Posts by Michael Fitzgerald
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I'm lurching back to Political conspiracy with Helens convicting the 17 without a trial.
PM: activists 'trained to use napalm'
"I find it absolutely extraordinary that the Maori Party on the one hand is demanding police prosecute Trevor Mallard for assault and on the other is claiming people, who at the very least have illicitly used firearms, constructed molotov cocktails and trained themselves in how to use napalm, should not be charged," Clark said.What of David Collins?
Chair of the ACC - that cultures healthy?Qualified?
"He has specialised in health law and has appeared in relation to this and other matters." Perfeck!But in light of recent political shananagans this doesn't ring true as it once might have.-
"The Solicitor-General is appointed by the Governor-General on the advice of the Attorney-General. The State Services Commissioner was asked to manage the recruitment process in order to ensure a merit-based and professional process." -
Popped onto Tumeke & Chris Trotter (?) linked this
http://indymedia.org.nz/newswire/display/74018/index.php
For generations, Maori have fought for their rights and their autonomy in staunch but nonviolent ways. With incredible patience they have abstained from the violent use force, despite constant aggressive reinvasion of their independent communities and confiscation of the taonga, such as the recent case of the foreshore and seabed. When armed police threatened their elders and children with guns last week, Tuhoe remained stubbornly peaceful, despite all the paramilitary training, and the hatred for whitey they have supposedly been whipped into up in the bush in Urewera.
As for the greeny lefties people claim are plotting sedition with them, both Maori and pakeha; the occupiers of Waimangaroa from Save Happy Valley, the Peace Action Wellington crew, the anarchist librarian, Omar Hamed (the Harry Potter of Aotearoa activism), docospotter Rongomai Bailey and the rest of the Kotahi Te Ao video crew; they are about as threatening as the Wombles.
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In the tradition of you show me yours I'll show you mine he's what the anti-terror heros are up to in blighty.
Met chief 'will not quit' over de Menezes
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,2200640,00.html
The commissioner has told friends and colleagues that, irrespective of the jury's verdict concerning the death of the 27-year-old Brazilian, he will not be offering his resignation.
Len Duval, chairman of the Metropolitan Police Authority, said last week that he believed there was an attempt to destabilise Blair and condemned the 'spiteful' hate campaign seemingly concocted to oust him from office. (Rickards?)
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Agreed Stephen - the movement hasn't solidified yet and very much a case of push your own barrow.
Rangitira are required to weave the various groups together. -
Feel free to reject the reasons for war, growing republicanism, anti-British sentiment in the American colonies and the corrosponding presures to look for alt resources if you wish.
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Kyle I was being facetious with "discovery" I thought that was clear.
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Some much awaited wiki wisdom - but still feel free to quote me.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penal_transportation
Transportation punished both major and petty crimes in Great Britain and Ireland from the 17th century until well into the 19th century. At the time it was seen as a more humane alternative to execution, which would most likely have been the sentence handed down to many of those who were transported, if transportation had not been introduced. From the 1620s until the American Revolution the British colonies in North America received transported British criminals, effectively double the period that Australian colonies subsequently received convicts. The American Revolutionary War brought an end to that means of disposal, and with the remaining British colonies in what is now Canada being periously close to the new United States of America sending people who might easily become hostile to British authorities there was not an option. Thus, the British Government was forced to look elsewhere.
The gaols became more overcrowded and dilapidated ships were brought into service, the 'hulks' moored in various ports as floating gaols.
Transportation from Britain ended officially in 1868, although it had become unusual several years earlier.
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Feel free to quote me Kyle ;)
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Foreshore & Seabed Act is seperatisim & racist that allows pakeha blue water title (pre 1840) or yauht clubs to continue.
Being reactive to racist law and then blamed for seperatisim is wrong & partisan. -
"Mother reported for smacking child's hand"
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/1/story.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10472554This family needs help & I'm a little unhappy CYF are seen as kiddy police and not social workers who are positioned to help her with a few anger issues described as "heat of the moment". Aren't they a support agency?
The article shows the cycle of violence (Mum hits kid & kid hits another kid) but to describe a child as evil - oh f*ck.
SST has the same story here "School dobs mum to CYF for hand smack"
http://www.stuff.co.nz/sundaystartimes/4252968a6005.htmlWhen even your friends think your over the top - seek help
"My friend is loud, there's a lot of volume. She's just excitable. I think she's a great mum, and she really loves her children. She's consistent but she's not over the top with discipline at all."
And this was the best Family First could come up with - use her as media fodder.
"The mother then contacted Family First, a lobby group that vociferously opposed smacking law changes passed in June. The organisation put her in touch with the Sunday Star-Times."