Posts by Kyle Matthews
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I hear ya Kyle, but I wouldn't want Mugabe to be able to silence NZs media. Just that it's not able to be reported here if suppressed is all we can really do.
Well I don't think you'd make it a blanket rule. But if you made it like extradition treaties - you'd have agreements with specific countries based on your assessment of their legal systems.
It wouldn't be perfect, the internet breaks suppression orders, but if you could prevent it being on the front page of the tabloids you'd probably stop half the fuss.
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The UK papers (all available here via the internet) would not only name the victim, some of them would happily try and shame her too. They'd interview friends, boyfriends, family. They'd stake out her house. Any failing they found would be headlines. And, as we've seen already, these same journalists are quite happy to pass on lies.
We really do fail don't we. An argument for court suppression orders to cross international borders via inter-country agreements if ever I heard one.
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"the AAG would consider hiring local Triads to protect his people from violent attacks"
I heard that on national radio today. I had to check to see if I hadn't somehow switched from national to some sort of comedy station.
You can imagine the triad's response. "Wait, we already run one protection racket on these people, now they want us to run another one? Sweet..."
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Um, if you want to reach people who aren't already outside exercising, you do need to get into the space that they're in - there'd be no point in putting up a "Hey, climbing mountains is cool!" billboard at the top of Mt. Cook, but at the bottom it might work.
I guess it feels more putting the billboard on the inside of the bus going up the mountain.
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I've just had the point made to me (without permission to cross-post the e-mail here sadly) that when Parliament still has the power to imprison for an indeterminate people who've been found guilty of "contempt of the House" (which isn't as well-defined in standing orders as one might like) we should be glad that the wet bus ticket is the preferred weapon of choice. :)
Meh. Having a big stick in your pocket is silly if you never take it out. Eventually people will figure out that you never take it out, and happily take on the bit of straw you wave at them in reality.
The only point of the privileges committee seems to be so that the other side can stand up and wave paper and say "we're laying a complaint with the privileges committee". If it doesn't have any effect on public perception, then the reality of it isn't going to scare anyone.
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Time to stock up on lawnmowers.
Ooh yes. And conveniently-located-nearby chainsaws.
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From Pansy Wong's media release:
it’s obvious the truckies will no longer tolerate Transport Minister Annette King and her Government riding rough shod over them.
I always used to get annoyed when organising protests with people who said things like this. "Students will no longer tolerate fee rises." "New Zealanders will no longer tolerate more trees being chopped down."
If they did actually not tolerate that would be cool. A student fee strike, an occupation of the forest, truckers refusing to work. That's not tolerating.
What the truckers are doing is being very annoyed while tolerating.
Someone should figure out how much mileage on average those trucks have done to go to their protest, multiply it by the number of trucks, and then figure out how much additional that's cost them at the higher RUC rate. How many thousand dollars of increase that they were complaining about, did they spend between them today protesting about it? The ironies abound.
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So the zombies win. Well that's just great.
We all need to watch George Romero movies to prepare us. Remember, aim for their heads.
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Spare Room catches Telecom making shit up again. The happy company in that new TV ad doesn't exist
Also just in, Spot the Dog actually Vodafone customer. Shocking news at 11.
Seriously, not news.
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If John Key stood up in the House yesterday and told a porkie pie he should face the Privileges Committee and wear the consequences. Just like everyone else.
I'd be in favour of parliamentary privilege, if the privileges committee didn't give me the strong impression of a really big wet bus ticket.
I can't bring to mind any time where it's actually done more than say 'naughty naughty', and we've had a couple of times when politicians have had a bit of the old smackaroo in the corridors of power.