Sir Arthur Streeb-Greebling writes:
Top 10 Strangest Anti-Terrorism Patents.
Good News. John Howard's much maligned intervention to stop child abuse in Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory has been shown to be working.
But after visiting more than half the 73 communities eventually involved, Ms Gordon has found good progress in cutting violence and sexual abuse: alcohol and pornography have been banned, more children are going to school and police patrols have left more women feeling safer.
In the interests of fairness, following on from last week's missive on Rap, here's Punk.
Punk, says Suvy, is "the only view that makes sense to me." Work is for yuppies. Rent is for yuppies. Shelter is a basic human right. The government is bullshit. Corporations are bullshit. He "fucks capitalism" by pissing in the corner of the Dunkin' Donuts.
..or at least the poor employees responsible for cleaning up the mess. Hat Tip Reason.
Paul saw Paul Low's protest, and liketh it not - especially the triads not. But Cactus Kate sayeth that the Triads maketh the streets safe to walk at four in the morning,
Triads "the good gang" run the streets here and that's why I can confidently do something here I can't do anymore in Auckland - walk around at 4am on my own.
and points out that part of Mr Low's, and the rest of the 15,000 protester's concerns is the culture shock of coming from a place where you are allowed to defend yourself to one where you are prosecuted for doing so. Kate again:
Asians in New Zealand are as a group, peaceful law-abiding citizens. Problem is, back in Asia they are used to defending themselves from any intervention, and the interventions in middle-upper incomed areas are minimal. Very minimal. An Asian with enough money to migrate to New Zealand would NEVER be charged for killing a home intruder or defending themselves against a lower class of person. It's the Asian way....and by-in-large it works as criminal lower class scum know if they try to harm or steal from someone wealthier, they will not face the Police but a small army of protection and likely be shot on location if caught.
And that, as Stephen Franks says, is the rub.
Essentially the Police were there to stimulate, and to ensure, citizen self policing of civil behaviour. Constables were neighbours doing full-time what every decent citizen could and would do when necessary.
The 15,000 who marched with Mr Low are closer to this vision of policing than "we" are. They just want to be able to defend themselves and feel safe, and cannot understand that here in New Zealand you are not allowed to defend yourself, and instead must bleed to death for half an hour on your shop floor.
What will happen to Iran if it uses its missiles in anger?
We'll end with some levity, George Bush. As reported by the New York Times:
“Amigo! Amigo!” Mr. Bush called out cheerily in Spanish when he spotted the Italian prime minister. “How you doing, Silvio? Good to see you!"
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Of course, the need for a "small army of protection" still exists, which tends to suggest the "criminal lower class scum" are still attempting to purloin those hard-earnt goods of the obscenely wealthy that the likes of Cactus Kate serve.
Given that they will "likely be shot on location if caught" tends to suggest they believe they will not be caught (ignoring the skeletons of past offenders hanging from their garret cages), or are so desparately poor they would risk death to avoid ... death.
What a wonderful system it must be - a few millions starving on the scrapheap of society so a few capitalist scum can saunter the streets at 4am in safety.
Lucky the obscenely rich don't frequent Dunkin Donuts, or Suvy may well piss on them in a corner.
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