Posts by Kyle Matthews
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(*cough* Philip Field, Shame Jones, Chris Carter *cough*)
We really need some sort of points based ranking system.
Is this worse than Carter? Jones? Nup.
Worse than Philip Field.... I think Philip takes it by a nose.
Worse than Donna Awatere? Too close to call.
Which political party comes out clean in these stakes? Worst the greens had was some legal but dodgy looking housing stuff about a decade ago? Then Labour and National fighting it out for second?
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So at the time false passports were definitely being used by very bad people to do very bad things.
Yes. But I don't think it was viewed by the general population the same way as it is now, despite passports probably being used that way.
I mean we still had paper drivers licenses back then with no photo - and did for another decade or so.
So I don't think the idea that he didn't think much of doing it in 1984 beyond "this would be cool if I could, lets see" doesn't seem unreasonable given that he he's a dick now and probably was one back then too.
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He had a reason, no-one commits that sort of serious fraud as a prank.
Actually I could believe that bit. He's a bit of a dick, he was young, passport fraud wasn't such a thing back then as in the modern terrorism world.
Btw, who's Hilary Calvert, whose page on the Act website can no longer be found, and is she likely to support Boscawen or Roy?
Dunedin lawyer (as is her husband, Alistair Broad). Smart. I don't really know her at all, but I would guess that she might tend towards Roy.
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Police Minister Judith Collins says ACT MP David Garrett's past does not affect the credibility of the three strikes legislation which he proposed.
I haven't followed the link, but I'm gonna put a fiver on the next bit of the story saying "because it never had any credibility at all".
Was I right?
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It was a hard choice, and maybe they made the wrong decision, but at least they are aware of it. Contrast that with Labour, National et al.
This again comes back to expectations. We expect the Greens to follow their principles in important matters. The fact that they knew that this was for many people a matter of principle makes it worse.
I expect Labour and National to trade in their principles for other things, that's not a betrayal, just business as usual.
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he said something like "I don't really know you and I don't know why I'm telling you this" and then mentioned that he had received a discharge without conviction for something in the past that he wasn't particularly proud of and had gotten name suppression.
He really does suck at this politics thing! No wonder TVNZ found out if he was having a few drinks and telling people he didn't know well at the pub. At Backbenches, which would probably have a few people who wouldn't like hanging around.
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And we've only got his word that he never used it.
It would be mind-numbingly stupid of him (OK, even more stupid than he is!) to have said that if it wasn't true.
Obviously everything else about him is already coming out, so if he'd used it the police officers involved, the court etc, plus others, even if he never mentioned it inside ACT, would know, and that would come out as well.
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People who are saying that he'll have to go are being way too enthusiastic.
The line currently being cooked up in ACT HQ is "He was a bit rough and got into some trouble when he was younger but he pulled himself up by his bootstraps and turned it around and this is exactly what ACT's law and order policy is pushing for. Shame he was over-taxed into assaulting that Tongan psychiatrist!"
It doesn't have to make sense, it's the ACT party, they never made sense and they make even less sense this week so why start now?
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I totally get basis for the never-vote-Green-again dummy-spitting, but seriously, who are you going to vote for ? It was a hard choice, and maybe they made the wrong decision, but at least they are aware of it. Contrast that with Labour, National et al.
I suspect I'll probably still vote Green.
But I suspect they just lost any chance of ever having me as a member or activist. Leaders (and I mean all their caucus) need to inspire me, and Greens have failed in that at an important time.
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Given that the site is normally filled with the sympathetic, that's a rare thing indeed.
Not at present. Lots of members and supporters, most of them expressing their outrage.