Posts by Neil Morrison
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We'd have people like you demanding we give every jackbooted wannabe thug in a uniform a blank cheque to do whatever they wanted with no public scrutiny or oversight?
It was just a comment that some people seem to be frothing for some real terrorist action, just so they can be "proved right".
WTF? I thought I’d put forward my position in a reasonable way with out getting into attacking people on a personal basis. Can’t you disagree with people in a more civilised manner Idiot?
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Ok. So you get into a lift and find a cobra, a lion and John Banks. You only have two bullets in your gun what do you do?
Is Banks naked and who's eating the mattress?
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So you get into a lift and find a cobra, a lion and John Banks. You only have two bullets in your gun what do you do?
Banks being the snake makes just 2 to shoot.
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the first thing you'd need is the preconditions for an armed conflict. for example, an intractable civil conflict to feed it.
Iti was providing one such precondition - arming and training people. Had the police not intervened we would have been that one step closer.
In the minds of some people like Iti there already is "an intractable civil conflict” - a perceived failure to make appropriate redress for colonisation. That was presumably their motivation.
I really am not trying to be mindlessly alarmist as you seem to be implying. Having an armed group with a racially based agenda is not something to be taken lightly. Things are difficult enough as they are regarding Treaty issues. Overlaying that with the dynamics of violent feuding would make things much much worse. And that's what's happen in similar circumstances in other parts of the world.
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a few nutters, and the police/army sorting them out is not a "sectarian conflict".
No it isn't and that is not what I said. Had the police not acted as they have that is what we might have got. Iti may be a fool but that does not mean that he couldn't be a catalyst for something pretty nasty.
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che, what exactly then do you think Iti was up to? He and his band of merry pranksters might appear comical enough but all you need is a few farm occupations to turn sour, a couple of deaths, the Harris family to decamp to Gisborne to get in on the action and we've a nice little sectarian conflict on our hands. (I do know a reasonable amount about the dynamics of New Caledonia in the 80s by the way).
Now tell me you wouldn't be just a bit concerned if Brian Tamaki was up to the same sort of thing?
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Posters here whose first instinct is to trash the police might just want to give some thought about what the consequences for NZ would be if a militia was allowed to set off an armed sectarian conflict.
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Tama Iti playing Capt Mainwaring. Could be worse.
I hope we see more of Annette Sykes on the tele. She's always entertaining in a "I'm crazy and a layer" knda way.
Idiot, if it helps just make believe that these folks are from the EBs.
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On the plus side Banks is all for amalgamating the inefficiently biodiverse local government system in Auckland. Although his constant self-aggrandising might not be an asset to that cause.
As for Eden Park, I’ll wait and see. The whole thing has been a tragi-comedy so far. Maybe he can negotiate a better deal, maybe not.
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I just had a rarely bad nightmare. I dreamt the ABs were out of the WC and Banks had been elected mayor. Thank god I woke up.