Posts by Andrew Paul Wood
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And I reiterate, there is nothing ammusing about anyone being in possession of Molotov cocktails, regardless of who or what they are.
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And if I started running around calling all Maori child-murdering dole-bludging terrorists, I hope someone would be kind enough to point out to me I was talking out of my arse.
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I agree that Universities should be places for intense and vigourous debate and that many matters are debatable, but if you want some examples, by all means. I findthis statement supremely obnoxious. There is nothing funny about molotov cocktails, and nothing light hearted about any violence. I doubt he has any more facts than the rest of us, but these are very bald assertions.
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Merc - He's bigger than I am and his leather jacket intimidates me.
Stephen - I defy you to say that after reading 3 or 4 of the man's Sunday Star Times column.
Russell - this is hardly new for the respected head of department. Therein lies the affront I feel, that academia is primarily a matter of facts and objectivity. I still painfully recall his blaming of Maori child abuse statistics on colonisation (making a very peculiar comparison with Glasgow and the Highland clearances in the process) and his ever popular refrain that Maori lived in utopian peace harmony and aroha until the arrival of the European (feel free to read any of his past articles for confirmation - I am not exaggerating). He is a blinkered apologist, and Fairfax's go to "Maori perspective".
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Is it just me, or does Dr Rawiri Taonui talk out his arse a lot for a respected academic?
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The latest on the Beeb
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Perhaps the true horror is that Battlefield Iraq is now virtually accepted as part of the satus quo, like Aids Africa.
Perhaps the international presence in Iraq can now only be described as palliative. -
And repellant too.
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James,
that's like saying it would have been nice if they had cured your brain tumour, but your nasty rash has cleared up.
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I would have so much more respect for the GoP if they would drop the WMD/Al Quaeda/9-11 rhetoric. No one with with any logical reasoning ability can believe it with a straight face after the event. I especially find it har to believe that it's easier to detect nuclear programmes in North Korea and Iran than Iraq (mind you, the US did miss the boat on India and Pakhistan).