Posts by Gareth Ward
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Fletcher, read point 13 here for why the Attorney General says it's disproportionate (can't copy the text sorry):
http://www.parliament.nz/NR/rdonlyres/77083170-E4A8-4905-AC0A-56FF04574624/100134/DBHOH_PAP_17759_64791.pdf -
Probably to something like this:
9. Right not to be subjected to torture or cruel treatment
Everyone has the right not to be subjected to torture or to cruel, or degrading treatment or punishment.
Are you kidding? All those awful "rights" stopping him from torturing out the necessary information for defending freedom? Or dragging accused child molesters through the streets in chains?
Just get rid of s9, surely?=|
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And as Craig noted, it's a bit rich for that paper to be revelling in TVNZ's cost-cutting given APN's problems.
Have I just been mistaken for Mr Ranapia? My conversion to the online world is complete =)
"We've got too hung up on people's rights," says Garrett, a claim that would possibly raise a few eyebrows in ACT HQ if they were actually 'The Liberal Party' and not a sorry collection of failures who should go and get into business if they love it so freaking much and who need National voters to give them a pity electorate vote even to get them into parliament...
GOLD.
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A-G's office complaining your favourite bill breaches the bill of rights?
Solution: Change the BORA!
Hilarious. Or suicidally depressing. One or the other.
Would have been a funny discussion though:
Journo: "Mr Garrett, after this criticism, do you think we should change the law?"
Garrett: "Yes absolutely"
Journo: "Oh, well that's very honourable of..."
Garett: "Of course we should change the BORA"
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But heck, I'm not working for a company with an enforced multi-million-dollar cull in the works. Good luck.
No dear, you're working for a rag that is so deep in the shit (actual shit, not misheard-chip) that when it was up for sale there was a deafening silence from the market. I would say Good Luck but I really hope your wish-it-was-a-tabloid sinks from memory...
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What it needs is spa pools and a cycleway.
Actually, a velodrome track around the outside of the gaming floor would make it much more interesting.
Melbourne's has columns that spew fire balls in some oddly choreographed pattern each and every hour... that trumps a faux rock waterfall to my eyes...
Hell yes. For some odd reason I was at the Sydney casino (and its faux rock wall) with Jim Goose from Mad Max which would have been MUCH better with fire balls.
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"Gambling - at least you can drive home after this drug"
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My post came off all lecturing there, sorry about that, but I did see the contradiction in the different ways some people (myself included) can look at the different "drugs" as the initial blog post neatly raised.
Sam F has probably put it together quite well there - a similar discussion on "stoners totally spaced out in some dingy flat in Kingsland not even registering when they take the next hit" would have a had a slightly different angle on it I imagine, from me as much as anyone.
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And my very limited experience has been that Auckland's casino is mindnumbingly depressing, while Sydney's was good-times-fun. That was probably down to my mental state in Sydney though. And that great faux-rock waterfall in the bar. Faux rock makes everything better.
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I am vaguely weirded out by the tone of this discussion. But I'm not quite sure why.
I think for me it's the underlying tone of disgust at people doing this to themselves, which sits in marked contrast to the "legalise drugs and stop hating on the poor stoners" subcontext.
If these folk want to indulge in their drug of choice then so be it - and I also think people should free to pass their judgement on it. But passing a very negative judgement of a given steroetype is what's happening.