Posts by nzlemming
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Hard News: The digital switch-off, in reply to Kumara Republic,
What are you saying, man? That the market doesn't work? Such heresy!! Burn him!!
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Hard News: About Arie, in reply to Matthew Poole,
Are you serious? You'd have no mothers left in society.
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Hard News: About Arie, in reply to Ross Mason,
Only if they have cellphones
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Hard News: About Arie, in reply to Russell Brown,
David Cohen uses the noun “autist”, which I quite like, but it sounds way better when he says it than when I do
So a photo of Leo would be "A Portrait of the Autist as a Young Man"?
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Hard News: The digital switch-off, in reply to Sacha,
I'd rather be a sycophant than a psycho-phant
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Hard News: About Arie, in reply to Matthew Poole,
I wondered how long it would take for that clip to generate outrage. Looks like it’s the usual knee-jerk.
Thanks for that, Matthew. I wondered how long it would take for your usual knee-jerk contempt to show through.
For the record, I do not want armed police on our streets. I accept that there's a role to play for the AOS in particular circumstances, but I do not want armed officers to become the norm on patrol. I know that many police are carrying firearms at present, in their vehicles or on their persons, but I don't have to like it or approve of it. I also don't like the society we've become that makes them regard it as necessary to do so.
But thanks for playing.
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Hard News: About Arie, in reply to Sacha,
Much as I hate to enable turds like Laws and his fellow travellers, free speech is exactly the right to use a megaphone, if you can persuade someone to give you one. You're right about not being immune from consequences, and that's what (hopefully) will shut him down eventually. But free speech is binary - you have it or you don't. If you have it, some people are going to say things you don't want to hear. Don't listen. If the consequence of their speech is to cause you danger or pain, then take them to task with the people who pay their bills, those who lent them the megaphone. But don't shut them down because they might say something - if one of us is not free to speak, then all of us are not free to speak. That's actually not right-wing cant, BTW.
Also note that the "right to free speech" is the right to speak without hindrance by the government; it's in the Bill of Rights Act 1990 ad "freedom of expression" and the Justice Ministry notes point out "The Bill of Rights Act protects you from the actions of anyone in government that interfere with you__(sic)__ rights."
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Hard News: What Now?, in reply to Matthew Poole,
I was thinking "After all that Christchurch has suffered, Hamilton, too?" ;-)
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Hard News: About Arie, in reply to Kumara Republic,
Dragging the Red Squad out of retirement can’t be far off
There was an item on the news tonight (One I think, but I can't see it) about the Armed Offenders Squad patrolling in Christchurch 24/7 - tooled up - because they "want to do their bit", and the video had a cop in his AOS uniform, gun on hip. Unfuckingbelievable.
The AOS is only supposed to be deployed in response to an incident involving armed offenders, hence the name (that note for Judith Collins, in case she hadn't worked it out). They're not supposed to do ordinary patrolling, armed with glocks and sheilds and who knows what else is in the back of the wagon.
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Hard News: The digital switch-off, in reply to Russell Brown,
We're quite good at the public-service obs-docs, not given to the cruelty-based formats
For that we have Parliament.