Deconstructing Headlines

The Business NZ Poll taken just after the atrocity shows what TDB suggested the political outcomes from the Christchurch attack would be…

Just like the Housing NZ meth house abortion, just like the Kiwbuild fiasco, just like stealing Māori children into a state care system that abuses them, just like a dozen other neoliberal hollowing out of a Public Services, we’ve been left with a service that doesn’t serve the public, it serves the bureaucrats and then the bureaucrats get flustered that the public have nothing but contempt for them.

Becoming economically reliant on China is not a position we want to remain in.

The only way to force reform is shaming. The Government must look to the many, many NGOs and Community organisations that are forced to interact with the neoliberal welfare state and fund them to act as service support for beneficiaries and to produce public reports on counter productive policy.

This Inquiry may well be the most important examination of domestic intelligence ever conducted and it will be overseen by a Government who have clearly shown they will take direct action for change.

The more & more I read of the irrational, wilfully ignorant & down right malicious crap spouted by the NZ Gun Lobby…

The solution here is not more vast surveillance powers, it’s the intelligence agencies using the existing powers they already have against real threats, not the reds under the bed who they’ve focused on so far.

It wasn’t a gang who shot & killed 100 Muslims – it was a white supremacist – demanding Police gain the power to storm brown people’s homes to seize guns as a response to that terrorism is ethically bankrupt.

Catching Seymour out was as much a redemption for Chippie as it was a repudiation to Seymour’s media preening.