tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post2726148750302507731..comments2024-03-29T17:12:19.648+13:00Comments on Bowalley Road: Making The Terrorism Suppression Act Fit-For-Purpose.Chris Trotterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09081613281183460899noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-43127899656085079622021-09-11T18:59:50.556+12:002021-09-11T18:59:50.556+12:00I may be corrected however I believe that the firs...I may be corrected however I believe that the first literary illustration of using commercial aircraft as missiles was a couple of years before Clancy in the book Quiller Solitaire by Adam Hall / Elleston Trevor.<br /><br />RobbieWgtn Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-35616841995601588192021-09-11T13:23:27.688+12:002021-09-11T13:23:27.688+12:00The Open Government Partnership is now New Zealand...The Open Government Partnership is now New Zealand's key piece of policy that determines the scope of legislation. Certainly, the most significant piece of lawmaking relevant to the past couple of years and the next few.<br /><br />Matthew Wagnernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-671122422503811492021-09-10T11:10:16.945+12:002021-09-10T11:10:16.945+12:00To: Matthew Hooton
From Wikipedia entry:
"I...To: Matthew Hooton<br /><br />From Wikipedia entry:<br /><br />"In 1985, the Fourth Labour Government reformed the public service via the Parliamentary Service Act 1985. It abolished the Legislative Department and replaced it with a Parliamentary Service and Parliamentary Service Commission. It also ensured that PCO staff, aside from principal officers, were appointed by the Chief Parliamentary Counsel, within maximum numbers set by the Attorney-General."<br /><br />Meet the new boss, just a wee bit different from the old boss. Chris Trotterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09081613281183460899noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-66108078254272106172021-09-10T09:38:29.254+12:002021-09-10T09:38:29.254+12:00In the wake of the Apollo 1 fire in January 1967 t...In the wake of the Apollo 1 fire in January 1967 that killed three astronauts there was a massive Congressional inquiry that looked into every detail of what had gone wrong - and naturally what NASA had done wrong.<br /><br />But it was none other than the lead astronaut of NASA's internal program to find and fix the problems, Frank Borman, who summed it all up when he said that <i>"we had suffered a failure of imagination"</i>.<br /><br />In the case of 9/11, for all the detailed problems that led people to miss what was planned, was the simple assumption that terrorists seized airliners in order to bargain the passengers as hostages. The idea that they would take over planes in order to then use them as missiles against buildings simply did not occur to them - well, aside from Tom Clancy in <i>Debt of Honor</i><br /><br />No matter how well drafted and how tightly prescribed our new terrorist laws may be we will always be subject to that limit.Tom Hunterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17840988228699338463noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-32163003912923229672021-09-10T09:37:16.780+12:002021-09-10T09:37:16.780+12:00The PCO wasn't swept away. It still exists, an...The PCO wasn't swept away. It still exists, and writes all the Government's Bills. http://www.pco.govt.nzMatthew Hootonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3753486518085091399.post-26252214555347153612021-09-10T08:22:10.566+12:002021-09-10T08:22:10.566+12:00The manner of the 9/11 attacks was so unthinkable ...The manner of the 9/11 attacks was so unthinkable that the terrorists' American flying school instructors apparently were not at all fazed by their students' indifference to learning how to land an aircraft. The main body of evidence of preparation for an attack would likely have been found in the extensive communications required to coordinate it. There was a major intelligence failure here. <br /><br />"Lone wolf" attack preparations are unlikely to provide that kind of evidence. Instead it must be gleaned from activities and acquisitions displaying a likely lethal combination of capability and intention. In the case of the Lynnmall terrorist such evidence appears to have been available which is why the Police were tailing him with highly trained personnel who knew he could go on a rampage at any moment. There needs to be an independent inquiry into why he was allowed to roam freely and why he was not deported.<br /><br />50 years ago the State Services Commission used to advertise for policy positions in Wellington with quotations from Plato, along the lines that only the best should serve the State. Many of the most capable graduates responded to that call. Try running that line now.Odysseushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04745489060434244478noreply@blogger.com