Posts by Zippy Gonzales
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Can we make Garth George an honorary political lesbian?
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Nothing because it is DEAD!!
It's pining for Mighty Mighty.
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There are some awesome offences still on the books - denying or impugning the validity of a marriage is among my favourites.
Go on, Graeme. Do a post on your top 10 anachronisms still on the NZ statutes. A little ridicule goes a long way.
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Yeah, I've heard others get a rude shock from getting a gig in the Grand Hall. For future reference, there's a wharenui down the road that does the same job in similar digs. Although my fav meeting hall is Tapu Te Ranga Marae. That's some fine Maori building design.
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Countries are anticipated to start signing on in 2011.
Oops my bad. 2010 is when NZ is expected to sign up to ACTA.
Between that and the budget, 2010 is going to be a very interesting year.
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"A 20-minute, must-see lecture on the ACTA", according to boing boing (I haven't watched it yet.)
It's a very good presentation which highlights at the end that this is very much John Key's problem this term. Countries are anticipated to start signing on in 2011.
On a completely different subject, the push for an NZ US Free Trade Agreement continues apace.
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Sofie, I went to court without a lawyer. I couldn't afford a lawyer more than I couldn't afford a fine. More fool me. As I remember my day in court, I dressed appropriately in a suit but there was no sign of a judge, just lots of Freemasons handshakes between old fellows and a female police sergeant hassling me to plead guilty. It was all quite bizarre and quite nonsensical.
And you're absolutely right about Mrs Collins. I should have said Judith the Fantastic. And please, call me Will. Russell, can you please change the profile format so screen names can be changed?
I'm not completely agreeing with the HoS's scapegoat du jour being Mikey. And I have my own stories on the comparison to the Cardno murder which is just as non sequiturial as the HoS line. But as George Darroch sez, there is some serious bicameral justice at work all the same.
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Fair point on the editorial being a bit hamfisted with its point, Russell. Mikey Havoc might be being singled out as a case in point, because there's a whole list of names that the HoS can't point to for legal reasons. But it really grates my tits to see someone who knows how to flip the system getting off easy.
While schmucks like me (and most) pay the fine or do the hard yard, whereas the bicameral legal system has an easy road for the well-to-do.
It's not just Mikey Havoc that gets the old conversion of fines to community work. Boyracers with heaps of fines have been at that scam for a while, and it was one of the reasons behind Judith the Excellent's executing cars policy.
I think it's the old tip of the iceberg thing that the HoS is trying to address. The whole swathe of slebs, suits and In the Loopers who never get to court. Or the ones who get name suppression, whatever that means these days. That may be where the true frustration lies.
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Holmes: … so you’re no longer innocent until you’re proven guilty.
Collins: It’s fantastic, isn’t it?Crimebusters UK is now awaiting your call. Dob in your parents now and win a cellphone.
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Ah, Breakfast of Champions!