Free speech? – give us a break!
When someone hands out leaflets which say “Allah is a gay god” and “Allah is transgender” then this is not an issue of free speech. This is part of a calculated campaign to incite religious hatred.
New Zealand Politics
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Dr Liz Gordon – What it is like in prison
Ole Bomber who runs this site lost his toys the other day over Kate Hawkesby’s discourse of contempt around prisoners. Or, as he so poetically put it, the “boorish bruise of the very barbarism they (people like her) claim to recoil from”.
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Is Working For Families really ‘Communism by Stealth’?
Matthew Hooton (19th July, NZ Herald) trots out the tired old John Key scarecrow of ‘Communism by stealth’ to debunk Working for Families (WFF). Hooton even wants to blame WFF for the nurses’ strike and low productivity.
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So Southern and Molyneux might be coming – what do we do now?
Phil Goff was right to ban these crypto-fascsists from a publicly funded venue, but his need to appeal to liberal Auckland at a time when his Leadership as Mayor was eroding him support from the Left threw a gas bomb on this and allowed these Hate Merchants to play the free speech martyrs.
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New Zealand must expel the Israeli Embassy
…we can not in good conscience allow a country with a two tiered system based on race to continue to remain on NZ soil in any offical capacity.
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Large American Pot, Meet Small Chinese Kettle
IRONICALLY, THE CONCERN over Chinese influence in New Zealand is being raised against a backdrop of unchallenged American hegemony. Extending across the whole width of the nation’s political stage, this American backdrop has become so much a part of the play’s scenery that most Kiwis no longer notice it. The inclusion of a few Chinese props, however, is enough to induce something close to panic among New Zealand’s political class.
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Mike Hosking lecturing on public broadcasting is like Donald Trump lecturing on feminism, diplomacy and racial tolerance
With global economic recessions looming and the existential threat of climate change – we need a town square on public broadcasting platforms that includes rather than splinter and divides in social media echo chambers.
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Whose column was more pointless? Art Critic Soper or Truancy Officer du Plessis-Allan?
I get the Troll Farm at the NZ Herald need to churn out hate against the Left every day, but deciphering scribbles and criticising a Minister for not participating in a process he’s not allowed to participate in is pretty desperate even for the Troll Farm.
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Thoughts and Prayers with Mike Hosking for the pain of his holiday in Hawaii
When his wife isn’t complaining about prisoners not being beaten with rubber hoses and waterboarded, Trump defender and NZs answer to what would you get if Piers Morgan and a meth smoking scorpion had a baby, Mike Hosking, is at the NZ Herald Troll Farm today complaining about a holiday he had in Hawaii.
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For every muppet who wants to arm the cops – 5 reasons not to
We are not a people who will tolerate big swinging dick cops coming into our personal spaces armed. The guns will become an immediate source of tension, and that tension will get played out time and time and time again.