Crime
Police Safety ‘Investment’: ‘Half-Pie Do-Nothing Announcment’
Darroch Ball Co-Leader/Spokesperson Sensible Sentencing Trust “The announcement today by the Minister of Police Poto Williams and Police Commissioner Andrew Coster, shows the pressure they have been under to deal with the rise and rise of gun violence – but have failed to deliver anything of any real substance,” says
Poto Williams Throws Jacinda Ardern under the Bus
Chris Baillie ACT Police spokesperson Just over a year ago Jacinda Ardern told New Zealanders she had achieved her goal of 1800 new Police, today Poto Williams broke ranks and said she was wrong. It was always nonsense the way that the Government said they achieved the target without taking
Arming the Police
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com A week ago I wrote its time to arm the police, an attitude inconceivable to me up until the last half dozen years. Well talk of the devil, two days later the New Zealand Herald came out with a polling survey I was unaware they
How the Feds Enabled a Predator
The Catholic Church has been rightly reviled for its years of covering up for the horrendous crimes of a small core of paedophiles in its ranks. So why aren’t other organisations who are still doing the same not subject to the same opprobrium? Think schools, for example: abusers are
The Case against Cardinal Pell Was Always Specious and Indefensible
Fr Frank Brennan SJ mercatornet.com Fr Frank Brennan SJ is the Rector of Newman College, Melbourne, the Distinguished Fellow of the P M Glynn Institute, Australian Catholic University, and the former CEO of Catholic Social Services Australia (CSSA). Cardinal George Pell’s conviction in a Melbourne court of historic
Extension of Operation Tauwhiro an Admission of Growing Gang Problem
The extension of Operation Tauwhiro today is a clear sign that gang violence and the dangers of firearms violence caused by gangs is a far bigger problem than the Government will admit, says National’s spokesperson for Police Simeon Brown. “Operation Tauwhiro was initially supposed to by a six-month operation
More Maori Wonderfulness Even Re Gangsters
Sir Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com The home invasion was “easily the most carefully planned and professionally executed aggravated robbery of its type I’m aware of in New Zealand”, so said Judge Thomas Ingram when jailing four Maori gang members for a house invasion in which they took $40. “Carefully
NZ Gang Flout Level 4 Lockdown Rules on Same Road as a Police Station
So this happened today. During lockdown LVL 4. So disgusted in these people & their ignorant behaviour. Flouting the rules choosing gang entitlement over public safety. @nzpolice station just up the road. #COVID19nz @NewshubNZ @TheSpinoffTV @TVNZ @NateNauer pic.twitter.com/6pFo4IiD3s — Leone (@_chalks4) September 13, 2021
Man Who Stabbed Pregnant Woman Won’t Be Prosecuted for Death of Her Unborn Baby
righttolife.org.uk A man who stabbed a pregnant woman multiple times in Belgium will not be prosecuted for the death of her unborn baby. On Monday, in the Belgian province of Liège, a man, named only as Aslan, stabbed a woman numerous times in the face and neck after
Left Suddenly Alarmed at Police Cyber-Tracking of Citizens
Joe Schaeffer libertynation.com Political Columnist at LibertyNation.com Joe Schaeffer is a veteran journalist with 20+ years’ experience. He spent 15 years with The Washington Times, including 8+ years as Managing Editor of the newspaper’s popular National Weekly Edition. A vexing thing about slippery slopes: The boulders tumbling
Faces of the Day
Free Speech Union The Free Speech Union is calling for the couple – one reportedly a child of a Government official – who breached lockdown not to have name suppression says Free Speech Union spokesperson, and lawyer, Stephen Franks. “Name suppression will be the worst move for the Auckland couple charged with
Heather Du Plessis-Allan Asks Siouxsie Wiles If She Broke Lockdown Rules
**Bold italics are my commentary on the transcript. Heather: Covid-19 expert Dr Siouxsie Wiles has been labelled a hypocrite for going to the beach with a friend, without masks on, during Level Four lockdown. A video is doing the rounds on the internet showing Dr Siouxsie and her friend sitting
Public Numb to Weak Justice System
Darroch Ball Co-leader Sensible Sentencing Trust. We have become numb to how weak our justice system is, how weak sentences have become, and how offenders are now the sole focus of the system. We are numb to the extent to which victims are now lost in the midst of our
Spot the Difference
The LynnMall stabbing has provided us with an interesting study on media bias. Compare how they reported on the Christchurch shooting with how they reported on the LynnMall stabbing. According to Marc Daadler (Newsroom), our main focus should be on preventing people from becoming radicalised. Fair enough. But the way