Posts by Bart Janssen
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Up Front: Home is Where the - Ooo, shiny!, in reply to Danielle,
I don’t even know what “shame” means
It's that feeling you get when you admit you watch Jersey Shore :P
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Up Front: Home is Where the - Ooo, shiny!, in reply to Russell Brown,
Some of us wear tracksuit pants
Sure we believe you have pants on
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Up Front: Home is Where the - Ooo, shiny!, in reply to Lucy Stewart,
there's our family work-from-home secret
Also helps to not worry too much about the staying sane thing, it is a thesis you are expected to lose touch with the real world.
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Hard News: More Secrets and Lies, in reply to Craig Ranapia,
Oh, bullshit. Perhaps I’m hyper-sensitive because members of my family are in the military – and none of them signed up to be, at best, unwitting torture enablers if not outright war criminals.
Huh? Did you misunderstand me completely? I never suggested the SAS were in any way to blame. The SAS were following political orders and to do otherwise would have ended their careers, probably unpleasantly.
All I was saying is that we select politicians who are good at spin and who do not explain what they actually have done.
In this case the politicians made the decision to tell the SAS to hand over prisoners and then the politicians made the effort to hide that decision. They could have instead explained their logic and hoped the public would vote for them. That they believed, probably rightly, that the public would have voted them out should have made them question their decision. But instead it made them choose to try and hide or spin their decision.
Somehow the system we have developed for selecting politicians does not favour selecting honest open statespeople.
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Hard News: More Secrets and Lies, in reply to Paul G. Buchanan,
need honest answers rather than PR spin
But we don't vote for honest answers, we vote for the best spin.
This is just another example of how depressingly awful our governments have been over the last decade or two. They can't dare to tell us, the people they are meant to represent, the truth, for fear that it might affect their polling. Ironic then that it will come back to affect their polling. Or maybe not, somehow nothing seems to affect Key's polling.
Where the hell are the decent politicians?
Meanwhile I can't help but feel sorry for the SAS themselves. On the ground knowing pretty much what is really happening but unable to do what they know to be the right thing.
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Hard News: A Work of Advocacy, in reply to Peter Calder,
But what people in this thread seem to be saying is that it is incumbent on these filmmakers to observe standards of “objectivity”
I'll echo Sasha, Bollocks!
You either haven't read what is here or haven't understood it. Most of the questions being asked refer to the appropriateness of releasing this film before the court case is heard and whether that prejudices the trial.
I could care less about objectivity, in fact I love it when people have passion for something and present that passion, in this case the right/responsibility to protest. But I do care about our justice system and dislike it when people on any side try to corrupt that system, to my mind this film pushes that boundary very hard.
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Hard News: A Work of Advocacy, in reply to Russell Brown,
isn’t entirely groundless
I have a colleague who moved to Australia because after his car was splashed with acid the activists made it clear they knew where he lived and where his children went to school. Reasoned arguments were not on the agenda.
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I really don't get this. Whether you believe they were terrorists or simply idiots playing with dangerous stuff or victims of a police conspiracy, by making and screening this you surely must prejudice any trial. What am I missing?
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Up Front: Fairy-Tale Autopsies, in reply to Emma Hart,
Since there is apparently a quota we have to meet ...
Evolves, Bart. E-volves.
I stand firmly corrected.
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Up Front: Fairy-Tale Autopsies, in reply to Megan Wegan,
quota
????