Posts by Rich of Observationz

  • Hard News: #NetHui: it's all about you,

    The right have been fighting and winning the class war for years. If you choose not to partake, you're still a victim. (unless you happen to get lucky and wind up on the winning side). Just sayin.

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  • Legal Beagle: Referendum Fact Check #2:…,

    After WWII, the Nazi Party was banned in Germany, so the threshold cannot have been introduced to keep them out

    Can we have some links to (in English translation coz I didn't pay attention in German lessons at school) the minutes of the Herrenchiemsee Convention that discuss this?

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  • Legal Beagle: Referendum Fact Check #1, in reply to Graeme Edgeler,

    He's doing a damn good job as a journalist, too.

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  • Muse: That Book, The Ban That Isn't,…,

    I read a phrase in that as:

    Big Brother had a secret agenda. Helen Clark is watching us

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  • Muse: That Book, The Ban That Isn't,…,

    Not having it on display was more or less an open invitation for the gestapo to start sniffing around for other signs of un-germanic activity

    1920's. The Gestapo wasn't founded till 1934.

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  • Muse: That Book, The Ban That Isn't,…, in reply to Crunchy Weta,

    Maybe some may feel moved to dob in there neighbours.

    Yeah. I’ve haven’t heard any child type noises from our neighbours on either side in all the time I’ve lived here, so assume they murdered the kids and buried them in a shallow grave somewhere. Who can I call?

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  • Legal Beagle: Referendum Fact Check #1,

    Actually, I was being flippant - I wouldn't think Bomber would be up for elected office, but maybe he feels otherwise? (They make you wear a suit, FFS)

    Also, the Maori Party has consciously not campaigned for party votes (or pakeha votes).

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  • Legal Beagle: Referendum Fact Check #1,

    I am saying that Green members really need to lay off the unthinking propaganda about party democracy

    Actually, I'm not a Green member either any more. To paraphrase Will Rogers "I belong to no organised political party. I am a Mana supporter". (and I have no idea how Hone plans to organise his list ranking, but hope we might get John Minto, Sue Bradford and Bomber Bradbury in Parliament).

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  • Muse: That Book, The Ban That Isn't,…,

    Also, how would people feel if a sustained campaign resulted in Michael Moore books being removed from sale by booksellers? Or Don Brash's work(s)? Or Ayn Rand.

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  • Muse: That Book, The Ban That Isn't,…,

    <i>was actually convicted of a crime</i>

    One could argue that smuggling weed isn't morally wrong and that the Indonesian justice system (or the US one, for that matter) is too corrupt for anyone convicted by it to be considered "guilty".

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