The Daily Blog Open Mic – Monday 19th August 2019

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  1. What a joke, More name suppression and you have to wonder if they can afford the services of Marie Dyhrberg QC and 4.1 million in cash is found in rubbish bags as well as 1.5 million cigarettes, then is it hard to work out how the judge came to the conclusion that they ” met the legal test for extreme hardship.”

    No wonder lung cancer is one of NZ biggest killers if you can get away with name suppression on these cases and bags full of cash and no doubt an entire industry around it with everyone on benefits as the company is doing everything on the black market judging by the bags of cash!

    Cigarette smuggling case: Defendants keep names secret to protect children, employees

    “A couple accused of being behind the country’s largest cigarette smuggling operation will keep their names secret for now.

    The pair and their company each deny 72 charges, including defrauding Customs of revenue.

    Customs alleges millions of cigarettes were smuggled into the country hidden inside furniture.

    The smuggling operation is said to have avoided approximately $25 million in excise taxes over a three-year period.

    The woman’s lawyer, Marie Dyhrberg QC, said her client ran a legitimate company and the employees had not been told of the charges.

    She said if her client was named, the business would suffer and that in turn would effect the employees.

    Dyhrberg said publication of her client’s name would also cause extreme hardship to her children.”

    (They don’t have the 4.1 million in cash in rubbish bags anymore?)

  2. Do tiny home owners actually live more sustainably? Now we know

    In an unprecedented study, PhD student Maria Saxton looked at 80 people who downsized to tiny homes to quantify whether their environmental footprints really got smaller.

    https://www.fastcompany.com/90385816/do-tiny-home-owners-actually-live-more-sustainably-now-we-know?fbclid=IwAR0YSE6eIoLXlhGzCmruzRLV1FLW2JnrUMrl6iNBzAX1lbPbVHsEHFp7k3Q

    Sadly our society has become used to making profits rather than changing things for better outcomes and having an equal and mentally well society.

    For example waste management is lucrative, so why try to reduce waste? Councils will only try to reduce waste 10% which is laughable when it could be closer to zero! But someone’s profits will be hurt so why bother to do what is right and most efficient?

    We have a pretend society of people who are so called trying to making things better (aka reduce waste, generate affordable housing, reduce homelessness etc) but if they did not have those social issues ballooning the people tasked to solve this, would not be employed and expanding… so I guess society has been forced into this bizarre model of pretend environmentalism and socialism with the so called environmental and social jobs often being more expansionist and talk fest, than practical.

  3. Opening up on locking down

    The Corrections Minister today stated how the government intended to reduce the number of ‘Maori’ in prisons from 50 odd percent to 15 or so, doing this by utilising Maori World view, by increasing family support networks, and by moving the focus away from the crimes committed to the criminals themselves. Let’s unpack.

    Davis here condemns all Maori as criminals clogging up corrections, by recycling this trope of incarcerated over-representation. As I’ve said before, the people who have Maori ancestry supposedly making up these figures also have Pakeha ancestry, probably English, but it is the indigenous ancestry which is cherry picked as the marker of guilt. No scientific evidence as to a causal link of ancestry increasing chance of incarceration (though a study of this type would probably be ridiculed as modern day phrenology and eugenics), only a dogged desire to smear Maori as evil doers (enabled by media and lopsided reportage). Fuck that, I am Maori and I have no connection to those convicted of crime in this country, especially violent crime, other than a distant ancestry. We’re all related, and that includes our link to the animal ‘lower orders’, who have more reasoning and empathy than many lazy, violent, scumbag bullies masquerading as humans.

    If using an absence of science is an acceptable tool used by Corrections for lowering conviction rates of a sub species, then using pseudo-science seems a logical next step. ‘World view’ is part of the non-scientific stable of research and reporting techniques which also includes religion, opinion, misinformation (error) and outright bias (lies). Feel free to practise your beliefs by all means, in your own home in your own time. But basing government actions and outcomes on evidence-free ‘feelings’ or ’emotions’ is negligent by Corrections. Take up a hobby if that is what it takes to stop you from murdering someone, but please, don’t use your ‘voice’ as a reason for action or your ‘god’ as a means for redemption.

    Increasing family and networked support for the incarcerated seems a logical solution to minimise re-offending, but really why pass on the burden of guilt and the mechanism for rehabilitaton to Maori, most of whom don’t have the financial means or the specialised knowledge required? Most Maori don’t live on the Marae in larger kin groups now, they are urbanised and nuclear. And sure you have the Whaipootis, the Workman’s and the Williams working their magic on the inside, but if these offenders can’t make it work in a supposed democratic and equal society land of opportunity outside, how t.f. is a sardine can, gang-infested, pressure cooker prison environment any better for reform?

    Which begs the questions of cause, blame, and repurcussion for offending. Has society produced these fallen, or is it genetic? Nature, nurture, or both? Can you separate the crime from the criminal as proposed by Corrections? Isn’t that the cliff ambulance waiting for the victims of terrorism, child abuse, random murder, fantasy killing, wife beating, habitual theft, and so on, while the offenders get a roof over their head, three square meals a day, access to doctors, lawyers, professionals, leisure and communications, get to exercise and grow and cry themselves to sleep. Do the worst of these people deserve rehabilitation and a second chance when they could and do go on to kill again? How the hell can you separate these monsters from their monstrous acts?

    • I’m curious Jody,…are you saying the Maori in prison are not ‘real’ Maori and probably have a majority of UK blood, English as you point out and as such shouldn’t be considered Maori….OR are you inferring these same Maori should not identify as being Maori as they cause you embarrassment by being criminals? Ohhh and by the by there are no, or at least a tiny percentage, of full blooded Maori left in NZ, even your good self!

  4. it seems that Bunnings is the only retailer relevant to NZ which advertise on the Jones show..and has withdrawn its advertising. There’s a list published but are Aussie firms, some of which have cancelled their contracts with the station which hosts this shock dick.
    I notice our own shock dick .Hoskings had a cosy chat with Jones and gave him a platform for more of his white geriatric rant or is that ‘cant’

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