Posts by Joe Wylie
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Hard News: Terror panics and the war imperative, in reply to Farmer Green,
FFS , can’t we find at least one person with brown skin and a funny-sounding name to arrest on vague suspicion of perhaps contemplating . . . oh I don’t know . . . just contemplating will do?
The old John Howard trick?
Tony Abbott appears to have learned something from his old mentor's stuffup, even if it's nothing more sophisticated than using a bigger hammer. -
Hard News: Doing over the witness, in reply to Dylan Reeve,
It’s an extraordinary claim I think – and typically extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, which I really don’t think is evident (so far?) in this case.
Oh bullshit. You're simply far too squeamish to even consider the possibility.
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Hard News: Doing over the witness, in reply to Danielle,
It blows my mind just a little how very keen some people are to ascribe just, disinterested motives to the police. Really? On THIS issue?
I suspect it’s something to do with being traumatised by the discovery that one was deceived over the existence of Santa Claus. Talkback, and increasingly the interwebs, seem to swarm with people who’ve dedicated their adult lives to desperately clinging to a substitute.
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Hard News: Doing over the witness, in reply to Kyle Matthews,
eah right.
Perhaps your definition of ‘many’ varies from mine.
Fair enough Kyle, but for me your account significantly seems to ignore Police Association President Greg O'Connor's aggressive politicising of police issues.
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Hard News: Doing over the witness, in reply to Kyle Matthews,
Sometimes the police force will influence laws, but in my experience they don’t tend to lead the charge on many law changes in their area
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Hard News: Doing over the witness, in reply to Dylan Reeve,
The thing is – we have no context at all for how usual or unusual this is. We don’t know what items the police believed they were looking for, what processes were used during that search, whether all officers were involved for the whole time, what downtime there was.
Your constant harping on 'we' ignores that you could well be addressing people who, for all you know, may well be better informed about a number of aspects of this case and its background than you are. Yet you continue to offer yourself as some kind of paragon of virtuous ignorance.
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Hard News: Doing over the witness, in reply to Russell Brown,
If I had five bucks for every numbskull right-winger who’s demanded on the internet today that Hager be prosecuted for “receiving stolen property” …
Then there were all those fine minds being exercised back in the Hollow Men era over the materiality or otherwise of Brash's emails. My favourite was the prediction that Hager would "have his ears nailed to the wall" for something resembling lèse-majesté against the goodly person of Dr. Don.
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Hard News: Doing over the witness, in reply to Dylan Reeve,
In the case of this hacker it seems more likely that the discovery of material with journalistic merit was a byproduct of the theft, not the reason for it.
The claim at the time Dirty Politics was published was that the hacker was motivated by disgust at Slater’s attack on the memory of the dead ‘feral’.
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Hard News: Doing over the witness, in reply to Chris Waugh,
In the real world, New Zealand has a very long way to go until it reaches even Singaporean levels of authoritarianism.
True dat. While it can seem like something from a more innocent age in terms of the more recent revelations about online surveillance, the public misgivings about Singapore Telecom’s takeover of Australia’s Optus back in 2001 were solidly founded. It’s more than a little disturbing to have your second-largest telco controlled by a state owned enterprise of a government that carries out practically warrantless surveillance and detention of its own citizens.
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Hard News: Doing over the witness, in reply to Dylan Reeve,
Oh god, we’re not going into a 9/11 Truth hole here are we?
Ian's point clearly went right over your head there.