GUEST BLOG: Ross Meurant – Who to blame for Christchurch?
The aspect of these killings which, in my view is rapidly being swept under the carpet, is the failure of New Zealand GCSB (spies) and police intelligence units on both sides of the Tasman.
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GUEST BLOG: Gerard Otto – Jacinda versus Simon
Now is the hour for us all to briefly look at the facts before us concerning our choices as a democracy when it comes to leadership and even the intentions behind policy.
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GUEST BLOG: Gerard Otto – Nobody is to blame – cries Leighton Smith
NZME had barely finished their frantic efforts to find and hide their own racist, Islamaphobic, or nasty race based content, before they were busy sounding alarms about the dangers of the Blame Game!!!
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GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – “We are broken-hearted, but we are not broken. We are alive, we are together, we are determined to not let anyone divide us.”
50 people murdered and 42 injured in a few short minutes in our peaceful country…. just awful.
But today, as I watched on TV the thousands upon thousands of Kiwis who gathered to observe a 2 minutes silence in remembrance of the victims ( with so many women wearing headscarves in a display of solidarity with their Moslem sisters) I felt incredibly proud of our little nation.
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GUEST BLOG: Gerard Otto – Begrudging Jacinda
This world leading mother, brilliant, inspirational woman has taken the world by storm and there’s nothing to do but eat those words about lacking substance, about being out of her depth, about Winston running the show.
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GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – Exceptional Leadership Prime Minister!
Some of the weapons that will still be allowed I have to say are a real concern and I will be making a representation to the select committee to toughen the laws up even further.
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GUEST BLOG: Bryan Bruce – Cartooning at its thought provoking best by Rob Rogers.
Ban and buy back all semi-automaic weapons now.
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GUEST BLOG: Gerard Otto – When everything is wrong no words seem right
When everything is wrong no words seem right.
Silence is the only appropriate place for dignity’s sake
And it’s best to let things beSympathy is not opinion
While angry men and women fight over what to do
And everyone is different
Some must have been cold for a long time
To feel nothing
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GUEST BLOG: Ross Meurant – Damnatio Memoriae
When does censorship become a tool of the guardians who failed to preserve the physical safety of the 50 victims and other wounded?
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GUEST BLOG: Selwyn Manning – Christchurch Terror Attacks – New Zealand’s Darkest Hour – Friday 15th 2019
One thing is certain; to stamp out the evil of hate extremism, New Zealanders will pay a price that will be charged against the Kiwi lifestyle. Personal liberties of freedom, of expression and privacy will certainly be eroded further as this nation of the South Pacific grapples with how to keep its peoples safe. The means of how to achieve relative safety will be hotly debated, but it is a necessary juncture in this nation’s history, a moment when we all must confront and challenge ourselves so that people of innocence, people like little three year old Mucaad Ibrahim, can go about their days in trust, in peace, in joyful purpose and achieve their deserved potential. Anything less is a second killing for the victims of Friday 15, New Zealand’s darkest hour.