Posts by Rosemary McDonald
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Well, hey...
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11533512
After questioning Mr Anson on how quickly home detention could be arranged, the three justices had a brief adjournment and stated the issue could be dealt with within 15 minutes upon re-entering the court.
Crown prosecutor Aaron Perkins said he understood where the case was going.
"I sense that there might be a slight headwind moving into [home detention]," he said.
"The Crown's position remains that there is no error by the judge. He's not fallen into [a] trap.
"Having said that, I do allow it's a stern sentence that has been imposed."
The decision was reserved, but Justice Harrison said the determination could be expected "very promptly".
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Polity: Political strategy and Canada’s NDP, in reply to Steve Barnes,
But hey… There goes the neighbourhood…
A veritable pile....
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Up Front: Fringe of Darkness, in reply to Lucy Telfar Barnard,
Horror and anger in our home too.
http://notmyshame.squarespace.com/
Strong women.
This is not justice....this is enabling.
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Up Front: Fringe of Darkness, in reply to Danielle,
Instead of nature, perhaps I should have said chemistry.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxytocin
Powerful stuff, oxytocin.
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Up Front: Fringe of Darkness, in reply to Katharine Moody,
And it needs to not only inform us of the profile of a sexual predator – so that we can better recognise them amongst us – but it also needs to explore why, in particular mothers end up exposing their children to this potential for abuse.
I did have a copy of Peter Haynes' book. I gave it away to someone who needed to know that they were not the only one to experience such horrors in their youth, not the only one struggling with daily life as a damaged person. Worse, not the only "survivor' of childhood sexual abuse trying to parent.
As you say, it is women and mothers who are ultimately responsible...(never mind god...but nature dictates this)
You hold this child in your arms, and love binds and blinds you. No harm will befall this child within the reach of your arms.
Then, your own childhood comes rushing back.
You ask yourself..."what was wrong with me that my mother couldn't love and care for me, the way I love my child."
Because, in the absence of anyone else taking responsibility...or society (through the courts or a book perhaps? ) placing the responsibility firmly in the hands of the perpetrators and enablers....the child will blame themselves.
We need to properly describe what happened at Centrepoint.
What happened to other children.
What is still happening to children.Evil....
adjective
1.
profoundly immoral and wicked.
"his evil deeds"
synonyms: wicked, bad, wrong, morally wrong, wrongful, immoral, sinful, ungodly, unholy, foul, vile, base, ignoble, dishonourable, corrupt, iniquitous, depraved, degenerate, villainous, nefarious, sinister, vicious, malicious, malevolent, demonic, devilish, diabolic, diabolical, fiendish, dark, black-hearted; monstrous, shocking, despicable, atrocious, heinous, odious, contemptible, horrible, execrable; informallow-down, stinking, dirty, shady, warped, bent, crooked; archaicdastardly, black; rareegregious, flagitious, peccable
"an evil deed"
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Up Front: Fringe of Darkness, in reply to Katharine Moody,
To call anything this organisation did to be “therapy” (implying a health or well-being benefit) shows (to my mind) a lack of understanding of the nature of sexual predation.
I was waiting for someone to spell it out. Thank you.
All and every hallmark of a sexual predator...with the added evil of 'charisma'.
Almost unbelievable that a single person could hold so many in his thrall for so long.
I felt sick after visiting the menz website.
Almost as sick as when I read the book you've linked to.
This story needs to be told...for history, for Louise and Angie, for those who wish to remain un-named.
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Envirologue: 1080, "eco-terrorism" and agendas, in reply to Alfie,
Yep, we have one of these....https://store.nzfarmsource.co.nz/catalog/pestoff-departure-lounge-bait-station/205161
The name got our attention. A nice touch of rodenticidal whimsy.
Before the advent of bait stations, we used the good old length of drainflo pipe, with the bait held in the middle by number eight wire.
It still uses poison, and the rats can drag the bait out when the bait block gets smaller.
And, where do the rats go to die? Or you look outside and the old lab is playing with a sick rat.
A dead rat, on the other hand....better still a pile of 'em underneath the self resetting kill -quick trap...yes!
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Envirologue: 1080, "eco-terrorism" and agendas, in reply to Alfie,
I suspect i have the same feelings towards rats and stoats as you have for possums.
I hate the buggers.
We have chooks. Chooks attract rats. Some years in huge numbers. (Like the year the neighbour got those plug in pest deterrers. )
We have used various methods to reduce the rat population...with a cage trap baited with ham fat being most effective, and safest for the chooks. Trouble is...you have a very live, very angry rat to deal with. Then you have to reset the trap.
To protect the nesting native birds in the vegetation around the house from rats and stoats (and they are bold hunters) we have to put the trap high in the trees.
I'm getting too old for daily tree climbing.
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Envirologue: 1080, "eco-terrorism" and agendas, in reply to izogi,
Maybe more money will be allocated for some kind of trap research,
Like this!!! http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/countrylife#audio-201774976
http://goodnature.co.nz/index.php?pageID=products&productId=3
Seriously effective looking beastie....I am saving up for the rat version...
The programme is well worth a listen.
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Up Front: Fringe of Darkness, in reply to Anke Richter,
Some perpetrators – like John Potter
I read and re read that article Anke, then did the google search thing on some of the names.
High price indeed for victims and whisleblowers when some of the perpetrators and enablers, instead of fading into total obscurity as would be appropriate, maintain a public profile .... continuing to promote the same twisted attitudes.
Some of the messages from Potter's little website are bordering on hate speech. IMO.