Posts by Russell Brown
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Hard News: About Chris Brown, in reply to chris,
Must be a meagre deal.
Tiny, I would wager. No one I know can think who it is. It feels like something they sold the judge.
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Nice one, Jackie Blue.
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Up Front: How I Learned to Stop Worrying…, in reply to despud,
Um, I might have been a little provocative, but I was not trolling.
No, you weren't. You will be strongly and ably disagreed with, but I accept that you're saying what you say in good faith.
Just watch the "provocative" doesn't get away on you :-)
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Your logic is formidable. Are you sure you're a girl?
;-)
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Some more detail on why John Key doesn't get to play the "you back rapists" card.
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Thanks for your courage and composure in saying this.
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This is some pretty amazing TV from Story tonight.
Dan Parker allows the women who walked out of Parliament to tell their stories. My eyes were welling up and then Marama Davidson spoke and I just felt really angry about the way she's been treated.
The clip also includes video of detainee Ko Rutene – back when he was a soldier working Key's security detail in Afghanistan. Key refused to discuss his case.
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Polity: Cold, calculated and cynical, in reply to izogi,
Section 13 in particular seems to strongly suggest that the Speaker can’t be dumped by others
And, to be fair, there are good reasons for that.
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Today in a nutshell, for those just catching up ...
Carter acknowledged that Key yelling "you back the rapists!" at Labour and the Greens yesterday was unparliamentary. But then said that Key couldn't be required to apologise because no one objected at the time. When Opposition MPs pointed out they *had* objected, Carter said they had taken "four and a half minutes" to do so, which was too long. Those four and a half minutes were actually taken up with points of order objecting to the other instances of Key's "backing the rapists" line, which Carter ruled were okay because he'd used the word "if". It was a farce whose only possible purpose can have been to protect Key from having to withdraw and apologise. Then it got really awful. Several female MPs rose to say that as victims of sexual violence, they were offended – Carter started cutting the mic on them and then allowed Marama Davidson (who he'd bullied the day before) to get as fas as "As the victim of a sexual assault ..." before actually expelling her from the House. That was when the walkout happened.
Key told Gower he wouldn't be correcting or apologising for what he said yesterday.
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Journalists who've seen the list of crimes attributed to New Zealanders held on Christmas Island say there are no rapists or murderers among them.
Some bad people, sure, but it appears the Prime Minister was making shit up yesterday.
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