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  • Hard News: It would be polite to ask,

    Mark Harris - our statute law is whatever our parliament wants it to be-
    "who do you think the state is? It's *us" as a collective entity."

    Uh, no, actually: (links coming. We have lightning storms.)

    Sacha, I'm well aware of the larger range of participants in the justice system. One of my sisters was heavily involved in Restorative Justice - the only Maori thing she could ascertain was "give everyone a chance to speak, state their position, & views" which isnt paticularly Maori.

    Big O, Mahitahi, Te Wahi … • Since Feb 2007 • 5643 posts Report

  • Cracker: Of Tweets and Twats,

    I truly know that no-one was corrupted in the manufacture or loving of
    the golliwog Millymollymandy


    except maybe the original sheep?

    Big O, Mahitahi, Te Wahi … • Since Feb 2007 • 5643 posts Report

  • Cracker: Of Tweets and Twats,

    eeny meeny miney mo-

    Big O, Mahitahi, Te Wahi … • Since Feb 2007 • 5643 posts Report

  • Cracker: Of Tweets and Twats,

    Well you kinda have to, the Groke, and swallow -or leave wee spat -out heads everywhere

    Big O, Mahitahi, Te Wahi … • Since Feb 2007 • 5643 posts Report

  • Cracker: Of Tweets and Twats,

    Goodness!

    Big O, Mahitahi, Te Wahi … • Since Feb 2007 • 5643 posts Report

  • Cracker: Of Tweets and Twats,

    O WOW!
    While the wiki says nothing about black/white/red golliwogs, ia has so gone to my sister in Australia! Really cool!
    Thanks. librarian! (You are perilously close to joining *the* Librarian - in my books-)

    Big O, Mahitahi, Te Wahi … • Since Feb 2007 • 5643 posts Report

  • Cracker: Of Tweets and Twats,

    Danielle - is there any kind of link? A *series*?
    I'd love to send it to the sister next to me (who, like other of my sisters, is a nurse & midwife._

    Big O, Mahitahi, Te Wahi … • Since Feb 2007 • 5643 posts Report

  • Hard News: It would be polite to ask,

    Mark Harris - you really believe that justice, as delivered through our current court system, is IMPARTIAL??? Let alone 'on the impartial side'?
    And, 'objectivity' and the legal system arnt exactly mates either.

    What has been missing for a long time in our legal system (which is almost wholly statute-based now, but contains a sort-of-healthy dose of English common law)is recognitions of 'offended parties other than the state." Whoa back, lawyers! But you know what I mean-

    and that is where whanau/victims/other 'offended parties' (we can skid this stuff under the heading of utu) *must* be considered.

    Big O, Mahitahi, Te Wahi … • Since Feb 2007 • 5643 posts Report

  • Cracker: Of Tweets and Twats,

    Dyan, we had black babies - to eat. They were jellygums, liquorice & aniseed-flavoured. V. popular in the 1950s....

    Big O, Mahitahi, Te Wahi … • Since Feb 2007 • 5643 posts Report

  • Cracker: Of Tweets and Twats,

    Jackie, the sister next to me had a much-loved golliwog, knitted/constructed by our mother (which is the first time I became aware our mother could plait.) She was red, black, and white & woollen - the golliwog I mean (just in case some of you are thinking I might have Mennym-like ancestry!:P) She was called by my sister "Milly-Molly-Mandy" (there's an ancient kids' book by that name I understand) and she stalwartly, blackly, redly, whitely, saw my sister through some very trying times...

    Big O, Mahitahi, Te Wahi … • Since Feb 2007 • 5643 posts Report

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