tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post2245942123839222055..comments2024-03-29T17:12:19.648+13:00Comments on Bowalley Road: The TakeoverChris Trotterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09081613281183460899noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-17552248657184383902009-03-25T07:13:00.000+13:002009-03-25T07:13:00.000+13:00By the time you have written it someone else will ...By the time you have written it someone else will have taken the film rights. Get the concept published on the web immediately! Ah, you've done that above! Put '(c) Chris Trotter' after it. It's a winner.<BR/>I was writing a story and then the 'Age of Stupid' just came out as a film, we re in the age when all these obvious narratives are occuring to everyone anyway. Interesting times.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-2302855929646647312009-03-19T10:23:00.000+13:002009-03-19T10:23:00.000+13:00Are cut price prisons run by ex bouncers and polic...Are cut price prisons run by ex bouncers and police rejects really necessary, let alone going to anything apart from cream off more taxpayer funds for vile companies like Wackenhut?<BR/><BR/>Incarceration is the heaviest state sanction that can be applied to citizens bar capital punishment and forced military conscription. Imprisonment should be conducted with due seriousness inclusive of rehabilitation.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-15507439839996364522009-03-17T14:51:00.000+13:002009-03-17T14:51:00.000+13:00In Chris's defence it is not unheard of that judge...In Chris's defence it is not <A HREF="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article5864483.ece" REL="nofollow">unheard of</A> that judges accept bribes from private prisons in order to manufacture high internment rates. Other than that, I presume it was a fantasy thriller...<BR/><BR/>No-one can deny that the state of prisons is not flash. Prisoners escape, they routinely have contraband and luxuries while inside, they run illegal operations from inside and some commit unspeakable horrors on the weak or isolated. There is no measure of punishment while incarcerated and while some might say the incarceration itself is enough, the human rights act means that conditions cannot be punitive or demeaning, no matter how vicious or demeaning the crime on the victim.<BR/><BR/>Free cable/satellite TV, free gym membership, free housing, free meals all makes - for one such as a gang member accustomed to a hard life - for a pretty easy life.<BR/><BR/>By all accounts the Auckland Remand Prison was run well. I fail to see what the problem is by having a prison institution run privately, when we are perfectly happy to have private institutions educate our children.rouppehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07446734587426078093noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-82024431329982773852009-03-17T02:30:00.000+13:002009-03-17T02:30:00.000+13:00hello mr exchequer.you may not have heard of me bu...hello mr exchequer.<BR/>you may not have heard of me but my name is mickey suttle. I am an elder member of the jedi council of morm-jordil. we had previously tried to spread the jedi faith via the blogging community in ireland, but they have relected us. <BR/>We wish to bring the star wars message to the southern hemisphere where we feel few people have heard of george lucas or the jedi religion.<BR/>It is our goal to within the next ten years to make at least one country a jedi protectorate.<BR/>your police will be replace by the jedi knights who will patrol your streets and keep order. <BR/><BR/>please pass this good news message onto your fellow bloggers in NZ. we hope you wont react the way the irish did with hostility.<BR/><BR/>(please note: the jedi do not support the privatisation of prisons)<BR/><BR/>MTFBWU<BR/>supershadow<BR/>www.supershadow.com www.mickeysuttle.comAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-35765789790626340982009-03-16T21:08:00.000+13:002009-03-16T21:08:00.000+13:00Chris: if you're looking for an ending to the stor...Chris: if you're looking for an ending to the story, how about a sequel with the working title "Arms Race"?<BR/><BR/>"Arms Race" asks the questions, "What if everyone took the law into their own hands and followed the example of the Brazillian Military Police?", and "what if the riots of Los Angeles in 1992 were to erupt in NZ?"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-7931759540620685432009-03-14T23:26:00.000+13:002009-03-14T23:26:00.000+13:00An enjoyable fantasy there , Chris.I trust you hav...An enjoyable fantasy there , Chris.<BR/>I trust you have read or seen A Very British Coup by Chris Mullin.FAIRFACTS MEDIAhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09278035907912171422noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-72895642499950081482009-03-13T12:00:00.000+13:002009-03-13T12:00:00.000+13:00If I were a publisher, I'd put it on the books! "T...If I were a publisher, I'd put it on the books!<BR/><BR/> "This veteran K-Street fixer specialises in setting up grass-roots organisations dedicated to scaring the public into "getting tough" on crime."<BR/><BR/>Isn't this a case of the pot and ... err something about the black kettle, Chris? Are you not doing the same thing here?<BR/><BR/>And the idea of this "supposed" tory govt. about to sign an impending deal? Where would the basis for that come in?<BR/><BR/>XChequer<BR/>http://thenzhomeoffice.blogspot.com/XChequerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01000051037393137077noreply@blogger.com