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Lhaws has another crack at Brian Edwards
I've not read Laws' column (I've tried it in the past and it just upsets my stomach) so came across some particular passages for the first time via Brian's reply. Stunningly stupid and mad stuff, I must say.
IMO, the way to deal with this fool is not to pressure advertisers - as Gio noted, or at least implied, how about when people then start organising a targeted boycott of all the good guys..? - but instead to give him enough rope.
A YouTube with his face and selected quoted extracts of his recent material should do the trick (come on, someone!).
LAWS
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OVER!if you want it.
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It is still a bit hard for me to see directly why this is particularly bad, though.
Because the current regime maintains the integrity of the prosecution.
If the prosecution is honest and true, then it won't need advance warning on where its case might have slipped up. Not being required to "show their working" encourages mistakes, which is a bad thing.
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Try flexing yourself heaps and see if you get muscle mass any time soon.
I can still do it in 3 days, last time I checked.
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I'm honestly not trolling for a fight here, but isn't "heritage" all about political acceptability applied to private property?
It's a Zen thing, like 'how many babies fit in a tire?'.
Firstly, my money's on this guy having gone a bit Colonel Kurtz, rather than this being actual policy. Let's find out.
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-- but suddenly Askew exploded on Twitter. He would not be painting the wall because, he said, the Auckland Council's graffiti prevention advisor, Rob Shields, had intervened. Shields spoke to the building's owner and convinced him that he, Shields, should take charge of the repainting of the private wall -- and stipulate its content. Askew was invited to apply to paint the wall, according to Shields' guidelines, which proposed a historical theme and (curiously for street art) no use of words in the painting.
If Auckland Council's graffiti prevention adviser Rob Shields is really going 'round applying some sort of political acceptability test to Art on private property, well, that's just not acceptable, I'm afraid.
I'd appreciate hearing from the mayor or councilors as to whether or not this is official policy.
P.S. What's a "graffiti prevention advisor"?
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