tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post1710836141109056560..comments2024-03-29T17:12:19.648+13:00Comments on Bowalley Road: New Zealand's Very Own Pinkertons.Chris Trotterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09081613281183460899noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-82556895607100374712018-06-29T22:48:10.464+12:002018-06-29T22:48:10.464+12:00I learnt what I knew about Allan Pinkerton in a do...I learnt what I knew about Allan Pinkerton in a doco on the History channel, and now from Wikipedia. I believe the doco over the less decisive Wiki article. A good- ish man in foul times. As opposed to fellow Scot and NZ Govt land-buyer Donald Maclean, who ultimately went with the flow to his own wealth and 'public esteem' ( always prefer his and my fellow Hawke's Bayer William Colenso, with his awkward words at transactions of power).sumsuchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03133092096534660472noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-72529994073234207482018-06-27T23:43:38.260+12:002018-06-27T23:43:38.260+12:00Oh, the wallpaper was just the (fkn) computer.Oh, the wallpaper was just the (fkn) computer.sumsuchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03133092096534660472noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-13416032833351553122018-06-27T23:34:42.754+12:002018-06-27T23:34:42.754+12:00Haven't read your Pinkertons article since it&...Haven't read your Pinkertons article since it's unreadable against your new wallpaper. Just remember the agency was founded by a poor Scot who fought agin oppressive employers in his native land, for slaves in his new land and agin stike-breaking by his sons in old age. How disgusted this 'Guid Scot' must have been while dying. When there were so many bad Scots 'getting on'.sumsuchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03133092096534660472noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-34684773694662109472018-06-23T19:25:47.558+12:002018-06-23T19:25:47.558+12:00On a managerial / commercial basis I have a proble...On a managerial / commercial basis I have a problem with these people being hired by state entities. <br /><br />A manager gets headcount to do the base job, so there is supposedly a balance between required staff and the task at hand.<br /><br />Hiring a subcontractor worries me, there's two things.<br /><br /> First staffing levels should match requirements and related funding....to "contract out" necessarily exceeds budget which we the taxpayer pick up, not good management.<br /><br />Or secondly there is a budgetary allocation for activities that for nefarious purposes are to be "outsourced". If this is the real reason we have cause to be alarmed that the state won't do it's own dirty work.Nick Jnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-52081187494410689372018-06-22T12:39:26.326+12:002018-06-22T12:39:26.326+12:00
Private secret intelligence services are a menace...<br />Private secret intelligence services are a menace, for just the reasons that Chris laid out. But so are the state organizations which hire them. The NZSIS has had a cavalier disregard for the law, and the constitutional and legal abuses perpetrated by the NZSIS in recent years go well beyond what Thompson and Clark would even dare to contemplate. Under the leadership of Warren Tucker the NZSIS conspired to provoke civil conflict in this country, and a catastrophe was only averted through the combination chance and the good sense of the independent judiciary, albeit at a significant cost to the New Zealand taxpayer. Has the SIS learned a lesson from that affair? I fear not. The SIS still seems determined to go well beyond its lawful function of gathering intelligence.Geoff Fischerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00509885628971898371noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-29050326403454945112018-06-21T18:15:47.578+12:002018-06-21T18:15:47.578+12:00Pinkertons 1855. About the time of NZ founding T...Pinkertons 1855. About the time of NZ founding Treaty of Waitangi 1840.<br />How far did we advance in the following years? Did we reach high-tide with occasional king tides, in the 1990s, 150 years later. It seems now like low-tide, with occasional inundations to destroy what is left of our earnest efforts to build a country. How much further back do we go towards conditions prevailing at Pinkertons genesis? <br /><br />Our economist Bill Phillips built a physical working model display of the British economic system. What we want is less spying on people to catch them thinking, and bring the thinking out in the open, let it spread like true 'brain fever'. <br />https://www.quora.com/Does-anyone-know-of-any-attempts-at-building-a-working-model-of-an-economic-system-from-physical-objects<br />https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MONIAC<br /><br />(Could a working model be built now that would illustrate this dysfunctional economy with a side helping of semi-religious belief system that has no connection to the teaching of Jesus and all of it invisibly tethered to Mammon? Put money into this sort of think-tank and take it out of mindless space corps and exploration which is the prosaic man's replacement for ideas of heaven and the unknown after-life.)greywarblernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-71820180725228573292018-06-21T17:59:42.444+12:002018-06-21T17:59:42.444+12:00Chris;
So well said.
But who should the voters sup...Chris;<br />So well said.<br />But who should the voters support?.<br />Prayer helps.<br />So does booze.<br />I'll stick to both.<br />It does help the pain.<br />God bless New Zealand.<br />Amen.Polly.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-79990800038300938682018-06-21T13:49:53.572+12:002018-06-21T13:49:53.572+12:00Reminds you of cops that infiltrated anti-tour gro...Reminds you of cops that infiltrated anti-tour groups in '81 pretending to oppose the tour.<br /><br />And SIS agents that attended lectures on Russian topics at New Zealand universities posing as students. And later other SIS agents attempted to 'interview' academics at universities on their 'views' on developments in Russia.<br /><br />A lot of this stuff was ham-fisted nonsense.BlisteringAttacknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-56071131325291227492018-06-21T13:20:20.997+12:002018-06-21T13:20:20.997+12:00"The core function of the modern state is the..."The core function of the modern state is the facilitation of private wealth-creation."<br />For some.Guerilla Surgeonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03427876447124021423noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-92087434905096541292018-06-21T12:09:35.246+12:002018-06-21T12:09:35.246+12:00Keep within the law or get it where the chicken go...Keep within the law or get it where the chicken got the axe.peteswriteplacehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04474922953916383101noreply@blogger.com