Archive for the 'Law and order' Category

A jail that leaks like a $6m sieve. Who’s being screwed?

Topic: Consumer, Law and order, Media, Politics, Society, Your money

People who are condemned to live in privately owned leaky homes will not be happy with the Government’s rapid response to the newly revealed problem of convicts living in a leaky prison.
A leaky roof does not a prison make - unless you privately own it. Pictures by Dreamstime.comWhile law-abiding honest victims languish in rotting houses [...]

Ban the SFO and pass the ETS? That’s serious fraud

Topic: Consumer, Law and order, Media, Politics, Society

Any hope that Winston Peters can keep Helen Clark afloat is virtually gone, now that we know the Monaco millionaire benefactor to the Winston First Party warned his friend the Prime Minister that he had donated $100,000 to Peters’ legal fund – and that she failed to reveal this until today.
Yesterday, Clark criticised Peters for [...]

The scales of justice are seriously out of balance

Topic: Law and order, Media, Society

Justice delayed is justice denied. Justice dismissed is far worseA grave allegation has been made against one of New Zealand’s judges, and naturally – even though it’s hearsay – we’re duty bound to repeat it in the hope that some paid journalist somewhere will do a bit of investigation for a change.
The claim, made during [...]

Why this government deserves a good beating

Topic: Education, Health, Law and order, Politics, Society

Now we have proof that government in New Zealand does not work, and it came from the mouths of our governors. Despite the obscene amounts of taxation thrown at it, our Labour-misled Government is unable to include a simple referendum question in this year’s election process.
The question, of course, is:
“Should a smack as part of [...]

Where there’s smoke, there’s a politically correct prat

Topic: Consumer, Education, Environment, Law and order, Media, Politics, Society

It’s sad, when you find a dead cigarette lighter in pristine native bush. Picture: the Studio at Dreamstime.comIt has been revealed that British American Tobacco is quietly sponsoring anti-littering group Keep New Zealand Beautiful to the tune of $300,000.
Naturally, this donation was immediately pounced on and condemned by false do-gooders. Cancer Society chief executive [...]

Mockers of the knockers of the boobs on bikes

Topic: Art and culture, Consumer, Humour, Law and order, Satire, Society

Anyone likely to be outraged or offended by Auckland’s boring old Boobs on Bikes parade will have no chance of bringing a case against organiser Steve Crow. The event received so much pre-publicity that those of a sensitive nature were reasonably forewarned to keep away.

It’s the best possible time to shoot a criminal

Topic: Law and order, Politics, Society

The Christchurch dairy owner who used an airgun to defend himself against armed robbers has only one thing to thank for not being hauled before a court.
It’s an election year.
A familiar CCTV scene - what would you do?We’ve already seen a wave of violent robbery-linked deaths in Auckland in recent months, including that of a [...]

I think, therefore IQ. And those who cannot teach…

Topic: Art and culture, Education, Law and order, Politics, Society

Middle class people aren’t inclined to invade your home, beat you up or steal your television. Middle class people aren’t inclined to cover themselves in tattoos, call it moko and (in the manner of the grotesquely unfit warrior Te Weeti) walk about looking like a frightening savage sticking one or two fingers up at you, [...]

Don’t take “Lying Wanker” for an answer

Topic: Law and order, Media, Politics, Society

The lies have it - the Gospel according to GoebbelsThe Nazi propaganda genius Dr Joseph Goebbels often said that if you repeat a lie enough, people will come to accept it as the truth. He was right, for a short while. A 21st Century variant of this idea is that if you deny an accusation [...]

$10m reward for the idiots who wanted Condy!

Topic: Law and order, Politics, Society, The world

Condoleezza Rice: She is head and shoulders above Peters, Clark and our sad studentsCan we please now quietly draw the screens over New Zealand’s pathetic student protest movement? These wimpy, easily led and blatantly lazy kids are just too embarrassing for the older folks who did the hard yards protesting against the Vietnam war, and [...]