Listened, intently, to both 11pm and midnight bulletin of RNZ news expecting to hear something about the developing situation at #Ihumatao on Monday night and nothing at all – like it wasn’t happening!
They served him breakfast and it was only at 10am when they came to get him for court they found he was dead – and had been for probably 6 hours.
What surprises me is that Pakistan with a track record as crooked as a seismograph in an earthquake has received no questioning from the New Zealanders. None. The Pakistani collapse was because we were so great and the integrity of that game is beyond question. I scrolled through the stuff.co.nz story – a hundred or so comments and not a single one sceptical of the “miracle”. The New Zealanders, to a man, delusioned.
A Week of Tim
A week of Tim
The media are why cops can get away with murder, the politicians are why, the rednecks are why, the disinterested complacent lefties are why, the flakey airheads who like cats more than people are why, the booffhead rugby troglodytes focused on All Black groin strains are why. The NZ Police are getting away with murder right before our eyes. What can we do about it?
Helen’s colonial mentality of a straight-forward and uncontested notion of European supremacy is a typically white New Zealand combination of studied ignorance and hypocrisy. The plucky little nation, the Pacific nation.
The rain sheets weeping over Opotiki. Tears for a fallen chief. The kohu descends. I ran to cover, turned on the radio. Twitter. Ranginui Walker has died. He will stay in Auckland.