Posts by Russell Brown
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And you know full well the difference between stating fact and opinion. And given that you publicly called Chuck Bird a public fool, you must feel one is entitled to an opinion.
No Dave, you sided with an abuser against her child. That's what it's about.
To be honest, I can't see any point in continuing to argue these points with you.
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Let's look again at Dave unemotively, coolly, conveying a story about assault.
Ah yes: "This boy is a brat." Aren't they all?
Thanks to a witness, we now know what actually happened was that the "brat" was tied up, kicked and beaten in a vicious assault that only halted because a member of the public intervened. Both the woman and her husband were sent to jail for the assault.
Sadly, before the conviction she also assaulted her daughter, who also had to be removed from her care by CYFS. I know for a fact there's a long history of this, because another sibling contacted me personally after I wrote about it.
So what kind of twisted logic makes CYFS the villain and the abuser the victim?
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emotive, Russell emotive.
And that's your response? I'm disgusted.
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Did somebody say "Lindsay Lohan"?
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Since when has a law been made on the basis that it is not enforced? I ask that here
Wow. I'm truly staggered that you've voluntarily pointed to your commentary on a case that really provides a compelling argument for the removal of the Section 59 defence.
In one case, a boy swung a baseball bat at his stepfather's head, while verbally threatening him with a permanent head injury. Fortunately he was able to block the blow and disarm the boy.
The boy's mother disciplined him with a riding crop and was subsequently acquitted using section 59 as a defence.
You know very well what happened was not "smacking" and equally well what happened after the woman was acquitted via the Section 59 defence. If you didn't have a good idea of the abusive nature of her parenting then, you surely must by now.
And yet in that column you blamed the child. There were any number of legitimate actions that could have been taken if the disturbed child had in fact behaved as alleged (and given the woman's subsequent barefaced lies, I rather doubt it). Responding with more violence is not one of them.
You should be ashamed of yourself.
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@Tom
when are we going to get to the point where we can actually celebrate our urban cultures?
I think this is at the heart of the complaints. The Auckland CBD just doesn't look like that. It's more scruffy, more lively and a hell of a lot more Chinese. It's hard not to see the ad as a little bit of a cringe.
It also seems oddly passive at a time when Auckland is rousing itself.
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So I tell you this, I guess, to indicate there are other pitfalls to reporting suicides!
Yikes. It's hard to believe anyone could be that malicious.
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Que? Tu quoque? Last person I would have picked to want to engage with the 'weird world of bloggers'. Kudos, I guess.
Yes, very much. Thanks, Deborah.
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Thanks Neal. But could I prevail on you to click edit under "user details" at the top right of the page and add your surname, and "Telecom" as your location? It'd be clearer that way.
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He's got a family and a wife and probably some issues to work through but I really don't know enough about what happened to pass judgment on him, and judgmental is what I read into some of the comments on here.
Like I keep saying, I just want the guy to get some help with that anger -- and maybe some help to realise that knocking your kids around isn't good.
Those kids are real flesh-and-blood humans, and they were treated in a way that even the research quoted here by the pro-smackers says is not good. Under those circumstances "don't judge the guy" carries very little weight.
But the fact is he wouldn't be in the position he's in now if he hadn't gone to the media immediately on being warned by police over his behaviour. It was the bullshit "ear-flicking" story he sold to the media that prompted the witnesses to come forward. Perhaps Jimmy Mason needs to own his own behaviour a little more than he seems to want to.
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