Posts by Blake Monkley
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To hold one person as the only one able to understand puts great pressure on that person and nobody is perfect so it would always be questionable.
Maybe the answer is more than one judge.
Quite, and the jury that was made up of reasonable people, saw flaws in the prosecutions case.
After reading the herald article, I wouldn't be feeling enthusiastic about participating in jury service, particularly a retrial.
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I do wonder if it might be time to rethink how retrials are conducted, jurors are told to ignore what they read and hear in the media. Before the era of the internet and social media outlets, that was probably not such an issue but how could you not be caught up in the hype by the Bain case of 15 years. I don’t have an issue with the right to choose a jury trial for the first trial, but for a retrial why not let it be a judge only trial. Surely, they are the best qualified to make a decision and then let the details of the decision made public. I'm not saying the decision was not right ....just thinking about the system in general.
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What about Father Xmas & the Easter Bunny?
Santa and Eater bunny should give all kids equal entitlements.
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Yep, just been looking at the Not and i in littlep
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I definitely disagree with publically displaying these images. I would hate for my children to see them. It's just not appropriate to publically display them.
Me too. The whole website should be shutdown, the army of god manual is a damaging document that could be interpreted by someone with strong views as sanctioning any group or individual to perform any action, including killing or murder (whatever people want to call it).
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The man who murdered Tiller wasn't acting as part of a group as far as we know.
I wouldn't be surprised if Scott Roeder has some kind of link to the domestic terrorist group Army of god.**Warning** - I've linked to this website as the Army of god website is graphic.
Here is a link to Dr. Speckhard who continues to study abortion clinic terrorism in the United States.
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Obama selection of Judge Sonia Sotomayor should be interesting, choice hangs in the balance on the Supreme Court, the last two major choice-related cases were decided by a 5-to-4 margin.
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Tom you are right, could you imagine how much of an uber hole we would be in if Don Brash et al had got in in 2005?
The Treasury 2005, started to think huge operating surpluses. Labour and National adopted this thinking going into the election 2005, one promising big spending and the other tax cuts. It's everyone's fault we find ourselves in this mess. The budget is fairly mild compared to what is likely to come in the future, unless the world returns to a rapid recovery.
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You mean we would be able to get French (8.8%) or British (7.1%) or American (8.9%) levels of unemployment, as opposed to our current 5%.
It's only a matter of time according to Bill English treasury executive summary (page 13). The next twelve months look really bad. Let's hope the herald and real estate agents will get honest about the housing market having bottomed out.