Posts by George Darroch
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Trotter has a suitably surreal rant on his site, where he talks about escaping the gulags that Maori set up to imprison working class battlers.
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Seems to me either individually or collectively; red; blue; green; pink; very few of them ever stand for anything other than appearing to stand for something.
Thank you.
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I have a question. What does Labour actually stand for ?
I know that most of them consider themselves to stand for various things, but that simply isn't the same as standing for them. To take one example Helen Clark loved to mouth platitudes about sustainability while oil, coal, electricity, and agricultural emissions skyrocketed.
What, apart from hating on the National Party, what constructive things cause that fiery commitment in their guts? Things they think are worth fighting for ?
Perhaps if they knew that, they'd have a better chance of actually convincing the electorate that they stand for their hopes and dreams as well.
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Where's the climate data? It hasn't been hidden. A great deal of it is in plain sight. These denialist fools deserve no quarter.
As one commenter on a website correctly identified:
what’s really happening is that honest scientists delivering a message that certain members of society don’t like are being subjected to a witch hunt, harassement, and attacks meant to ruin their careers.
This movement has become like the creationist, cigarette industry, anti-vaccine and AIDS denial anti-science movements. Except, for obvious reasons, there is a lot more at stake, and a lot of powerful interests who would like to defend the status quo and delay action on climate change for as long as possible.
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The Maori Party have the agenda of separatism , MP Shane Jones said that recently in the Herald.
Why should Maori be exempt from the ETS? That is just plain racist.
Key is swayed once again by a minority .Once again its evident here on PA most bloggers are radical minority vocalists & along with mainstream media aren't interested in consensus.
It looks like Goff's strategy is working.
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I've just had a look on the Greens site to confirm my impression and it looks like in the last 3 weeks they put out 3 release about the ETS. I'm told some of the speeches were quite good, but in the circumstances I would call that not many press releases.
They don't seem to have the energy that they had a few years ago. I also question a lot of their media and electoral strategy.
I don't have much respect for the NZ media (as I regularly express), but even I won't go so far as to blame everything on them.
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Craig, you call that "not quite as egregiously hacky as I expected"? There's just no pleasing you.
Well, apart from this huge qualification of the criticism.
But there’s no demonisation of Maori, no denial of their existence as a people, no attempt to paint them as a grasping minority with a ‘birthright to the upper hand’, accuse them or special privileges or write them out of our legislation and our institutions. The speech itself is certainly not racist – Brash’s was.
In that thread I list all the ways in which it actually does most of those things.
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Racism is no reason to oppose a racist justice system? Cripes.
The problem isn't in the law, it is in its application.
When I talk to politicians, they think of them laws as being applied reasonably. Thus, laws themselves seem perfectly reasonable, even when the outcomes are perverse.
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Yeah, that was pretty much my reaction - "So if your mates are eating burgers and acting like dicks, the cops will think you're on drugs?" There's no indication (that I could see) that the guy did anything to warrant getting tested.
You must have been watching a different ad. Of course he did something to warrant being tested. He was young, male, and up after bedtime. </snark>
Normalised for use rates, the cohort most likely to be; arrested, then charged, and convicted, for cannabis use is young Maori males. This law will be no different.
There really is a dual justice system in NZ, where being rich, older, white, or a celebrity gets you one outcome, and being poor, young and brown gets you another. Nevertheless, that in itself isn't a reason to oppose this law - otherwise it would be a reason to oppose the entirety of criminal law in the country.
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Since we're posting videos...
This is the most ridiculous song I have heard all year. And I love it.