Posts by BenWilson
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I'm surprised how uniform the refusal to see any principle in common is. Perhaps everyone knows a whole lot more than I do about how our spook world works, or perhaps they just don't want to. It's not nice to find out that our spooks are both right wing and racist, but personally I find the racist part more desperately in need of investigation. If I'm alone in this view, then so be it.
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Kyle, fair points. But I'd have to wonder if the police didn't get a search warrant for Te Qaeda, whether they would have used spies to get more evidence to present to the judge. The extent to which spying can be used without warrants would surely be a major focus of any inquiry into spying on political groups.
Then again, I guess successful inquiries have to remain tightly focused. That limits their chances of failure.
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Surely it's the Mac Classic-ness rather than the beigeness which is retro. And you can never have enough buttons and scroll wheels. I'd hate to play a 1st person shooter with a one button Mac mouse. To me that's McMouse, or even Micky Mouse. One of my Mac-using buddies was amazed that I could play World of Warcraft with one hand and eat a sandwich with the other, without any loss of function (other than the incredible loss of function involved in being a WoW addict, which I have fortunately overcome).
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philip, don't worry, I'm already reading Ryan's mail. From the number of mails about dodgy penile function medication in his 'junk' box, I think I've got an iron clad case for busting up a drugs ring already. I'm just trying to work out who sexy_justine69@hotmedz.com.ca is. I'll bust these junkies yet.
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Resistance is futile.
But fun.
Really? Because I usually have more fun when I give in.
You haven't given in if you never resisted.
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Ryan, it's a humorous coinage for the folk collected in police raids in Ruatoki and other places at the same time. Surely you know this already, and you're just testing whether I think that it's a real organization? I don't.
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Gareth, I still visit occasionally, just to check, in hope of some robust debate. I figure that you have to put in some non-troll comments occasionally or you can't complain.
Craig, I know just what you mean. But I still hold hope, as Gareth says it's annoying not to be able to find a decent 'rightist' blog to talk with adults on.
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Paul and I/S, don't get me wrong, I support an inquiry. I just think it shouldn't exclude Te Quaeda because they are 'obviously different'. If they are different, then why they are different, and how that came to be known should be open to scrutiny.
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Beige is too recent to be retro. I still have quite a lot of useful beige equipment. Something about it just begs to be smashed up with a baseball bat, though.
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The Gilchrist spying was on conventional, public organisations undertaking no covert or illegal activities. It's of a different order, to my mind.
To me it feels very different, but I'm trying not to trust my feelings on the matter, because they could just be my prejudices. You can't know that a group you are thinking of spying on is doing illegal stuff until you look into it deeply.
A number of times as a student I met radicals from various legitimate protest groups talking up armed insurrection. From the way they talked, the police would have been very interested. Personally I was not, because I thought their solutions were stupid and their plans feeble even for such a stupid solution. That is also how I feel about Te Quaeda.
Of course they are not exactly the same, but to me it would be highly politic that inquiries into spying on political groups treat Maori and Pakeha groups the same.
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