Posts by Riddley Walker
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i presume Helengrad forced you to neuter him, those pinko anti-male swine!
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it might if it was about torturing your cat, or how all cats are lazy commie lesbo bludgers
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Kate, i think Ben is right. absolutely more needs to be done along the exact lines you suggest, but this is a major vanguard to that movement. and until s59 is amended, pursuing the softer (although likely more effective) measures you describe will be a little absurd when the 'reasonable force' defence remains.
and to be fair, this is far from a 'reactionary measure' and has been in the pipeline since long before the msm embarked on its latest round of faux outrage about nz standards of child welfare. -
umm Weston, it has always been a crime to smack a child and carries a maximum sentence of 2yrs jail. as it stands you can also be sentenced for kidnapping for sending a kid to their room - that carries a maximum sentence of 14 years.
and umm, as the law stands police investigate if they receive a complaint, and after investigating they then decide whether or not to press charges.
umm then the case goes to court where a judge and jury consider the merits of the case.
the only thing that actually changes is that 'reasonable force' is nolonger a defence specific to parents who mistreat their children sufficiently for the police to press assualt charges.the problem with this matter is that it takes some capacity to sort the wheat from the chaf and the msm are doing everything they can to make sure that doesn't happen, at least for that 'moral majority' that is so very lathered up about nolonger being able to show their kids how much they care with a loving beating.
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interesting to observe that not once has rossoron even acknowledged, let alone refuted, the suggestion that he is ross.
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he he, good one.
the extensive use of the word 'whip' in current conservative circles is amusingly hamfisted. this is not a concience vote so parties are voting in blocks just as they always do, and just as they always do not ever member of every party will support their party's stance to the same extent. indeed i understand some National MPs are voting with Labour on this one, and they will get arseholes for that from their whips. but National are sour they can't muster the same solidarity in their party so want to paint it as Labour heavying its MP. oh please.
70% i hear you say? would that be in NZ's first ever valid and representative commercial poll on a sole issue? or is that from the over-represented but very vocal 'moral majority'? even if 70% were accurate, that's not actually that much if you look historically at progressive bills that have since become commonly accepted (the proportion initially opposed to homosexual law reform and stopping teachers beating pupils was much higher than that). but i'd say it would be closer to 50/50 at most -
SJ yeah well my moggy really hates the bengal, partly because they were introduced very badly (an accident involving the new arrival encountering the encumbent too early and under very inopportune circumstances), and partly because bengals are gormless and fearless in their dogginess, so don't know how to pretend to be submissive when they really ought to.
the MC on the other hand is much smarter and gets on fine with all the other cats around - like most giant breeds i guess, he is very calm and relaxed - so an MC might fit in with your existing tabby. if any cat would, the MC might, especially if introduced as a kitten. Start lobbying your partner! -
Weston - yeah i guess you're right, those dastardly Greens and their typical wedge politics. i've never seen the Iwi/Kiwi National party be that low and coniving.
by liberal do you mean old liberal, new liberal or neo liberal? it ain't old liberal (conservative) that's for sure. it is new liberal because they don't tend to go for state sanctioned violence if other alternatives are about. it could be neo liberal if there's money in it.
you may be surprised to learn that democratic is not necessarily majoritarian, except in the crudest of circumstances - like on Talkback for example. civilized democracies also take care to protect the interests of vulnerable minorities against the 'tyranny of the majority'. of course if that minority isn't vulnerable but instead powerful, then it's called a Jonkey plutocracy.
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yeah can't says i know many lefties that think the world was made in 7 days just a few thousand years ago - that is the preserve of the fearful and ignorant right wing voter (not the hopeful and ignorant left wing voter).
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nice one Leigh. how funny that global warming, as you so eloquently put as the result of the sky falling, is the one thing the right have denied will happen.