Posts by Russell Brown
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The people who accused Simon Barnett of being a child molester and rapist?
Fair enough, I'd forgotten them. But then, I didn't get to hear or read what they said: just Barnett's account of it. Not that I am accusing him of making it up, but how many such emails did he get? I rather suspect that Sue Bradford copped 10 times the slime that he did.
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I don't really understand your objection to what Simon Barnett has said, Russell. He simply wants to raise his children without interference from those who would make him a criminal or some sort of social pariah. It ain't really that unreasonable - he's just asking you to leave him alone.
And so is the Timaru Lady. As Bradford pointed out, Barnett was basically objecting to the very principle of a complaint being investigated. It's a shame no one thought o ask him what he would say to the child whose life was blighted out of respect for any parent's right to be "left alone".
Society already intervenes in the interests of children - as it bloody well should. This just lowers the bar so that people can't thrash their kids and have a defence for that.
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This whole debate did bring bring some very weird people roaring into the limelight. I just respectfully disagree with him that National is the only party to this that should have a good hard think about the company it keeps.
I knew you'd say that ;-)
But who, exactly, do you mean? I genuinely can't think of anyone as weird on Bradford's side as the "Timaru Lady", or the lovely people posting to CYFSWatch, or the guy who declared in Your Views that he'd just have to hit his kids so hard that they wouldn't be able to tell tales. Or indeed, a great many of the nutters who have railed against the bill.
It was the classic issue on which reasonable people could, and did, disagree. But some of the bill's opponents were really quite scary. And not, as I have observed, the kind of people you would trust to know the meaing of "reasonable force".
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Disclaimer: I accept no responsibility for any deluge of emails to RBs inbox demanding more Lesbian Maori Muslim Treaty Lawyer Amputee Bloggers on PA.
Heh. I can't do much about the demographic, other than trying to run a welcoming lounge in line with my own philosophy. I can't solve the whole blogosphere's problems, but I can take responsibility for my little part.
By the same token, I'm grateful - and respectful - to anyone who turns up and makes a useful contribution, be they the dreaded white liberal males or otherwise.
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As I see it, the only meaningful difference between the old law and the new law is that we've shifted the responsibility for deciding whether a conviction is justified from juries to cops.
I call that a backwards step.
If that's your objection, you ought to have been agin the bill from the start, because that was always the case with Sue Bradford's bill.
See me fretting about that fact but moving on the first time I posted on it in February:
I'd be dishonest if I said I was completely comfortable with Bradford's bill. On principle, I'm wary of laws whose enforcement is a matter of prosecutorial discretion.
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With all due respect, Russell, could we draw some meaningful distinction between the Police Association and the New Zealand Police Force?
I was actually thinking of Howard Broad's comments, so this would be a better story to link to:
http://home.nzcity.co.nz/news/default.aspx?id=72699
But is there any outcome you'd be remotely happy with?
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someone smarter than me will have to imbed the link!!
It was designed to automatically embed YouTube vids, and we tweaked it to do TVNZ ondemand ones, but it obviously can't find the clip in that page ...
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In which Craig considers the day and finds sympathy for the Prime Minister.
Originally broadcast on Public Address Radio 28/4/07.
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Gary Sullivan's spooky new video for the Dimmer band's 'You're Only Leaving Hurt', from the album 'There My Dear'. How he do that stuff?
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Dylan....yes I'm being cold. But I've seen him live twice and both times...78 at Western Springs, and a few years later with Tom Petty, he was beyond appalling and I guess it coloured my opinion of him evermore.
I sold everything I had apart from Blonde & 61 after the second show and I felt like he truely was the Jokerman.
The show with the Heartbreakers was bad. First gig of the tour, the band just couldn't follow him, not much of anything going on. But I still had Dylan fans insisting to me that it had been really rather good.
But, of recent I've rediscovered After The Flood....and I'm not sure I agree with RB on The Band, although Little Feat....nah...
Oh alright, I was being harsh on The Band. But Little Feat just annoy me.
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