MEDIA WATCH: Are we sure Leighton Smith isn’t a hoax?
I say until we can definitively prove that Leighton Smith exists, we should refuse to include him in a debate as pressing as global warming.
Martyn Bradbury
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How many acronyms does it take to catch a white supremacist?
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.
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Ummm, so what National are asking for is the right to storm brown people’s homes anytime the Police want???
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.
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Chippie finally makes up for the first day of Parliament by catching out David Seymour
Catching Seymour out was as much a redemption for Chippie as it was a repudiation to Seymour’s media preening.
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Majority of submissions reject the neoliberal seductiveness of euthanasia
This legislation is to appease alpha personalities who can not tolerate the idea of needing help in the painful end of their lives, but it will be used against the poorest and most vulnerable who are already so easily abused by the State.
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Waatea News Column – Fighting the Police when you can’t see the evidence
I’m in the news this week. I have an ongoing case against the NZ Police in front of the Human Rights Review Tribunal regarding the Police breaching my privacy and my civil rights when Police gained access to my banking records minus a warrant.
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The Project Euthanasia debate last night – can current affairs get more shallow?
The Project last night was juggling between the euthanasia debate and a cheated wife from Married At First Sight.
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Dear Labour – make the hate speech review about regulation of social media NOT a debate about free speech
In the wake of this atrocity we have solidarity and a genuine desire to change, regulating social media would be a huge step forward together on that, using an ideological framework over what can and can’t be said by the individual would be a giant leap backwards.
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Secret police trials using secret evidence in NZ – welcome to my Kafkaesque nightmare
Isn’t it incredible how left wing journalists, activists, Māori, environmentalists, Greenpeace, the Green Party, earthquake survivors and left wing bloggers all have to accept erosions of civil liberties in NZ, except for white supremacists who apparently can plot atrocities for years and the State doesn’t seem to want to annoy them.
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The intellectual rebirth of NZ First?
NZ First will not be able to blow any of their dog whistles any longer and will be reliant on Shane Jones winning Northland to remain in Parliament as they currently tread water sub 5%.