Posts by giovanni tiso
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As you know, one of the groups routinely stigmatised in what little media coverage we get is disabled people.
The media treatment that (ex-)prisoners and beneficiaries get in this country is nothing short of a disgrace. As a parent of an ASD child, I'd like to see that get the full attention it deserves, thank you very much. It's not my cause against theirs, for heaven's sake.
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Not at all. Clarifying that he has acted deviantly, not been somehow abstractly labelled as such by society. There are others who deserve far more of your sympathy and attention than this guy.
That seems a peculiarly un-Sacha like thing to say, if you don't mind me saying so. Kurariki did what he did when he was twelve. He then received a double sentence - a prison term, very lenghty by international standards for a child his age if I recall correctly - and then the sentence of the media attention that will accompany him for some years yet. Failed first by his family, then by corrections, forever hounded by the media, what chances is he getting exactly *not* to act deviantly would you say?
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Samoa wouldn't be anywhere near able to cope with the visitor numbers that would attend a RWC.
When you get the rights to host a tournament they make you build or dramatically restructure pretty much all the stadiums you have. Why? Was the old Eden Park unable to accomodate its allotment of spectators when filled to capacity? And isn't it the case that by increasing the capacity of the various stadiums you have, you also increase the number of visitors and therefore their pressure on your infrastructure?
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Precisamundo
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Hirst regurgitates anonymous arguments that we're all too familiar with here under a different name - and I'd rather not go there again thanks, given how long it took to hose them down the first time.
Anonymous?
He seems to slide past the fundamental connection that Kurariki has been "deemed to be deviant" because he actually helped kill someone at an early age, not because of some abstract sociological victimisation.
So, besides the fact that he's paid in full his debt to society, are you saying that he doesn't deserve meaningful attempts at rehabilitation, nor a right to privacy? I don't follow you.
Other than the use of quotations marks around "victims" of sexual assault, I find little to object to in Hirst's summation personally.
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"amoral attitudes", above. I don't want to give the impression that Jesson was illiterate - it's on me, and the edit window is closed.
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I've heard various Labour MPs voice their support for MMP, but does the party have an official position?
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Yes, one wonders if there is enough of a market for actual competition within cities. I mean if Auckland doesn't have it...
I was reading some vintage Bruce Jesson yesterday. After observing that "New Zealand's business and bureaucratic culture is saturated with the amorals attitudes of the New Right", he wrote:
The is not a single leftish/liberal newspaper in any major city. The Listener is the only such magazine.
Bless. One is almost glad he's not around to see what The Listener has become.
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What's left?
Oh, excellent.
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What staggers me about the insurance business is that it is utterly utterly one of the most pefect socialist inventions ever.
You've been reading Roger Douglas' book of speeches again!