Posts by Russell Brown
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Nice to see another side to the story
I think the thing that really amazed me was the origin of the 12-month course as the standard, and the received truth: it's that way solely because Roche said so. I can see how a serious researcher would get unhappy with policy being made like that.
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I don't really want to get into an entertaining - but pointless and gross - sidebar about how 'normal' gang-bangs and toys are to your average sexually-active adult. (I may be a screaming queen, but I've never viewed intercourse as an exercise in crowd control or logistics. Far too lazy to write all the thank-you notes or wash up afterwards.)
LOL. Literally.
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Oh, but I fondly remember the wedges, Whale Man, and how everyone wrote about it on their LJs upon returning.
Did you cry about it in your LiveJournal? ;-)
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But the cousin from Australia didn't do that. She simply had a different recollection of events.
Those events including the phone call from Sharon Shipton coaching her on what to say (ie: to lie) in the past couple of weeks. I'd wager her memory of that was still quite fresh. You're being very disingenuous indeed.
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I suspect that the jury's decision to acquit the accused was relatively easy. There was no external corroborating evidence.
Yes. And both complainants were flawed, and the prosectution couldn't show guilt beyond reasonable doubt. That's how it works.
On the other hand, there was better evidence in Mt Maunganui case, including a guilty plea (to abduction) by one of the offenders. Should the police have decided not to prosecute when they already had rape and abduction convictions of two of the same three men which shared many characteristics with the two further complaints? Really?
Maybe she was offered money and/or goodies by the police.
You've got a bit of a nerve sermonising on evidence when you say something like that.
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I totally agree. Can you provide us with some evidence that someone has been violated with a baton. Take your time. Thanks.
Check the Weekend Herald. A few other cops seemed to think it happened more than once.
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But glad to see you finally confirm that consensual group sex is "dirty". Or could it be you protest too much?
I don't much mind what consenting adults do, dirty or otherwise (and from the descriptions given over the course of three cases, I think it's fair to say that what went on was dirty sex). You may be happy with the degree of consent in these cases, and not think there was an imbalance of power, but I beg to differ. The most recent complainant was 16, and Louise Nicholas was 17 when she first came into the ambit of these men, of whom Rickards was the youngest, but still half a lifespan older than her. So yes, I do have a problem with that.
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Well, you do have a point there - remeber when Jim Bolger got char-grilled for making the true but impolitic observation that the problem with health is that people die? (I'm pretty sure then Health Minister Jenny Shipley could have put him in an ICU ward in a heartbeat,)
Without (no, really) wishing to get into a partisan political stoush, I think this part of one of my earlier posts on the Herceptin issue is relevant:
Thoughtful stuff, no? But I can't help but think that such a resourcing decision would create its own crop of angry deadlines and emotional raging. Remember in 1997, when the Northland man Rau Williams didn't get renal dialysis, because, in the final stages of renal failure and suffering from dementia, he didn't qualify for it? There was a huge media circus around that, but the Health and Disability Commissioner, while finding some fault with cultural sensitivity, found that the doctors acted correctly.
Interestingly, Helen Clark, as Opposition leader, joined Bill English in backing Northland Health, while then government MPs John Banks and Tau Henare broke ranks to join the media scrum. (Act MP Heather Roy later claimed that the case of Williams, "who was denied dialysis on medical grounds, was championed by the (then opposition) Labour Party," but she was just making stuff up.) I think National, which has strongly politicised the Herceptin issue - it featured in a highly emotional context in two major Brash speeches recently - should perhaps be asked how it would have done things differently.
Another reason I'm not sorry to see the back of Dr Brash.
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You don't recall a bus-full of revellers arriving late in the piece?
I don't recall the bus, but the timing sounds about right ...
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Good, so it wasn't just me who was creeped out by that photo, then. It was also, AFAIK, the first time I've seen that tattoo: is that all part of the "conspiracy against a Maori police commissioner" thing?
Given the way the pics were posed, I think that's likely too.
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