Posts by DexterX
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Hard News: Incomplete, inaccurate and misleading, in reply to matthew,
Is there really such a thing as permanently deleting an email. Surely there is at least some forensic IT capacity somewhere in our state apparatus that could recover deleted correspondence.
Ask the Americans or China - pretty sure they kept a copy.
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Hard News: News from home ..., in reply to nzlemming,
The union is not for the workers - the union IS the workers. If the members (i.e. you, Andrew Geddis, in this particular discussion) are not happy with the way their union is run, it is up to them to put their shoulder to the wheel and be the change, instead of waiting for someone else to do it for them.
That is just a massive fairy story - Union structures and their hierarchy are virtually impregnable – they are the lid on the box that contains the aspiration of working people (to earn a living wage) and that lid is kept firmly in place with the chains of employment legislation.
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With the Art that is Lorde the “penetration” the music has achieved is more significant than any NZ Artist I can recall - An example being my 7-year-old daughter is this year beginning to learn the piano and has learnt to play Royal.
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Be interesting to see the "dots" that have gone offshore permanently and the new "dots" that have entered and become permanent residents.
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Hard News: The uncooling of the inner West, in reply to Amanda Wreckonwith,
I have to fight the desire to drive up country and spray paint ATLANTIS over the Omaha signs.
Classic.
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Hard News: The Hager saga continues, in reply to Sofie Bribiesca,
and with a lack lustre opposition he is on a cake walk.
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Hard News: Doing over the witness, in reply to Alfie,
But once you have personal experience of Police corruption, your perception of the law changes forever.
You're not wrong - leads me to bit of a rant.
I witnessed in the mid to late 60s my parents treatment by police after they phoned in a break in at the local bowling club - an alarm had gone off - Dad was home on a break from night shift - the Police asked Dad to go and have a look to see if the burglars were still there - he did, they weren't, and he then went back to work.
Later well after midnight - the police kicked our front door in and interrogated my mother, who was heavily pregnant at the time, in our lounge as to where my father was - they wanted to arrest him for the break in. I can remember seeing Mum shaking with fear - BTW - Dad was a schoolteacher who did part-time work on weekends - it wasn't him.
I watched in the late 70s the result of a car "stop and search" - the Police beat up a mate who got lippy and wanted to know what the basis for the stop and search - the car we were in matched the description of another car that had been involved in an incident - the Police were largely angry that they had got the wrong car - this incident had involved several Police cars and including some D's.
I used to be very guarded in dealing with the police - now I just don't give a shit within reason - the law, the courts, the local authorities, and the police are in essence a law unto themselves - a lumbering colossus and you don’t matter.
I helped someone as a "Mackenzie Friend" who was wrongly accused - the Judge dismissed the case and the Police reported me to the Law Society who sent me a letter asking me to explain myself. I admitted that I did more than just help I did all the typing - he couldn't type did not own a PC - and researched the law for this bloke - he presented his own case - however - to do what I did, assist someone, is against the law/illegal - if you for another person type or create a document that can be produced by a lawyer and it is presented in court you are breaking the law - I was given a warning and have been told not to do this again.
The bloke was lucky the Judge could see that the police were wrong - it was dismissed, not on the basis of the argument presented but on the basis the Police had taken too long to bring the prosecution.
The less one is involved with "the man" the better - you are little and expendable and they are mighty - you only have one voice every three years and that is your vote - best use it.
People like Nicky Hager are incredibly brave – good on them - we needed him to publish Dirty Politics - lets see which way the colossus is moved, if at all.
I still respect the Police and Public Officials - a part of respecting all people.
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Hard News: Doing over the witness, in reply to Dylan Reeve,
The point is that suggesting this is political, or at the behest of the SIS or others, has massive implications.
The police are far from perfect, but I still think they've proven to be fairly independent."John Banks" - The police do a raid as part of the Teapot Tapes saga and Banks is only prosecuted after a private prosecution is taken.
More to consider - They raid Nicky Hager’s home taking computers and devices etc, yet with the Roastbusters "thing" there is no investigation, search warrant or otherwise. The police search on Hager’s home comes after the election and not during.
We have 29 miners die at Pike River and no one gets prosecuted; a deal is done with an insurance company.
The application and the enforcement of law in NZ is a variable commodity when dealing with issues that lean heavily on the political sphere. John Key's and National's "perceived" interest seem to me to be one of the dominating variables - people may differ - but this is what I see. .
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Speaker: An Open Letter To David Cunliffe, in reply to Deborah,
All these details are in the policy document which has been sitting on the Labour website for months..
Would have helped if Cunnliffe had read it - me thinks.
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Labour are going to great lengths to prove why they were not fit to govern - an outstanding effort all round.