tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post2367178504837769622..comments2024-03-29T17:12:19.648+13:00Comments on Bowalley Road: For God's Sake, Don't Send Jacinda To Dallas!Chris Trotterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09081613281183460899noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-48377155100496808732021-11-04T19:55:19.720+13:002021-11-04T19:55:19.720+13:00The Prime Minister exudes an arrogance in the form...The Prime Minister exudes an arrogance in the form of "I (or we) are right". She has promoted the concept of 'The Podium of Truth'. These images have certainly not been questioned by the media.<br />It is no surprise that she has driven an extreme division in some corners of society. Some think she is a saint - others think she is the devil. Those who think she is a saint offer no physical harm but certainly offer emotional and psychological harm -to themselves and others.<br />Its those who think she is the devil that are the physically dangerous ones. Some of these are those who will not get vaccinated simply because shes endlessly telling them to get vaccinated. But others will be the dangerous ones - they wont be out carrying signs or making themselves obvious. They will be fuming and are the ones likely to do something crazy.<br />The two cancelled/moved media events show that there are some people out and about who are putting in the effort to oppose her - so far verbally. The portends are that between now and Xmas will be a very strained period.Barrynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-71443993095387388972021-11-04T18:03:59.902+13:002021-11-04T18:03:59.902+13:00Send her up then take her back. If she shows up I ...Send her up then take her back. If she shows up I intend to go and express my displeasure. Let’s face it, she is ultimately being shown to be a vacuous show pony who can’t take the pressure of their own poor decision making or as it appears to most of us randomly made up BS. <br /><br />It is beyond funny that your own world view with a far right extremist hiding behind every door makes you think that some is going to jump out and attack her. Who was caught training in the ranges? The Australian terrorist was definitely not right wing despite the medias best efforts, the recent knife attacker was not right wing, and the majority of murders are undertaken by our great gangs. <br /><br />So much for your dreams of the great transformation. theotherneilhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14069098970625392455noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-24108762089982130372021-11-04T17:25:22.454+13:002021-11-04T17:25:22.454+13:00No, its not only recently that pms had heavy prote...No, its not only recently that pms had heavy protection. The night after Jim Bolger became pm I was playing in the upstairs Il Casino piano bar. About 10pm two worried looking dudes in suits suddenly rushed in and started looking behind all the curtains and under the couches. One of them had a shoulder holster. The minders were in a flap because Bolger hadn't told them where he was off to before he went out to the restaurant.Don Frankshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17801999410940938418noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-6993195832669535972021-11-04T16:37:27.229+13:002021-11-04T16:37:27.229+13:00Good political analysis is rarer and rarer these d...Good political analysis is rarer and rarer these days and the sort of perceptive and brave takes that you would sometimes pull out of the hat have been replaced with cowardly windbagging. But you are not alone.Kramernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-82948036027271530122021-11-04T09:48:04.021+13:002021-11-04T09:48:04.021+13:00I am sure that your comment about dont send Jacind...I am sure that your comment about dont send Jacinda to Auckland is sarcasm.<br /><br />How is she going to unite the country(which she seems to have divided) if she is treated like sleepy joe and locked in the basement???<br />oneblokesviewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11747665460845683295noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-955626685528928492021-11-04T09:16:01.907+13:002021-11-04T09:16:01.907+13:00I remember the extreme left in the 60s. It was mor...I remember the extreme left in the 60s. It was more concerned on the whole with its own ideological purity as judged against other sects, than worldwide revolution. In other words, they were batty, and pretty much no danger to anyone. And yet the security intelligence people in their idle moments when not reading penthouse spent an inordinate amount of time on them and other relatively harmless people, up to and including bugging their homes – or at least attempting to.<br /><br /> I think that these types of services tend to attract the sort of people who dismiss potential right wing terrorists as harmless because they are misguided but essentially 'one of us'. And I doubt if they have investigated the religious right which seems to be the core of the antivax crowd ever, except perhaps for that group of nutters who started arming themselves – possibly. But they were in fact eventually taking care of by the police. <br /><br />It's interesting but not surprising that the only non-government terrorist activity in New Zealand - Tarrant and of course the Trades Hall bombing case - were undertaken by the right, yet it's mainly the left that has traditionally been investigated and surveilled however ham-fistedly<br /><br />Personally, given their record I'm not at all sure why we even have a security intelligence service, I think the functions should be undertaken by the police who are at least bound by reasonably transparent rules of engagement. On the other hand they didn't even bother investigating Tarrant's social media activity did they?<br />Guerilla Surgeonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03427876447124021423noreply@blogger.com