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Kamikaze Kiwis and a deathwish on wheels *Update*
. . Source . This is a laudable plan from our Boys and Girls in Blue, and I’ve no problem with it. Holiday periods are generally a bad time on the roads where every manner of bad driving habits are...
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Letter to the editor – hitting charities where it hurts, courtesy of the Nats
. . A cash-strapped government – having frittered billions away in two tax cuts for the rich – now seeks to penny-pinch voluntary organisations and charities to make up for the gaping deficits they...
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Citizens face Police armed with tasers at Wellington TPPA protest march
. . NZ, Wellington, 15 August – Anti-TPPA protesters, many of them young people in their teens and early 20s, faced off against police armed with tasers on the steps of Parliament. Believed to be the...
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Weekend Revelations #2 – Michelle Boag has a whinge
. . From TVNZ’s Q+A, on 25 October 2015, . . The Q+A panel were ostensibly discussing out-going Police Association President, Greg O’Connor’s persistent calls to arm the New Zealand police. At one...
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Big Bro’ is Watching You!
. . This piece by Dita DeBoni on TVNZ’s website is worth re-posting in it’s entirety – just in case it ‘mysteriously vanishes’ into the ether. Not that I’m implying the New Zealand is now more-or-less...
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Citizens march against TPPA in Wellington: Did Police hide tasers at TPPA march?
. . NZ, Wellington, 14 November – As previously reported (16 November), police failed to provide any form of presence during the Wellington anti-TPPA protest march. . . “Policing” was effectively left...
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Media stories of the Week: Police Commissioner Mike Bush on dubious police...
. . Every so often, the mainstream news media do their job well, and little nuggets of insights are revealed… Also on TV3’s ‘The Nation‘, Police Commissioner Mike Bush was interviewed by veteran...
View ArticleThe secret closed trials of Soviet Russia. (And Aotearoa New Zealand)
. . History throughout the 20th century is replete with authoritarian regimes using closed, secret trials to persecute dissidents. Closed, secret trials give a veneer of legal “respectability” to an...
View ArticleCitizens vs the Rogue Deep State
. . Blogger Martyn Bradbury has won his case against unreasonable search and surveillance against the NZ Police; and subsequent Police attempts to produce evidence in secrecy, in a closed Court. His...
View ArticleLife in Lock Down: Day 14
. . April 8: Day 14 of living in lock-down… The good news first: the downward trajectory of new cases appears to be a real thing. In the last four days, since Sunday, new infections have been dropping:...
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