chilling' quotes from Jamie Lockett - perhaps they'd be a little more frightening if I hadn't been reading kiwiblog for such a long time and grown accustomed to nutters like Redbaiter and Dad4Justice promising civil war and oceans of blood.
Of course. People don't get arrested for rhetoric, and if they did a number of Kiwiblog commenters would be in trouble.
But come on, Danyl. Lockett is a heavy dude, who made apparently credible threats of violence when he was working as Mark Lyon's minder. And he has also been charged with firearms offences. I'm not real comfortable with him saying things like that, especially if there is a connection between him and the camo warriors.
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Oh, right. here's Bomber's post from last night:
I've just come back from talking with some people in the activist community who have an idea of what is going on here, and if the allegations as I understand them are true, this country is about to get very, very, very angry. The revelations had my jaw fall open - though I don't believe for one moment what will be revealed is anything more than stupid arrogant boasts on the behalf of those who have been caught, middle NZ will recoil in horror and the right wing are about to be handed the most devestating home goal from a group of clowns who are about to set off a chain reaction the ends of which simply can't be determined.
two things seem certain:
I: God forgive me, but as I understand it (and I'm open to being wrong, please let me be wrong) BUT the Police look like they were right to be concerned
2: There is going to be outrage when the full story gets out the likes of which talkback have never dreamt of.Things are about to get really bumpy and I fear where this is going to end. I'm going to bed in the hope this is all one bad dream.
Crikey.
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Bainimarama is a strange bed fellow though for Tame Iti.
Hardly. One of the less appealing traits of Maori sovereigntists has been their support for thugs in Fiji.
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As for the battery hens thing, why would they? Breaking into a farm to rescue animals doesn't imply blowing things up any more than smoking weed makes you a potential murderer or driving with no seat belt makes you a rapist.
Correct. But by the same token, being an animal rights activist doesn't mean it's impossible for you to embrace violence, as some people seem to think. It has happened.
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People stood up for the right of Tim Selwyn to incite sedition, and Paul Hopkinson and Valerie Morse to burn flags (while eviscerating the individuals) although these people were all prepared to step over the line from legal protest to illegal protest.
I agree. There are countless historical instances of protest that involve breaking the law -- often, the breach of the law is the protest in itself. That's not the same thing as posing a genuine security threat.
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Joe Hendren recontextualises the allegations that the SIS was spying on Maori activists, which they so vehemently denied and the SST had to retract.
I wondered about that too. But the timelines don't match, and neither do the identities of the people allegedly involved.
And this bit is bogus:
Murray Horton believes the so called "sources" for the Sunday Star Times story ran "a classic agent provocateur operation aimed at damaging the credibility of opponents of both the SIS and the Government", in particular Nicky Hagar who co-wrote the story.
It wasn't Hager's story until the very last moment --- he was only brought in late in the piece to add some security background, so unless the editor of the Sunday Star Times was in on it too, this just doesn't wash.
I continue to be struck by the way that people criticising a lack of plausible police evidence seem happy to come up with any old theory on their own part.
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Anyway - to the footage… dim early-morning light, dawn chorus chirping in the background, dull noise of distant traffic, the sound of smashing glass, the shouts of "Police!".... all very atmospheric and about a million times better without some hack explaining the bleeding obvious in an annoying voice-over. Perhaps TV3 could post more raw footage in future? Just a simple caption explaining the situation is all that's required - the viewing public are not completely thick - we can actually work it out for ourselves.
You'll be pleased to know that Mark Jennings thought the same thing. He told me he thought the midday news version they ran with a reporter's voiceover wasn't nearly as the naked video on the website.
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This is small time stuff but it's worth considering what has gone on in other Pacific countries and I do recall quite a few voices on the Left arguing that such things could happen here if Treaty grievances weren't properly dealt with.
I wasn't very impressed with Iti's recent trip to Fiji to offer support to Bainimarama.
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