Posts by Matthew Poole
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Hard News: About Arie, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
although this doesn’t make me feel too positive.
That case was always going to be tough to decide. It took a long time before it was even determined that there might be a criminal case to answer for the death, and that's not through any apparent fault of the Police in investigating what happened.
And the decision not to seek a third trial is not in the hands of the Police. Look at it as due process getting its day in court. Twice.
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Hard News: The digital switch-off, in reply to Sacha,
Yes, the LttE said over 20 years.
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Letter to the Editor in Granny, from the head of the Radio Broadcasters Association, says that the "drip-feed" option has long existed, and that the new option is available to all radio broadcasters after negotiations with the Ministry and Minister.
So no great conspiracy, just Granny playing tabloid instead of broadsheet.
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Hard News: About Arie, in reply to giovanni tiso,
Whilst others come across as law and order apologists masquerading as due process concern trolls. I think I know which attitude I prefer.
We're not much of one without the other, gio. And that's some pretty nice pejorative language you've got going there. None taken, thanks.
I get the distinct impression that a lot of people would like our police to be subjected to the same kind of inquisitorial "professional standards" system as existed in the FBI when Hoover was in charge: no idea you were being investigated until the Office of Professional Responsibility called you in for a chat, no right to a lawyer, no right of appeal, and the OPR could make a decision on your punishment with no reference to precedent set in past cases.
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Hard News: About Arie, in reply to Danielle,
I think people SHOULD be fucking enraged by this, actually. “Beating up suspects” isn’t exactly the most defensible issue for a police apologist.
Yeah, but the comments I'm referring to didn't relate to the beating.
Nobody's suggested the beating was in any way acceptable, or defensible, if you hadn't noticed. Not even this "police apologist".
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Hard News: About Arie, in reply to Tim Hannah,
Arie’s attitude is great. The police choosing not to investigate? Not so much.
No, and if they don't investigate then that's not cool. That said, the IPCA can investigate anything it wants to, and given the publicity it may well chose to investigate this case.
However, Arie's the victim. Given some of the comments in here, you'd think that certain comment-makers had been directly on the receiving end of the flying fists themselves.
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Hard News: About Arie, in reply to John Greally,
There's at least one contributor to this thread who could learn much from Arie’s attitude.
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Hard News: The digital switch-off, in reply to Che Tibby,
I still have had no answer to the eMail I sent asking
nice work. mine asked, “if ur planning to legislate to use rape as a method throughout corrections, will it only apply to men, or are women to be included?
likewise, as yet no answer.
The Minister has 20 working days to respond, though an email such as the latter might be deemed to be “opinion” and disregarded.
Mine offered her four possible explanations and courses of action – misquoted (when’s Granny going to retract?), intends to make double-bunking a sentencing guideline (when?), didn’t think through the “official endorsement” angle on rape (when’s the retraction?), or stands by her original statement (heaven help her when I feed the confirmation to the media) – and I definitely expect an answer. If I don’t get one, I will be going to the Ombudsmen.
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Hard News: About Arie, in reply to Jackie Clark,
I stand there, with a very severe look on my face
Is that even legal? I thought there were international conventions on that kind of weaponry!
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Hard News: About Arie, in reply to Steve Parks,
We seem to disagree on what counts as a high expectation, and what counts as an unreasonable expectation.
When one is perfect, no level of expectation is unreasonable.
Except, of course, that the failure to recognise and allow for the fact that ordinary mortals are fallible would be an imperfection.