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He is clearly delusional - saying he's been interviewed by NZ Security Intelligence operatives when apparently we haven't contacted him in any way.
Unpalatable though it may be it appears we are legally obliged to take him as under UN Charter we can't make him stateless and understandably no one else wants him.
He was complaining about being locked up by ISIS for drinking alcohol. The guys a nut job
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@dogmeat I know some Security analyst was on TV this morning saying he could provide Intel on ISIS, seriously, this guy seems like a fool ISIS will be glad to be rid of and likely devoid of any useful intel.
I understand the whole 'stateless' thing, as shit as it is if he ends up back here, unless he is incarcerated elsewhere (which he isnt, basically a POW) then not much to be done about it.
Need to make an example of him though, and dont make it easy or him to return and lock him up once back.
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@dogmeat I think the guy on TV this morning was saying they would require proof he has been involved in acts of Terror, whereas he says he was only a guard and only witnessed these acts (like beheading...)
He is likely to be an ideal test case for our Terrorism legislation
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No suprises here, labour only care about victims of crime that have some sort of pr advantage for them .
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The country just interviewed old Whinny...man that guy can be a twat!
So condescending, spends 5 minutes answering a question without actually answering a question.
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@taniwharugby said in NZ Politics:
So condescending, spends 5 minutes answering a question without actually answering a question
No! A politician? Really? I am surprised. Shocked even.
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@mariner4life he is even more so than the rest I reckon, the ultimate POlitician that old fella.
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@taniwharugby said in NZ Politics:
@mariner4life he is even more so than the rest I reckon, the ultimate POlitician that old fella.
Yep, some take it to new heights...
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@taniwharugby said in NZ Politics:
@mariner4life he is even more so than the rest I reckon, the ultimate POlitician that old fella.
Give the man his dues, apart from that one blip when he lost Tauranga to Simon Bridges, he has displayed remarkable durability for a fully functioning alcoholic
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@canefan Only because he is rarely if ever called out by the media for his bullying and bluster and when he is he blacklists that journalist.
That and the target audience for his BS are even more braindead than he is.
Actually he's not braindead - he has a rats base cunning
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@dogmeat said in NZ Politics:
@canefan Only because he is rarely if ever called out by the media for his bullying and bluster and when he is he blacklists that journalist.
That and the target audience for his BS are even more braindead than he is.
Actually he's not braindead - he has a rats base cunning
Oh yeah, he was taught by the best, reading right from the Muldoon handbook for dealing with the media. I remember Piggy terrorizing journos when I was young
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@canefan and ran a Law practice...am sure he has a handbook with all the tricks in it, many authored by him.
Which was one of the things he was banging on about...I was earning more in a month in my law practice than I do in a year in Parliament, I earned alot more than our PM in my law practice. I know how to run a successful business, so know much more about running a business than anyone in National (was in response to Bridges supposedly having a go at St C for only ever really working in Govt) and Whinny laughed at the suggestion Bridges ran a Law Practice himself
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@taniwharugby if he had so much money why does he wear such cheap, nasty suits?
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@JC said in NZ Politics:
@taniwharugby if he had so much money why does he wear such cheap, nasty suits?
Because hes a cheap nasty person?
Having seen the fluffybunny out late at night being a drunk old prick it baffles me how anyone can put aside his history of dishonesty and cast a vote for him. It seems the same sort of derangement that got Anderton elected time and time again he can't "keep the bastards honest" if he's not honest himself.The spinoff had a great article about how the best argument against lowering the mmp threshold is Winston
"But my main problem with lowering the threshold is that it will also probably save New Zealand First, and it will make the New Zealand First model of politics so much more viable.
This is a model in which you fundraise from exploitative, extractive industries (fishing, forestry), campaign on populist issues (Peters’ flagship policies in 2017 were lower immigration, a referendum to ditch the Māori seats and to remove GST on fruit and vegetables), ditch all of your policies and issues as soon as the election is over, and use your position in the political centre to maximise your personal power.
It means Peters gets to operate as a de facto co-prime minister, he gets to veto any attempts to regulate his corporate donors, he gets to unilaterally change our long-standing foreign policy towards China without bothering to tell the actual prime minister, let alone the Cabinet, his deputy gets given three billion dollars to just give away to whoever he wants, and none of this has any mandate from the public whatsoever. Nobody wanted or voted for any of this, not even New Zealand First’s voters, but here we all are.
The 5% threshold hasn’t saved us from Peters but this is because he’s one of the most brilliant politicians the country has ever seen. His model is a very successful hack of the MMP system, but you have to be Peters to pull it off – otherwise everyone would do it: after all, you get near total political power with virtually no votes.
But Peters was kicked out of parliament after his last shambolic tenure in government and, based on the current polls, he’ll be wiped out at the next election, so it is (hopefully) not a sustainable model, even for him. The 5% threshold is what protects us from countless imitators reproducing the hack and wrecking our government. That is what the fence is protecting us from. We’d be fools to lower it."
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@JC said in NZ Politics:
@jegga yeah, I’ll buy that. Did not know the Greens we’re trying to lower the threshold. The concept of integrity is lost on this bunch of pricks.
Also trying to give prisoners the vote. Being in coalition typically hurts small parties and another Green party launched itself recently and they must know they will be closed to getting arsed next year. The Greens lost their integrity when Sue Bradford left, the ones in parliament now are just garbage.
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