Posts by Paul Campbell
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Back in the 80s the SIS seemed to be a bunch of rank amateurs - I remember when they opened a Dunedin office - shock horror there were Russian fishing boats stopping for R&R - they had a phone number on the phone book, but no address - someone noticed an unknown law firm, and sat outside while someone else called the number, of course the phone rang .... later they came back and took photos .... the office was completely paralyzed up by a student with a camera
One sat next to me in Muldoon's election appearance at the town hall just after the '81 tour - he tried to fit in but the bomber command handlebar mustache kind of gave him away ....
BTW the russian sailors were a hoot - they hung out in groups of 3-4, one always looked like he was the political minder - they bought a lot of 2nd hand sewing machines and vodka - I remember one Sat afternoon in the Cook listening to Sam Hunt and Gary McCormack making their pleas to bring down the state and 3 very drunken russian sailors wanking to know where the music was - definitely not interested in the whole bringing down the state thing - there was probably a guy in the back somewhere with a handlebar mustache and a bad attempt at a hippie shirt
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true - I was exaggerating a tad - the thought that our scary terrorists are now travelling doing plays in europe does kind of suggest that the whole thing was rather overblown, especially since much of the evidence was tossed out
Does kind of smell a bit like the Sutch affair though - but a new generation of cold-war-warriorsbut instead of "we caught a spy" it's "we caught a terrorist" - spend all that time training and psyching them up to find terrorists and they'll start finding them under every rock
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um - but I was serious
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they're on tour in Europe
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One thing I found interesting about the interview was her assertion that a lot of the zeal behind the court case had to do with some Cold War spy catchers excited because they thought they'd actually caught their first spy - just imagine what would have happened if it wasn't a jury brought in off the street but a Bush-style secret intelligence court/star chamber
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(and just to prove it can be done)
Annoyed with the Socialist lickspittle
the libertarianz said that it'll
be a cold day in hell
when in the house do they dwell
'cos the rest of us don't care a whittle -
damn should be 'caused'
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There once was a merchant banker
His lack of policy cause rancour
when finally released
his taxes weren't least
everyone thought him a -
yes but on the other hand lots of things rhyme with Rand: "unseen hand", "pay for your own broadband", "SOE disband", "Nats right-hand", "ideological headstand" - the possibilities abound ...
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I can just imagine it, laid back in the box with my nose sticking out of the water and all I can think of is dirty limericks