Posts by Craig Ranapia
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As long as it doesn't involve animals, baby blood or dancing around in esoteric caftans - Hail you!
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Truly. Barking. Mad.
And the really depressing thing is that it's only second nuttiest statement I've read today after hearing Greg O'Connor's truly demented keynote speech at the Police Association conference this morning.
Apparently Police are 'too receptive to criticism', and its putting lives and Western Civ itself at mortal peril...
If I was Annette King, I really this man's endorsement with extreme caution.
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He came on Off the Wire a couple of times and took it way too seriously.
Believe it or not, he's lightened up and chilled out a lot - though I've got to say being around Winston or his cult-like party for any length of time would turn a saint into Satan.
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And just to be even handed, I also think it wasn't that smart of John Key to blurt that he'd apparently received a briefing from the SIS. "Technically" he didn't say anything wrong, but it was unhelpful to set all the conspiracy theorists a-twitter.
I suspect, someone is giving Key good advice about when to stop flapping his gums, and even better he's paying attention. From my partisan perspective, this is one very dangerous shit storm National is doing well to avoid. To be honest, I don't think any other party is going to walk away from this without an egg facial or two.
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technically I agree.
No 'technically' about it, in my view. Dumb thing to say, full stop. Just as there's not excuse for Mallard hitting people - and that's where you stop talking.
But every moron in the Green and Maori parties as well as various self important left wing activists have spouted a lot of very stupid and inflammatory BS on this issue so I’m not about to criticise Clark for putting them in their place.
And don't leave out Winston and various other pant-wetters on the right of the political and media spectrum. Sorry for flogging a dead nag here, but RB is right: what the hell was wrong with the default STFU position she'd taken? Another bad poll, and another shitstorm on her own front bench? God, I remember when Clark wasn't so easily rattled.
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It's pretty much all about Bomber, and has bugger all to do with the stuff us mortals are largely in the dark about.
Come on, Joe - one of the nice things about PAS is that (at least most of the time) we genuinely try to engage with each other, and do so in a serious and respectful manner. Yes, Bomber tends to get up my nose - and stay there - but the crap ‘disinfo bomber’ is putting around is truly vile.
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and one must also assume that as PM Helen has carte blanche to release certain information as she see's fit.
She certainly does not - no Prime Minister does. And that's a pretty smart convention when the Prime Minister is privy to an extraordinary range of sensitive information, by virtue of his or her position, that should not be released because it serves their current interests as the parliamentary leader of a political party.
It's also a pretty FUBAR way to defend yourself against charges of political interference in the Police's operational decisions. As I said, Clark usually picks her words with more care. Listening to Checkpoint this evening, she also seems to have had second thoughts - because she was pretty curt in brushing off questions.
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in fairness she was responding to the Maori Party's attacks which included a deliberate misrepresentation of how the relationship between the govt and police works. I'm quite happy she took them to task over it.
In fairness, Neil, Clark could have made the point by simply saying again "No Minister in this Government - or any other - directly intervenes in Police operational matters. If Mrs. Turia or Mr. Sharples believe they have any evidence to the contrary, put up or shut up."
She went a bit further than that, and IMO unwisely so - I understand the political imperative (and suspecting she knew exactly what was in the latest Herald-Digipoll published today). Just don't think Clark has her usually formidable sense of self-discipline and judgment is at full strength.
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Oh the humanity! Imagine knowing that some kids at your school had grown and smoked "the leaf".
After reading the rest of this thread, I can only hope they'd *cough* ingested it in the traditional matter. Though, come to think of it, a body cavity full of dope would explain a thing or two...
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Now that wasn't half bad, though could we please retire 'race card' to the place where political cant goes to die?
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