Written By: lprent - Date published: 12:06 am, October 19th, 2014 - 35 comments
Back when I was a teenager, a mate of mine decided that he was going to give up on school and would get in some combat. So he worked his way into the Rhodesian Light Infantry. A few years later I heard that he’d been killed in action. Other young men going overseas with similar excitement issues have came back a lot less interested in excitement. Sounds safer to me than letting them have a car.
Written By: lprent - Date published: 9:21 am, October 16th, 2013 - 31 comments
As the resulting court battles die away and the suppression orders lift, the level of sheer dumb stupidity and outright silly paranoia of the police and other agencies involved in Operation 8 becomes clearer. It is time to start examining the officers in the police who brought so much dishonour and disrespect to their force. And where better than Te Putatara who has a post up which details a raid who had a court examination of the validity of the bloated and illegal search warrant to court – while a raid was in progress.
Written By: Zetetic - Date published: 7:07 am, May 28th, 2013 - 100 comments
Glen Greenwald says the word terrorism has almost exclusively become reserved for violence by Muslims.
I reckon replace “Muslims” with “non-white” and you’re getting closer.
Written By: notices and features - Date published: 1:07 pm, May 22nd, 2013 - 215 comments
The report on the Urewera raids from the Independent Police Complaints Authority is (unlike some other reports we could mention) certainly no whitewash.
Written By: lprent - Date published: 12:37 pm, March 30th, 2012 - 22 comments
Evidently the people at iPredict don’t like being called “bookies” or being described as “opening a contract” on someone. We are now being targeted by this shadowy organisation.
Perhaps it is time that the police exerted themselves as the entertainment for the media and started operation 9 against this subversive organisation
Written By: rocky - Date published: 2:26 pm, March 15th, 2012 - 46 comments
The judge is just dismissing the jury for the day – they will resume deliberations tomorrow morning.
Written By: lprent - Date published: 4:27 pm, September 29th, 2011 - 104 comments
Since I can’t seem to leave a comment on his site to refute John Pagani’s current foolishness on the operation 8 outcomes and ‘evidence’. That is unfortunate because I’ll put it here instead with a wider audience just to please him with a response from a lefty.
Written By: notices and features - Date published: 3:00 pm, September 27th, 2011 - 55 comments
mickysavage at Waitakere News blog has an analysis of the legal and unconstitutional implications of the Nationals dubious plan to override the courts with poor kneejerk legislation. It is rather disturbing as the action appears to have more to do with electioneering than actual legal need.
Written By: lprent - Date published: 1:54 pm, September 6th, 2011 - 42 comments
The “Urewera 18” are now down to four. The police persecution has now been dropped for eleven of those charged in the Operation 8 raids four and half years ago. Crown Solicitor Simon Moore said the effect of a recent Supreme Court ruling on the case – which is suppressed – was that there was […]
Written By: lprent - Date published: 2:48 pm, May 27th, 2011 - 17 comments
I have been bemoaning that I’d missed the Operation 8 documentary. But there are more screenings around the country. Catch a showing near you because by the sound of the current state of the court case, this will not be resolved until next year at the earliest. It has been over three and half years […]
Written By: rocky - Date published: 8:46 pm, April 19th, 2011 - 15 comments
Last night walking into the film screening in Auckland I was a bit apprehensive about how it would all be put together. Fortunately my fears were unfounded and the film did justice to the complex issues involved.
Written By: notices and features - Date published: 4:47 pm, April 19th, 2011 - 3 comments
No Right Turn put up a post on the latest in the police foulup that is Operation 8.
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