Posts by ScottY
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I expect the Nats are already carefully moistening the bus ticket in preparation for use, in case Bennett's found in breach of the Privacy Act.
Key can't sack Bennett for this, having stood up for her in public. He'll be praying the Commissioner finds there was no fault.
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I'm sure Harry Potter would have had no trouble disarming the guy.
Maybe we need to be sending our police to Wizard School.
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does anyone else need a name-change? It's probably best to do it in a batch.
Yes pls. My temporary "patch" lacks elegance.
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A question for PAS readers:
If after reading this an exasperated Herald reader tools up with weaponry, grenades, RPGs and knives, walks into APN reception and then goes to work, is it manslaughter?
Apparently someone already got to the headline checkers ("Weatherstone"?!)
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So I just put my name in the location part of my profile, which can be changed.
Don't know why it didn't occur to me earlier.
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This is your penance for not following suggestions:
Now I feel like I've been a naughty boy.
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Dunno if anyone has mentioned it yet - I'm on holiday, haven't got time to read 13 pages - but I would like to be able to change my own login name. I'm sick of being anonymous!
Seconded. But if I sign up under my real name my posts count goes back to zero and everyone will think I'm new to PAS. I find with many sites that nobody listens to you until you've been around a while.
As my post suggests, I'm very insecure.
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Probably not -- but I'd also like to know who the fuck decided Weatherston was "the most hated man in New Zealand" and a "whole nation" is weeping and rending its garments over Sophie Elliot.
Amen. The "Weatherston Effect" has seen normally sane journalists and columnists writhing in indignation. We need a new public enemy and quick before the epidemic wipes the entire industry out.
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In which case the Weatherston jury only had to put themselves in Weatherston's position. Decision reached in 216 seconds I'd have thought.
Not that simple. There are numerous Court of Appeal cases on just what s169(2) means. I think it's fair to say the courts have struggled with it.
Weatherston was 'provoked' - parents
is not a headline that should ever have been published.
Agree. About as pointless as the 'but I still love him" post-trial statement the media seems to religiously get from the parents of a killer.
As a parent I can understand trying to grasp at anything to explain why your child has done something monstrous. That doesn't make it newsworthy.
I was always interested in the legal issues behind the Weatherston case, but the coverage has just got silly (not here thankfully). Can the media just move on and find someone else to vilify? Didn't the ABs just lose a test?
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I find complaints about the length of posts on PAS ridiculous. PAS is not just another blogsite, thank god. It's okay to be different.
And for all that I sometimes wonder about the zeal of WordPress afficiandos (it's content platform, not a religion)
Agree. I'm not on Wordpress and my shabby little blog does just fine.