Posts by Amanda Wreckonwith
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I'll vote to keep the old flag. We have reintroduced knighthoods and reverted to 'Queen's' Counsel. We are about to bestow Prince Charles with more honorary titles from a grateful NZ.
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Hard News: Not yet standing upright, in reply to Glenn Pearce,
Otis Frizzell’s not being in the final 4 is a mystery to me.
Too much green on it.
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Hard News: Judicial caprice is no way to…, in reply to Katharine Moody,
. Was that her client, the Crown’s specific instruction regarding this specific case? Or was she using her own judgement based on her interpretation/understanding of “the game”?
All valid questions. Do you intend to look for the answers before picketing the office? Or are the pitchforks sharpened and torches lit?
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Hard News: Judicial caprice is no way to…, in reply to chris,
I see where you are coming from Chris.
Katharine is welcome to protest all she likes – I just wish that she would take some time to understand that the target of her opprobrium is merely doing their job just like my partner. The prosecutor is just a cog in the wheel – she is not a butterfly that needs breaking upon it.
I wonder what will be written on the placards that Katharine plans to have her children carry?
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Hard News: Judicial caprice is no way to…, in reply to chris,
One would expect that he’d be able enough as a lawyer to distinguish public protest from assault/willful damage/threatening to commit offences.
The problem is that this misinformed 'public protest' could serve to whip up sentiment in a way similar to the pronouncements made by Sensible Sentencing, Larry Williams and the rest of the Hang 'Em High Mob.
As others have noted - targeting the prosecutor is no different to what these people already do and the consequences are all too real to my family and I.
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Hard News: Judicial caprice is no way to…, in reply to Katharine Moody,
If I lived in Whangarei I’d be outside the law firm with placards, and I’d get my grandchildren and children to stand there with me.
Do you ever moonlight for the Westboro Baptist Church?
I am the partner of a prominant criminal defence barrister. We have had boulders thrown through our windows, been spat at in the street and had death threats made to our faces.
I guess these people thought my other half was
simply “playing the game” by the rules or not.
Like you, I am sure they felt justified in their demonstrations of their disgust and hatred.
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Real people, real lives.
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Envirologue: Choose Wisely, Grasshopper:…, in reply to ,
partly becouse I don’t buy into there drive to win ” market share of the electorate”
So do you not think they should seek to increase their share of the vote? Or is it that the 'market share' phrase is off-putting?
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Envirologue: Choose Wisely, Grasshopper:…, in reply to Hilary Stace,
He’s a real product of middle class Wellington Central. Not sure whether that is a positive or negative for the rest of the country though.
I’m sure there are some who will be appalled, others impressed and also those who will seek to use it against him.
I really couldn’t care less about his background. I will judge him on his policy decisions. Politics based on personality is an anachronism from the steam age... -
Envirologue: Choose Wisely, Grasshopper:…, in reply to Tom Semmens,
whose anachronistic thinking hasn’t left the steam age?
pretty much...
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Envirologue: Choose Wisely, Grasshopper:…, in reply to Dave Hansford,
What I have said is that it’s important that the Green membership, and caucus, consider the various suggestions that his selection should automatically begin any shift to a populist centre with great caution.
Actually you implied that the membership had already fallen for this narrative -
But the weekend’s result suggests their membership might be starting to believe it themselves, and that’s pretty bad information upon which to start making critical decisions.
Do you have any evidence that their voting was based on these suggestions from Hooton and Farrar?