Posts by mark taslov
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Hard News: Doing over the witness, in reply to nzlemming,
full metal catholic
The best kind:
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Hard News: Doing over the witness, in reply to Marc C,
When people stay quiet, shut their doors behind themselves, and choose not to take sides, we have the authoritarian system succeeding. And that tells me, it is time to be seriously concerned, and to take a stand.
The market place of ideas is no place for prohibition.
Thomas Jefferson argued that it is safe to tolerate "error of opinion ... where reason is left free to combat it"
Ride on hands free Marc, the most extreme voices hold the lines:
Actually, make it a point to not find any fast food irresistible, just for the overall betterment of society in general
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Hard News: Doing over the witness, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
People seem pretty complacent. It is also proving to be the only way to show Team Key for who they are and their complicit behaviour.
Customarily I’m deeply skeptical about the motivations of anyone who takes it upon themselves to defend the all powerful state apparatus. “If one would give me six lines written by the hand of…”; It’s not as if without their advocacy, the machine will wilt and die, and he’s just coaxed another 6 lines from 20 people, whose only tangible power is their collective voice.
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Hard News: Doing over the witness, in reply to Steve Bell,
If Hager had been around when the search warrant had been executed, the police would have been able to demand from him the access keys to the cloud storage where he would have put anything he really didn’t want them to find. But they raided him when he was absent and forewent any such opportunity.
Out of interest, what would be the penalty for refusing such a demand?
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Hard News: Doing over the witness, in reply to Dylan Reeve,
Fixed that for ya:
I’m trying to look at the most basic facts while ignoring the context.
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Speaker: Why we should not dismiss…, in reply to Kyle Matthews,
If conspiracy theory gets claimed only to include the wacky claims used to put down the person talking, then we’ll lose the use of a particularly useful phrase.
The term needs to be reclaimed. As for the perjorative, there’s:
Or more descriptively: conspiracy nut.
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I’m certainly not convinced it’s outright unacceptable.
All other considerations aside, this is the argument of the well organised Gentleman, living by the maxim; a place for everything and everything in its place. The well organized gentleman’s abode contains no piles of envelopes and stacks of papers, the notes on an individual piece of paper are limited to one topic alone. Technology permitting, 10 hours is time enough to clone the drives or to delete any offending data, but let’s embrace the excess, for the tools of the well organised gentleman’s livelihood are replaceable.
Enjoy your typewriter Nicky!
But were we all well organised gentleman and well organised gentle journalists::
I think that’s the bulk of the criticism in relation to this whole thing. Hager is a journalist, so the police searching and seizing his computers was wrong. Basically.
For many who handle second hand cameras and have a lot of tech gear lying around, and heaven forbid use those cameras to film anything untoward, the prospect of returning home to find all that gear has suddenly vanished may be more daunting. The well organised Gentleman accepts this prospect, that his possessions remain so as a courtesy extended by the state. To play devil’s advocate shows purpose, for the devil relies on advocates.
that they do in fact plan to go hard on the other criminal complaints and have done this so they can be seen to show no favour.
In this instance they’ve shown considerable favour to the MSM, who have most likely enjoyed the most recent contact. It’s important that we are very clear in that the object of this investigation is ostensibly to identify Rawshark, and the probability that this could be achieved within that search is exceedingly low. Even by ‘no stone’ Clouseau’s standards:
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Which makes what happened last Thursday look all the more like intimidation.
Yes, and by all means call that spade a spade. Anyone justifying the police actions as purely investigative could do a much better job of it were it not for the fact that:
He was in Auckland at the time, giving lectures at the University of Auckland.
Instead of being able to keep tabs on everything that’s walked out the door NIcky's forced to engage in his own investigation. As DB said:
After each search I felt invaded and a loss of sovereignty, not unlike the feeling you get after being burgled. In all three instances my respect for police and ‘authority’ fell through the floor.
An event I’m sure Mandy and Julia won’t soon forget.
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Speaker: An Open Letter To David Cunliffe, in reply to BenWilson,
This is what I found so incredibly stupid about killing off Mana. It’s like Labour don’t have a tactical bone in their bodies.
If Russel Norman could also please drop the ensuring ‘IM lost the election for the left’ routine that would be smashing. Green kept all its seats and won the highest number of popular votes in its history. Labour cold shouldered IM and lost 2 seats. In this piece we see Norman’s vivid depiction distorted by the audacious and violent brush work that came to characterise his later impressionist style?
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Hard News: Five further thoughts, in reply to linger,
Additionally I assume that at some point or other Key bought into this:
Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man, and our politicians take advantage of this prejudice by pretending to be even more stupid than nature made them.