Posts by william blake
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Hard News: That escalated quickly ..., in reply to Ian Dalziel,
Not sure he has the chops to change on the fly… so he’ll probably revert to attack dog mode.
Chops..attack dog; hopefully he will devour himself like some kind of west Auckland ouroboros.
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Jesse Mulligan and Mark Richardson should be interrogated as to their intentions on breeding or more pertinently, as to their impending vasectomies, as regressive genes like theirs are mixing and muddying 19th and 21st century thinking. New Zealand needs to know.
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I feel really uncomfortable with the lines being drawn around visibly homeless people and these poisonous drugs. Bill English has gone down the personal responsibility route, blaming the victims, and Heart of the City is using the issue to try to get more leverage to ‘remove’ street people from the CBD,pretty heartless really.
With poverty and homelessness being major election issues, using people’s misery against them is really horrible. Rather than grandstanding our community leaders should be trying their best to reverse poverty and all of it’s symptoms.
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In the current context of drug use or substance abuse being illegal, on the spot drug tests are an ambulance at the bottom of the cliff solution. And it isn't even an ambulance it's just a van with some equipment and some caring people; with no system backing it up.
If the context is changed to legalised drug use, on the spot drug tests, if needed, become a kind of consumer guarantee in the free market but more likely drugs would be manufactured to quality standards, sold and taxed; and side effects and harm would be managed for profit. The whole spectrum of drugs would be available reliably and cheaply, like alcohol; and we know how well that works.
Preferably with decriminalisation harm would be managed without the extra threat of prosecution for the user. On the spot drug testing would be a part of a raft of initiatives aimed at keeping people safe and well.
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I will continue to wowser and go back to the health issue, harm reduction position. On the spot drug analysis may head off acute poisoning from ingestion of an unexpected drug but what about longer term effects of a churning chemical smorgasbord? Is anybody testing the human lab rats for short, medium or long term cognitive imparement, liver or heart damage, cancer etc.? Insisting it is sensible to minimise the immediate damage may give a green light and a false sense of security on the night that may make people think narcotics are a healthy, long term, gluten free alternative. Does Know Your Stuff suggest a dose for each ‘patient’ based on their physiological and psychological medical records? ( including don’t do it dude) I’m not convinced that this is a health initiative rather than a happy party initiative
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For a couple of hundred bucks this would be a perfect way for a dissatisfied tenant to get back at a landlord. But if landlords aren't going to test and a tenant is concerned about real contamination, it's an option. It would seem to be in everybody's interest to have a meaningful standard of contamination.
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As the protege of English, Collins, Bennett et.al. Barclay must have talked about recording or taping his staff with someone with knowledge of the law. So it would be reasonable to assume that someone in the office was committing a crime to warrant such a drastic measure, why else expose yourself to the risks involved? Does anyone know if it is still illegal to set a recording device to catch a crim? Otherwise what, paranoia?
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"I don't think of itself it is damaging. These sorts of issues arise commonly in politics, and this one has been dealt with I think pretty decisively. Principally because of the decision by Mr Barclay to stand down." Bill English.
Yes, no, no, er yes.
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Mays’ sociopathic rant re. terrorism being mitigated by getting rid of the UN human rights convention, probably did more harm than good, in preaching to the isolationist choir. Locking people up with no evidence does flag your party as fascist and gives swing and ‘missing’ voters something to vote against.
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Hard News: Media Take: The price of imprisonment, in reply to Kumara Republic,
'The house I live in' (2012) outlines how so many black Americans are incarcerated and the rise of entire towns that exist solely because of private prisons. A collision of twisted drug laws, racism and capitalism.