“Let the punishment fit the crime,” so the saying goes. In which case, you would be forgiven for thinking that planning to murder hundreds of people would surely merit a stiffer sentence than defrauding taxpayers. Think again. Ali Khalif Shire Ali was determined to fire a machine gun into thousands
In a recent high-profile case, a former prison guard spent months behind bars for a rape which never happened. Now, taxpayers have forked out $10,000 for sexual abuse which multiple judges have ruled never happened. Taxpayers have paid out $10,000 to a girl as compensation for being a
It’s been said that the pop-culture image of the “criminal genius” is a myth. Because, if they really were geniuses, they’d make money legitimately. In fact, that very idea became a running gag in the Austin Powers movies, with henchman Number 2 trying to explain to Dr. Evil
There was a time when people were scared of the gangs. They commanded respect even though only through intimidation. You didn’t mess with the Mob. Black Power (back when it wasn’t full of pakeha fullas) were pretty frightening if you were on the wrong side of them. The
THIS IS GOING TO BE THE GREATEST DAY OF MY LIFE #ObaMAGAte pic.twitter.com/jteqCCyWqp — Eric ?? (@ThatTrumpGuy) May 11, 2020
Lindsay Mitchell lindsaymitchell.blogspot.com Released last month from the Family Violence Death Review Committee. Sixth report | Te Purongo tuaono Men who use violence Nga tane ka whakamahi i te whakarekereke The report looks at 97 men, from between 2009 and 2017, whose family violence resulted in death (not theirs)
Ever since the Christchurch massacre, the Police have been operating in a doctrinaire and dictatorial fashion. We know that they used massive over-reach to grab as many guns as they could, and have treated their minister like he’s their lap dog. Earlier they announced that, despite disarming a large
An article in The Northland Age about the police finally taking action to open up an illegal roadblock is not all good news. The good news is that that police finally acted last Wednesday on behalf of law-abiding surfers by intervening in order to let the surfers through the illegal
For someone so completely obsessed with ‘image’, perhaps, Chris Comeskey has finally found his calling. With a failed dental supply business behind him and no chance of resurrecting his chequered legal career, the former headline-grabbing lawyer now has reinvented himself as Sydney’s answer to Tim ‘the Tool Man’ Taylor.
It’s taken me a few days to write this post as I was so bloody angry before. If I had written anything when this came out it would have simply been Marama’s favourite word, in plural, written 800 times. Quite how we have come to this point is
As the economic fallout from the Wuhan virus piles up, its impact on everything from oil prices to airlines is becoming shockingly obvious. Millions of people registering for unemployment and Americans lining up at food banks emphasise the scale of the disaster Beijing has unleashed on the world. Governments are
Jacinda Ardern told Mike Hosking that she had seen no evidence of gangs being involved with illegal roadblocks. She is clearly wilfully blind. Mike Hosking challenged her on this but she still denied there was any evidence. Her darlings at Newsroom and NewstalkZB last week documented this exact occurrence: Volunteers
Yesterday Chris Trotter’s Insight: Politics article, ‘Why Aren’t Those People Being Arrested?’ looked at iwi checkpoints, the reaction to them by the public and the context of the actions of the iwi who set them up. THE CLAMOUR for the Government and the Police to “do something” about
Today’s face of the day, former Green MP Catherine Delahunty, is tone-deaf to her own racism. She happily diagnoses it in others but fails to see the log in her own eye. 1. She promotes a petition asking the PM to continue to allow illegal checkpoints run by iwi.
Press Release: New Conservatives In 2017, the coalition of Labour, NZF and the Greens took control of New Zealand thus becoming the start of a journey that originally claimed transparency, openness and kindness but has failed to deliver except in the area of removing freedoms and disempowered democracy. New Conservative
Update: I have been told this morning that Police do now have the power to stop people to ensure compliance with lockdown under s71A(2)(c) of the Health Act 1956 However, anyone who isn’t Police has no power to stop a vehicle (except some limited other govt departments
