[…] Put simply, had police followed their own rules, they would never have given the shooter a license because his referees did not meet the test. Rather than someone close to him, his referees were an online gaming friend and their father. That rings alarm bells surely? Sadly, it didn’t
As we await the Royal Commission report into the unfortunate massacre at Christchurch, some others have been digging into why, precisely, the massacre occurred. Those in the firearms community have known for a very long time that the massacre could have been avoided if Police had done even the most
ACT Party “It is disturbing to learn that evidence from senior public servants to the Royal Commission into the Christchurch mosque attacks will be withheld in full,” says ACT Justice and Firearms Law Reform spokesperson Nicole McKee. “Firstly, this was not the impression given in statements from the Commission in
There is something exceedingly whiffy about all this. The Royal Commission has decided to hide all the evidence, particularly that given by ministers and civil servants: The Royal Commission into the March 15 terror attack has stamped 30-year-long suppressions on evidence given by ministers and senior public servants raising concerns
Royal Commission stamps 30-year suppression on evidence given by Cabinet ministers and chief executives on March 15 terror attack The Royal Commission into March 15 terror attack has stamped 30-year-long suppressions on evidence given by ministers and senior public servants raising concerns that accountability may be dodged. The commission’s
The core legal tenet of “habeas corpus” more-or-less translates as a command to “show us the body!” (in this case, of the accused). When it comes to the shrieking claims of an epidemic of tranny-killing, we might well demand that they show us the bodies. Except that they won’t.
Alison McIntosh Tracy Harkison Auckland University of Technology Maria Gebbels University of Greenwich Prison food and fine dining aren’t usually mentioned together. But various initiatives around the world are changing that, with restaurants located within jails offering both culinary satisfaction and opportunities for positive social change. Prison catering and
Short of modern China’s mass surveillance society, communist East Germany was perhaps one of the most spied-upon in history. Combining typical communist paranoia with Teutonic efficiency, the Stasi secret police deployed twelve times as many secret police officers per head as the Gestapo. Worse, with an informal network of
Michael Cook MercatorNet Michael Cook is the editor of MercatorNet Tomorrow is Trans Day of Remembrance, “an annual observance on November 20 that honours the memory of the trans lives lost to acts of transphobia and discrimination”. It’s an international event. One headline summed up gruesome international figures: “Murdered,
ACT Party ACT’s Firearms Reform Spokesperson Nicole McKee is calling on the Government to release the report of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Christchurch terrorist attacks next week. “According to the Commissioners, the report has been finished, will be delivered to the Government next week, and no
ACT Party “The Police Association is naïve if it believes a firearms register will stop gang violence”, says ACT’s Firearms Reform Spokesperson Nicole McKee. “A person who shoots at a police officer, or anyone for that matter, is scum. Gangs and criminals didn’t hand in their firearms during
Police Warn Man Who Drives around at 4 A.M. Shouting “Wakey Wakey” The Hampshire police received “many complaints” about a man in Gosport who has developed the habit of driving around in the early hours yelling “wakey wakey” at the town’s mostly-sleeping residents. The police report that the
Trump saw the scurrilous attacks on his presidency coming even before he was sworn and naturally planned accordingly for the assault on his US 2020 election campaign. On 12 September 2018 Trump signed an executive order that largely flew under media radar until its significance recently became clear. “I, DONALD
When the iconic Notre Dame de Paris cathedral went up in flames last year, the Western world was shocked and saddened. The cause of the fire is yet to be definitively established – although investigators are claiming electrical faults as the likeliest culprit – but it was unsurprising that many immediately suspected
President Donald Trump is furiously adamant that the widespread electoral fraud that he warned about for months has indeed come to pass. The left and the mainstream media just as furiously deny it. Even supposedly “conservative” journalists like the Australian’s Caroline Overington categorically claim that there is “no evidence”
