What’s a Website?

From the Herald: LONDON – A British judge admitted today he was struggling to cope with basic terms like “website” in the trial of three men accused of inciting terrorism via the internet. Judge Peter Openshaw broke into the questioning of a witness about a Web forum used by alleged Islamist radicals. “The trouble is…

Greens Oppose Families Close to Offenders

The reason why a new prison was built near Dunedin was so families could visit more often. The old prison was so small, it was only useful for transfers and short term stays. But apparently, only the second of these facts ever came to the attention of the Greens: “The Greens do not support building…

Labour, Police and Corruption

I was listening to National Radio this morning when Annette King named Wayne Idour as the man who played the infamous “chicken” film. Pathetic. Need I say, Labour have long proven that they think we are all idiots. Then I listened tonight as the man who made that allegation. Again, pathetic. For goodness sake, if…

Police Allegations

Isn’t it extraordinary how little of the allegations raised by Ian Wishart have made it into the media. It’s way beyond “tip of the iceberg” – it’s more like talking about someone out at sea in a rowboat, where they should have mentioned the man was standing on a very large block of the Antarctic’s…

Dunedin Subway Dismissal

As we all now know, a top class idiot of a manager at Dunedin’s George St Subway store thought he’d fire a member of staff for “stealing” 10c worth of drink. Oh, and have her charged in court. Point1: Way to show parents they’ll be fine under the new child assault law! Point2: Who was…

Lawsuit Abuse

I’ll bet money this appears on Kiwiblog within the week! So there’s this lawsuit. It’s taken by a judge. Here’s what he’s after: $1,500 for each “violation” – counting each day for 10 years as two “violations” Multiply that by 3x as three people were “involved” $500,000 in “emotional damages” “$542, 500 in legal fees,…

Greens and Police

Thinking about the Greens and the Police, one always is left a little confused. Whenever there’s a protest or anything else happening, the Police are “abusing their power” and can’t be trusted. However, when it comes to the smacking debate (don’t make me give it it’s full title, you know what I mean) they keep…

Perfectly Justifiable Taser Usage

NRT, true to form complains the Police used a taser “out of convenience”. Senior Sergeant Garth Stockley, asked earlier by the Herald, said no officer had been assaulted. He said the 17-year-old was Tasered because police couldn’t bring him under control after the arrest. “We were in the middle of the road and it was…

Hate America, Hate the NYPD

NRT vents his spleen on the NYPD, after officers were charged in a shooting incident. He says: Meanwhile, New Yorkers ought to be asking their politicians why this sort of thing is allowed to keep happening – and why a domestic law enforcement agency with the duty of protecting people is displaying the same trigger-happy…

The problem with criminals…

…is that they never when to say “enough”. It was always possible, and now it’s happened. More allegations have been filed against everyone’s favorite suspended dirty cop. I think I alluded to this possibility in an earlier post, but this blog isn’t called Halfdone for nothing. Find it yourself 🙂