Posts by Bob Munro
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Bob - as for your comments, it's not a black or white issue. Considering the police system flawed doesn't mean that you need to refuse to use it at all times any more than thinking capitalism is flawed requires you to never go to the dairy to get bread.
I wasn't trying to express any particular opnion about the various issues and causes just wondering what could have been the common factor that encouraged the Police to target such disparate groups, in response to Sonics post.
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I can sort of see the cops getting nervous about Maori activists clambering around the hills, and about some anarcho greenies planning to disrupt happy valley or whatever.
What escapes me is how these two divergent groups could be linked together. They do not seem like natural allies.It could be just that they are prepared to step over the line from legal protest to illegal protest. This seems to me to be always quite a jump and perhaps this is the common denominator in the targeted groups. People who make that step have convinced themselves their cause justifies them in taking illegal steps even if they would like the law to protect them in other circumstances (if they were burgled for instance). The end justifies the means.
For example the Save Happy Valley Coalition have dug up the lawn of the home of an individual Solid Energy director (Source: Canta – not online.) which is quite a step beyond lawful protest or civil disobedience aimed at an organisation.
I think a lot of people wrestled with this question during the 1981 Springbok tour and a surprisingly large number of solid citizens opted to step over the line.
So from a police perspective if you have deliberately broken the law to express political or social views then you have entered the territory where it just a matter of ‘degree’ of how far you are prepared to go. Who would know whether the person who liberated battery hens one week won’t blow something up the next?
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"And how's your day been? Busy?".
This seems to be catching on everywhere. I always feel a little guilty if I'm having a lazy day, like I haven't been pulling my weight for a few hours.
Still it's is all in the intent though. I find the 'Have a nice day' from the school kids in their first jobs at the supermarket rather charming as you can see how hard they're trying.
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Bob
Hitler was a HippyFree Love = Ledensborn
Vegetarian
Artist
Nudists
Youth Hostels
Overt emphasis on "nature"All pretty Hippy stuff
Sorry Michael this makes no sense to me at all.
Thanks Merc for mentioning the Yippies. Surely Auckland is in dire need of them right now?
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As an etymological aside I notice some people using the word 'hippie' as a derogatory term. Could someone please explain why this is so? I don't understand.
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This is not meant to interfere with the thread but I was trying to find the philosopher's rugby game without luck and stumbled upon this.
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Black Ferns after winning the World Cup Edmonton 2006http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeG6G9uz8_I
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Would you have a haka to show respect (intimidate the hell out of) the oppostioin?
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Something's hapenning here, catch up guys.
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We are trying to learn to do it right down here in 'Alabama'.