Posts by Kyle Matthews
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Great post, robbery. Maybe they need to look at recruitment level, modernize their advertising, induction, training and retention, hell even have an HR Dept (AFAIK, they haven't).
They have a HR Dept (link. Recruitment is handled in the regions by recruitment officers, training is done nationally at Porirua. Training standards I think are considered to be fairly high, and cover a better range of things than some international forces cover (some police forces have much shorter training periods, and spend more time on shooting stuff, and less time on "not being an asshole" and "knowing a little bit about the law"), but it's only a 5 month course. It takes longer to train to become a hairdresser, as a comparison (not wanting to pick on hairdressers, it's just always struck me as strange that it's that way around).
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In a protest march against National, every placard has to have a name and address on it. If you speak into the megaphone (even to lead a chant) you need to give your name and home address.
It'd be even better if everyone who is chanting has to give their own name and address. The chant will start to fall down when a hundred people call out their own name and address at the same time.
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Press releases that advocate for or against a party are still defined as election advertisements. If you e-mail out a press release, you’ll need to include your address on it.
If I was teaching someone to write media releases, which I have done from time to time, then I would tell them that they should include full contact details on it somewhere, including their address. Apart from anything else (like making it possible for them to contact you), it helps create an image of authority in the media's mind if they at least know that you are willing to tell them where you work/live/campaign from.
Whether or not it should be electoral finance law...
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I keep getting a 7.2 MB mp3 file, slightly over 11 minutes long, but the audio disappears at the 7 minute mark, followed by 4 minutes of silence. I've downloaded it twice, same result.
Anyone else having this problem, or am I just special?
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In a minority report, National opposes the committee's view.
The ACT Party also makes a minority report...
In a third minority report, the Green Party...
I thought Mission Impossible were the only Tom Cruise movies that went to trilogies (da boom ching!)
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Idiot, WTF are you going on about? I guess my thirty pieces of silver are still in the mail...
One presumes the guy spent it on advertising and equipment hire and whatnot.
Though if $50,000 is correct, then I'll take over organising his marches for him. I could do it for a quarter of that no problem, and keep the difference. *sells soul*
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You couldn't be if you wanted to: they don't have a membership.
Personally I'd feel more comfortable with FF and SST and whoever else, if they did, maybe as a political party. I get the impression they're barely larger than one-man-bands, and they're getting lots of media attention for something that isn't responsive to the fairly decent proportion of the population that supports them.
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My point rather was that we do not need laws that suppress dissent. Mouth off all you want to, that is a true mark of democracy. In terms of activism I do belive that as long as it is acting/theatrical as opposed to Action/Harm then this also is a mark of democracy.
I agree with all that. For me the questions remain:
1. Were people actually heading down a path of doing harm.
2. And/or were police reasonable in their belief that someone was heading down a path of doing harm.I still don't have answers to those questions to my satisfaction, though I'm hopeful that we do.
The questions about suppressing dissent are valid. They'd be helped along if the TSA was scrapped, but I suspect the government would say that international treaties and the policies of other countries might be a real problem.
And this also gets Mark Ellis off too (despite what that letter writer in this morning's Herald thought)
As I understand it he and a bunch of mates wandered up to the top of the island and set off smoke flares for his own commercial gain. I presume neither he, nor his mates, have any ability in controlled pyrotechnics and fire safety.
DOC rightly points out that he could have set Rangitoto on fire. The fact that he didn't is, I presume, more luck than good management.
The fact that he didn't cause harm, beyond wasting emergency services time, isn't a reason to do something. The difference between 'nothing happening', and 'harm happening to Rangitoto by fire' is probably a combination of wind and chance.
And he's still an idiot.
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"not the hoods and lynchings, inveterate hatred kind - though we sure have that in NZ too"
I would have thought the police in balaclavas while cutting off a community at gun point and taking photos of the innocent would be a fair proxy here.
Proxy: the agency, function, or power of a person authorized to act as the deputy or substitute for another.
Seriously. Eyes on the ball. This wasn't a gathering of the KKK with torches and rope.
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I wish you guys would stop criticising the Sensible Sentencing Trust and actually talk to them or work with them for a long term solution to crime. They are not rednecks or fundies or self promoting like some other groups you mention and we agree on.
Sensible Sentencing does a lot of work with victims of crime and in helping draft legislation with political parties across the board.
Do they push their agenda with victims of crime? Because we have a Victim Support system in NZ whose primary job is to simply support victims of crime. I don't know if they do, but I'd be concerned if SST were using victims of crime, particularly those who have lost members of their family and are going through grief, to push their particularly barrow.