Posts by kmont
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I/S says the Greens plan on moving some amendments to test the major parties. If anyone can give me a heads-up as to when that might be, I'd be happy to organise something on PA in support.
Would you really, that would be great. I am about as political as a teatowel but this pisses me off and I don't know the political process well enough to do anything useful.
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I'm also extremely unhappy about the fact that I hadn't even heard of the Terrorism Suppression Act until a bunch of activists got thrown in jail. I'm not sure if it's my fault for walking around with my fingers in my ears, or it's the crappy MSM's fault for being more frenzied about parliamentary fistfights than any long-range-but-dull-sounding bills that're getting passed. What the hell else have I missed?
Ditto.
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Hi Sara Noble, I agree that there were worse things in that article I linked to. For me personally, it is the image of being asked to get out of my car and be photographed in front of it with a number that gets me. This in itself is enough to get exercised about. This is where I feel frustrated with the 'wait and see' types on PAS.
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The only thing that seems 'off' to me is what others have also mentioned, the wearing of balaclavas during the raids. But we also don't know the reason for that - I still think it may be to protect the identity of secret agents or undercover police, rather than to intimidate. It definitely is intimidating, though.
That seems off to me too. The photographing of people at checkpoints also seems unjustified.
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The Herald has a story up, "Police 'violated civil rights' at Ruatoki here
I think it is pretty damning. Of all the questionable things that the police did, the taking of photos is the part that I cant stomach. I know they have done it before but that doesn't make it ok. If I was searched and photographed at a roadblock in NZ I don't think my view of the police would ever recover.
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It's not just judges and availability of courts and their staff that cause things to slow down. Prosecution and defence want time to collect evidence, witnesses need to be spoken to. The wheels of justice turn slowly for many reasons.
Really? I mean really? I don't profess to be any kind of expert so I genuinely would like someone to explain how it could take 2 years for this to get to trial. My understanding is that people had been under surveillance for a year or more. How can it take an additional two years for people to stand trial?
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My own preferred solution would be for us to fore-go tax cuts at the next election* and spend some money on our court system so that there isn't a two year wait for jury trials.
Yes please.
To do anything else seems incompatible with the system of justice we profess to maintain.
Yes.
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Ok, I have to learn some discipline about writing shorter comments!
Please don't. Message boards lend themselves to snipping back and forth in little paragraphs. This is not necessarily very illuminating if ya know what I mean....
You seem to have a sustained train of thought there. Bravo. -
Fair enough. Richards should just be thankful he's not my partner, other wise he'd be in his very own am-dram production of the Lysistrata. :)
LOL
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Absolutely what Stephen said.