Posts by Kyle Matthews
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From the stuff story:
Asked if Rankin was a safe pair of hands, Key said: "It's a part-time role. She's a part-time commissioner. She's not back running a major government department."
Wow. That's a vote of confidence. "Yeah, it'll be alright. She'll only be working mornings, hardly have any time to fuck things up." Somewhere in the National media office advisers are hitting their heads into their desks.
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It's becoming increasingly bad form to talk about the stadium down here. Tearing friends and families apart, it's the Springbok Tour of Dunedin's new millenium.
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how about we take the Arthur Dent option and put some serious non-violent direct action in front of these bulldozers?
What all go to the pub at the crucial moment? Sweet.
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I think first I'd rather try licking the floor of pub toilets for alcohol-infused urinal splashback before I took on the job of gossip columnist.
ur gross
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I consider persecuting people for a victim less crime improper but then I think oppression is a bad thing.
I have no problem with that. But it should be directed at parliament, not at the police. Particularly not at a time when three of them were shot for trying to enforce the law.
I find the "this wouldn't have happened if pot were legal" argument right now about as distasteful as the "this is why police should have tasers". I wish the media and the public would let the police bury their dead before they jump on the body/band wagon.
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But as you just said that is a tactic they deploy, and being on the receiving end of exactly that ( and having to repair the door afterwards, when they got it wrong) can lead to resentment of the police.
Wait. The guy snapped because sometimes when the police raid houses (but not this time) they kick in doors, and he resents that?
I'll repeat what someone else said up thread - lots of people that cultivate and sell pot don't react to their house being searched by shooting the officers doing the searching.
There's lots of OK responses to being caught selling pot, and maybe one of them is protesting that the law is unjust, no problem. Shooting an unarmed police officer who is just doing his job? Please.
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I'm kind of enjoying this one today, even though it does glorify terrorism:
I wish people who made movies could spell the plural of video though.
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Gee thanks Keith. I mean I knew I was getting screwed, but it's depressing to have it confirmed by numbers. I'm going to go drink some beer for lunch now.
The top 10% sees most of their tax cuts wiped out by wage growth and fiscal drag – but remember, the 2008 tax cut had already wiped it out, so National's tax cut comes on top of that.
Can you redo that National party graph to incorporate the 2008 (Labour) tax cuts so that the two can be compared? It looks like National aren't helping out the top 10% at all, but from this sentence it seems they are, but seeing it in pretty colours would help me confirm.
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I've only seen the TV show that was on the other week, but I was tremendously impressed with Danny Bhoy - genuinely laugh out loud funny.
I'm remarkably unimpressed with the comedy festival on the other hand. Hardly any of it is coming to Dunedin. Even the comedy convoy skips Dunedin somehow between Christchurch, Queenstown and Invercargill
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The police tend to self-isolate from communities. How many of you have a cop in your circle of friends, or expect to meet one at a party?
Every day when I was a kid :)
He hadn't exploded before that .He was an angry man , who had far too many weapons and snapped due to policing methods that let's face it fuck off a lot of peolpe off.
Policing methods involved three unarmed police officers turning up to his house and being let in by his partner to search for drugs with a warrant. I don't think they kicked in the door. Let's keep it real, the guy snapped, as far as we know he wasn't pushed into it at all.
Sorry but if it was legalised only one would have been there waiting for Jan, to return home from walking the dog. Holmwood ( excuse my memory on spelling his name) was only getting a bit of noxious weed, havin' a cuppa tea, chatting to the girlfriend.
That doesn't necessarily mean that this incident wouldn't have happened another time. Apparently it was police being at his house which triggered the shooting, they might have come to his house for an entirely different reason.
The trigger point isn't drug laws, it's a person who has a cache of firearms and starts firing at police officers under any circumstances. Take away the drug laws, you still have an unstable person with guns. That's the concern.
I see no reason to place the right to life of a criminal firing upon police and public over the slim chance that Constable Snee might have benefited from medical treatment.
Good to see that you've skipped the whole 'court of law', 'jury of peers', 'defend yourself against accused crimes', and appointed the police as executioners. I'm amused by the yawning gap between those people who thought that a military LAV shouldn't be used to retrieve the body, and your thoughts that we should kill the shooter to allow us to retrieve the body.
There's no reason for the police to risk their lives by getting into a gun battle with a guy when they can wait it out for a couple of days and try and resolve it another way. Once the threat is contained, the risks of such a policy are minimal.