Posts by Kyle Matthews
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Point? I need a point? On this thread?
I believe it's either discouraged, or not allowed.
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Isn't parliament the highest court in NZ in some circumstances? Or am I making that up.
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Clinton was "tried" by the legislature rather than the judiciary, who can hardly be expected to give a fair trial to a political opponent.
In America, where judges are often elected, or appointed along political lines, this is also sometimes true of the judiciary.
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I had understood that the issues being raised were around the Whitewater grand jury investigation, and had nothing to do with the impeachment.
Clinton was found in civil contempt for his false testimony in the sexual harrassment case, and was fined $90,000.
Ah OK.
Wikipedia says the false testimony was during the Paula Jones lawsuit, which was a sexual harassment case.
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But my nightmares got all huffy about being eagerly awaited each night, and went away :-(.
My girlfriend gets very excited when she dreams about receiving something (like dinner at a restaurant) but wakes up before she dreams about paying. She's like "ooh! Free dinner!"
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For one thing such a body would have too little to do in New Zealand which would lead to inevitable function creep.
According to its annual report:
During the year, the Authority received 2073 complaints and accepted 1690 for investigation1 (either by the Authority or by Police under the Authority’s oversight).
I'm not sure if they're short of things to do.
I think that the US abuse of compelled testimony, prosecution by politicians and the investigation of non-crimes (such as in the McCarthy and Clinton cases) has rather discredited the Grand Jury, at least under that name.
Didn't Clinton lie under oath at a hearing of a sexual harassment case? And then admit that he'd lied?
Just because he didn't get impeached because no democrats in the senate voted for it, doesn't make it not perjury. Just politics!
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1. Where were the road spikes?
You can only use road spikes to stop a vehicle if you can block the whole road, and if you can drop the spikes before the vehicle arrives.
I presume when the police were pursuing the car, it was in amongst traffic. You can't drop spikes in traffic, you won't stop one car, you'll stop twelve innocent cars, and they're going to pile into each other or crash trying to avoid it. You'll hurt someone.
In order to plant spikes you need a car ahead on the motorway, with spikes already. So you need to know where the offender is going and pre-plan. It would probably involve there being a patrol car in the area of another police station that happened to have spikes in their car.
You also need to be able to spike all the way across the road, and the sides of the road as well. A four lane motorway is going to require at least two sets of spikes.
Maybe this just wasn't an option for one or more of these reasons.
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Because there's no precedent for this type of incident, but the IPCA is still expected to make the decision on how to deal with it. I suggest that a court should be the body that decides if the accidental killing of a bystander is a breach or not.
Just because it hasn't happened before doesn't mean it wasn't exactly one of the things that the IPCA was set up to deal with.
2. "The person was known to the Police" if so then the chopper had him in view the whole time. Follow the car and wait rather than chase with god knows how many cars in hot pursuit. There are no tunnels in Auckland so car parks might be the only place the guy could have disappeared into.
You're not serious right? A guy is armed, has fired shots, and you want the police to back off and then pick him up the next day from his house? Once a person presents and fires a gun, there's no way the police let them get away. You have no idea what the person is going to do with the gun, and there's no way the police can let them run around with a weapon and possibly shoot someone.
I've flown in Eagle in pursuit of an offender, it's actually not very easy to follow a person, particularly on foot. We were helping a patrol car find a burglar, and the spotters on Eagle lost him a couple of times when he went through properties, under trees, after he abandoned his car. The helicopter is a tool to assist pursuit, it's by no means perfect.
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his sallies and counter-thrusts seemed to catch in her throat....
ew. ur gross.
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I think, given that the in utero shot is the photo of my oldest that I showed to people the most - the first substantial proof! - it's now the photo that I care about the least. I don't even know if I still have it.
Once they're two seconds old, the last nine months doesn't seem to matter any more.