Posts by Michael Fitzgerald
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RNZ 9-noon Police Ass no2 just stated the "IRA Handbook" is an old document with no modern tactics. So its all a media beat up?
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Good point David.
When travelling to the states they do ask about arrests not only convictions - so even if they drop charges now none of these guys are off to Disneyland anytime soon.Popped along to the Greens last night & Keith said the SIS briefing was nowhere near as alarmist as the cops to the media.
Didn't Phil Goff cap payouts recently?
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As we've followed their lead I fully expect it to end the same wway.
London police guilty over shooting
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/6638A9E9-6A59-4927-8312-D22D0BCFDA19.htm -
Rogerd - agreed
The point I was trying to make was Pogrom had specific meaning and became more widly used and the opposite for holocaust.
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Private prosecution filed against Mallard
Graham McCready, who is facing more than 40 tax-related charges and is due to go to trial next month, lodged the court documents yesterday after police said they would not investigate his complaint.
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Let them eat cake
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4257211a11.html
"The cake had been supplied by someone who was not associated with St Andrew's." - The Cake Pusher
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woops Pogrom = Russians v Jews
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To the best of my knowledge Genocide has no particular distinction & is prob best term.
Pogrom is widly used but comes from the Russians running out or murder - genocide if you will. Now without too much of a blink is used for other genocides of other peoples.
The reverse seems to be true for Holocaust, a word of general taking on a specific meaning. I believe the hebrew word Shoah is used to avoid conflict on this issue - naming the event in their own terms. -
"Perhaps the true horror is that Battlefield Iraq is now virtually accepted as part of the satus quo, like Aids Africa.
Perhaps the international presence in Iraq can now only be described as palliative."Agreed Andrew.
For a while I was backing the occupation (not the war mind you) as once you take out the law & order you have a responsibility to protect the conquered.
Didn't happen & Blackwater will go down in History.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/14DA398E-F910-4CC6-A859-602C70F2D15B.htm
So replace it with multi national forces from Iran/Syria/Turkey/ etc - OK a few might have started already but its the only way forward I can see.
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Thanks for clarifying that Neil.
So Helen is omnipotent - Great.