@Paekakboyz
“Coming in hot eh?”
That’s good, I’ll pay that.
As much as anything I am reacting to a meme that has been floated over there that Arden has done a splendid job handling the Christchurch murders. She has done no more or less than could be expected. When she hugged Squalid Ali, a divisive character here, and heard his wise counsel I was reminded she is merely a politician who will turn any opportunity to advantage no matter how cynical or hypocritical the action, and that is what she did.
Quick, bung on the headwear for the cameras notwithstanding it is well known that women, who are subject to the medieval death cult, campaign against the symbols of their suppression at great personal risk – some progressive initiatives are more equal than others, evidently.
We had a sheila here like that who was acutely aware the punters have a short concentration span and, if the cunning move doesn’t quite make the desired impact the down side risk is minimal. Within a couple of days people will have swiped it from their favorites and moved onto Bonce’s analysis of the Mueller report.
These amateurs are as intellectually and morally shallow as the puddle left by a passing summer shower and they put them in charge!
On suppression of the mad ramblings of the murderer and nuking media reports on the activities of the centre attacked – let the facts be known, don’t leave it up to a police chief with an agenda (essential that he now have a bigger budget … and a salary review to recognise the added responsibility of overseeing a bigger budget) or a public servant to decide what is and isn’t appropriate for the public to know. That is no substitute for police and other agencies doing their job properly.
I watched in disbelief as the NSW police commissioner and his deputies who took charge of the Lindt Café siege (of one madman, surrounded by hundreds of police busily scribbling on clipboards for 18 hours – 18 hours until a courageous young man was murdered, sacrificed to their incompetence) mount legal action for months, seeking to avoid having to front a coronial enquiry so that they could send in their subordinates and conceal their failures. These palookas should be brought to account, not protected under national secrecy imperatives as we saw with the Stasi and the KGB, and more recently the FBI, Department of Justice, NSA, Homeland Security, CIA, NSA, GTHO, GTRXU1, Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Titch. Come to think of it, governments employ an awful lot of blokes in dark glasses with Glocks, looking stern and doing not much to help.
Year by year the police take on the appearance of Navy Seals – you had some girlses in burkhas guarding local libraries over there a few weeks ago (for days after the big gang of murderers had all been locked up) cradling rocket launcher look-alikes which would blow them off their feet if they accidentally found the trigger! – to no good purpose. Get them into computer analysis school and have them track the loons who respond to other loons on the internet, identify the activity centres / forward posts (I daren’t use the other name) and build a case for entry and seizure. Have them stand over the judges to issue warrants, not the general public who trust them to do their job.
There is no reason to hide a couple of media reports on the activities of one of the Christchurch targets from three or four years before, other than political inconvenience which is not a sound reason. I read an ABC report relying on the evidence of the parents of a young fellow who attended finishing school there and then headed off to serve in the Middle East. If it happened or did not happen it is up to the place itself to convince people, or to employ taqiya. It is not for government to decide what the public should read or hear.
The Aotea Square barrage should be heard, as distasteful as it was, and allowed to stand or fall on its merits. A government with a fair dinkum concern for its responsibilities, and a clear position on the fundamental issues, ought to criticise what it was about and be done with that, not shut it down. They have other much more important work to do in economic management, resources policy, cost containment, health and so on, don’t they?
Let the people decide and comment freely. If it is hurty hurt hurtful to some then they can get a wriggle on and grow up rather than turn to government to declare what is horrid, what is simply appalling, what is outrageous and what is giggle worthy.
I regard the Israel Folau matter in similar terms.
Finally, I have no doubt someone from government has planted the seed of an idea about the Crusaders name change with their favourite journalist / camp follower, or vice versa, they have kicked it around and decided to give it a run. It has distraction value at least; offers a reading on the degree of difficulty likely when they attempt much more restrictive gun laws; and it could be helpful in signalling to the other mob that the country has a genuine intention to enter the peaceful surrender phase eventually. Of course I have no evidence of this, other than a lifetime of paying attention to how stuff gets done.
Steve Tew should have told them don’t be stupid, bugger off and come back after they have tried it on renaming Christchurch.
