The SIS and GCSB KNEW the information was coming from CIA black sites, what the hell did they think was happening at those CIA black sites? The information was being tickled out of people?
The extraordinary journalism on display today at The Spinoff by Alex Casey demolishes any facade that the allegations were a mistaken interaction that has been over hyped.
Nothing tells us that the absurd speculative property bubble has finally popped in Auckland quite like the astounding failure of the Blocks auction.
When this Government first formed, I argued that key members involved in the negotiation process believed an enormous crash was looming, and that once that economic crash occurred, we would see a genuinely transformative Government.
The only problem was that economic crash didn’t happen.
The Framers are bitching because they are selfish little clowns and the Government is too timid to force real change on them.
If there is a god, David Farrier will be visiting this and documenting it for Netflix.
The most distressing part of the Peter Ellis miscarriage of justice, is that if those allegations had been made today on twitter, the outcome would have been the same.
Once upon a time, the value of justice was ‘better 10 guilty people walk free than one innocent person jailed’.
I support free speech because when we limit it, the State always twists it to silence genuine dissidents. Painting that philosophical support as akin to right wing Nazi sympathisers is astonishingly dangerous and short sighted.
The madness of using the free market to solve a problem caused by an unregulated free market has finally been buried.