Posts by Kyle Matthews
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Basically, I’m thinking of whoever the poor legal person was at GCSB who made the wrong call, and wondering what will happen to them.
I think that's just an employment issue. The illegality was not stuffing up the call as to what GCSB could do, the illegality was doing it - that will be one or more of the GCSB operatives, not their lawyer.
Key is better off for it too (because now there’s a better excuse for not making the unpopular move of extraditing Dotcom, which the govt would get the flak for despite it being a court decision, and he gets to blame it on that popular bogey, the spooks, rather than admit the police went too far).
I'm quite hopeful that the decision to extradite him or not, is based on lawyers arguing in front of a judge, based on law and international agreements, not the PM seeking political advantage either way.
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It’ll be more my job to moderate :-)
I'm betting you won't be able to restrain yourself.
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Good on John Hartevelt for fronting up to no doubt catch a fair bit from you Russell. At least he hasn't put it out there and then walked away.
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that must have caused some family tension. :)
Not at Waihopai. CHOGM in 1995 however...
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However, I do object to be told I’m swapping one bedtime story for another. Wellington is a small place, with its own communities. I know a number of people who work or have worked at GCSB. I went to university with some of them. I base my description of the people working there on that rather than on my imagination.
Nicky Hager, who has interviewed many GCSB employees over the years, would probably agree with you. Many are just ordinary people, doing a job that interests them, and they have mixed views on some of their activities as does everyone else.
Indeed, we wouldn't know as much as we do about the GCSB and about the Echelon system if these people hadn't been willing to come forward and talk and give Hager documents.
No doubt there’s others who are dicks, but I think it’s a bit simplistic to label everyone in an organisation, or indeed everything an organisation does (and I’ve spent several weekends in Blenheim protesting against the GCSB) as bad.
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As for the anti democratic dealing with Chch and its problems lets not forget that everybody over the age of 18 has a right to change the government every three years
Sorry that's silly. The people of Christchurch can only change the government in proportion to their population, which is about 1/10 of the total.
Regardless, that ability to vote in central elections doesn't justify the central government removing elected local representatives and the elections that put them in place. The people of Canterbury had the ability to remove those representatives via vote already if they chose.
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They are usually pretty civil as guests, but a formal debate should set Stewart loose. He is definitely no slouch intellectually.
Everyone has seen him on crossfire right? A PBS interview with him which aired on Radio NZ led me to this which led me to the daily show. Some people link this interview to the death of Crossfire (see Wikipedia.
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It fascinates me how often Leo will play one game to the soundtrack of another.
OK now that's weirding me out.
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Only managed to see the first and third ones there, but man Stewart gets fired up in that last one. Haven't seen him like that for a while..
It's actually something that he's done in the past couple of weeks that he hardly ever does - speaking direct to the audience in what's a personal polemic. Normally he lets the video or the irony of his news people speaking in 200% support of the stupid ideas point out their stupidity.
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Salman Rushdie was pretty good on last night's Daily Show with Jon Stewart. Defend their right to make a movie, while calling them an arsehole for doing it.
The contrast between his work and this one....
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/tue-september-18-2012/salman-rushdie