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Hard News: Rain on his parade

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  • Russell Brown,

    To be fair, Gareth, I think you couldn't throw a brick without hitting a local government employee who will bitch for gold (off the record, naturally) about carefully considered advice being ignored by elected councillors who are barely competent to organise a gang bang at a sex addicts convention.

    That has a particular resonance in Auckland City of course, where there is an unfortunate recent history of council officials having such a low opinion of elected councillors that they just please themselves.

    Auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 22850 posts Report

  • Kumara Republic,

    For a while now, there's been a bit of a lively hubbub within the wider feminist movement between the adherents of Andrea Dworkin and Betty Dodson. The Dodsonites argue that the Dworkinites have more in common with Jerry Falwell; the Dworkinites argue the Dodsonites support female exploitation.

    The southernmost capital … • Since Nov 2006 • 5446 posts Report

  • Morgan Nichol,

    See, I think it would be more contemptuous of life for her to abort the baby (not that I have any reason to believe that was on the table) and I think she should have been allowed to do that if she wanted as well.

    In fact, how about a scenario we can agree on:
    A whole lot of unprotected fucking, resulting in a pregnancy that is then aborted, recorded with high def ultrasound (or whatever). Now that would be contemptuous of life.

    (I bet someone would buy it too. Stay classy, humans!)

    But a woman's freely made decision to have the birth of her child filmed for use in a porn movie? Probably contemptuous of taste - whatever that is - but not life. Unless you're [ad hominem].

    A few things that I think are contemptuous of life:
    * Capital punishment.
    * Murder.
    * Cluster bombs.
    * Abstinence only "sex education".
    * War.
    * Extraordinary rendition.
    * Landmines.
    * Torture.
    * Concentration camps.
    * Zyklon B.

    If and when you have seen your own children born, you might get that.

    I've seen a calf born, does that qualify me to express half of my opinion?

    Auckland CBD • Since Nov 2006 • 314 posts Report

  • Morgan Nichol,

    Sorry, I may have cherry picked a bit much. I agree with you about it being vile and so on. My issue is probably just with the hyperbole.

    Auckland CBD • Since Nov 2006 • 314 posts Report

  • andrew llewellyn,

    by elected councillors who are barely competent to organise a gang bang at a sex addicts convention.

    That's why it's always recommended that you engage the services of a professional.

    They know what they're doing.

    SFW

    Since Nov 2006 • 2075 posts Report

  • Dan Slevin,

    assembled outside the comedy club

    ... coincidentally a former City Council owned porno cinema itself.

    Wellington, NZ • Since Mar 2007 • 95 posts Report

  • Dan Slevin,

    council officials having such a low opinion of elected councillors that they just please themselves.

    Rumour has it that rogue Council officials are trying to close the Academy Cinema so they can have (I don't know) a cinema of their own?

    Wellington, NZ • Since Mar 2007 • 95 posts Report

  • Grant Dexter,

    The management for the city shouldn't need a law to stop this "parade". They should just be allowed to say, "No" and let that be the end of it.

    Taipei, Taiwan • Since Mar 2007 • 256 posts Report

  • Craig Ranapia,

    That has a particular resonance in Auckland City of course, where there is an unfortunate recent history of council officials having such a low opinion of elected councillors that they just please themselves.

    God, hope I didn't give the impression that I think that's an acceptable state of affairs either. But after sitting through a rate setting Council meeting where one councillor blithely admitted that she hadn't really gotten around to any of that troublesome paperwork (and unsurprisingly, the voters decided to relieve her of that burden the next year), I wonder if that disdain is always unjustified.

    North Shore, Auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 12370 posts Report

  • Craig Ranapia,

    The management for the city shouldn't need a law to stop this "parade". They should just be allowed to say, "No" and let that be the end of it.

    *sigh* You're being serious, aren't you?

    North Shore, Auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 12370 posts Report

  • Matthew Poole,

    The management for the city shouldn't need a law to stop this "parade". They should just be allowed to say, "No" and let that be the end of it.

    Let me guess: You agree with Family Fist that the judge's ruling was the Bill of Rights trampling all over societal decency? And in your utopia there would be no guaranteed freedom of expression, only that which was judged to be "morally acceptable" by the Office of Public Decency or some-such?

    Auckland • Since Mar 2007 • 4097 posts Report

  • Matthew Poole,

    You're being serious, aren't you?

    Quite likely. Unless nothing he says on here is actually his position, and he's simply being contrary for the sake of argument. Though I'd put the odds of that as roughly equal to McVicar saying something reasonable.

    Auckland • Since Mar 2007 • 4097 posts Report

  • giovanni tiso,

    You agree with Family Fist

    It sounds like a tremendous organisation, how can I join?

    (Not picking on typos, I go there a lot myself. Yesterday the AP described Joe Lieberman as "the former vicepresidential prick", which I thought was just great.)

    Wellington • Since Jun 2007 • 7473 posts Report

  • Morgan Nichol,

    They should just be allowed to say, "No" and let that be the end of it.

    Do you understand the value of living in a free society, and that part of being free is other people having freedoms that you don't like?

    Auckland CBD • Since Nov 2006 • 314 posts Report

  • Matthew Poole,

    You agree with Family Fist
    It sounds like a tremendous organisation, how can I join?
    Not picking on typos

    Not a typo, a deliberate misspelling. Reflective of their views around corporal punishment.

    Auckland • Since Mar 2007 • 4097 posts Report

  • Matthew Poole,

    Do you understand the value of living in a free society, and that part of being free is other people having freedoms that you don't like?

    Ah, Morgan, you haven't encountered Grant before have you? Morgan, meet Grant, the resident right-wing fundie. Abortion is the root cause of all society's woes, says Grant. You really think he'll respect personal freedoms?

    Auckland • Since Mar 2007 • 4097 posts Report

  • Robyn Gallagher,

    Rumour has it that rogue Council officials are trying to close the Academy Cinema so they can have (I don't know) a cinema of their own?

    I heard it was because the library needs more storage space...

    Never mind that there was an Academy theatre on that spot before the library was built there.

    Since Nov 2006 • 1946 posts Report

  • Dan Slevin,

    I heard it was because the library needs more storage space...

    They say they need storage space but they were also claiming the seats and projection equipment despite the fact that they were bought and paid for by the current operator.

    Wellington, NZ • Since Mar 2007 • 95 posts Report

  • Don Christie,

    passed a stinkingly awful amendment to the Indecent Publications Act that effectively let nameless Customs officials decide what anyone could read.

    The 2008 version is called the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. The great thing about this millennium's version is that it is being negotiated in secrecy, has nothing to do with "counterfeiting" (as far as I can tell) and not subject to Parliamentary oversight.

    Wellington • Since Nov 2006 • 1645 posts Report

  • giovanni tiso,

    Not a typo, a deliberate misspelling. Reflective of their views around corporal punishment.

    Fair enough. Makes them sound like a Yakuza version of the Huxtables though.

    Wellington • Since Jun 2007 • 7473 posts Report

  • Morgan Nichol,

    Morgan, you haven't encountered Grant before have you? Morgan, meet Grant, the resident right-wing fundie. Abortion is the root cause of all society's woes, says Grant. You really think he'll respect personal freedoms?

    Right, so when I say "liberty" or "basic human rights" or "free speech" he hears "I want to pluck the zygote from your gently pulsating uterus and eat it with butter"?

    I guess I'll just save my breath then.

    Auckland CBD • Since Nov 2006 • 314 posts Report

  • Morgan Nichol,

    It should be obvious to anyone that I say zygote rather than fetus, because fileting a fetus is a huge hassle, while zygotes are of course boneless.

    Have to eat a lot to make a good meal though. Like teeny tiny popcorn chicken.

    Auckland CBD • Since Nov 2006 • 314 posts Report

  • Sam F,

    When I was
    a young boy
    my father
    took me into the city...

    Auckland • Since Nov 2006 • 1611 posts Report

  • Steve Barnes,

    Grunt Dickster? is he back? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

    Peria • Since Dec 2006 • 5521 posts Report

  • Grant Dexter,

    This has nothing to do with freedom of speech! It has everything to do with proper authority. A geverning body should be allowed to say "Yay" or "Nay" regardless of the request. Why would we need a law to back up every decision they make?

    Taipei, Taiwan • Since Mar 2007 • 256 posts Report

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