Posts by mark taslov
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Empowered in what way? By Jesus? To use the internet?
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vote Jim
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It was fine cricket. They unveiled a legend.
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i am NZ citizen AD656867. I'm a heterosexual male, 31, into cricket, rugby union, sports, music, films and the internet, Some people are empowered some aren't, like anywhere. When will the New Zealand population be empowered? These are tough questions.
I'm not qualified. Manapouri isn't near Tibet on my atlas, was all i meant. Perhaps the Chinese love China more than we love the homeland, perhaps many of them buy into their media as much as many of us buy into ours , or perhaps not.
All I know is that putting 150 of a nations top officials, on a limited number of flights over a short period of time and advertising that with headlines, poses a far greater risk to the national security of NZ than boxcutters, and furthermore indicates a clearer picture of the government's true attitude to the hyped terrorist threat against them than their legislative vote did. actions speak louder than words in this case.
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I couldn't agree more.
Regarding Manapouri, an excellent example of the people being listened to. Thank you for that Shep, it's easy to forget these things. On box cutters, I'm not convinced it was the box cutters brought down three buildings and I would strongly respect this New Zealand government if they'd taken a stand like they did with the nuclear battleship issue 20 odd years ago against the USA and their war on science, but who knows what goes on behind closed doors... as you say "The Govt must take responsibility, it comes with the power." -
I'm not attacking any country Mr Matthews. I'm simply contending that; those antagonized by free media into presuming those administered state media suffer the same media addiction and wholesale unsophisitication, could consider increasing their salt intake before espousing the malignancy of state media.
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Mr Matthews, or how about the 1000s of New Zealanders dead through war and disease since the inception of the NZ state? Why just 60 years? That reeks of blanket anti communist party dismissal. We can't tell the dead of anywhere anything. unless you're of the religious persuasion, in which case, you tell them. I don't mean to cast aspersions, but really, what's your point?
-I don't dispute that private stakeholders profiting by delivering a version of the truth is a vital part of your democracy Mr Cheyenne. But I'm not convinced your democracy is a vital part of your freedom. A freedom that implicates you personally for any wrongdoing your party manifests while in power, is about as free as a mortgage. That's a two sided coin your voting for, you already knew that. I'd challenge you to cite these 'better ones' you voted in, but you can't, it's just food colouring, a blue/red strobe light from this angle.
I'm as much in awe of your attack medium as I was of your DNA, who's preaching to who here? As Mr Brown mentioned earlier, it's hard to know what the Chinese are saying on their forums and where general consensus and discussions are centered, and from what angles, whereas they are reading and listening to your thoughts via podcasts, and forums etc. They've seen your cards. Your cards look like this:
7 or so years ago, two planes crashed into a couple of buildings in a foreign city 1000s of miles away causing 3 perfect building implosions, belying everything you'd previously been told and believed about the precise science of demolition, The upshot for you was, government legislation and an ammendment, microchips in your passports and increased airport security, basically, greater freedom for the law abiding citizen.
From my perspective, within a state controlled media framework, people seem more inclined to take the news with a grain of salt (or disbelieve it altogether), freeing them in part from that nagging 'we can/can't make a difference' mentality. In the main, this can't be said for countries driven by pivotal free enterprise commercial media, where the populace seems far more likely to take the news as gospel. Again to reference the Herald article i linked to above:
So you know the police and the eyewitnesses have conflicting stories, so how are you freer? Does it make you feel better? Is this information able to help you concentrate more on your daily life? -
Mr Ranapia, I hear you, I've been reading, for a while, I'm in two minds about the criticism and public scrutiny, in that I'm down with everyman chipping in, but I have serious misgivings about the role of private media, exploiting a good story to make a buck.
While the article i linked above makes for interesting and informative reading, the north/south structure really makes a go of second guessing police action, and it's my humble opinion that any society can only withstand so much anti authority propaganda, before the fabric starts to disseminate. Don't get me wrong, I'm a keen GTA player, but it's a personal choice, Rockstar games aren't making much of a stand to hyphenate their vision for profit with 'the truth'.
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Mr Cheyenne,congratulations on the DNA. Dissent as a term, you can interpret as you wish, choosing one example of opposition to the status quo over another seems and is trivial. The guy was given instructions, he dissented, they dropped him.
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Mr Crawford, I'd be interested to hear under what criteria you define India as a western country. In the name of geography, philosophy or sociology I'd go more for Europe and the colonies as an easy answer. but geography isn't a must.
With regard to Tibet, all i can really say, is "so what?" there are small uprisings on a regular basis and the western media never bats an eyelid, I didn't notice too much of a kerfuffle about the attempted highjacking last month in Xin Jiang. Just as I'm yet to hear of the communist party implementing a 'war on terror'.
The western media takes little or no interest in any of these kinds of events unless they occur in somewhere kiwis can pronounce, or have had hollywood movies starring Brad Pitt made about them. For me it's just like "what do you care?" Your war on terror, your suppression of terrorism act and its amendment, will surely safekeep your grandchildrens' futures.
NZ has police shooting dissenters. You can argue that it's not the statistical equivalent, but running a head count and respecting the fact that the Chinese government has to deal with 350 times the amount of people is relevant. That puts the 21 killings by New Zealand police since 1941, up to 7350 per head of population.
I know what you're saying Mr Crawford, human life is human life, but for a government, of any nation, big or small, the greater good of the masses is the priority, You'd like to feel you're more than part of a statistic. You'd like to believe you're Remington Steel, you want numbers? on carnage? For what purpose? To satisfy which primal urge? To inform us that less people died during the same period in western countries like India?
Basically you're never gonna get those carnage statistics you hunger for sir, because for the Chinese view this kind of perversion you inherently believe to be a freedom of information as no more civilized than buying tickets to watch the gladiators. It's not as if the great firewall extends so far that the Chinese people can't read the headlines undermining the NZ police force.
Mr Ranapia, re: the 'Anglosphere', I know what you're saying but looking at this article where you have police spokesman Ms Manderson saying "the man advanced on the police officer with a hammer and was shot after being warned", then you have eyewitnesses Amanda Duke and Kieran Cross stating "We pulled into the driveway and there were two men standing there not moving. Then one was shot, he had his hands by his sides at the time,"-
- the 'more'ness of this transparency is negligible in this example. I feel it is relevant to question how much the scrutiny and criticism did and is doing to shield that guy and future 'mentally ill' guys from a couple of NZ bullets.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/1/story.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10466181