Posts by Chris Waugh
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Up Front: Everyone is Wrong. And Right. Whatever., in reply to Brodie Davis,
I support boycotts, from the simple reason that you shouldn't be giving money to companies/countries who practices you disagree with.
You must lead a very ascetic existence, then. The way the economy is structured there's no way you could not give your money to companies/countries whose pracices you disagree with.
That said, in the right time and place a properly done boycott can certainly be effective.
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Hard News: It's worse than you think, in reply to Gareth Swain,
So, what is it that’s keeping him high in the polls? Someone obviously likes him (or National), so what is it they like?
I have asked similar questions before and the answers I get just leave me further mystified. Apparently people perceive him as some ordinary bloke, the guy next door you happily share a few beers and a good yarn with. I don't get it, I see nothing like that in him.
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I've been thinking for a while now that somebody in the opposition needs to propose a Democracy Protection Bill. This government has gotten far too abusive.
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This is worrying news. At the time I felt the police were massively overreacting, but it would seem they went even further down that path.
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Capture: Upside Down, Inside Out, in reply to Gudrun Gisela,
Ouch.
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Hard News: The Real Threat, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
He’s our very own ‘Blurter’
Y'know, if we rearranged those letters, we could turn him into our very own butler. Except we'd have an extra r. He's not of Southland or Beijing origins, is he? Cos I think butlerr would work just as well, and I rather prefer the idea of him as the national butler rather than the PM.
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Hadn't seen the West Gate from this angle before.
And now flipped around so the writing goes the right way.
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Hard News: The Real Threat, in reply to Ross Mason,
Where and what ARE those MWDs mentioned as being around here?
MWDs.... umm.... Mollycoddled Wastrel Delinquents?
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Hard News: The Real Threat, in reply to "chris",
Y'know, I think you just hit on precisely the problem. Suddenly we're all suspect (I don't know anybody in Yemen, but I do know people who've been to Lebanon, Syria, Iran, Myanmar, North Korea, Sudan.... and people from a whole variety of places.... and members of political parties not overly popular amongst the rather hawkish types who seem to form the backbones of military and intelligence organisations... and have shared a few beers and solved the world's problems with a guy who claimed to be a Sudanese diplomat) and suddenly anybody with access to the information can see anything they want in all that data.
Intelligence, security and law enforcement agencies need their powers tightly controlled and strictly monitored, that's how we preserve our freedom. In NZ they've managed so far to mostly cope reasonably well with having to actually prove they've got good reason to suspect somebody, I don't see what's suddenly changed that they need the kinds of powers Key seems so keen to give them.
But of course, if you've done nothing wrong, buy yourself a Tui billboard.
